you can't run after contentment... it has to find you 
all you can do is try to create the space for it 

tapas is the willingness to do the work, which means 
developing discipline, enthusiasm, and a burning desire to learn 

when you use your will to overcome your conditioning, you free yourself 
from the many unconscious actions that causes suffering 

yes, discipline is actually the path to happiness

who are you and what grand and glorious adventures are you going to receive today? 

don't look for an answer just be open to receiving the energy of it

it was like riding a rocket of non-judgement to a universe of simply intensely, spaciously, 

non-judgemently and joyfully being. all that is required is that we choose it, and be ready to receive it, 

and then allow it to show up. the synergy of being and presence and kindness and caring and gentleness 

and the joy of embodiment filled my body. it's all about receiving more, knowing more, being more, perceiving more. 

the universe has your back! 

There are gurus everywhere, teachers everywhere, in every part of every moment, 

even those moments we wish never happened. IF we pay attention. Like the 
lotus flower, something good, maybe even beautiful, can come out of the mud. 

There will be mud. Oh man will there be mud! But we pay attention, 
we practice paying attention, and with time and breath, the mud clears. 

And something better takes its place.

i step onto my mat, and the crowd goes silent

i continue to move; i continue to breath 

each part of me is engaged in this dance 

this movement, fluid like water

breath moves, body moves

and i am on a cloud

10 Things To Practice for Staying Alive As a Teacher: 

1. Wake up early. Discipline = Freedom

2. Create a beautiful and personal altar where you practice. Ritual is habit made holy.

3. Run to your mat. Roll out your mat and roll out your true self. 

4. Commit to a certain amount of time and stay with it, this creates confidence. 

5. Bring your friends, Mick Jagger and Mary Oliver: music and poetry. 

6. Remember that you are already a yogi, all that is required is a sense of adventure. 

7. Turn off your iPhone. 

8. Notice the obstacles, call them out and blow past them.

9. Remember: You are the student and you are the teacher. 

10. "Teach what you practice, practice what you teach." —Krshnamacharya

Be inspired by all your teachers, but do you! 

the only way to be fresh and happily received is to stay inspired... because we all want to feel inspired

 make it personal, it's the most universal. stay on the path and keep it real

the tricky part is, as a highly sensitive healer and woman 
with deep compassion for human suffering, she no doubt has 
walls of her own that you will have to be willing to 
tear down for her to feel safe enough to let you in. 

therein lies her beautiful complexity

practice seeing each person's unique and extraordinary beauty 
the more you do this, the more your everyday interactions become magical 
and more and more flavors of intimacy become available to you

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when you trust the energetic system of yourself, you find that none of these states 

are random. they all fit into the magnificent ecology of you

think about how to facilitate freedom, pleasure, love, expanded awareness, 

and lucid dreaming with friends, lovers, strangers, and fellow adventurers. 

don't wait for it to happen - be the drugs you wish to take in the world! 

where is the sex, San Francisco??

but, seriously

WHERE IS THE SEX!

remember that where ever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. 

you've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense. 

the alchemist