COURTNEY ROHAN YOGA

taken from farfromperfectrobbin.blogspot.com Sometimes to remember is the best course of action and yet somehow, remembering is a skill so hard to access that we are left only to forget. What we remember is key. What we forget, even more a key. Why have we chosen to forget that date or that time? Why was the message lost after it left that loved one’s mouth or that stranger’s conversation, glanced in passing, dialogue about the flowers in the garden and his laying deeply in their bed, remembered? Are we choosing to stand in the world forgetting the things that make us great or give us joy? Is it a choice to forget, like it is a choice to remember? That is, some things at certain times remembered. September 11th came and went so fast this year. I did not remember anything of it except, I turned on the TV and the Today Show mentioned shortly that one teacher in a small school in somewhere unfamiliar is following the curriculum guide for a study of the memorial. I looked at the d...

Romans 9:1, in the Bible, is the beginning of Paul’s truthful confession to fight others’ battles, if he could. It is true, he shares, I would disconnect from Christ for you. In the Bavagavad Gita, a classic Indian text, Arjuna speaks to Krishna about the fight in which he must participate in against his people. It is a fight for a greater cause. Arjuna pleads with Lord Krishna, hopeful that just maybe there is a way out of this torrent. There is not. There is in neither culture, or time a choice now, we must fight the battle to contribute to the greater cause. A cause and glorious and victorious battle, we do not fully know the intricacies, of awaits each day. What a sweet deal we have. When I wake in the morning, I say a quick prayer. I take a moment to feel what my rest has left behind. I feel the energy in and around me and breathe into spots that are out of spiritual alignment. This feels like my life. Everything I do and say, I feel it my choice. If I neglect to consider the w...