[www.danheller.com] Failure. What does this word evoke in you? Emotionally? Physically? For most of my life, failure, the word or concept has created a knot in the pit of my stomach and one that wasn’t easily undone. Failure seemed to compound upon failure and each knot drew tighter around the previous. It almost seemed as if…
The past three days (and now Monday!) have been a whirlwind of teachings, learnings, insights, challenges, new friendships, and svadhaya, or self-reflection. I started this post yesterday, but seemed to only get through the title and first sentence before stepping away from the screen. When I signed up for my yoga teacher training last…
Sometimes when I am writing a post I am so overeager to get it posted that I forget to totally copy-edit before I hit “publish.” Yesterday was a prime example of that. When I first wrote the title of my post it was misspelled as “Reflexion and Regret,” rather than “Reflection and Regret.” I fixed it pretty soon…
Part of being human is to think on the past. Sometimes this entails happiness, sometimes sadness, and sometimes, regret. regret (verb): to be very sorry for [source][/source][/source] I have gone through long periods of time, years, regretting missing out on life, wishing I had turned left instead of right, and regretting the development of an…
I am neither ego not reason, I am neither mind nor thought, I cannot be heard nor cast into words, nor by smell nor sight ever caught: In light and wind I am not found, nor yet in earth and sky – Consciousness and joy incarnate, Bliss of the Blissful am I. I have no…
