Author: pmcrose

The slight inner smile glowing with loving kindness and compassion can bring greater ease to our being and help calm the mind.

This inner smile is all-accepting and is a gift to any situation. Even brought to our inner struggles, it can bring greater ease and give room for letting go.

Practice bringing this inner smile to your yoga and meditation, and see if you don’t notice its benefits.

Practice the inner smile in your daily life situations, and see if you don’t notice its effects.

Let yourself be graced by the inner smile.

You know in yoga, they’re often telling you to let go.

However, you can’t make yourself let go. You can make the effort to show up for practice, but, like you can’t make meditation happen, you can’t make yourself let go. However, you can predispose yourself to it by making the effort to practice.

Letting go just happens.

You might not even feel it happening when it does.

The only problem for me is sometimes I can’t remember what it is I let go of because I let go of it and don’t have it anymore!

Let go!

There’s nothing like a good meal to lift our spirits!

What can we cook up and serve to lift not only our spirits, but for anyone and everyone at our table?

Our yoga and meditation practices are a bit like being in the kitchen preparing what we’ll serve, what we’ll bring to the table.

When we do our practices with love, joy, and devotion, we are bound to serve up some good eatin’!

Joyful offerings are offerings of loving kindness.

May our lives be like Johnny Appleseed spreading such seeds indiscriminately in the winds of life. Who knows how they will grow!?

May our meditation and yoga practices be joyful offerings to ourselves and others. Who knows how they will grow!?

When our yoga and meditation practices are done with loving kindness, they become a tenderizer for life’s toughness.

Doing the practices with love is one way we offer loving kindness to ourselves.

Loving kindess is a practice we work at bringing to ourselves and to others.

We stoke this fire through our practices!

Loving kindness is a chosen response to life’s pains and suffering.

It is the first yama in the Yoga Sutras, ahimsa, non-harming, in action.

Moved by a deep love and respect for life, it is compassion in action–whether it be for oneself or for another.

May our yoga and meditation practices teach us to move with loving kindness.

The common good is out of fashion.

The common good is not about pleasing others… though to some degree it will.

It is about respect for everyone.

It is about attempting to build a cooperative network of actions that, to some degree, mutually benefits everyone.

The common good is out of fashion, but it needn’t be; let’s revive it as something worth striving for, for all our benefit!

Sisyphus realized he’d had it all wrong.

He found another use for the rock!

Thank God!

If and when life seems too much to handle,

widen your arms.

Yoga and meditation can help you do this.