travel ( especially to warm beachy places), art, dance, theater, creativity, divinty, travel, fashion, ideas, politics, history, people
Music
Currently BIG on Queen and Freddie Mercury,Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Manu Chao, James Brown, Rachid, Faudel, T Rex, Parliament, Rufus Wainright, old David Bowie ( thin white duke, Low) Iggy Pop's the Idiot, Black Flag, FEAR, Cole Porter, Fela Kuti, Rufus Wainwright
Movies
Walkabout, Amadeus, anything Noir, Cabaret, the Shining, Some Like It Hot, The Revenge of the Pink Panther, Zoolander
Television
Rome!and old BBC stuff like I Claudius
Books
the Tin Drum, Lolita, The Glass Castle, Autobigraphy of a Yogi, Swami Satchitananda's Commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Heroes
Paramahansa Yogananda, Cesar Chavez, Lech Walensa, Granma Ellen, Bill Wilson and Doctor Bob
After an extensive theater career performing, producing and writing, I found myself in New York, where I fell in love with Yoga and Latin dance. Yoga because it both calms and energizes me, and Latin dance because come on! This is the salsa capital of the world! I got interested in how Yoga can invigorate every aspect of the body and mind- it made me feel my inner beauty more profoundly and this sense of well being was something I wanted to share. I started developing a class, and writing a book on Yog
a for the Face...entitled ( Appropriately enough ) the Yoga Face!
Who I'd like to meet: like minded seekers and finders
Hope this finds you well. Have a wonderful week ahead! Health, Happiness, Joy & Felicity! Peace, Love, Light, Grace and Bliss!
THE VOICE OF LORD Your love for your friend should be grounded in Me, and for My sake you should love whoever seems to be good and is very dear to you in this life. Without Me friendship has no strength and cannot endure. Love which I do not bind is neither true nor pure.
MY CHILD, always commit your cause to Me. I will dispose of it rightly in good time. Await My ordering of it and it will be to your advantage. ~ Thomas à Kempis
Be calm. Be cheerful and happy. Be courageous. Be self-controlled. Always maintain serenity under all conditions and circumstances. Absolute desirelessness is the most important of all qualifications of a disciple. Annihilate desires. Subdue the mind. Subjugate the senses. This is the holy warfare for spiritual aspirants. ~ Swami Sivananda
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The soul, wounded with love for its Spouse, sighs more than ever for solitude, withdrawing as far as the duties of its state permit from all that can interrupt it, The sight it has enjoyed of Him is so deeply imprinted on the spirit that its only desire is to behold Him again. The soul is now determined to take no other Bridegroom than our Lord. ~ St. Teresa of Avila
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Give up passion, anger, greed, envy, jealousy, etc., and cultivate divine qualities like selfless service, renunciation, charity, love, forgiveness, humility and the like. Consider your duties as necessary for your spiritual growth. Try to spiritualise the life of all the members of your family. Observe truth, non-violence and the vow of fidelity in thought, word and deed as far as possible. May the Lord grant you peace, bliss, prosperity and spiritual advancement! ~ Sri Swami Chidananda
Hope this finds you well. Have a wonderful weekend! Peace, Serenity and Felicity! Joy, Love, Light, Grace & Bliss! Be Healthy, Happy and Spiritually Blessed!
Be kind and friendly. Hate none. Dislike none. See only the good points in others and do not look into the defects of others. No one is perfect and no one is responsible as God made him what he is. Therefore, take things with a charitable view. See the good and ignore the false. If you want to see the false, see the false that is in you. And try to remove it and become a perfect person.
Practise kindness in daily life. Let your speech be free from anger and harshness. Speak sweetly and speak softly. Forgive people. And thus, through selfless service of all, through the practice of kindness and compassion, through the practice of sweet speech, purify your heart.
Develop this inner hunger, this inner devotion, through practice of inner life. Be alive in your interior and grow in your inner life. Progress through prayer. Progress through daily contemplation. Progress through inner adoration. Express the divine within you through your thoughts, words and daily activities. Manifest beauty, love and joy from within. Radiate compassion and kindness, friendliness and love, the spirit of selfless service, the desire to make others happy, the wish to be more and more useful to others.
Become a blessedness to yourself. Bring joy into your home, happiness to your parents and your own kith and kin. Bring friendliness, love and happiness in your own neighbourhood, amidst your friends, in the society in which you move, in short, in all fields of your active life. Move as a centre of blessedness. Fill yourself with joy and peace. Bring joy and peace to others also. ~ Sri Swami Chidananda
Rarely indeed is a man so spiritual as to strip himself of all things. And who shall find a man so truly poor in spirit as to be free from every creature? His value is like that of things brought from the most distant lands.
If a man give all his wealth, it is nothing; if he do great penance, it is little; if he gain all knowledge, he is still far afield; if he have great virtue and much ardent devotion, he still lacks a great deal, and especially, the one thing that is most necessary to him. What is this one thing? That leaving all, he forsake himself, completely renounce himself, and give up all private affections. Then, when he has done all that he knows ought to be done, let him consider it as nothing, let him make little of what may be considered great; let him in all honesty call himself an unprofitable servant. For truth itself has said: "When you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: 'we are unprofitable servants.'"
Then he will be truly poor and stripped in spirit, and with the prophet may say: "I am alone and poor." No one, however, is more wealthy than such a man; no one is more powerful, no one freer than he who knows how to leave all things and think of himself as the least of all. ~ Thomas A Kempis
Hi Theyogaface,
Hope this finds you well. Happiness and Kindness! Peace, Harmony & Love! Light, Grace and Bliss!
