[littlelacelight]

Even though I don't always believe it, I know in my soul that everyday is a good day. It's a privilege to do things that make a positive impact--sure, most of our daily lives don't impact the whole word, but they impact our worlds. When we all touch our own worlds, the whole world is taken care of. If you're like me, the weight of living a meaningful/impactful life is heavy. And when I figure out how to successfully lighten that weight, I'll let you know. But in the mean time, I know some days are going to be more satisfying than others. Mother Teresa said, "we know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something." #inspirationalquotes

[littlelacelight]

🌻🌻🌻#flawedpractice #forgetperfect #yoga

[littlelacelight]

For years I couldn’t figure out how much of our past, particularly family issues, we had to delve into in our efforts to emotionally heal ourselves. I knew that most of us carry scars from childhood, but I saw so many people overindulge themselves harping on it. Living in the past can be merely an excuse to avoid the present. More than anything, I was afraid that were I to look to closely into my past, I might end up judging someone I didn’t want to judge or blaming someone I don’t want to blame. The last thing I wanted to be was someone blaming all my problems on my parents. Yet looking with spiritual perspective at our childhood issues doesn’t lead us, in the end, to blame others, but rather to simply understand them more deeply. Until we do that, it can be hard to unravel the personal mysteries that limit our awareness… To say “I don’t blame my parents” is not necessarily the same thing as saying, “I hold them blameless.” …Real forgiveness is when you realize that in the larger scheme of things there’s nothing to forgive because all mistakes are a call for love, and lovelessness has no permanent effect. But spiritual work is not a substitute for psychological work. And forgiving someone can be much easier to do when you have a fuller understanding of his or her life experience.  Our parent’s had parents, too—they were wounded children, too—and they didn’t know any more about how to get it right in this life than we do. Most of us are not victims of our parents so much as we and our parents have all been living for years at the effect of the unevolved, fear-based energies permeating this world. None of us deserve blame and all of us deserve compassion. Sometimes you can’t really forgive your parents until you have allowed yourself to cry for them.

Marianne Williamson,  Enchanted Love, page 193

[littlelacelight]

[littlelacelight]

#yoga #quotes #life

[littlelacelight]

@kaityaitche Thanks for appeasing my need to for a yoga twin pic. 🙏😁 ...and low key understanding I was not taking no for an answer. #yoga #partneryoga

[sketchesinstillness]

Yogi Snail-

[thelightofthecenter]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson (via thelightofthecenter)

[littlelacelight]

[littlelacelight]

I overcommit.

I tell acquaintances, friends and family I can show up to events, make phone calls, even send texts messages that in actuality, I can’t.

I lie to myself.

As a yoga practitioner, I ask my body to get into shapes that I’m fully ego-confident I can push myself into.

The difference here is my body isn’t ‘nice and polite’. When I’m forcing something on it, it doesn’t step aside and say, ‘you’re the boss.’ My body talks back, and if I don’t listen it retaliates.

Recently, in an attempt to impress my 12-year-old niece with my sick yoga skills, I decided a ‘split contest’ was an exquisite idea.

Mind you, I wasn’t even flexible when I was 12. This body has never been one of a gymnast—matter of fact I tried gymnastics in elementary and sprained my wrist about a week in. Gymnast journey over.

Today, 25 years old and 3 years of regular yoga practice deep, with compassionate conversation with my body and breath, my body allows the shape of split.

Well during an official ‘split contest’, one has no time for intimate self-meetings. Preparation is precisely this, a 3 second ‘ready, set, go— rip.”

I screamed. She laughed.

Way to go, Allison. Not only did we injury ourselves, we gave a beautiful example of how to not listen to our body. Aunt of the year.

I overcommitted, lying to myself about what I could handle.

Maybe you can connect with this, maybe not.

In February on and off the yoga mat, I focused on drawing awareness to my boundaries and respecting them. Doing this organically shed light on recognizing the boundaries of others, not through panic and worry, but through compassion and understanding.

Often my intention was something like this, “I am aware that living being have limits and I respect them.”

Take what you will. Leave what you won’t.

Namaste, friends.

[littlelacelight]

“I am enough. I have enough. I do enough.” 🍁 This is a mantra a sweet yoga student shared with me this week. It was too lovely not to share. #yogaeverydamnday

[lazyyogi]

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold it, you will lose it.

Lao Tzu (via lazyyogi)

[littlelacelight]

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman

[littlelacelight]

[littlelacelight]

People don't care about your pain.

It's not a "shame" either. It's because there's nothing they can do about it. They want to care, and they want to make you better.

They just can't.

Most of the reasons for our pain can't be helped by anyone other than ourselves. And even sometime we can't do anything about our pain. It's a ride we have to just wait out-- an experience to be felt.

[travelaway]

Travel across the most special places in the world.

[littlelacelight]

I never did just sit down and worry about it and say , 'Well, I've got to think of something.' You don't do that. It just comes to you.

Carbine Williams

www.allisonwilliamson.com