…we haven’t brought anything with us when we came and we’re not going to take anything with us when we go. ~ Swami Satchidananda

How do you talk to someone who won’t talk to you? How do you communicate with someone who won’t communicate with you? How do you change the world? Ignore them is the answer. But not reject them. Love them absolutely as a reflection of you. Smile at the recognition of yourself in them. Stop trying

What a privilege it has been to spend a week of full-on living, sharing open-heartedly 24 hours a day, with these two souls. Being challenged and awakened, tipping over all its goodness into the new year. My body feels supple and strong, my heart filled with the burning sun, my thoughts flexible, my mind more

Malcolm X appears on a television show in Chicago called “City Desk” on March 17, 1963… MALCOLM X: OUR HISTORY WAS DESTROYED BY SLAVERY

I left for this adventure with a wide open heart, somehow instinctively knowing I would never forget it, for everything I would learn. Weeks before the trip I felt the rumble of thunder in the ache of my bones, knowing the experience would widen and shape me like a young canyon hit by a flash