There are a trillion stars in the night sky
Yet each is unique
Why compare yourself to others?
You were born with your own unique strengths
You are blessed with your own mystique
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2021-04-11 04:47:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain the...
People obsess about their abs and pecs. Some worry about their glutes and hamstrings. But, according to yoga, the key to our health lies in our spine.
It is the foundation of everything. Forw...
2021-04-11 04:44:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Should sorrow cloud thy coming years,
And bathe thy happiness in tears,
Remember, though we’re doom’d to part,
There lives one fond and faithful heart,
That will forget thee no...
“Souls learn from other souls, not from books or lectures.”—Rumi, Masnavi
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PHOTO: Crystal and her friend, Caroline doing acro yoga at my studio.
Sometimes the best discoveries are serendipitous.
Last summer I went for a walk on Venice Beach (the one in Southern California), to clear my head. Rounding a life guard tower I came upon Bro...
2021-04-11 02:55:27 +0000 UTC View Post
POETRY:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a dat...
POETRY:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
POETRY:
Let your heart lead you
It will transcend time
and defy fate
to drop you where you belong
–– Pardesi Pyara
2021-04-04 05:02:57 +0000 UTC View Post
POETRY:
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
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2021-04-04 05:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post
POETRY:
And when the spotlight comes your way
as it will eventually
rise up to the occasion
rise up and shine
You are perfect as you are
you were born a star
– Pardesi ...
2021-04-04 04:57:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Stefanie is an athlete from Germany. She had seen my photography in several international magazines and wanted to shoot with me. But it was hard for her to budget the cost of a flight to Los Angele...
2021-04-04 04:54:52 +0000 UTC View Post
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." – Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
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2021-04-04 04:53:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I met Caroline when she tagged along with my friend Crystal for a shoot we had planned. Caroline had just come back from traveling around India and Crystal thought we would enjoy sharing stories. S...
2021-04-04 04:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post
POETRY:
Not all bravery is public for everyone to see
A thousand battles are waged
in the privacy of four walls
just to get through the day
– Pardesi Pyara
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2021-04-04 04:50:10 +0000 UTC View Post
POETRY:
As if you were on fire from within,
the moon lives in the lining of your skin
–– Pablo Neruda
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PHOTO: C...
2021-04-04 04:47:07 +0000 UTC View Post
POETRY:
We are no other than a moving row
Of magic shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with the sun-illumined lantern held
In midnight by the master of the show
–– Omar Kh...
2021-04-04 04:45:11 +0000 UTC View Post
POETRY:
Your task is not to seek love
but to seek all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it
– Rumi
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2021-04-04 04:42:51 +0000 UTC View Post
POETRY:
The world, for me, and all the world can hold
Is circled by your arms; for me there lies,
Within the lights and shadows of your eyes,
The only beauty that is never old.
Thank you for joining me on my journey. I am learning as I go here on Patreon, so please feel free to send me messages with suggestions or questions. I generally reply to all emails within 48 hours...
2021-04-01 06:12:31 +0000 UTC View Post
The longer I live and the more I see
Of the struggle of souls towards the heights above,
The stronger this truth comes home to me
That the Universe rests on the shoulders of love<...
2021-04-01 03:23:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Even during the fiercest gales there is place
deep within
where shelter awaits
.
a place to catch your breath
a place to start believing in yourself again
.
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Don’t need a sword
for I’m blessed with strength
Strength in my mind
measured by my perseverance
Strength in my heart
measured by my compassion
Strength in m...
2021-04-01 03:10:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
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Your task is not to seek love
but to seek all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it
.
– Rumi
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PHOTO: V...
2021-03-29 11:47:06 +0000 UTC View Post
It comes
Unadorned
Like a phrase
Strong enough to cast a spell;
It comes
Unbidden,
Like the turn of sun through hills
Or stars in wheel of song.
The ...
2021-03-29 11:45:29 +0000 UTC View Post
It can be hard to get up once you fall
But not as hard
as when you have to get up the hundredth time
Take a deep breath,
think of the sun
Rise again
as the sun d...
2021-03-29 11:44:15 +0000 UTC View Post
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into...
2021-03-29 11:43:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Tides follow the invisible pull of the moon
shaping coastlines
Let compassion’s gentle pull
shape our daily actions
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2021-03-29 11:41:49 +0000 UTC View Post
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
2021-03-27 04:17:50 +0000 UTC View Post