On the official BKS Iyengar website, http://www.bksiyengar.com/default.asp, Mr. Iyengar defines yoga as such: "On the spiritual plane, it means union of the Individual Self with the Universal Self." Mary Oliver, the acclaimed American poet, has a similar aim -- through a close examination of nature, the true self is revealed. Mary Oliver writes poems that achingly draw out the extraordinary in the ordinary experience, and they always leave me in awe.
Song of the Builders
by Mary Oliver from her Pulitzer Prize winning collection Why I Wake Early
On a summer morning
I sat down
on a hillside
to think about God--
a worthy pastime.
Near me, I saw
a single cricket;
it was moving the grains of the hillside
this way and that way.
How great was its energy,
how humble its effort.
Let us hope
it will always be like this,
each of us going on
in our inexplicable ways
building the universe.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
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