Monday, December 31, 2007

Best Year Ever!

¡Guao! 2007 is one for the books – the best year of my life! Not in my wildest dreams nor in my deepest aspirations could I have imagined that a mere glimpse at the Self would blow up my heart in such a way as this. The joy that gusts forth from within carries such a quality of completeness – of bliss – that it becomes almost impossible to speak of it.

Sure, I still get trapped in crazy mind trips, and my ego continues to show relentless vigor, but this undeniable experience of freedom carries a light that won’t diminish. Sadhana is this very learning, it is to walk at the intersection of love and freedom and it is what makes every step and its challenge an adventure worth engaging. This opening of the heart, this dramatic expansion of being, it is all a taste of the nectar that’s released through the alchemy of sadhana.

Today I write to celebrate my losses and become thankful for my failings for without the strip down of their burning I would have never been able to experience the joy of my own surrender. I am so incredibly thankful for the thousand blessings that have Graced me, and I want to conclude this most amazing of years by saying thank you for so much and to so many.

Familia, my stronghold – Gracias! We’ve come so much closer together!
Friends, your beauty is my benchmark, I know I’m in a good place when I am graced by your presence.
Work, my job, my dharma – never have I been so aligned with what I want to do in the world, colleagues and clients, I thank you!
Movement builders – there is a shift in the field! I travel around the country and trust that now more than ever, in this most precarious period of our human history, we can turn this thing around, and you are all showing us how.
Gurudev – you are my light, my everything – may my whole life serve to thank you.

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