by MahaDavid | Mar 15, 2014 | blog
When you read that vulnerability = strength, what was your first reaction? To some of you, it may seem an Orwellian (war=peace) stretch, to others it may be the most natural thing in the world. I keep hearing people mistake vulnerability for weakness, and I’d...
by MahaDavid | Nov 28, 2013 | blog
I’m so glad you’re even looking at this post. Thank you. To help establish you in a deeper state of gratitude, I have a few questions for you: What’s the difference between actual gratitude and the word “gratitude”? What is the feeling...
by MahaDavid | Oct 7, 2013 | blog
I read the following in Swami Venkatesananda’s “Insights and Reflections” and it has had such a profound effect on me and the way I deal with situations that “trigger” me: “When will I not be hurt at all? When I realize that what is...
by MahaDavid | Aug 24, 2013 | featured
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by MahaDavid | Apr 3, 2013 | blog
How many of you know someone who accepts themselves just as they are? How many of you know people who are far too critical of themselves? When I ask this first question in class, very few people raise their hands. Some think of their pets. Some have a friend or...
by MahaDavid | Dec 10, 2011 | blog
Yoga and several other eastern philosophies are built around the concept of the wheel of karma and samskara. Karma is action. Samskara is the imprint of the action: the unresolvedness of the action. POTHOLES, a metaphor Where I grew up there were still a few dirt...
by MahaDavid | Oct 5, 2011 | blog
Leaving class the other day I overheard something both beautiful and curious. A student who was leaving the class I just taught said to someone who hadn’t, something like “I want to go home and have a good cry.” The other person (I’ll call...
by MahaDavid | Jun 1, 2011 | blog
I’ve been meeting with a group called the Center for World Spirituality. What’s exciting to me about them is that they seem to be creating a place for Spirituality to blossom independent of religion. For people to foster their connection to spirit rather...
