I am not going to quote Journey, don't think it again. But I am going to quote an astronomer and a philosopher, respectively, both much more ancient than that rockin' band:
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"Understand that thou art a second little world, and that the sun and moon are within thee, and also the stars."
-Origen
So what are these two gentleman saying? They both make our guts sound pretty stellar. Turns out, we are all stars. Turns out, there is another world within us. Crazy to believe? At first, yes. But on second thought, it makes complete sense. Considering the world within, you can justify all the emotions and experiences and battles and decisions and storms that you endure on a daily basis. Now, don't you feel a little less crazy remembering that the human experience involves the individual struggle against him/herself?
This past year of post-graduation has been one for the books, terrible and wonderful, but mostly wonderful. About a year ago when I was settling in at home, one of my goals I made for myself was to take a journey within. Not until a couple weeks ago did I really understand what taking a journey within entails.
I was chatting with a gal at my favorite coffee shop in the area and we got to talking about the joys of traveling. For the past several years, she hasn't been able to travel. As she was itching yet unable to get out, she thought about what it was that she loved so much about traveling. She realized this: one is stuck in the moment and forced to experience the immediate surroundings. She thought, how can I generate that feeling in my daily life? As the yoga guru she is, she finds in her yoga practice she can embrace the moment and surrender to the present. I thought about it myself, and this can be practiced through many different outlets, because really it is an internal state of mind that requires one key thing: surrender to the moment.
This encounter encouraged me to go to a yoga class that night. In my practice, I got to thinking (uh oh). If yoga can be traveling, and traveling can be yoga, they both are a form of prayer- of looking deep within and taking a journey into the moment when and where you are at right now…wait, I have been traveling for a whole year! An AHAH moment struck me in the middle of shavasana pose. We are just passing through in this life and every situation is a journey in itself, making us all perpetual travelers.
Just remember, we are made of starstuff, so we will eventually be able to put all the stuff together and glow from one solar system to the next.
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"Understand that thou art a second little world, and that the sun and moon are within thee, and also the stars."
-Origen
So what are these two gentleman saying? They both make our guts sound pretty stellar. Turns out, we are all stars. Turns out, there is another world within us. Crazy to believe? At first, yes. But on second thought, it makes complete sense. Considering the world within, you can justify all the emotions and experiences and battles and decisions and storms that you endure on a daily basis. Now, don't you feel a little less crazy remembering that the human experience involves the individual struggle against him/herself?
This past year of post-graduation has been one for the books, terrible and wonderful, but mostly wonderful. About a year ago when I was settling in at home, one of my goals I made for myself was to take a journey within. Not until a couple weeks ago did I really understand what taking a journey within entails.
I was chatting with a gal at my favorite coffee shop in the area and we got to talking about the joys of traveling. For the past several years, she hasn't been able to travel. As she was itching yet unable to get out, she thought about what it was that she loved so much about traveling. She realized this: one is stuck in the moment and forced to experience the immediate surroundings. She thought, how can I generate that feeling in my daily life? As the yoga guru she is, she finds in her yoga practice she can embrace the moment and surrender to the present. I thought about it myself, and this can be practiced through many different outlets, because really it is an internal state of mind that requires one key thing: surrender to the moment.
This encounter encouraged me to go to a yoga class that night. In my practice, I got to thinking (uh oh). If yoga can be traveling, and traveling can be yoga, they both are a form of prayer- of looking deep within and taking a journey into the moment when and where you are at right now…wait, I have been traveling for a whole year! An AHAH moment struck me in the middle of shavasana pose. We are just passing through in this life and every situation is a journey in itself, making us all perpetual travelers.
Just remember, we are made of starstuff, so we will eventually be able to put all the stuff together and glow from one solar system to the next.
