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Humanity. Bhakti diaries.

The brainy, thoughtful mind is surprised by yoga.  Like thunder surprises, rattling your insides and shocking you little.  It is surprised by revelation.  The revelation is that spirituality turns out to be a fleshy, cellular, fully human thing, rather than a rarefied or ephemeral experience.  When we speak of anything noble, progressive, certainly anything related …

March 27, 2011 – 2:19 pm | By Karin L Burke | Posted in The Bhakti Diaries | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Weaving: the limbs of yoga, the layers of self

To be human is not one thing but a symphony of things.  I’m not speaking of metaphysics or epistimology, but of what we know.  We know, each of us, a symphony of selves.  We “know” ourselves according to the various roles that we play in life, as parent, child, partner, employee, community member.  But we …

January 6, 2011 – 10:13 pm | By Karin L Burke | Posted in The Bhakti Diaries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)