Thomas Merton wrote: “All through the Verba Seniorum [Latin for Words of the Elders] we find a repeated insistence on the primacy of love over everything else in the spiritual life: over knowledge, gnosis, asceticism, contemplation, solitude, prayer. Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions. The more lofty they are, the more dangerous the illusion.”

By LUCEAT LUX VESTRA Tony Searl
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Lit From Within a Joy Of Simplicity and No Terms or Conditions, It's Single Pointed Potent Mother Fu#king Love, Baby ...

By LUCEAT LUX VESTRA Tony Searl
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  Joy of Simplicity Our work is based on the shamanic belief that there are three planes of existence: the Upperworld, the Middleworld, and the Underworld. For too long we have focused on the Middleworld, or the physical plane and its materialistic and egocentric pursuits. (Profits and do whatever it takes, exploitative parasitic relationships with Self, Other and Nature, relentless projections of extractive capitalism, cult of personality and guru worship, cultural appropriation and racism, et al)  We’ve also focused too much on the Upperworld, or realm of Spirit, emphasizing the importance of attaining enlightenment, another ego projection sold in many cults and/or new age religions ("love and light" of spiritual bypass, "new cages" who ignore the dark shadow, any religion, system or belief that promises heaven or nirvana at a later stage providing you subscribe to their terms and conditions and fishbowl business model, right now!) but forgetting the importance of...
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Yoga (as in Life) Is The Path of Inquiry versus Acquisition, Self Knowledge versus Self Aggrandizement

By LUCEAT LUX VESTRA Tony Searl
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 International Yoga Teachers Association  5oth Anniversary Key Note Address Sydney Town Hall 2017 "What Makes Yoga, Yoga?" Yoga is The Path of ... Inquiry versus Acquisition? Self Knowledge vs Self Aggrandizement?  Humble Self Reflection vs Blow Your Own Trumpet?  Self Responsibility Accountability vs Projection and Blame? Thank You For Simply Raising, Inviting and  Asking  Better Clearer Questions  by Donna Farhi A Must Watch, All Of It Repeat, Often. Remain Grounded, Reveal & Heal. Do The Work, Dive Deep, True North.  The Bihar School of Yoga, Bihar Yoga Bharati, Yoga Research Foundation and Yoga Publications Trust draw inspiration from Adi Shankaracharya, the codifier of the Dashnami Sannyasa Tradition. Adi Shankaracharya was born in the 8th Century AD.  He is recognized to be one of the most influential leaders of India, exponent of Advaita Vedanta, Tantra and Yoga, and writer on and commentator of many ancient vedic and yogic works. ...
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Knowledge of The Self.

By LUCEAT LUX VESTRA Tony Searl
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Remember that a boundary is set with love. (LOVE not inauthentic fake niceness) It is never aggressive. It is never dramatic. It is never hurtful. In the experience that I had, I told my friend that this action she had taken meant that I had reached my tipping point and that given our conversation last year, it meant that this was the end of our friendship.   I don't hate her.  I don't resent her.  I don't wish her bad. In fact, I still have a deep love and appreciation towards her and genuinely desire for her business to flourish.  Ethically, morally, spiritually and with grounded integrity.  I just no longer have a space for her personal unethical choices and behaviours towards myself (and others, including staff and business partners) and the kind of standards and authentic connections that I'm committed to creating. So be very mindful, especially in difficult times, about how you allow others to treat you. What you tolerate continues, what you accept defines...
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