Machu Picchu!! — part 1: reflections
This post and coming ones also … devoted to my experience traveling to Peru, visiting Machu Picchu and surrounding sights in el Valle Sagrado (the Sacred Valley). Many people are curious about how to get to MP, as it is indeed a challenge. And for those of you who don’t want to join a ready-made, easy-does-it group, I can offer suggestions as to how, when and where that you never hear on the net or in the travel books. … how visiting a lifelong-held dream place, such as Machu Picchu is for me, and how it has affected me.
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This week the great yoga teacher BKS Iyengar died at the ripe ol’ age of 95. I’m feeling especially thoughtful today about this. I want to share with you how this man influenced not just millions of other seekers throughout his long and blessed life — but how he personally affected me.
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We believe in contributing more love, more true humanity to our species’ future, instead of other choices. We old lovebirds, pajaros del amor, turn our back on fear and suspicion, renewing our vow, over and over, to work even harder to find the joy in any situation before us.
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Within days after that diagnosis of Lyme given on her thirtieth birthday, she made a heartfelt, earnest amends to me. She apologized for all the shitty things she’d ever done, said, and thought about me, ever since she’d become a teenage werewolf, transformed from the angelic girl I’d fallen in love with …
Read MoreThe Journey of Discovery Begins … right HERE!
… after having sought and discovered the “inner journey” and especially by working with a trusted teacher who has shown me how to tap the inner delights through different meditative techniques — I realize that nothing, simply nothing on earth, compares with the astounding adventures of living connected to my innermost being, that state of being that has many names but let’s just call it “Peace” for now.
Read MoreMy Heart Belongs to Maya
I will always love you and hold you as my main mentor for life, for writing, for being brave and having fun at the same time! RIP Maya Angelou
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