I am a work in progress

Anyone who is a regular at my classes has heard me go on about how yoga helps to show us the universal nature of the human experience: we are not alone in our joy, struggle, grief, awe-- the full spectrum of emotions and experience. Here's a quote from Donna Farhi, a good reminder for anyone on the path...

Perhaps it is only when we have tested our footing on everything else and found nothing but instability that we can step off into this vast potential and let our life become a free fall. Whether or not we are on a spiritual path, we might ask ourselves, What is the function of these meltdowns? I believe that the intensity of these experiences, especially when they occur well down the road of a spiritual quest, comes from our PROXIMITY TO rather than our DISTANCE FROM our authentic self. As we get closer to the core issues, the central knot, the last frontier of our place of holding, there is more at stake.

It must be Quote Month.

Do your practice and all is coming. (p. jois)