Croon a Little Karuna ...
Hard truths, Soft hearts
I almost made it to the Olympics this week! The event? Overthinking.
(I nailed the preliminary rounds: Doubting, Defending, and Rewriting Imaginary Emails.)
But just as I was about to unleash my gold-medal performance...
Yoga whispered something really annoying: Compassion, my friend.
Grace under pressure.
(Honestly, I preferred the 17-page rebuttal I had drafted in my head.)
Buddhism calls it karuna —
the fierce tenderness that stays kind, even when life feels unkind.
Yoga, as my daily practice of meeting difficulty with dignity. I have a very wise yoga teacher whose words have stayed with me - “Yoga is about learning how to deal.
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Because every act of compassion, for ourselves and others —
is a quiet revolution.
They're talking about a revolution?
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman performing "Talkin' Bout a Revolution"‘
Tracy wrote this song when she was just 16.