Leave nothing behind ......

Today's wanderings wrap around a quote from Kazantzakis who writes, "Leave nothing for death to take, nothing but a few bones." I cannot pronounce the author's name, however his/her words are profound.For those of you who commit to a yoga practice or meditation practice as myself , know the goal is the same as the path: it is the road we travel towards self-realization. This is no simple or easy task for the householder: there are distractions and demands all around us! This is it though, isn't it? I once had a Vedic reading years ago before I studied to become a yoga instructor and the reader suggested to me that I had spent many lives in solitude, like a sage, becoming wise but never giving it away.This explained the loner within and began to bridge the wise me with the intensity and intuitiveness I find relatively simple to hold. In that same reading he encouraged me to come out of my cave this time around .... spend more time in the light! Ah .... the light, yes. But I quite like the dark, I rebel. Here, no one disturbs my self righteous attempts to understand  all there is out there. Hmm ...... not this time round. The study of yoga, Vipassana meditation and Structural Integration have all yanked me out of the dark, into the birth canal and into the light. This time, I choose a life fully lived, messy, disruptive, chaotic and incredibly spiral! Hooray for me ..... I intend to leave nothing but a few bones!