A dear friend once said to me, "Ah, life! It is the butterfly!" I didn't quite know what he meant (probably because he's French), and I waited for some explanation, but never got one. So it was open to interpretation, which for me has changed a lot since the 90's (thankfully). Whereas back then I may have thought of it as an analogy that life is beautiful and delicate and fleeting, now I can see so much more and less in it. Let me explain what I mean by less.
Sitting at my computer last week, feeling overwhelmed with attempting to write a brochure for the new yoga business, and trying to figure out a schedule of class times with the City of Sugar Land to teach in the parks and recreation centers, and trying to download pictures for the new website but the files were unreadable...for a brief moment I lost sight of what it was all for. Yoga. Bringing the mindfulness of yoga into everyday life. As the burdensome tasks began to overtake my peace of mind, with a sigh I glanced out the window and saw a little yellow butterfly flitting across my lawn. Everything stopped in that moment, the need for a brochure, a class schedule, the perfect picture for a website. I didn't just want to be that butterfly with not a care in the world, I WAS the butterfly. In my mind I came back to that center that I come to on the mat, in yoga, in meditation, the place where you realize THIS is all there is, the moment of NOW. And everything is okay, right now. We can be the butterfly at any moment. The butterfly just is.
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