![]() ![]() I became, like many of you have become, accidentally brave.Ĭobbled by a path laden with skulls and crossbones, I simply had no idea, not the slightest clue, of what I would be asked to face, or that in the ruin that my life would become, I would find my bravery and my warrior strength. I had no inkling that a tree would fall on me in the Amazonian jungle, or that I would be falsely diagnosed with cancer, or that my parents would die within 6 weeks of one another, or that a hurricane would lambast the Caribbean a few months later, or that two weeks later my husband would have an incurable brain tumor and less than a year later, die. I was miles and miles away from knowing then what life had reserved for me. She delivered this talk on the day after Princess Diana died. She reminded us to work past petty grievances, slights, and setbacks and gratefully embrace everything life brought to us, to taste everything that was on our plate. She said something to the effect that it was spiritually important for us to be appreciative for the golden summers of our lives. ![]() ![]() This petite and unassuming woman, who became the spiritual leader for a worldwide community when her master, the great Muktananda, passed, spoke simply and with a quiet conviction that galvanized a room of hundreds. I once attended a talk that Gurumayi Chivalananda gave at the Siddha Yoga center in upstate New York many years back. ![]()
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