Know what you want

I recently picked up a brochure for the "Achieve Perfect Health" Chopra Center Ayurvedic Lifestyle Program. I think I'd like to be an Ayurvedic practitioner.

This is something I'm currently working on. Figuring out for myself, what my personal legend is. And really you just have to sit down and do it.

[Roark to Keating in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead:] “If you want my advice, Peter,” he said at last, “you’ve made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don’t you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?”

Well, that sums it up, eh?

Are you looking to everyone outside yourself for hints on who you are/what you should do/how you should do it? That’s a great way to live as a second-hander. Not so good if you want to be happy. :)

As Campbell says: “You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or a path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.”

Where there is a path, it’s not yours. Someone else’s advice on the path you should take is not yours. Trust yourself.

[Emerson seems appropriate here: “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.”]

Quotes of the day:

"A turning point is coming closer every day; you have to be prepared for it. Sannyas has to become a herald for a new world, the first ray of the dawn." Osho

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born. "The Tenth Man" by Wei Wu Wei...

Book of the day: Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Sri Swami Satchidananda

Movie of the day: Healing the Luminous Body: the Way of the Shaman

Periodical of the day: Frank 151

This Prevention supplement seems pretty good, recommended by David