yad bhAvati tad bhAvati

What you contemplate is what you become.

Today Shivananda asked me what do I obsess about. I answered:
1. work
2. changing
3. my ancestors (this is lately)

yad bhAvati tad bhAvati

I learned this during the personal puja weekend and it is resonating. What you contemplate is what you become. The story Rami told to drive this home was that of the Dark Ages during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. What did the people of that time period contemplate - he joked yet it is true, a suffering Jesus nailed to the cross... thus the Dark Ages.

There is more reasoning behind this of course. The larger cycles of time and space have patterns we can see and we cannot see.

So today I contemplated slowness and thought. Today I contemplated softness and laughter. I was not always successful but I will continue to try.

yad bhAvati tad bhAvati