QuoteBliss: What You're Made Of

I looked outside yesterday evening just in time
-- a double, huge rainbow! No faded spots.
We could see the whole thing; and what
was really cool -- the whole neighborhood
was in the streets, oohing and aahing in the rain.

Listening to right now: Marchio Bossa, doing Moon River

Today's Bliss Formula: A Sunday morning pancake ritual and a rainy day fit for reading.

"Because realize: you are alive, you are made of something, and you did not create yourself. The more attuned you are to the creative life force in you, the more you will notice that you are participating in a non-stop non-verbal communion-communication with God and the universe all the time. You are literally connected to the universe with invisible wiring. You cannot get away from it. It's how you are built."

--Erich Schiffmann, my first yoga teacher (via DVD and writings), as quoted in The Joy of Yoga, edited by Jennifer Schwamm Willis

If we are engaged in a non-stop non-verbal communion-communication, as Schiffmann puts it (and I believe we are), then how do we "hear" it?

One way is prayer. And yoga, for me, is a moving prayer, a way to get my body and all its "static" out of the way so that I can have a clear line.

It is only by participating in some form of deep and clear listening that we can discover, know, and live our bliss.

How are you listening?