A piece of wisdom from
May 24, 2023 · Wednesday
The quote
“I collapsed at my desk. I broke my cheekbone. I had been working ninety-hour weeks and called it dedication. The collapse was the most important thing that ever happened to me — because it was the start of treating my body as a thing that mattered.”
— Arianna Huffington · Burnout
The concept
Hoʻoponopono
The Hawaiian art of cleaning memory, four phrases that repair what is broken inside.
In the late 1970s a Hawaiian woman named Morrnah Simeona took the ancient family-reconciliation practice of hoʻoponopono and stripped it down to a self-administered version with four phrases, I am sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love…
A practice for today
Walk one slow block today and observe the lesson of Hoʻoponopono. The Hawaiian art of cleaning memory, four phrases that repair what is broken inside.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 3.21
यद्यदाचरति श्रेष्ठस्तत्तदेवेतरो जनः। स यत्प्रमाणं कुरुते लोकस्तदनुवर्तते॥
“Whatever a great person does, others follow. Whatever standard they set, the world pursues.”
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