REDISCOVERING YOGA’S SPARKLING TRUTH
How yoga, our closest of friends, can help us rediscover what’s really important in our lives.
By Greg Ormson
On the life journey, it’s certain that we’ll endure failures and make mistakes. A friend of mine, an inventor with eight devices in use and registered by the Office of U.S. Patents, is a good example of reinventing after mistakes or failures. Before any success he experienced numerous failures. It’s as if he, along with all the other creatives of dogged determination, have memorised - and then forgotten - Samuel Beckett’s oft-quoted statement on success:
EVER TRIED EVER FAILED NO MATTER TRY AGAIN FAIL BETTER
We were college roommates, and though I’ve not kept up with him, I cherish the memories and recall his dormitory room experiments even in his 20’s. After college, our lives sent us scurrying toward a lot of things that ended up secondary; but like many of our peers, we were not fully prepared when thrust into adulthood’s responsibilities. Our vocations were the focus, and that meant working through the stages of life centred on careers and fatherhood. In the world of work, we laboured under authorities that were not always kind or fair, and our jobs kept us bound to responsibilities.