A Walk Along the Sunrise

Aum Namah Sivaya

Several days ago, during the lunar retreat, several of our monks headed down the hill to Kealia Beach just north of Kapaa, for a beautiful stroll along the oceanside walkway. Arriving just in time to see the sunrise begin, our monks capture a few lovely photos of our island's natural radiance. Aum.

\"I am the waves. I am the ocean. We are all waves-there is no higher wave or lower wave. The waves and the ocean are one. You have to plunge yourself in the ocean.\" Yogaswami

\"You are God. God sees through your eyes, hears through your ears, speaks through your mouth.\" Yogaswami

\"Just go about and do your work. Enjoy the beauty of the world!\" Yogaswami

\"All is play. God is just playing everywhere. All are bubbles-small bubbles going down and coming up to the surface.\" Yogaswami

\"The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you who must raise your sails.\" Rabindranath Tagore

\"The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. Only man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.\" Rabindranath Tagore

\"We are all bubbles in the ocean. The bubble is in the ocean; the ocean is in the bubble.\" Yogaswami

\"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.\" Rabindranath Tagore

\"By tapas you can become free, but you cannot know the Truth-it is beyond everything.\" Yogaswami

\"The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music. The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.\" Rabindranath Tagore

\"No need to control the breath; no need to do tapas, if you can see yourself everywhere. That is the secret of secrets.\" Yogaswami

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