Comments on: Pages from the Book of Life

By: Debra Masters

Debra Masters — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:18:45 +0000

I, too, was brought to tears. I think of all the times I have thought that no one REALLY KNOWS anyone in this world…and this story exemplifies that so clearly.

I live a life trying so hard to hang onto reality in the face of this inner self that is so luminously free and so magical, that it threatens to capsize my inner self. I recently spoke of this to my daughter, and she said that maybe I should WRITE my inner life down as stories…I think I’m going to attempt this…

Thank you for one of the brightest shining blogs on the web. I am never unmoved by anything I read here. Namaste
Debra Masters´s last blog ..Loneliness

By: Ladyexpat

Ladyexpat — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:03:36 +0000

Another beautiful post. I don’t know what to say. I am trying to get my brain around what you have written. …very difficult. I cannot fathom reading something and not remembering.
Ladyexpat´s last blog ..Getting our Twenty Winks in Bali

By: virginia

virginia — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:39:18 +0000

Dear Mahala,
Thanks for the Pages from the Book of Life.
Today I read you massage and today I understand
what you are telling us of your life.
Mahala I have Love And Gratitude for you.
I learn a lot for letters you share with us
Thanks have a nice day.
Here We have Holiday today December, 1 5 ,
Virginia , Curacao N.A.

By: carolyn, laughing yogini

carolyn, laughing yogini — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:30:51 +0000

Mahala, thank you for the numinous post. I always feel as if I am right there in the room with you and you are speaking to me across the kitchen table, over a cup of tea. We are such old friends.

I spend my life trying to write and re-write my story. I recently heard a voice (maybe it was you :-)) telling me that my name was CHANGE, implying that there was no sense trying to pin anything down since it would change in the next moment.

PS Thirty years ago, I also taught the wee ones.
carolyn, laughing yogini´s last blog ..Sutra 1.36, solace (in my time of grief)

By: Melynda

Melynda — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:21:14 +0000

You teach me so much. Thank you.
Melynda´s last blog ..I May Have to Read Some Peter Straub, After All.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:04:47 +0000

Dear Mahala, thank you for sharing your story here… I am another visitor via the fabulous Patti Digh.

I am so grateful for sharings like this, full of trust and wonder, flaw and perfection. Thank you again.

I spent all weekend baking biscotti… in honor of my grandmother, who used to bake Stollen. Which I never liked.

Story and pictures are here.
Shelley´s last blog ..Biscotti-a-thon 2009

By: Mahala Mazerov

Mahala Mazerov — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:00:59 +0000

Hazel, Emma, Elizabeth, Kimberly, Megan ~ It’s not that each of you is not deserving of your own little paragraph of gratitude from me. I’m simply sort of blown away speechless by your words.

Every time I post I wonder if I’m saying what I mean to say, if the words, the heart and the emotion are coming through.

Your comments are a blessing. I feel like we’ve met in some rich field that is beyond even words. I hope we can find our way there together, again.

Kimberly ~ hugs to you on the loss of your beloved Nana.

By: Megan

Megan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:04:25 +0000

Wow wow wow. My mind is blown. Your words are beautiful and transformative. If anyone was here to look at my face while reading it I have no doubt they would have seen every unadulterated, naked emotion I am capable of.

Thank you for the gift you have given all of us with your writing.
Megan´s last blog ..Shiva Nata Practice Day: Annual Review Edition

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:41:06 +0000

I’m a first timer here, a referral from the wonderful Patti Digh. I love this post and I too, often rehearse the story of my life. It changes with every rehearsal and I hope to have it ready for opening night one day. Something about my life – my 94 year old Nana died this week, and though she lived a long life, it was a hard and in many ways sad life. I can’t blog about her funeral services yet, so tonight I wrote about two events that made me laugh very hard.
Kimberly ´s last blog ..The One Not About My Nana Dying

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:42:09 +0000

Oh my goodness. This brought me to tears. I agree with Emma and Hazel. Thank you for sharing that.

It is dark here. And quiet. And now I want to curl up with a cup of cocoa and read The Wisdom of Yoga. I started it a while ago but strangely my mind has been resisting the effort required to actually think about what it says .. so I skimmed it a few times instead. Now I want to try to actually read it.
elizabeth´s last blog ..sunlight and shadow – and skateboards