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A child on a farm sees a plane fly by overhead and dreams of a faraway place A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home
---Carl Burns

Someone asked Amma, "Why should one follow the spiritual path?"

Amma replied, "This is like the seed asking, "Why should I go beneath the soil, sprout and grow upward?"

Excerpted from the book "From Amma's Heart"

In honor of my fellow yoga practitioners

CREATING RITUAL - Christmas 2006 - Sensory stimuli as symbols are able to penetrate (i.e., find their way) to those neurocognitive models mediating meaning and signification, and how models express themselves in symbolic action and cultural artifacts. Among other things, the biogenetic structuralists developed a theory of the evolution of the symbolic function that proceeds from primordial symbol, through cognized SYMBOL systems to sign systems, and finally to formal sign systems, any or all of which may operate at any moment in adult human cognition (Laughlin, McManus and Stephens 1981).

Latest trip was to Portland, Oregon to attend a work related conference. I spent my lunch hours trying to locate the restaurant I remembered my parents taking me to as a child. All I could remember was that there were plates on the wall and circular windows that looked like you're on a ship. After visting the three oldest restaurants in downtown Portland I finally found it. I celebrated by having fresh clams and raw oysters filled with warm thoughts of long ago.