A Joyful Practice

What Makes Up A Foundation of Hope? (mostly the blessings & music) April 28, 2024

Many blessings to everyone, and especially to anyone observing Great Lent (& Palm Sunday)! “Chag Sameach!” to everyone celebrating Passover and/or Counting the Omer! “Happy Riḍván!” to those celebrating “the Most Great Festival.” Happy National Poetry Month!

“Sometimes in my tears I drown
But I never let it get me down
So when negativity surrounds
I know someday, it’ll all turn around because

All my life, I’ve been waitin’ for
I’ve been prayin’ for, for the people to say
That we don’t wanna fight no more
There’ll be no more wars, and our children will play

One day (one day), one day (one day)”

— quoted from the song “One Day” by Matisyahu (written by Bruno Mars / Philip Lawrence / Ari Levine / Matthew Miller)

Please join me for a 65-minute virtual yoga practice on Zoom today (Sunday, April 28^th) at 2:30 PM. Use the link from the “Class Schedules” calendar if you run into any problems checking into the class. You can request an audio recording of this practice via a comment below or by emailing myra (at) ajoyfulpractice.com.

Sunday’s playlist is available on YouTube and Spotify. [Look for “04242024 PRGL Stories”]

MUSIC NOTE: I slightly changed this playlist, but the remix does not affect the overall timing of the class music. Again, the before/after music is slightly different since I could not find “Oneness” on Spotify. 

“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which a man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of human is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for the brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way—an honorable way—in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.”

— quoted from “I. Experiences in a Concentration Camp” (pgs. 35-36) in Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

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