• Atman

    The Atman or Atma (IAST: Ātmā, sanskrit: आत्म‍ ) is a philosophical term used within Hinduism and Vedanta to identify the soul. It is one's true self (hence generally translated into English as 'Self') beyond identification with the phenomenal reality of worldly existence.
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    overcome

    Thursday, February 18th, 2010

    I had a great post I was going to write about teacher training last weekend…how amazing the Sanskrit professor was and how much I enjoyed anatomy while bonding with my group and doing lots and lots of yoga.  (I ended up solving the high maintenance problem by succumbing to my natural hair curl and using [...]

    happy 1.5

    Monday, January 25th, 2010

    Dear Emily Kate – You are officially not a baby anymore.  (Really, you haven’t been for a while.)  As of last week, you are 18 months old.  For the past year I’ve been too busy drinking you in to write blog posts about how amazing you are, sometimes just watching you,  humbled at how you are [...]

    a post in which i truly find my atman

    Thursday, January 7th, 2010

    I hate January.  There are lots of reasons to hate January – the weather, the lack of vacation time left after holiday excess, the gloomy dark days, the weather.  But the biggest reason to hate January is all the newly-resolved-out-of-shape people clogging up my gym.  There was a line for the treadmills in a gym that has approximately FIFTY [...]

    i resolve to not make resolutions

    Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

    How can I resist posting resolutions?  It’s that time of year!  So many ways to improve!  I was thinking as I read everyone else’s resolutions that it would make more sense to break it down so that I only have a few things I do every month, almost like a to-do list.  Otherwise, I’ll never [...]

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