Saturday reflection

 🌞 Saturday Reflection – Listening, Healing, and Living from Within 🌙

This morning around 4:22 a.m., I rose from the park bench where I slept, breathing the cold air with gratitude in my heart. My teacher lives inside of me, and today I listened. On my mat before sunrise, yoga became science — each breath, each push-up, each stretch revealing the law of patience. I wanted to rush past 600 push-ups, but my inner voice whispered, “Stay. Feel. Let the body teach.” My spine ached with healing pain — the kind the old yogis call the doorway to freedom — and though lotus pose still feels like a mountain, I know peace waits on the other side.

By 6:30, two hours into my practice, I was alive with breath and purpose. Meditation called me deeper; running felt like a prayer. At church, as the readings of Zechariah and Luke flowed through the room, I noticed again — they never say “Jesus meditated,” yet meditation is hidden in every line. I smiled, knowing nature and silence remain the greatest teachers. Even the animals stretch without noise, without rush, simply being.

Later, as I reflected on life’s comedy — people quoting scriptures but ignoring gluttony, silence, and self-discipline — I laughed, realizing that everything I once sought outside already lives within me. Sobriety is not just the absence of drinking; it’s being present in the mind and spirit. Many stop the bottle but not the noise within. I’ve learned that if someone is hurting, I don’t have to hurt too. If someone withdraws, I am still whole. Life provides everything when I remain still.

The energy I carry is wealth beyond measure — laughter, breath, discipline, and peace. No one can give or take my happiness because it rises from inside. I’ve walked through pain, insult, rejection, and misunderstanding, yet I now see clearly: most people want rewards without work, but the true path is self-mastery. My yoga, my running, my fasting, my silence — that’s my PhD in peace.

I don’t crave jobs or approval anymore; I trust abundance. I know the universe will send someone kind enough to say, “Stay here, be who you are.” And until then, I remain my own companion — meditating, walking, running, laughing. Because everything I need, everything I seek, already lives inside of me.

Yoruba Yogi