Life – Susannah Izzard Yoga

Thought for November 2023

November 1, 2023October 29, 2023 by susannahizzard, posted in Thought for the month

‘Allow’ by Danna Faulds

There is no controlling life.

Try corralling a lightning bolt,

containing a tornado.

Dam a stream and it will create a new channel.

Resist, and the tide will sweep you off your feet.

Allow, and grace will carry you to higher ground.

The only safety lies in letting it all in –

the wild and the weak; fear, fantasies, failures and success.

When loss rips off the doors of the heart, or

sadness veils your vision with despair,

Practice becomes simply bearing the truth.

In the choice to let go of your known way of being,

the whole world is revealed to your new eyes.

Thought for July 2023

July 1, 2023June 29, 2023 by susannahizzard, posted in Thought for the month

For we must be clear that to live or love only where we can trust, where there is security or containment, where one cannot be hurt or let down, where what is pledged in words is forever binding, means really to be out of harm’s way and so to be out of real life. James Hillman

Thought for April 2021

April 1, 2021 by susannahizzard, posted in Thought for the month

The dying leaves of a hundred million autumns have built up the humus from which our crops spring…… A hard, polished acorn falls to the ground and cracks open, but it sends one shoot down and another up, and later there is a tree. Life springs and grows where the bearers of life do not clutch it to themselves, but hear the call to let it go in the interests of fuller life and action.
Maria Boulding.