Dear Feel Love Now Community,

What we put into the world comes back to us. Not as punishment, but as reflection. Just like a canyon echoes our voice without judgment, the universe mirrors our consciousness with the same neutrality.

If we want peace, we must send out peace. True transformation asks us to let the fire of awareness melt away the inner patterns, our samskaras, that keep us in chaos. Moment by moment, we can choose a new state of being, and return to the stillness that reveals who we really are.

Here’s one of our favorite quotes from Acharya Kashi

“We must each meet what we put out in consciousness. So the city itself has been putting out violence. It’s been putting out greed and jealousy and fear. The story is just making visible: We meet what we put out.

“We can imagine cosmic law in this way. If I go to a canyon and I yell into that canyon, ‘Olly olly oxen free,’ the canyon is going to give me back, ‘Olly olly oxen free.’ No judgment in that. It’s just giving me what I put out. Or if I go into that canyon and I say, ‘You suck!’ The canyon is going to give me back, ‘You suck.’ No judgment at all.

“So, justice, from the perspective of cosmic law works the same way. Whatever we’re putting out we’re getting back and there’s absolutely no judgment in that. That’s what the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is making visible to us. It’s also making visible to us that those energy patterns that can create the unsteady mind must be burned in what the yogis call the fire of transformation.

“So, that’s what happens to that city. Through that process, all of it is decimated. They say it’s flattened. Swami described this years ago and it stuck with me: Samskaras in the brain are like grooves in ice. If you’ve ever been ice skating, they have a Zamboni that comes across the ice and smooths those grooves. The fire of transformation works in the exact same way. It helps to heal those patterns—those samskaras—that lead to the unsteady mind within us.”

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In loving service,The Karma Yoga Team at AYM

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