WHEN I FIRST CLOSED MY EYES IN A THOUGHTFUL WAY…

*Originally posted January 22, 2013; edited from the original

When I first closed my eyes in a thoughtful way, I was doing yoga at home, sitting on the wood floor of my living room. In that instant I knew that Universe is all around me. That we are all connected became clear to me. I hadn’t known this before as it seemed to arise from dormancy, springing from seed to flower once I was ready to explore my spirituality. I say the sense of connectedness was dormant because I believe the knowledge was in my consciousness but out of my everyday awareness — in a sense it moved from my…