C.M. Rivers

"The point of being an artist is that you may live." ~ Sherwood Anderson

Journal

  • Darren Main on the Source

    “If you’re able to keep returning to your focus point (in meditation), you can move still deeper into the mind and experience the true Self, because underneath these three basic levels of consciousness (conscious mind, semi-conscious mind, unconscious mind) there is a fourth.  For simplicity, I’ll refer to it as the source.  It’s important to Read more

  • Quote from Iyengar

    “Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured, and endure what cannot be cured.” B.K.S. Iyengar Read more

  • Say Yes

    Originally posted on C.M. Rivers: Say yes to storms, stillness, success, failure, silence, noise. Yes to high winds, bitter cold, sweltering heat, crushing loneliness, joyful connection, isolation, liberation. Yes to the broken and the unbreakable.  Yes to the shaken and the unshakeable. Say yes to danger, safety, pain, pleasure, exhaustion, energy.  Yes to the suffering you’ve… Read more

  • Light My Way

    Originally posted on C.M. Rivers: May my heart light my way.  May it come into a place not unlike the narrow line that exists between water and fire, a pocket of stillness where both forces are within reach.  Then I could learn their ways, how to call on them, how to let them enter… Read more

  • Quote by Matt Licata

    Enter deeply into your neurosis, your anxiety, your panic, your confusion, your suffering, and your fear – get to know it’s textures, qualities and fragrances, and allow it to take you into the secret chamber buried inside your own body.  For within the mandala of tender ripe aliveness there are jewels beyond the mind.  – Read more

  • Quote from Darren Main

    “As a modern yogi, the key to finding peace through yoga is to keep coming back to the practice.  It doesn’t matter how often we get distracted by the ego, or for how long we play the ego’s game.  The only thing that matters is that we return.  Eventually the pain of living under the Read more