))) We Build Our Lives Around Words

 We build our lives around words.

We aspire to change, thrive, love, hate, relate to the world around us so much by the words we choose to bring into our lives.  We take the shape of what the words we use mean to us.

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Grammar is innate.

In Sanskrit, it means the architecture of your life.

We all live inside a grammar.

- Manorama

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I added a new word to our Your Year In A Word Wall last week.

- MINDFUL -

I love that you guys are participating.  It's really actually an interesting project, the reverse of what group projects usually look like.  It's quiet and subtle on the outside and I think pretty noisy for each one of us personally in our own minds and bodies...Hmmm sounds just like the practice of yoga, on and off the mat.

I really love this project and am starting to toy around with a book idea.  I'd love to get everyone to write a little story about their words, past or present, and how their meaning changed throughout a year and what they learned from that narrative.  It would be an inspirational book about how we inspire ourselves and each other with words and how we relate to the world around us and inside of us with the words we choose to focus on.

Thanks to Manorama for the above quote.  She is a Sanskrit scholar who I studied with during my Jivamukti certification in Austria in 2003.  I often play her chanting in class.  She has an absolutely beautiful voice, I highly recommend checking her out if you're interested in learning more about the beauty of Sanskrit www.sanskritstudies.org.  She teaches a Spring workshop annually w Christina Sell too FYI.

L O V E - LVM