Lila, Divine Play

'It is this beggar's play, his lila, not work.' 'When there is activity which is motivated by self-interest and ends with pleasure or pain, we may call it work.  It requires exertion.  But when we live outside the reach of pleasure or pain, a realized man is untouched by these.  Our activities are effortless.  Our work is really our play.'

-Yogi Ramsuratkumar 

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The Work wants your life--but only when you are in a love affair with life itself, only when you are bright, strong, confident, capable, in short: ALIVE.  the Work does not want some kind of dull, dispassionate, struggling, agonizing humanoid.  To give your life to the Work is to give breath and activity to the Work everyday; to give passion to the Work everyday. You have to have a childlike, eternal beginner's mind, a belief in miracles, like, 'Any day anything can happen!'

It is the nature of this Work that a revelation, a breakthrough, could happen at any time, and has many times!  But, how easily we forget.

-Lee Lozowick - The ALCHEMY of love and sex.