“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
~Marilyn Monroe
…it’s true what they say. Most of the time, you never know what you’re going to get. I’ve been living this experience recently as I find myself packing up and moving to the City of Angels. I’m filled with a mix of emotions; some sad to leave my amazing friends I’ve made in San Francisco these past few years, some excited to begin a new chapter of my life and some nervous for what’s to come. With all of these emotions, I keep returning to the principal of non-attachment originally born from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjalis.
Non-attachment is not just the process of letting go, but it’s the process of not taking on in the first place. Rather then suppressing wishes, desires or emotions, the idea is to constantly bring an awareness to the existence of the attachment behind those feelings and this will begin to weaken their power. Realistically, it’s better to acknowledge where your mind is attached and learn to release that hold through yoga and meditation then to simply deny the hold even exists. While we might begin with surface level attachments like objects or people (or moving to LA) this principal can apply to progressively deeper levels of our being including things or experiences we might have only heard about. Eventually we begin to see that these things are all just distractions on the journey to Self-realization, and we gradually learn to set them aside.
Right now you’re probably thinking, “Wow, all of that from a bowl of cherries?” I must admit, this post was originally intended for the delicious cherry vanilla smoothie shown below. So let’s get back to it shall we?
Cherry Vanilla Smoothie:
10-12 cherries, rinsed and pitted
1 ripe banana
1 small bunch of spinach (or other favorite green)
2 dates, pitted
hemp milk
seeds of 1 vanilla bean (or 1 tsp vanilla)
maca powder
3-4 ice cubes
Love is what is left when you let go of all the things you love.
I must say that the recipes you post are amazing…I don’t think I’ve ever made a trip to the store specifically in response to an urge to test someone’s concoction until I started checking out your posts! (well, that’s not 100% true…i’m sure i haaave invested as much into making delicious brownies or something of the like). I don’t know how to better describe my cooking skills than to share this: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cook_home.
Thanks for the excellent blogging, Caley!
Lisa, that comic is wonderfully funny! Thanks for sharing