“Today, let’s explore the Bindu Chakra, known as the ‘Third Ear Chakra.’ This energy center invites us to listen with a deeper awareness, beyond the physical sounds around us. It enhances our ability to tune into the subtle vibrations, inner wisdom, and spiritual guidance that cannot be heard with our physical ears. It allows you to listen to your intuition over your fears.

While the Third Eye helps us see beyond the visible, the Third Ear invites us to hear what is unspoken—the silence, the spaces between words, and the quiet messages of the heart. As we move through our practice, let’s listen more deeply: to the whispers of the body, the gentle rhythm of the breath, and the truths that emerge from within.”

– David Scott

Thomas Edison and Our Potential

At age 12 Thomas Edison came home from school and handed a sealed envelope to his mother. He told her, “My teacher gave this to me and told me to give it only to my mother.”

As his mother Nancy read the note here eyes became full of tears… “What does it say mother?” She then took a breath and read it out loud to her child: “Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn’t have enough good teachers for training him. Please teach him yourself.”

That she did and the rest it seems… is history. Thomas Edison became one of the greatest inventors of the century.

Many, many years, after Edison’s mother death, Edison was looking through old family things. Suddenly he saw a folded paper in the corner of a drawer in a desk. He took it and opened it up. On the paper was written: “Your son has a severe learning disability and is mentally deficient. We won’t let him come to school any more. He is expelled.”

Edison cried for hours and then wrote in his diary: “Thomas Alva Edison was a mentally deficient child with severe learning disability that, by a hero of a mother, became the genius of the century.”

Tonight in your practice give yourself permission to relearn how to breathe and allow yourself to move slow. Enjoy the path and way as much as what your hoping to achieve in life. Allow yourself to intentionally get lost in your practice. Observe, without judgement, whatever negative emotions pop into your head and ask yourself what is the trigger in my past making me feel this way?.” –David Scott

“Find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.” —Deepak Chopra

“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.” – Eckhart Tolle

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.” —Charles Schulz

“Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.” —Brian Tracy

“Often it is not the stupid things we do in life that we most regret, but instead the hopes and dreams we left stranded and the things we want to do, but never had the courage to do.” – David Scott

“The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings.” – T.K.V. Desikachar

“Water, if you don’t stir it, will become clear. Oil and vinegar, if you don’t shake it, will fall naturally into order.” Likewise, the mind left unaltered will find its own natural peace.

“Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.” Ma Jaya

“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.” – Ramana Maharshi

“The significant is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.” – Eckhart Tolle

“The little things in life are not that little. In the end they will become some of your most treasured memories in the fabric of your existence. As parents we often work so hard to give our children the things we felt that we were lacking in our childhood, that we forget to give them the simple things, we did have, that brought so much joy into our lives.” – David Scott

“Meditation means dissolving those invisible walls that the ego and ignorance have built.”

“Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.” ~Sharon Salzberg

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. – Buddha

We can’t let go of thinking; it’s just part of being human. But we can choose not to get caught up in our thoughts. When we allow our thoughts to flow through us without attaching to them or analyzing them, we create space for peace and clarity.

“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).” – James Baraz

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future; live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.”- Thich Nhat Hanh

“Being mindful means that we suspend judgment for a time, set aside our immediate goals for the future, and take in the present moment as it is rather than as we would like it to be.”- Mark Williams

“Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.”- Joseph Goldstein

It is all that I have lost that has set me free.

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person.

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different than they are.”- Allan Lokos

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. – Buddha

“You wouldn’t welcome a thief into your home, so why let thoughts that steal your peace and joy settle in your mind? Just as we protect our homes from intruders, we must also guard our minds against thoughts that diminish our inner light. Let’s practice awareness and compassion today, recognizing these thoughts when they arise, and gently releasing them, creating space for peace, joy, and gratitude to flourish.” – David Scott

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi

“Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.”

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” – Epictetus

”The mind is definitely something that can be transformed, and meditation is a means to transform it.” -Dalai Lama

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung

“Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.”- Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Not everyone will understand the path you are on, but remember that you are here to live your life and not to make others understand.”

“Never lie to someone that trust you and never trust someone that lies to you.”

“Making mistakes is better than faking perfection”

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.” The Bhagavad Gita

“In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practicing meditation.” Buddha

“Imagine your potential as a hidden vein of diamonds buried deep within. These diamonds lie beneath the surface, waiting to be discovered. To reach this treasure, we must pick up our tools and dig through layers of what seems like unimportant material, even when the path is challenging and the progress slow. To uncover these diamonds, we must face our deepest fears, moving through doubt and resistance. Only through friction and effort do they begin to shine, revealing their true brilliance.

Just like an unwritten song or unspoken verse, our potential loses its value if it remains dormant. Picture living with a beautiful melody within you, never allowing it to be heard. The true tragedy is not in dying but in living without fully expressing what is inside us. So, let’s dig deep, confront our fears, and let our inner light and creativity flow. The world is waiting to hear the unique song that only you can sing.” – David Scott

Speak your deepest truth, even if it means losing everything – your pride, your status, your image, even your way of life. A life of lies and half-truths, the burden of unspoken things, will eventually suffocate you and everyone around you. Give up everything for a truthful existence. Know that you can only lose what’s non-essential. Osho