Rainer Maria Rilke – Dec 21, Iyengar II & I

For the Solstice. Yoga philosophy says, if we are centered in our deepest self, all we we do will benefit our community. Rilke said it better.

You are a wheel at which I stand,

whose dark spokes sometimes catch me up,

revolve me nearer to the center.

Then all the work I put my hand to

widens from turn to turn.

— From The Book of Hours I, 45