25/11/2025
A little bit of Ram Dass wisdom here in the run up to Christmas. I’ve noticed there’s a spate of “real” Christmas adverts that acknowledge the difficulties we experience at Christmas when it comes to familial relationships. We can acknowledge it to be hard, but we can also learn how to become a little less reactive because we all know as soon as we’re around the family, we revert to being 12 years old again, and no wants that.
Yoga helps us to see and then disrupt the habitual responses to familial stress.
Seriously.
It’s pretty great like that.
It’s not a quick fix. But it’s the next best thing.
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A family can be a strangling tight thing that catches you or tortures you, or it can become a vehicle for your freedom.
When you understand that you have taken birth in order to go through a set of experiences through which you can awaken to the truth of your being, to that part of you that is not identified with the form, but is in the form; when you understand that is what your life is about, all the institutions you find yourself in become opportunities through which you can become free.
You use it all, and you use the family by becoming a dharmic parent or a dharmic son, meaning you hear the role, and you fulfill it impeccably. You are a perfect daughter or perfect son, and not perfect in the sense of somebody else’s model of what perfection is…you have to listen for yourself.
-Ram Dass
