Yogi Tea sayings are the best…I mean…they are true to you
Let’s not get superlative, saying “Yogi Tea sayings are the best”. The teas all come with a different fortune on the tag. I must admit I’ve been collecting them for a few years now. What will I do with them? I’m not quite sure, and I’m starting to really clear out some stuff from what I own and do not use. I would like to keep some of these, but I want to do something with the others. I may end up throwing them away, or leaving them in random places, or sending them in letters. Who knows.
But what I like is the message contained within each tea bag. It’s always uplifting, true, positive, simplistic, insightful, and a number of other positive things.
“Man is as vast as he acts”
“Love has no fear and no vengeance”
“Listen and you will develop intuition”
“Joy is the essence of success”
“Life is a flow of love; your participation is requested”
These cute little adages are keeps me going back for more tea (not to mention it is superb quality tea). Tonight I got a message that I’ve gotten before; this time it spoke to me loudly.
“Keep up”
It wasn’t “keep up the good work”. It’s just- keep up- like they are recognizing that life is hard, and that it’s enough work to just “keep up”.
I am so behind on so many things. This very instant I should be finishing schoolwork and grade input-ting, or sleeping!!!, but I am blogging, listening to music, being emotional (for a good reason), and this is how it is. I also need to scan things, do more grading, send stuff in the mail, give up facebook, record more hiphop, maybe look into different future jobs, earn 70,000 dollars, send friends letters, make people Christmas presents, get my cd player (and car!) fixed, and I really could use a hair trim.
But I am doing a decent job. I am tempted to judge myself based on how “good” of a job I am doing, or not doing, and I realize I am still way too judgmental of myself. I was looking through old stuff and seeing how many awards I got. I was such a good achiever. An overachiever. But it worked for me at the time. Doing a lot of work, and doing it well, is a nice distraction.
Now, when I am deciding who I truly am, and what my future “should” “look like”, I find myself so often distracted. I am busy, trying to stay afloat monetarily, and I want to get a better idea of my family and work future. I am happy, and proud, to have a job, in a field I do like. As far as relationships go, well, let’s not go there.
Instead, I will attempt to simply KEEP UP. I will work hard tomorrow and be productive at school, I will continue cleaning my apartment as I have been, and here are two concrete goals that will help me be more productive this week:
1) No (or very little) going on facebook.
2) Find one of my planners, and put my to-do lists in there as well as prioritizing the to-do’s before I leave for a different state for Thanksgiving!
I will report back on my status, because, believe you me, if I am to keep up, blogging is a high priority.
1 comment
Thanks for posting. Recently I’ve been reading the Yogi Tea sayings on the teabag tags, and wanted to share them with a friend (I don’t have any teas here). We saw your post and it was very much appreciated.
Interesting story: I had been in a very difficult relationship that I knew I needed to get out of. The sayings on the teas helped me get centered, trust my intuition, and operate from my heart and not just my head. I was able to walk away with my head held high, still being supportive but not willing to take a pattern of emotional abuse any longer. “Keep Up” turned out to be one of my favorites, as it is yours. I had isolated myself from the flow of life and it was starting to cause severe distress. I realized that I needed to get out in order to keep up and that real love truly has no fear and no vengeance. There was other knowledge that I tapped into, but this wisdom made a huge difference in my life.
The irony is that the partner I left was the one who had ordered the teas online, and got me into drinking lots of different varieties… Anyway, the more tea I drank, the more knowledge and understanding came over me, and ultimately, led me to my freedom, and gave my partner his freedom too. He was also in a form of bondage since offloading so many burdens of the relationship on me allowed him to continue behaving badly. This is not just great tea, but ancient wisdom from a tradition that emphasizes living in harmony and love for yourself and others.
Thanks again for a great post.
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