I have completed Dressage in the Fourth Dimension this morning and must applaud, cheer, namaste to you with awed gratitude! You have truly written and connected from a transcended dimension and in doing so, opened an understanding that allowed me to "get back on the horse" for I had fallen so far and so darkly off. Now I can, again, respect "the horse", trust "the horse", and love "the horse"...ie, my life, my body, my marriage. Any "other" is "the horse" with which to practice the art of love and beauty, harmony and integration...with an infinite joy de vivre! Thank you, thank you, thank you for this book! --Marianne Boyer, Singapore
The words "Thank you" just do not carry enough meaning or weight to express the gratitude that I feel for our work together. Our lessons this week have left me so inspired and I feel such a higher level of understanding of my horse. I learn more with you in one hour than I learn with other instructors in a month! I am just thrilled. You are so amazing. You bring out the strength of Nitters and her kindness by teaching me how to ask her for what I want more correctly and subtly. Tonight when I let her out of her stall she galloped for several minutes in the pasture, even after our intense work out! I believe she feels the same positive energy that I do.
No one knows this mountain I inhabit:
Deep in white clouds, forever empty, silent.
-Han Shan (7th-9th cent)
You ask why I live in the mountain forest,
I smile, and am silent,
and even deep within remain quiet:
the peach trees blossom,
the water flows.
- Li T’ai-po (701-?)
When I find you again,
It will be in mountains;
This morning I lose you
Once more to farewell.
Free of attachment
In heart and mind
Is that why you can go
Ten thousand miles alone?
Traveling without disciples,
You have only
A white horse
For company.
