Sometimes you just need a little sign that you're on the right track, am i right or am i right?

Some call me crazy, but I like to look for signs in my life that display an interconnectedness of life and humanity. It's kinda my check on myself that I'm on the right path... bare with me.

I’ve always had a strong connection to the number 36. So, if I see it in a temperature, a clock, an-email received time, I often smile. I look for connections in that moment. 36 is the time I was born, it was my grandfather's college football number, it is check number I wrote to pay for my first tuition payment at ODU, and so on, and so on.

I also look for interrelated conversation. Sometimes it’s different people mentioning the same concept within a small time span, you know, its almost eerie. Sometimes it’s a certain song on the radio or a call from someone I was just thinking about. I hope you know what I’m talking about… it’s that feeling that usually accompanies, “Huh, how ironic…”

This next one really tripped me up, though. To set the scene, I was just about to go to bed, but had decided to do some reading. I was leafing through Tolle’s Stillness Speaks and I quickly became engulfed by the literature. Page after page kept blowing my mind. I came across a standout passage. It blew me away so much that just after reading it I closed the book and thought to myself: I want to remember this for the rest of my life.

The passage: “When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.”

On that final note, I went to bed.

The next morning at yoga, I was floored to hear in final savasana (the laying down relaxation pose) that the very passage I was so passionate about the night before was being read aloud by the instructor.

I almost chuckled right there. How’s that for a sign?