a case for wonderment
In the West, there isn’t a seamless understanding of what spiritual life is. It’s more specialized, like, ‘I’m going to meditate on a cushion, and something great is going to happen.’ The classical...
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The only true place of calm in a storm is the very center. So the only thing to do, once in the storm, is to make our way to the center of it, hard as that may seem……Mark Nepo gratitude may be one of...
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You are every image, and yet I am homesick for You. ….Rumi finding the sacred within can become a trite measure of our spiritual bypassing, but keeping our life simple and divine really means to come...
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To be lost is to be fully present……..Rebecca Solnit oh, we are so clever…..to forget our uncertainty, we use our precious wanderings to dive into the illusion of control……the fine paradox of being a...
View Articlethe way to intuit messages
I can’t begin again; because there is no re-do, no resurrection, of beginning. Beginning is always and eternally now, as Meister Eckhart points out; and the moment I think I will start over, I have...
View Articlewithin the travails of sorrow & joy
Those of us who value the inner journey may, at times, forget to orient & ground ourselves in being fully here in the world. Of course, here includes the inner landscape, but it also includes the...
View ArticleHappy New & Old & In Between
Be fearless with your dreams. Sometimes it’s absolutely essential to dream of things far, far beyond our wildest imagination. Dreams so wild that even the thought of them coming true makes the...
View Articlewhat is not
On this new summer day, it is so easy to take for granted that tomorrow will come – that another opportunity will be given to witness a sunrise, to breathe into the heart, to be astonished at the...
View Articleaffectionate attention
In an attempt to speed up the birth of chicks for marketing, shells were made thinner and incubated to break sooner. But once born, many chicks died. The attempt to speed up birth failed. Research...
View Articleperfection of what is
Through learning to tolerate painful or vulnerable feelings, you develop a new muscle. With your growing capacity to handle your pain, the wound that once seemed so huge, so monstrous, so...
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