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the altar of ‘who am I?’
All night I could not sleep because of the moonlight on my bed I kept on hearing a voice calling: Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered ‘yes.’ ….Zi Yi there aren’t any battles here…..where moon meets heart...
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remembering the magic
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world. When Munindra Ji, a vipassana meditation teacher, was asked why he practiced, his...
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the good & the bad
Your worth is not a product of your intelligence, your talent, your looks, or how much you have accomplished.Though much of who and what we are changes as we journey through life, our inherent worth...
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a passionate grace
Touch opens us, heals us, and ultimately brings a profound peace. We often think of touch as an external sensation, but we can feel touch internally too. Some of the most powerful touches we...
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soul whispers create sparks
No matter how your call comes, it is the trumpet of your destiny. You will say that you have more important things to do: you are raising children, punching the clock, planning a vacation to escape...
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nature mystics forage for truth
If you want to know love, let in everything. …..Mark Nepo never can we reach down and find the authentic joy of this life without the risk that moves with us in every moment….this is not fear, but...
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living from the full bloom
A friend asked me, “Where is your homeland?” My homeland is a place that has never had a name. …..Rumi fierce grace is required in times of doubt and smallness…remembering that we have this...
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the sanctity of our fragility
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. …. Winnie the Pooh by...
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give it all up to a charismatic world
How many now will seize not just the day (which Carpe Diem signifies) but every moment, second, hour, in every way, beyond how all our drudgeful habits make things seem? How many will take our lives...
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can you hear the wildish whispers?
When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy…….Ajahn Chah we cannot live without each other…..it is within these most difficult and...
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in search of our finest moment
Vigils calls us to a loving listening. Because we have so much restlessness and noise in us, we find it hard to nurture a listening attitude. So even the very listening to chant begins cultivating...
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nesting in big sky
The more you know, the more you bend. ….an old Korean saying do we really know what deep passion for life looks like? and who can sing our light out into the deep sky? and what can we give back? That...
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listening under water
from here to here I’m listening to you speak of your pain and what it’s saying to you. As my heart aches the way a tree splits. And in the split, I realize that an entire life—decades, a century if...
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the groove between sun & rain
What then is our course, what the manner of our flight? This is not a journey for the feet; the feet bring us only from land to land; nor need you think of coach or ship to carry you away; all this...
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sweet nothings to tuck away
There are things you can’t reach. But you can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of God. And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier. The snake...
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where is the light breeze?
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. …..St. Francis de Sale patterns in flowers…..how decay can re-enliven us……the truth of our deep pain…….and the fragrance of...
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bones of the soul
When we are blessed with moments of illumination, we touch the sacred, something unspeakably vaster, more sublime, and more incomprehensible than anything we could know through our limited rational...
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an essential authenticity
Things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this...
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we lighten each other’s shadows
We do not need permission To live our life guided by that which lives within us. And yet, too often, some part of our heart Waits for someone else to give the go-ahead Before we fully embody our...
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engaged beauty
One of the keys to spiritual growth is consistent focus on our soul ideal. This practice accelerates the infusion of soul energy and light into the mind, emotions, and behaviors of the personality. We...
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