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the ineffable & unsolved profundities
Overcome any bitterness because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world you are carrying the pain of the world in your heart. …..Sufi can you...
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to be within a poem…
Good poems bring the grant of malleability. They make the world, and the self, workable, when it might seem to have stiffened past change. They hold the omnipresence of interconnection without...
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the interplay of new life & the old soul
There is a line in Ntozake Shange’s play, ‘for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.’ In the play, the woman in purple speaks after having struggled to deal with all the...
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the drone of our inner spiralling
Most of us go about our day as if we were on a track: we know what we need to accomplish and set out for it, whether it’s to finish a report, follow a diet, catch a train, or meditate. If we’re not...
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the cosmology of emergence
When we allowed science to convince us that there is no soul or intelligence in matter, the Earth’s physical forms became only cemetery markers showing where spirits once moved through the world. The...
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what is larger than that which we seek?
Mind is a mirror in which the light of the soul reflects. ….Hari Dass strengthening our willingness to begin again…..through community, challenge, and silence…..where do we spend this life we are...
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eat life with 2 spoons
Less effort is sometimes better. This is true with respect to observing our thoughts and our connection with the Soul. The less significance we give our thoughts, the easier it will be to connect with...
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demystifying the descent
The mystery does not get clearer by repeating the question, Nor is bought with going to amazing places. Until you have kept your eyes and your wanting still for fifty years, you don’t begin to cross...
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wandering into a still life
These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time for them. There is simply the rose; it is...
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the great bliss of hearing the sky fall
Mind can either rest in the awakened state of openness, clarity, and sensitivity, or suddenly feel afraid of such vastness, seeing itself as separate. This is the root of all confusion, the moment in...
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an intimate wish to coalesce with an ideal
An ongoing practice recognizes that there is a transcendent mystery beyond the techniques that a practice employs. Awakening is not the end result of a systematized process. Reawakening love and...
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belonging to love
Surely This is Love… I am intimately connected with all that is. When you water your roots, my heart blossoms. When I see you smile, that’s when I know I’m fully alive. As you are able to live in...
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an intuitive glance toward neoteric oddities
If great ideas actually did follow inexorably from piling up facts through reason and experimentation, as the orthodox model suggests, then all it would take to walk away with history’s prizes would...
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stripping away light
Being open to a new world requires that we accept the death of an old one, whatever that means for us personally. It could involve saying goodbye to a beloved grandparent or pet. It may necessitate a...
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our inexpressible emergence
I have come to drag you out of yourself, and take you in my Heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had and lift you like a prayer to the Sky………Rumi the fragile beauty of...
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the limelight of grace
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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altars made of fears
Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart. ….Paulo Coelho there’s a panic that sinks in when we fear we’re doing it all wrong, and a worse panic when we give in...
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Easter transformation
What has always been basic to Easter, or resurrection, is crucifixion. If you want resurrection, you must have crucifixion. Too many interpretations of the Crucifixion have failed to emphasize that...
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crafting a legacy
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. …..Thich Nhat Hanh there is a night wind that...
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calling from within
As we slip below the surface mind, below the flotsam of the surface world, we travel to our true level, where the deep silence of identity is reached and embraced. …..John O’Donohue we’ve opened and...
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