CHANGING YOUR MIND
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. —George Bernard Shaw Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing...
Find new ways
"Let us stop resisting the revolution in human being-ness. If we want to outlast the multiple crises unfolding today, let us not seek to...
Living on the Lip
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside! ---Rumi
What is Listening?
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own...
PLACE
Interesting that this writing from around the late 1800s echoes much of what we hear in the new age literature (i.e. "law of attraction"...
What is a Yogi?
“What does it take to actually be a yogi, really? Not spiritual attainment or asana performance, but the beautiful embrace of your own...
Your consciousness is a miracle
I dream that I love everything about my life. I dream that each event I have ever experienced or will ever experience is precious and...
The transition of Despair
Those who are in despair over the state of the planet, ask yourselves: Does your despair take into account the powers and possibilities...
Want three questions to ask at the end of your day??
Once the philosopher Spinoza was asked how he knew that his day had been complete that he had accomplished something worthwhile. He...
I am because you are
Sawubona* *Although [this Zulu greeting is] usually translated as "I see you" (and made famous by the N'avi in the film Avatar), Sawubona...
No Words…
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand...
The wisdom you seek….
Please don't let the wisdom you seek or the changes you wish to manifest be driven by feelings that you're somehow flawed, weak, or...
Emanation
“We have to give up our power, our identity and every attachment we have to the outcome of the story. The story can then use us to find...
Merely to be Held….
I sit down on the floor of a school for the retarded, writer of magazine articles accompanying a band. I was met at the door by a child...
Intuition
I invited Intuition to stay in my house when my roommates went North. I warned her that I am territorial and I keep the herb jars in...
SACRED OUTRAGE
How do we summon the right blend of practical love and constructive anger? How do we refrain from hating other people even as we fight...
Looking Out
A wind is blowing. Not from North, East, South or West, Nor from above or below, But from the other way. There must be a window open, In...
In the Still Point
In the still point between moments is the infinite possibility of potential available to express as form. Potential is the vast...
The Leaf
"I asked the leaf whether it was frightened because it was autumn and the other leaves were falling. The leaf told me, “No. During the...
What’s the point?
The point here is to take life in all its rich variety just as it is, with its ten thousand opposites, and to go along with whatever...
A thought about Relationship and Imagination
For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships...
Forget the words…
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the...
All You!
There is not one negative thing that you are experiencing that is happening for any other reason other than you are not appreciating...
A Yogi’s Welcome
Welcome Please allow your stories to be left at the door with your shoes. You may pick them up if you really want them on your way back...