It Starts Now
Thank You to Mary Ellen Hannon for this beautiful wake up call:
Brave New Words
The hardest thing is getting started and why is that exactly? Imagine God a few moments before the Big Bang, mincing around behind the...
Peace Train
A classic...and very timely.... Thank you Anne Walton for this find
No Difference
In the entire ten directions of the Buddha's universe There is only one way When we see clearly, this is no differences in the teachings....
My DNA results came in…..
My Ancestry DNA results came in. Just as I suspected, my great great grandfather was a monarch butterfly. Much of who I am is still...
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...