Living the Question Blog

“There ain’t no answer. There ain’t going to be any answer. There never has been an answer.     That’s the answer.”

– Gertrude Stein

Are you seeing me!

What do you see nurses What do you see? What are you thinking when you are looking at me A crabbit old woman not very wise, Uncertain of...

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Until Your Own Dawn

Until Your Own Dawn

Daybreak: everything in this world is a luminous divine dream I have spun. I did not know life was a fabric woven by my soul. Any form...

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Goddess of Autumn

Goddess of Autumn

We've made a bouquet of decorative grass. We've woven a garland of night blossoms. We've brought our offering of newly ripened paddy....

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My Lucky Rock

My Lucky Rock

I said to a squirrel, "What's that you are carrying?" and he said, "It is my lucky rock; isn't it pretty?" I held it and said, "Indeed." I...

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Imagining World

Imagining World

In my dream the angel shrugged and said,  If we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. & then she placed the world...

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The Word “spiritual”

The Word “spiritual”

The word "spiritual" includes all those whose deepest values lead them to challenge the ethos of selfishness and materialism that has led...

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The World Has Need of You

The World Has Need of You

Everything here seems to need us - Rainer Maria Rilke I can hardly imagine it as I walk to the lighthouse, feeling the ancient prayer of...

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Authentic Need

Authentic Need

“Obligation at our higher level of consciousness is created by the direct and clear recognition of authentic need that can be uniquely...

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There comes a time…

There comes a time…

"There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who...

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Destiny of the Human Race

Destiny of the Human Race

Dear loyal readers of Living the Question, it is not often that I share ideas that have a tendency to be tres "woo-woo"  (at least in my...

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Time?

Time?

  "...When un-attuned to our finiteness, we live out our days by the clock and calendar; chronological time, also known as scientific...

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I am your Friend….

I am your Friend….

I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you do not have: but there is much, very much that...

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The Seed Cracked Open

The Seed Cracked Open

It used to be That when I would wake in the morning I could with confidence say, "What am 'I' going to Do?" That was before the seed...

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The Peace of Wild Things

The Peace of Wild Things

"When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,...

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Learning

Learning

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just...

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Why Music?—

Why Music?—

This reading  is the Welcoming address to the freshman class at Boston Conservatory given by Karl Paulnack, pianist and director of music...

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Perspective

Perspective

From the field of particle physics, here's a mind bender; There is nothing objective or factual about mass and matter. Physicality morphs...

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The light will shine….

The light will shine….

Someday, the light will shine like a sun through my skin & they will say, What have you done with your life? & though there are...

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Short Prayer of Thanks

Short Prayer of Thanks

Lord, thank you for this time to be, to see and live in harmony. Thank you for sanctifying each act and thought, for teaching me that the...

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Discovering Creation

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating...

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