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everything is alright forever
whisper in the moment… Theologian Matthew Fox says that as a species, we have much to learn about the deeper lessons of living and being human. Among these he cites four important ones: The dark night...
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an empathic call to the stalled insights of the heart
By bringing attention to your mind and body you can make any activity transformative, and thus live more deeply. At its core, transformation requires becoming more conscious, becoming more aware of...
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making sense of the root of change
To take hold, transformations must be reinforced. Even when a transformative experience is deeply profound, new realizations can be fragile. As Reverend Lauren Artress told us, ‘Transformation...
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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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liminality nurtures our ideology of meaning
Human nature is fundamentally pure, egoless, just as the sky is by nature fundamentally clear. Clouds come and go, but the blue sky is always there even when obscured; clouds don’t alter the...
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when we dare to risk
Conscious attention shows us the world with ruthless sincerity, stripped of the illusions and the fabrications with which we usually clothe it. Our dreams and nightmares vanish: we are awake. At a...
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when angels lead the way to grace
The point in life is to know what’s enough- With the happiness held in a one-inch square heart you can fill the whole space between Heaven and Earth. …..Gensei thinking of life as an exercise in...
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where the edges soften
Awakening, like love, is not an achievement. It is a blossoming of your own being. Infinite. Always here. …..Chameli Ardagh resisting that space of feeling ‘half asleep’ may be the finest work of...
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fearless at the crossroads
I look at those dead leaves Scattered under the desert sun, Then turn my back on the chaos, and it tries to strike me as I run. I look at a stained mirror, standing right in front of my graying soul,...
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a measure of complete harmony
When Henry Thoreau went into retreat at Walden Pond, he and his friend Ralph Emerson had been studying Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist texts. He wrote: “I went to the woods because I wished to live...
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consider the wild wind blowing through…
Your true purpose is to become your own unique self, and to do so with happiness and freedom from fear. …..Bryant McGill a little harsh on yourself? a little unrealistic? are your boxes too small?...
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the rising of ancient ghosts
There is no substantiality in any one thing. You do not have a nature separate from any river or any material conditions. When we shift our patterns of perception, we shift our patterns of behavior....
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the mission of an intuitive flash
To achieve, we must get our life together and we must not get caught up in the drama. When we sense that an obstacle is flirting with us, we need not attach to it, but observe it and learn from it....
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old shoes & new shoes
Move through life in harmony with the flow Wait, wait for the point of leverage Wait until small action is capable of producing profound results In harmony with the flow, use the flow To multiply both...
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follow the breeze into the storm
While vulnerability is the birthplace of many of the fulfilling experiences we long for – love, belonging, joy, creativity, and trust, to name a few – the process of regaining our emotional footing in...
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integrity & grit
Being Human We’re born with an aftertaste of Oneness and a thirst for weeds and earth, as the angel deep within us needs our hands, to make a dance of all this hurt. It has us reach beyond our limits,...
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look again
The world is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first, nature is incomprehensible at first. Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop’d, I swear to you there are divine beings...
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dive in
Each night, the Moon kisses secretly, the Lover who counts the Stars. ~Rumi can you feel happiness in the distance, in the night, and within the tough days? inquiry for today~ how do you keep living...
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nothing left but love
The deeper world is always there, knowable and reachable. It is we who by turns miss it and stumble into it. When life aligns and we get to see through, we have to lean in and accept what we see, so...
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aligned in our humanness
Isn’t this what our hearts are finally opened to: making the climb, a bit at a time, and waiting for each other along the way? Isn’t this all we can hope for: to look, touch, stand together, and begin...
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