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an invocation
Awareness is not the same as focus on what is so that you get more of what is and are condemned to repeating what is. Instead, it is more like waking up. Awareness is waking up from a reality you are...
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the compelling art of being fully free
The soul rides on the feathers of the wind. ….Meister Eckhart we move from despair to dreams as full as a million twinkling stars, dancing, falling, sifting down to the soul of the heart-flame……we...
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a fresh view from the inner elder
The Sufis say that real truth is always spoken with love. Can we approach ourselves with kindness, may we be loving and gentle with ourselves, with our clumsiness, with our slowness to change, with...
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madly in love
As we look back on our lives, we realize that the harvest of youth is achievement, the harvest of middle age is perspective, and the harvest of old age is wisdom. Wisdom grows with trust, clarity, and...
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who knows the sinking of the heart?
That day I saw beneath dark clouds, the passing light over the water and I heard the voice of the world speak out, I knew then, as I had before, life is no passing memory of what has been nor the...
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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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home is where the light beckons
Home is like what you take away each time you leave the house. Like a wristwatch, it ticks beside the ticking that is your heart. Whether or not your hear it, look at its face, or feel its hold. We’re...
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the grounding freedom of joy
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself,...
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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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within the pondering
Threshold We stopped to say a simple word of thanks that we could walk to this place and find it like a promised understanding, like an intuition long held, that it stood always at the end of the long...
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the other world we’ve forgotten
You might see an angel any time and anywhere. Of course you have to open your eyes to a kind of second level, but it’s not really hard. The whole business of what’s reality and what isn’t has never...
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the fragile discipline of trust
How to cope with beauty and at the same time with the mathematical cruelty of the universe. To see means not only to have before one’s eyes. It may mean also to preserve in memory. To see and describe...
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for the love of wholeness
Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our...
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these ancient gifts
I will whisper secrets in your ear just nod yes and be silent. A soul moon appeared in the path of my heart. How precious is this journey. …..Rumi may the inspiration divined from our kindreds…..the...
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under the turbulence
Mostly we are caught in a storm of activity. For we live in the world, and are always drawn above and below and in between. Yet when we can stop talking, when we can stop mapping the chatter in our...
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alive & calm
Love said to me ~ There is nothing that is not me. Be silent. …..Rumi nothing keeps us here……aliveness roots up in some twisted, divine familiarity……..our endless capacity for storymaking winds us...
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weakening our grip
What if the heart cracks like a seed, needing to be opened to grow? Then how do we understand what comes pouring out? Does pain turn into a small root? Does grief if watered start to break ground? It...
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waking up into dreams
If you are a pattern for the world, the Tao will be strong inside you and there will be nothing you can’t do. If you accept the world, the Tao will be inside you and you will return to your primal...
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as we count the days
Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes...
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who allows you to be you?
Even with the best motives, because doing is always a tensing up against and a resisting of what is, because it refuses to take more than minimal satisfaction from the process itself and is...
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