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a love day….may it be so….
beauty held... “Love is the only rational act of a lifetime.”..Stephen Levine Kiss your friends & remember that kiss….. When we do the hard work of stilling the mind & opening the heart, we...
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the shift from yearning to an invitation to awareness
effulgent light of stillness The answer is to be so quiet that the questions stop. From the lake of silence, answers resound as echoes from the primal text. From a relaxed state of being, the seminal...
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the sublime contentment of ordinary experience
still the wave The deep places in the river are not so obvious as the shallow ones & can only be found by carefully probing it. So perhaps it is with human nature…..Thoreau we are our most pure, I...
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whispers to the invisible soul, wholly unknown
the minutiae of the still journey The Rule of Saint Benedict, that ancient guide to the monastic life, includes the admonition to ‘keep death before one’s eyes daily.’ As a young man, I found this...
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the blinding sun of pure duality….
isolation Saint Teresa of Avila goes to great lengths to remind us that there is such a thing as inner light. ‘We are conditioned,’ she says, ‘to perceive only external light. We forget that there is...
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rip the secrets from the heart & feed them to the soul
What is it about the quiet that makes me tingle? What is it about stillness that is rippled only by my breathing, and even that is very still? I know I am a soft thing. I like this about myself. Soft...
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remembering the million shades of yellow….
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of...
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this love-filled silent night
The supreme purpose and goal for human life ….is to cultivate love. …..Ramakrishna Both Mohammad and Jesus were uncompromising. Mohammad never said no when asked for anything, and Jesus urged, ‘Give...
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underneath the treasures of being
Happiness is our very nature. It comes from the constant letting go of what causes suffering. It seems to come to those who dive deeply into life, into the investigation of being itself. As we grow,...
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the elements of practice
When we know our wholeness, when we are consciously aware of both ego and essence, we feel the pain of loss in our lives not as crippling devastation that makes us want to give up on life itself, but...
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the spacious heart
Hear the passage into silence and be that…….Rumi when we take the simplest next step, to be in the only moment that sits in front of us, we escape from ourselves, come back to ourselves, relive the...
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stepping out into the rain
The true nature of mountains is that they are mountains. They practice both stillness holding their place and moving with change. Men and women can be reborn through mountains. Ancestors abide in...
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the labyrinth of expansion
Come into possession of all parts of you. Stop doing things behind your own back that support the crippling of your own personal awakening. Consistently inquire within. Meditate and internally...
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to peek in the window of a still moment
The rain surrounded the cabin- with a whole world of meaning, of secrecy, of rumor. Think of it: all that speech pouring down, selling nothing, judging nobody, drenching the thick mulch of dead...
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from here to there
With open palms, I walk into the fire of life. The soul needs no shelter from the sun. I remember that everything is a part of me. …..Celeste Labadie so much of us resides in our heads….when we create...
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