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flying into the heart….
walking alone....considering flight... When you open your eyes to the world You are on your own for the first time. No one is even interested in saving you now and the world steps in to test the calm...
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how do we recharge the muse?
perception & seeing As our work with the creative process evolves and we see how creativity extends beyond art into our lives, we may notice barriers that keep us from seeing in a way that’s...
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taking refuge in heaven & hell
All of our growth is clearly an expanding beyond our small selves into the spaciousness of the Beloved. When we are moving gently and without force toward our edge, toward the fire, hell transforms to...
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coming home is like seeing it for the first time
Home is the pristine instinctual life that works as easily as a joint sliding upon its greased bearing, where all is as it should be, where all the noises sound right, and the light is good, and the...
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the gifts of our human sweet spots
You must always keep in mind that a path is only a path. Each path is only one of a million paths. If you feel that you must now follow it, you need not stay with it under any circumstances. Any path...
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the sacred joy of a belly laugh
‘Why aren’t you dancing with joy at this very moment? is the only relevant spiritual question,’ Sufi seer Pir Vilayet Inayet Khan tells us. Your life is a glorious gift and you are loved by Lady...
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poetics of mis-identity
I remained, lost in oblivion; My face I reclined on the Beloved. All ceased and I abandoned myself. Leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies. …..St. John of the Cross the sham of the spirit lies in...
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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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wild wonder of the cosmos
To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barriers between one’s self and others. ……Dogen we cannot have faith unless we create the space for wonderment, for bewilderment, for sparking...
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fine tuning the mystery
To be lost is to be fully present……..Rebecca Solnit oh, we are so clever…..to forget our uncertainty, we use our precious wanderings to dive into the illusion of control……the fine paradox of being a...
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in a cafe with a soul friend
What takes a lifetime to learn is the existence and substance of myriad relationships, it is these relationships, not the things themselves, that ultimately hold the human imagination……Barry Lopez...
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caressing spring
Just when we’re softened by the years, when we have enough experience to see for ourselves, our maps are torn from us. This can be frightening, but there’s divine timing in the dissolution of a...
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flowers seek up
Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it,...
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happy sweetnesses
Great masses of people these days live out their lives in a dull and loveless stupor. Sensitive persons find our inartistic manner of existence oppressive and painful, and they withdraw from sight… I...
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question how to be true
The truth is, we don’t know how to be sensitive and authentic in public. We don’t know how to expand our tribe of intimates. We don’t know how to begin conversations about what’s true as a way to make...
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a functioning inquiry
No less a figure than Oscar Wilde wrote that “to do nothing at all is the most difficult think in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual, contemplative life, the life that has for its...
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hear the church bells
Luminous morning, Hildegard gazes at the array of blooms, holding in her heart the young boy with a mysterious rash, the woman reaching menopause, the newly minted widower, and the black Abbey cat...
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to feel alive
I first heard the phrase, “real but not true” from Tibetan Buddhist teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and I’ve found it to be a great tool for breaking through the trance. In the midst of obsessing about our...
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ok. so I forgot how to hurt.
As we breathed into the truth of what had happened in our lives, safe in the protective community we built together, we began to discover that the unbearable became bearable, that by whispering “yes”...
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the subtle senses
The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room...
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