2011

Soggy Swampy Stuckness

September 21, 2011

I’m in a funk.  I’ve completely lost my mojo.  Can’t find it anywhere.  Haven’t been able to write.  I feel like I’m stuck in a massive, soggy swamp.  I suppose I could force my way through but it would take excessive amounts of energy.  For now, I’m just sort of sitting in it.  Letting it [...]

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A Beautiful Dead Lady

September 8, 2011

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.  Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeons knife, effective but unpleasant.  Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”  Sri Yukteswar These words made a deep impression, and the image of the beautiful dead lady stays with me. I grew up in the south and not [...]

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A Weird Expression of God

September 6, 2011

“To love both the invisible God, the Repository of All Virtues, and visible man, apparently possessed of none is often baffling!  But ingenuity is equal to the maze.  Inner research soon exposes a unity in all human minds–the stalwart kinship of selfish motive.  In one sense at least, the brotherhood of man stands revealed.  An [...]

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Eating Mindfully

September 1, 2011

I’ve been thinking about food a lot lately.  I’ve decided it’s time to clean up my act.  My diet has gone to pot in the past month with my move, Daddy’s diagnosis, and the death of Buttercup.  I’ve been eating crap and I feel like crap as a result.  Eating poorly also impacts me in [...]

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3 Steps to Get Out of Your Own Way

August 31, 2011

“If we can just quiet down all the oughts and shoulds in ourselves, if we can be finished with that whole protestant ethic trip we’ve been on, we will see that we are really already further out than we give ourselves credit for being.  We keep thinking we have to get behind ourselves and push, [...]

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Every Moment a Fresh Moment

August 29, 2011

“What if, when I meet another person, instead of being preoccupied with our individual differences or with who I remember her as being last time, I go beyond all that, I see the soul, I see the other being who is just like me?  Then every moment is a fresh moment.”  Ram Dass I repeatedly [...]

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Finding my Way Forward

August 25, 2011

I am moved to tears as I read Ram Dass’ words, in Paths to God, about his devotion to his guru.  There is something compelling and yet frightening about that kind of deep love and surrender. I had a similar kind of devotional love for my youth pastor and his wife when I was 12, [...]

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Thoughts on Love

August 24, 2011

I’m visiting my Dad this week.  I can hear him snoring in his bedroom as I write and sip coffee.  Last night as I put medicated ointment on his rashed back and massaged his neck, he said, “Carla, I’m glad you’re here.  You got here just in time.  I was really getting down.”  Bless his [...]

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Still Waters

August 23, 2011

“Still waters run deep.”  English Proverb It’s been a month since I’ve written in my journal and probably that long since I’ve sat in meditation and read spiritual literature.  I’ve done all three today and intend for this to be the first day of the return to my morning practices.  They are important to me.  [...]

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Heart Action, Spirit No-Action

August 18, 2011

Please join me today as I share a beautiful article from guest blogger, Leslie Green: There is a Sufi Proverb that says, “When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.” With that proverb, our stage is set to investigate our human heart, versus our untouchable, yet very real [...]

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