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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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A Distinction Between Pain and Suffering

August 11, 2011

Pain and suffering. We have all experienced them.  Many make no distinction between the two­–to have pain is to suffer.  I do make a distinction between pain and suffering, though it took decades for me to find that distinction. This is how I see it:  Pain is pure and simple.  It burns clear and hot.  [...]

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All Shall Be Well

August 9, 2011

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.”  Julian of Norwich It is interesting to hear people’s reactions to my news about the death of my dog and the declining health of my Dad.  All are kind and speak words of comfort, and all speak those [...]

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A Tad Tetchy

May 23, 2011

I am a tad tetchy today.  I’m a bit off my game.  My routines have been disrupted.  While I know about the impermanence of life, I still get knocked off balance  at times when things don’t go according to my expectations.  Life always gives me opportunity to practice letting go of expectations and assumptions. I’m [...]

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Cultivating New Eyes

May 11, 2011

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”  Marcel Proust This photo fascinates me.  When I snapped the shutter, I only saw the feather.  It was when I downloaded the photo that I discovered the damselfly.  This has happened to me several times before. How much in [...]

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Sadness and Fear Witnessed

January 24, 2011

I’m sad this morning, and scared.  Mostly, though I’m scared.  Mostly though, I’m sad—is what I meant to say!  Am I mostly scared?  I confuse myself sometimes.  The subconscious is so tricky—isn’t it? I’m venturing into new territory and that requires letting go of the old, thus the sadness and the fear.  The releasing of [...]

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Life is Grace

January 5, 2011

“Listen to your life.  See it for the fathomless mystery it is.  In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness:  touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”  [...]

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White Knuckle Grip

December 7, 2010

I’m thinking of my Dad this morning.  He turns 85 on Friday.   He’s been talking about this birthday ever since he was 80.  For reasons I don’t understand, his 85th birthday is particularly important to him.  It will be especially sweet to celebrate with him after all he’s been through with the cancer.  I don’t [...]

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Imagination

October 15, 2010

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”  Mark Twain Related Posts:A Beautiful Dead LadyEvery Moment a Fresh MomentA Distinction Between Pain and Suffering

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Columbus Day Musings

October 11, 2010

Columbus Day.  How is it that the USA can celebrate Christopher Columbus—a man who started a wave of genocide and slavery?  How is it that a nation can be blind to the atrocities committed?  Yet, I see blindness all around me, and most disturbingly, in me.  It is hard to recognize my own blindness but [...]

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