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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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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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I Am Not As Vulnerable As I Fear

July 11, 2011

“The trouble is, we can only tell the truth when we cease to identify with the part of ourselves we think we have to protect.  If we’re afraid of being laughed at or taunted or killed, we can’t tell the truth; we can’t tell the truth if we’re busy guarding some position.  It’s only when [...]

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The Light of Awareness

June 30, 2011

Man, oh man, I woke up in a bad mood.  I couldn’t go to sleep until after midnight, didn’t sleep well through the night, and Buttercup awoke me at 5am needing to go out.  Then, I thought I would have help with morning barn chores but that didn’t happen.  And to top it off, last [...]

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The Practice of Noting What You Experience

June 22, 2011

“What we’re letting go of…is the old, self-critical inner voice, the old superego that’s so afraid of blowing it, afraid of making a mistake, afraid of looking like a fool.  That is not the same you’ll notice, as the impersonal inner witness, the practice of noting what you’re experiencing.  That’s the thing we’re trying to [...]

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What is My Purpose?

June 21, 2011

Ram Dass, in his book Paths to God, Living the Bhagavad Gita, pushes me beyond my comfort zone.  He is hitting a little too close to home. He advises me to listen for my Dharma, and then do it wholeheartedly without attachment.  Dharma is simply one’s calling, duty, purpose, or “passion”. What is my purpose? [...]

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How to Relax and Let Go of the Melodrama

June 20, 2011

I’m reading Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita, by Ram Dass.  I read spiritual and inspirational literature from many different genres.  I find this practice not only expands my heart, but centers it as well. In his book, Ram Dass talks about how we get caught in the divided territories inside ourselves:  “There’s the [...]

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Awareness + Will Power + Ritual = Transformation

April 4, 2011
Morning Practice

The alarm went off waking me from a deep sleep this morning.  I hate alarms and haven’t used one in years.  Last week, I decided to get up an hour and a half earlier than normal in order to have plenty of time to do my morning practice, and because I want to extend it [...]

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Chasing the Buck

December 16, 2010

I saw him in the backyard.  I ran for my camera but he was gone when I returned.  I bolted from the house and ran into the horse pasture.  Beyond the fence and in the woods I caught sight of him.  He saw me, too.  I knew that to chase him would send him running [...]

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Handling a Vision

December 15, 2010

I am excited about a vision that has been taking form in me recently.  It’s just beginning to gel.  I have much energy for this vision, but I am in no way organized around it and it isn’t even fully formed.  I wish someone would swoop in and organize all my thoughts and ideas for [...]

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