consciousness

Let Your Heart Break Open and Expand

June 23, 2011

‘If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more wonders.”  Andrew Harvey We have this tendency to guard our hearts so carefully against breaking. [...]

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A Stronger Life Urge

May 25, 2011

“All the greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insoluble…They can never be solved, but only outgrown.  This ‘out-growing’ proved, on further investigation, to require a new level of consciousness.  Some higher or wider interest appeared on the patient’s horizon, and through this broadening of his or her outlook the insoluble problem lost [...]

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A Horse, A Choice, and An Aspiration

May 3, 2011

“If you aspire to become an evolutionarily enlightened human being, your ability to do so depends upon accepting the simple fact that independent of external circumstances, you always have a measure of freedom to choose. That sounds like a simple statement, but it’s amazing how many intelligent people will deny it. When you look honestly [...]

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Courage to Face What Is

April 6, 2011

It’s an interesting thing—Acceptance.  How I resist it.  How I contract.  How easily I can turn a blind eye. I think of Japan.  I read that they have raised their radiation safe limit in their fish.  I also read that the US Environmental Protection Agency intends to raise limits for radiation exposure, and that Canada [...]

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This is the Only Moment

March 8, 2011

Two relatives—unbeknown to the other—went in for emergency surgery Saturday night.  My brother and Daddy’s brother.  Both in their early 60s.  Both strong, healthy men—or so we thought.  One with appendicitis and the other with a cancer discovered only 6 days earlier.  Both full of life. One survived and one didn’t. My father’s brother died [...]

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Springtime Reminds Me

March 3, 2011

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”  Abraham Lincoln Springtime reminds me to let go of the old and let bloom the new.  [...]

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Dealing with Overwhelm

February 3, 2011

This has been an interesting year for me already, and it’s only February:  illness and injury, huge inspiration in work and spiritual practices, great news regarding my Dad’s health, shifts in relationships, etc.  I notice that I am a tad overwhelmed.  So much of what is coming at me is good, but it is simply [...]

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Why I Meditate

January 28, 2011

I tried taking up meditation years ago because I had heard of the benefits and my anxiety was out the top.  I simply couldn’t do it because my mind and body were too agitated.  I could rarely make it past a couple of minutes before crawling out of my skin.  What to do with this [...]

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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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Vision Requires Practice

January 3, 2011

“Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath.  Today, we are a pious and exemplary community.  Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.”  Mark Twain Like many folks, I use the [...]

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