Growth

Listen to Your Inner Self

July 5, 2011

“When considering analysis, discussion, or presentation, listen to your inner self and to your feelings every time. Should you be mistaken, after all, the natural growth of your inner life will guide you slowly and in good time to other conclusions.  Allow your judgments their own quiet, undisturbed development, which, as with all progress, must [...]

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I Will Soar

April 26, 2011

What is this notion in my head that I need more time?  I have more time than most.  I have intentionally made it so.  Yet, now, I am pushing myself out of the nest. It’s time!  Spread your wings and fly! No!  Wait!  I need a little more time! Come on, baby, spread your wings [...]

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Denying and Grasping

March 24, 2011

I’ve been eating out of control in the last week.  I have the munchies—I want to eat a lot, more than I’m comfortable eating.  This suggests that I am stuffing something or grasping something.  To be sure, I’m out of balance.  I wonder what’s up? I had a meeting the other day with someone who [...]

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Perceived Separation

March 17, 2011

Some days I find it difficult to write.  It is hard to put words to what is happening in me.  The changes are subtle but steady—like a sapling growing into a strong, towering tree. What does the sapling experience along the way?  The growth is steady and slow.  From moment to moment, it is imperceptible.  [...]

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I Spy a Damselfly

March 17, 2010

This Damselfly is the last thing I saw before breaking my thumb a few months ago.  Damselfly symbolizes the brightness of transformation and the wonder of colorful new vision, according to Ted Andrews in Animal Speak.  Maybe Damselfly showed up to illuminate something I needed to see more clearly. I was building a woodshed when [...]

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Growing Up

March 10, 2010

This is a juvenile seagull.  See his red mouth?  He is standing in a classic “feed me!” pose.  He looks a little helpless and lost to me…and adorable.  I love to watch the baby/juvenile birds.  Their antics humor me. I’ve been thinking a lot about growing up lately.  I’ve been thinking about how many adults [...]

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Spring Whisperings

March 8, 2010

I saw a bee yesterday for the first time since the fall.  Spring is whispering!  There is still a lot of snow on the ground but spring is in the air.  We can all feel it–even the goats.  Soon tiny buds and shoots will appear, then explode.  This is the time of year when I [...]

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Breathing Dawn

February 26, 2010

The ancients advise waking with the dawn. Rumi says, “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.  Don’t go back to sleep.”  And, “The morning wind spreads its fresh smell.  We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live.  Breathe before it’s gone.”*  Spiritual practitioners of today often recommend [...]

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Life is Messy, Don’t Clean it Up

February 23, 2010

This pig seems to understand that life is messy, and he is definitely making the most of it.  I think back on my life and the messes I’ve made.  I’ve come to see that my messes have been much bigger than they would’ve been had I been able to accept that life is messy.  I [...]

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Healing Moon

February 1, 2010

The moon was full this past weekend.  Did you see it?  It was beautiful here in the Poconos.  The moon has been rising up behind the barn in the afternoon, before dark.  I was stunned the other day when I first noticed it.  It took my breath away. Many recognize the power and influence of [...]

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