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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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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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Silly Me

April 19, 2011

Do you ever get to feeling sorry for yourself?  I do, and often it’s over the silliest things.  This morning, I discovered that someone hadn’t put hay out for the horses last night.  That meant I had to do it—and that is when the unraveling began. It was now going to take me an extra [...]

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Intentional Moments

April 18, 2011

I feel a tad out of sorts this morning.  I feel pressure.  I have a lot I need to accomplish but I can’t seem to find the time to do it.  The bits of time I have are small and fragmented, so I waste them to distraction.  I look back at the weekend with regret [...]

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Precious Moments

April 14, 2011

I’m visiting Daddy for a couple of days.  Last night, I cooked dinner for us and called Daddy to the table when it was ready.  As he walked in, he said, “Carla, I feel good when you’re here.”  My heart expanded!  I was deeply touched.  What a gift those words are to me.  Words I [...]

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Wild and Free

April 7, 2011

We forget.  I am reminding us.  Look within…the freedom we seek is already there. “The Kingdom is not coming with signs to be observed.  The Kingdom of God is within you.”  Jesus “Those who seek oneness ceaseslessly find the Lord dwelling in their own hearts.”  Krishna “The Way is empty, yet contains all.  Words cannot [...]

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The Good, The True, The Beautiful

April 5, 2011

Wake up!  Wake up to the good, the true, and the beautiful.  In the midst of all the turmoil, these three remain.  Touch each one right now. Breathe the air into your lungs and feel yourself expand.  Listen to the bird song fill your ears and sing your heart alive.  See the humanity in your [...]

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Presence Remains

March 29, 2011

I am thinking of my friend who discovered a brain tumor last week.  Yesterday, she found out that it is cancer and aggressive.  I am sad. Lately, I have been reading Grace and Grit, Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber, by Ken Wilber.  It is the wrenching and beautiful [...]

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Anger and Impermanence

March 22, 2011

I am angry this morning–downright pissed off.  And I’m sad.  I need to do some work with the anger and sadness, and I will.  For now, for you and for me, I post these beautiful flowers.  They remind me to expand my heart.  They remind me of how beautiful and tender life is.  They remind [...]

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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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