Joy

Mutual Feeling of Communion

July 7, 2011

  “Be good to those who stay behind, and be quiet and confident in their presence.  Do not torment them with your doubts, and do not shock them with your confidence or your joy, which they cannot understand.  Try to establish with them a simple, sincere mutual feeling of communion that need not change if [...]

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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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Diversity | Life Spice

April 25, 2011

A refreshing weekend prepares me for the week.  I actually played this weekend.  I had fun.  I laughed.  I danced.  I ate good food.  I awoke this morning feeling relaxed, rested, and alive. In the rush and busyness of this American lifestyle, it is easy to forget to have fun.  It is easy to remain [...]

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This Life, This Body

March 10, 2011

I want to talk more about pain and suffering.  I remember a time when I could barely tolerate this world.  My thoughts were constantly on heaven where I believed I would no longer suffer.  This life and this world were simply a matter of surviving until I entered glory.  In other words, grin and bear [...]

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How to Change in Extraordinary Ways

March 1, 2011

March already.  Trees bud.  Daffodils bloom.  Redbuds burst.  Japanese quince explodes!  And the birds sing about it all.  Spring approaches:  a time or renewal and resurrection.  The deep sleep of winter blinks open an eye to see the wonders of life ready to burst from soil, stalk, limb, and nest.  It is a glorious time [...]

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It’s the Little Things

February 17, 2011

I have a practice that I am incorporating into my day increasingly.  The practice takes as little as 45 seconds to complete. Let me give you a couple of examples as to how it works.  The other day I stepped out onto my balcony and saw hundreds of red-winged black birds foraging in the horse [...]

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Pure Joy

February 14, 2011

“From Pure Joy springs all creation.  By Joy it is sustained, toward Joy it proceeds and to Joy it returns.”  ~from The Sanskrit Related Posts:Mutual Feeling of CommunionWhat is My Purpose?This Life, This Body

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The Wonders of Dusk and Dawn

January 10, 2011

Dusk and dawn are full of the most marvelous wonders:  a great blue heron silhouette, an owl hoot, hoot, hooting after a full night of hunting, deer moving through the descending night shadows, crows gathering on fence posts to begin the day, love doves nestling together for warmth, vultures outstretching wings to welcome the morning [...]

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The Art of Acceptance

December 27, 2010

“Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.”  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche My partner and I took off a few days before Christmas for vacation.  I got sick on the very first day.  I was sick over Christmas, and I’m [...]

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Touching the Ground of Being

November 30, 2010

“Let the great search wind down; the self-contraction uncoil in the immediateness of present awareness; let the entire Kosmos rush into your being, since you are its very Ground; you have never moved, and it is all exactly as it should be, when the robin sings on a glorious morning, and raindrops beat on the [...]

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