letting go

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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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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Simply Love One Another

July 8, 2011

As you may know, I am reading Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke and Pathways to God, Living the Bhagavad Gita by Ram Dass.  I intended to share with you some reflections on their words today, but another’s words have taken hold of me and touched my more deeply. I am visiting [...]

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Habit: Serve or Sabotage

June 29, 2011

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your actions, for they become habits.Watch your habits, for they become character.Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” Author Unknown This morning I went to feed the horses.  The feed buckets are in order on the counter and the food is [...]

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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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The Discipline of Standing Nowhere

June 15, 2011

  “The discipline is not being attached to any patterns whatsoever, the discipline of standing nowhere.  That’s a very scary discipline.  It’s terrifying to stand on the edge that way, to have no definitions you can cling to: no reference groups, no identifications, no self-concepts, no models.  Will you dare do it?  Will you dare [...]

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A Tad Tetchy

May 23, 2011

I am a tad tetchy today.  I’m a bit off my game.  My routines have been disrupted.  While I know about the impermanence of life, I still get knocked off balance  at times when things don’t go according to my expectations.  Life always gives me opportunity to practice letting go of expectations and assumptions. I’m [...]

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Sadness and Fear Witnessed

January 24, 2011

I’m sad this morning, and scared.  Mostly, though I’m scared.  Mostly though, I’m sad—is what I meant to say!  Am I mostly scared?  I confuse myself sometimes.  The subconscious is so tricky—isn’t it? I’m venturing into new territory and that requires letting go of the old, thus the sadness and the fear.  The releasing of [...]

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Give Sorrow Words

November 5, 2010

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.”  William Shakespeare I went to the chiropractor today.  While waiting for the Doctor, I began to meditate—focusing on my breath and letting go of thoughts.  As I breathed into my heart space, I noticed sensations of sadness.  Then [...]

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