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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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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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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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A Taste

December 6, 2010

“Are you not humanity itself?  Do you not touch all things human, because you are its only Witness?  Do you not therefore love the world, and love all people, and love the Kosmos, because you are its only self?  Do you not weep when one person is hurt, do you not cry when one child [...]

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Grief Expressed

November 19, 2010

I am sitting on Daddy’s sofa watching the sunrise in the small field behind his house.  The tall grasses glisten in the golden sun.  I hear faint rumblings of traffic and a train beyond the field.  I can hear Daddy snoring in his bedroom—now a sneeze, and another.  He’s getting out of bed probably to [...]

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Light that Obscures or Illumines?

June 15, 2010

“There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.”  James Thurber I am very irritable this morning.  Maybe it’s because I’m starting the 90-day challenge tomorrow.  Maybe it’s because I’ve made a commitment that frightens me.  Maybe it’s my saboteur. This morning, I am the glare that obscures.  [...]

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