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Cultivating Patience

January 5, 2012
Chickadee

Do you want to discover a patience you never knew you had?  Do you want to cultivate that patience? Sit a few weeks or months with a dying old man who is stubborn and willful.  Who can’t do the things you do with ease but insists on trying anyway.  Who’s ability to think has come [...]

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A Beautiful Dead Lady

September 8, 2011

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady.  Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeons knife, effective but unpleasant.  Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”  Sri Yukteswar These words made a deep impression, and the image of the beautiful dead lady stays with me. I grew up in the south and not [...]

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Consent to Life

July 19, 2011

  “You must not be frighten, dear Mr. Kappus, when a sadness arises within you of such magnitude as you have never experienced, or when a restlessness overshadows all you do, like light and the shadow of clouds gliding over your hand.  You must believe that something is happening to you, that life has not [...]

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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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Beautiful and Courageous

July 6, 2011

Today, I am heading to funeral.  I have the honor of singing for a man who was a brilliant musician.  I wish I had had the opportunity to sit with him for years and learn all he knew–just a reminder that time is fleeting and the importance of seizing the moment.  Uncle Elroy will be [...]

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A Love Like That

June 2, 2011

“The sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights up the whole sky.” Hafiz Thank you, Kendall. Related Posts:Mutual Feeling of CommunionLet Your Heart Break Open and ExpandMagical Thinking

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A Horse, A Choice, and An Aspiration

May 3, 2011

“If you aspire to become an evolutionarily enlightened human being, your ability to do so depends upon accepting the simple fact that independent of external circumstances, you always have a measure of freedom to choose. That sounds like a simple statement, but it’s amazing how many intelligent people will deny it. When you look honestly [...]

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My Buddy

April 20, 2011

“My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.”  ~Author Unknown You’ve probably seen this photo before because it is one of my favorites.  This is Buttercup, my faithful companion.  She will be 14 years old soon!  She is the gentlest dog I’ve ever known, and [...]

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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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