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To the Greatest Extent Possible

July 20, 2011

“It is as though fear has caused something to be lifted out of the riverbed of limitless possibilities to a fallow stretch of shore where nothing happens.  For it is not inertia alone that causes the unspeakably monotonous and unrenewed human condition to repeat itself again and again.  It is the aversion to anything new, [...]

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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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Do Something

July 18, 2011

  “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”  Helen Keller I can do something today.  I can add value, beauty, or goodness in some way [...]

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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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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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Awareness + Will Power + Ritual = Transformation

April 4, 2011
Morning Practice

The alarm went off waking me from a deep sleep this morning.  I hate alarms and haven’t used one in years.  Last week, I decided to get up an hour and a half earlier than normal in order to have plenty of time to do my morning practice, and because I want to extend it [...]

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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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Forgiveness

March 28, 2011

“Do not let your mistakes keep you from your Beloved, but again and again, wash in the water of forgiveness, the water of mercy and truth, and offer all that you have and all that you are, back to the One who created you and walk straight to your Beloved.” Sidi al-Jamal, Music of the [...]

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Be Present–Wherever You Are

March 21, 2011

This weekend I found out that a dear friend has a brain tumor.  They rushed her to another city with a bigger, better hospital for surgery.  We don’t know what it all means yet. Upon hearing the news, I sat for awhile, helpless.  There is nothing I can do this far away except pray.  And [...]

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