angels of Christmas magic
It’s imperative for us to understand that spiritual practice is not just something we do when we’re sitting in meditation or when we’re on retreat. Failing to see everything as an opportunity for...
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The only true place of calm in a storm is the very center. So the only thing to do, once in the storm, is to make our way to the center of it, hard as that may seem……Mark Nepo gratitude may be one of...
View Articlehealing from the inside
Being grateful for not only life’s blessing but also its suffering is a key component of living a spiritual life — and more broadly, to a fulfilling and meaningful life. Don’t take life so seriously,...
View Articlethe basics of mercy
If we see the world as sacred, which is an expression of the spiritual life, then gratitude follows immediately and naturally. …..Jack Kornfield to pray for the compassion of the world is a call to...
View Articlebeyond estrangement
We are all journeying through the night with plans, breathing in and out this mysterious life. And, the more we can learn to pay attention to others, and truly see them as “real,” just like us, the...
View Articlea measure of complete harmony
When Henry Thoreau went into retreat at Walden Pond, he and his friend Ralph Emerson had been studying Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist texts. He wrote: “I went to the woods because I wished to live...
View Articlewe know the heart before we know the self
How can you follow the course of your life if you do not let it flow? ….Lao Tzu so many little trickeries along the way….riddles and koans and mysteries and frustrations….and we rarely feel clear in...
View Articleas the branches fall
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. ~Anais Nin shift into a new grace…..find in this week a holy ground of showing up……being who we want to be…….. One definition of a miracle...
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Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you. ~Jim Rohn how many times have we wished to be other...
View Articleand what is this place anyway?
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery and from where we all came from, we forget that we cannot return...
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