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Open the dark passage of Grace
Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labour will a way unfold and the infant find that opening to be born....
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Don’t surrender your lonliness so quickly
Don’t surrender your lonliness so quickly, let it cut more deep; let it ferment and season you as few human or even divine ingredients can; something missing in my heart tonight has made my eyes so...
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Growing in Spirit
Growing in Spirit He who hopes to grow in spirit will have to transcend obedience and respect. He will hold to some laws but he will mostly violate both law and custom, and go beyond the established,...
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How fortunate are you and I
How fortunate are you and I who’s home is timelessness. We who have wandered down from fragrant mountains of eternal now to frolic in such mysteries as birth and death a day, or maybe even less…
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What I Have Learned So Far
Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world? Because, properly attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is...
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fall song
Another year gone, leaving everywhere its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves...
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I...
A favorite poem with one of my favorite lines of all time — I’m sharing again: from Song of Myself: by Walt Whitman All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what...
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Saturday mellow: Ah! Sunflower
Ah Sunflower, William Blake, read by Allen Ginsberg Ah Sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun; Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where...
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at the moment your thoughts arise as trouble…
at the moment your thoughts arise as trouble remember that Mother Compassion, Naked Awareness, is taking care — you are such Awareness alone, so just relax in your Self … [click on title for the rest...
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one for the old boy
My friend Yan Zhitui of BeingsAkin sent me this poem by Charles Bukowski since I just lost my Jezebel. I, like Charles below, found that my kitty remained in my heart and woke up the day after she...
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Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing?
Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? … [click on title for the rest of the post]
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The Thing Is
The Thing Is to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief...
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A poetic activation of the sacred heart: free teleseminar with gifted Rumi...
Free class on Rumi. Andrew Harvey is a delightful teacher I highly recommend. I will definitely be on the call when it's happening. rumi In this special call event, one of the world’s most respected...
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brightness/darkness
Your brightness is my darkness. I know nothing of You and, by myself, I cannot even imagine how to go about knowing You. If I imagine You, I am mistaken. If I understand You, I am deluded.... … [click...
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This is what you shall do…
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate...
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Jane Goodall on Spirit and Science
Jane Goodall, the primatologist known for her research on chimpanzees talks about how her spirituality grew while spending time alone in nature, the limits of science and her mother’s role in...
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LOVE (happy valentine’s! this is about big love, not just romantic love)
Touched by an Angel We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love...
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How can a body withstand this?
The Thing Is… to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief...
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there will be bad days…
Words of encouragement for your inevitable bad day. "There will be bad days. Be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm slowly now. Let go. Be confident. Know that now is only a moment, and that if...
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The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on...
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