Still, what I want in my lifeis to be willingto be dazzled—to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe evento float a littleabove this difficult world. Mary Oliver How…
Read more
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the…
Read more
…I needed lust, the desire for possessions, vanity, and needed the most shameful despair, in order to learn how to give up all resistance, in order to learn how to…
Read more
There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it. Romain Rolland Birthdays are an incredibly introspective time – especially when they…
Read more
The Four Rememberings:1. To recognize reality directly (who we are).2. To rest in that.3. To release all doubts.4. To roam freely like a happy dog. Eric Colvic, quoted by Tara…
Read more
Forgive yourself. Now is the only time you have to be whole. Now is the sole moment that exists to live in the light of your true Self. Perfection is…
Read more
“Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with me.” Food for thought: How do we break bread with others when both bread and others are so often considered…
Read more
Experience does not give us easy passage through struggle. Experience only grants us a little grace that whispers, “This is a part of the process. Stay the course.” Brené Brown,…
Read more
Have you ever felt something bubbling up within you — a feeling, an inquiry, a thought — only to be met shortly thereafter by signs and potential answers or directions…
Read more
The body is only an instrument for the spirit. Rumi Body image is conditioned. We made it up. Our judgements around it exist because we were told we need to look…
Read more
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. John Muir The energy of…
Read more
no external seeking required And if you find yourself wondering: / where do you go / from here, / standing at the foot / of a mountain / you did…
Read more