the inner nagging over the merit of our days
There is an uncanny symmetry between the inner and outer world. Each person is the sole inhabitant of their own inner world; no-one else can get in there to configure how things are seen. Each of us...
View Articlereading the map to oneself….
Prayer of the White-Tailed Tropic Bird My prayer is this: that once in your life you would come upon me looking at you from a hollow in the cliff, my soft wings folded, my breast gleaming in the...
View Articlesomething whole rising up from the deep
Have you searched the vastness for something you have lost? …..Robert Service discerning our truth from what is false is only a choice so far as being awake and not being awake is ennobling…….this...
View Articleweeding, burying, becoming…..
Trust the energy that Courses through you. Trust Then take surrender even deeper. Be the energy. Don’t push anything away. Follow each Sensation back to its source In vastness and pure presence....
View Articlethe work of angels
All things are too small to hold me, I am so vast In the Infinite I reach for the Uncreated I have touched it, it undoes me wider than wide Everything else is too narrow You know this well, you who...
View Articleforget the preconceived dogma of soul
Most of our work is about redefining ourselves as a spiritual being, as a soul. And a soul has only one motive: going to the One. When you start to see yourself with only that motive, wow, it gets...
View Articleour finest moment
When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the domain of the soul, and they are all found in the present moment. ….Jon Kabat-Zinn the formidable present moment...
View Articlespiraling down into intimate identity
It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by...
View Articleoutwitting the ego’s humanness
The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous (a sense of the holy). But the fact is that the approach to the numinous is...
View Articleour immense capacity to surrender
Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. Men are only free when they are doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some driving....
View Articlewe miss our long-held illusions
Very slowly over many years, I have learned that consenting to be with what is, body, heart, and mind, without judging or seeking to change anything in any way, allows a new energy or vibration or...
View Articlemingling in the halls of gratitude & longing
The supreme purpose & goal for human life is to cultivate love. …..Ramakrishna as we nurture and tend to the heart, we harvest our blessings, come clean with our grievances and soften our...
View Articleemboldened with inspiration
When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and...
View Articlethe rhythm of time & flight
It could be the letter never answered, the one in which you declared your love in such a tender way, admitting to every- thing. Or when the shell you brought all the way from the Philippines is...
View Articleconsidering the soul’s purpose
Looking into the waters of that flooding plain there was a sense that I made some symmetry with the waiting world just by seeing and hearing and that I walked a frontier between an inward heaven and...
View Articlethat little quiet nook
You’re already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go. …..John Welwood resting in between the spaces in our lives as breathing room……as a remembrance of why we are...
View Articlemercy gifts our forlorn lives
You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. ….John O’Donohue we move and sway and fail and return and forgive and get it all wrong……and then there is this...
View Articlein tune with internal rhythms
The spirit, by its very nature, is Slow. ….Carl Honore ever remember a time when life moved sweetly? without haste and fear of not getting it all done? remember that feeling of the day moving...
View Articleforgetting again
When the 10,000 things become one, then we return to the center, where we have always been. …..Chuang-Tse we know that in our heart of hearts we do not listen and therefore we do not know what we...
View Articleclouds fade away & then the glow
Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and...
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