Water, Water…

Nothing in the world, Is as yielding and receptive as water; Yet in attacking the firm and inflexible, Nothing triumphs so well. Because of what it is not, This becomes easy. The receptive triumphs over the inflexible; The yielding triumphs over the rigid -Lao Tzu Tao-te-ching “Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?” That the river is...

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Humility, Curiosity

“The world… is indeed a strange and deeply mysterious place, forever changing and remaking itself anew. But this is not a novel condition, our world hasn’t only recently become bizarre and temporary, it has been so ever since its inception, and it will continue to be such until its end — mystifying and forever in a state of flux. Consider: Two pillars for a Fulfilling Life; The first...

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Wild Fire

It is not that we hide from the small,cold things at the heart of us, but from the raging Heat of a wild self  that loves this world without apology & how do you live like that without setting your whole life on fire? Wild Fire Brian...

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Inside You

The Guest is inside you, and also inside me: you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed. We are all struggling; none of us has gone far. Let your arrogance go, and look around inside. Kabir, the Kabir...

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QUITTING VS. STOPPING

“Virtually all artists encounter such moments. Fear that your next work will fail is a normal, recurring and generally healthy part of the artmaking cycle. It happens all the time: you focus on some new idea in your work, you try it out, run with it for awhile, reach a point of diminishing returns, and eventually decide it’s not worth pursuing further. Writers even have a phrase for it —...

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I want to fall in Love at 85

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The Heart Chakra

“The fourth wheel of energy, the heart or air center, corresponds to the heart and lungs in the body. Opening this center implies the awakening of love and compassion. The heart and chest area are where we breathe and feel love, spirit, and compassion. This chakra is considered the first of the higher centers-with love, everything in life resonates at a higher level.” “The heart...

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Can Your Relationship Heal The World?

“The crisis we are facing is a crisis in which the sacred powers of love in the human soul are being diverted by distraction, by greed, by ignorance, by the pursuit of power, so that they never irrigate the world and transform it.” –Andrew Harvey There are seven requirements necessary for a vision of evolutionary love to emerge into the world. 1. Both beings need to be plunged...

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This Surprising Truth

This I say from my dwelling place within your heart: Do not miss me in your focus at the world. I am the orange glow of dawn, sun the color of monk’s robes shining equally upon all beings. I am your frustration as you seek me and come up empty. I am the dusty web you sweep down from the ceiling, and the spider who races into hiding when you clean. I am disbelief, devotion, grief, joy, and...

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NO ONE EVER TOLD ME

(Of the Glory of Growing Older) No one told me it would be like this— how growing older is another passage of discovery and that aging is one grand transformation, and if some things become torn apart or even lost along the way, many other means show up to bring me closer to the center of my heart. No one ever told me if whatever wonder waits ahead is in another realm and outside of time. But...

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