Posts Tagged "connection"
One Body
All human beings are the members of one body- every person is a glint, shining from a single gem. When the world causes pain for one member, how could the other members ever rest in peace? If you lack grief for another one’s sorrow, why call yourself a human...
Read MoreThe way we think of ourselves
… we can all look forward to a year of extremes in our world, and powerful transformation in our lives. The Extremes: “… if there was any lingering doubt … our world is in a cycle of extremes” And because we can no longer separate the big world “out there” from our everyday lives, the big shifts in the world mean big changes for us, our families, our jobs and...
Read MoreI Want Both of Us
I Want Both of Us To start talking about this great love As if you, I and the Sun were all married And living in a tiny room, Helping each other to cook, Do the wash, Weave and sew Care for our beautiful Animals. We all leave each morning To labor on the earth’s field. No one does not lift a great pack. I want both of us to start singing like two Traveling minstrels About this extraordinary...
Read MoreThe Fall
and some further explanation from Eisenstein – ……One more dimension of meaning to my short film, The Fall. The choice that it represents isn’t only a choice made before lifetimes. It is an ongoing choice, day to day, moment to moment, about how to engage the world. One way to engage (or really, not engage) is to stay in whatever temporary comfort realm one can manage with...
Read MoreA Quechua Prayer
“Great Creator, Grant me the light of wisdom. Mother Earth, bountiful source, Help me draw strength from the ground beneath my feet. Father Sun, radiant child, Fill me with the warmth and energy to face my trials. Mountain Spirits, who walk the wind, Guide me on the path of resilience and determination. May the sacred waters cleanse my soul, And may the fires of transformation forge my...
Read MoreConnection
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe… The universe would be incomplete without man; but it would also be incomplete without the smallest transmicroscopic creature that dwells beyond our conceitful eyes and knowledge… I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence that seemed to show that any one animal was ever made...
Read MoreCompassion Hurts
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.” – Andrew Boyd’ “Daily...
Read MoreA look at this Body…..
Kent Bond 28 by Kent Bond “My Zen teaching has deepened to encourage people to really plunge into the world, into life. I want them to enter life, to embody their practice, tend it with their hearts. To attend to life, to this body, is to love it and bless it. Particularly we need to find a way to bless our wounds and the darkness we find ourselves in. It takes patience to bless our...
Read MoreThoughts on Suffering
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. —Helen Keller Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault. —Sam...
Read MoreDaily Reminder
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