Something To Give Back

Something To Give Back

Reading at Koloa and Anara practices 2/9/2012 Here is my deepest and most pleasing secret; I have something to give back to the Creator. It is no material thing, this offering, but the emanation of my being, a wordless rejoicing, spirit giving back to spirit, my life as heart-felt offering. What I give is taken in with such unquestioning acceptance, a receptivity so vast that I want to pour...

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Luminous Tease

Luminous Tease

Reading at Waimea Practice 2/7/2012 Change yourself in the way you want everyone else to change Love your enemies in case your friends turn out to be jerks Avoid thinking about winning the lottery while making love Brainwash yourself before someone nasty beats you to it Confess big secrets to people who aren’t very interested Write a love letter to your evil twin during a lunar...

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Patient Trust in Ourselves and the Slow Work of God

Patient Trust in Ourselves and the Slow Work of God

Reading at Koloa practice 2/6/2012 Above all, trust in the slow work of God, We are, quite naturally, impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new, And yet it is the law of ail progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability- And that it may...

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The Puppet

The Puppet

Reading at Koloa and Anara practices 2/2/2012 If for a moment God would forget that I am a rag doll and give me a scrap of life, possibly I would not say everything that I think, but I would definitely think everything that I say. I would value things not for how much they are worth but rather for what they mean. I would sleep little, dream more. I know that for each minute that we close our eyes...

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Think on these things…

Think on these things…

Reading at Koloa practice 1/30/2012 It is only when you are constantly learning that you find truth, and you cannot inquire, observe,learn, you cannot be deeply aware, if you are afraid. So the foundation of education, is to eradicate, inwardly as well as outwardly, this fear that destroys human thought, human relationship and love. –J....

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A Meditation and Psychotherapy Story

A Meditation and Psychotherapy Story

Reading at Koloa Practice – 1/23/2012 Two friends met at a cafe one day and began to talk over tea. They told each other of the dissatisfaction in their lives, how life was not what either had expected, how despite their best efforts, they seldom woke up happy in the morning, how they did not want to feel this way for the rest of their lives. One said things were so bad he was thinking...

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