Posts Tagged "rumi"

Doing from the Soul

Doing from the Soul

Reading from Koloa Practice 01/03/2011 “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” “Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.” “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” “The universe...

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Gems # 2

Gems # 2

Readings at our various locations on the island Hiding in this cage of visible matter Is the invisible Life Bird Pay attention to her She is singing Your song —Kabir I am not a Christian, not Jew, not Hindu, not Buddhist.  I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one, and that one called two and know, first, last, ourter, inner, only that breath breathing, human...

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Neck Deep in Grace

Neck Deep in Grace

Reading at Anara Spa 7/1/2010 …A friend James Baraz tells of traveling to India to be with the guru H. W. L. Poonja… Poonja was celebrated for his freedom of spirit, for the energy of awakening he transmitted to his disciples, and for his joyful laughter. James had completed twenty years of meditation practice and become a greatly beloved Buddhist teacher. Still wanting to grow, and...

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What were those readings?

What were those readings?

Bird Wings Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’ve been bravely working. Expecting the worst, you look, and instead, here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see. Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in...

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