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room to breathe…
looking to see..... I shut my eyes in order to see…Paul Gauguin Nothing like a coastline to give one full perspective, a moment with the inner self, clean lines, room to breathe…. a moment rich in...
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filling the well where winter empties….
filling the well... Each person is born with an unencumbered spot, free of expectation & regret, free of ambition & embarrassment, free of fear & worry, an umbilical spot of grace where we...
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endless summer begins with decay
summer forgets decay... In one sense we are always traveling, & traveling as if we did not know where we were going. In another sense we have already arrived. We cannot arrive at the perfect...
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the joy of our old bones & the twinkle of fierce grace….
where the old & the young play….. The face of the child can be retained at any age when we experience childlike wonder, awe, and curiosity. The task at the White Picket Gate is to uncover or awaken...
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the potential of a primal calling…..
mystere The true meaning of sacrifice comes from the root word sacra: to make sacred. Once we are clear about what is important in what we long for, we can recognize the issues and obstacles that are...
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clinging to the mast doesn’t save the boat
out to sea……. Life is like stepping into a boat that is about to sail out to sea & sink. ….Shunryu Suzuki Roshi The discomfort associated with groundlessness, with the fundamental ambiguity of...
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a red, cataclysmic force of sacred emergence
properties & characteristics of experiencing… 1) The good experiencer gets ‘utterly lost in the present.’ He loses his past and his future for the time being and lives totally in the here-now...
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the riddle of knowing God…..
So now I was in the Hole for the first time, no light, no bed, shivering in the midst of summer in a cell that was damper and darker than the Swiss dungeon of Chillon that Byron had written about and...
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something 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...
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where radical identity & mutuality meet authenticity
Bernie Glassman, a Zen teacher, has a practice called ‘Bearing Witness.’ You go into a hard, complex situation with the mind of not knowing, of having no idea or opinion, and instead, feel, listen,...
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the symmetry of intention
The image of abundance permits us to overturn limiting and conditioned structures. The image and its attendant feeling, the current of life, is the first step in forming a true and new structure that...
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symbolic harmony
You are sitting in quietness. Your eyes are closed. The atmosphere is one of meditation, even of silence, unarticulated prayer. You are re-experiencing the essential movement of your life, allowing it...
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shadow puppets & soul play
We don’t decide who we are. We discover who we are and decide what to do about it. For those who do not settle for an idealized, self-avoiding image of themselves, life is peppered with ongoing...
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