What really matters at the end of life
As this yogi rounds his corner into ‘the latter years’ the encountering with the aspect of death (of leaving this ‘mortal coil) draws itself into my reality on many levels. I have experienced a ‘brush’ with it experiencing open heart surgery years ago. I have written posts about this and you may have read some of them. I have also had the opportunity to visit,...
Read MoreYou are far more…
“You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don’t waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big…Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived...
Read MoreSOS 1995
Take a long time with your anger, sleepyhead. Don’t waste it in riots. Don’t tangle it with ideas. The Devil won’t let me speak, will only let me hint that you are a slave, your misery a deliberate policy of those in whose thrall you suffer, and who are sustained by your misfortune. The atrocities over there, the interior paralysis over here — Pleased with the better deal? You are clamped...
Read MoreOn relationship,love and sex
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of...
Read MoreThe Altar of This Moment
Thailand 1 – by Michael Durbin Place everything you can perceive— Everything you can See, Hear, Smell, Taste, Or touch, Upon the altar of this moment And give thanks. It is over so soon— This expression, This single moment of your precious life, This one heart pounding itself open with fear or wild joy, This one breath rising in the cold winter air smoothly and gently or coughing and...
Read MoreHere I am Again
Here I am again, Lord, offering you the fruit of all my actions. I do this knowing you are the tree on which the fruit grows sweet and ripe.. You are the soil,roots, and limbs, rainfall, sunlight, soft night wind. I’ve come to realize that my only gift is the nectar of your love, distilled, expressed, and offered back through all my acts, and simply through my being. What I give you...
Read MoreIf You Listen
If you listen Not to the pages or preachers But to the smallest flower Growing from a crack In your heart, You will hear a great song Moving across a wide ocean Whose water is the music Connecting all the islands Of the universe together, And touching all You will feel it Touching you Around you Embracing you With light. – John...
Read MoreMoney and Separation
Photo by Alain Pham on Unsplash Today’s usury-money is part of a story of separation in which “more for me is less for you” that is the essence of interest: I will only “share” money with you if I end up with even more of it in return. On the systemic level as well, interest on money creates competition, anxiety,and the polarization of wealth. Meanwhile, the...
Read MoreHuman only….
Caught up in a mass of abstractions, our attention hypnotized by a host of human-made technologies that only reflect us back to ourselves, it is all too easy for us to forget our carnal inherence in a more-than-human matrix of sensations and sensibilities. Our bodies have formed themselves in delicate reciprocity with the manifold textures, sounds, and shapes of an animate earth — our eyes have...
Read MoreSay it!….
.. that to find beauty in everyone you must see beauty in everyone, then announce that you see it for, in announcing it, you place it there in their reality. Do not miss a single chance — not one single opportunity — to tell someone how wonderful they are, how special they are, how important to you they are, how incredible as a person they are, how beautiful they are inside and...
Read MoreDaily Reminder
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