Posts Tagged "connection"

Thoughts 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...

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Tormented connection

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive” – James...

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SMUDGE

In the birth canal you were anointed with the microbiome, smeared and smudged with the mighty host of earth’s bacteria. Your first breath hugged atoms of all races, all tribes into your blood, the flesh of stars, particles of the ancestors, atoms from the body of Jesus, the body of Muhammad, the subtle body of Kwan Yin, body of the first murderer and the murdered one. Every angel is...

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Lost

Stand still.  the trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. the forest breathes.  Listen, It answers, I have made a place around you, If you leave it may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren If what a...

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A Hopi Elder’s Prophecy

You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered. . . . Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your water? Know your garden. It is time to speak your truth. Create your community. Be good to each other. And do not...

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My DNA results came in…..

My Ancestry DNA results came in. Just as I suspected, my great great grandfather was a monarch butterfly. Much of who I am is still wriggling under a stone. I am part larva, but part hummingbird too. There is dinosaur tar in my bone marrow. My golden hair sprang out of a meadow in Palestine. Genghis Khan is my fourth cousin, but I didn’t get his dimples. My loins are loaded with banyan...

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The Leaf

Leaves in a Fountain by Alix King “I asked the leaf whether it was frightened because it was autumn and the other leaves were falling. The leaf told me, “No. During the whole spring and summer I was completely alive. I worked hard to help nourish the tree, and now much of me is in the tree. I am not limited by this form. I am also the whole tree, and when I go back to the soil, I will...

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A Yogi’s Welcome

The Offering by Linaji Welcome Please allow your stories to be left at the door with your shoes. You may pick them up if you really want them on your way back out. They are not required to enter here. Kiss your ego and allow it to be still. As you achieve your comfortable seated posture and consciously take in your next breath, also take in this assurance… There is no need to achieve anything...

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Indras Net

  There is an endless net of threads throughout The Universe The horizontal threads are in space The vertical threads are in time At the crossing of the threads There is an individual And every individual is a crystal bead And every crystal bead reflects Not only the light from every Other crystal in the net but Also every other reflection Throughout the entire universe ...

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Common karma…

Plenty of the karmic lessons each soul has set before them will be unique to the individual, but there will also be key ones that are common, and thereby connect sentient life into groups of inquiry. Here are some of the key ones that I see happening on Earth… • How to stay connected to the divine flow, whilst in a strongly engaging physical density. • How to create and experience...

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