Posts Tagged "heart"
Journey Home
Rabindranath Tagore The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long. I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet. It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune. The traveler...
Read MoreSplit You Wide Open
Light will someday split you open Even if your life is now a cage For a Divine seed, the crown of destiny, Is hidden and sown on an ancient, fertile plain You hold title to. Life will surely bust you wide open Into an unfettered, blooming new galaxy Even if your mind is now a spoiled mule. A life-giving radiance will come – O look again within yourself, For I know you were once the...
Read MoreTouch Your Heart
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it is bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as so much space. Your world seems less solid, more roomy and spacious. The burden lightens. In the beginning it feels like...
Read MoreLoving Kindness and Compassion
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it is bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as so much space. Your world seems less solid, more roomy and spacious. The burden lightens. In the beginning it feels like...
Read MoreThe Secret
The Creator gathered all of Creation and said, “I want to hide something from the humans until they are ready for it. It is the realization that they create their own reality.” The eagle said, “Give it to me, I will take it to the moon.” The Creator said, “No. One day they will go there and find it.” The salmon said, “I will bury it on the bottom of the...
Read MoreLearning Deeply…
Teacher: We want you to learn these teachings so deeply that they lie upon your heart Student: Why don’t you just put them in our hearts? Teacher: That’s not our job. we just place them on the surface. Then when your heart breaks, they fall in. —Buddhist story – source...
Read MoreShadow…
The shadow has three functions: (1) It won’t let you step over or leave a part of yourself. You’ll make a fool of yourself. (2) It keeps us connected to our juice, particularly sexuality and aggression, the two parts of ourselves that we have the most problems with, and the greatest problems expressing. (3) Our shadow gives us compassion for others. Healing ourselves and helping...
Read MoreDearest Friends….
Teacher: We want you to learn these teachings so deeply that they lie upon your heart Student: Why don’t you just put them in our hearts? Teacher: That’s not our job. We just place them on the surface. Then, when your heart breaks, they fall in. —Buddhist story, source unknown For those of you that are reading this blog maybe for the first time or haven’t read it in a...
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