Posts Tagged "inspiration"
Inspiration
Inspiration is disturbing. She does not believe in guarantees or insurance or strict schedules. She is not interested in how well you write your grant proposal or what you do for a living or why you are too busy to see her. She will be there when you need her but you have to take it on trust. Surrender. She knows when you need her better than you do. —J. Ruth...
Read MoreMISSION STATEMENT
A brief summary of the principles that inspire my personal mission. * To be an aspiring Master of Curiosity. * To know that playing is a consummate spiritual act. * Being a purveyor of compassionate crazy wisdom. * Don’t suppress and deny and escape desire! Rather, apotheosize and enjoy desire, and channel it to commit transformative mystery and lyrical justice. * Don’t suppress and...
Read MoreQuestions – Inspiration
Well loyal “Living the Question” readers some salient questions to get the gray matter churning….. 1. What inspires you? 2. Who has inspired you? Who has been your ‘guru’, or teacher that has made a marked influence on your life? 3. Do you give yourself time to inspire yourself? What does/would that look like? 4. How do you inspire others? what...
Read MoreNot Meditating
All attempts to meditate are the abject denial of it… J. Krisnamurti Sometimes when I sit on the ground for no reason, bills paid deadlines met, stomach neither full nor empty my quiet spreads and fills me with sky from brain to big bang I am the blueprint a marriage of flesh and sapphire discovering the open eye Sometimes, I become the laughter of sunflowers or tickling bees I grow louder...
Read MoreBigger, Better , More Interesting Problems
Is there anything more dangerous than getting up in the morning and having nothing to worry about, no problems to solve, no friction to heat you up? That state can be a threat to your health. If untreated, it incites and unconscious yearning for any old dumb trouble that might rouse some excitement. Acquiring problems is a fundamental human need. It’s as crucial to your well-being as...
Read MoreI Have Come Into this World to See…
I have come into this world to see this: The sword drop from men’s hands even at the height of their arc of anger Because we have finally realized there is just one flesh to wound…… I have come into this world to see this: All creatures hold hands as we pass through this miraculous existence we share on the way to even a greater being of soul, a being of just ecstatic light,...
Read MoreSnippets of Chaos
“Irregularity and unpredictability are important features of health. On the other hand, decreased variability and accentuated periodicities are associated with disease. Healthy systems don’t want homeostasis. They want chaos.” —John R. Van Eenwyk, “The Chaotic Dynamic* of Everyday Life,” Quest magazine “One must have chaos within oneself if one is to be a...
Read MoreA Yogi’s 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 here… There is no need to...
Read MoreWillingness
Willing to experience aloneness, I discover connection everywhere; Turning to face my fear, I meet the warrior who lives within; Opening to my loss, I am given unimaginable gifts; Surrendering into emptiness, I find fullness without end. Each condition I flee from pursues me. Each condition I welcome transforms me And becomes itself transformed Into its radiant jewel-like essence. I bow to the...
Read MoreAnd For No Reason…
And For no reason I start skipping like a child. And For no reason I turn into a leaf That is carried so high I kiss the Sun’s mouth And dissolve. And For no reason A thousand birds Choose my head for a conference table, Start passing their Cups of wine And their wild songbooks all around. And For every reason in existence I begin to eternally, To eternally laugh and love! When I turn into...
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