Posts Tagged "journey"
TILLICHO LAKE
In this high place it is as simple as this, leave everything you know behind. Step toward the cold surface, say the old prayer of rough love and open both arms. Those who come with empty hands will stare into the lake astonished, there, in the cold light reflecting pure snow, the true shape of your own face. — David...
Read MoreThe Journey
One day you finally knew what you had to do and began, Though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice, Though the whole house began to tremble and you felt that old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried, but you didn’t stop, you knew what you had to do, Though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, Though their melancholy was...
Read MoreSongs for Home
And the song rang out ‘midst the silence of the lodge I have sat in the pews of hundreds of churches Praised your name-Praised your name I have greeted Mecca more times than I can remember I have sat in the Zen-do with Buddha And you came you came So many sutras I’ve sung And posed ten thousand asana You were there Before I channeled the avatar- You counseled, “I am with you...
Read MoreAmerican PIlgrim
” We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time” -T.S. Eliot We are all on a journey, all paths unique and amazing and never the same as any other’s...
Read MoreNo One Way
“Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars...
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Your Path
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” “If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.” “You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” —Joseph...
Read MoreWhy your life is not a journey
Alan Watts – Why Your Life Is Not A Journey from David...
Read MoreA Cherokee Grandfather’s Story
An old Cherokee Indian was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me. it is a terrible fight, and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear,anger,envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity,guilt,resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride , superiority, ego and unfaithfulness. The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope,...
Read MoreStories and Feathers
Feathers Dance by Aspects of MK At one time Stories The clinging Painful, defining So real, Then A letting go A painful memory Now ignored Their beauty shunned Denied Cowed from Their lightness mistaken For lead. Being made ready The master gathers them all Laying them out so carefully Given to your hand So lovingly You hold each one up to the light Their plumes bathed in Brilliance The exact...
Read MoreDaily Reminder
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