Posts Tagged "Truth"
A crack in everything….
The birds they sang at the break of day Start again, I heard them say Don’t dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. The wars they will be fought again The holy dove, be caught again bought and sold and bought again the dove is never free. Photo by Ivan Vranić on Unsplash Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in...
Read MoreRomancing the Paradox
How do we summon the right blend of practical love and constructive anger? How do we refrain from hating other people even as we fight fiercely against the hatred and danger they have helped unleash? How do we cultivate cheerful buoyancy even as we neutralize the bigoted, autocratic poisons that are on the loose? How can we be both wrathful insurrectionaries and exuberant lovers of life? How can...
Read MoreHow is enlightenment like a million dollar vacation home?
For some seekers, spiritual enlightenment is the ultimate commodity. They believe that through diligent meditation and self-improvement, there will come a day when it will no longer elude their grasp. Breaking through to the singular state of cosmic consciousness, they will forever after own it, free and clear. Permanently illuminated! Never to backslide into the dull ignominy of normal human...
Read MoreGrist
You say every life situation is a perfect lesson, how is that so? “The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out our reactivity, which is our attachment, our clinging, to pain, to pleasure, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there are places where we’re vulnerable, the universe will find ways to confront us with them. That’s the way the dance is...
Read MoreI Wish I Could Speak Like Music
I wish I could speak like music. I wish I could put the swaying splendor Of the fields into words So that you could hold Truth Against your body And dance. I am trying the best I can With this crude brush, the tongue, To cover you with light. I wish I could speak like divine music. I want to give you the sublime rhythms Of this earth and the sky’s limbs As the joyously spin and...
Read MoreIt’s What We Are
Beneath the seething sea of feelings, sense impressions, thoughts and interactions the ground of being rests. Like bedrock on the ocean floor it forms a container for the psyche. It’s the source of the “something more” we’re always looking for. It’s here, not somewhere different. It’s now, not tomorrow or next year. Sinking into its support, we find...
Read MoreA vast awakening
There is a vast spiritual awakening in progress in our world. Quietly and soulfully, many are returning to the truth of who they are, seeing the futility of the world’s ego ways. If you surrender to this call from within, it may lead to a deep questioning of “the way we do things”. There will surely be moments of loneliness, where you feel that you no longer belong, as the...
Read MoreRenunciation
There will always be voices that promise you greatness and glory: They call out from the worldly marketplace; They call out from the spiritual marketplace; They call out from the fill-your-holes-marketplace; They call out from the bigger-better-more marketplace. Do not buy their false promises, or purchase their ephemeral wares; What fulfills for a moment is not worth the price of your...
Read MoreWHAT I KNOW FOR SURE
~ Many pressing things are resolved or made unnecessary by simply waiting. Conversely, waiting that has become mechanically habitual degrades into deadly procrastination. ~ No life, however charmed, is un-visited by searing disappointment, numbing grief, chilling betrayal, dull routine, crushing defeat, or exasperating detail. ~ There is a great restorative dignity and holy self-empowerment in...
Read MoreYou are…you?
You are as much your body, your thoughts, or your feelings as you are a car, an apartment, or a pen! When we say, “my car” or “my apartment” or “my pen,” we don’t mistake ourselves for the object. “My” is a possessive pronoun that indicates possession of an object. Something is claiming to have or possess something else. Yet, when it comes to “my body” or “my thoughts,”...
Read MoreDaily Reminder
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