Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are. ~Brene Brown (1965 to pres., Research Psychologist)
Your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral.You can never see your own face,only a reflection, not the face itself.So you sigh in front of mirrorsand cloud the surface.It’s better to keep your breath cold.Hold it, like a diver does in the ocean.One slight movement, the mirror-image goes.Don’t be dead or asleep or awake.Don’t be anything.What … Continue reading Your Face
Love in action is the true expression of love. I would say it is only by mercy, grace, and compassion that such a simple definition, such a perfect understanding of love can become a reality within each one of us and be part of our daily thinking, daily consciousness, daily action. ~Sant Darshan Singh Ji … Continue reading Love in Action
Hope is the thing with feathersthat perches in the souland sings the tune without the wordsand never stops at all. ~Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, Poet)
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. ~Alan Watts (1915-1973, British Zen Buddhist teacher)
Life is so full, so touching, wondrous, sad, curious, and bittersweet, that it’s almost unbearable at times. As human beings we need to ask, Do we have to turn away from this fullness? Can we enjoy the limitless realm of possibility? Can we live life as an open question? ~Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel (Tibetan Buddhist teacher … Continue reading Life
No matter what else we do, everything must be connected to the awakening of consciousness. Keep one foot in this world and one foot in the transcendent— this is the dance. ~Eckhart Tolle (1948 to pres., German Philosopher and Mystic)
Give thanks for another day of life here on this earth. It is another day that we may enjoy the compassionate goodness of our Creator. Let us all come together as one people. Let us look to the shortest grasses, close to the bosom of our Mother Earth, as we put our minds together as … Continue reading Mother’s Day
There is a grace approachingthat we shun as much as death,it is the completion of our birth.It does not come in time,but in timelessnesswhen the mind sinks into the heartand we remember.It is an insistent grace that draws usto the edge and beckons us to surrender safe territory and enter our enormity.We know we must … Continue reading Millennium Blessing
That part of you that is separate, that part of you that is your senses and your thinking mind, is all part of what changes. There is, however, a plane of reality in which you recognize or you are what isn’t changing. It’s not you, it’s just what isn’t changing; it’s the base from which … Continue reading Balance and Tension