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nurturing a whispered calling
Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music. …..T.S. Eliot wild-eyed and soul-hungry Mystery is usually associated with the darker side of life, with death or fear of the...
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do we know how to love?
It is love that leads to right action. What brings order to the world is to love and to let love do what it will. …..Krishnamurti sacred recognition blossoms with the kind of respect that comes from...
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where does life lag with effort?
How to cope with beauty and at the same time with the mathematical cruelty of the universe. …..Czeslaw Milosz a new paradigm unfolds through radical self-awareness….then it moves out through an...
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our capacity for radiance & despair
My soul came apart like an empty jar. It fell overwhelmingly, down the stairs. Dropped from the hands of a careless maid. It fell. Smashed into more pieces than there was china in the jar....
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intertwined in light and skin, breath and shadow
Sometimes it can seem as though being human is a problem that spiritual practice is meant to solve. But Buddhist meditative and related practices actually have a different focus: developing our human...
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authentic kindness of earth angels
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner...
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the pagan lore of hope
This breathing body, as it experiences and inhabits the world, is very different from that objectified body diagrammed in physiology textbooks, with its separable ‘systems’ laid bare on each page. The...
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simplicity shadows the black & white truth
The world is fed by our willingness to weep for the impossibility of being human. And the irony is, weeping for the impossibility of being human is human….Stephen Jenkinson were we cast into our...
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the courage to be human
I have on my refrigerator a picture of a solitary Chinese man returning from shopping with grocery bags in both hands, courageously blocking a row of military tanks in Tiananmen Square, unwilling to...
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the haunting behind longing
For compassion to develop toward a wide range of persons, mere knowledge of how beings suffer is not sufficient; there has to be a sense of closeness with regard to every being. That intimacy is...
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