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the reckless endearments of the heart

Magic is available to the unfolded heart. As these bones and heart of mine grow older, I am more and more certain that the world would be a far-happier place if we would remember why magic matters....

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the inner landscape of identity

To be Energy Boundless In frame Shooting Star of equanimity Comet’s mist in shroud A wake Of Nameless Void Dusted Astral Landscape Floating, peaceful Womb of space Beating heart Umbilical Home filled...

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beauty & the beast of soul

It is not easy for students to realize that to ask, as they often do, whether God exists and is merciful, just, good, or wrathful, is simply to project anthropomorphic concepts into a sphere to which...

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crafting a legacy

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. …..Thich Nhat Hanh there is a night wind that...

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sacrificial freedom

Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as...

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a Christmas Eve inquiry

Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner- what is it? if not intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of...

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innate resilience

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over...

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the bubbling up of doubt & wonder

Longing has its own secret future destination, and its own seasonal emergence from within, a ripening from the core; a seed growing in our own bodies. It is as if we are put into relationship with an...

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in the grace of being free

If a person were to stop all his outer and inner movements at a given moment in order to see what is acting in him, he would nearly always feel a tendency which has about it something narrow,...

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the exhilaration of soft living

I consider everything we experience as an opportunity for enlightenment. To enlighten is “to put light into, make luminous, to remove dimness or blindness, to supply with intellectual light, to impart...

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what is fundamental?

Don’t try to understand. That will only make it more difficult. Don’t think about it. That will take you a million miles away. Just stop and feel it. Stop for a moment, breathe, and begin to notice...

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beliefs, curiosities, & mysteries

Spiritual awakening is not a process in time, it is neither an awesome experience you once had, nor a goal to reach later. Your memories of the past or our plans for the future are simply thoughts....

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dreamtime here & now

When you aren’t distracted by your own negative thinking, when you don’t allow yourself to get lost in moments that are gone or yet to come, you are left with this moment. The soul is the only true...

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grounded in sky

Although we humans have devised countless means for eliciting self-transcendence, the impulse toward that experience is a constant. We are, it seems, possessed of a transcendent imperative.  ~Andrew...

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caressing spring

Just when we’re softened by the years, when we have enough experience to see for ourselves, our maps are torn from us. This can be frightening, but there’s divine timing in the dissolution of a...

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the ultimate forgetting

It is a silver morning like any other. I am at my desk. Then the phone rings, or someone raps at the door. I am deep in the machinery of my wits. Reluctantly I rise, I answer the phone or I open the...

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where do you belong?

Curiosity is a mind controlling nothing. It is a mind without prejudice or expectation, a mind undefended by conception and agendas. It becomes absorbed in and fascinated by the ever-novel and endless...

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what do you really know?

You don’t get explanations in life.You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably, odd.~Neil Gaiman oh the strange events, moments, eras, and conversations of a lifetime…. inquiry for...

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affectionate attention

In an attempt to speed up the birth of chicks for marketing, shells were made thinner and incubated to break sooner. But once born, many chicks died. The attempt to speed up birth failed. Research...

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wild living

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man’s life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I...

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