In The Journal
It is superficial to understand the journal as just a receptacle for one’s private, secret thoughts—like a confidante who is deaf, dumb and illiterate. In the journal I do not just express...
View ArticleOpen Heart, Open Mind
When we are not sure, we are alive. -- Graham Greene About the time I began to wonder what it meant for sure to 'age...
View ArticlePractical Gods
It must be troubling for the god who loves you To ponder how much happier you'd be today Had you been able to glimpse your many...
View ArticleFirmer, Simpler, Quieter, Warmer
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. --Dag Hammarskjold, Markings The other...
View ArticleLunar Spirituality
I have been given the gift of lunar spirituality, in which the divine light available to me waxes and wanes with the season. --Barbara Brown Taylor,...
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Never Too Late
“If I could learn to play the cello well, as I thought I could, I could show by my own example that we all have greater powers than we think; that whatever we want to learn or learn to do,...
View ArticleWise Women Writing
The truth is that it is really quite difficult to describe any human being. So the writer says, ‘this is what happened.’ But she doesn’t say what the person was like to whom it...
View ArticleThe Primal Shift
As transitions take place during our later years, a fundamental and primal shift from ambition to meaning occurs. --Angeles Arrien, The Second Half of Life Interesting...
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A Conscious Aging
Bodhichitta is a Sanskrit word that means 'noble or awakened heart.' It is said to be present in all beings. Just as butter is inherent in milk and oil is inherent in a sesame seed, this...
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A Wisdom Guide
One can’t look at anyone’s life story without seeing some devastating mistakes etched across it. These errors are not coincidental but structural; they arise because we all lack the...
View ArticleRegarding The World
We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point...
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Feast On Your Life
We have always feasted, in huts and palaces and temples, in an instinctive gesture of gratitude to our gods for the good things that have come to us. It is our way of admitting, subconsciously or not,...
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Songs For The Soul
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul. -- Plato It was standing room...
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Prayers On The Wing
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. -- Rachel Carson Amitabha Stupa in Sedona (photo courtesy...
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When Story Meets Soul
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.... Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer....
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Chasing Life, Finding Light
Color leaps out blindfold from my blood,hears its echoexplodedown the cataract steeps, the redwall, black schistand deep lava of my life. --"Painting" Adele Seronde, Painter...
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Writing With Water
Everything on the earth bristled,the bramble pricked and the green threadnibbled away, the petal fell, fallinguntil the only flower was the falling itself. Water is another matter,has no direction...
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Pay Attention Traveler
Pay attention traveler, and revel in what you do not see but could if you paid attention to the wind telling your stories of lovers and play and of wonders as yet undreamed. -- Pablo Neruda,...
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