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Film #1 in the SACRED LIFE film series. A short time-lapse and slow-motion interlaced, honoring the necessity of contacting the sacred in the everyday.

Contact with the Sacred — a film by Karie Teague

https://vimeo.com/172133763

A Cheyenne elder of my acquaintance once told me that the best way to find something is not to go looking for it. This is a hard concept for a scientist. But he said to watch out of the corner of your eye, open to possibility, and what you seek will be revealed. The revelation of suddenly seeing wh...

Caitlin Johnstone is an Australian blogger who deals with aspects of politics in her writing about three quarters of the time. The remainder are thoughtful pieces about reality, poetry and occasional little bits of provocative whimsy. Oh she is also very funny... even when she is most serious. To m...

This is another one of Steve's photo blogs. The images are beautiful. Among them are these quotations... Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. – Robert Browning It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? – Mahatma Gandhi All that I am, or ever hope to be...

Stuart Perkins on clutter, memories... and things you might want to keep. This is a wonderful story. It gave me the warm and fuzzies, but then most of his stories do. 'I Just Might Keep That' — by Stuart Perkins https://alexandrialivingmagazine.com/lifestyle/i-just-might-keep-that-stuart-perkins-re...

It seems like our society is at a low point in terms of how we talk about challenging, controversial topics within our political discourse and even our spiritual reflections. I believe the only way through this polarization is a re-appreciation for silence. Silence has a life of its own. It is not ...

Once you know people well enough to feel close, there’s an unconscious tendency to tune them out because you think you already know what they are going to say. It’s kind of like when you’ve traveled a certain route several times and no longer notice signposts and scenery. But people are always chan...

Great photos, Eric. I particularly like the flying heart one as I've used that symbol on several occasions. To wit...

Chrysalises both inspire and baffle me. The thought that a caterpillar can crawl into a sac made of its own body and dissolve its form and come out as a butterfly is a cliched image of transformation, but holy rubbish. Stop for a moment and really think about that. Does the caterpillar know this is...

Here are the first three... 1) “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” 2) “When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty… but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I kno...

In Siberian myth, when you want to hurt someone, you crawl into their tent and close the smoke hole. That way God can’t see them. Close the smoke hole and you break connection to the divine world. Mountains, rivers, trees. Close the smoke hole and we become mad. Close the smoke hole and we are poss...

Consider the Zen practice of the koan, the question or problem proposed by Zen masters to each other or by masters to students. The koan is a dilemma, a mystery which the rational mind cannot solve. The key to the resolution of a koan is a shift in the being of the student which allows for a new un...

Born in 1863, Swami Vivekananda was one of India’s most prolific spiritual leaders. Dubbed ‘the one who awakened India’, the one who ‘saved Hinduism, saved India’ and ‘the maker of modern India’, his life was a testament to the power that one awakened individual can have. While there’s no shortage ...

There is an old and wise parable that you may have heard. It goes like this: One day an old Cherokee man sits down with his grandson to teach him about life. “A fight is going on inside of me,” he says to the boy. “It’s a terrible fight between two wolves. One is evil – he is full of rage, jealousy...

This is the most uplifting article I've discovered this morning... so far, anyway. THE DREAM OF PLANTING A FOREST IN BRAZIL GAVE BIRTH TO THE INSTITUTO TERRA When celebrated Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado took over family land in the state of Minas Gerais, instead of the tropical paradise...

Caitlin Johnstone is an Australian blogger/writer who's political astuteness is right on the mark. She has been posting a great deal about the importance of the Julian Assange case. Her point is the war factions of the US and allies are trying to destroy the will of journalists to uncover illegal a...

Whoa! I'm not going to excerpt any of this brilliant description of one man's enlightenment. I'll just say it is a wonderful read (or listen to the audio by Liz Helgesen). This was one so valuable that I downloaded the audio file so that I might listen to it whenever my old emotional go-to-battle p...

This is a little heady but also a brilliant discovery if you can follow his realization. Initially, I used to move from willpower; I was concerned only with results. In retrospect, I realize that this created a sort of tunnel vision; my consciousness was debilitatingly limited. I allowed myself to ...

This is too short to excerpt. It is a pretty good humorous story, though. I got a Chuckle Out Loud. COL.

Behind The Drapes: A Humorous Story About Faith[ — from Wisdom Pills

https://www.wisdompills.com/humorous-story-about-faith/

This is an amusing and oh-so-true short short about the origins of dogmas. It is too short to quote but well worth the two minutes it will take you to read it. Of course you might read it twice. In that case it is a four minute read. Dogma Cat: The Story of How One Cat Can Create Centuries of Dogma...

What do you do when a friend has lost a child and you can’t ease their grief? Or when your partner loses her job and you can’t resolve it for her? Or a client has to make a big decision and you can’t make it for him? Or your church or community group decides to close its doors and there is loss wri...

When Someone Deeply Listens To You — by John Fox When someone deeply listens to you it is like holding out a dented cup you've had since childhood and watching it fill up with cold, fresh water. When it balances on top of the brim, you are understood. When it overflows and touches your skin, you ar...

WILD SOUL - A Nature Poem from Finland — by Nitin Das

https://vimeo.com/373412697

It is the song that sings us into life. Whether we have a meaningful life depends upon whether we can hear this song, this primal music of the sacred. The “sacred” is not something primarily religious or even spiritual. It is not a quality we need to learn or to develop. It belongs to the primary n...