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Mary Oliver was one of the most beloved poets of our times. A writer who was dazzled by her daily experience of life, and dazzled the rest of us by telling about it in her poems and essays. She deliberately stayed out of the public eye and what follows is one of her rare interviews. Read on for a g...

Mary Oliver was one of my favorite poets. She did her last dance (the mortal coil shuffle) on January 17, 2019. Here's one brief poem... The Summer Day — by Mary Oliver "I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down Into the grass, how to kneel down in the ...

Anyone can practice the Chinese arts of Tai Chi and Qi Gong, and it doesn’t take very long for a beginner to develop enough sensitivity to be able to feel Chi, or life force energy, moving and flowing throughout and around their own body. This experience is so common and so accessible that Tai Chi ...

"Kindness" was the most Popular Poem on Poets.org in 2018 Kindness — Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go ...

Hi Kim, I've been reading Gary Z McGee's writing and thoughts for a long time. To me he is part of the spiritual awakening occurring on this planet that deals with discovering Truth, particularly beneath those aspects of reality that cloak true meanings and the intent of those who would rule. In th...

I recently read "The Alchemist" and was mightily impressed by the level of wisdom contained therein. So when I found this article today I felt it was an excellent introduction to a wonderful book. Words that will Change your Life from “The Alchemist.” — by Monika Carless https://www.elephantjournal...

Here’s the deal. The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed — to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as it is. When we make that kind of deep bow to the soul of a suffering person, our respect reinforces the soul’s healing resources, the only res...

I loved being reminded of Siddhartha. It was an important book to me at one time in my journey. Hermann Hesse’s timeless book, Siddhartha, should be required reading for any spiritual seeker. The book is about Siddhartha’s journey as a respected son of a Brahmin. Everyone expects that he will follo...

My word of the year is listen. It’s one of those words whose meaning is in its music. Listen is a quiet word, that half swallowed L and diffident I and softly hissing S. It defies the clamorous words it absorbs, the words that have defined this year, the shouts and roars, the bray and bluster. List...

This reminds me of today's saki, last one for 2018! Did you like it? Oh yes. 50 years ago I had an inspired illumination that I should pick the qualities I wished to become in life and act on them. I chose Beauty, Truth, and Humor (this choice was made before reading the Urantia Book). That's when ...

We all know about New Year’s resolutions and how short-lived they can be. Consider setting a long-term intention. Setting a long-term intention is like setting the compass of our heart. No matter how rough the storms, how difficult the terrain, our direction is clear. At times our intentions are pr...

Each of these poems is worthy of contemplation. They are... 1. All the World’s a Stage by William Shakespeare 2. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost 3. Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath 4. Walking Around by Pablo Neruda 5. A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe 6. If by Rudyard Kipling 7. I Know Why t...

Speaking of Mr. Rogers. Just recently I saw this acceptance speech by Mr. Rogers as he accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upm9Lnu ... gs=pl%2Cwn

Some thirty years ago, I went into sermons from the early third century into the nineteenth century dealing with this story of the Samaritan, and I found out that most preachers, when they comment on that passage, comment on it in order to show how we ought to behave towards our neighbor, when in f...

Hey Eric, I think the salient point is that the extremes of both categories are being discussed. There are relatively few of those who go to great lengths to dissuade others from inquiry into spiritual matters. I believe that is the level of atheism being described. There are also relatively few wh...

Mark Nepo always has remarkable insights. In summary, the eight worldviews and their practices are: All My Relations from the Native American tradition. The Practice: To discover, name, and repair the connections that exist between all things. Ubuntu from the African tradition. The Practice: To wat...

As I understand discipline when it is a focus it is a burden; when it is a natural consequence of my entire being it is a joy. Take diet, for example. When my consciousness is primarily residing in my emotional center (aka the guts) and dealing with fears and attachments I will be inclined to eat c...

This short article is rather wonderful. It begins with an excellent observation that leads to this view of Faith... But faith and belief are two different things. I choose to go with the original meaning of faith. In Pali, the ancient language of the Buddha, as well as in Latin and Hebrew, the word...

Whoa! As someone who was raised with mercator projection maps this is an eye opener.

A Very Simple Animation Demonstrating That The Mercator Projection Is A Lie — by L.V. Anderson

http://digg.com/2018/mercator-projection-gif

Charles is a brilliant thinker. This little excerpt is simply an introduction to the quality of his thinking. The conclusions at which he arrives are foundational story for a new world. Yay. Why does the sun shine? A random result of coalescing gases igniting nuclear fusion? Or is it in order to gi...

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn’t make any sense. The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep....