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This article is wonderful... Since Whitman and Thoreau, no one had made the grass and the sky speak so eloquently, as ambassadors to the embodied sacred. Years before Mindfulness took the world by storm, inviting us to savor the moment, Mary Oliver had long been saying things like: “Attention is our...

Good old Byrds! A song or two of theirs came up on my iPod in the last couple of days as I was working in the shop.

[*]This is only a sortof poem[*] Build Strength — by Danielle LaPorte Build strength through: reflection. Build strength through: joy. Build strength through: stillness. Build strength through: action. Build strength through: cleansing. Build strength through: laughter. Build strength through: gene...

True happiness is uncaused. You are happy for no reason at all. And true happiness cannot be experienced. It is not within the realm of consciousness. So it is with holiness. Holiness is unself-consciousness. The moment you are aware of your holiness it goes sour and becomes self-righteousness. A g...

This might be described as a short story about counting tree rings. It is far more profound than that. That's why I love the writing of Stuart M. Perkins. Forty-Third Ring — by Stuart M. Perkins https://storyshucker.wordpress.com/2019/03/06/forty-third-ring/ http://www.theoreticsinstitute.org/pics/...

Kim tells a story of the dawning of a realization that has implications for all of us, I believe. We’re not going to reverse climate change, but there will be a future, and that future will contain good and loving and just pieces. And I know that my job, no matter how depressing the climate reports...

Kim discusses baking... as a labor of love and why it is so valuable. It came to me that baking was a great metaphor to life and that the qualities it took to bake the bread were indeed qualities I want to cultivate more in my everyday life. While technology provides great benefit we have become ad...

I wasn't sure if you meant for this directly but I understand now the 1111 prompt as a language that is Love coming from Spirit to Soul after reading your essay. Side note about our memories leaving us after death, I suppose I am still very much body/ego conscious since this scares me. I am a bit s...

This is a most eloquent allegory concerning the process of awakening (spiritual awakening is what I read/heard). It is one of those little pieces of brilliance that I can't excerpt without compromising the message. Kazoo Player And The Symphony — Daniel Ingram http://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?op...

A few days ago one of my closest friends died. Our friendship spanned 50 years. Peculiarly I have moments of sadness but don’t feel any devastating grief. We were born about 12 hours apart in the same year and celebrated our mutual birthdays nearly forty times. I’m sad we’ll never do that again. It...

This little essay is on the nature of belief and the laws that govern the universe. I was reminded of one of my favorite quotes of all time by Philip K. Dick who said... "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." A snippet from the essay... I believe that it doesn't ma...

Hirshel is my favorite rabbi. He begins his thoughts with a tale of rabbinic lore and then expands upon the central message of the story. There is a God in the world! A colleague of mine has sermonized that “given the fractured world we inhabit and the frenetic lives we lead, we often need remindin...

Hey Eric, run a search on this forum for "Alanda Greene" and you'll find links to a few other pieces of her wonderful writing. Here's another collection from Heartfulness Magazine...

http://www.heartfulnessmagazine.com/author/alanda/

Alanda is a wonderful writer, gardener and philosopher of rare spiritual insight. She weaves all three in her short essays. This offering has to do with rumination on earthworms that leads to... In Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi , this well-known Sufi poet, story-teller and ...

I can't excerpt this wonderful little story without the soft impact suffering so I'll just link it with an enthusiastic endorsement.

Wait… — by Stuart M. Perkins

https://storyshucker.wordpress.com/2019/02/09/wait/

Envision Kindness is a father and son team who have created a movement with the simple belief that the spotlight of the world’s attention should be shined on the positive events that occur every day; not just the negative events that we see far too often. Positive pictures and stories have the powe...

You are a traveler in this land, and while you’re here, you will move and be moved. In the process of your progress, become the ocean wave that rolls with elegance and sincerity. Burst into joyous dance as you celebrate the shores. With an open heart, point yourself in the direction of the things y...

Even When No Matter What Let yourself be loved. Even when you can't imagine why, let yourself be loved. Even when you're completely lost, let yourself be loved. Even when you've been a jerk, let yourself be loved. Even when everyone else seems to be doing more or better, let yourself be loved. Let ...

Wow, these words are so raw, evoking such a clear visual! Thank you Welles. You're welcome Kim. Eric introduced me (us) to Hazrat Inayat Khan's work and wisdom and I'm an enthusiastic recipient of the daily Saki, an email offering of his words. https://wahiduddin.net/saki/index.htm http://www.theor...

"The pleasures of life are blinding; it is love alone that clears the rust from the heart, the mirror of the soul." — Hazrat Inayat Khan "Religion is the spiritual rhythm of the soul in time-space harmony with the higher and eternal melody measurements of Infinity." — The Urantia Book 195:7.20 (208...

The aim of practicing generosity is twofold, or else it’s an incomplete experience. The first aim is to free our minds from the conditioned forces that bind and limit us. Craving, clinging and attachment bring confinement and lack of self-esteem. If we’re always looking for some person or thing to ...

Shinzen's message was rather important for me today. In the past I've considered his point about the two practices of compassion sort of like the difference between empathy and sympathy. His view is much clearer. Share People's Pain, Not Their Suffering Just as insight has many facets, so also with...

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 ...