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- Tue May 24, 2022 6:07 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: The Exquisite Risk — by Mark Nepo
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1130
The Exquisite Risk — by Mark Nepo
At any moment, if quiet enough and open enough, we can drop into the fabric of existence in which everything, even pain, has its vivid signature of energy that we call, at different times, truth or beauty or peace. It’s from this ground of being that we know and feel the unseeable web of connection...
- Fri May 20, 2022 5:02 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: The Sounds of Silence — ny Lisa Wells
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1148
The Sounds of Silence — ny Lisa Wells
WHEN I WAS a sixteen-year-old naturalist in training, we were instructed to sit in the forest and wait for the return of something called “the baseline symphony.” The baseline symphony was the music of a landscape at ease—the confluence of insect, bird, and animal song, underscored by wind and wate...
- Tue May 17, 2022 5:25 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Agent Of Illumination — by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1041
Agent Of Illumination — by Elizabeth Gilbert
Some years ago, I was stuck on a crosstown bus in New York City during rush hour. Traffic was barely moving. The bus was filled with cold, tired people who were deeply irritated with one another, with the world itself. Two men barked at each other about a shove that might or might not have been int...
- Tue May 17, 2022 5:19 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Things to Look Forward To — by Maria Popova
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1050
Things to Look Forward To — by Maria Popova
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timeless meditation on living with presence. “Lay hold of to-day’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow’s,” Seneca exhorted two millennia earlier as he offered the Stoic balance sheet f...
- Mon May 09, 2022 12:04 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Weeding Baby Wendell — by Stuart M. Perkins
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1074
Weeding Baby Wendell — by Stuart M. Perkins
I've added links to a number of Stuart M. Perkins short stories in the past. They always leave me feeling a sort of comfortable nostalgia... remembrance of a feeling I wished I would have had. Here's another. The beginning of the piece is an announcement that "Weeding Baby Wendell" has ju...
- Tue Apr 26, 2022 3:46 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Two Types Of Heartbreaks — by Parker Palmer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1264
Two Types Of Heartbreaks — by Parker Palmer
Suffering breaks our hearts — but there are two quite different ways for the heart to break. There’s the brittle heart that breaks apart into a thousand shards, a heart that takes us down as it explodes and is sometimes thrown like a grenade at the source of its pain. Then there’s the supple heart,...
- Tue Apr 19, 2022 7:02 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: When Science Is The Arbiter Of Metaphysics — by Paul Kalanithi
- Replies: 0
- Views: 991
When Science Is The Arbiter Of Metaphysics — by Paul Kalanithi
Although I had been raised in a devout Christian family, where prayer and Scripture readings were a nightly ritual, I, like most scientific types, came to believe in the possibility of a material conception of reality, an ultimately scientific worldview that would grant a complete metaphysics, minu...
- Sat Apr 16, 2022 5:30 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: "The Possibility Alliance" — a movie
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1288
"The Possibility Alliance" — a movie
Ever dream of living a simpler, more community-rooted lifestyle? Ever wondered if you & your friends really could grow your own food? Or build your own house? What would it look like to dedicate your pursuits and personal interests to match up with an intention of peace, respect for nature, lon...
- Fri Apr 08, 2022 5:33 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: I Am With You Always For ALL Eternity — by Eileen Caddy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1484
I Am With You Always For ALL Eternity — by Eileen Caddy
I Am With You Always For ALL Eternity Be still and listen to My still small voice at all times and in all places. There is no place where you cannot hear it. l will never leave you nor forsake you. l AM with you always for all eternity. Be ever aware of this; it is your awareness that keeps us clos...
- Tue Apr 05, 2022 5:58 pm
- Forum: Inspiring Poetry
- Topic: Say Wow — by Chelan Harkin
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4908
Say Wow — by Chelan Harkin
Say Wow — by Chelan Harkin Each day before our surroundings become flat with familiarity and the shapes of our lives click into place, dimensionless and average as Tetris cubes, before hunger knocks from our bellies like a cantankerous old man and the duties of the day stack up like dishes and the ...
- Tue Mar 29, 2022 5:36 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Do What You Please, But I'm Watching — by Hubert Benoit
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1150
Do What You Please, But I'm Watching — by Hubert Benoit
Alone, in a quiet place, muscularly relaxed (lying down or comfortably seated), I watch the emergence within myself of mental images, permitting my imagination to produce whatever it likes. It is as though I were saying to my image-making mind, 'Do what you please; but I am going to watch you doing...
- Wed Mar 23, 2022 6:11 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Arashiyama
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3548
Re: Arashiyama
Shane,
When I saw that last image I immediately thought, 'stone garden'. Great image.
When I saw that last image I immediately thought, 'stone garden'. Great image.
- Tue Mar 22, 2022 6:08 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Memnoon: Blessing The One Who Is Asked — by Heather Schlessman
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1156
Memnoon: Blessing The One Who Is Asked — by Heather Schlessman
One of the keys to a happier life is doing only what you want to do. We have been taught that is being selfish. That teaching comes from thousands of years of developing a domination over society. We have been taught to do things out of fear of punishment or desire for reward because that is how do...
- Tue Mar 22, 2022 6:05 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Just an FYI — from Welles
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1452
Re: Just an FYI — from Welles
Hi Eric,
No recovery is possible. It is simply the end of an era. I'm already in the throes of my new adventure. It ain't digital, though.
No recovery is possible. It is simply the end of an era. I'm already in the throes of my new adventure. It ain't digital, though.
- Mon Mar 21, 2022 7:24 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Just an FYI — from Welles
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1452
Just an FYI — from Welles
On March 11 all my websites went off line. Some vital files had been deleted. Although my hosting company had said several years ago that they were keeping backups of all the sites they hosted, my backup was 'unable to be accessed' what ever that means. Twelve years and six websites down the tubes....
- Mon Mar 21, 2022 6:50 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: 17 Things I Would Do Differently If I Were Fully Convinced I'm Going to Die — by Eric Jones
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1591
17 Things I Would Do Differently If I Were Fully Convinced I'm Going to Die — by Eric Jones
On the fifth anniversary of his father's passing, Eric Jones found himself penning a series of reflections in his journal that would eventually turn into a post titled,"17 Things I would do differently if I were fully convinced I'm going to die." Brimming with honesty, eloquence, insight a...
- Mon Mar 21, 2022 6:46 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Between Gift And Privilege — by Jonathan Harris
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1350
Re: Between Gift And Privilege — by Jonathan Harris
Hi Sandy, I've had a few issues lately keeping me elsewhere but the whole thing of identity politics is fostered by those who would build contention into the world for their purposes that I would generally put in the evil category. Identity politics can't exist when people are creating and using th...
- Tue Mar 15, 2022 6:50 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Between Gift And Privilege — by Jonathan Harris
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1350
Between Gift And Privilege — by Jonathan Harris
I’ve been wondering: What makes something a gift? What is the difference between a gift and a privilege? What does it mean to be gifted? How can we help one another discover and develop our gifts? What would it mean to live in a gifted society? To understand the essence of gift, it may be helpful t...
- Tue Mar 08, 2022 6:50 pm
- Forum: Inspiring Poetry
- Topic: Send Love -- It Matters — by Carrie Newcomer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3791
Send Love -- It Matters — by Carrie Newcomer
Send Love -- It Matters — by Carrie Newcomer Somewhere someone needs help. Send love. It matters. If you can't get there yourself, Then take a deep breath. Breathe in the weight of their troubles, Breathe out and send all those burdens into the Light Where sorrows can be held With the most tender a...
- Mon Mar 07, 2022 6:14 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Courage — by David Whyte
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1377
Courage — by David Whyte
To be courageous is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences. Courage s a word that tempts us to think outwardly, to run bravely against opposing fire, to do...
- Wed Mar 02, 2022 6:55 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: When the Earth Started to Sing — by David G. Haskell
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1325
When the Earth Started to Sing — by David G. Haskell
If you have a half an hour to spend this is wonderful... This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth. The experience is made entirely of tiny trembling waves in air, the fugitive, ephemeral energy that we call sound. Spoke...
- Wed Mar 02, 2022 6:27 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Surprise for the Mammals — by Anna Von Reitz
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1166
Surprise for the Mammals — by Anna Von Reitz
This little article surprised and captivated my mind. This is an example of Anna's thinking that amazes me and is part of the reason I always read her little essays. I don't agree with all of them but am enlightened by many. With all this irresponsible talk about "reptilians" and "al...
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:36 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Cognitive Bypassing — by Russell Wilson
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1305
Cognitive Bypassing — by Russell Wilson
I am a physician, neuroscientist, and anxiety expert. Many people I speak with have anxiety because they are trapped in their heads. I’d like to introduce a term here that I have not heard before (at least not in my field of medicine and psychology). I call it the “Cognitive Bypass.” I see a lot of...
- Thu Feb 17, 2022 7:11 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Writing a Better Story — by Carrie Newcomer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1410
Writing a Better Story — by Carrie Newcomer
When I wrote the song Writing A Better Story I was in the process of doing some very deep inner work, which included stories of personal trauma but also legacy burdens that had been carried for generations and finally given to me. There are stories I carry and you carry that support us, sustain us,...
- Sat Feb 12, 2022 9:47 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Happy Valentime's — by Welles
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1910