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catnapping & a pause for sweetness
art time I need room today…..room for art, for breathing, for ruminating, for catnapping with the cat….. Nothing but sweet-nothings today…..tidbits, art snacks, niceties….. Where the art fairies are...
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swooping back into the fire
Personally, I believe that my soul is a stick-in-the-mud, a wallflower that never ventures afield. Still, awakening seems to me to be an astonishing acrobatic feat. One moment I’m rocketing over the...
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the threshold of surrender
Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes that it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears……Thich Nhat Hanh some of our longest days are like night’s gifts of...
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sidling up to fear
There are a thousand ways our essential nature can be expressed in the world, infinite ways to hold and love the world. If you look at your life from within that sense of the quiet stillness you are,...
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sweet nothings to tuck away
There are things you can’t reach. But you can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of God. And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier. The snake...
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sweet rebellion
Be a novice. Be a blank page. Be embryonic in your sense of yourself. You are just learning the steps. You are just starting out. It is okay to be stupid or blind or to not have the answers. It is...
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crumpled little love notes
When you truly understand The Tao that cannot be named, you become rooted in not-knowing. This is called “inner radiance.” Add to it, it is never full; take from it, it is never depleted. Who can tell...
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how the moment drifts
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. ~Dr. Seuss slip. into. daydreams....
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anniversaries & meaning
When we respect the genius of marriage, we focus as much on its own creativity as on our intentions for the relationship. In getting married, we lay ourselves open to the influence of the genius, not...
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wrapping up in what is dear
Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even,...
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uncommon fascinations
I’m beginning to recognize that real happiness isn’t something large and looming on the horizon ahead but something small, numerous, and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent...
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to touch the simple, the sacred
There are 5 ways to enrich an experience: Lengthen it. Intensify it. Expand it. Freshen it. Value it. ~Rick Hanson when we notice, we pause, and when we pause, we breathe with more ease…. inquiry for...
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feeling into color
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place, and all things are affected by the change. We ourselves...
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to receive our stories
Myth is the experience of life. The mind has to do with meaning. What’s the meaning of a flower? There’s a Zen story about a sermon of the Buddha in which he simply lifted a flower. There was only one...
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valentine wish
You were youand I was I,we were two,before our time.I was yoursbefore I knew,and you have always been mine too.~Lang Leav why love is blatant, radical, and auspicious…. inquiry for today~ dive in...
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your passion
When we notice we are rigidly caught in our drama, we can try this practice in which we soften, or “melt back,” just like chocolate melts when heated.Briefly sense into your body. Do you notice any...
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awkward beauty
You are bigger than your wounds. Even though we all want to be happy, often we don’t know how. But happiness is your birthright. You are born radiant, a child of the earth, innocent, open, and filled...
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never forgetting awe
Character is simply habit long continued.~Plutarch seemingly uninterrupted madness…. inquiry for today~ and may you create your own lovely madness today… where the magic is acknowledging the goodyou...
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fire in the soul
No, you have no responsibility except to be yourself to the fullest limit of yourself. And to find out who you are. Or perhaps I should say to remember who you are. Because deep down in the secret...
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