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Archive for August, 2009

“This being human is a guest house.  Every morning a new arrival.  A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor…” excerpt from the Guest House by Rumi Such a beautiful expression Rumi makes here.  What if we treated everything that we experienced as a welcome guest?  What if we [...]

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It is possible that God says every morning, ‘Do it again’ to the sun; and every evening, ‘Do it again’ to the moon. ~G. K. Chesterton And who was it who said: either everything is a miracle or nothing at all is?  I favor everything is a miracle.  What if we approached everything with that [...]

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Image Locale This week a wise teacher reminded me of the old adage: all roads lead to Rome. I remember that at one time all roads did lead to Rome.  But why do we still say this today and what does it mean about life and the living of it? I believe it reveals that [...]

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Image Locale Fear is that place of disconnection where you decide to tough it out all on your own. But peeking around the door, is that Inner Being of yours. Saying come dear one, I’m here with you. Here I am. I’m always here. I am Love. When you are afraid, you don’t know me. [...]

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Heart Songs

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart … Pursue those. ~Anonymous~ What catches your heart today? What if you did something every day which catches your heart and makes your heart sing? What if you set aside time for just that every day? [...]

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  A few weeks ago one of our cats, Angel, transitioned.  Then last week another one of our cats, Muffy, was missing.  I was upset, angry really, I was not going to lose two cats a few weeks apart.  And I was jumping to all sorts of conclusions about what had happened to him.  In [...]

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So this is it.  You missed the memo somehow.  The one that came with that elusive owner’s manual for This Being Human.  And now it seems there was a quota of thoughts you were given.  You are down to your last thought.  What shall it be? Stop for a moment and take a deep breath [...]

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Learn to be present. Practice hearing the voices in your head without becoming involved and without judgment. And take it on faith that any voice, internal or external, that is telling you that SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU is not the voice of your Heart, God, True Nature. The reason acceptance isn’t more popular is [...]

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by the river Wilia, 1999 Convictions, beliefs, opinions, certainties, principles, rules and habits have abandoned me. I woke up naked at the edge of a civilization which seemed to me comic and incomprehensible. The vaulted halls of the post-Jesuit academy where I had taken my classes would not have been pleased with me. Though I [...]

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Let me fall. I first heard and sang this song at the Church of Religious Science in Dallas. I am told it originally was written for Cirque du Soleil and later made famous by Josh Groban. My favorite line is: there is a moment when fear and dreams must collide. We have all had those [...]

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