Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for November, 2009

image locale Recently someone I consider to be a wise teacher in my life, Philip Golabuk, stated that we are too much with the world and not enough with the self.  I pondered what was the meaning of this statement.  What does it really mean? I’ve come to see it means I am too much [...]

Read Full Post »

image locale All God wants of man is a peaceful heart. Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Every creature is a word of God. God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk. He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. Grace [...]

Read Full Post »

Just for a moment… Be still and know that I am God Be still and know that I am Peace right along side any state of war Be still and know that I am Joy even amidst your sorrow Be still and know that I am Faith in between the spaces of your doubt Be [...]

Read Full Post »

image location It does not astonish or make us angry that it takes a whole year to bring into the house three great white peonies and two pale blue iris.  It seems altogether right and appropriate that these glories are earned with long patience and faith. . . . and also that it is altogether [...]

Read Full Post »

Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it’s not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes An extraordinary chance to remember [...]

Read Full Post »

a blustery autumn day today the last of the maples the cherries and the stately alders releasing their leaves they compel me to set free the old that hangs on in favor of what newness may blossom from my limbs ©heartsdeesire

Read Full Post »

image locale And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We [...]

Read Full Post »

The greatest trick and most subtle secret to doing anything really, really well, is loving that you get to do it at all. And I’m pleased to say, you get to – The Universe I am loving this quote that popped up in my inbox this morning from none other than the Universe at www.tut.com [...]

Read Full Post »

Sophie’s Choice, as some of you may remember was an American film from the early 80s.  Since then the term “Sophie’s Choice” has come to symbolize a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” standard of choice.  It’s really the no-choice.  As in the movie, Sophie must make the choice between her son living [...]

Read Full Post »

Image Locale This world is full of miracles. They stand in shining silence next to every dream of pain and suffering. They are the dream’s alternative, the choice to be the dreamer, rather than deny the active role in making up the dream. The body is released because the mind acknowledges ‘this is not done [...]

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 128 other followers