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Archive for March, 2011

Hiatus

Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2011 | 12 Comments »

Simply Blessed is on an indefinite hiatus.  Enjoy the over 600 posts still available here — every post a stepping stone on an increasingly personal path that’s been building for nearly four years.  The path ahead is yet to unfold and I feel compelled to let that unfolding happen privately.  Thank you to everyone I’ve [...]

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Song to the Siren

Posted in Life, Poetry, tagged , , on March 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

  This is dedicated to the many who have suffered as a result of the devastation in Japan.  Yes, indeed, we were here when you were “full sail”.  And though, we may not know you personally, you touched us all.     On the floating shipless oceans I did all my best to smile ‘Til [...]

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Desire

Posted in elizabeth adams, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged on March 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Image locale       grief came courting me during the night her fields so soft and fragile I buried myself in the whole of her unbroken darkness until a tiny beacon of light cut through the night: sorrow has its inner light, murmured the new day in the arc of stillness, it burns away [...]

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By the Seashore

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Metaphysical, Spirituality, tagged on March 20, 2011 | 6 Comments »

I took a short little jaunt, this past week, in search of the sun.  The moment I got off the plane I thought: what are you doing here, Bethie?  You left your whole family at home just to catch some sun rays.  Guilt.  Now the question was, would I fully succumb to guilt taking the [...]

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The Island

Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged on March 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Artist: Freydoon Rassouli   The Island   Islands of bliss and everlasting youth, Floating like flowers on an endless sea And never touched by sorrows from this world: Such happy islands thou wilt never see. Behold: what thou hast dreamt of may be real, It is not elsewhere, it is what thou art If thou [...]

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Signs of Spring

Posted in elizabeth adams, Happiness, Inspiration, Life, tagged , , on March 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The earth is my new employer.  My job now is to look for the signs of Spring. And no, I’m not going to tell you that it’s a tough job but somebody’s gotta do it. I’ve been asked just to notice and this is what I observed: here the green grass awake from its dormancy [...]

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The Wise Heart

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Metaphysical, Mindfulness, Spirituality, tagged , , , on March 3, 2011 | 7 Comments »

“Non-identification … stop taking the experience as me or mine  We inquire of every state or experience: is this who I really am?  We see the tentativeness of this identity, then we are free to let go and rest in awareness itself.  This is what Buddhist psychologists call the abode of awakening, the end of [...]

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Unstained

Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Mindfulness, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged , , on March 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »

A dash of rain upon The lotus leaves. But the leaves Remain unmarked, no matter How hard the raindrops beat. Mind, be like the lotus leaves, Unstained by the world. ~Chong Ch’ol~ Music of the Sky An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry Yes, mind be like the lotus leaves, untainted by outer events.  As in the [...]

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