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Image Locale Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.  An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. Thanks are the highest form of thought.  Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. …we are made [...]

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Image by Beth! It was April Fool’s Day and the Universe was having its way with me.  I was seated at my desk, when I was startled by a noise to my left.  It was my cat, the littlest of my cats, maybe a 5 pounder.  She was on the window screen, spread eagle, holding [...]

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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 [...]

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{“Surrendering” by Freydoon Rassouli} “You cannot wake yourself. You can let yourself be awakened.” ~A Course in Miracles I like the emphasis here on letting.  Not forcing but allowing. And then an interesting synonym for “let” is: sit still for.  This is to suggest that to let something come about requires no action on our [...]

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Easter Miracle

As your resident purveyor of feel good news on the planet :) – I found this today: By Chris Umpierre, The (Fort Myers, Fla.) News-Press FORT MYERS, Fla. — A tragedy thankfully didn’t turn into a disaster Sunday when a passenger successfully landed a small airplane at Southwest Florida International Airport after the pilot had [...]

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Miracle

Listen! Do you hear it? I do. I can feel it. I expect a miracle is coming. It has set loose this restlessness inside of me. Expect it. Dream about it. Give birth to it in your being. Know! Something good is coming down the line. Finding its way to you like all things find [...]

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1. See the inner nobility and beauty of all human beings. 2. Compassion is our deepest nature. It arises from our interconnection with all things. 3. When we shift attention from experience to the spacious consciousness that knows, wisdom arises. 4. Recognize the mental states that fill consciousness. Shift from unhealthy states to healthy ones. [...]

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I have often heard it said: take time to smell the roses.  Take time is an interesting phrase, isn’t it?  As if we could take it, steal it, lose it or the many other things we associate with “time”. And actually I digress because what I really want to talk about is not the roses [...]

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Today

The ordinary miracles begin. Somewhere a signal arrives: “Now,” and the rays come down. A tomorrow has come. Open your hands, lift them: morning rings all the doorbells; porches are cells for prayer. Religion has touched your throat. Not the same now, you could close your eyes and go on full of light. And it [...]

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Why wonder about the loaves and the fishes? If you say the right words, the wine expands. If you say them with love and the felt ferocity of that love and the felt necessity of that love, the fish explode into the many. Imagine him, speaking, and don’t worry about what is reality, or what [...]

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