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Giving thanks for what we have in our lives is like a pause when eating. It allows us to feel full, to register on the emotional and spiritual level that we have, in fact been given "enough."
~M.J. Ryan
We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.
~Edgar Mitchell, Apollo Astronaut
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May your body be blessed.
May you realize that your body is a faithful and beautiful friend of your soul.
And may you be peaceful and joyful and recognize that your senses are sacred thresholds.
May you realize that holiness is mindful, gazing, feeling, hearing, and touching.
May your senses gather you and bring you home.
May your senses always enable you to celebrate the universe and the mystery
and possibilities in your presence here.
May the Eros of the Earth bless you.
From Anam Cara
A Book of Celtic Wisdom
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As more people achieve some degree of mental calm, insight, or the ability to transform negative emotions into positive ones, there will be a natural reinforcement of basic human values and consequently a great chance for peace and happiness for all.
~H.H. The Dalai Lama
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I sing from my heart to a friend
and there I am, the friend!
I feel shy
with my own loving bouncing back at me.
Sweetness circling
around and around, endless...
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I swear my dear one no one in the entire world
is as precious as you are
look at that mirror
take a good look at yourself
who else is there
above and beyond you
now give yourself a kiss
and with sweet whispers fill your ears to the brim
watch for all that beauty reflecting from
you and sing a love song to your existence
you can never overdo praising your own soul you
can never over-pamper your heart
you are both the father and the son the sugar and the
sugar cane
who else but you please tell me
who else can ever take your place
now give yourself a smile
what is the worth of a diamond
if it doesn't smile
how can i ever put a price on
the diamond that you are
you are the entire
treasure of the house
you and your shadow are
forever present in this world
you're that glorious bird of paradise
~RUMI
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The hardest part is people.
So Lord, help me face them
without rancor or disappointment.
Help me see the pain behind their actions
rather than the malice,
the suffering rather than the rage.
And in myself, as I struggle
with the vise of my own desire --
give me strength to quiet my heart,
to quicken my empathy, to act
in gratitude rther than need.
Remind me that the peace I find
in the slow track of seasons
or an uncurling fern frond,
is married to the despair I feel
in the face of nuclear war.
Remind me that each small bird shares atoms
with anthrax, with tetanus, with acid rain,
that each time I close my heart
to another, I add to the darkness.
Help me always follow kindness.
Let this be my prayer.
Karen Holden, Poet and Teacher
Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Arizona
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Be a Lamp Unto Your Self ~
Be your own confidence ~
Hold to the truth within yourself
As to the only lamp.
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Bartu *
Dear One *
Shekinah *
Holy Name **
When I call the light of my soul,
I come home.
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Loving-kindness is the first of a series of meditations that produce four qualities of love:
Friendliness (metta), Compassion (karuna), Appreciative Joy (mudita) and Equanimity (upekkha).
The quality of
'friendliness' is expressed as warmth that reaches out and embraces others. When loving-kindness practice matures
it naturally overflows into compassion, as one empathises with other people's difficulties; on the other hand one
needs to be wary of pity, as its near enemy, as it merely mimics the quality of concern without empathy. The
positive expression of empathy is an appreciation of other people's good qualities or good fortune, or appreciative
joy, rather than feelings of jealousy towards them. This series of meditations comes to maturity as 'on-looking
equanimity'. This 'engaged equanimity' must be cultivated within the context of this series of meditations, or there is
a risk of it manifesting as its near enemy, indifference or aloofness. So, ultimately you remain kindly disposed and
caring toward everybody with an equal spread of loving feelings and acceptance in all situations and relationships.
How to do it . . .
The practice always begins with developing a loving acceptance of yourself.
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