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Jul 15

Congruence

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”― Alan Wilson Watts

“When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life.” – Toba Beta.

Pause
Explore
Inquire
Ask better questions
Beyond our tidy box of assumptions, opinions, judgments, ordering, comfort seeking, pining, worrying, way getting, certainty, knowing
Reordering, repurposing, reclaiming
The capacity for joy, gratitude, praise, dance, song, art, poetry, color, silliness, stillness, awe, wonder
Into the wide-open spacious lush field of imagination, ease, beauty, delight, laughter, fun
Playground of curiosity
Adventure woven into ordinary days
Rich, dense communion in and with the brilliance of life
Pause
Explore
Inquire
Symphony of this very day

“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”― Vincent Van Gogh

Jul 7

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No Gap in Presence

“Live slower, listen deeper and open your heart to the still, small voice that speaks in silence”― AshRawArt

“Have patience. Slow down.
Because the gap between
‘Where I am’
and
‘Where I want to be’
is full of possibility.
So don’t rush through it.
Take time.
Find the dignity in slowness.
Learn to love the gap.
Grace it with your presence.
It is bursting with life, and creativity,
and it holds unexpected treasures.
Have patience. Slow down.
Life is only Now.
Find rest in every step.
In presence, there is no gap.”
— Jeff Foster

In the slowing a…
Brightening
Deepening
Beauty
Lifting
Awe and Wonder reside here
Fullness and Abundance
Brilliance and Joy too
Accept and Receive
Open and Release
Ground in the Expanse and Mystery
Enter the river
Invitation to slow
Receiving and Embracing
Brimming and Overflowing
Baptize in Glory, Color, Grace, Peace
Bursting with life
Commune with Now.

“When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.”― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts

Dec 12

To Dash Against and For

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes to dash against darkness”
― E.E. Cummings, Poems, 1923-1954

“listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go”― E.E. Cummings

To see one thing new in an ordinary day
Maybe even two
Chest rising and falling
Crisp air in and out
Awe, wonder, delight
On the very ground you stand
In the sky above
Woven in a heart open wide
Not behind
Not ahead
At your feet
Steep in beauty, mystery, abundance
Of the present moment
Think again
Better yet, think less, love more.

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star…”― E.E. Cummings

Dec 3

Beauty Distilled

“How
Did the rose
Ever open its heart
And give to this world
All its
Beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light
Against its Being.
Otherwise,
We all remain
Too Frightened”― Hafez

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me.” Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”― Hafez

In the hurry
Doing
Performing
Over functioning
Busy
Pushing
Scarcity and never enough

In the opening
Being
Inviting
Allowing
Abiding
Reflection
Stillness
Abundance overflowing

Astonishing light
Fear dissipates
Beauty appears where it is rooted and blooms
Front and center
Fertile ground
The whole sky
Fresh eyes, soft heart, arms open.

“When all your desires are distilled
You will cast just two votes:
To love more,
And be happy.”― Hafez

Nov 4

Too High a Spirit

“Joy is the noblest human act. — St. Thomas Aquinas

“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day
in the year.
He is rich who owns the day,
and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded
with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day
and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities,
no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can,
tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely,
with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your
old nonsense.
This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

To look fear in the face
Stare it down
Never succumb to despair
Fight the good fight daily
To carry on vigorously and confidently
Rooted in love, kindness, generosity
Hopes and invitations aplenty
Extend and accept
Choose well
Cast light

“Love won’t be tampered with, love won’t go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”― Louise Erdrich

Nov 3

Till Deep, Tend Well

“Around us, life bursts forth with miracles—a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

“We seldom notice how each day is a holy place
Where the eucharist of the ordinary happens,
Transforming our broken fragments
Into an eternal continuity that keeps us.
Somewhere in us a dignity presides
That is more gracious than the smallness
That fuels us with fear and force,
A dignity that trusts the form a day takes.
So at the end of this day, we give thanks
For being betrothed to the unknown
And for the secret work
Through which the mind of the day
And wisdom of the soul become one.” – John O’Donohue

May noticing take your hand today
Walk with you on sacred ground of the present
Deepening awe
Inviting delight
Releasing wonder
No where else but on the fertile soil where you stand
Where wisdom is rooted, breaking ground
Awaiting your attention and tending.
Till and tend.

“Our thoughts create our reality – where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.” – Peter McWilliams

Oct 22

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Drops to Ocean

“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”― Ralph H. Blum

“May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique, that you have a special destiny here, that behind the facade of your life there is something beautiful, good, and eternal happening. May you learn to see yourself with the same delight, pride, and expectation with which God sees you in every moment.” – John O’Donohue

Beneath the façade
The noise
The pursuit
The busy
The rush
A current
A rhythm
A calm
Ebb and flow
Quiet joy rising to the surface of each day
From inches to horizon
Drops to ocean

“Maybe we give up so we can more fully receive. Maybe we give up so we receive something better than what our small minds had wanted.”― Heather Lanier, Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

Oct 7

Daily Blooming

“We are sent into the world to live to the full everything that awakens within us and everything that comes toward us.”― John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“We put terrible pressure on our minds. When we tighten them or harden our views or beliefs, we lose all the softness and flexibility that makes for real shelter, belonging, and protection. Sometimes the best way of caring for your soul is to make flexible again some of the views that harden and crystalize your mind; for these alienate you from your own depth and beauty.”― John O’Donohue

Release the valve.
Judgment, assumptions, opinions, righteousness, othering, walls, bunkers, scarcity.
Open the windows, doors too.
Let fresh air in, deep full breath.
Yield.
Kindness, gentleness, ease, generosity, joy, beauty, light, compassion, abundance, love.
Soft, malleable, flexible, bendable, inviting, unknowing, welcoming, awake, attentive, curious, belonging.
Daily blooming, graced with love, deepest tranquilities.

“TO COME HOME TO YOURSELF May all that is unforgiven in you Be released. May your fears yield Their deepest tranquilities. May all that is unlived in you Blossom into a future Graced with love.”― John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

Aug 23

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Sky Galleries

“When life feels too big to handle, go outside. Everything looks smaller when you’re standing under the sky.”― L.R. Knost

“I hope you gaze at cloud art galleries
against azure summer skies
and pause to gasp at rainbows
and watch butterflies fly by;
I hope wildflowers make you happy
and sad songs make you cry
and old books stacked in dusty nooks
are gems you can’t pass by;
I hope burnt toast mornings
are little things
you handle with a smile
and midnight talks and starlit walks
keep you up once in awhile;
I hope laundry warm from the dryer
brings a sigh of contentment
and front porch swings on cool evenings
offer rest when you are spent;
I hope your life is light in sorrow
and heavy with laughter
and you greet each season of your life
like a new favorite chapter;
I hope you honor every soul you meet
and always go that extra mile
and when you think of me, my love,
I hope it’s with a smile.”
― L.R. Knost

Hope.
Wonder.
Awe.
Joy.
Gratitude.
Big sky.
Heavy sigh.
Pause to see it.
Settle to let peace in.
Go out and share it with the world.
Naïve, childlike, simple, optimistic.
Yep.
And I’ll take it every time over despair, fear, scarcity, chaos.
Cast light.

“Patience is an inner pause, a brief stillness, a moment we give ourselves to breathe through our initial reaction so we can move to the place where a calm, thoughtful response is born. Patience is a gift of time we give ourselves so we can give the gift of peace to others.”― L.R. Knost

Aug 8

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Duties of the Present

“The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation.”― Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence

“When you show people a picture of a circle with a small wedge cut out of it, their eyes first go to the missing piece every time. There is so much more to who we were and who we are than just the missing piece.”― Steve Leder, The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift

Beneath the surface.
Above the clouds.
Wide and broad.
Deep and thick.
More than we know.
Beauty without and within.
To witness and partake.
The duties of the present moment.

“The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.” – Rumi

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