This is an excerpt of the text of The Tao Te Ching I studied in college. This exact translation, in fact, and though I’ve been told by many it lacks scholarliness, I’ve always liked it. Perhaps because it is what I started out with. I also met the translator, Stephen Mitchell once when he spoke… Continue Reading →
This is a text I studied in college. This exact translation, in fact, and though I’ve been told by many it lacks scholarliness, I’ve always liked it. Perhaps because it is what I started out with. I also met the translator, Stephen Mitchell once when he spoke to our class and afterward he invited any… Continue Reading →
Things are always changing when we’re healing…
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.“— Rumi If you never assume importance, you never lose it. -Tao Te Ching Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. – Aldous Huxley Smooth… Continue Reading →
This is a text of The Tao Te Ching I studied in college. This exact translation, in fact, and though I’ve been told by many it lacks scholarliness, I’ve always liked it. Perhaps because it is what I started out with. I also met the translator, Stephen Mitchell once when he spoke to our class… Continue Reading →
Soulwork is not a high road. It’s a deep fall into an unforgiving darkness that won’t let you go until you find the song that sings you home. – McCall Erickson
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Love humbles by creating deep gratitude for a lesson learned and allows us to feel vulnerable and thus allows humility. Humiliation is cruel and tends to build pride in reactivity rather than humility.
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my environment is my therapist…that includes all of nature, the man made world and all creatures great and small. when one pays attention to the context in which one finds oneself in, all that is needed to understand is right here, right now. Be. Do, don’t do. Watch.
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Again, below I share random musings from the last few weeks with links to the archives for further consideration or contemplation.
The concept of non-doing has been a big part of my practice lately. It’s a way to always have exactly as much energy as we need. It is what happens when we find ourselves living in synch with nature. Paying attention in mindfulness helps one get a sense of this being a profound living reality of which we need only become aware. . … [click on title to read more]
If there is to be peace in the world, there must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, there must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, there must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors,… Continue Reading →
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