Jane Goodall, the primatologist known for her research on chimpanzees talks about how her spirituality grew while spending time alone in nature, the limits of science and her mother’s role in developing her beliefs. ( poem and a video clip both) … [click on title for the rest of the post]
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God ... … [click on title for the rest of the post]
Your brightness is my darkness. I know nothing of You and, by myself, I cannot even imagine how to go about knowing You. If I imagine You, I am mistaken. If I understand You, I am deluded.... … [click on title to read more]
Free class on Rumi. Andrew Harvey is a delightful teacher I highly recommend. I will definitely be on the call when it's happening. rumi In this special call event, one of the world’s most respected and passionate Rumi scholars reveals the sacred significance of Rumi’s life and work, illuminating why his poems are penetrating the heart of the world as never before.... ...Although based in rigorous scholarship, this evening event will ultimately be a poetic activation of the sacred heart that illuminates your own spiritual transformation by showing what we all can learn from the words of a great seer and lover of life from eight centuries ago... ...Even if you are not able to attend live, do register so you can get access to the recording. And help us spread the word to Rumi lovers everywhere about this special online event. [click on title to read more]
The Thing Is to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills... Continue Reading →
Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? … [click on title for the rest of the post]
My friend Yan Zhitui of BeingsAkin sent me this poem by Charles Bukowski since I just lost my Jezebel. I, like Charles below, found that my kitty remained in my heart and woke up the day after she died to a sense of peace and joy knowing she was still with me...life unfolds it's mysteries... Continue Reading →
at the moment your thoughts arise as trouble remember that Mother Compassion, Naked Awareness, is taking care — you are such Awareness alone, so just relax in your Self … [click on title for the rest of the post]
Ah Sunflower, William Blake, read by Allen Ginsberg Ah Sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun; Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the Youth pined away with desire, And the pale virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my Sunflower wishes to go. … [click on title to read the rest]
A favorite poem with one of my favorite lines of all time -- I'm sharing again: from Song of Myself: by Walt Whitman All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. Having pried through the strata, analysed to a hair, Counselled with doctors and... Continue Reading →
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