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“... This story invites us to honor each obstacle as something flowing in its own right in the Universal stream, to see ourselves and the obstacle as two limbs of the same tree drifting in the same river, bumping into each other, and even blocking one another for a moment. Looking at obstacles this way,... Continue Reading →
" An old man in Calcutta would walk to get water from a well every day. He'd carry a clay pot and lower it by hand slowly, all the way down, careful not the let it hit the sides of the well and break. Once it was full, he'd raise the pot slowly and carefully... Continue Reading →
"Breathing in, I know I am breathing in.Breathing out, I smile.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus Such simple instructions, so hard to follow. The bar, I would like to remind you, need not be so high. In meditation, certainly, but it's never just about meditation... Click here for just a few things... Continue Reading →
“… imagine the human family as a stand of aspens growing by a river. Though each tree appears to be growing independently, not attached to the others, beneath the soil, out of view, the roots of all the trees exist as one enormous root. And so, like these trees, our soul’s growth, while appearing to... Continue Reading →
“Become what you already are.”~ St. Gregory of Sinai “To change radically means waking up to reality as it really is, not as we presume it is.”~ The Monks of New Skete, In the Spirit of Happiness No one tells the seed to change. No one would call him incomplete, lazy, disappointing. He just is.... Continue Reading →
“I had to remember about open, blind, knowing, unreserved, unambiguous, unconditional love–naked love–before any of it could make sense again. I had to find it in the many places it hid, drag it out in the open and wrap it all around me, wear it around the house, feel its imprint on my skin, weave... Continue Reading →
“We are stars wrapped in skin. The light you are seeking has always been within.”~ Rumi We seek. We desire. We look, always outside of ourselves, when inside is everything, inside is all. In, in, in our deepest places, this is where God resides, in, in, in. So why do we hunt, ravenous, out there? ... Continue Reading →
Photo credit: Conserve Kid's premature CS20 ending (derailed by a little pandemic) “The goldsaddle goatfish is a beautiful golden fish–similar in size and behavior to a red mullet–vulnerable to numerous larger predators, including humans, within the waters around Hawaii. Divers around the region have recently begun to notice a striking and much larger fish, of... Continue Reading →
“... Vedic philosophers in India… welcomed the erasure of the individual self and its fusion with the universal. They rejected the Greek dualism between the body and the soul–and, indeed, between the individual body and the cosmic soul. They termed the self atman… The universal, multitudinous self, in contrast, was the Brahman. For these philosophers,... Continue Reading →
A note from the birds... “... it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. I beg of you, do not walk by without pausing to attend to this rather ridiculous performance.It could mean something. It could mean everything. It could be what Rilke meant, when he... Continue Reading →
“There is a story I live by, which I have been telling my Sunday school kids for thirty years now, and which they never tire of, or least have the good sense to still pretend to enjoy if they have any hope of getting snacks. A young girl is having a hard time falling asleep... Continue Reading →
“A Rabbi asks his students, “How do you know the first moment of dawn has arrived?” After a great silence, one pipes up, “When you can tell the difference between a sheep and a dog.” The Rabbi shakes his head no. Another offers, “When you can tell the difference between a fig tree and an... Continue Reading →
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Tales From the Nexus 