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“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 →
“The ego wants resolution, wants to control impermanence, wants something secure and certain to hold onto. It freezes what is actually fluid, it grasps at what is in motion, it tries to escape the beautiful truth of the fully alive nature of everything.”~ Pema Chödrön, Welcoming the Unwelcome May we taste today the dance of... 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 →
"That you would gather yourselfAnd decide carefullyHow you now can liveThe life you would loveTo look back onFrom your deathbed." ~ John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us Who would you be, today, if deathbed you could choose? What would you do, today, if waning you made the call?What tiny action, taken today, will... Continue Reading →
“You don’t need to know the future to be hopeful. You just need to embrace the concept of possibility. To accept that the unknowability of the future is the key, and that there are versions of that future that are brighter and fairer than this one. The future is open.” ~ Matt Haig, The Comfort... Continue Reading →
"When you allow yourself to be led into awe and wonder, when you find yourself in an aha! Moment and you savor it consciously (remember that joy and happiness take a minimum of fifteen conscious seconds to imprint on your neurons), then you can have a genuinely new experience; otherwise, you will fit everything back... Continue Reading →
"Experience one beautiful thing a day. However small. However trivial. Read a poem. Play a favorite song. Laugh with a friend. Gaze at the sky just before the sun's final tumble toward the night. Watch a classic movie. Eat a slice of lemon drizzle cake. Whatever. Just give yourself one simple reminder that the world... Continue Reading →
Tales From the Nexus 