By Debra Basham, on December 31, 2020 Deep Spring Center Thought for Today December 31, 2020
So often beings have a limited view of spiritual life that creates a duality in themselves, so that they only see themselves as ‘being spiritual’ when they’re being kind and loving.
When painful emotions arise, then they think, ‘I am no longer being spiritual. I […]
By Debra Basham, on December 18, 2020 This post begins with a reprint of a Sacred Story published December 23, 2017: “Husband’s Clothes:”
As she stood in line at the grocery store the man in front of her looked so much like her late husband it almost took her breath away. The same height, the same built, even a similar style of […]
By Debra Basham, on December 15, 2020 Deep Spring Center Thought for Today
If one never were to experience this dark night of the soul, one’s compassion really would be limited.
One may have a belief, ‘I can be compassionate with that which is light and beautiful and loving in myself and others’ but one has never tested it to see […]
By Debra Basham, on November 26, 2020 Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
WORD […]
By Debra Basham, on November 17, 2020 Deep Spring Center Thought for Today
When you stay in the relative reality box, you create the kind of fights with each other, ‘I’m right.’ ‘No, I’m right.’ ‘No, I’m right.’ You can’t hear each other. You become more and more polarized. And this of course is consonant with the lower stages of consciousness, […]
By Debra Basham, on November 7, 2020 At the end of our Zoom dominoes game last night I asked if anybody knew what was going on with the election results. John said, “Biden won.” I was shocked. Linda clarified that results have not yet been declared because of laws suits.
John’s first comment when I asked him if he was OK […]
By Debra Basham, on November 6, 2020 The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
Sitting in meditation recently I became the yin/yang symbol, flowing back and forth from a sense of form to knowing myself as nonform, experiencing a momentary flash of luminosity at the tipping point as the endless flow of black flowing […]
By Debra Basham, on November 5, 2020 Just when all the chips are down, the chins should be up.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
This morning I could feel a subtle pull to look at media, but everybody knows as soon as a winner of the Presidential election is resolved, that news will be widely known. So, why participate in any of […]
By Debra Basham, on November 1, 2020 We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
~ Simone Weil
Yesterday John did not mention my blog post, so I did not share it with him. I watched the choice points for stories to arise: he doesn’t really care; he still does not value what […]
By Debra Basham, on October 31, 2020 Denial and lies are almost an intrinsic part of an epidemic. ~ Nicholas A. Christakis
On the heels of the previously expressed idea that John and Debra (and you and yours!) truly are the macrocosm and microcosm, soon after my blog was posted yesterday morning I saw a post John made Tuesday on Facebook: […]
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