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I Am Made of You

By Debra Basham, on February 22, 2024

It is this disinterested but completely allowing contemplation of the body in the world that the body loses its ‘me-ness’ and the world loses its ‘not-me-ness.’ In this way bodily sensations no longer cry out ‘I am separate, I am exclusively you” and perceptions of the world no longer cry out, ‘I am separate, […]

A Beautiful World Within

By Debra Basham, on June 17, 2023

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within. ~ Ruby Dee

Last evening I went to a drumming at the home of some long-time friends. One of the other drummers was also a blast from my past. But, the delight of my heart was a young man […]

Hip Hip Hooray!

By Debra Basham, on November 4, 2021

“Just because we are afraid doesn’t mean anything is wrong. Doesn’t mean a mistake is being made. Doesn’t even mean, necessarily, we’re in danger.”

~ Adyashanti, “Letting Go of Fear” from In the Face of the Infinite

It is 6:21 am and I am sitting with an ice pack on my left hip writing […]

Need to Do

By Debra Basham, on October 28, 2020

You must cherish one another. You must work — we all must work — to make this world worthy of its children.

~ Pablo Casals

Is this opening quotation, as it is written, true? Less and less I am concerned with being a doer, as more and more I am aware of the importance of […]

Possessed of the Knowledge of Truth

By Debra Basham, on October 26, 2020

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Today’s blog was inspired by last evening’s question from a dear friend who is also a faithful reader of Yellow Brick Road. “Related […]

I am Made of You

By Debra Basham, on October 25, 2020

You do live in a physical world, but there is nothing about your physical world that is not spirit-based. There is nothing about your physical world that is not Source-based.

~ Abraham Hicks

October 2019 I started reading books about non-duality by Rupert Spira. Yesterday the same friend who introduced me to Spira’s writing last […]

The Substance of All Things

By Debra Basham, on March 6, 2019

Art is remembrance. It is love. It is like a sword that distinguishes between appearance and reality. ~ Rupert Spira

I have been wondering just what it is that allows some people to find joy or see beauty or create art where it might have been missed by another.

Musing is jogged by such mundane […]

It is Never About the Hat

By Debra Basham, on December 1, 2018

I am so blessed to have beautiful, soulful, women friends. I had lunch with one, Jane Foster, on Friday. Especially after all these years, hearing Jane share her story still touches me. (See Jane Foster’s Story)

Jane was telling me about a custom hat she is having made by a woman out west. The woman’s […]

It Is Only Mud!

By Debra Basham, on November 19, 2018

I was going to stop at a nearby apple stand on the way to my doctor’s appointment, but was a wee bit tight on time. Thanksgiving would be missing something without my mom’s Dutch apple pie. It is my contribution to bring Michigan apples to Tennessee for the pies.

I had just loaded my precious […]

Upekka

By Debra Basham, on November 3, 2018

You have heard it said to be careful what you pray for. This past Tuesday evening, as our Dharma “Path of Clear Light” class was coming to an end, I asked for specific instructions around the practice of Upekka. Upekka is the Buddhist practice of equanimity.

John Orr’s clarification of the Upekka practice, […]

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