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Joel has been having ongoing challenges with his gmail account. I reached out to Rebecca, our wonderful webmaster, and she is on it. When he wrote saying, “I think I must have been cursed by the gods of the internet. What did I ever do to them….” I wrote back: “Well, bless the sea […] My sister and I are having a wonderful experience with the Magic Eye calendar for 2020. We meet via a video call on the first day of each month and we turn the page together. We love the sharing: looking; not seeing; relaxing; looking again; seeing. That is how the process works! September was a […] Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other. ~ Lewis Thomas I started having flies in the master bathroom. We pretty quickly figured out where they were getting in, but it took me a while to catch and release them all. […] The world is changed by your example, not your opinion. ~ Paul Coehlo As I was feeling befuddled by boredom, I happened upon a dharma talk by Kyoun Sokuzan. Sokuzan, a fully transmitted monk in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition, was speaking about meddling mind. Adyashanti (born Steven Gray in 1962), an American spiritual […] The farmer may only be planting a seed, but if he opens his eyes he is feeding the whole world. ~ Omaha Bee This opening quotation kicked off a precious story about a three-person construction crew who was approached by a man asking what each was doing. The first said he was working for pittance […] Twelve minutes late coming to join the Southern Circle Poets writing group, I have been transplanting some flowering things that have been blooming beautifully along the left edge of our driveway all summer. We are scheduled to have work begin tearing up the old concrete and blacktop, and putting in a continuous concrete driveway from […] In response to “When Everything Falls Apart, What Remains?” posting, I received a precious email message from a Florida writer-friend. Thank you, Paul, for igniting my heart by sharing your powerful writing of your poignant experience. (Soft edits only!) Welcome to the Yellow Brick Road, and please come again…. Dear Debra, […] I am technically practicing silence in a meditation retreat at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina. But I am attending via Zoom and my fingers are on the keyboard. The focus of this retreat with John Orr is When Everything Falls Apart, What Remains? This was John’s blurb about the retreat: […] Recently, I included some information about transformation from J. Krishnamurti in my clergy “Insight’s” article. Transformation is said to occur only when NONE of the following are present: desire to change the experience judgment analysis justification grasping selfing resisting believing that “I am witnessing” Since the coronavirus stay-safe-at-home order in March, […] Acceptance is the goal — acceptance and freedom to choose what we want and need to do to take care of ourselves with that person. We can become free of the patterns of the past. We are recovering. Progress is the goal. ~ The Language of Letting Go, Daily Meditations on […] |
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