Posted November 2, 2023 in Sacred Stories

Kyle Texas

Thanks in large part to Zoom technology, our spiritual community now stretches across the globe. When one of our friends, who lives in Texas, let me know her mother had just pasted about an hour earlier, I quickly sent an email message out to the other members with that news. People would want to offer […]

Posted October 12, 2020 in Sacred Stories

1:30 pm

Sacred Stories

She used her “walking meditation” time to enjoy a bike ride. Summer was gone now, and winter was closer day-by-day.

Today was beautiful, and she was debating taking a longer ride — soooo welcome after seven long days of sitting meditation. She could use the time set aside for lunch/rest […]

Posted July 1, 2020 in Sacred Stories

Trees!

Sacred Stories

She sent a tree emoji in a text message to a friend, including one with the yoga tree pose.

A little later during a gathering via Zoom, several people expressed how trees help them get or stay grounded and centered. Late arriving to the group, one woman explained that she […]

Posted April 27, 2020 in Sacred Stories

Closed Captioning

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of… We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart. ~ Blaise Pascal

The student was on a sailboat in a very remote location on the coast of the Baja Peninsula in Mexico.

The teacher—who is deaf—was […]

Posted April 26, 2020 in Sacred Stories

Aaron

Sacred Stories

She was hosting a ZOOM workshop, listening to one of the teacher’s closing instructions.

The face of the teacher was “spotlighted.” The teacher’s face was the large image, filling her entire screen.

Her mic was off, and she was recording the audio using “voice memo” on her iPhone.

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