Transcending polarity; that balance between extremes…

Before you speak of peace, you must first have it in your heart. —Francis of Assisi

“...Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.”

-Barbara Brown Taylor

“....we are not on our own. There are countless women hearing the call, extending their hands, blessing and strengthening us...the alchemy happens in a circle. We need to weave together our threads of care and transfigure this tapestry...look around. Your allies are everywhere. And they love you.”

-Mirabai Starr

You can always begin again.

“True union . . . doesn’t turn its respective participants into a blob, a drop dissolving into the ocean. Rather, it presses them mightily to become more and more themselves: to discover, trust, and fully inhabit their own depths. As these depths open, so does their capacity to love, to give-and-receive of themselves. . ..love is not well served by collapsing into one another. It is better served by standing one’s own ground within a flexible unity so that more, deeper, richer facets of personhood can glow forth in “a paroxysm of harmonised complexity.”  - Cynthia Bourgault of CAC

…just whispering some coconut prayers to get me to an island already…

“Without grace and forgiveness, everything human devolves into smallness, hurt, victim hood, and blame. When you stop all weighing and measuring, you are finally in the infinite Ocean of Grace.”

-Richard Rohr .

“I was drawn to every single flavor of spirit food”- -Mirabai Starr

(Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone beyond the beyond)

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(Prajnaparamita)

A Feeling

“mercy within mercy within mercy” - Thomas Merton

“The Soul is much more spacious, constant, and settled than your thoughts and feelings can ever be.”

-Richard Rohr

“Abundance is a state of mind”
- Tsabary
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“…climbing stairs made of water to a doorway of light….”

“The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.”

“We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart…"

Zing/Zeal

“What's the most loving thing I can do right now for myself,

for my body,

for my mind,

for the gift of my life?

What's the most loving thing I can do for this person,

for this community of people, for this animal, for the earth?”

“Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our teacup talk of God. 
If you had the courage and
Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights,
He would just drag you around the room
By your hair,
Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world
That bring you no joy. 
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of truth
That make you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others, 
Causing the world to weep
On too many fine days. 
God wants to manhandle us,
Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself
And practice His dropkick. 
The Beloved sometimes wants
To do us a great favor: 
Hold us upside down
And shake all the nonsense out. 
But when we hear
He is in such a “playful drunken mood”
Most everyone I know
Quickly packs their bags and hightails it
Out of town.”

“The rhythms of the day by day are the rhythms of love given to us as this inherently sacred nature of life itself.” ...Just as so many of the mystics have taught, doing what you’re doing

with care,

presence,

and intention

is a form of prayer, the very way to transformation and wholeness.

There is no trick, no magic formula to becoming one with Reality.

There is only living and, as you know, this is much harder than it first seems.

-RichardRohr

"... The life of faith is learning how to rest in an Ultimate Love and how to draw upon an Infinite Source. On a very practical level, you will then be able to trust that you are being held and guided. In fact, you can trust after a while that almost everything is a kind of guidance.

When you doubt the possibility of guidance, you’ve just stopped the flow. But if you stay on the path of allowing and trusting, the Spirit in you will allow you to confidently surrender: 

There’s a reason for this. The Divine is in this, too.... 

...what first comes to your heart and soul must be a yes instead of a no, trust instead of resistance. When you can lead with yes and allow yourself to see the Divine in all moments, you’ll recognize that nothing is ever wasted."

(Working on Shenpa)

“The six months polar night when the sun never rises”

"...this life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many others I know who seem to need explanations for everything."

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"It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight."
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"...There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.

The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.

And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.

And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words. In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence."

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