Inspirational…

"...When you want to enter a different aspect of Life, you wait for the point at which Particle becomes Wave.  And just at that split second before the Particle is gone and the Wave takes over, you enter between, and you become Energy. At that point where the wave becomes Particle again, you enter between and you re-become who you were or you make a different choice. Which is also possible. I think it is that space in which healing occurs."

Paula Underwood Spensor, Oneida Tradition.

WALKING

My foot rises. Before it falls

there is a tiny moment when

neither of my feet are really carrying weight –

a suspension, a moment of physical trust.

Something in me knows

that the ground will still be there.

Let me return to this innate knowledge –

this ancient confidence.

The floor in this house is wood…

wide, old boards.

When I walk I am walking on the wood and in the woods.

I am walking on the life of these trees.

They have been cut and planed…

offered up for this sheltering. 

Let me remember to offer myself

to be shelter for something in Your word.

My foot falls. The ground rises up to meet it.

A holy, ordinary moment is repeating itself.

All the time I am meeting

and being met like this.

Your whole creation is ground.

Help me to remember that in this mutuality

we can become home for each other.

You are asking us slowly to become

Your holy site.

--Being Home, A Book of Meditations, by Gunilla Norris

Walker, there is no path

You make the path as you walk.

-Antonio Machado

LOST  

Stand Still.  The trees ahead and the bushes beside you are not lost. 

Wherever you are is called Here,

And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,

You must ask permission to know it and be known.

Listen.  The forest breathes.  It whispers,

I have made this place around you.

If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.

No two trees are the same to Raven

No two branches are the same to Wren

If what a tree or a bush does it lost on you,

You are surely lost.

Stand Still.  The forest knows where you are.

You must let it find you.

--David Wagoner—

“Who Shall beThe Sun?”

Two Wolves

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes
on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 "wolves" inside us all.

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed,
arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride,
superiority, and ego.

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility,
kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his
grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

--Author Unknown

“So far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain.   And so far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”   - Albert Einstein

“It is difficult to get the news from poems.  Yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”  - Wm. Carlos Williams

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“Love is our business.  Without Love we are out of business.”  - Sloan Coffin

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“In pursuit of knowledge, everyday something is acquired.  In pursuit of wisdom, everyday something is dropped.” - Lao Tzu

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“Seeing connections doesn't happen as a result of trying -- it simply comes out of the stillness.”  - Jon Kabat-Zin

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“Discernment is the process of letting go of what we are not.”

 - Father Thomas Keating

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“The pulse (of the heart) begins when the baby is about twenty days old.  No one knows quite why it happens then.  The pulse continues, on average, for about two billion pulses…Mayflies to mastodons, beetles to bison, prophets to poets, infants to those who commit infanticide, all are issued the same number of pulses to do with what they will.  ‘Tell me’ asks the great quiet American poet Mary Oliver, ‘what is it you plan to do with your one wild and previous life?’”

-from The Wet Engine, Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart by Brian Doyle