At the start of this pandemic I heard, for the first time, the song of the video above, “I love me” by Meghan Trainor and Lunch Money Lewis. I fell hard for this song. It became THE song that I blasted in the kitchen and danced to every morning. I am still not sick of …
We remember our wholeness so readily because we don’t have far to look for it. It is always within us, usually as a vague feeling or memory left over from when we were children. But it is a deeply familiar memory, one you recognize immediately as soon as you feel it again, like coming home …
V’ahavta by Aurora Levins Morales Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up, when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning and in times of joy. Inscribe them on your doorposts, embroider them on your garments, tattoo them on your shoulders, teach them to your children, your …
Does it pass the You Shall Love filter? Yes or No? Read More »
The problem with seeing the regular way… is that sight naturally prefers outer appearances. It attends to the surface of things, which makes it an essentially superficial sense. We let our eyes skid over trees, furniture, traffic, faces, too often mistaking sight for perception. Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark The Meditation …
When the unconscious is not made conscious it is perceived as fate. Carl Jung When I first started doing yoga I realized that I had been ignoring my own bells, whistles, and cries for attention. I plowed through not sleeping well, loneliness, a bad cold, just even the very act of going pee when you …
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I know I said I was going to do the WorkIn every Wednesday and now it is Thursday. I met a friend for a holy walk in the woods yesterday. I’m getting the work done today, for WedUrsday WorkIn. So, here goes. Let’s do the work. The quote for week 4 of Avidya (smudged perception/misperception) …
Play 2 truths and a lie with the current theme of the pity party you are throwing!
Yesterday I wrote a blog post (have you read it yet? do that first) about doing this very practice several years ago. So, I’m doing it today.
Years ago at a retreat I used this drawing of a cross-section of a tree as a model for looking at our life stories. We were at a beautiful lodge in the mountains of Colorado, Sky Ranch Lutheran Camp, surrounded by forests that had been affected by all kinds of weather, infestation, and humanity over the years
Close both eyes; see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments, our ceaseless withholding, our constant exclusion. Our sphere has widened, and we find ourselves quite unexpectedly in a new expansive location, in a place of endless acceptance and infinite love. – Father Gregory Boyle …
