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It says in the Tao, “Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.”

The way I hear this in psychology is: motivation affects perception. When I’m hungry I see what’s edible. If I’m horny, I see what’s makeable. If I’m tired, I see what’s soft, you know, my motivation selects out of the infinity of the universe what it is that fits…

Dalai Lama

I am now 86 years old. At the age of 16…

This body of mine will disintegrate, but my actions will continue me… If you think I am only this body, then you have not truly seen me. When you look at my friends, you see my continuation. When you see someone walking with mindfulness and compassion, you know he is my continuation. I don’t see why we have to say “I will…

"This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died. Over there, the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies all manifests from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which…

Beloved engaged Buddhist teacher and peace activist, Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away today, at the age of 95.

The International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism writes, "our beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away peacefully at Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam, at 00:00hrs on 22nd January, 2022, at the age of 95. We invite our global spiritual family to take a few moments to be still, to come back to our mindful breathing, as we together hold Thay in our hearts…

Sat there and drove

Dreamed the car was freshly painted

the world round and good

as the Buddha

The sky through the box was the same color

as a pale slide from the 70's

I was not crazy

Not locked up

Self-chosen loneliness and in it I traveled

Without apology, I drove out through dreamy streets

Captured a thriving…

Painting by Emil Nolde

"You will never know that your soul travels

sweetly sheltered in the depths of my heart,

and that nothing, neither time nor age nor other loves,

It will prevent you from ever existing.

Now the beauty of the world takes your face,

it feeds on your…

    Breathing Lessons Rhymed

How to heal? It’s all within you

You make it real when you begin to

Breathe more consciously

Small beginnings grow great trees

Saplings, limbs, flowing with ease

From breath to breath, sweet release

in the wind your choice of…

The Year of Rumi's poems, translated by Andrew Harvey, is over.

Now, with 350 pages and 33 discussions, we can fully delight you with his poems.

Please enjoy this wonderful offer ... …

The State of Maine just took cottage food laws to the next level.

In addition to being allowed to sell non-perishable jellies, candies and baked goods prepared at home, the citizens of Maine now have a constitutional right to buy, barter or trade foods like raw milk straight from the cow and meat slaughtered in their neighbor’s…

Archbishop Tutu was a shining example of compassion, love and peace. May his graciousness and humanitarian works live on in the minds and hearts of all those who advocate for peace in the world.

Desmond Mpilo Tutu

His Excellence Desmond Tutu gone to his pure land of Jesus on this…

May I be a guard for those who need protection

A guide for those on the path

A b...oat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood

May I be a lamp in the darkness…

these quotes are brilliant and definitely worth a listen to .. about 17mins in all..

THE MOST Powerful Quotes, Advices and Thoughts from Swami Vivekananda that will change your life - YouTube…

Today is the anniversary of the day we lost John Lennon, at the age of far too young. I have long been inspired by his unique combination of musical artistry, compassion, brilliance, straight up truth telling (just gimme some truth) and rebellion. Here's a great article with the last interview he ever conducted, as he began to re-emerge from his hiatus, time he spent focussed on raising his son, Sean, the years of "watching the wheels go round and round...no longer riding on the…

David Gould

"We are at our best when we serve others.” “Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.

But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture…

A Divine Miracle By Steven Hutchinson

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Around the first weekend of November, 2021, I had to go to the ER at the VA Hospital in Memphis with severe breathing issues. I've had asthma since I was a baby, but it has been totally…

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Here is a little gallery to honor the Wild Turkey - a spectacular bird, especially when you have a chance to see it it good light that highlights its iridescent feathers. All photos are from my back woods in Massachusetts.…

Photo: Jackson, Mississippi circa 1935

“The Negro Mother”  by Langston Hughes

Children, I come back today

To tell you a story of the long dark way

That I had to climb, that I had to know

In order that the race might live and grow.

Look at my face…

"Our life is like a vast net connecting us to all other lives on this planet, and each part of this net is linked to all of the rest. The essence of our life is not limited within the confines of our bodies but rather is distributed across all the people and things that we are connected to. To think about our life in a way that treats…