That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.…

Our life is short. Before we know it, we have moved on to a new life. That is why Buddhist monks and nuns turn their tea cup over after a meal. We don’t know which will come first, the next cup of tea, or the next life! Panic is not necessary. It can be a pause to celebrate the time we have in this life, and direct it towards meaning.…

Strange face, with your eyes

So pale and sincere

Underneath you know well

You have nothing to fear

For the dreams that came to you when so young

Told of a life

Where spring is sprung

You would seem so frail

In the cold of the night

When the armies of emotion…

.. Lúghnasadh celebrates the fruition of the year’s work. Most of the food that could last the winter has been stored, and people are preparing for Autumn and Winter to settle in. Lúghnasadh / Lúnasa is a time to enjoy the fruits of the summer, the harvest, the sun in her glory and the bounty. It is a time to rejoice with gratitude at the hard work. To embrace in the moment the abundance that life has to offer.

Letting in the Harvest at Lúnasa symbolizes the letting in of life, of eros,…

Only when you surrender to all-encompassing love will everything be ready for you to live like God in heaven! It is part of evolution that we take care of progress and some people who are not ready for it in time will have the choice in the next cycle to leave everything behind and serve the whole!

Thank…

"Suddenly I understand the principle underlying the structure of the universe. The creative source and power of the universe was the cosmic consciousness, which acted out an endless series of dramas... - dramas as we know them from the stage or from the movies.

In this drama, the game is to lose yourself in order to find…

"Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. To work through and complete grief means to face our feelings openly and honestly, to express or release our feeling fully, and to tolerate and accept our feelings for however long it takes for the wound to heal. We fear that once acknowledged, grief will bowl us over. The truth…

"There is a mystery about rivers that draws us to them, for they rise from hidden places and travel by routes that are not always tomorrow where they might be today. Unlike a lake or sea, a river has a destination and there is something about the certainty with which it travels that makes it very soothing, particularly for those who've lost…

Many years ago a wise friend gave me a name for human love. She called it "stirring-the-oatmeal" love. She was right: Within this phrase, if we will humble ourselves enough to look, is the very essence of what human love is, and it shows us the principal differences between human love and romance.

Stirring the oatmeal…

Beautiful message from Richard Gere:

"There's no time for anything else... It's life and no one escapes this living world. There's still time, so live for fun, maybe tomorrow is no more. Eat what you want, walk in the sun , bathe in the sea... Be crazy, be silly. There's no time for…

Tibetans and well-wishers from Switzerland and neighboring countries welcome HHDL during his brief stopover in Zurich, Switzerland on June 22, 2024, before he continues his journey to New York.

The Lie said to the Truth, "Let's take a bath together, the well water is very nice.

The Truth, still suspicious, tested the water and found out it really was nice. So they got naked and bathed.

But suddenly, the Lie leapt out of the water and fled, wearing the clothes of the Truth.

The Truth, furious, climbed out of…

Und der Mut ist so müde geworden

und die Sehnsucht so groß.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Bild: "Sehnsucht" von Heinrich Vogeler

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And courage has become so tired

and longing so great.

~…

throw away the idea

that healing is forgetting

the real result is no longer

reacting to old triggers

with the same intensity as before

the memories are still there

but they do not have

the same power over your…

Late in May as the light lengthens

toward summer the young goldfinches

flutter down through the day for the first time

to find themselves among fallen petals

cradling their day’s colors in the day’s shadows

of the garden beside the old house

after a cold spring with no rain

not a sound comes from…

l've been looking away

running out of things to say

and the atrocities seem to worsen

with the passing of each new day

I still pray

but l've been looking away

And when I look

I am bone-shook

there is no part of my fragile humanity

that is let off the hook

I am mute

I've been looking away

I've run out of things to say

but I know we cannot grow

if we do not show

our horror

our care…

“You don't look out there for God,

something in the sky,

you look in you.”

- Alan Watts

"All about me may be silence and darkness, yet within me, in the spirit, is music and brightness.

What you call the dark, to me is golden. Everything has its wonders, even…

Fear can accumulate in our body, causing stress and tension. Rest is a precondition for healing. When animals in the forest get wounded, they find a place to lie down, and they rest completely for many days. They don’t think about food or anything else. They just rest, and they are able to heal themselves quite naturally. When we humans become…