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Today we lost the one and only Roshi Bernie Glassman , one of the world's great Zen Clowns, a brilliant teacher, a man who danced with gravity and joy on the tightrope of the Scared and the Sacred. He did Bearing Witness retreats in places like Auschwitz and the streets of New York City, helped found the Zen Peacemakers order, and so much more. Thank-you for…

Happy Birthday Grandpa. I hope someday your philosophy of nonviolence will be understood and accepted by the world and save it from devastation. Although it is so obvious people seem to ignore the fact the the…

always and everywhere

Peace is not a Utopian

destination. Peace is how we live,

behave and relate with

compassion and love…

The old age

 Clicia Pavan

Sir!

 Old age is the daughter of time

 That I do not complain when this time comes

 That I never stop loving .. To smile and dream

May I not find foolish the wisdom of getting older

 That I know how to live…

You are important

 Clicia Pavan

You are a child of God.

 Your life is the expression

 What you got inside your heart

 You are a beacon

 That illuminates everything around you

 You bring warmth to those who feel cold and distress

 Your…

Unique way to usher in the New Year.. Thanks Myron Joshua, and thanks for the words and link Shaul David Judelman

https://youtu.be/qagOblqhBhk

John Coltrane - Acknowledgement

time to step out of the old and into the new. Let go, admit, acknowledge and crown the Creator of this crazy world. Pray to be part of the fixing team in the time to come- may we rejoice in the work at hand, in the…

Wishing all our Muslim friends Eid Mubarak !

Art by Krista Marleena

No matter how things are going for you in your life at this time, you can start right where you are. For very short periods of time, surround and contain the achy life as it surges for integration.



For just one second, enter into the fire and infuse…

Photo: Mark Basarab

To engage the work of the shadow, to travel the descendent current into the unlit places, is an act of courage and a compassion that is burning and alive.

For when we re-embody to the unwanted we remove the burden from others to metabolize it for us, which…

Having no safe haven to come alive and share their qualities, the orphaned pieces of psyche have no choice but to conceal themselves deep in the body, the unconscious, in the cells of the heart, brain, belly, and throat. These ones will never truly leave us, but remain in seed form until conditions are ripe for reintegration.



They only long…

Refugee

by David Sparenberg

Why does the troubled world press dark and cruelly against my heart?  The world is troubled.  The world is dark and cruel.…

By Pete unseth - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34507581

A mosaic representing Pentecost on the ceiling of the St. Louis Cathedral

Today…

رمضان كريم

חג שבועות שמח

Ramadan Kareem

  …

So they moved the embassy to Jerusalem, so those who have nothing to lose thought it was a great idea. They were made promises by those who have no stake in the future of Palestine or Israel. How convenient to hold a ceremony on a day before Nakba (the Catastrophe day for the Palestinians who lost everything.) and before Ramadan. who cares how many are hurt or by the fact that some 50 lives are lost. It would appear that the sanctity of bricks and mortar and where they are cemented together…

Seven Paintings and Quotations of Frida Kahlo

I paint flowers so they will not die.…

Life

Clicia Pavan





It is God's gift to you!

Take a flower

The most beautiful of your garden

And kindly give you love



Get a smile

frank smile and doe

The one friend who is sad



Grab a ray of light and hope

a white rose, talk of peace…

"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”

Meine Mutter ist heute Nacht gestorben. Mehr kann ich nicht sagen.

My mother died tonight. I can…

I hope he calls you in the morning

after a night of sleeping in a big, empty bed

Just to say good morning

Just to hear your voice

as it is the only wake up…

Christ! Nobody saw that there were

you, something universally human

Something that was not Western

or east, nor Christian, nor

pagan ... Only human ...!!

Nobody saw…

In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”

“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”

The…