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The true generosity is to give in to the presence of everything.

~ Albert Camus

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Geese appear high over us

pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,

as in love or sleep, holds

them to their way, clear

in the ancient faith: what we need

is here. And we pray, not

for new earth or heaven, but to be

quiet in heart, and in eye,

clear. What we need is here.

.

~ Wendell Berry

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The wine of life is oozing drop by drop,
The leaves of life are falling one by one.

~ Omar Khayyam

What is your life about, anyway? Nothing but a struggle to be someone. Nothing but a running from your own silence.

~ Rumi

.

Happy are those who know:

Behind all words, the Unsayable stands;

And from that source alone, the Infinite

Crosses over to gladness, and us -

Free of our bridges

Built with the stone of distinctions;

So that always, within each delight,

We gaze at what is purely single and joined.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours?

I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

~ Khalil Gibran

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Vidyapati – My friend, I cannot answer when you ask me to explain - My friend, I cannot answer when you ask me to explain by Vidyapati English version by Edward C. Dimock, Jr. and Denise Levertov My friend, I cannot answer ...
57 minutes ago
Love Is A Place

question - . Why is the physical world experienced as external and the mental world experienced as internal? ... the physical world is res extensa, body with extens...
3 hours ago
No Mind's Land

Rumi ♡ Cup and ocean - These forms we seem to be are cups floating in an ocean of living consciousness. They fill and sink without leaving an arc of bubbles or any good-bye ...
1 day ago
Mystic Meandering

Briefly Here - Jim Wilson - Briefly We walk this earth. We have But a short time. We resemble grasses; Green in the spring, Brown in the summer heart, Withering in the winter wind. Th...
1 day ago
A Healing Space... reflections on love, meaning, and the aliveness of immediate experience

If a child were to appear... - If a child were to appear at your door – cold, frightened, alone, and tired from a long journey… If he or she were anxious, heartbroken, raging, and confu...
4 days ago
Ox Herding

What Matters - Last year at this time, I wanted to write about the 64 bodhisattva precepts of Mahayana Buddhism. So I wrote several introductory posts, setting up an inve...
1 year ago
Life Love Yoga

"Completely giving up identification with the body alone is exhalation [rechaka]; merging within..." - “Completely giving up identification with the body alone is exhalation [rechaka]; merging...
1 year ago
APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac RSS Feed

A runaway lover, text problems, and dinner duties - Dear Mr. Blue, I’m a single 51-year-old who’s been enjoying the outdoorsy life in Denver for the past fifteen years. I have a nice condo, good friends, a...
2 years ago
The Mark on the Wall

On Sabbatical. -
3 years ago
INTENSE CITY

Vimeo Post - Breakfast agreeable incommode departure it an. By ignorant at on wondered relation. Enough at tastes really so cousin am of. Extensive therefore supported ...
5 years ago
whiskey river

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