Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
When the soul lies down in that grass
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
the world is too full to talk about.
- Rumi
This week, let’s meet in that field.
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A compassionate guide
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. – Mother Teresa Hurtful words also have echoes that are truly endless. This week, before you speak, pause and ask yourself what kind of echoes your words will create. There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love. – Washington Irving If you’ve learned to view tears as a sign of weakness, I invite you to view them in a new light. Tears can be a highly effective way to express, process and release powerful emotions. So this week, allow your tears (and others’) to flow … freely and without judgment. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi It’s not always easy to achieve harmony between our thoughts, words and actions, but it’s a practice that pays off HUGELY for ourselves and all around us. This week, do your best to think, speak and act from your heart’s truth … and celebrate the peace and joy that flow! This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek. – Terry Tempest Williams This week, consciously choose a faith of verbs. Actively live your life! Love life, engage in it, give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it. – Maya Angelou This week, passionately and actively love life! You get what you give, so give it all you’ve got! The law of love will work, just as the law of gravitation will work, whether we accept it or not … a man who applies the law of love with scientific precision can work great wonders … The more I work at this law, the more I feel the delight in life, the delight in the scheme of this universe. It gives me a peace and a meaning of the mysteries of nature that I have no power to describe. – Mahatma Gandhi This week, let’s consciously open ourselves to living the law of love more and more each day. A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe.’ A part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. – Einstein This week, let’s step step out of our prisons, widen our circles of compassion and fully embrace our connection to the whole of nature. Only then can we heal ourselves, heal our planet, and fully appreciate and experience the richness of life! I’ve been experiencing some growing pains over the past year – frequent feelings of uncertainty, sadness, frustration, disconnection from my self, resistance, inadequacy … just to name a few. I knew from experience this internal winter would eventually fade because it always does. Life truly is cyclical. “This too shall pass,” I told myself. “I’m perturbating, transforming, metamorphisizing.” But that awareness still didn’t make the challenging periods easy. I often felt thick-headed and heavy. I had to use all the tools in my personal toolbox and make frequent shifts to feel positive and grounded. Interestingly enough, the funk has finally lifted Read More … Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard. – Standing Bear We ARE nature, not just observers of it, and our whole being benefits from connecting with the air and sky and sun and all of life. Even spending a few fully present moments in your back yard or a park, or simply admiring a fresh flower in a vase, will keep your heart soft and your soul connected to life. |
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