Month: October 2024

Morning Peace

Morning peace arrives with first light.
Love and strength shelter me as I sit 
in repose and allow spirit to flow.
Thoughts arise that tremble my heart
and crease the folds of love that feel
tender and bruised. I observe; I 
move on. Breathe in, breathe out,
and sit in this moment in time,
this place of resonance, that awakens to all.

“Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.”

-Matthieu Ricard

“As our nation has become more divided, there is a resonance for a message to bring people together.”

-Martin Luther King III

“I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.”

-Jay Parini

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The Colors of Life

See the beauty 
in the colors of life 
that unfold the truth, 
buried within each of us,
waiting to come to light, 
waiting to be released 
into a world of change.

When the old die off 
we enter a new way of being,
seeing, and living. Trust
in the way of evolution. 
Trust in the heart of life.
Grieve what is set aside
as space opens for new to enter. 

Change unsettles the balance
we thought we had created and
now we release into an unknown
that beckons us forth.
Step into the void. Step into
the mystery—the change
unfolding before us.

Step into and let go.
Breathe into life.
You are re-born.
The colors that seem lost
will arise in vibrant hues.
Search now for your color.
It will guide you.

(Image-my own)

“Under the anger, under the fear, under the despair, under the broken heartedness, there is a radiance that has never been harmed, that has never been lost, that is the truth of who one is.”

-Gangaji

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”

-John F. Kennedy

“A human being is a part of a whole called by us the universe.”

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche

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The Path of Hurricane Helene

Shock and sadness wash through lives as water rises, washes away dreams, muddies lives, upends structures, and rips apart the trajectory of what feels certain, familiar, steady, and known. Water finds its path, determines lives, then flows to the source.  Watery tears are shed for all that is lost and forever changed.

“Death is water’s close companion. The two cannot be separated, and neither can be separated from us, for they are what we are ultimately made of: the versatility of water, and the closeness of death. Water has no beginning and no end, but death has both. Death is both. Sometimes death travels hidden in water, and sometimes water will chase death away, but they go together always, in the world and in us.”

― Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water

“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi.

“We forget that water and life cycles are one.”

-Jacques Cousteau.

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From the Events Page

There is still space available for my workshop, Growth Through Creative Spiritual Practice. I’d love to see you for an evening of poetry and art with playful writing and/or painting. No experience necessary, it is all creative play. Come and enjoy.

Visit www.wisdomwayscenter.org or call 651-696-2787.