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the haunting echo of angels wings
Who, if I cried out, would hear me In the orders of angels? If an angel heard And in a sudden movement I were taken to his heart, Into the presence of his greater Being, Would I not be consumed? For...
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the care of our fragile burdens
When the heart is closed and love seems to be absent, the world becomes a wasteland of alienated individualism. In religious life, feeling a lack of love indicates separation from God and signals a...
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finding crumpled wings in mid-flight
One afternoon as I folded laundry, I heard a terrible thud against the patio door. I turned in time to see blue wings falling to the ground. A bird had flown into the glass. She was stunned and her...
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the fertile descension & the aftermath of becoming
Despair’s journey is both a search for renewed meaning and a call to grieve our losses. Though it may seem sudden and precipitous, despair has its roots. Long-standing grief over unnamed or un-mourned...
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taking refuge in heaven & hell
All of our growth is clearly an expanding beyond our small selves into the spaciousness of the Beloved. When we are moving gently and without force toward our edge, toward the fire, hell transforms to...
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the landscape of inner breakdown
Help me resist the urge to dispute whether things are true or false which is like arguing whether it is day or night. It is always one or the other somewhere in the world. Together, we can penetrate a...
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the bliss of shedding old baggage…..
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I...
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what kind of life lightens the heart?
We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak. ….Martin Heidegger a vision of humanness…… I invite you to listen to the part of you that life is trying to wake. As a soul on Earth, all we...
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white pearls of crystalline loss
We cannot get at beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves’-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all...
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a gentler, more sophisticated awakening
Although not knowing may itself seem like a bad thing, I am convinced it is one of the great gifts of the dark night of the soul. To be immersed in mystery can be very distressing at first, but over...
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a new vision of melancholia
Life is a refining process through which we are sculpted by the winds and storms. Suffering provides abrasion for refinement. Survival forces us to change; without the struggle and rawness, how would...
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teasing the deep void
One must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. ….Frederich Nietzsche do we ever really learn to communicate our self-indulgent fears and transformations?….imagine those moments of love...
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our immense capacity to surrender
Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. Men are only free when they are doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some driving....
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the fine tuning of a suffering heart
A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart……Rabbi Scnhuer...
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the wounded roots of desire
Being self-aware in the midst of our daily lives provides us with so much material with which to notice the reality of our imperfect selves but, at the same time, to be brought to realize how we are...
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the divine ground of sorrow
The more I am washed by the tears of others, the more my heart rounds like an ocean shell. …..Mark Nepo this waking up, this softening of the dark, this leaving the cave, this dreaming into life, this...
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thresholds of gracious knowing
The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any...
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chaos & order in the heart
We are shaken by secret shudders & dark forebodings; but we know no way out, & very few persons indeed draw the conclusion that this time the issue is the long-since-forgotten soul of man....
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slipping down deep & then deeper
The universe is always speaking to us- sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more. …….Nancy...
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only love remains
Wait for evening. Then you’ll be alone. Wait for the playground to empty. Then call out those companions from childhood: The one who closed his eyes and pretended to be invisible. The one to whom you...
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