Barbara Kingsolver on Spring
Transition
Franz Kafka Speaks My Truth
Breathe in All of Life
BALANCE
“The loss of balance is ultimately more painful than the giving up required to maintain balance.” Anon
Get Growing
Choose Yourself
Do I Know About the b? Indeed I Do.
Soooo, the small “b” in the font I have chosen for some of the text for my blog posts began spontaneously highlighting the lower case b (as you may have noticed). Just the b. Nothing else. I at once like it, and it bugs the shit out of me. So I am leaving it for now.
Today as I began to post I saw the b. I was a tad bristled, but the High Priestess came to me and this is what she said— “Leave it b. It should b highlighted. It is Nirvana on this plane, the whole of your existence— to b. Let it b a constant reminder to you every time you create a post. Just b.
That High Priestess knows her shit.
Spontaneous Contemplation-- The power of the deep breath.
The Fluidity of Truth
“Doing it right the first time” does not always look the same way. Truth is a dance where the rules and certainties change with the circumstances. This fluidity is what makes truth so interesting. because of it’s marriage to nonviolence, Truth has a fluidity about it. In one situation truth shows up boldly and courageously, as when we do a tough intervention on a loved one who is faltering under alcoholism. In another situation, truth shows up in a most gentle way, as when we heap praise upon a young child’s diligent artwork. Both of these examples show a different flavor that he practice of truth takes when it is partnered with the love of nonviolence. The compassion of nonviolence keeps truthfulness from being a personal weapon. It asks us to think twice before we walk around mowing people down with our truth, and then wonder where everyone went.
The fluidity of truth also requires that we clean our lens, and periodically get new glasses with which to observe the world.”
Deborah Adele, The Yamas & The Niyamas
Giving
art source: anon
“Imagine what would happen if each time we took something, we gave something back.”
Deborah Adele, The Yamas & The Niyamas
An Abiding Calm
“The Buddhists speak of an abiding calm.
A centeredness that is unshakeable.
Like a tall tree so rooted in the earth that the great winds cannot topple it.
This for me is the image of contentment.
It means not riding the waves of the ups and downs of life.
It means that we not only agree to what is in the moment, but we actually welcome it.
It means that in all the noise and demands of modernity, we stay in the abiding calm center.
This is the mastery of life that contentment invites us into.
The practice of gratitude and “non-seeking” can help us stay rooted in this jewel.”
Deborah Adele, from her book The Yamas & The Niyamas
Spontaneous Contemplation-- 2 28 22
John Batiste-- listen to this for a lifted spirit.
Vienna Teng
Rockwell Kent-- Painter, Philosopher
Hope--Have it.
art source: tallahasse.com
Happiness?
“Organizing your life around trying to become happier, making happiness the primary objective of life, gets in the way of actually becoming happy.”
Todd Kashan, Psychology Prof George Mason University
Happiness
“Organizing your life around trying to become happier, making happiness the primary objective of life, gets in the way of actually becoming happy.” Todd Kashan, Psych Prof— George Mason Univ.