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Apr.06.2013
April 6
Fearing Fearlessness
How many times have I given the credit to night blind fear, credit due the brave persistent child? How many times have I blamed the willing diligent pursuer when the fault was the backstabbing delay of mistrust? I resist the onset...
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Feb.26.2013
I find Mark Nepo's thoughts so inspiring. His devotional today inspired the following insight.
Enlightenment (or, salvation, or awakening, or whatever you’d like to call it) is not some lofty place of achievement reserved only to those who struggle, strive and only then arrive at a level of life...
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Feb.07.2013
Mandela Leola van Eeden at North Canyon mile 20.5
A memory—Mile 62 on the Colorado. We had rafted the "Roaring Twenties," hiked through a downpour in Saddle Canyon, meditated (and played Frisbee) in Red Wall Cavern, and now are at the confluence of the Little Colorado, a tropical-blue...
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Jul.25.2012
Waves crash in the night, reflecting the light of the full moon. Sabine walks on the beach’s edge pondering love. Two kinds: love that smothers and love that let’s go. Many thoughts ebb and flow through her consciousness with the crashing of the waves. She feels the mist on her face and the taste...
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May.13.2012
‘Do not look for happiness in life. Life itself is happiness’....
From Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Magical Year of Reading by Nina Sankovitch.
This morning at the brink of waking, I felt my lips form a turned up semi circle. I smiled wide for no reason or perhaps it was because I was...
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Mar.04.2012
This time last year I turned 49 years old – a few weeks after our youngest kid went to college and in the middle of the FORGE book tour. Immediately I started to think about what it would mean to turn 50.
In the decade between my 40th and 50th birthdays, I wrote and...
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Aug.07.2010
I don’t know a writer of memoir who feels empty while writing. They experience myriad feelings, but emptiness isn’t among them. They are engaged in the very personal, willful, and soulful act of creating a true story from memory, which is incongruent with the definition of emptiness.
Lately,...
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May.24.2010
It is scientifically proven that only two things posses the same energy in our atmosphere...that being our energy and that of the EARTH. A great shift has taken place, vibrational energy has accelerated; new energies are floating in the atmosphere. Naturally this affects all of us, whether we are...
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Apr.02.2010
I keep thinking about a yoga class that I attended at an ashram on Robertson Blvd in Los Angeles, ten or eleven years ago. I was trying to find some spiritual direction and someone told me about this teacher who was the real deal, a Sikh guru who naturally used yoga practice as part of his...
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Mar.21.2010
The human mind is undergoing radical change, bringing about a psychological revolution, spiraling inward. This in turn will bring about a much needed major social change; our corrupt society, with its vast injustice, wars, brutality & violence, no longer holds valid to those of us who have...
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