DOLCE FAR NIENTE

The sweetness of doing nothing.

ATTRAVERSIAMO

Let’s cross over together.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

There is a blessing in every moment. Today, I am thankful for so many things....

FINDING GOD

“God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by subtracting.”

 - Meister Eckhart

REST

All the major religions of the world agree on one thing: the need for rest. Even God rested. Every spiritual practice, to be called that, must incorporate some form of rest and relaxation.

AWARENESS

There is a world of difference between giving up and letting go.

PRACTICE GETTING LOST

“...[T]he practice of getting lost has nothing to do with wanting to go there. It is something that happens, like it or not. You lose your job, your lover leaves, the baby dies. At this level, the advanced practice of getting lost consists of consenting to be lost, since you have no other choice. The consenting itself becomes your choice, as you explore the possibility that life is for you, not against you, in spite of all of the evidence to the contrary. [The point is] anything can become a spiritual practice once you are willing to approach it that way...”

Barbara Bradford Taylor, An Altar in the World (2009)

WHAT CALLS YOUR SOUL?

What in your life is calling you?

When all the noise is silenced,

the meetings adjourned,

the lists laid aside, 

and the wild iris blooms by itself 

in the dark forest,

What still pulls on your soul?

In the silence between your heartbeats

  hides a summons.

Do you hear it?

Name it, if you must

   or leave it forever nameless

   but why pretend it’s not there?

-The Terma Collective

“The Box: Remembering the Gift”

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?

SOLVITURE AMBULANDO

“It is solved by walking. What is it? If you want to find out, then you will have to do your own walking.”

Barbara Bradford Taylor (An Altar in the World)

FAITH IN ALL THINGS

“The immortality of the soul is much easier to conceive than the resurrection of the body.”

Barbara Bradford Taylor (An Altar in the World)

THE HUMAN HEART

“The human heart has an inherent need for self-expression, whether it be through visual art, the written or spoken word, music or movement.”

Susan Tuttle

THE GRASS IS NEVER GREENER

The grass is never greener. There are thorns in every meadow.

VETERAN'S DAY 2010

God bless the brave men and women who have served this country and who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom. 

FIND YOURSELF BY BEING YOURSELF

Live life on purpose, not by accident.

(from Life's Little Handbook of Wisdom)

LISTEN FOR THE SILENCE

For it is in the silence that I can hear You.

Be still and know that I am God.

Psalm 46:10

LIVE A QUIET LIFE

Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands....Then others will respect the way that you live.

1 Thessalonians 4:10-11

RESOLVE

Don’t worry about the wicked and don’t envy those who do wrong. For like grass, they soon fade away. Like spring flowers, they soon wither. 

Psalm 37: 1-2

FAITH

“Faith isn’t faith until it is all you are holding on to.” - Unknown