Writings: Paul Hawken, with “You are brilliant, and the earth is hiring.”
I know it’s graduation season, so it feel like a good time as we look over the lengthening light the Winter Solstice brings to offer the light of Paul Hawken’s words, here. One of the best I’ve read in past few seasons of speeches was the one Paul Hawken presented here below, as this…
Thoughts: How about we share? And heal?
I’ve been carrying this simple phrase around lately: share and heal. Not “share to get ahead.” Not “share once you’re totally safe.” Just: share and heal — because I don’t think we’re going to survive (or thrive) without moving in that direction. A lot of the world runs on the opposite philosophy. Even when it’s…
Thoughts: Be a friend….
From Edgar Cayce’s writings: When we hear prophesies of earth changes, right away, we want to know if it will happen where we are. What difference does it make if we are living right? To be overanxious about ourselves because we are living in the wrong place is to be like the people…
Thoughts: At the threshold…
At any time you can ask yourself: At which threshold am I now standing? At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter? What is preventing me from crossing my next threshold? What gift would enable me to do it? A threshold is not a simple boundary;…
Thoughts: In the woods, with you
How I Go Into the Woods Ordinarily I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my ways of praying, as you no…
Thoughts: A blessing
May the light of your soul guide you. May the light of your soul bless the work you do with the secret love and warmth of your heart. May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul. May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and renewal to those who…
Thoughts: How you see it
This photo is amazing! At first glance, it seems like someone’s reading in the water, but when you zoom in, you realize there’s no person, no book, no study—just an illusion. Life is much the same; it appears one way, but beneath the surface, it’s entirely different. Photo: Christina Willis
ENC: When they talk about THIS, it keeps you from hearing about THAT
In this section of The World According to Brother Ian, called the Emperor’s New Clothes, we take a peek at the things around the world that people don’t seem to know about, but should. Just a few years ago on the CBC, someone was asking Gore Vidal in Montreal if he thought the divisive politics…
Poetry: Open me, close me
your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully, mysteriously)her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines…
What you see is what you get….sometimes.
I hope you find new people & new ideas & new ways to see the way it all works….good place to start (if you don’t know him already) is Randall’s xkcd webcomic….he gets it, and has fun getting there. Here’s the link to the one above, and his site….be careful, you’ll get lost in the…
Thoughts: An open door to clarity….
“Being vulnerable doesn’t have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. “Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets…
Wordplay: Back in the day, when words were words….
It was fun to run into this list of 20 words that are rarely (mostly never) used any more. Most of them sound like the idea they convey, I think – see what you think & feel when you hear these (click on the picture, to start):
Thoughts: A silence in which another voice may speak
It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another…