Category: Thoughts
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: 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
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…
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…
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…
Thoughts: A voice singing, without words
Listen intently to a voice singing without words. It may charm you into crying, force you to dance, fill you with rage, or make you jump for joy. You can’t tell where the music ends and the emotions begin, for the whole thing is a kind of music—the voice playing on your nerves as…
Thoughts: Bringing the seasons together, in one place
There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn to not judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in…
Thoughts: Memory, and more
Let us not look for you only in memory, Where we would grow lonely without you. You would want us to find you in presence, Beside us when beauty brightens, When kindness glows And music echoes eternal tones. When orchids brighten the earth, Darkest winter has turned to spring; May this dark grief flower…