Category: Thoughts
Thoughts: Be the good you want to see in the world….
from our friends at Fractal Enlightenment
Thoughts: Everyone is beautiful….get closer.
As you know, most monks see beauty in everyone, even folks who try to cover it up (can you imagine? hiding from your OWN beauty? or deny it, or do distracting things), or folks who say “Beauty is this, but it’s not that.” Doesn’t work that way, and you know it. From the description of…
Thoughts of peace: Police lay down their arms
Yesterday in Thailand, riot police yield to peaceful protesters by removing barricades AND their helmets in a shocking gesture of solidarity. From the CBC report: “In a sharp reversal in strategy that followed two days of increasingly fierce street fighting, riot police lowered their shields and walked away from heavily fortified positions around Prime Minister…
Thoughts: The courage that gratitude requires….
One of the folks who hits it right on the head is also one of my favourite writers, Oriah Mountain Dreamer. She posted this little essay on the courage it takes to be grateful, at times…. It takes a certain kind of courage to allow gratitude to arise within our hearts. We know that in…
Thoughts: Teach me
Earth, Teach Me Earth teach me quiet ~ as the grasses are still with new light. Earth teach me suffering ~ as old stones suffer with memory. Earth teach me humility ~ as blossoms are humble with beginning. Earth teach me caring ~ as mothers nurture their young. Earth teach me courage ~ as the…
Thoughts: Beauty, colour & the sun as it sets
The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. Kahlil Gibran (To see more of Traci Walter‘s amazing artful photography, check out her site at traciwalterphotography.com.)
Thoughts: Us & the ocean & us again
We were fish swimming in the ocean, unaware of the water and ourselves. The ocean wanted to be recognized, so it threw us up on dry land. We flip after this, we flop after that, pursuing an ever more elusive happiness. Is the ocean tormenting us? Rumi
Healing & sharing: Time to give wings to our good wishes
Just asked my dear friend Lolit in the Philippines what I could post, for my circle of folks who might want to help (from all over the world, so it’s a bit of a wide-spread circle)…she suggested this local (there) site, with lots of options (including good wishes & prayers) to give, to share, to heal…..and she…
Thoughts: Francis & the embrace felt ’round the world
In the lore of monkish tales, most know the story of the original Francesco, who said that his conversion to a life of faith came along after he had embraced & kissed a leper. This past week, the pope for our Roman Catholic friends echoed his thirteenth century namesake as a photo went viral ’round…
Thoughts: Glenna Hall, with a parable of disconnectedness
Most of my steady readers from the San Juan Islands know that the past week has seen the cutting of one of the Internet & phone cables in the islands, leaving many islanders scrambling to connect with each other. Islander (and former judge) Glenna Hall’s remarks about this have been published in The Atlantic. See…