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Blossoming
This has been a truly bountiful year for tree blossom. The hedgerows are full of flowers, more than usual, and now, as May wanes, whenever there is a breeze the petals of the Hawthorn’s blossoms fall in slow-moving drifts…
Choose Happiness
A couple of happenings in the past fortnight have brought me some sobering thoughts; sobering but worthwhile. First, two weeks ago a good friend of mine hung herself. It was an absolute shock to hear the news and…
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Uni Loonies
It’s a bit difficult to know where to start with this, as there are so many aspects and it has a bit of a historical lead in that is tricky to exactly pin down. I will start by saying there…
New Age Passivism
Passivism – a pattern or attitude of being submissive. (In the context of this post Passivism is not intended to be connected with Passive Resistance.) I was giving out this morning – a bit of a habit of mine, nothing…
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How To Manifest Your Universe ~ Rob Brezsny
“The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.” ~ Terence Mc Kenna (Rob Brezsny says…)…
Another Something Something on Ego
One of the first things I saw this morning was the black cat hurling herself at a flock of swallows who were swooping over the back yard. The cat looked delighted and did not mind that she caught nothing. The…
Practical Application of Awareness
“If the inner mind is tamed. The outer enemy cannot harm me.” ~ Atisha (As ever, these are just passing thoughts and sharing my experiences, and I make no claim for their being anything more than that.) Anger, like any…
The Role and Fate of the Library at Alexandria
In passing we have heard of it, this great destruction of a vast library, but what was it, where was it, how did it happen? We can believe that ancient planetary cataclysm, of one type or another, could have thrown…
Not This…Not That
It is not just a matter of what we wake up from…it is also a matter of what we wake up to. Waking up from illusion in the world around us – the political, economic, historical farce – is…
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Ever Expanding God
‘‘The essence of philosophy is not the possession of truth but the search for truth.” ~ Karl Jaspers. The Perennial Philosophy is the reasonably modern term assigned to that unity of truth said to rest behind all spiritual traditions –…
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Alice Herz Sommer ~ Inspirational
I read this a few days ago, and found it awesome and useful. I cannot remember where I read it so I do not have the source. I had copied the article. I am putting her advice for living first,…
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On Friendship ~ David Whyte
Friendship is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as…
Lucid Dreaming ~ Charlie Morley
http://www.charliemorley.com/what-is-lucid-dreaming/ What is Lucid Dreaming? Lucid dreaming is the art of becoming conscious within your dreams. A lucid dream is one in which you realize, ‘Aha! I’m dreaming!’ while you’re still asleep. Once you become conscious within a dream, you…
The Shadow/Alchemy
”He who wants to get insight and enlightenment in all truth, think of God’s birth in himself, in the depth of his soul.” ~ Meister Eckhart This is my own musing on this…so not authoritative. The lead is those shadow…
"Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.'' ~ Jorge Luis Borges
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