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Everything that
lives is holy, life delights in life.
~ William Blake.
by Alan Larus
Embracing your
wholeness is the greatest gift you can give to others. Being
sustained fully as you are right now, leaves you empty of
grasping to the world to
fill yourself up. Being already full, you are free to just be
yourself, as you are,
moment to moment. When you don’t need anything from the
world, or from other
people, everything you do is service.
~ Christine
Wushke
Gnostics on Trial
by Linda Gregg
Let us make the
test. Say God wants you
to be unhappy. That there is no good.
That there are horrors in store for us
if we do manage to move toward Him.
Say you keep Art in its place, not too high.
And that everything, even eternity, is measurable.
Look at the photographs of the dead,
both natural (one by one) and unnatural
in masses. All tangled. You know about that.
And can put Beauty in its place. Not too high,
and passing. Make love our search for unhappiness,
which is His plan to help us.
Disregard that afternoon breeze from the
on a body almost asleep in the shuttered room.
Ignore melons, and talking with friends.
Try to keep from rejoicing. Try
to keep from happiness. Just try.
by Alan Larus
I was performing
The Sea Lion in the Newport Performing Arts Center.
Afterwards a white-haired old woman approached me and said, Hey,
you remember
me? I looked her over, and I knew I remembered her, but had no
idea who she was.
She said, Lois. It still didn’t click. She said, Lois
Learned, Big Nurse, and I thought,
Oh my God. She was a volunteer at
business. This was the nurse on the ward I worked on at the
didn’t know what to think and she didn’t either, but I
was glad she came up to me. I
felt there was a lesson in it, the same one I had tried to teach
the villain. She might be the minion of the villain, but she’s
really just a big old
tough ex-army nurse who is trying to do the best she can
according to the rules
that she has been given. She worked for the villain and believed
in the villain, but
she ain’t the villain.
~ Ken Kesey,
author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Ani Choying
Drolma is a nun from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBQfUqd8pqI
by Belle Heywood
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A Bed of
Rose Petals
Gentle Readers,
I don’t like
being too gentle with you; it’s just not that much fun. I am
a
take-no-prisoners kind of writer in the last analysis. I like to
spit it out, let ‘er rip
and move on. I don’t foresee a time when that will change.
My little post-it note says,
Come from your heart. Feel it and they feel it. I think someone
on American Idol said
that. And it is oh, so true.
I will never feel
like whitewashing my introversion or sugar-coating the long,
hard,
unrelenting years of being a caregiver and then a mourner twice
in one lifetime. I now
honor my life in a powerful way. How do I do this? By choosing to
live by some key
principles that work for me.
I choose to love
myself.
I work hard
gathering energy when I have no problems.
I know if
something is right for me, it’s right for the universe.
If something is
true, I will feel it in my body.
I vow to relieve
the suffering of all sentient beings. (The vow of Kwan Yin.)
One does not need
to cling to outmoded phrases handed down by the ancients. It is
enough to recognize that we are the Self in all beings.
The mind has had
its say and its day. Now the heart opens like a rose and the
petals
fall where they may. Today is Memorial Day weekend. I am at loose
ends, content
with my discontent. The only thing left to do is be and any
conscious man or woman
trumps an unconscious one, hands down.
Troubles there
are enough in this world. Beyond and among the troubles stands
the
solution to all of them. Above the clouds there is no turbulence
and under the stars
sits the Self deep in meditation. We have heard all the stories
about the enlightened
ones; we have practiced willfully and gotten nowhere fast. Now we
must make the leap
into Everywhere At Once. May you land on a bed of rose petals.
Vicki Woodyard
http://www.amazon.com/LIFE-HOLE-Thats-Wisdom-Awakened/dp/1609102770/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300842477&sr=8-1