The Virtue Trap

Remembering the Flight © Mihai CristeThe optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.— William Arthur Ward We continue this week recovering our sense of what is possible. We cannot have gotten to any real sense of this without having done the challenging prior steps … Read more

Spiritual Dependency

© Osho Zen TarotI am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path. — His Holiness, the Dalai Lama Since February, we have been excavating our consciousness, discovering the lost temples of our most holy places, and restoring the sacred meeting grounds between our incarnate lives and the Divine … Read more

Trust

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The point of my tangent about the economic paradigm yesterday was to help us understand why “scarcity thinking” is so normal for us. We can try to get past it, but we need to recognize that our whole … Read more

Thimble In the Rain

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. — Eileen Caddy Welcome back. I hope you’ve been feeding your Artist Self many kinds of sensual treats, and finding a more sustainable way to fold reading into your life without it upstaging … Read more

For My Faerie Sister

Happy birthday yesterday to Alruna: The Flowers by Robert Louis Stevenson All the names I know from nurse:Gardener’s garters, Shepherd’s purse,Bachelor’s buttons, Lady’s smock,And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames–These must all be fairy names! Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny … Read more