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Wishes

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Self-creation is an art of fire.— M. C. Richards How are you doing at this point? I would love to know how you are feeling about the pace of this work. Too fast? Too slow? We are about to cross into the half-way point, and I am wondering if you’re still with me. Is this … Read more

Forbidden Joys

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I want to sing like birds singNot worrying who hears orWhat they think.— Rumi I really love how many of you decided to color outside the lines on our last exercise, and add an eleventh question, so that it would not end by focusing on what makes us sad! Well done! As we wind down … Read more

Breaking the Virtue Trap

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St. Francis – Frederick Franck These drawings were done for one reason only: to see before I die. — Frederick Franck The bottom line of discovering and recovering our sense to what is possible is to examine why we feel like we have to edit or defer who we are, in order to seem “good” … Read more

Knock knock. Who’s there?

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Page of Clouds – © Osho Zen TarotWhat the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. — W. H. Auden We are invoking and celebrating the Graces, and their many gifts to us regarding beauty, mirth and blossoming. … Read more

Spring Cleaning for Body and Spirit

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Strength and Mystery© Sylvia BrallierIn the attitude of silence, the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.— Mahatma Gandhi This is the time during the Wheel of the Year when many traditions have … Read more

A New Year’s Gift

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The plum tree, dwindling, contains less of the spring;But the garden is wider, and holds more of the moon.— Zen saying Yesterday, I suggested that you consider the wisdom of our Ancestors who observed this as the New Year (instead of at the end of the Saturnalia/Christmas/Hanukkah/Yule revelries). The veil is now at its thinnest, … Read more

All Others Pay Cash

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You Wouldn’t Believe How Much RISK FREE Money You Can Make Simply By Sitting At Home, In Front Of Your Computer For A Few Minutes Each Day.— Internet ad So here’s the thing. In many cases, behaving, before it has actually happened, as if you had already reached your aspirations can be a powerful healing … Read more

Liminal spaces and Mr. Greenspan

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Threshold © Joanna Powell Colbert Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.— W. Eugene Smith, Photojournalist (1918 -1978) As we examine the meaning of money, I find it interesting thatAlan Greenspan, the highest guru of money in our lifetime, has been making the talk show … Read more

Desire and gratification

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Because of you, in gardens of blossoming flowers I ache from thePerfumes of spring…Because of you, the heady perfumes of summer pain me; becauseOf you, I again seek out the signs that precipitate desires: shootingStars, falling objects.— Love by Pablo Neruda Some say that happiness can only be reached by ceasing to desire. In this … Read more