devas
Thanksgiving Day 20: My Business Deva
What you love, loves you. What you want, wants you. The soul of your business is invested in you and in the success of your business. It has its own reasons for being, its own allies, its own ecology which shapes its unfolding story. ~ Hiro Boga As many of you who have studied … Read more
The Fey Beings of Asia
A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life. The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon: the mind must be full of light. — Hung Tzu-ch’eng In every culture, there are … Read more
Moving towards the Light
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.I do know how to pay attention, how to fall downinto the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,which is what I have been doing all day.Tell me, what else should I have done? — Mary … Read more
Getting to know you, getting to know all about you…
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plane. – Henry David Thoreau I’ve been discussing some suggestions for getting to know your green ally – a plant that will be your guide and friend as you deepen … Read more
Finding (and being found by) your Green Ally
A little too abstract, a little too wise,It is time for us to kiss the earth again,It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies,Let the rich life run to the roots again. — Robinson Jeffers Our gardens have much to teach us about finding the balance between creativity and surrender, between acceptance … Read more
Opening the Garden Gate
The Great Way has no gate.Clear water has no taste.The tongue has no bone.In complete stillness, a stone girl is dancing. — Seung Sahn In the garden, we are able to encounter so many aspects of the Divine and the magical. There we may encounter thresholds to other realms, beyond the everyday concerns of the … Read more
Findhorn
In honor of Maia and Flora, and all the other Green Growing Powers of Springtime, we are weaving magic with our allies in the garden. Yesterday, I wrote about the amazing experiences of Machaelle Small Wright when she began working directly with the devas and Nature spirits of her land in Virginia. The result has … Read more
Co-creative gardening and science
And every stone and every star a tongue,And every gale of wind a curious song.The Heavens were an oracle, and spokeDivinity: the Earth did undertakeThe office of a priest; and I being dumb(Nothing besides was dumb) all things did comeWith voices and instructions…— Thomas Traherne (1637-1674) Gardening is one of the oldest activities of civilization, … Read more