Living the effortless spiritual life…
Posted in Quotes - 2011, Stillness on Oct 6th, 2011
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulty but is to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring to them the transformative power of our heart. - Jack Kornfield
the spiritual life
How does one live a spiritual life? By invoking the ‘spirit’ of things into daily living. Everything that happens to [...]
Posted in Quotes - 2011, Stillness on Sep 28th, 2011
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. - Henry David Thoreau
awaken to
We’re consummate sleep walkers! We walk around hypnotized, dazed into submission by the lethargy of our habits. As intelligent and creative children of the Universe it’s our prerogative to [...]
Posted in Quotes - 2011, Stillness on Aug 30th, 2011
If not now… then when?
what?
What should we spend our time on? If we don’t answer that question actively, we’ll go the way of our bodily inclinations. We might end up eating something or watch a meaningless TV program. If we don’t illuminate Now via the torchlight of our ‘Life Purpose’ we might just squander [...]
Posted in Quotes - 2011 on Aug 29th, 2011
We worry about what children will be tomorrow. Yet, we forget he is something today. – Stacia Tauscher
child?
Kahlil Gibran in ‘The Prophet’:
They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you…
How do we view and interact with ‘children’ daily? [...]
Posted in Gita, Quotes - 2011 on Aug 21st, 2011
13.22 … He watches, gives blessing, bears all, feels all. He is called the Lord Supreme and the Supreme Soul.
13.23 He who knows in truth this Spirit and knows nature with its changing conditions, wherever this man may be he is no more whirled round by fate. - The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 13)
here and [...]
