the dwellings we create, where our souls abide…..
where the feet land & the heart soars.. Place is sacred to us; but our real place is community. Wherever community appears, spirit descends. We may have to make our own communities, wherever we can...
View Articlethe view from here
The gorge’s river all empty clarity, rain sweeps in, cold breezy whispers beginning deep in the night, and ten thousand pearls start clattering on a plate, each one’s tic a perfect clarity piercing my...
View Articleto consider ourselves grown up on the inside
Pilgrim Soul- We tend to focus on, and speak about the soul life of an individual in terms of spiritual comfort and deep nourishment, qualities which are a central, and abiding dynamic of its...
View Articlewhere the trees breathe
I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my...
View Articlewaking up into dreams
If you are a pattern for the world, the Tao will be strong inside you and there will be nothing you can’t do. If you accept the world, the Tao will be inside you and you will return to your primal...
View Articlehow can we know?
Centering the clay on the potter’s wheel and then using it all to make whatever shape one makes; hearing the poem in the exactitude of its words and syllables and lines and in the economy of its total...
View Articlebeyond the status quo
You may not have a name for your heart’s desire, you may not even recognize it as a spiritual yearning. It may be some persistent discomfort with your life that you have not known how to respond to,...
View Articleeffortless yearning
Reality is not what you think it is: It’s bigger; it’s more; it’s inclusive. Your false ego wants to keep things small and under its control. But you are bigger than your little self, with all of its...
View Articlefrom the long view
Seeing the world as it is means seeing not only the vulnerability and suffering of each person, but also the basic goodness of each person. When the veil of trance lifts, the pleasures and pains, the...
View Articleharsh & within reason
For the momentous truth is that the spirit, the Tao, the divine reality must not be sought as something for away, separate from us, in a heaven to which we may ascend only after death; but rather as...
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