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You do not heal 'from' trauma. You simply come to know yourself as Life Itself. And you turn towards the wounded place. And you flush it with attention, ... which is Love. And maybe the wound will always be with you. Maybe you will always walk with the hurt. But now, you hold it. It doesn't hold you. You are the container, not the contained. It doesn't control you any longer, the wound. Because it is drenched in awareness now. Drenched in You. Loved by You. Even celebrated by You. You do not heal 'from' trauma. You find healing 'in' the trauma. You find yourself at trauma's sacred core. The One who is always present. The One who can bear even the most intense feeling states. And survive. The Indestructible One. The Infinite One. The Powerful One. You. ~ Jeff Foster See more

Unconditional Willing to experience aloneness, I discover connection everywhere; Turning to face my fear,... I meet the warrior who lives within; Opening to my loss, I gain the embrace of the universe; Surrendering into emptiness, I find fullness without end. Each condition I flee from pursues me, Each condition I welcome transforms me And becomes itself transformed Into its radiant jewel-like essence. I bow to the one who has made it so, Who has crafted this Master Game; To play it is purest delight; To honor its form true devotion. Jennifer Welwood

When we go for a walk in the morning, we hear all kinds of little whispering sounds around us. The rose says: "Hi, you people." So we turn to the rose: "Oh, you are here; how are you?" And then we hear the little blade of grass saying: "I am here, too." And the snail is on the way, it says: "Hi, be careful, I cannot move fast." Wherever you go, it is full of life and there are all kinds of beauty everywhere to greet you: the sunlight from above, and the breeze that comes from... ancient seas, and music in the air and all kinds of birds singing for you. Everywhere you find such beauty, such joy, such wonder. In this happy pilgrimage and procession called life you are going on and on. You can share all this with your companion. In this kind of sharing, it is the Self that you are discovering in every attraction that greets you as friends, flowers, birds, breezes, dewdrops, and even the teardrops that mirror in them the insignia of love. When you experience that, you can say, "I am experiencing my Self; I am experiencing Love; I am experiencing the grand freedom of my true Being." In our universities we teach physics and chemistry so that we may make all kinds of chemical things which can be advertised and sold, etc. We teach engineering to put up big, massive constructions. We teach medicine so that we can turn people into patients and patients into clients and consequently customers of pharmaceuticals. But we have forgotten one thing. We do not pay any heed to teach sensibility, to make people more sensible to appreciate values. Nobody seems to train our eyes to look for vistas of beauty. How great is the value of tenderness! Think of the value of tenderness when you touch, when you touch with your mind, of the tenderness when you caress with your eyes, and the tenderness of your consoling word. Which university is teaching people to be tender? Who takes pain to cultivate such sensibility in children's minds? There we are at a loss. When it comes to a matter of learning values, we are still in the elementary classes, trying to learn only how to bake bread or find the means to bake bread. Jesus said: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." But every word that comes from the mouth of God is not a gilt-edged book. The word of God is the expression of life that is abundantly manifesting around us in so many ways and it is up to us to participate in that with joyous gratitude. ~ Nitya Chaitanya Yati

On Re-opening, Author Unknown I am seeing so much anxiety about resuming business, and so much anger about continued regulations. People are feeling the need to catapult to one side or the other, then fight the opposition. Here’s my perspective, from a mainstream medical model. I think a lot of folks have fallen into the idea that social distancing was meant to stop the viral spread. It wasn’t-it was meant to SLOW it while we put medical infrastructure in place. It has worke...Continue reading

When I run after what I think I want, My days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, What I need flows to me, And without any pain.... From this I understand that What I want also wants me, Is looking for me And attracting me; When it cannot attract me Any more to go to it, It has to come to me. There is a great secret In this for anyone Who can grasp it. ~ Rumi

My friend, go within and remember who you are remember your divinity, your wholeness, your integrity. Remember you are created from the one consciousness the one source, the one being-ness that is life itself. Remember your goodness and your wildness. ... Remember your true inner authority ... your majesty and dignity. Remember that no-one and no-thing can take this away from you this is sovereignty 101! ~ Amoda Maa (image by Sarah Richter from Pixabay)

If you understand yourself as a temporal embodiment of the truth, you will have no difficulty whatsoever. You will appreciate your surroundings, and you will appreciate yourself as a wonderful part of Buddha’s great activity, even in the midst of difficulties. This is our way of life. While you are practicing zazen, you may hear the rain dropping from the roof in the dark. Later, the wonderful mist will be coming through the big trees, and still later when people start to wo...rk, they will see the beautiful mountains. But some people will be annoyed if they hear the rain when they are lying in their beds in the morning, because they do not know that later they will see the beautiful sun rising from the east. If our mind is concentrated on ourselves we will have this kind of worry. But if we accept ourselves as the embodiment of the truth, or Buddha nature, we will have no worry. We will think, Now it is raining, but we don’t know what will happen in the next moment. By the time we go out it may be a beautiful day, or a stormy day. Since we don’t know, let’s appreciate the sound of the rain now. This kind of attitude is the right attitude. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

An unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates How can we examine our life, our actions, our thoughts, our behavior? What need changing in our life?

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