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Thin Places
December 23, 2022 - I visit the thin places
to steal a glimpse behind
the veil that separates what is concealed,
inside some other realm,...
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How the Light Comes
December 31, 2021 - "How the Light Comes" by Jan Richardson
I cannot tell you
how the light comes.
What I know
is that it is more ancien...
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Aimer
December 25, 2021 - "Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction."
Antoine de Saint Exupér...
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"Here rolls the sea"
May 15, 2021 - From Sadhana by Rabindranath Tagore, and carved into a tablet on a wall at Dartington Hall in Devon, UK.
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Out Beyond Ideas
July 31, 2020 - Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in tha...
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The Edge of Doubt
June 30, 2018 - There is always that edge of doubt.
Trust it, that’s where the new things come from.
If you can’t live with it, get ou...
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A Ritual to Read to Each Other
June 20, 2018 - If you don't know the kind of person I am
and I don't know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may p...
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The Wake
May 09, 2018 - "Questions before Dark" by Jeanne Lohmann
Day ends, and before sleep
when the sky dies down, consider
your altered st...
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The moment
April 19, 2018 - This is the only moment any of us ever gets - Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Sunrise no.2
April 15, 2018 - “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from whic...
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Boredom and Creativity
April 09, 2018 - " Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity." - Robert M. Pirsig
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Growing slowly
April 07, 2018 - " The more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings. "...
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The edge
May 30, 2017 - “Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a...
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High Flight
May 18, 2017 - For Laszlo, on his birthday.
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered w...
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Open Heart
March 01, 2017 - Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greates...
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Trees no.39
February 21, 2017 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could...
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The X tree mystery
February 02, 2017 - At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the s...
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Choosing to think of it
December 16, 2016 - Today, ten thousand people will die
and their small replacements will bring joy
and this will make sense to someone
r...
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Be still
October 14, 2016 - while you worry about what each note means,
the band plays on.
you are running from a dog
who only chases because you...
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The empty moments
July 15, 2016 - I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
Oria...
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Invercauld Bridge
July 05, 2016 - Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan
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Bigger and more complex things
June 18, 2016 - “ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to mov...
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Latitudes and Longitudes
June 06, 2016 - " Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and longitudes."...
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Tomorrow will have an island
May 28, 2016 - Tomorrow will have an island. Before night
I always find it. Then on to the next island.
These places hidden in the da...
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À Perte de Vue
May 19, 2016 - “ Why do you go away? So that you can come back.
So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra co...
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The Path no.2
May 06, 2016 - " As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To ma...
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Stormy Sea no. 6
April 24, 2016 - Love is not love, w hich alters when it alteration finds........
it is an ever-fixed mark, t hat looks on tempests, and...
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Boundary conditions
March 01, 2016 - " We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet min...
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Lighthouses no.2
February 29, 2016 - “ I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. ”
Douglas Adams
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Trees no.33
February 26, 2016 - " It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that. "
Robert M. Pirsig
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Nothingness #3
September 09, 2014 - "Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.
It's like the ultimate rest.
It's better than the best sleep you'...
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Nothingness #2
August 28, 2014 - “Emptiness
which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness
is in fact the reservoir of infinite poss...
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Nothingness
August 14, 2014 - "It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness......
If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if...
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