I Looked Up

  by Mary Oliver   I looked up and there it was among the green branches of the pitchpines – thick bird, a ruffle of fire trailing over the shoulders…

Where are You Going, My Beautiful, Dying Friend?

Where are You Going, My Beautiful, Dying Friend? by Kathleen Stilwell January 6, 2019   ~ for Patricia ~   “The beyond is not what is infinitely remote, but what…

The True Normal is Paranormal

by Jon Rappoport September 27, 2018 Source   The taboo against paranormal experience is a taboo against freedom For those who want to examine a rigorous presentation of the paranormal, based…

Beautiful, Flawed Us

by  John Welwood   You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still, you are…

Forget about Enlightenment

by John Welwood   Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are And listen to the wind singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing, and the fear in…

A Great Need

Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That. ~Hafiz…

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the cash you need. All the other kinds of silver really buy just strange things. Everything has its music. Everything has genes of God inside. But learn from…

Step Into the Role – an Esoteric Invitation

Step Into the Role – an Esoteric Invitation by Zen Gardner June 2015   We’re at an amazing and empowering juncture in humanity’s history. For each of us individually now…

The Spectrum of Love… or Start from Where You Are

The Spectrum of Love by Alan Watts transcript from an old radio presentation by Alan Watts courtesy of Progress. Not Perfection   We know that from time to time there…

Alan Watts: The Real You

Alan Watts: The Real You An inspirational and profound speech from the late philosopher Alan Watts. Original Audio sourced from: “Alan Watts – ‘Nature of Consciousness’ from Human Consciousness” Produced…

The Stairway of Existence

The Stairway of Existence by Hafiz, Persian lyric poet & mystic (1320 to 1389)   We Are not In pursuit of formalities Or fake religious Laws, For through the stairway of existence…

The Battlefield is You

The Battlefield is You by Zen Gardner April 2013   There’s no looking for crowd validation. There’s no waiting for outside redemption. There’s no collective bargaining to rely on. The…

It Felt Love

It Felt Love by Hafiz, Persian lyric poet & mystic (1320 to 1389)   How Did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its Beauty? It felt…

Spiritual Bypassing: Avoidance in Holy Drag

Spiritual Bypassing: Avoidance in Holy Drag by Robert Augustus Masters, PhD originally published April 29, 2013   Spiritual bypassing, a term first coined by psychologist John Welwood in 1984, is…

On Giving

Source: Kent Nerburn by Kent Nerburn November 30, 2006   Giving is a miracle that can transform the heaviest of hearts. Two people, who moments before lived in separate worlds of…

When Things Fall Apart

When Things Fall Apart Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation Through Difficult Times by Maria Popova, the marginalian July 17, 2017   “Only to the extent that…

Voluntaryism: Candles in the Dark

Larken Rose introduces conversation points designed to teach voluntaryists/anarchists how to be far more effective in talking to their statist friends, co-workers, family members, etc., using techniques that, by taking…

The Courage of David Icke: The Wogan Interview Nobody Mentions

The Courage of David Icke: The Wogan Interview Nobody Mentions   “…while 15 years ago he was ridiculed for his prophecies about natural disasters around the world…now he has a…

Compassionate Water (The Great Bell Chant)

Compassionate Water (The Great Bell Chant)   The Great Bell Chant by Thich Nhat Hanh   May the sound of this bell penetrate deep into the cosmos Even in the…

A Place Called Gratitude

A Place Called Gratitude   video & voice by Patrick Willis poetry by Les Visible originally published December 11, 2005   Malachi 3:10 “Bring ye all the tithes into the…

As a Tree

As a Tree by Cnawan Fahey, Ethereal Nature February 26, 2015   A friend of mine posted this image on Facebook.   Such a fantastic concept! Which prompted me to share…

Breathing Into the Sun

Breathing Into the Sun by Cnawan Fahey, Ethereal Nature December 28, 2014   Since the darkest of nights the sun has not shone overcast days for overcast hearts when at…

All the Hemispheres

All the Hemispheres   Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcomed season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. Open up…

Forgiveness and the Way We Get

Tonight I am pondering some things I ponder quite often. Things such as seeing all relationships as mirrors of oneself… gratefulness for all of life — everything, without exception… forgiveness…

Dancing in the Vortex of Change

Dancing in the Vortex of Change by Zen Gardner August 23, 2013   We appear to currently be in a kind of vortex, or a roiling series of etheric vortexes and…

A Grand Time for Lovefulness

A Grand Time for Lovefulness by Adam Abraham, Phaelosopher October 29, 2012   Excerpts from A Grand Time for Lovefulness   I don’t know about you, but in spite of…

Start a Huge, Foolish Project

Start a Huge, Foolish Project by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, 13th century Sufi mystic &  poet   These spiritual window-shoppers, who idly ask, ‘How much is that?’ Oh, I’m just…

Don’t Sell Out to Fit In

Don’t Sell Out to Fit In A Parable by Alan Cohen   A fellow once went to Zumbach the tailor to be fitted for a new suit of clothes. After…

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