If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? - Harry Shearer One of the reasons folks have a hard time committing to the idea of a Power Greater Than Their Own, is the belief that absolute power corrupts. Always. But we have, in our minds, the memory of wholeness, Of a loving God, and that is [...]
Continue reading...18. April 2009
“This snow’ll break some trees. Take that broom, child, and knock it off the bushes outside the house.” Dad. He called me child. And sometimes he would go out with me. We were freedom riders, bashing away at snowy chains…..their captives’ limbs bobbing and waving their gratitude. I stand at the window and watch the huge snowflakes. big as [...]
Continue reading...16. April 2009
Recently it has been made clear to me (again) that just being yourself is quite threatening to most folks. IF you are just being yourself, you are not trying to change yourself to fit into the situation. You are present and responding honestly to what is in front of you. Not manipulating, just responding. I noticed [...]
Continue reading...13. August 2008
Well, I gotta say this Michael Phelps is from another planet. ALL of the Olympic swimmers look like fish, or frogs. But he delivers just the way we love. He is superhuman in his swimming ability, and he is open and fresh when he is interviewed. Somehow he seem transparent enough that we just might [...]
Continue reading...12. August 2008
1. Do make the most of the early moments of the day. During the night you have been out traveling in the cosmos and beyond, so when you come back in, don’t miss the chance to program your day while you are still reconnecting. Once you are back in and all the synapses that make [...]
Continue reading...10. August 2008
Spectacular! This year I had mixed feelings about the setting of the Summer Olympics. I may not understand cultural differences, and I still feel the pain of the Tibetans in their oppression by the Chinese. But I do love the Olympics. The opening ceremonies were visually so very dramatic and sweeping that I was absolutely taken in. Yes, They [...]
Continue reading...1. August 2008
How do you tell when one moment has ended and another begun? Have I finished eating the Valencia orange I was eating a few minutes ago? How can I really tell? If I try, I can experience it as though it is now. And if I do the same with other “older” thoughts, I can [...]
Continue reading...16. June 2008
This woman, Jill Bolte Taylor, is really just saying that she came to know there is one life - and that she shares with God. Joel Goldsmith - Christian Mystic Keep your vision on your true identity. Behold in truth your spiritual, incorporeal selfhood. You are a state of consciousness. It is consciousness that constitutes your being. [...]
Continue reading...7. June 2008
“Looking For Richard” Even though I have been given the greatest tools for raising my vibratory frequency to the full realization of enlightenment, my real inheritance, I find that I resist that. It’s as though I have a DNA- level readout that comes online and says, “Don’t do that, don’t go there….stay down here, it’s not [...]
Continue reading...26. May 2008
“And so, my people, what is it to be spirit in flesh?” he paused, “and how have we come to be here?” He stopped speaking, his questions alive in the air around us as the words echoed forth from the mountains. There was an expectant hush, and the people leaned forward as he began to speak again. [...]
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21. April 2009
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