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29/12/2023

13/11/2023

I do not give permission to Facebook to charge my account; all my pictures are my property and not Facebook!!!
I DO NOT GIVE FACEBOOK MY PERMISSION TO USE ANY OF MY PERSONAL DATA.

30/10/2023

Ask the Earth and the trees and plants, rocks, rivers and mountains. Ask the weather systems for guidance. How can I help you? How can I serve you? Ask the birds. Honour and tend all beings. Let them know with your kindness that you are an ally. Then listen carefully, with your wholebody. Ears of your hands. Frequency detector of the heart. Listen for the subtleties that ripple beneath. Listen for the new stories rising. Purify. Open up. Free yourself of yourself. Become empty. Hollow body. A dancing bag of bones. The new ways will come through us. The ancient ways will come through.
~ Red K Elders : Red K Elders Art

[Art: Ulla Thynell Art]

22/08/2023

Let go of the drama. Stop feeding your mind with movies, news and stories of human conflict. Connect with the beauty of life. Listen to the songs of birds and rain, the sound of waves on beaches. Let go of emotions. Be like water. Water gives life to the world but never clings to things. She flows freely, touches all life, nurtures us, but keeps moving. This is the way of Nature, and the way of Love... ~Christopher Chase

03/06/2023

23/02/2023

Sometimes in teaching meditation we say, “Sit like a mountain. Sit with a sense of strength and dignity. Be steadfast, be majestic, be natural and at ease in awareness. No matter how many winds are blowing, no matter how many clouds are swirling, no matter how many lions are prowling, be intimate with everything and sit like a mountain.” This is an image of equanimity. We feel everything, without exception, and we relate to it through our own strength of awareness, not through habitual reactions. Practice sitting like a mountain sometime, allowing all images and feelings and sensations to come and go, as you reside in steadfastness, watching it all arise and pass away.

03/02/2023

More often than not, Mary Oliver speaks directly to my condition. Today, she does it with this: "Sometimes, I grow weary of the days with all their fits and starts.”

When I allow a thousand kinds of trivia, showboating, and madness to fragment my attention, I lose sight of what's foundational, vital, and true. If I want to stay engaged with the world in a life-giving way, I need to take Aldo Leopold’s advice and “think like a mountain” more often than I do.

I’m keenly aware of what MLK said about “the fierce urgency of now” and the moral imperative to respond to it. At the same time, it’s crucial to take the long view.

From the top of a mountain, we can see the world steady and see it whole, and see ourselves more clearly as well. Then we can get a better read on where we’re most needed and called before we return to the fray.

I can’t climb a mountain today, but I can find other ways to reclaim my center and gain perspective. Please write a few words about how you do it. We get along with a little help from our friends!

[From “Swan: Poems and Prose Poems” by Mary Oliver tiny.cc/c7z3vz. My 10 books are at tiny.cc/qocmuz AND http://tiny.cc/5rcmuz.]