The power of a musical phrase is more than we can comprehend. I remember some years ago feeling deeply that if I could reincarnate as anything in the world it would be as a musical phrase in Mozart’s Requiem that explodes my heart and moves my consciousness every time it
Tonight as I open up my computer to write, the above phrase jumped into my head – one of the names given to Kuan Yin, a female deity in Buddhist tradition, known to have supreme compassion as Mother to all beings. Having just traveled safely from Illinois to North Carolina through a
I can’t quite believe that I am moved to tell this story for the first time, but here I go. Some twenty years ago I designed for myself a 40-day ritual that I did every day during Lent for three consecutive years. My spiritual teacher at the time used to
I always liked Tom Petty’s song, “Refugee”. He has in it the line, “You don’t have to live like a refugee” and I have been singing it to myself repeatedly. Oh, I wish the line were true for me! I am living like a refugee.
I am not appealing for sympathy,
In spite of multitudes of daily foibles, thousands of bad turns or wrong choices, misfired words or gestures, forgotten intentions and promises, character flaws that reach deeper than earth’s most dramatic canyons, life still seems to offer her mercy. It is hard not to be deeply moved by this. I
A friend shared a dream with me yesterday that was fascinating; and after that conversation the images shared kept unfolding in front of my eyes through almost everything that happened as the day progressed. This day continued similarly. There is so much information, almost scriptural, and deeply archetypal, in dreams.
I have long experienced movies as huge collective dreams. The themes that are in them are potently revealing of what is in the collective psyche. The unconscious, more than the conscious mind, drives the production of these. I am convinced of it.
I rarely see movies on the big screen anymore
Integration of one’s personal shadow is such a tough assignment, even for the most conscious, aware and sturdy of people. I wonder why nature made it this way.
The easiest thing is to see rejected parts of the self as “other” and perceive them as elsewhere, to forget we live in
I enjoyed immensely seeing Brian Greene, the string theory scientist guy, on Stephen Colbert’s show. He says that math now can prove the possibility of parallel universes occurring at the same time as this one. He also said that until we have evidence of those universes the theory remains only
1. Love. The ruling principle. The first and last word. The only real priority.
2. Non-judgment. Always, in all cases. Without exception. Including self.
3. No fear. Not about anything. Not for any reason. Break the habit. Get over it. “Perfect love casteth out fear.”