The Bridge

No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk! (Nietzsche)

Character vs. reputation

Conflict

Gaslighting

10 lessons

internal ignorance

"The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution...The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart...Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence." - Noah Levine

Fascism

Saved

Insane species

Our children

"Our children and our grandchildren are our elders in universe time. They are born into a more complex, more evolved universe than we can experience or than we can know. It is our privilege to see that new world through their eyes."  ~ Buckminster Fuller 

Mindful

"Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. 

This is the happiness of the Buddha."

- Achaan Cha

"When you want to enter a different aspect of Life, you wait for the point at which Particle becomes Wave.  And just at that split second before the Particle is gone and the Wave takes over, you enter between, and you become Energy.  At that point where the wave becomes Particle again, you enter between and you re-become who you were or you make a different choice.  Which is also possible.  I think it is that space which healing occurs." - Paula Underwood Spencer

Proverbs

Youth

Stigmas

Story

"It is all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories.  The old story, the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it, is no longer effective.  Yet we have not yet learned the new story. Our traditional story of the Universe sustained us for a long period of time. It shaped our emotional attitudes, provided us with life purpose and energized action. It consecrated suffering and integrated knowledge. We awoke in the morning and knew where we were. We could answer the questions of our children. We could identify crime, punish transgressors. Everything was taken care of because the story was there. It did not necessarily make people good, nor did it take away the pains and stupidities of life or make for unfailing warmth in human associations. It did provide a context in which life could function in a meaningful manner." -Thomas Berry

TIBET

$ Agreements

Presence

Used

Kabir

"Between the conscious and unconscious, the mind has put up a swing; all earth creatures, even supernovas, sway between these two trees, and it never winds down. Angels, animals, humans, insects by the million, also the wheeling sun and moon; ages go by, and it goes on. Everything is swinging: heaven, earth, water, fire, and the secret one is slowly growing a body. Kabir saw this for fifteen seconds, and it made him a servant for life."

Shut up!

Listening

Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to effect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person.

Thread

There's a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can't get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time's unfolding. You don't ever let go of the thread.
William Stafford - Poet Laureat, NEA Fellow

Rigpa

"The mind of clear light (rigpa) is also called "all-empty" because it is beyond the entire scope of conceptual consciousness. Even while you are still seeming to be a sentient being and despite the generation of a great many good and bad conceptions such as manifest desire, hatred, and bewilderment, the diamond mind itself is free from the pollutions of these defilements." 

Fyodor

Tolstoy

Confucius

To Love

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." - Arundhati Roy

One Second

Misconceptiom