Take A Moment of Reflection: Seeking the Truth
If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind's worst disease. -Sent-ts'an, c. 700 C.E. One of the greatest challenges I have with my own teenage daughter is trying to seek the truth the...
Take a Moment of Reflection: Your Precious Life
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" -Mary Oliver As we prepare to end this year and enter the next, it's a good time to do some reflection on how you want to live. Are you treating your life as precious? Are you giving it the...
Take a Moment of Reflection: Wherever You Are is Here
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If...
Take a Moment of Reflection: Beyond Right or Wrong
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." -Rumi, Sufi poet When we name things as right or wrong, we leave no room for a meeting of the hearts. When I find myself in disagreement with someone, I can get into a place of...
Take a Moment of Reflection: Abundance
"Abundance can be had simply by consciously receiving what already has been given." -Sufi Saying We often seek abundance by looking for material things but when we take the time to look, we can see that we are surrounded with abundance: friendships, laughter, joyful...
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