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Tapping into the Unconscious – The Art of Sohan Qadri

February 16, 2020

When I first encountered one of Sohan Qadri’s paintings, I was plunged like a pebble into a still pool, radiating ripples of …

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Life’s Sweet Longing for Itself

October 3, 2019

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through …

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Resting in the Grace of the World

August 18, 2019

“When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear …

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Letters From Beyond the Grave on Memorial Day

May 27, 2019

While neither of these poems have anything in particular to do with remembering those who have given their lives to …

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Astonished, Opened at Last

May 5, 2019

Fallen in Love by David Whyte That day I saw beneath dark clouds the passing light over the water and …

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Art that Mirrors the Inner Essence

April 28, 2019

I found this photo on the cover of Sun Magazine some years ago and fell in love with it. It’s …

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“The Secret of Happiness” – A Coda to My Last Post

December 10, 2018

After my last post on “happy endings” for our novels or ourselves, I’ve been thinking a lot about what exactly …

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Seeing the Self in What We Love

November 28, 2018

I’ve become mesmerized by the quote below I found on The Beauty We Love. These first four lines, especially, move …

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“Something in This Sleeping Earth” – Two by Whyte, One by Fiske

October 18, 2018

All My Body Calls All my body calls for something in this sleeping earth we call the spirit. But how …

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“Perfect Love” – All We Need for What Ails Us

September 27, 2018

The highest common denominator for all spiritual practices and religious teachings is Love. Love with a capital L, meaning that …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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