Posts Tagged With ‘truth’

Light and Shadow ~ The Place Where We’re All One

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

The words below, Light and Shadow, weren’t so much inspired by the Martin Luther King, Jr. quote to the right, but as I began typing out a comment on the Facebook post it was attached to, these words came out instead. The MLK quote reminds me of the Hindi word, […]

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Truth: Exiting the spiritual path.

The Truth: Next Exit

Truth is a bit of a scary concept to me, and an even more disturbing quantity when wielded by the minds of any but the truly enlightened. Whenever I find myself speaking capitol “T” truths, it’s time to get off at the next exit, or at least find a rest […]

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One and All

Love & Hate, Heart via http://www.cuorhome.net/heart-images/inspiration/lovehate/

It is through our perception of this realm of manifestation And our will to reason about all we perceive That we learn to believe in opposites. Beauty & Ugliness Love & Hatred Good & Evil Only words. Only names for the unnameable. The concepts they speak of, Only manifestations of […]

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Be Silent ~ Be True ~ Just Be

Vestigial Self

Be Silent ~ Be True ~ Just Be Vestiges of a manifest self,      Long forgotten, Writes words      Better left           Unsaid.   Some truths are better left untold,      Or risk obscuring the true           That cannot be told.   True is an act of being      Not telling.   So I remind the […]

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Paul Simon ~ slip slidin’ my way from the blues to the rainbow’s loving hues

Slip Slidin' Away - Paul Simon

A day of sunshine and warm summery breezes, moving conversation and revealed transformations, a day of intimacy and worries unburdened, of gratitude and the most difficult of life’s moments shared… A day not so much impervious to the hardships, the horrors, the blues, but one that finds itself on the other […]

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We’re too good to be this political ~ Be the change you want to see in the world

The Second Book of the Tao ~ Stephen Mitchell

My first mistake today was climbing into the bathtub and picking up the May 31st, 2010 edition of Canada’s weekly news magazine, Macleans, rather than the copy of Stephen Mitchell’s The Second Book of the Tao, in which I’d thought to have a nice, long spiritual soak along with the […]

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