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Sunday Quote: Connection

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Safety is not the absence of threat,

it is the presence of connection

Gabor Mate

Effortless

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Awareness is aware of itself as the nature of mind.

When local awareness becomes aware of spacious awareness, it begins to recognize itself. When local awareness and spacious awareness unite, they realize they have always been united. Awareness knows itself by being itself. We discover that awareness is already awake without our help.

If you can abide as awareness of itself – content-less, timeless, boundless, knowing – for even three to five seconds, that experience can shift you into the ground of Being.

Lock Kelly

Hunters and hunted

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The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the old toys and the worn-out ways of operating.

Our soul brings us these crises to remind us that we don’t have to remain stuck in the land of the hunters and the hunted.

We are called to draw ourselves up to our full height and confidence, even when terrified at the prospect of the unknown.


Alberto Villoldo, Cuban Medical anthropologist, writer on Shaminism, Psychiatry with Soul

Just rest

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Once there was a man who hated his own shadow.
When he walked and found that his shadow was close behind him, he began to walk faster and faster.

But every time he put his foot down, there was another step, while his shadow kept up with him without the slightest difficulty.

He attributed his failure to the fact that he was not running fast enough.
So he ran faster and faster, without stopping, until he finally dropped dead.


Those who do not understand the Dao are just like this man who hated his shadow. It is actually very easy to be rid of one’s shadow – just rest under a tree.

Just rest.

Chuang Tzu, 369 – 286 BC, Chinese Philosopher

[The Tao or Dao is the natural order of the universe. Health and happiness comes from being in harmony with this natural way]

Sunday Quote: Natural goodness

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The sun, too, shines into cesspools, and is not polluted

Diogenes Laertius, 180 – 240 AD, Book VI: The Cynics

What wishes to grow?

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Whatever wishes to grow within you —a curiosity, a talent, an interest —

is life seeking its expression through you. Our old desire for comfort, even happiness,

may prove an impediment. We are here a very short time.

Let us make it as luminous and as meaningful as we can.

Time to stop being afraid, and time to show up as yourself.

James Hollis, Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey