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Beginning a journey

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There are journeys we have begun that have brought us great inner riches and refinement; but we had to travel through dark valleys of difficulty and suffering. Had we known at the beginning what the journey would demand of us, we might never have set out. Yet the rewards and gifts became vital to who we are. Through the innocence of beginning we are often seduced into growth.… When the heart is ready for a fresh beginning, unforeseen things can emerge. And in a sense, this is exactly what a beginning does. It is an opening for surprises. Surrounding the intention and the act of beginning, there are always exciting possibilities. … beginnings have their own mind, and they invite and unveil new gifts and arrivals in one’s life. Beginnings are new horizons that want to be seen; … What is the new horizon in you that wants to be seen?

John O Donohue

Sunday Quote: Doing and Non-Doing

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This thing we tell of can never be found by seeking,

yet only seekers find it.

Abu Yazid Al-Bistami

Looking within

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May you find harmony between your soul and your life.
May the mansion of your soul never become a haunted place.
May you know the eternal longing that lies at the heart of time.
May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within.
May you never place walls between the light and yourself.
May you be set free from the prisons of guilt, fear, disappointment and despair.
May you allow the wild beauty of the invisible world to gather you, mind you, and embrace you in belonging.

John O’Donahoe

Sunday Quote: Seeing Deeper

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There are no unsacred places;

There are only sacred places and desecrated places.

Wendall Berry, Given

Walking in the woods this morning

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P1000210Masters of stillness, masters of light,
who, when cut by something
falling, go nowhere and heal,
teach me this nowhere,

who, when falling themselves,
simply wait to root in another direction,
teach me this falling.

Four hundred year old trees,
who draw aliveness from the earth
like smoke from the heart of God,
we come, not knowing you will hush our little want
to be big;

we come, not knowing
that all the work is so much
busyness of mind; all
the worry, so much
busyness of heart.

As the sun warms anything near,
being warms everything still
and the great still things
that outlast us

make us crack like leaves of laurel
releasing a fragrance
that has always been.

Mark Nepo, In Muir Woods

Sunday Quote: Letting go of striving

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As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success,

we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves.

Pema Chodron