My dear friend Brynna shared this with her Meditation group, and also with me. Thank you Brynna! The reality that is present to us and in us: call it Being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen (or recovering the natural capacity to listen), we can find ourself engulfed in such happiness that it cannot be explained: the happiness of being at one with everything in that hidden ground of Love for which there can be no explanations... May

If you stumble, make it part of the dance - River Maria Urke Watching a romantic comedy, "Champagne Problems", a dialogue between two characters caught my attention: -"You'd be crazy to not be feeling crazy right now" -"Thanks. I wanna be more like you. I wanna be fearless in love" -"You think I'm fearless?" -"Mm-hmm" -"I stumble all the time." -"You do?" -"I've just learned to make it part of the dance". Searching for that quote somewhere, I found about River Maria Urke, her

Thanks to the Poetry Circle for bringing this poem into my day. “Instructions on Not Giving Up” By Ada Limon More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees that really gets to me. When all the shock of white and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave the pavement strewn with the

This part of the poem stays with me: For the divine alchemy to work, The Pitcher needs a still cup Read the full poem, from the book "The Gift" , Poems inspired by Hafiz, the great Sufi Master, by Daniel Landinsky. A Still Cup For God To make love, For the divine alchemy to work, The Pitcher needs a still cup. Why Ask Hafiz to say Anything more about Your most Vital Requirement? #hafiz #daniellandinsky #thegift #sufimaster #astillcup