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"Lost" by David Wagoner
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful...

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May 22, 20171 min read
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"I would love to live..." by John O'Donohue
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. From Anam Cara A Book Of Celtic Wisdom Join my...

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May 9, 20171 min read
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"Late, by myself...", by Jalaluddin Rumi
Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm...

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May 3, 20171 min read
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"Not Knowing...", by Emily Dickinson
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door; Or has it feathers like a bird, Or billows like a shore? #emilydickinson #poetry

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Apr 29, 20171 min read
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"The Lost Thought", by Emily Dickinson
I felt a clearing in my mind As if my brain had split; I tried to match it, seam by seam, But could not make them fit. The thought behind...

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Apr 12, 20171 min read
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"For Belonging", by John O'Donohue
For Belonging May you listen to your longing to be free. May the frames of your belonging be generous enough for your dreams. My you...

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Mar 10, 20171 min read
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A Blessing "For Solitude", by John O'Donohue
For Solitude May you recognize in your life the presence, power and light of your soul. May you realize that you are never alone, that...

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Feb 17, 20171 min read
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"A Morning Offering" by John O'Donohue
I bless the night that nourished my heart To set the ghosts of longing free Into the flow and figure of dream That went to harvest from...

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Jan 10, 20171 min read
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"Beannacht" (Blessing), by John O'Donohue
On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze...

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Dec 27, 20162 min read
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"Song of the Builders", by Mary Oliver
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime. Near me, I saw a single cricket; it was moving the...

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Nov 29, 20161 min read
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"Awake Awhile", by Hafiz
Some years ago, during my Viniyoga Teacher Training, one of my teachers, Mirka Scalco Kraftsow, sang at the end of a practice part of...

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Nov 19, 20161 min read
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Book of hours, II,16
How surely gravity’s law, strong as an ocean current, takes hold of even the smallest thing and pulls it toward the heart of the...

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Sep 26, 20161 min read
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"Working together", by David Whyte
We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again. The visible and the invisible working together in common...

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Aug 30, 20161 min read
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"I ask all Blessings...", Anonymous Navajo
I ask all blessings, I ask them with reverence, of my mother earth, of the sky, moon, and sun my father I am old age, the essence of...

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Jul 10, 20161 min read
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"Cutting Loose", by William Stafford
Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason, you sing. For no reason, you accept the way of being lost, cutting loose from all else and electing...

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Jun 15, 20161 min read
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"Story Water", by Jalaluddin Rumi
A story is like water that you heat for your bath. It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet, and it cleans...

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Jun 8, 20161 min read
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"Faith", by David Whyte
I want to write about faith, about the way the moon rises over cold snow, night after night, faithful even as it fades from fullness,...

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May 14, 20161 min read
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"Dreaming True", by Robert Moss
It is not enough to be able to drop your body as easily as a bathrobe, take flight like the eagle, enter the hollow hills, talk with...

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Apr 25, 20161 min read
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"Loneliness", by Mary Oliver
I too have known loneliness. I too have known what it is to feel misunderstood, rejected, and suddenly not at all beautiful. Oh, mother...

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Feb 17, 20161 min read
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"You Reading This, Be Ready", by William Stafford
Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened...

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Feb 17, 20161 min read
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