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"For the Traveler", by John O'Donohue
Here is a beautiful blessing for all travelers, by John O'Donohue For the Traveler Every time you leave home, Another road takes you Into...

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Jun 1, 20152 min read


"Wild Geese", by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let...

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May 25, 20151 min read


"Look and See", by Mary Oliver
This morning, at waterside, a sparrow flew to a water rock and landed, by error, on the back of an eider duck; lightly it fluttered off,...

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May 22, 20151 min read


"Why I Wake Early", by Mary Oliver
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding...

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May 22, 20151 min read


"When Death Comes", by Mary Oliver
When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps...

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May 22, 20151 min read


"The Journey", by David Whyte
Above the mountains the geese turn into the light again painting their black silhouettes on an open sky. Sometimes everything has to...

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May 13, 20151 min read


"A Rabbit Noticed My Condition", by St John of the Cross
I was sad one day and went for a walk; I sat in a field. A rabbit noticed my condition and came near. It often does not take more than...

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May 11, 20151 min read


About the Mother's Day Workshop, by Susana Laborde-Blaj
I have been reflecting on what it is to be a mother, what it is to relate to our mothers, and also what it is to relate to what can...

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May 2, 20151 min read


"The real voyage of discovery..." by Marcel Proust
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." #marcelproust #quotation

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May 2, 20151 min read


About being a mother, quotation by Ruth Goode
"In the efforts to give good and comforting answers to the young questioners whom we love, we very often arrive at good and comforting...

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May 2, 20151 min read


"Saint Francis and the Sow", by Galway Kinnel
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though...

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Apr 29, 20151 min read


"Love does that" by Meister Eckhart
All day long a little burro labors, sometimes with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries about things that bother only...

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Apr 17, 20151 min read


"What does your heart want most to say...? by T. K. V. Desikachar
Q: What does your heart want most to say to all the yoga students and teachers? T.K.V. Desikachar: My heart wants to say, don’t expect...

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Apr 16, 20151 min read


"Spring Azures" by Mary Oliver
In spring the blue azures bow down at the edges of shallow puddles to drink the black rain water. Then they rise and float away into the...

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Apr 13, 20151 min read


"The Way it is" by William Stafford
There's a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. you have...

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Apr 9, 20151 min read


"Face to face" by Susana Laborde-Blaj
Sometimes I wonder why I keep so much noise in my mind. This morning I reviewed scenarios, thought about smart things to say in class,...

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Apr 6, 20153 min read


"You suppose you are the trouble..." by Jelaludin Rumi
You suppose you are the trouble but you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door but you are the key that opens it It's...

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Mar 31, 20151 min read


"To See a World..." by William Blake
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. This is...

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Mar 29, 20154 min read


"A prayer in Spring" by Robert Frost
OH, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the...

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Mar 24, 20151 min read


"Website & Meditation" by Susana Laborde-Blaj
My friend Coral is a vibrant and creative beautiful woman, and I always listened to her advice. One of the things she used to do, when we...

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Mar 20, 20153 min read
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