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What we reflected upon in the week ending August 21st

#friendship Perhaps intimacy is the ability to be fragile and vulnerable.  You can love someone very, very much and still not be able to be intimate with them.  Judy T According to the teaching of the Buddha, in true love there is no place for pride. Thich Nhat Hanh In the end, only three thingsContinue reading “What we reflected upon in the week ending August 21st”

What we reflected on the week ending August 12, 2022

#Light Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t get in.   Isaac Asimov But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!  Matthew 6:23-24. Continue reading “What we reflected on the week ending August 12, 2022”

What we reflected on in the weeks ending July 21st

#love Give a piece of your HEART, not a piece of your mind. LOVE is the picking up of something that has dropped, and the giving of space for someone to discover for themselves what it means to be human, and the forgiving of mistakes when we realize that they are.  Mark Nepo. #beingwith ALLContinue reading “What we reflected on in the weeks ending July 21st”

What we meditated on the week ending July 2nd

There are things you can’t back down on, things you gotta take a stand on. But it’s up to you to decide what them things are. (Mildred D. Taylor – Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry) Worry is rust upon the blade.  We are simply not as sharp when we worry. (Henry Ward Beecher) IContinue reading “What we meditated on the week ending July 2nd”

What we reflected on June 1 – 10, 2022

Our reflections recently have touched on the wisdom of simply BEING WITH – ourselves, our struggles and one another.   Enjoy. TRAGEDIES happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you can do to stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread. William Stafford – The Way ItContinue reading “What we reflected on June 1 – 10, 2022”

The Science of Spirituality … Who Knew?

A lovely woman in the morning meditation group drew to my attention yesterday to the work of Dr Lisa Miller, who wrote The Awakened Brain.  A little digging took me to the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University, where they study the science of spirituality.  The science of spirituality… how refreshing!  When I wasContinue reading “The Science of Spirituality … Who Knew?”

What we reflected on the weeks ending April 8, 2022

#allinthistogether. WE ARE SAFE because we are connected, not because we are worthy. WE ARE ONE, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. Teillard de Chardin IN THE MIDST OF CRISES, a solidarity guided by faith enables us to translate the love of God in ourContinue reading “What we reflected on the weeks ending April 8, 2022”

What we reflected on the week ending March 26, 2022

#Proverbs THE WORLD is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.  But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater. J.R. R. Tolkien A FRIEND is someone who dances with you in the sunlight,Continue reading “What we reflected on the week ending March 26, 2022”