January 2025 was tumultuous as swift, unanticipated actions disrupted our old ways of being. Our meditation group felt a lot of uncertainty about what would come next, coupled with some assurance that there will be suffering – if not for us, then for our friends and neighbours. No wonder our readings were filled with remindersContinue reading “Find Stability in Stillness”
Category Archives: meditation seeds
Knowing and unknowing
A person who can see a little bit will resist guidance; a person who cannot see at all will stretch forth their hands and be led to unknown places where they don’t know how to go. John of the Cross We expend an enormous amount of energy, trying to meditate our way through the problemContinue reading “Knowing and unknowing”
Advent reflections: Hope Peace Joy Love
I asked for peace – You offered your presence. I asked for hope – You came to my side. I asked for joy – You lit my journey. I asked for love – You gave me yourself. David Adam – The Glory of Light Hope is like a road in the country; there never wasContinue reading “Advent reflections: Hope Peace Joy Love”
Openness to Growth
#openness #growth “Love is a form of death. And you have to learn how to die in order to learn how to love,” Dr. Cornel West To learn and not to do, is really not to learn. To know and not to do, is really not to know. Stephen Covey Too often we underestimate theContinue reading “Openness to Growth”
Vulnerability
#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 “Vulnerability”
Reflections on light and kindness
#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 “Reflections on light and kindness”
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”
Meditations on letting go
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 “Meditations on letting go”
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”
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”
Harken 