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A love letter…in the time of quarantine
“It’s in the great tradition of the best of Black people, of people who have been hated chronically systemically for 400 years but have taught the world so much about love and how to love. “ – Dr. Cornel West, Interview with Anderson Cooper; CNN June 10, 2020 This past month has been a time […]
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Seven Today
You would have been 7 today. You’d be in first grade. Learning to ride a bike on your own. Free from harm, free from suffering. Looking up to superheroes. Like Superman, our little Superman. You’d be starting to show more independence. Able to tell time. To know the days, the weeks, the months of the […]
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Quote of the Day: Robert A. Heinlein
“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” This has to be one of my favorite quotes of all time. Throughout […]
MoreInterpretation of Part 10: Expectation
“Doing your best means taking action because you love it,” Ruiz starts out by saying in Part 10, “not because you expect a reward.” We all do this, most notably at work, especially if our job is not our first choice for ‘what we wanted to be when we grew up’. As householders, we are […]
MoreFinding True Refuge
“Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than […]
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What is Karma?
We hear about Karma quite a bit – usually that it is “a bitch” – or a “mother f**ker” – or someone will “get karma back” – yet we rarely understand that “Karma”. It is severely underrated and vastly misunderstood. Sometimes we think of Karma as the invisible hand of God (the God from the […]
MoreAgreement #2 Follow Up
Dr. King has been memorialized, not because he was a hero to a small minority of Americans with darker skin, but because he is a man who was respected throughout the world for his courageousness and contributions to humanity, even as he said ” No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be […]
MoreMerry Berries and New Year’s Toasts
There is good reason that someone long ago said, “If you do not learn from the past, you are doomed to repeat it”. There are so many things I thought I had learned in the past, but for the most part I really just breezed past the grieving process and figured I would catch up […]
MoreFail. Forward. Faster.
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just […]
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