Sharing the Ascension Experience
Dear Folks, The Buddhist eight‑fold Path: • Right belief or view • Right intention • Right speech • Right action • Right livelihood • Right endeavoring or effort • Right mindfulness • Right concentration or collectedness If realized, one will be detached from illusion. — Calm and Insight, Bhikkhu Phra Khantipalo, Buddhist Monk One can … Read more
Dear Folks, When you correct your mind, everything else falls into place. — Lao Tse (ca 604–531 B.C.) Taoism, Philosopher I am Mindful of the vast differences we possess: young to old, foolish to wise, simple minded to brilliant, primitive to enlightened, etc. Yet positive qualities run throughout our collective mindscape. I will you all … Read more
Dear Folks, Regard your neighbor’s gain as your won gain, and your neighbors loss as your won loss. — Taoism, T’ai Shang Kan Ying P’ien It is known: A Wholehearted dedication to the things that really matter does give a person a transcendently Placid temperament. We are all still battered with the vicissitudes of life, … Read more
Dear Folks, The Fruits of the Spirit: Love, Joy, Peace, Long-suffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness, Temperance — Paul of Tarsus (c. 5-67) The Bible, Galatians 5:22 As the seasons change from the harsh days of winter to the Gentle days of spring, we have a physical reminder to approach life and others in an Affable … Read more
Dear Folks, Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school. — Robert Fulghum (1937-) Author If you have no female … Read more
Dear Folks, Every time we say, “Let there be!” in any form, something happens. — Stella Terrill Mann , Author When we see details of the patterns of reality, whether in society, nature, or the connections within our own internal character, we are seeing a portion of the Multidimensionality of our complex environment. We are … Read more
Dear Folks, Nothing endures but personal qualities. — Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Poet Yes, as Judy says, we are all Qualifiedly Supple. I can still get up on the ladder and work on re-finishing the siding; and I am thankful for that, even if I feel creaky in the morning. And when I hear the opinions … Read more
Dear folks, People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking or thinking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. That the life experiences that we have on the purely physical plane will have resonances within … our own … Read more
Dear Folks, Live what you believe with the highest light you have. — Steps Toward Inner Peace, Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981) Pacifist Progress can be agonizingly slow, especially if the project is large or the individual is young. But time is on our side. Doing a little bit every day to Improve will make the difference. … Read more
Dear Folks, Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) Jurist We are all Original; each a unique person with a singular history of choices and experiences. Poise is also unique, our manner of carrying the qualities we have attained in our human shaped envelope. … Read more