Tending to the unnurtured areas of life can seem overwhelming and new. But remember, you are doing it one day at a time. All the good things you enjoy have grown one day at a time – thanks to your care, repetition and patience. So will your new projects. Stay on course. NJ21 February 2015
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Strings
Step by step success.. It is unglamorous and nothing to write home about, but it is movement toward the goal and often more impactful than showier results. Just look back and see where you came from and what is yours now – progress happened because you kept at it. Steering toward your dream, you hardlyContinue reading “Strings”
Growing the Skill, Growing Yourself – Practice for Life
Deprivation causes the desire, though not the skill. In order to gain the skill, you have to practise. You are practising to gain the skill. You are practising not for approvalor for admirationfrom the benign,nor to defend yourselfagainst the envious. The merit in the practiceis that you are growing in the skill. The skill youContinue reading “Growing the Skill, Growing Yourself – Practice for Life”
Switch On the Romance!
Nothing is lost when you do. Everything might be gained. Regardless of outcome, you are having a better experience with your time. Make the effort to have the best time you can have. You are doing it for the One who lives inside your heart and inside your cells. Make that One smile first. WhoContinue reading “Switch On the Romance!”
Homegrown
Self-grown tomatoes always taste saltier and fuller than those you can buy. Even if you buy them organic and from someone who has a better understanding of farming than you do. I wonder why that is.. Right timing, the soil around you, the short travel distance of the fruit to your plate? Add even theContinue reading “Homegrown”
Images, In Transition
A recurring image in a dream — or in meditation — might represent a quality in the future, as you move from one life chapter to another or are replacing one lifestyle with another. It will make sense from the new vantage point. Where you are now — just in between, familiar only with theContinue reading “Images, In Transition”
Live Better. (Life Is Benign.)
The better your day, the higher your capacity to forgive. Strive to have better days. One day your mind will let go of memories that make you sad. No need to fix anything — emotions, outlook, or self-talk. Just live better. Your feelings, thoughts and self-perception will follow behaviour. Forgiveness happens on a side note. Focus onContinue reading “Live Better. (Life Is Benign.)”
Corn Fields
Corn fields used to be a place of magic for children all over the world. It is something we all understood. Today, I don’t see children playing in them anymore. I love the smell of corn, the whole plant. That blend of sun and moisture, the milky sweetness in the ripening vegetables, the mild andContinue reading “Corn Fields”
Just One Drop Of That Wisdom
“The basis of knowledge is the fire, rock, water, and green. But when that power was given to man, he used it to twist his own mind. Tunkashila gave man just one drop of that wisdom.” –Wallace Black Elk, Lakota Elder “All My Relations, the wisdom disappeared and a thing came in called self-will. Self-willContinue reading “Just One Drop Of That Wisdom”
Beauty That Lasts In My Mind and Outside Of It
I love how the land washes my mind from tension, worry, overthinking, and how it fills me with beauty that lasts. Thank you, Gaia. July 2014
What We Really Need
People need sustenance, love and hope. Sustenance, love and hope can be realized. It is an inner and an outer process. It is beneficial to pay attention to both sides: to the inside world and its development and to promoting the conditions that enable sustenance, love and hope. That includes all people. It can notContinue reading “What We Really Need”
All Fundamentalists Sound the Same:
the earth’s health, justice and peace, safety and affluence for all are not on their agenda at all. Instead, they are dedicated to controlling sexual behaviour, reproductive choices, the information people absorb and other personal preferences. In the big picture, the latter topics are quite irrelevant, even though they do aggravate individual lives. However, theContinue reading “All Fundamentalists Sound the Same:”
The Intoxicated Mind at a Time of Ecocide and Mass Extinction of Many Species
It is obvious that many elected “leaders” in our era are puppets to an insane and callous system, horrible and sick people in every sense of the word, neither working for their voters nor the country they claim to love and would sell at a moment’s notice without remorse. What surprises me is that theyContinue reading “The Intoxicated Mind at a Time of Ecocide and Mass Extinction of Many Species”
Villains
I am dealing with a few characters who remind me to firm up my boundaries, and I had an interesting insight in my meditation a few hours ago: Men (and maybe women too) who understand that they can not be heroes — because that option is not available, or not attractive, to them — will choose to be villainsContinue reading “Villains”
Firsts
The first hunch is the most accurate one. Trusting your intuition, let the first thought of the day be your guide; let the first plant or animal messenger of the day be your medicine; let the first song that plays in your mind be the theme of your day. The less your conscious mind interferesContinue reading “Firsts”
Love In the Language And In the Paradigm
Loving Your Enemies means not destroying your enemies, letting them live on earth, even if you don’t understand their actions and make different choices. It does not mean seeking your enemies to change them or make them follow your ideas of what life is about. Loving Your Kin is more or less the opposite ofContinue reading “Love In the Language And In the Paradigm”
Happy Birthday to Li-Young Lee.
Li-Young Lee is one of the best contemporary American poets and first generation American poets. This interview with him is already 2 decades (!) old, when Li-Young was in his 40s. The content is interesting for all creatives. Enjoy.
The Hijacked Mind
It is very obvious that visual media, especially TV and its ads can not replace education, research, the subtle wisdom of elders who lived in one place all their lives, people who continually have success with their methods, and the warmth of people. A culture based on visual media is not a “culture” but consumerism.Continue reading “The Hijacked Mind”
Be the Music In the Noise
You can’t wipe out ugliness with a little less ugliness, since you are still competing with it. Living out of a reactionary spirit pleases only those who push your buttons. They love it when they get the desired reaction — that is how they win their games that noone else is meant to win. It is youContinue reading “Be the Music In the Noise”
Conflict Addicts
Life has taught me that there are really only two types of people: – those motivated by the wish to ease suffering of one or many species, or ease their own suffering, so they are trying to find solutions and – those who are mainly concerned about their right to say the most outlandish things,Continue reading “Conflict Addicts”
Nanda Jurela 