The Blue Flower

*This is part of a two-part series on transcendent living: examining how we can focus on the half we can control in any situation (our...

“A little thought will show you how vastly your own happiness depends on the way other people bear themselves toward you. The looks and...

I watched the dawn come, Watched the spring dawn come. And the red sun shouldered his way up Through the grey, through the blue, Through...

“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson No one likes to wait. I have had a lot of experience with...

On the difference between concentration and attention: “To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but...

“What is your ancestral story and where was it in your line that you got displaced from living close to the land?” ~Ella Noah Bancroft...

“To have a sacred space is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t...

Desert Flowers (Keith Douglas, 1943) Living in a wide landscape are the flowers – Rosenberg I only repeat what you were saying – the...

“Only a week ago, we woke to find the surrounding fields pale with frost and the edge of every leaf picked out in white. Today is one of...

"Life has been busy, and in the general rush of things,... vital fragments of my identity have been squeezed out. I have missed them,...

“As I watched the seagulls, I thought, ‘That’s the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.” ~Nikos...

*This is the third in a series on Slowing Down. “Knock, knock, knock. Must, must, must. Must go, must sleep, must wake, must get up –...

*This is the second in a series on Slowing Down. “People are born and married, and live and die, in the midst of an uproar so frantic...

“I sit on my favourite rock, looking over the brook, to take time away from busy-ness, time to be. I’ve long since stopped feeling guilty...

Reverence: Merriam Webster definition~ formal : honor or respect that is felt for or shown to (someone or something) Also… : honor or...

“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let...

”I shall there unfold and take out whatever it is I have made here; something hard. For something has grown in me here, through the...

"We are bathed in mystery…That will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”...

“Is there a moment quite as keen or memory as bright As light and fire and music sweet to warm the winter’s night?” ~ A Leaf from the...

“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language and yet one that we are culturally cut off from...