Meditation: A Reluctant Beginner’s Early Attempts.
By Melanie G Mason
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wisdom
10 Quotations for Lovers of Words & Lovers of Life.
It is in the words that I find meaning and give meaning. It is inside the words that I birth myself. Inside of the lines I untangle the ways to define and name and understand.
Learning How To Shift Our Anger Out Of Overdrive & Into Freedom.
The distance we create between ourselves is learned, I believe, habituated with responses that become ingrained, and so feel natural. But the truth is, when I or anyone gets angry in the bubble of a car, that anger derives not from tangled traffic, harried lateness or enervated fatigue. No, the ...
How To Come Home Through Opening Your Heart.
I woke up one day and realized that my heart was closed. There were blocks and stops and places where I just couldn’t allow the love to flow out of me. As I looked into my lover’s eyes, instead of going deeper and swimming in him, I felt the shallow strokes in water barely worth wading. How ...
How Can We Learn From The Mysteries Of Life, Even When The Mystery Sucks?
After I die and God drops by my place in heaven for a cup of tea, I don’t think I’ll open our discussion with questions about why the rest of us had to be banished because Adam ate an apple or why decent people get knocked cosmically upside the head while perfectly monstrous facsimiles ...
There Is a Warrior Inside of You, My Love.
This year, I light all of the candles. I open the windows. I let everything fall in disarray. The earth could tumble around me and I wouldn’t know, because what leaks from my palms and into the pen is from 10,000 moons ago, when my crown was brand new. My vena cava was polished, beating, warm.
Let Our Hearts Soften Until They Break — Blinders Off.
It’s a beautiful aspiration to imagine the world in the light of that universal truth -- that we are all the same, because we are after all. We are all inextricably bound to one another, and our happiness, our safety, our health, our liberation, is absolutely in relation to all other living ...
The Words As They Travel A Hero’s Journey To My Lips.
That is why a sharp mind is so important. Its all about reconstitution, really. They are arranged into a symphony of color and light that the eyes bring in. They smell and taste of all things poignant. And here they bake in the sunlight for sometime until perfectly golden and then pass once ...
The Wisdom Behind The Ten Of Swords.
If you’re flat on your face, you should probably just lie there for a second and catch your breath. It’s not going to get any worse, and if your luck has driven you to the ground, you’re in no condition to go anywhere.