Rest for your souls…

Posted by on Sep 22, 2010 in Emotions, Happiness, Loss and Letting Go, Peace, ponderings, prayers, Spirituality | Comments Off on Rest for your souls…

Stand at the crossroads and look; ask about the ancient paths, “Which one is the good way?”   Take it, and you will find rest for your souls… ~~Jeremiah 6:16 I snapped this picture when we had just hiked over Skull Bridge, at the Continental Divide Trail (CDT)  near Abiquiu, New Mexico.  The Trail head is just over that bridge and heads south into the Rio Chamas Wilderness area, a gorgeous place no matter what time of year.  I wrote about this trip recently in a post titled Smile at Fear;  if you are interested, you can read that entry from the Blessings Blog here....

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The Bridge, a Story about Consequences

Posted by on Sep 17, 2010 in Emotions, Happiness, Loss and Letting Go, ponderings | Comments Off on The Bridge, a Story about Consequences

“To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light…” ~~Carl Jung This is a story about fear, about our choices and ultimately what we are responsible for in our lives…To what do we owe ourselves and the Other, whomever that may be?   How do we face our fears?  If you like this story and the following questions, I wrote a post on the Blessings Blog called Smiling at Fear, about how we face these choices and deal with these inevitable situations in our lives.   If you are interested, you can find that here. I got this story some time ago from...

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Changes….

Posted by on Aug 24, 2010 in Cool Art, Emotions, Grief, Loss and Letting Go, Spirituality | Comments Off on Changes….

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson I’ve been reflecting lately on changes and illusions and all that happens as we age (even if we don’t grow up), all that happens as we grow and change and how much of life is how we see it.  In the pic above, do you see two old folks,  do you see the vase, do you see the woman coming through the doorway, do you see the young people?   It all changes as your viewpoint changes.  So much...

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The Mountain Remains…

Posted by on Aug 2, 2010 in Emotions, Grief, Happiness, Loss and Letting Go, ponderings, Spirituality | 5 comments

I am always with all beings, I abandon no one.  And however great your inner darkness, you are never separate from Me.   Let your thoughts flow past you calmly.  Keep Me near, at every moment.  Trust Me with your life, because I Am you, more than you yourself are… ~~~Bhagavad Gita I spent the last few days with my parental units, in a little town in Southeast Missouri.  This is an area I blogged about last week when I was thinking of my grandmother and my memories of smells, heaven and so on.  Lest I sound too romantic, the other reality is that this area located in the buckle of the...

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Object Impermanence

Posted by on Jul 25, 2010 in Emotions, Happiness, Loss and Letting Go, ponderings, Spirituality | Comments Off on Object Impermanence

Today I am thinking of Jean Piaget and his theory about object permanence. As you may remember from your college psych 101 class,  Jean Piaget  theorized that the role of maturation was instrumental in a child’s increasing capacity to understand their world.  Put another way,  we cannot undertake certain tasks until we are psychologically mature enough to do so.    For those of you who didn’t make it to class that day, or had more sense than to major in psych and minor in Eastern philosophy,  here’s the bottom line:  Jean Piaget had a bazillion theories about the cognitive...

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