Spiritual Fruits or Just Nuts?

Posted by on Aug 29, 2010 in Emotions, Grief, Happiness, Loss and Letting Go, prayers, Spirituality | 1 comment

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Let the beauty we love be what we do.   ~~Rumi I love this picture, taken when the Christ the Redeemer statue was under construction.   One of the New Seven Wonders of the World, it was built in Rio di Janiero in the 1920’s and is huge, overlooking the whole city.  It captures how I so often feel on the path and I look at it from time to time to remind me of what it symbolizes to me in my...

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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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Happiness Flow Chart

Posted by on Jul 19, 2010 in Happiness, Music or Other nifty things | Comments Off on Happiness Flow Chart

Check out this awesome Flow Chart of Happiness I originally found this on the Speaking of Faith site, which is also a great resource. To your happiness! 🙂 T

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