Sublime

We are all made up of yearning and light, searching for a way out, afraid we will be shut in or cut off or repelled back into the ground from which we are reaching. This is enough to begin: To know, before all the names and histories drape who we are, that we want to be held and left alone, again and again; held and left alone until the dance of it

the tree in the ultimate dimension. When you touch the wave, you touch the water at the same time. That is our practice. If you’re with a group of friends practicing mindfulness while sitting, walking, or drinking tea, you’ll be able to touch the ultimate dimension while living in the historical dimension. Your fear, anxiety, and anger will be tran

In some ways they had come to know themselves better. In this lonely world of ice and emptiness, they had achieved at least a limited kind of contentment. They had been tested and found not wanting. They thought of home, naturally, but there was no burning desire to be in civilization for its own sake.

The first sign of success in meditation is a feeling of warmth in the region of the navel, or lower Elixir Field. This is the seat of vitality where energy gathers naturally when the body is still and the mind is calm, and when the breath is deep, slow, and rhythmic.

A taste of the eternal is tangible in such moments. These creative acts connect us to our being, attaching us to something moving in the world, welcoming and holding in tension that we are open and closed, individual and relational, that we are free as will and spirit. In such moments, minutes and hours are more fluid and yet full. We feel time not

felt fortified in her presence.

I’m so cold. I need to be beside you, I need your warmth, I need your loveliness. I’m dressed for winter. I have big boots on in bed, but I’m freezing to death.

This synchronicity occurred because I felt such exquisite pleasure and experienced such divine comfort all day long that I was free to be a creative conduit.

Whenever you go to a place where people know and like you, you open yourself to others who are there.