“How can you follow the course of your life if you do not let it flow?” Lao-Tzu The pollen collects until the rain washes away whatever has not been taken as seed. The moss forms on stumps and rocks until the feet of animals wear it off. The leaves that cover the...
“To let knowledge produce troubles and then use knowledge to prepare against them, is like stirring water in hopes of making it clear.” Lao-Tzu This cycle of producing problems and the preparing against them is very much like pulling a thread that really should have...
“Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak and vulnerable.” Melody Beattie This is a prayer for the ages. In fact, it helps to define weakness, in spiritual terms, as any habit of ind or heart that prevents us from seeing things...
Accept this gift, so I can see myself as giving. I have been learning that the lift of a caretaker is as addictive as the life of an alcoholic. Here the intoxication is the emotional relief that temporarily comes when answering a loved one’s need. Though it never...
“There is a great battle raging: for my mouth not to harden and my jaws not to become like heavy doors of an iron safe, so my life may not be called pre-death.” Israeli Poet, Yehudi Amichai There is an ancient Greek myth that carries within it, like a message in a...
