If you want to know love, let in everything.

…..Mark Nepo

never can we reach down and find the authentic joy of this life without the risk that moves with us in every moment….this is not fear, but rather the deep ache that moves through us…..the pulse of the earth and the animals and the nature of our bones….

The same stream of life that runs

through my veins night and day runs

through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.

It is the same life that shoots in joy

through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass

and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle

of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.

I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world

of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages

dancing in my blood this moment.

…..Rabindranath Tagore

hope & miracles

The journey to self-knowledge that we each must take- the conscious discovery of our ultimate individual place- is the prerequisite to full human consciousness, to the full savoring of the grandeur of this world, to the privilege of fully participating in life, and to the responsibility of contributing something sacred and essential to this world. Wisdom traditions worldwide say there’s no greater blessing than to live the life of your soul; doing so is the source of your deepest personal fulfillment and of your greatest service to others. It’s what you were born for……Bill Plotkin