Practical Wisdom for Extraordinary Living
From the monthly archives:
This Moon was known by our ancestors and indigenous people as the Snow Moon and the Hunger Moon, as it comes in this most lean and wintry time of year. This is the last Full Moon before the Solar New Year, which arrives at the Spring Equinox. Many cultures and traditions celebrate around the time [...]
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Swami Beyondananda’s State of the Universe Address for 2010 Part 2 Step One: Wake Up Laughing Do you realize that billions of people worldwide go to bed serious every night? And wake up the same way? Seriously. So naturally — or in this case, unnaturally — the world is in serious condition. Between the stresses [...]
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Swami Beyondananda’s State of the Universe Address 2010 “Wake Up Laughing, And Wise Up Loving: The Upwising Has Begun!” – Swami Beyondananda “We’re not here to earn God’s love, we’re here to spend it!” – Swami Beyondananda Well, another 12-month episode of that long-running comedy of situations, Universe Knows Best, is in the can, and [...]
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This encore post, is part two, from a series I wrote back in February, 2006. Knowest thou What solemn shores of crocus-coloured light, Reared by the sunset in its realm of change, Will mock the dream-lost isles that sirens ward? –Clark Ashton Smith Many of us are seeing the first welcome signs of Spring and [...]
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Another encore post, this time, part one of two that I wrote back in February, 2006. Behold, this crocus is a withering flame… – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Barren Spring, 1870 The signs of Spring are becoming increasingly insistent and unmistakable. In my garden, purple and yellow crocuses are opening in the noon sun, before slipping [...]
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Another encore post, this time, from one I wrote back in 2005. Court the Wild: Find Your Secret Spot in Nature Courting the wild–spending one to two hours each day in nature–is a suggestion from author Jim Merkel. In his book, Radical Simplicity (New Society Publishers ©2003) he offers this important recommendation for how to [...]
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I am pausing before taking on a new topic here. In part, this is because I am waiting to see what stories and pathways wish to manifest here, now that our other journey is completed. But also, there are some major shifts happening in my work and practice, which I am sure will be reflected [...]
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When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be — I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into [...]
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A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. – Paul Gardner Today, we bid goodbye to the work begun at Imbolc, 2009, working our way through The Artist’s Way. I leave you with some final thoughts. First, as we have admitted by now that we are recovering artists, we are urged [...]
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We are now at the end of this journey together on The Artist’s Way. Which is to say, we are now just beginning our own Artist’s Way: living the life of Creator. Here are the last exercises that Julia recommends. I hope you’ll spend some quality time this weekend working through them. Tomorrow, 1. Write [...]
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