Month: April 2013

Vines flower on the face of ancient walls. Trees grow in the cracks between alpine rocks. Wherever, however, life manages to find a way.

How have you managed to create beauty in an inhospitable environment?

Did you think that bananas were long and yellow? So much of the world is beyond our experience, and so beyond our comprehension, or even our imagination.

What will you do today to broaden what you know of the world?

Ching Ming is a Chinese festival in which families go out to care for the graves of their ancestors, and to offer them burnt gifts of paper replicas of money and material goods. The ancestors are cared for as the family celebrates, the living and the dead together.

What do you offer to those who have gone before you?

“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment.”
―John O’Donohue

What is your soul in search of?

The loveliest paths to walk can be those that are neither in the full hot sun nor in the dark shade of dense cover, but rather in the shimmering sunlight that filters through many leaves. A flash of white hot insight can be amazing, but mostly we come to understand the world in in bits and snatches, filtered through our daily experiences of the world.

What path leads you to bits of daily insight?