Month: July 2015

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?

Folks in the US celebrate the 4th of July as Independence Day, the day that marks the independence of the colonies from England. But many people celebrate very different independence days, such as the anniversary of their independence from alcohol or drugs.

What do you celebrate your independence from?

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?

“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?