~Toko-pa Turner~
~Carl Jung~
~Rainer Maria Rilke~
~C. JoyBell C.~
~Anais Nin~
~Jeannie Zandi~
~Mary Oliver~
~Walt Whitman~
~Emily Athena Abrahams~
~Carl Jung~
~Brother David Steindl-Rast~
~W.B.Yeats~
~C. S. Lewis~
~Herman Hesse~
~Marcel Proust~
~Rainer Maria Rilke~
~Joan Chittister~
~David Burns~
~Cassia Berman~
~Jean Klein~
~Toko-pa Turner~
~John Keats~
~JRamesh Balsekar~
~Albert Camus~
~Friedrich Nietzsche~
~Maya Angelou~
~Rainer Maria Rilke~
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.”
~Walt Whitman~
~Albert Camus~
~Rumi~
~Pádraig Ó Tuama~
~Khalil Gibran~
~Kasey Ford~
~Henry David Thoreau~
~Maya Angelou~
no woodland, no dance, no sound.
Beyond all hope, I prayed those timeless
days we spent might be made twice as long.
I prayed one word: I want.
Someone, I tell you, will remember us,
even in another time.”
~Sappho~
~Pablo Picasso~
~Edna O’Brien~
~Hans Urs von Balthasar~
~Toko-Pa Turner~
~Thomas Merton~
~Carl Jung~
~Pablo Picasso~
~J.R.R. Tolkien~
~Anne Frank~
~Andrew Harvey~
~Dr. Freud (and the Rabbit)~
~Heather K O’Hara~
~Francis Weller~
all else is poor translation.”
~ Rumi ~
If the soul attend for a moment to its own infinity,
then and there IS silence.
She is audible to all men, at all times, in all places, and if we will,
we may always hearken to her admonitions.”
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
~ Kahlil Gibran ~
~ Jeannie Zandi ~
~ Albert Einstein ~
~ M. C. Escher ~
~ Wendell Berry ~
~ Toko-pa Turner ~
Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.”
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
~ Roy T. Bennett ~
~ Maya Angelou ~
Ashland Spirit
Spirit – Non-Dual – Awakening – Nature – Community – Life
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For the many of us who don’t have a sense of ‘the village’ in our own lives, the very mention of “community” can feel like that oasis of hope that disappears the moment we get close to it. We speak about it yearningly, like a fairy tale we ache to find ourselves in. And its absence has a great presence in our lives.
But instead of always asking, “Where do I belong?”— a question that is based in shortage — consider reversing your definition of the word from a noun to a verb, so that belonging becomes a practice of generosity, as in “I belong to that which I love.” A wise teacher once told me that the greatest spiritual practice he knows is to “discover what you are most missing in your life — and then give that thing away.”
Belong yourself to those who need you. Find the ones, human and other than human, who are drifting to the fringes, who are the least valued or most unexpected to have something to offer; look for those without a voice, and draw them in closer.
Rendered from Belonging: Remembering Home, by Toko-pa Turner
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