~Toko-pa Turner~
~Rupert Spira~
~Friedrich Nietzsche~
~Toko-pa Turner~
~Jean Cocteau~
~Eckhart Tolle~
~Lewis Carol – Alice In Wonderland~
~Albert Camus~
~Pema Chödrön~
~Jean Klein~
~Augusten Burroughs~
~Carl Jung~
~Rainer Maria Rilke~
~C. JoyBell C.~
~Toko-pa Turner~
~Anais Nin~
~Jeannie Zandi~
~Mary Oliver~
~Walt Whitman~
~Jean Klein~
~Etty Hillesum~
~Amanda Gorman~
rather a new way of seeing.”
~Marcel Proust~
~David Whyte~
~Toko-pa Turner~
~Emily Athena Abrahams~
~Carl Jung~
~James Baldwin~
~Brother David Steindl-Rast~
~W.B.Yeats~
~Master Eckhart~
~C. S. Lewis~
~Viktor Frankl~
where the whole Universe dwells.
For when you are at that center in you
and I am at that place within me,
we shall be one.”
~Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakota Sioux, 1877~
~Herman Hesse~
~Journalism 101~
~Marcel Proust~
~Rainer Maria Rilke~
~Kahlil Gibran~
~Angela Davis~
~Joan Chittister~
~David Burns~
~Carlos Casteneda~
~Carl Jung~
~Cassia Berman~
~Jean Klein~
~Lewis Carroll – The Mad Hatter, Alice in Wonderland.~
~Toko-pa Turner~
~John Keats~
~David Bowie~
~JRamesh Balsekar~
~Albert Camus~
~Friedrich Nietzsche~
~Maya Angelou~
~Rainer Maria Rilke~
~Toko-pa Turner~
~Haruki Murakami~
~Albert Camus~
~Rumi~
~Pádraig Ó Tuama~
~Khalil Gibran~
~Kasey Ford~
~Rumi~
~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~
~Richard Rohr~
~Thomas Merton~
~Carl Jung~
~Georgia O’Keeffe~
~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 ~
~Toko-pa Turner~
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 ~
On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing
~Arundhati Roy~
~ Kahlil Gibran ~
~ Jeannie Zandi ~
~ Walt Whitman ~
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
~ 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 ~
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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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