Posted by claire on November 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment
"Starting here, what do you want to remember?
How sunlight creeps along a shining floor?
What scent of old wood hovers, what softened
sound from outside fills the air?
Will you ever bring a better gift for the world
than the breathing respect that you carry
wherever you go right now? Are you waiting
for time
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Posted by claire on June 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
A poem from David Whyte: One of my favorite English Poet:
The Journey
Above the mountains
the geese turn into
the light again
painting their
black silhouettes
on an open sky.
Sometimes everything
has to be
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Posted by claire on June 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment
DIVING INTO IRRITATION
'We cannot con the existing experience of life; we cannot con our experiences or change them by having some unrealistic belief that things are going to be okay, that in the end everything is going to be beautiful. If we take that approach, then things are not going
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Posted by claire on May 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment
From The Heart Of The Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering Into Peace, Joy, And Liberation by Thich Nhat Hanh:
Buddhist meditation has two aspects — shamatha and vipashyana. We tend to stress the importance of vipashyana (“looking deeply”) because it can bring us insight and liberate us from suffering and afflictions. But
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Posted by claire on January 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Wednesday January 12, 2011
My wishes for all: A new year of shared Joy and Love.
I started 2011 on a Peniche – a boat house – in Paris. It’s an old River cruise boat owned by l Armee du Salut and which was reconverted two years ago into a shelter for
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