“When life brings trouble You can fight or run away, I have no struggle Relax watch me float away I’m coastin’, I’m coastin’ on a dream, I’m coastin’, This one’s for you and me…”
“In the heart of my release, I couldn’t help but marvel at the courage it took to surrender to this depth of pain. Suddenly I had a new appreciation for the feminine, particularly the many women I had known who had kept their hearts open amid great disappointment and loss. They now seemed extraordinarily courageous to me. They had felt it, they had grieved it and they had risen again with their hearts on their sleeves. Through my armored masculine lens, they had often appeared fragile and foolhardy, wasting their precious time on foolish emotions. But as I lay in a pool of heart-ache, they were revealed as great warriors. How often they had suffered on life’s battlefields without losing faith. Warriors of the heart! If you can be in heartbreak, and keep your heart totally open, you are living so very close to God.” ~ Jeff Brown
Art by Samuel Ronquillo
“It’s been a rough few weeks, watching what’s happening in Ferguson, in Gaza, in Iraq, at our borders. It can be very disheartening. So every Wednesday I get together with some friends and we sing for a couple of hours. We’re not performing; we’re not jamming; we just go around the circle and everyone gets a chance to pick a song for the group to sing. It’s extraordinarily uplifting.” ~ Worley Dervish
Love this so much! Thanks to the awesome Worley Dervish for this post.
LOL. Now there’s a TV show I could get into.
“May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.” ~ Saint Terese of Liseaux
Art by Karin Taylor
“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ‘the rat race’ is not yet final.” ~Hunter S. Thompson
Street Art by Banksy
“Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.” ~Rosa Parks
Beautiful and amazing to hear that Tibetan Monks have traveled all the way from India to help bring peace and justice to Ferguson. Here is what one eyewitness in Ferguson said: “They walked in, well more like glided, and the whole crowd gasped and embraced them. They stood at the corner and joined the protesters. I gotta up my meditation. The peace that oozed from them was infectious. Incredible. They came from India to be with us.” They will be at the Healing Arts Center this week building a World Peace Mandala.
Thanks to the Healing Arts Center for this post.
“The pain that you create now is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind. The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it. In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer. Or you may put it like this: the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering – and free of the egoic mind. Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.” ~Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Under The Blue Door 