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Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By livin...
10/11/2021

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.

― Thich Nhat Hanh

Photography for Good / photo of the dayfrom KabirThe Guest is inside you, and also inside me;you know the sprout is hidd...
01/09/2021

Photography for Good / photo of the day

from Kabir

The Guest is inside you, and also inside me;
you know the sprout is hidden inside the seed.
We are all struggling; none of us has gone far.
Let your arrogance go, and look around inside.
The blue sky opens out farther and farther,
the daily sense of failure goes away,
the damage I have done to myself fades,
a million suns come forward with light,
when I sit firmly in that world.
I hear bells ringing that no one has shaken,
inside "love" there is more joy than we know of,
rain pours down, although the sky is clear of clouds,
there are whole rivers of light.
The universe is shot through in all parts by a single sort of love.
How hard it is to feel that joy in all our four bodies!
Those who hope to be reasonable about it fail.
The arrogance of reason has separated us from that love.
With the word "reason" you already feel miles away.
How lucky Kabir is, that surrounded by all this joy
he sings inside his own little boat.
His poems amount to one soul meeting another.
These songs are about forgetting dying and loss.
They rise above both coming in and going out.

Kabir, Robert Bly tr.

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Photography for Goodphoto of the dayThe first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onw...
01/08/2021

Photography for Good
photo of the day

The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside . . . We see that a self-image we've been holding doesn't need to define us forever, the next step is not the last step, what life was is not what it is now, and certainly not what it might yet be.

~Sharon Salzberg

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Photography for Good / photo of the dayOvercome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitu...
01/07/2021

Photography for Good / photo of the day

Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.

~Vilayat Inayat Khan

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Photography for Good / potdYou are a complete mess, friend, unable to be mended. The time for solutions has passed. Yet ...
01/06/2021

Photography for Good / potd

You are a complete mess, friend, unable to be mended. The time for solutions has passed. Yet stay close. Breathe. This is not the end. Come out of all your futures; no time for futures now. Look: you are an embraceable mess. A mess that is holy to its very core. You could never be what they wanted you to be. You were always too alive, too inquisitive, born with a heart broken open to life. They tried to close it, but it would never close. You wouldn’t fit in. You couldn’t conform. You could never squeeze yourself into their ideal of “perfection.” The perfect thoughts and feelings, the “right” way to be, the dance they told you to dance—your heart was always too big. Let everything flood in now. Give up. Fall apart. Break down. Let the old dreams of yourself die a beautiful death. Let all the lost fragments find safety in your loving arms. And in your falling, find yourself. And in your breaking, breathe. And all the creatures in all the forgotten Kingdoms are bowing to you now. Their savior. Their love.

― Jeff Foster, The Way of Rest: Finding The Courage to Hold Everything in Love

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Photography for Good / photo of the day_____To be brave enough to become that which you already are.We are born with the...
01/05/2021

Photography for Good / photo of the day
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To be brave enough to become that which you already are.
We are born with the courage to step into ourselves fully. Somehow even those words hold a knowing that we are both not our 'self' and yet we are also, fully our 'self' ... or have the potential to be - fully ourselves. We innately know this potential exists. We naturally are drawn to fill our own shoes. And yet, at some point in this inner to outer evolution, we get cold feet.

Perhaps it is part of co-existing with the world that we discover our first difficulties in existing as our true selves, fully in the world. ... or perhaps it is the experiences of the world that change something fundamental within us ... or perhaps it is all wildly and perfectly on purpose. Perhaps every struggle, every stumble, every relationship, every past life has a unique and equally needed purpose in fully exposing the light that we truly are within us, and therefore exposing this light with the world that we truly are around us.

To be brave enough to become that which we already are.

Yet, there is an unspoken truth these words hold and it is highly disputed to even be true. It is the simple truth that "what we already are" ... is good.

Often times, the world does not tell us this is true. Often times, the mortals around us do not trust us, nor do they trust themselves. To say we mortal humans are actually "good" in our deepest, most inward place ... one does not have to look far to argue this to be far from true.

And so where does the bravery come from, when you know so many in the world around will simply not see? ... and where does this bravery come from, when you look back through their eyes and simply have to agree.

Where does this bravery come from? There is only one place. And it is the very same space where this truth is actually true. It is deep in the heart of our heart. The soul of our soul. The inner most seed, where the One truth grows.

And so, I dive. To this place. And brave all the no-sayers, both inside my own mind and far outside.

And as I arrive in the depths of my very own heart. I know it. With no need to be told it. It is the only thing that is true. I know with all of my heart.

We are good.

~Mary MillerJordan
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Happy New Year Friends. May your day and year and life be blessed with love and light. May your heart be warm, your mind...
01/01/2021

Happy New Year Friends.

May your day and year and life be blessed with love and light.

May your heart be warm, your mind calm, your body refreshed.

May your year turn toward a depth and trust and opening yet unimagined.

Much love.

Photo of the DayAt the long empty end of the christmas and holiday season i find myself empty and exhausted. John O'Dono...
12/30/2020

Photo of the Day

At the long empty end of the christmas and holiday season i find myself empty and exhausted. John O'Donohue's blessings give some comfort.

For one who is exhausted

When the rhythm of the heart becomes hectic,
Time takes on the strain until it breaks;
Then all the unattended stress falls in
On the mind like an endless, increasing weight.

The light in the mind becomes dim.
Things you could take in your stride before
Now become laborsome events of will.

Weariness invades your spirit.
Gravity begins falling inside you,
Dragging down every bone.

The tide you never valued has gone out.
And you are marooned on unsure ground.
Something within you has closed down;
And you cannot push yourself back to life.

You have been forced to enter empty time.
The desire that drove you has relinquished.
There is nothing else to do now but rest
And patiently learn to receive the self
You have forsaken in the race of days.

At first your thinking will darken
And sadness take over like listless weather.
The flow of unwept tears will frighten you.

You have traveled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.

Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.

Become inclined to watch the way of rain
When it falls slow and free.

Imitate the habit of twilight,
Taking time to open the well of color
That fostered the brightness of day.

Draw alongside the silence of stone
Until its calmness can claim you.
Be excessively gentle with yourself.

Stay clear of those vexed in spirit.
Learn to linger around someone of ease
Who feels they have all the time in the world.

Gradually, you will return to yourself,
Having learned a new respect for your heart
And the joy that dwells far within slow time.

~John O'Donohue

Photography for Good____Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret,and in exchange gain the Ocean.Listen, O drop, b...
12/28/2020

Photography for Good
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Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret,
and in exchange gain the Ocean.
Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,
and in the arms of the Sea be secure.
Who indeed should be so fortunate?
An Ocean wooing a drop!
In God’s name, in God’s name, sell and buy at once!
Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.

Rumi, tr. Helminski
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Photography for GoodpotdNature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by remo...
12/27/2020

Photography for Good
potd

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

~Terence McKenna

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Photography for GoodMerry Christmas Friends. Love one another, love yourself. Be the blessing the season invokes. Dare t...
12/25/2020

Photography for Good

Merry Christmas Friends. Love one another, love yourself. Be the blessing the season invokes. Dare to be yourself. Dare to Be.

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