( Just for a moment, allow yourself to believe this. How do you feel? )

I need to make more time to meditate...to quiet the restless mental noise that infects my peace of mind, to enter that quiet - it is unfortunate that in this culture, quiet is not valued...we think that if something isn't happening, something loud, something active, then we are wasting time. But that couldn't be farther from the truth. When we ( Read more... )

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I just had the most wonderful conversation with Sandra last night, into the wee hours of the morning, and she is just so wonderful, and it's so wonderful to know that someone loves me, and it feels like we really connected, and well, it was just wonderful all around, and yes, I can be mushy if I want to!! ;-P ( Read more... )

The Special Function      1. The grace of God rests gently on forgiving eyes, and everything they look on speaks of Him to the beholder. He can see no evil; nothing in the world to fear, and no one who is different from himself. And as he loves them, so he looks upon himself with love and gentleness. He would no more condemn himself for his ( Read more... )

I just had to mention that I'm so grateful for my sister, who got me as a birthday present V for Vendetta, one of my favorite movies, which I watched last night, and basked in it's cinematic glory. That movie touches me so deeply...I know I was crying in more than one place, for sadness and for joy, for freedom, for truth, for justice ( Read more... )

      "Translucents have shifted their dominant sense of self from content to context. They know that who they really are is what remains when they relax any attempt to define themselves. It is like being the sky instead of a cloud, being the ocean instead of a wave. Self-esteem yields to esteem for the Great One Self, which knows no limits. ( Read more... )

I think that, perhaps the reason I waited so long to post about Canada is that part of me doesn't think words can do it justice. But I feel I must try, if only to say how spectacularly spectacular it is to be in love with someone who loves me...We went all around the town of St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, me and her and nyarhotep, to the zoo, which was ( Read more... )

A 10 gallon brass syringe filled with holy water ( Read more... )