"HEARING THE WORDS YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND THE SOURCE DON'T MAKE UP STANDARDS ON YOUR OWN IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PATH AS IT MEETS YOUR EYES HOW CAN YOU KNOW THE WAY AS YOU  WALK PROGRESS IS NOT A MATTER OF FAR OR NEAR BUT IF YOU ARE CONFUSED MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS BLOCK THE WAY I HUMBLY SAY TO THOSE WHO STUDY THE MYSTERY DON'T WASTE TIME ( Read more... )

"The real problem was not damage to the machine but to the desirous heart and the language of the heart was being lost.  An excess of this heart damage was the issue, not muscle tone, nor food, neither fung shei nor karma, neither godlessness nor god.  This was the jitterbug that made people mad. Excess, not of commodities but of their dashed and ( Read more... )

 "Interpersonal relationshionships have been compromised by the cultural need to achieve and complete.  Spiritual ties, which I define as belief in some reality beyond the material world, have for many people been severed alltogether." Darlene Cohen.

World spin fast but do not let me fall
I know I can answer your call
Changes will never stop, comfort an illusion
Just please do not let me create a delusion
Winds of change, please start with a breeze
Do not let me loose balance with this reprise

I know you are giving me a gentle tap
I full well know this is not a slap
Just let me catch my breath, let ( Read more... )

I stay up, yet again….  Ignoring everything and everyone I spend my evening giving into two of my latest weaknesses: piroshki and audio books.  While my hands are busy fussing around in flour, dough, potatoes, mushrooms, onions, and later apples, walnuts, honey, and cinnamon, I am taken on a journey through Bally, Indonesian history (a tiny bit), ( Read more... )

Happily ever after does not exist.   Do set goals, do work hard to reach them, do set new goals, do maintain flexibility, do allow for change. Do not suffer through misery for the goal (it will never compensate in the end and not satisfy completely in the future). Do not think: while it doesn’t work now, it will in 5 yrs when I am ready.  You are ( Read more... )

 This time last year I was in Tel Aviv, telling people "Boker tov, ma nishma?" in the morning.  This morning my work email headlines were the same.  Life is so unpredictable.  One of the funniest things is that the seeds of Israeli knowledge that were planted this time last year, were watered and fertilized here in the US.  2007 was a year of ( Read more... )

 
Sounds recorded long ago
Handed to me, silver shined
Hands were tender eyes aligned
On me.

Now these sounds warm inside
Rain drops drip drop outside
Smile creeps in corners, shines
On me.

The eyes the hands the go
Are out there in the flow
But the rollercoaster now lost
On me.

Up and down crazy flight
Will your exhilarating might
Find, awaken, and then ( Read more... )

Understanding often comes through dreams.  There is another life there to experience, another world where your subconcience comes out to play a game with your concience.  You wake up, and sometimes Its grace grants another level of understanding and wisdom.

Had I known and been... would have called... ago ( Read more... )