Since the level of consciousness is the true level of cause, then you can sometimes do more to move a mountain from sitting in your armchair than from running around the mountain or even climbing it.  What we move on the level of consciousness is moved within the Mind of God. - Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change

the more comfortable we are with mystery in our journey
the more rest we will know along the way.

sorrowful yet always rejoicing.
poor yet making many rich.
having nothing and yet
possessing everything.
2corinthians6:10...

how true is this
if we remain open to sorrow
we can know joy

somehow being empty allows us to make others rich.
and if we are willing to ( Read more... )

i'm sitting high on a hill above a bend in the ohio river; the rare january sun is on my face and on the water.  i can see kentucky on the other side, rows of white houses on hills, bare trees, a few hopeful steeples.  two barges pass each other, one sliding upstream, one down.  i can hear the persistent hum of the city at work in the distance-- ( Read more... )