what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

San Antonio, April 2011

a_kosmos — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:37:59 GMT

a_kosmos — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:15:36 GMT

February 24, 2011
Tricycle Daily Dharma

Open Your Heart

Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don’t get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It’s a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

Pema Chödrön, "Stay with Your Broken Heart"

from today's Poem-a-Day email

a_kosmos — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:22:42 GMT

Continuities
by Walt Whitman

(From a talk I had lately with a German spiritualist)

Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form—no object of the world.
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
Ample are time and space—ample the fields of Nature.
The body, sluggish, aged, cold—the embers left from earlier fires,
The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual;
To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns,
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.

a_kosmos — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 05:21:14 GMT

Reposted from manifestress :

We wouldn't worry nearly as much about what others thought of us if we recognize how seldom they do.
-~ Paulo Coelho