Fire by Judy Brown
What makes a fire burn is space between the logs, a breathing space. Too much of a good thing, too many logs packed in too tight can...
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Ethan Pollock
Mar 14, 20231 min read
Love's Confusing Joy by Rumi
If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee. If you want the unseen world, you are not living with your truth. Both...
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Ethan Pollock
Jan 10, 20231 min read
Love Does That by Meister Ekhart
All day long a little burro labors, sometimes with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries about things that bother only...
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Ethan Pollock
Jan 3, 20231 min read
Rumi
“Every midwife knows that not until a mother's womb softens from the pain of labour will a way unfold and the infant find that opening to...
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Lucy Chan
Dec 28, 20221 min read
To feel myself beloved by Raymond Carver
By Raymond Carver, an American poet who wrote this as his last entry in his diary: “and did you get what you wanted from this life, even...
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Ethan Pollock
Sep 6, 20221 min read
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,...
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Ethan Pollock
Jun 28, 20221 min read
Just for Now, by Danna Faulds
Just for now, Without asking how, Let yourself sink into stillness. Just for now, lay down the weight You so patiently bear upon your...
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Ethan Pollock
Apr 5, 20221 min read
Only Breath by Rumi
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the...
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Ethan Pollock
Mar 26, 20221 min read
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let...
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Ethan Pollock
Mar 26, 20221 min read
With That Moon Language, by Hafiz
Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.” Of course you do not do this out loud; otherwise, someone would call the...
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Ethan Pollock
Mar 26, 20221 min read
Allow by Danna Faulds
There is no controlling life. Try corralling a lightning bolt, containing a tornado. Dam a stream and it will create a new channel. ...
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Ethan Pollock
Feb 26, 20221 min read
The Guest House by Rumi
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an...
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Ethan Pollock
Feb 17, 20221 min read
Ten thousand flowers in spring by Wu Men Hui-k'ai
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary...
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Ethan Pollock
Feb 17, 20221 min read
may my heart always be open by e.e cummings
may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not...
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Ethan Pollock
Feb 17, 20221 min read
The Journey by Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice— though the whole...
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Ethan Pollock
Feb 17, 20221 min read
A single word can brighten the face by Yunus Emre
A single word can brighten the face of one who knows the value of words. Ripened in silence, a single word acquires a great energy for...
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Ethan Pollock
Feb 17, 20221 min read
Free and Easy: A Spontaneous Vajra Song by Venerable Lama Gendun Rinpoche
Happiness can not be found through great effort and willpower, but is already present, in open relaxation and letting go. Don’t strain...
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Ethan Pollock
Feb 17, 20221 min read
Psalm 131
My mind is not noisy with desires Lord and my heart has satisfied its longing. I do not care about religion... or anything that is not...
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Ethan Pollock
Feb 17, 20221 min read
Always we Hope – Lao Tzu
Always we hope someone else has the answer, some other place will be better, some other time, it will turn out. This is it. No one else...
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