In 18th century northern europe, there was in use a cruel wolf trap that consisted of a very sharp knife frozen into the ice so that its double-edged blade protruded upwards. The blade was smeared with animal blood. Wolves, smelling the blood, would soon arrive and begin licking the blood off the blade, in [...]
Archive for November, 2006
Wolf trap
Posted in Uncategorized on November 24, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Darkness
Posted in Poetry on November 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Go slowly
Consent to it
But don’t wallow in it
Know it as a place of germination
And growth
Remember the light
Take an outstretched hand if you find one
Exercise unused senses
Find the path by walking it
Practice trust
Watch for dawn
– Marilyn Chandler McEntyre: Weavings
Beauty
Posted in ReUnion Articles on November 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
“The sole gift that man can offer to God is love; it suffices to call forth His overwhelming generosity.” – Paramanhana Yogananda
True spiritual science teaches us that wishing on a star works when the star is perceived as beautiful. Prayers are answered when faith is invested in beauty. All purposes contain this driving force of [...]
Leaky buckets
Posted in ReUnion Articles on November 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
There was a man who found himself in an endless desert, a flat nothing. So to protect himself from nothing, he built walls all around him, filled with pictures to amuse him and to worry him. The mind is this kind of ‘protection’.
The mind is like a leaky bucket, suggesting to us that we [...]
Wanting
Posted in Uncategorized on November 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
As a ReUnion Process facilitator, people have often come to see me because they have wanted something – they have wanted to be able to get pregnant, or they have wanted to find a partner, or they have wanted to have more money, and so on. The most interesting aspect of all this wanting is [...]
Freedom
Posted in ReUnion Articles on November 4, 2006 | 2 Comments »
“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky” – Ojibua indian
Until we love the way we are now, we will not be able to leave it. All negative thought is simply our own resistance to the joyous flow of life.
When we can [...]
Courage
Posted in Poetry on November 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
“The general marched to the temple, burst through the doors, and demanded to see the priest. After a search, the priest was found reading quietly in his study.
The general, angry that the cleric refused to greet him as a conqueror, shouted, ‘Don’t you know that you are looking at one who can run you through [...]
