“If you had a sad childhood, so what? You can dance with only one leg and see the snowflake falling with only one eye.” Robert Bly I flew all the way to South Africa, carrying all my troubles with me, like oversize bags that no one would check, and there in the sun...
“What people have forgotten is what every salmon knows.” Robert Clark Salmon have much to teach us about the art of facing things. In swimming up waterfalls, these remarkable creatures seem to defy gravity. It is an amazing thing to behold. A closer look reveals a...
If you try to teach before you learn or leave before you stay, you will lose your ability to try. There are so many ways we can divorce ourselves from our own experience. I can remember, as a young man fearing the pain of being hurt by love, I became endlessly...
“I Have Stopped. You Have Not Stopped.” Buddha There is a story of how, just before he was hung, Angulimala, the murderer, became an Arahant, or worthy one, because of his encounter with Buddha. Angulimala had seemingly been so driven from his own life that he was...
“Earth Mother, you who are called by a thousand names. May all remember we are cells in your body and dance together.” Starhawk If you’ve ever flown, you know that from just below the clouds, the roads are like arteries and the cars like cells. From above the...
