Follow Natural Peaceful Paths through Every Living Day in this shared journey down natural paths of ease and calm.The inherent wisdom of the winter has reflected one truth for millennia: that the graceful embrace of hard natural elements is also what allows space for tranquility in our emotional seasons. If we allow our tranquility to be determined by outside events, it will come and go in our lives by little more than mere chance. We have no choice but to accept our hardships and seek that seasonal grace—that solid grounding serenity through it all.
Archive for the ‘Wild Grace’ Category
The Wisdom of Winter
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Comforting Vastness
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010It’s as important to look for peace to absorb in the city as in the wilderness, because that’s where most of us lift our faces skyward most of the time. Looking to the heights, a celestial body we see is as likely to be a balloon as a moon, and either way it’s up to us to find tranquil perspective within it. Either can draw our eye to the comforting vastness within which our tiny layers of grace and tranquility are nestled.
Sharing the Earth’s Abundance
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010We can walk and seek serenity together, no matter the conflict that surrounds and stirs within us. You and I, we can walk these places and make them home. We can find the paths of grace and tranquility within them, just as we have found each other within the open arms of the day. We can share the earth’s abundance, and by knowing its ways well, grow abundance greater still. We can deepen our gratitude for the mystery and miracle, celebrating each moment and its reflections inside.
An Intricate, Delicate Peace
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010What is it we seek with our shared vision? Some form of tranquility—an intricate, delicate peace we can carry through the midst of turbulence. We seek a peace we can hold inside and yet offer to others, as soft as leaves cradled in our fragile palms. We seek a peace as graceful and natural as those elements around us—a peace as instinctive and wild as any grace can be. We seek the peace for which we have been born.
The Gift of Passing On
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010Blending
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010Ancestral Prayers of Stone
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010Stones have centered some of the greatest constructed prayers of the human ages. From Stonehenge to the Mayan temples and European cathedrals, prayers and messages to the gods have been formed from rock. It would be odd to view rock as spiritless when it has so often been chosen to center great monuments of worship.
What Would Water Do?
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010When I’m confronted with obstacles in my life, I ask myself one question: What would water do? Would it go around, would it build to push through, wait for a thaw, accept the heat and rise to come down in some other place? I draw upon water’s stressless, adaptable persistence. What would water do? I take a sip from the nearest drinking fountain, glass or faucet to draw that water and its ways deeper inside me. What would water do? In the answer to that question is inevitably the answer to what direction I should take, given the obstacle-and also the beauty I should try to reflect.
We are Liquid
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