A dragonfly can fly forwards, backwards, up, down, and hover... The dragonfly knows what we learn: the path will never be linear. It isn’t supposed to be.
The younger generations have started life by being handed a bag of crap for their future, a future that will necessarily consist of undoing all the harm...
Let’s be ashamed of ourselves and talk about our shameful behavior, so that we can make collective decisions based on a desire for connection and belonging.
The battle is as old as Arjuna’s,
Who thought he was fighting his cousins
And their lust for power
But was really up against
The evil
Of his own apathy
By the time things get so bad for us that the destruction of our civilization’s infrastructures finally allows our greenhouse gas emissions to begin to fall, global climate change will already be well on its way into uncharted territories. Huge numbers of species will be extinct, much of the ...
We will be Her angels in rape and pillage
We will love Her, pray to Her, infuse Her with our internal sunlight, warm her with the photosynthesis of Love.
Anansi and the Maroon and indigenous dwellers of the jungle had indirectly taught me that my 'primitive brain' and instinctual self, contrary to popular Western belief, were not ruled by fear and existential angst.
Contemporary spiritual teachers, such as Tara Brach, Jeffrey Foster, and Eckhart Tolle, take a different route to Rome, or home, that deflates the appeal of this risky temptation and opens the door to deep healing. Their take on being present is more aligned with Buddhist and Taoist thought, ...