Category Archives: Centering

Default to God as Source

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Over the years I’ve recognized that my ability to turn to God (or turn within) as a means of calming my disturbance hasn’t always been automatic.  In the beginning I was a bit hard-headed, and full of fear, seeking to find solutions that ‘made sense’ or wouldn’t necessarily require complete surrender (for fear of losing something I treasured).  Eventually, I would find my way back to understanding that being at peace was more important to me than winning at the … Continue reading →

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Language of the Heart

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Last week I rediscovered the magic of speaking the Language of the Heart.  Coupled with Keeping it Green, I sought to be present to myself, to tell on myself, to describe my inward condition.  Yesterday’s spiritual insight was sufficient for that day, but not for the moment I was in – I sought to connect with my innermost self, to express myself, and felt in that moment the link-up with others in the room. In Quaker practice during Meeting for … Continue reading →

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Joy as our New GPS!

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Every time one of us pays attention to the Spirit of Love & Joy, we enter a new destination into our internal GPS.  Once entered, we open ourselves to a continuous flow of course corrections from Spirit. Similar to when we key in an unknown destination into our phone, we trust that Siri won’t let us down.  We willingly follow the glowing blue dot, never questioning the accuracy of Google Maps — we are assured that we are being led … Continue reading →

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Re-Framing the Unknown: The Edge of Reality

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In the early days of spiritual exploration I relished the challenge of venturing into the Unknown.  I thought of it as a Great Mystery that would be revealed to me through diligence and hard work, a reward for demonstrating my commitment to Spirit and perseverance in seeking to ‘find God’.  I thought it would be exciting, eventually stepping into the Void, despite the necessary rites of passage including the inevitable ‘dark nights of the Soul’. I realize now that I … Continue reading →

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Creation from Negative Space

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For many years I struggled with owning that I was a creative person, in fact I would defer to my sister as the ‘artist’, the person in our family who was the ‘creative one’.  Eventually I was able to by-pass the whole inner debate, and came to an awareness of creativity as a force that lies within — an urge or energy that flows through and brings something forth.  This energy can take so many different forms, manifest in an … Continue reading →

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The Practice of Presence

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Practicing the Presence is most commonly achieved is through the deliberate act of sitting in meditation, seeking to drop away from being identified with our individual selves, and to merge with THAT presence that is larger, beyond, …. enveloping all of Life itself. I propose a different approach to Practice the Presence.  Rather than seeking to escape ourselves, to escape our humanity, to escape our sense of identity as individuated beings, we seek to practice OUR presence.  If we are created in the … Continue reading →

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And Grace Will Lead You Home

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This is a line from a hymn, sung during my childhood.  I always envisioned Grace as something that was bestowed, or a quality that someone has in the world (very rarely would I attribute being graceful to myself).  But the notion that Grace Will Lead You Home — Grace as Spirit, the feminine face of God, the feminine expression/aspect of Source/Life.  Although it sounds etheric, it is very powerful.  The Hebrew word Ruach is translated as “wind”, “breath”, or “spirit”, the … Continue reading →

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Journey to Trust

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There is much ‘talk’ and admonition about learning to live from our heart and not from our head (to the dismay of many intellectual and scientific folks).   But I can relate to the tyranny of the mind — reflecting back on the eons of struggle, seeking to do the right thing, learn the right thing, be the right ‘way’, and make healthy choices. What I’ve come to realize is that very few people understand the distinction between the two. … Continue reading →

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One Breath at a Time

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Cultivating Surrender is not just about the desire to give up the fight, it’s not even the desire to give up our will; nor is it a mental process of praying, praying, praying and saying ‘Thy Will Be Done” and then having a new state of awareness come forth. The fastest way to Surrender is simply to pray to be with – if all we do is focus on the Breath, our Breath, this moment. Breathing in this Moment, breathing … Continue reading →

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Full to Overflowing

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On the days my glass is ‘half-full” I go away and I doubt God.  And when I can’t doubt God, I doubt myself.  And depending on my mood, I can stay in this zone for an hour, a day, a week and lose myself completely in this spiral.  Examining: “How did I let myself down?”  “Where did I not take the road less traveled?”  “How can I transform my life?” Or I try to create movement by telling myself:  “If … Continue reading →

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