Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”ย ~ Marcus Aurelius My pulse quickened as I walked into the Musรฉe d’Orsay’s main hall, bathed in light from its stunning, Beaux-Arts, glass ceiling. I paused briefly to take in the architectural splendor and then anxiously walked toward the gallery…
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The Provenance of Becoming
Be a provenance of something gathered, a summation of previous intuitions, let your vulnerabilities walking on the cracked sliding limestone be this time, not a weakness, but a faculty for understanding what’s about to happen.” ~ David Whyte, excerpt from “The Seven Streams” Every morning when I sit for meditation, get out my laptop to…
The Empath’s Guide to Protecting Creative Energy
If you walk in the mist, you get wet.โ ~ Dogen, the great Zen master I threw up every day before school when I was in the first grade. I was painfully shy, very much an introvert, and afraid of just about everything and everyone. Oddly, though, I loved schoolโlistening to what Ms. Brown was…
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