A Mindful Life

Help me to know that
age is not a chasm wide,
but a bridge across.

“Striding side-by-side” by Beverly Good ©2002/

This post comes courtesy of Blue Moon Glassworks and my friend, owner of Austin Lasting Images, who will be selling her wares at the show.
Blue Moon Glassworks
2nd Anniversary Art and Craft Gift Show
Sunday, April 25th, 2004, 10 am – 5 pm
We have invited local artists to display their wares at our second annual Blue Moon [...]

When the soul comes into the physical world it receives an offering from the whole universe, and that offering is the body in which to function. It is not offered to the soul only by the parents, but by the ancestors, by the nation and race into which the soul is born, and by the [...]

Waiting, lost, confused;
where shall I turn for guidance?
Stillness calms the mind.

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In the writings which preface the Law that particular delusion is described thus: before the Law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper there comes a man from the country who begs for admittance to the Law. But the doorkeeper says that he cannot admit the man at the moment. The man, on reflection, asks if [...]

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
–Elizabeth Bowen

I so enjoyed this vignette from Witt Bits:

On another note, I have this loyalty to my breakfast cereal. I find one brand, one flavor, decide I like it, and eat nothing but that cereal for breakfast for months… sometimes years. My morning choice since I joined Weight Watchers 3 years ago has been Kashi Good [...]

One of my favorite authors is not extremely well-known, though she is well-read in feminist and lesbian circles. Two years ago I read May Sarton: A Biography, by Margot Peters. In Sarton’s novels, the reader is infused with a sense of healing — there is a tenderness in her handling of complex human issues. [...]

Curves, angles, and lines–
illusions and clarity–
what is the answer?

“Windows” by M. Hize ©2002/ephotograph.com

A book that had significant influence on my perceptions of reality was required for a graduate management class: Leadership and the New Science: Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe by Margaret Wheatley. It utilized the scientific discoveries and concepts of quantum physics, self-organizing systems, and chaos theory and applied them to management — [...]