A Mindful Life

Spring pushes upward
striving, stretching toward the sun,
wearing lavender.

“Perseverance” by Jean Hurt ©2003 / ephotograph

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.
–Paul Brunton, Perspectives

Heaven and earth are threads from one loom.
–Shaker proverb

Euan from The Obvious? provided a peek into a post that asks the question, “What happens when you replace the word blogging with thinking?”
Many bloggers (me included) have raved in our blogs how the simple act of writing a blog does great things to your life and your mind. ThereÂ’s also some big criticisms of [...]

Do not wait to striketill the iron is hot;but make it hotby striking.
–William Butler Yeats

Oh, please.
SpongeBob - who appears on the children’s cable channel Nickelodeon - is seen as an icon for adult gay men in the US, apparently because he regularly holds hands with his sidekick Patrick.
His creators deny that he is gay, but he is not the first such character to cause controversy.
In 1999 conservatives claimed handbag-carrying [...]

It’s a long way down
from apex to horizon,
swallowed by day’s end.

“Texas Sunset” by Connie Bagot ©2003 / ephotograph

I always love these nuggets I find over at Fatshadow:
Democracy is about finding a way to get all the voices in the room so that the conversation can be both expansive and inclusive. Democracy acknowledges the tension and seeks to govern not through the domination of a particular ideology but through the awareness that our [...]

A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it — that alone can be like waking up from a dream.
–David Steindl-Rast

In an article from the UK publication, The Guardian, a report:
The New Yorker reported this week that the Pentagon has already sent special operations teams into Iran to locate possible nuclear weapons sites. The report by Seymour Hersh, a veteran investigative journalist, was played down by the White House and the Pentagon, with comments that [...]