+ updated at 11:50am EST on Friday, March 14, 2014
+ Yesterday's Gratefulness Word for the Day:
“If
we could see the miracle of a single flower, our whole life would change.”
--
The Buddha
+ Yesterday's Daily Zen:
If
you want to complete the unsurpassable Buddha Way, you must first vow to save
each and every sentient being, whose numbers are infinite. If you want to save
all sentient beings, you must arouse a spirit of dauntless courage and push
yourself forward mercilessly until you can see your true nature as if you are
looking at it in the palm of your hand.
– Hakuin
+ Last week Joseph Naft began a new series at Inner Frontier on The Path of The Path. This week he offers his wonderful wisdom on Handling Peaks. Here is an excerpt: "The spiritual path, our inner work is rightly directed at changing our station, at a lasting transformation of our level of being. The methods of the path accomplish this by training us to enter into and extend our stay in a state corresponding to the next higher level beyond our current station. The intention is eventually to make that next higher state our new station, to enable us to live in that new way. This takes long-term persistence." | Read it all
+ The Gratefulness Word for the Day:
The
world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on
the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.
-- Terry Tempest Williams in Talking to
God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology)
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Friday, March 14, 2014
Friday, February 14, 2014
COFFEE BREAK 405
+ updated at 12:10pm EST on Friday, February 14, 2014
+ Here is the Gratefulness Word for the Day:
“Treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of reward. Your life will never be the same.” -- Og Mandino in The Greatest Salesman in the World
+ A book on Grace > http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/books.php?id=21998
+ At least a foot of snow here in the Utica area and it is still snowing at 11:42am.
+ This one ALWAYS makes me cry >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EWvbu5K7MBM
+ I did an online Enneagram instrument and I came out tied for the Four, the Thinker (or the Observer) and the Five, the Artist (or the Romantic). The other seven types are: The One, the Reformer (or the Perfectionist), the Two, the Helper, the Three, the Motivator (or the Achiever), the Six, the Skeptic (or the Questioner), the Seven, the Generalist (or the Adventurer), the Eight, the Leader (or the Asserter) and the Nine, the Peacemaker. What are you?
+ Here is the Gratefulness Word for the Day:
“Treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of reward. Your life will never be the same.” -- Og Mandino in The Greatest Salesman in the World
+ A book on Grace > http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/books.php?id=21998
+ At least a foot of snow here in the Utica area and it is still snowing at 11:42am.
+ This one ALWAYS makes me cry >
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EWvbu5K7MBM
+ I did an online Enneagram instrument and I came out tied for the Four, the Thinker (or the Observer) and the Five, the Artist (or the Romantic). The other seven types are: The One, the Reformer (or the Perfectionist), the Two, the Helper, the Three, the Motivator (or the Achiever), the Six, the Skeptic (or the Questioner), the Seven, the Generalist (or the Adventurer), the Eight, the Leader (or the Asserter) and the Nine, the Peacemaker. What are you?
Thursday, January 27, 2011
COFFEE BREAK 245
+ updated at 1:00pm EST on Thursday, January 27, 2011
+ ANOTHER REASON TO BE HOPEFUL FOR THE PLANET: Recent Opinion Polls show that 55 per cent of Americans rate President Obama favorably while only 19 pre cent rate Sarah Palin favorably. I have nothing personally against Sarah Palin but she has a lot to learn if she truly wants to be a global leader. I don't agree with a lot of Obama's agenda, but I do find him at least somewhat curious, imaginative, compassionate and open-minded. He may indeed be rememberred as a great global leader. I am glad that most of my fellow Americans are far more apptreciative of Obama than Palin. Also, opinion polls reveal that far more Americans dislike the Tea Party Movement than like it. Check out Polling Report.
+ Marc and Angel Hack Life: Practical Tips for Productive Living offers "10 Surefire Ways To Live Below Your Full Potential" by Celestine Chua.
+ "To have hope is not to seek the surprise of a Hollywood happy ending, which is unrealistic optimism. To have hope is to remain open to the possibility of surprise when everything turns out worse than we could ever imagine. Despair assigns reality a deadline, whereas hope knows that there are no deadlines. This is how hope truly thrives in the midst of hopelessness." - Brother David Steindl-Rast in COMMON SENSE SPIRITUALITY. Read an excerpt on Gratitude from this book.
+ Spirituality and Practice offers "Words Matter: Taming the Tongue, Renouncing Hurtful Speech, and Vowing to Practice Right Speech" by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. It begins: "America has become an adversarial culture where competition and winning at any cost are rampant in all departments of life. The hatred and paranoia of talk-radio hosts fills the airwaves with toxins that adversely affect anyone who hears these rants. Now this phenomenon has spread to large media operations like Fox News where ratings and corporate sponsorships seem to be dependent upon just how much the on-air personalities denigrate the opposition; tune in and you'll soon be treated to a smorgasbord of right-wing rhetoric about big government and other pet peeves of angry political analysts. Meanwhile, on the road, candidates smear each other in TV ads and casually call it all part of the game of getting elected. What we have here is a scary dumbing down of democracy, now regarded as an unsavory blend of entertainment and blood sport."
Another Excerpt: In his speech at the memorial service in Tucson on January 12, 2011, President Barack Obama pointed to a different way. He said: "At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do, it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds."
Read More.
+ ANOTHER REASON TO BE HOPEFUL FOR THE PLANET: Recent Opinion Polls show that 55 per cent of Americans rate President Obama favorably while only 19 pre cent rate Sarah Palin favorably. I have nothing personally against Sarah Palin but she has a lot to learn if she truly wants to be a global leader. I don't agree with a lot of Obama's agenda, but I do find him at least somewhat curious, imaginative, compassionate and open-minded. He may indeed be rememberred as a great global leader. I am glad that most of my fellow Americans are far more apptreciative of Obama than Palin. Also, opinion polls reveal that far more Americans dislike the Tea Party Movement than like it. Check out Polling Report.
+ Marc and Angel Hack Life: Practical Tips for Productive Living offers "10 Surefire Ways To Live Below Your Full Potential" by Celestine Chua.
+ "To have hope is not to seek the surprise of a Hollywood happy ending, which is unrealistic optimism. To have hope is to remain open to the possibility of surprise when everything turns out worse than we could ever imagine. Despair assigns reality a deadline, whereas hope knows that there are no deadlines. This is how hope truly thrives in the midst of hopelessness." - Brother David Steindl-Rast in COMMON SENSE SPIRITUALITY. Read an excerpt on Gratitude from this book.
+ Spirituality and Practice offers "Words Matter: Taming the Tongue, Renouncing Hurtful Speech, and Vowing to Practice Right Speech" by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. It begins: "America has become an adversarial culture where competition and winning at any cost are rampant in all departments of life. The hatred and paranoia of talk-radio hosts fills the airwaves with toxins that adversely affect anyone who hears these rants. Now this phenomenon has spread to large media operations like Fox News where ratings and corporate sponsorships seem to be dependent upon just how much the on-air personalities denigrate the opposition; tune in and you'll soon be treated to a smorgasbord of right-wing rhetoric about big government and other pet peeves of angry political analysts. Meanwhile, on the road, candidates smear each other in TV ads and casually call it all part of the game of getting elected. What we have here is a scary dumbing down of democracy, now regarded as an unsavory blend of entertainment and blood sport."
Another Excerpt: In his speech at the memorial service in Tucson on January 12, 2011, President Barack Obama pointed to a different way. He said: "At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do, it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds."
Read More.
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