Leonora
Leonora used a variety of pronouns to describe themselves and I tried to follow, but they gave me an old-man-pass and never burdened me, though their friends who were many still argue about what they demanded to be called.
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Category: Perspectives
No Obligation
Thoughts arise and dissolve like clouds in the empty sky. You cannot grasp them, so why try? To realize that you are not under any obligation to believe in your thoughts is the dawning of freedom.
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Recognizing Moments of Grace
Moments of grace—of opening to the numinous, to the Great Mystery—often happen in the wake of crisis. In times of great desolation, something may spontaneously crack within us. The veil that divides our mundane, everyday experience from a deeper perception of reality—what we might call universal reality—becomes thinner and more porous.
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LEAVING THE DREAM THOUGHT CREATES
Most people’s experience is filtered exclusively through the thinking mind, and this drastically limits the experience itself. This is not to state that thoughts and memories are not necessary for the human experience, but we have long ago surrendered the purity and joy of raw experience to the limits and judgements of the thinking mind.
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center of all that is
For centuries scientists, spiritualists, and philosophers have attempted to discover the center of...
Read MoreThe Braided Way
The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.