And when the danger passed...

As the pandemic seems to be easing some and things are beginning to return to some kind of a "normal" please remember this and all the other things we've learned.

"And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.

"And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal. 

And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed." 

— Kitty O'Meara

The Healing Snow

It's snowing again here in Chicago. That's twice this week, and in April of all months. Watching it falling so gently and quietly through my dining room windows a single notion keeps overwhelming my thinking. This is the Earth's way of saying, "Stay inside. I'm not ready for you to come back out yet. I'm not done healing from the damage you've done." 

The Power of Words

A nice parable about the power of words as relayed by my friend Dan.

“Once a master was called to heal a sick child with a few words of prayer. A skeptic in the crowd observed it all and expressed doubts about such a superficial way of healing. The master turned to him and said, ‘You know nothing of these matters. You are an ignorant fool.’ The skeptic became very upset. He turned red and shook with anger. Before he could gather himself to reply, however, the master spoke again, asking, ‘When one word has the power to make you hot and angry, why should not another word have the power to heal?’”
— Jack Kornfield