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“I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.”

~ Rumi

“I wandered through the cosmos in search of the treasure, but found it within me.” 

~ Sant Namdev

may we learn to take the time to settle & quiet down, to open our heart & listen, to see our worth within. 

~j

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#sacred #heart #love #OpenHeart #path #practice #Rumi #SantNamdev #JinpaLhaga #JMWart 

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“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”

~ Meister Eckhart

in the light of awareness we can see that from cradle to grave, everything in this life  – including this life itself – is something given. even in our accomplishments, hidden within, is the gift of opportunity, & privilege of place & time.

it will sound silly to some, but when i go for walks, i thank each tree i pass for Being. without that tree, i wouldn’t be able to breathe. silly or not, it is a hard truth that i owe my oxygen breathing form of life to that tree & all others that provide for my breathing on this planet.

can we take some time today, to look at each area of our life, each relationship, & notice how we are impacted? can we take it a step further, & look at the hard stuff, the challenging stuff in our lives, & see what it can teach us? that too, can be a gift.

gratitude is a spiritual practice, an exercise in awareness & opening of heart, for all that is given & for the interdependent nature of life itself.

grateful for all of you. thank you for Being.

~j

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#Thanksgiving #gratitude #ThankYou #life #gift #appreciation #OpenHeart #path #practice #MeisterEckhart #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy

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Well, maybe the end is upon you.

What then? 

Repeat after me, it goes:

“I won’t stop loving.

I won’t stop loving.”

You don’t have to be perfect. 

You don’t have to play well.

You don’t have to fix everything,

all by yourself.

…Repeat after me, it goes:

“I won’t stop loving.

I won’t stop loving.”

…The sun will still rise.

The sun will still rise.

~

Holcombe Waller

from song “Hardliners” 

on album “Into the Dark Unknown”

they can’t stop love.

~j

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#JustLove #OpenHeart #love #path #practice #HolcombeWaller #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

~Yasutani Roshi

our suffering can be traced back to the misunderstanding that we are separate from other life, rather than intricately & interdependently connected. this misunderstanding leads to an underlying unease that brings about a grasping of things we think will make us feel safe & whole, & an aggression – pushing things away – of anything or anyone that appears to threaten this sense of separate self we think we have. anything uncomfortable is pushed away. so we end up ping-ponging back & forth between these two in how we relate to each other & our world. it leads to a kind of neurosis, a paranoia & desperation. but it doesn’t have to be this way. we can become aware once again of our intrinsic nature which is one of union & wholeness, of open-heartedness & ease. then we can live from such spaciousness, reminding the world of its beauty, its true nature & origin in love.

~j

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#NothingSeparate #Oneness #interbeing #interdependence #awareness #OpenHeart #path #practice #YasutaniRoshi #JinpaLhaga #JMWart 

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for love to be complete, nothing can be left out. we can practice looking for our blind spots and where we exclude.

how are you planning to love this world today? 

~j

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#love #OpenHeart #path #practice #MaryOliver #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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can we include everything in our practice of love? even the imperfections – the parts that have fallen away from love & out of harmony? can we open our heart to our own supposed brokenness & that of others? are we able to have the capacity of heart to include the things that may stretch our willingness to love & are just outside of our understanding?

can we see that all of this is sacred grist for the mill?

we are called to be alchemists in a way, to love our neighbor no matter. it is only with an open heart of love that we begin to see that everyone & everything is our neighbor. 

& perhaps it is only in such love – a love that doesn’t condone harm & falsity, yet remains open & free from constriction – that those who may be lost in anger & hate, find transformation, healing, & home.

may we be instruments of such love in our time, speaking the truth of love & protecting the vulnerable.

~j

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#IncludeEverything #LoveThyNeighbor #love #OpenHeart #alchemy #transformation #InstrumentsOfLove #bodhisattvas #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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we aren’t able to control much & to attempt to is crushing.

but it isn’t our task.

our task & our power is to attend to the darkness that is in front of us, within reach of our love, with tenderness & light.

path & practice.

~j

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#love #light #tenderness #OpenHeart #compassion #path #practice #bodhisattvas #JohnPatrickShanley #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”

~ Pablo Neruda

have hope friends, in the turning of seasons & the turning of hearts. life itself is potential & opportunity manifest. all of life comes together to support the return of balance & forward movement. flowing, flowing.

~j

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#life #nature #seasons #change #progress #peace #SocialJustice #resilience #potential #PlantingSeeds #OpenHeart #path #practice #PabloNeruda #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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every word & action of love in this world counts & can be of benefit. do what you can, where you are, with what is happening in the moment, & with whomever is present.

ripples }}}}}))))

~j

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#ripples #GoodWorks #RightSpeech #RightAction #OpenHeart #path #practice #bodhisattvas #PatrulRinpoche #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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our power comes from love, & it is discovered & motivated by befriending ourselves, opening our heart, & bearing witness to the world – seeing, listening, opening to what is happening, where there is need for care & healing. then we act from that space with mindfulness, confidence, wisdom, & compassion. 

we don’t need to follow the crowd, or be peer pressured.

we can follow our heart & wisdom instead.

~j

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#compassion #love #wisdom #confidence #BearingWitness #OpenHeart #path #practice #bodhisattvas #LamaZopaRinpoche #JinpaLhaga #JMWart