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our love has the capacity to hold everyone and all life, so why would we choose to leave anyone or anything out?

this is a deep question, a deep practice, because it challenges us to face our own fears and blind spots, our own biases and baggage.

we come to realize that love is not an emotion that is present in one moment and then gone in another. love is a choice, a commitment, a vow to work for the healing, happiness, and end to suffering for all life.

and that life includes ourselves.

only love can buoy us for such an inward journey. it is both the means and end.

a love that excludes, is an incomplete love. a shadow we stand in, when we are meant to bask in the sun.

~j

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#Love #Life #Existence #Inclusion #Sacred #OneLove #OneFamily #Community #Sangha #OpenHeart #Path #Practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #Enso #StFrancisOfAssisi #StFrancisQuotes

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“I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion – and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.” 

~ Ram Dass

always more work to do,

always more room to grow. 

path and practice.

~j

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#Love #Compassion #OpenHeart #Path #Practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #Art #Photography #RamDassQuotes

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life.

found

on an afternoon walk

just two days ago.

we’re surrounded.

~j

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#life #nature #flowers #photography #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

hello friends!

yesterday was the one-month anniversary of my dad‘s passing on August 25th. hard to believe. and as of yesterday, my sister and i finished setting up his online memorial site, where anyone who may be interested can read his life story, peruse pictures from his life, and share tributes or stories, if moved to do so. and although it is impossible to fully capture the beauty of a life, we hope it does honor to his memory, the love shared, and a life well lived.

~j

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https://www.forevermissed.com/larry-vincent-waller/about

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just a reminder.

no matter how steep the hill you are climbing, you can make it, because you have within you the resilience, the bravery, and capacity of heart and mind to do it.

rest when needed, and then begin again, one step at a time. 🐜

~j

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#KeepClimbing #KeepMoving #YouGotThis #IThinkICan #Path #Practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #Photography #BWphotography #Bugs #Insects #Nature #Life

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wishing everyone a beautiful #AutumnEquinox as we ease into the embrace of change, the inward looking that prepares for the Winter ahead, which all the while holds within it the hope of Spring.

today in the northern hemisphere with equal parts light and dark, we recognize the balance and harmony that is within life. may we embrace the simplicity of such balance, may we be reminded of our interdependent relationship with all things, which itself embodies harmony. 

~j

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#Autumn #Fall #Equinox #balance #harmony #path #practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art

“Yes, we do have roles and tasks in this world, but finally they are all the same—to uniquely be divine love in a way that no one else can or will.” 

~ Richard Rohr

asking ourselves how we can embody love in this life, in this world – in our thoughts, our speech, our actions, in our relationships, and our careers – can be a practice.

may we align with and abide in the flow of love to the benefit of ourselves and others, to bring an end to harm and suffering.

~j

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#Love #OpenHeart #Path #Practice #LoveEmbodied #RichardRohrQuotes #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #PhotoArt #Photography #Art

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when we “love it all”, this doesn’t mean that we have to like it all or that we don’t do the needed work of ending harm and bringing healing. 

when we embody such love as to “love it all”, we are reminding the world of its true nature, we are reminding the world of its inherent worthiness and beauty.

~j

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#Love #OpenHeart #Path #Practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art #calligraphy

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“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth – and without light nothing flowers.” 

~ May Sarton 

can we hold it all, the light and the dark, with love?

may it be so.

~j

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#YinYang #Life #AllOfIt #Tao #Balance #Flow #Love #OpenHeart #Path #Practice #TheLongArc #PlantingSeeds #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #art

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it is in the 

tenderness 

of my heart 

that i found 

my true strength

which is 

love.

~j

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#Love #Tenderness #OpenHeart #Strength #Path #Practice #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #Art #Calligraphy