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we must grow into a love that has the capacity to hold our wounds with tenderness & healing, that our wounds may be transformed, & we no longer perpetuate cycles of violence. it is only through such radically expansive & inclusive love that we will escape the danger of mutual destruction & annihilation.

~j

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#wounds #OpenHeart #love #healing #transformation #peace #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“Light isn’t something that you actually see. It’s that by which you see everything else.”

~

Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM

may the luminous quality of love improve our seeing for each other & a world in need.

let there be light!

~j

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#LetThereBeLight #light #sight #clarity #love #OpenHeart #RichardRohr #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“My work is loving the world.”

~Mary Oliver 

my guess is that a lot of people will agree with this, but will do so without thinking about what it really means. 

what does it mean to love this world, to be love in this world?

at 50 years old, it looks different to me than it did at 20. when i look to those who have embodied it in a sacred way, it looks like sacrifice & service, like a tendering holding & tender offering & emptying, like a fierce standing up & speaking out when needed, like radical inclusivity with no one & no thing excluded.

it looks like work.

but it also looks like deep joy, deep connection & union. it looks like peace & it looks like healing, like a vast blue sky able to receive everything.

it looks like the opposite of a lot of what we are seeing with current people in power & power structures. how does love speak & show up in such times as these, where those in power & their sycophants delight in cruelty, greed, & destruction?

may our love, in its myriad diverse manifestations be a benefit & a blessing to the deepest depth & highest height, for each other & this world.

~j

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#love #life #work #service #offering #OpenHeart #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #MaryOliver #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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bear witness. allow your heart to break open to all the pains & beauty of this world, your love pouring out in empathy, tenderness, & generosity. washing over this world with healing love.

~j

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#OpenHeart #love #healing #haiku #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“I’ve always felt the quiet presence of love when storms rage, when persecutions threaten, I quietly creep into its deeper bliss and securely sheltered there my soul is at peace. Though my body may be wracked on the waves of a cold and uncaring world, if you have charity in your heart, you need never fear.”

~ 

Saint Mary MacKillop

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#heart #love #refuge #sanctuary #OpenHeart #MaryMacKillop #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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friends, 

day after day we are seeing the destruction of lives, rights, beneficial systems & institutions, & economic well-being. not all are feeling it or affected yet, but it seems to be coming. 

it appears some in power seem bent on destroying our world to remake it for themselves. we should bear witness & do what we can, where & when we can, within our means. we are responsible for each other, whether it is comfortable or not.

in any case, in small & large ways, we must remain committed to opening our hearts & to embodying love in its tender & fiercest forms. this world needs & will continue to need healing, transformation, & renewal. such healing comes from love alone. a love born in the heart of awareness & wisdom, in those willing to be warriors – resolving to keep their hearts open, to aligning with the wounded & oppressed, & welcoming in those pushed to the margins. 

what bravery! what integrity! what truth! what sacred power!

there are short term solutions & seeds planted for the long term. may all be motivated by & put into action with love.

~j

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#love #healing #SitDownRiseUp #MindfulResistance #MeditateAndResist #contemplation #action #bravery #OpenHeart #FierceCompassion #bodhisattvas #MedicineBuddha #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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this is the moment to care and put that care into action.

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#SitDownRiseUp #MeditateAndResist #MindfulResistance #ActionAndContemplation #OpenHeart #RightSpeech #RightAction #love #FierceCompassion #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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yesterday, today, tomorrow, & always.

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#immigrants #refugees #LoveThyNeighbor #TheGoldenRule #love #OpenHeart #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“If we do not transform our pain, we will always transmit it. Someone else always suffers because we don’t know how to suffer our own wounds.”

~ Richard Rohr, OFM

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#wounds #hurt #transform #heal #alchemy #RichardRohr #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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friends, none of us are going to escape death.  so we can ask ourselves, what are we leaving behind? what are we giving with the time we have?

each of us, in our own capacity, in our own way, can offer our love.

it’s so easy to forget this in the myriad of little things & big things that fill our lives. 

but ultimately, love is all we have really, & a multitude of ways to offer it in the time that remains.

may our love be of benefit for a world in need.

~j

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#life #death #impermanence #love #offering #JinpaLhaga #JMWart