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“Love is what we are when we drop all the things that stand in the way.”

~ Karen Maezen Miller

may love be all that remains.

may we let go of all else and be free.

~j

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#Love #WhoYouAre #LetGo #LetBe #LetLove #OpenHeart #path #practice #KarenMaezenMiller #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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no one can live our lives for us. 

this is your precious life.

live your life.

~j

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#life #discovery #wisdom #precious #OpenHeart #path #practice #Proust #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“Somehow we all must learn to love people, groups, and institutions that really turn us off – or love is not love at all.

Love is of one piece.  We either love everybody or we do not really love.”

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Richard Rohr

…love doesn’t mean we are indifferent or complicit in harm. in fact, love is the source of our motivation to dismantle & prevent such harm. loving everyone simply (but not so simply done) means that we leave no one out of our desire to not harm & to reduce suffering. loving everyone means that we include everyone in our compassion & the heart healing that is needed. we can start practicing such profound love, by beginning with ourselves & then those closest to us, & then continue to expand the capacity of our heart to include everyone. 

~j

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#love #NoExclusion #inclusion #OneLove #OpenHeart #path #practice #ThichNhatHanh #RichardRohr #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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“When nothing new can get in, that’s death. When oxygen can’t find a way in, you die. But new is scary, and new can be disappointing, and confusing-we had this all figured out, and now we don’t. New is life.”

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Anne Lamott

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may we embrace impermanence, change, closing doors, empty cups, a beginner’s mind, open-heartedness & the newness that life brings.

~j

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#change #newness #life #BeginnersMind #OpenHeart #path #practice #AnneLamott #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #Om #OmCalligraphy

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may we wake up to our lives & know life fully & exquisitely.

~j

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#life #awareness #WakeUp #OpenHeart #Zen #Dogen #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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good first day of 2025, friends!

in 2025, may we choose love over hate, empathy & compassion over indifference, generosity over greed, gentleness over violence, tenderness over aggression, & awareness along w/ wisdom over foolishness. breaking through old habits & patterns that are not of love. breaking through to deep awareness & open-heartedness, for the benefit of all life. bringing intention & practice of balance where we see extremes, both in our own hearts & where it is apparent in the world, while holding to principles of equity, justice, & peace. 2025 will no doubt call us to conscience about a great many things.

i’ve created two new calligraphies to support this pith teaching of “breakthrough” & “balance.” i’ll be having physical art prints made soon for sale for anyone interested. however, my Patreon members received digital Art Prints of both of these calligraphies this morning as a thank you for their continued generosity. you too can have these digital art prints & many others w/ more to come for as little as $3/month & your donation helps support the time/work i spend creating & sharing art, blogging, & offering meditation instruction for free. visit http://www.patreon.com/jaysenwaller if you find value in what i offer & are interested in becoming a patron.

wishing you & yours a beautiful & beneficial 2025!

May you be safe

May you be healthy

May you be happy

May you be at ease & have peace

May you be loved & know you are loved

May you be free from suffering.

~j

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#NewYear #NewYears2025 #breakthrough #balance #LivingByVow #path #practice #OpenHeart #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #calligraphy #YinYang #enso

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it is so easy to get caught up in all that life can bring & dissatisfied with the slightest inconvenience or discomfort, that we forget the most basic truth of all – just being alive is a gift. the potential available with having a life is a gift. that we are even here together in this moment, breathing & housing some 30 trillion + cells in this body that makes consciousness and awareness possible, is a miracle.

so whatever is happening, whatever challenges we are facing, we can take a moment to come home to this truth, this truth that is no further than our next in and out breath – we are alive. may we allow ourselves to enjoy this. and may we make it a practice to do so.

~j

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#life #miracle #being #happiness #OpenHeart #path #practice #ThichNhatHanh #JinpaLhaga #JMWart

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rest in well earned peace, President Jimmy Carter.

very few in public life have lived the message of Jesus so directly & fully. never has there been a post presidency so devoted to service & the common good. a life of faith lived in the compassionate action of loving one’s neighbor & serving the poor & un-housed. the open heart, the kindness & resolution, of a saint & bodhisattva.

the world is better from having the presence of such a human being. may we all devote our lives, in our own ways, to love & compassionate action for our neighbor as President Carter did.

~j

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#PresidentCarter #JimmyCarter #RIP #LoveThyNeighbor #bodhisattva

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we often live our lives in past memory with a mix of nostalgia & regret, & in a dream like future of hopes & fears. but in reality, all we have is this moment in front of us. it is in this moment that we heal past injury & regret, that we remember with gratitude what has benefitted us, & plant the seeds for a future we want to see. the past has happened & the future is yet to be, so we only truly have this moment where life is happening. it is this moment that we can love, that we can tend to with a quality of open-heartedness, warmth, grace, compassion, & hope.

it is in this moment, the present moment, that the past & the future can both be held & met with love as well.

love the moment.

~j

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#love #PresentMoment #OpenHeart #path #practice #alchemy #JinpaLhaga #JMWart #enso #calligraphy

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“Suns laugh when I say, 

‘I’m in love with everything.’

They know what I mean.”

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Amy Chini

may all our fabricated barriers fall away, revealing all that is, as the one love that originates, pervades, & sustains all. always, always shining through. 

~j

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#love #NoBarriers #ShineThrough #OpenHeart #path #practice #AmyChini #JinpaLhaga #JMWart