Out with the old, in with the new.

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day”. – Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Edith Lovejoy Pierce (1904-1983)

was a twentieth-century poet and pacifist.

Pierce was born in 1904 in Oxford,England. She married an American in 1929 and moved to theU.S.the same year. She and her husband lived in Evanston, Illinois.

Pierce was a poet and pacifist whose Christianity informed these two careers. In her writing she drew inspiration from the Bible, Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolent resistance, music, history, and religious mysticism, among other sources.

True praying isn't something you do in order to achieve or change something, it's done because you understand that of yourself you have nothing of your own. ~Guy Finley

I should, could, would will, do "x" or stop "y" or begin "z". Let go of all need for change, effort, pushing, adding energy of any kind. Listen to the small still voice inside. Feel the power of this present moment and explore love, safety, joy or happiness right here, right now...

Never despise anybody. Think daily that there is no respect of persons with God. Your spiritual nature is your true nobility. This nature showing forth you hold the government of nations in your grasp. This is your text: “Thy vows are upon me,God; I will render praises unto thee.”  ECH

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”–Helen Keller

“Your body cannot heal without play. Your mind cannot heal without laughter. Your soul cannot heal without joy.”–Catherine Fenwick

Even though aspirants have sought stillness for centuries, it can't be brought about by will. True relationship with stillness begins with seeing, through self-observation, that it's actually the willfulness of the mind that keeps us apart from the relationship with stillness that we long for. ~Guy Finley

“Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. When you really look for me, you will find me instantly. You will find me in the tiniest house of time. Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.” –Kabir

Stories of the masters and sages seeking the stillness on the “mountain top” were analogies for reaching a higher state of consciousness. PVRguy To get back to happy co-creation with God we leave a space for the Holy Spirit to heal all the errors in our mind and get back to the happiness that is God’s will for us. Robin Duncan

Eventually you must see that any action your mind gives you to console you about anything is stealing from you the possibility of being a reflection of the Divine. Stand unconsoled so the true consolation may make itself known to you. ~Guy Finley

"Suffering is like a rose seed planted in the ground. The seed endures the darkness in order to grow up into the sunlight as an entirely new creation.” VH