Conversations with the Heartmind
“The Art of Living Well and The Art of Dying Well are One.” ~ Epicurus Here we are again… The end becomes the beginning, and the beginning is heralded by the end. The cycle of one Gregorian year culminates here in the sphere of circles; the great precession of seasons ends and begins here; here […]
Read More“Your redemption is at the gate of your conscience. You have been granted the power of a choice.” ~ Todd D. Boddy On Christmas day I was given the gift of a silver crucifix by my mother. This is why…. You may be wondering what this is all about. What will be different? What does […]
Read MorePeople are more connected to each other than they could possibly imagine. According to people who count the heads on this sphere, apparently over eight billion human beings–people–are living and breathing, waking and feeling, suffering and loving on this little blue sphere of ours; billions of sentient creatures all scurrying about, staking their claims on […]
Read More“One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”~ Friedrich Nietzsche Human emotion… A complexity that can be just as paradoxical as the universe itself. Though, this emotion is truly part of all existence. It comes to us through a passageway that […]
Read More“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.” ~ Edgar Allen Poe The quiet ones are known to the world. These silent wayfarers keeping to their own, walking in harmony and disharmony. My world is quiet, though loud […]
Read More“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.” ~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha I saw a picture of the above photo the other day as a social media post. I stopped and stared at it for […]
Read MorePardon me while I reflect for a moment…………………. In the summer of 2012, I was immersed in my writing just as I had been since the beginning of the year. I was perfecting the last revisions to my book “SPHERE(S) Pondering With the Heartmind.” During that time I was diligently writing on this blog, as […]
Read More“Three things cannot remain long hidden: The Sun, the Moon, and the Truth.” ~ Buddha Thought, ideas, science, intuition, faith, religion, common sense, feeling and truth. These are all tools by which human beings form their opinions, live their lives, form and govern ethics and ideals and follow their dreams. Over millennia, these forms of […]
Read More“The Sage falls asleep not because he ought to, nor even because he wants to, but because he is sleepy.” ~Raymond M. Smullyan We live in a busy world, with busy people using busy things. Sometimes in all of this “business of busyness” we forget to stop and remember where our feet are even planted, […]
Read More“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ~ Lao Tzu For many years I have labored to find subtle ways of self-expression, always taking a path less traveled; one with no footprints to follow. In doing so […]
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