Our True Home

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart.

Jack Kornfield

A Path with Heart

 Photo by Jerry Downs

If only we deeply understood the power of the human Heart! We now know, through neurocardiology, and HeartMath, so much more of its' true power. We are learning what the poets and the mystics have always known! Did you know that the electromagnetic field of the heart is 50-60 times more powerful than the field of the brain?

We need to value this heart more.

As Jack says, above, the strength of the heart is the warrior spirit our world needs now.

Breathe in and out of your heart and land here, knowing it is your true home.

The Value of Reaching

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

-Diane Ackerman

This photo, taken by a friend of mine at the first snow fall over in the Eastern Sierra, brings to mind the paintings of the ancient Chinese...the magical mist on the mythical mountain that has appealed to people for eons! And then add to that, the beautifully idealistic quote of Diane Ackerman that aims so high, so lofty in its hope and quest. We must have these aims, we must know by what values we chart our course, AND we must find compassion and understanding over and over again when we fail, which we will inevitably do.
Happy New Year: may we all aim high and be humble when we fall.