Find Your Middle Ground

Category: Inner Wisdom

  • Three Levels of Truth

      “There are three levels of truth: experience, reasoning, and knowing. All other assertions should be rejected.”   The first type of truth is from our direct experience. The second type, is truth gained from reasoning and analysis. The third type of truth is different from the first two. This is the way of spiritual knowing.…

  • Light Bearers

    We are light bearers, stewards of a truth that insists on being shared despite doubt or fear or imagined limitation. We spread the flame by teaching, or by growing still, by daring to be outrageous and dancing beneath the full moon, or by holding a friend in need and taking part in life’s normal routines.…

  • Common Humanity

    “Do you suffer sometimes, want to be happy, but don’t always know how to make that happen? Congratulations! You’ve just discovered you have something in common with every other person across the world and across history.” * And with this realization we know we are not alone. We are all human beings, experiencing what we…

  • Reflection on Being Spiritual

    “How spiritual you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness. This, in turn, determines how you act in the world and interact with others.” ~ Eckhart Tolle It isn’t enough to hold on to noble ideals and beliefs, we have to bring them into…

  • Haiku – Heart Awareness

    ~ Open heart expands Closed heart contracts and defends Awareness brings flow ~ When something is bothering me, one of the most useful questions I ask myself is “Is my heart open or closed?” And in that moment of recognition, it hears and something is released. It begins to open with love and understanding. Everything…

  • Inspiration – Heart is the Light

    Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind. ~ Mooji How easy it is to get wrapped up in our thoughts, convincing ourselves that we must find the answers through our thinking. The analytical mind likes to be in charge, and thinks it has all the answers. When the…

  • Greet Each Day

    As this new day dawns, greet it with curiosity. Being curious slows us down and wakes us up from numbing habits. An attitude of wonder brings lightness and a tingle of anticipation. Be open to the unexpected and find the spark in each moment as it unfolds.  

  • Inspiration – Live your Whole Life

    See Your Life As One Life – Entirely Whole Live your life, don’t just talk about it or write about it. Live it twenty-four hours a day seven days a week. There are no times off in this life, there are no days off; Every moment, every hour, every day is a holy day; Every…

  • Stillness and Yin

    “Stillness is different from solitude, different from aloneness, different from turning off the stereo or speaking softly. Stillness is a place. You can find it in the desert or in the mountains. You can find it when you’re alone in the midst of people. You can find stillness wherever you are, whatever you’re going through.…

  • A Mindful Question to Bring you Home

    This is a re-post worth sharing, especially if you have a few moments right now. Enjoy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As you begin to read this, choose whether you want to linger here for a mindful moment or skip by. Its up to you. Coming into the present moment and finding your Middle Ground is always a choice for…

  • The Angel of Struggle

    This story comes from Swami Kripalu. Let it bring some understanding to all of you who are struggling in life right now. “This world is a battlefield. Anyone born has to be a warrior, whether you’re a boy or a girl, man or woman, young or old, king or beggar, literate or illiterate, saint or…

  • Inspiration – Dandelions

    Sometimes traditional stories hit the right spot. This one often does for me. Nadia spent the whole autumn sowing and preparing his garden. In the spring, the flowers opened, and Nadia noticed a few dandelions that he had not planted. Nadia pulled them up. But the seeds had already spread, and others grew. He tried…

  • Bring Yourself to Life

    Let go of “me against life” It allows the fear to grow. Know that you are a part of life Not separate from it. People care about you They see the light within When you are lost in the dark. Turn inwards Let go of those thoughts And find that you are so much more.…

  • The Challenge

      How will you know how strong you are unless your strength is tested? How will you know how deep you are unless turmoil breaks your surface and forces you to dive? How will you know what sleeps inside until the whole of you is challenged to wake up? Then you’ll turn inside to gather…

  • Knowing in a new way

    Originally posted on Mindfulbalance: Wisdom is not the gathering of more facts and information, as if that would eventually coalesce into truth. Wisdom is precisely a different way of seeing and knowing the “ten thousand things” in a new way. I suggest that wisdom is precisely the freedom to be truly present to what is…

  • Inner Peace is Possible

    Life is a series of highs and Lows. Be grateful for the highs and be graceful in the lows, Knowing that inner peace is possible. We all experience stress as we go through life, and our experience of stress varies. Take a moment to consider these examples and how you react to each of them:…