Find Your Middle Ground

Category: Love

  • Inspiration – Heart Like a River

      If you pour a handful of salt into a cup of water, the water becomes undrinkable. But if you pour the salt into a river, people can continue to draw the water to cook, wash, and drink. The river is immense, and it has the capacity to receive, embrace, and transform. When our hearts…

  • 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.…

  • Haiku – close silence

    ~ Find your Middle Ground Being held in close silence That is all we need ~ … And what we all need. I read an article about a retired man who volunteers at a local hospital in the ward for premature babies. All he does is hold babies close to him in silence. Nothing more…

  • Chant for Peace with Tina Turner

    Chant for Peace with Tina Turner

    Meaning of the words: Sarva=everything; Sarvesham= all/ everything; Svastir = health/well-being; Bhavatu = let be, may there be; Shanti=peace. Namaste

  • Faith vs Belief

    I came across this interesting passage from Steven Harrison’s book “The Question to Life’s Answers”. It made me stop and think about what belief I was becoming attached to in this crazy and distressing pre-election time. “We really don’t need to run the show. The show is being run through us and through every other…

  • Quest for Silence

    “Our quest does not involve taking on more ways of describing. It involves removing all descriptions so that we may come home free and dwell in endless silence. Anyone who has had an experience of that silence knows that it cannot be adequately described in words. It can only be lived. Silence cannot be manipulated.…

  • Find Yer Middle Groond

    Find Yer Middle Groond

    The remarkable and highly talented Esme from Esme’s Cloud wrote a hilarious post recently called The Anatomy of a Blogger She wrote a perfect rendition of what this blog is about in the Scots dialect. Here is a wee taste of her naughty genius: “Yer meddle groond is all aboot steppin’ awa’ from stressful days…

  • Bring it Home

    Put your hands on your heart and say to yourself, “May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be safe. May you be loved.” …. Repeat four times.*   So often we give to others and tend to them, and also dismiss kindness towards ourselves. Its time to build your capacity to bring…

  • Inflicting Pain and Forgiveness

    This is a repost for all those struggling with pain and forgiveness. When the pain eases we can see more clearly.  If I were to ask you “Do you go around inflicting pain on to others?” Most of you would answer with a vehement NO! That’s because the idea of being a mean person or…

  • Loving Forgiveness

    The most powerful wisdom is always worth coming back to. Again and again. May we find our way to peace. 🙏 ooOoo Forgiveness is a powerful and empowering act, as it opens our hearts to ourselves and others. Finding a way to forgive is healing and freeing. This is a three part meditation on forgiveness that…

  • 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…

  • Long Way Home

    LONG WAY HOME I want to have a conversation that we can return to without conclusion, one that lasts for years, that feels like a walk that has no end. Until the walk itself is home. I want to converse this life with you, the way the old horse and the young bird trudge and…

  • 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…

  • Haiku – Reiki

    ~ Energy transformed Reiki levels one and two Sparking love and light ~ I have aways been drawn to the power of energy in our bodies and in the world around us.  It was first introduced to me through Yoga, where the life energy is called Prana. In Yoga, the breath and energy are intimately…

  • Life’s Stepping Stones

    Obstacles are the stepping stones of life. To a younger mind, most obstacles are seen as problems that prevent us from getting what we want. Or worse, blocking our vision for our future. What if each obstacle is there so we can recognize it and face it, rather than avoiding or wishing it away? What…