Category: middle ground

  • * Love is the Bridge for Understanding – and Action

    Diana over at Talk to Diana wrote a moving post today that has stayed with me. “He Deserves Better Than This” is about her father who has been in chronic back pain for years and has not received treatment to alleviate it. Diana decided that enough was enough and made several calls until she spoke…

  • * With Open Arms

    Originally posted on Merging Traffic: Again and again, day after day, choose to extend your arms and open your heart, releasing streams of compassion far beyond the small, limited self into the awesome, astounding universe that shimmers and thrives on Love. © 2015 Dennis Ference

  • * Haiku – buzz

    ~ Find your Middle Ground Uncover the sweet nectar Within life’s buzzing  ~ If you are new to this site – welcome 😄 To find out more about finding your Middle Ground please click here.

  • How a password can change your life. Try it. A life changing story.

    Originally posted on A Small Act Of Kindness Can Bring Smile On Million Faces: How a Password Changed my Life …? I was having a great morning until I sat down in front of my office computer. “your password has expired”, a server message flashed on my screen, with instructions for changing it. Coming up…

  • be soft…

    Originally posted on Known is a drop, Unknown is an Ocean: Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness… ~ Kurt Vonnegut

  • * Roots of Hope

    This poem was shared at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in our 300 hour Mod 4 sangha. It fills me with hope and possibility. Keep these words close to inspire you in your practice of yoga, meditation or life 💛 Roots of Hope  Thankfully the roots of hope run deep. And when we get…

  • * Stressed? Quick Tips to Nourish and Restore

    When you notice your body and brain are no longer cooperating and you are looking blankly at a blank screen … What do you do? When you notice that your mind is full of thoughts that jump from re-visiting the past and becoming anxious about the future … What do you do? When you find…

  • * Haiku – life’s highs and lows

    ~ Watch life’s highs and lows Changing clouds and rising tides From your Middle Ground ~ If you are new to this site – welcome! To find out more about finding your middle ground please click here.

  • * Be the Being you are

    Let yourself be the being you are This being that you are, is in the deep core of your living experience In this very moment This being is beyond anything you can think The living presence is beyond any self image It is the essence of you Drop any notion you have of yourself right…

  • * Being fully, honestly, here

    Originally posted on Mindfulbalance: Episcopal Priest Robert Farrer Capon warns “We spend a long time wishing we were elsewhere and otherwise“. We are like the character in the movie Postcards from the Edge who sends a card home from vacation,  “Having a wonderful time. Wish I were here” Frederic Brussat, Spiritual Literacy

  • * Good Morning Patio!

    ~ Morning sun comes up What a welcome to the day Thankful to be here ~ Take a moment to pause and look around. What catches your eye and fills your heart with gratitude this morning?

  • * Wu Hsin – Explaining the Unknown

    “Trying to explain the unknown  Using symbols and words of The known is like Trying to smell one’s nose.” Wu Hsin  from The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin translated by Roy Melvyn   He has good point! … Yet we keep trying to do so 😉