Find Your Middle Ground

Category: Purpose of Life

  • Inspiration for growth

      “A bird never asks, am I flying correctly”. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher   Listen to the compass of your heart Follow the beat of your own drum Stop “shoulding” all over yourself Trust in yourself and the experience that has brought you here All you need is within you Grow into the wonderful being…

  • Inspiration – Breaking Surface

    Let no one keep you from your journey, no rabbi or priest, no mother who wants you to dig for treasures she misplaced, no father who won’t let one life be enough, no lover who measures their worth by what you might give up, no voice that tells you in the night it can’t be…

  • Inspiration – The Work of our Lives

    “Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.” ~ Thomas Merton   Imagine if…

  • * Tao Inspiration – Push and Pull

      “The way of the universe is a symbiotic flow. As one part pulls, another part pushes. A part that has excess will lose. A part that is lacking will gain. Presently, society acts against this flow. Where there is abundance, there is power to acquire even more. What is it when excess is freely…

  • * Inspiration – Ground of Being

    May this Danna Fauld’s poem fill you with strength and inspiration. “We come from stronger stuff than feelings” 💛 Remember This Vast and changeless the ground of being is not rocked by ripples on the pond. The firmament from which we spring, the divinity at the heart of things doesn’t wax or wane with mind…

  • * You are a Drop

    “You are a drop: Divine being is the ocean. While you still live, hold steadily before you the vision of the whole and you will be the whole.” – Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)*   Let us hold steady before us the vision of the whole. Don’t let the…

  • * Alan Watts – Why Your Life Is Not A Journey

    Originally posted on Evolutionary_Mystic Post: Living a soulful life in the moment Too often we blunder through life like automatic robots, waking up to our morning coffees then soldiering on to work, only to return home again to follow the same ritual in the morning once again. Are we really spending time doing things that…

  • * Tao Inspiration – Your True Self

    If you would seek your true self: Begin with simplicity, Overcome your desire for false adornments, And embrace the nature of the uncarved block. ~ Lao Tzu   The uncarved block is a metaphor representing potential and what is possible. It is also a caution against self-imposed limits. May we be like the uncarved block…

  • The Universal Law of Growth

    Today I want to share this extract from the PBS stream of Stephen Hawking’s “Genius”. “Given the right environment and conditions we cannot fail to grow.  Life cannot not grow.  Everything is the universe follows this rule. From a cell to a fungus, to a worm, to ourselves. Just think about it. When we fail to…

  • * Inspiration – Within You

    All that you need, you have within you, waiting to be recognized, nurtured and allowed to grow. An acorn contains within it a mighty oak tree. You contain the same within you. Just as the acorn is planted and tended to enable it to grow, so you must activate the dormant seed within you. Are…

  • How to Feed your White Wolf

    Many people have shared this traditional Native American legend filled with wisdom: There was once a native Elder who came to realize that he had two wolves fighting inside of him. The dark wolf was mean spirited, angry, fearful and selfish. The light wolf was noble, honest, loving and kind. A boy once asked of him…

  • * Inspiration – Be Ignited or be Gone

    What I Have Learned So Far  Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world? Because, properly attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion. Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy,…