Morning Prayer 25/100. Who I am
Who I am is the essence of self-awareness. Knowing one’s Self is knowing one’s worth, one’s joy, and one’s strength. Perhaps, the simplest (but not easiest) exploration of one’s true self-knowledge is this: Turn around “who I am” into the question “who am I?” Ask and answer. Honestly. Ask again and answer again. And again […]
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Morning Prayer 22/100. Here and now
Here and now. Here. Now. Not there. Here. Not then. Now. Presence is a matter of time and space. Being present is a call to be here, now. Here and now. This place. This time. The here part is about mindfulness. Being conscious of the environment, the situation, the surroundings — even to the minutia. […]
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Morning Prayer 16/100. Interruptions
Interruptions happen. This morning after meditating and as I was writing in my prayer journal, I listened to Flute Meditation Radio on Pandora. Free Pandora. Suddenly a voice that could have been from ’70s A.M. radio was selling hot tubs in my ear. That interruption snapped my attention from the spiritual to the human worldly. Unavoidable because […]
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Morning Prayer 15/100. A field beyond
A field beyond all ideas of right and wrong is where we are all meant to be. Rumi’s 13th Century poem simplifies the beauty of the perfect existence from which we are created and for which we are created. There is the true existence that does not know the opposites of good/bad, light/dark, right/wrong. That […]