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On Jul 4, 2024 Patrick wrote on The Eagle And The Chicken, by Jamie Glenn:
Know thy true self and be free…
}:- a.m.
On Apr 30, 2024 Patrick wrote on From Me To We: True Love Is A Process Of Humility, by Thich Nhat Hanh:
The older I get, and more humiliatingly frail, the more open I seem to be toward others no matter how different or comfortable they tend to make me?! Oh not the dark, evil ones, but the quirky, lovable in spite of themselves ones…like me in that regard I hope. }:- a.m. anonemoose monk
On Mar 28, 2024 Patrick wrote on The Dilemma That Faces Us All , by Kent Nerburn:
I am an old (very old) fan of Kent Nerburn going back to Wolf Not Dog, including the film version. I am also of both Irish and Lakota ancestry…much of my own history is wrapped up in Wolf Not Dog. And here too is the essential, life-giving need for both acknowledgment and forgiveness if any reconciliation and reparation is to happen. Lakota people say, “Mitákuye oyàsin,” which translates to “All are my relatives.”
On Jan 9, 2024 Patrick wrote on An Awe Walk, by Dacher Keltner:
Why I go on walkabout often in our local urban park. One instance is the foraging of beautuful Western Bluebirds that I often encounter, but there are many more every day.
On Oct 10, 2023 Patrick wrote on Coddiwomple, by April Rinne:
I go on “walkabout” in our local park, wandering, yet not aimlessly… }:- a.m. anonemoose monk
On Sep 12, 2023 Patrick Watters wrote on The Practice Before The Practice, by Mark Nepo:
I have found (now in my 8th decade on the planet) that one must first be quieted before any good can be obtained. The notion of emptiness, kenosis, is the “practice before the practice” for me in this season. The contemplative life calls one to silence and solitude, and in turn to allowing the mind to empty and “drop down” into the “heart”. This idea is common to most good religions and faith traditions, even indigenous vision quests include the emptying…
On Sep 3, 2023 Patrick wrote on The River Of Silence, by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel:
Thank you, mahalo, wopila tanka…
On Aug 15, 2023 Pádraig wrote on What You Are Is Perfect Imperfection, by Emannuel:
Service Space is for me, in my mind and heart, a “Universal Christ” community without naming itself at all…and yes, Mr. Rogers would also agree that we are all “perfect imperfection” in Divine LOVE.
Hoofnote: Don’t you just love that the author here is named Emmanuel, which means “God with us.”
On Aug 7, 2023 Patrick wrote on A Turtle's Silver Bead Of Quietude, by Gayle Boss:
We had a resident Pond Turtle for years. Ticky the kids named her. She was always around and kept our snail population in check. The dogs never bothered her and she was happy to let the kids hold her. Every winter she would bury herself beneath an old clubhouse next our majestic Oak (Aidan). When that old clubhouse was torn down years later there was Ticky’s intact shell minus her body. Now that shell is a sacred rattle because of course all turtles are sacred.
Mitákuye oyàsin, hozho naashadoo, beannacht. [translation: All are my relatives (Lakota), therefore I will walk in harmony/beauty (Diné), blessed to be blessing (Irish).]
On Jul 26, 2023 Patrick wrote on Sound Of The Genuine, by Howard Thurman:
Discovering (meeting) Howard Thurman late in my own life (70’s) is like embracing a long lost brother.
On Jun 1, 2022 Patrick wrote on Opening To Greater Life, by Thomas Berry:
In times such as these Thomas Berry and others offer perspective beyond the brokenness and violence by discovering wisdom in nature. }:- a.m.
On Apr 26, 2022 Patrick wrote on Two Types Of Heartbreaks, by Parker Palmer:
It has been said that all of life in this broken, violent world is holding great suffering in and with Greater LOVE. }:- a.m.
On Apr 19, 2022 Patrick wrote on When Science Is The Arbiter Of Metaphysics, by Paul Kalanithi:
As a scientist and man of faith as well, this resonates with my own heart. It is truth that both of my sons, cosmologist and ecologist respectively, embrace as well.
On Apr 5, 2022 Patrick wrote on Say Wow, by Chelan Harkin:
Chelan is delightful in poetry and though a bit young in The Journey nevertheless a budding mystic in her own right. I hope to hear more when she arrives at the place of double her current age.
On Mar 29, 2022 Patrick wrote on Do What You Please, But I'm Watching, by Hubert Benoit:
Meditation—the contemplative life is true life indeed.
On Feb 22, 2022 Patrick wrote on Cognitive Bypassing, by Russell Kennedy:
When we discover the truth that the fullness of life in this world is holding great suffering in and with Greater LOVE, we are on our way to abundance and healing of ourselves, and others too. }:- a.m.
anonemoose monk— a “wounded healer†to quote Henri Nouwen
On Jan 25, 2022 Patrick wrote on The Simplest Meditation, by Melvin McLeod :
Jesus of Nazareth would simply say, “Come away with me to a quiet place.†Rumi bids come lie down in a field where it is all too much to talk about. It is ancient wisdom. }:- a.m.
On Jan 18, 2022 Patrick wrote on Mercy, by Rudy Francisco:
Ah yes, there is the Tibetan monk in me as well. Whenever my wife asks me to get rid of a spider, moth or other critter in our house, I gently take them outside and release them. }:- a.m.
On Jan 17, 2022 Patrick wrote on Maybe, Said the Farmer, by Author Unknown:
Yin & Yang must be held together for us to experience true peace. }:- a.m.
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On Sep 26, 2024 Patrick wrote on Love Is The Highest Form Of Acceptance, by Stephen Levine: