My family calls me Pancho and I'd like you to know that I love you all.
Hermana Pavi has the virtue to amplify inspiration, poetry and magic. This is not the first time I've seen how her work produces an avalanche of love. She is the kind of writer, and human being, who gently whispers into the ear of our inner child: "C'mon, let's play! Compassion, courage and wisdom is fun!"
I surrender every time I hear her (and her family's) spirit way of talk/write/silence. Thank you hermana Pavititita :-)
These images here are beyond powerful:
"Patience is a kind of understanding. An understanding that transcends the 'limitations' of the moment. It's a teacher standing at the blackboard repeating A is for Apple. B is for Boy. Day after day to small puzzled faces. Because she believes that one day they will make the leap that connects the sound to the letter the letter to the word the word to the shiny red contours of a classic fruit. Patience is a kind of trust. A trust that does its part and holds the rest lightly in an open palm. It's a farmer sowing seeds in springtime. Hoeing, watering, weeding. Because he believes the earth will do her part when the time comes. And Patience is a kind of acceptance. An acceptance that allows for doubt. It's a friend who holds your hand when you're not sure of the next step. Because no matter which way you go she'll come with you. Patience is a kind of love. A love that is its own explanation in bewildered circumstance. It is an old, old woman placing a wrinkledparchment hand against the cheek of a reckless child. Because her heart is too wise to make room for reproach. Too full to find place for offence."
As usual, the muse Pavi have sparked the writer in me...
1. Patience is a kind of compassion.
2. Patience is a kind of courage.
3. Patience is a kind of wisdom.
1. Patience is a kind of compassion.
Because all of us are one as if the Grand Human Family were a grand human body with all its trillions of cells. When one inflicts suffering on others, one is bringing suffering on oneself.
2. Patience is a kind of courage.
Feeling and thinking always about the well being of all–including the British people– to achieve independence, Gandhi spent 2,338 days in jail. It seems that Gandhi had an incredible patience to launch serious civil disobedience campaigns every ten years: Satyagraha in South Africa, Non-Cooperation campaign in India, The Dandi Salt March and Quit India!
3. Patience is a kind of wisdom.
The nonviolent soldier of Islam, and one of the closest collaborators of Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Khan said: "If I can summarize nonviolence in one word it would be Patience." To say this when he spent about half of his life (~49 years!) in jail or forced exile, requires a sever doses of Vitamin "P": patience. A masterwork of the Universal Love.
Patience is a kind of wisdom that it is everywhere in the Cosmos. Ourselves are the result of a ~14 billion year masterpiece.
Over the years, I've been using references to the Grand Canyon as a way to stress patience and our individual and unique contributions. I read about the canyon, know the scientific facts, saw plenty of pictures, understood the geological process involved in its formation, surfed the internet but never been physically there. Yesterday, my perspective was reinforced forever when I smelled the the Grand Canyon. I was humbled by the beauty of it and reminded that the love force, the soul force, works in a slow but powerful way. One small step at a time. Another kind molecule of water, another generous photon from a star, another courageous molecule of air, coming and going, kissing the sediments of the blueprint of humanity to expose and rejoice the colors of our moral grandeur and spiritual audacity...
May our lives be devoted to service of the Earth Community Canyon.
May all become compassionate, courageous and wise.
Pancho
On Jul 5, 2010 Pancho wrote :
My family calls me Pancho and I'd like you to know that I love you all.
Hermana Pavi has the virtue to amplify inspiration, poetry and magic. This is not the first time I've seen how her work produces an avalanche of love. She is the kind of writer, and human being, who gently whispers into the ear of our inner child: "C'mon, let's play! Compassion, courage and wisdom is fun!"
I surrender every time I hear her (and her family's) spirit way of talk/write/silence. Thank you hermana Pavititita :-)
These images here are beyond powerful:
"Patience is a kind of understanding. An understanding that transcends the 'limitations' of the moment. It's a teacher standing at the blackboard repeating A is for Apple. B is for Boy. Day after day to small puzzled faces. Because she believes that one day they will make the leap that connects the sound to the letter the letter to the word the word to the shiny red contours of a classic fruit. Patience is a kind of trust. A trust that does its part and holds the rest lightly in an open palm. It's a farmer sowing seeds in springtime. Hoeing, watering, weeding. Because he believes the earth will do her part when the time comes. And Patience is a kind of acceptance. An acceptance that allows for doubt. It's a friend who holds your hand when you're not sure of the next step. Because no matter which way you go she'll come with you. Patience is a kind of love. A love that is its own explanation in bewildered circumstance. It is an old, old woman placing a wrinkledparchment hand against the cheek of a reckless child. Because her heart is too wise to make room for reproach. Too full to find place for offence."
As usual, the muse Pavi have sparked the writer in me...
1. Patience is a kind of compassion.
2. Patience is a kind of courage.
3. Patience is a kind of wisdom.
1. Patience is a kind of compassion.
Because all of us are one as if the Grand Human Family were a grand human body with all its trillions of cells. When one inflicts suffering on others, one is bringing suffering on oneself.
2. Patience is a kind of courage.
Feeling and thinking always about the well being of all–including the British people– to achieve independence, Gandhi spent 2,338 days in jail. It seems that Gandhi had an incredible patience to launch serious civil disobedience campaigns every ten years: Satyagraha in South Africa, Non-Cooperation campaign in India, The Dandi Salt March and Quit India!
3. Patience is a kind of wisdom.
The nonviolent soldier of Islam, and one of the closest collaborators of Gandhi, Abdul Ghaffar Khan said: "If I can summarize nonviolence in one word it would be Patience." To say this when he spent about half of his life (~49 years!) in jail or forced exile, requires a sever doses of Vitamin "P": patience. A masterwork of the Universal Love.
Patience is a kind of wisdom that it is everywhere in the Cosmos. Ourselves are the result of a ~14 billion year masterpiece.
Over the years, I've been using references to the Grand Canyon as a way to stress patience and our individual and unique contributions. I read about the canyon, know the scientific facts, saw plenty of pictures, understood the geological process involved in its formation, surfed the internet but never been physically there. Yesterday, my perspective was reinforced forever when I smelled the the Grand Canyon. I was humbled by the beauty of it and reminded that the love force, the soul force, works in a slow but powerful way. One small step at a time. Another kind molecule of water, another generous photon from a star, another courageous molecule of air, coming and going, kissing the sediments of the blueprint of humanity to expose and rejoice the colors of our moral grandeur and spiritual audacity...
May our lives be devoted to service of the Earth Community Canyon.
May all become compassionate, courageous and wise.
Pancho