Thoughts to cheer your heart – from Dean Jacobs

“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten.” -Thomas Chandler “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Confucius “Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, or something we feel. Happiness is something we are.” (~Sheerin) Life is an interactive journey whose experience is activated Read more…

Andrew Harvey on Sacred Activism

Parts One-Seven: The term “sacred activism” is taking on new meaning as the crisis of our global situation intensifies. Between a massive population explosion all over the planet, and increasing water shortages, how do people sleep at night? Global warming, at this stage, is a reality and concern for millions of people. Mystical scholar, poet, and author of over 30 books, Andrew Harvey defines the various aspects of our current predicament and also a path Read more…

A Time to Nurture – A message from Mother Earth

As we prepare to celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, a message from Mother Earth through the trees …  You are each a child of the earth, deeply rooted in my soil. Now is the time to nurture yourself, to nurture each other, and to nurture our planet. I sit on the stump of what once was a stately cedar. Sap oozes from the veins of her rings. I scroll my fingers across Read more…