“Both poetry and planting were increasingly truer expressions of the same thing: reaching for the unknown & being in relationship to the world.”
— William Stanley Merwin
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-poet-and-the-palm-tree/
when i am among the trees,
“I would almost say that they save me, and daily.”
michelle ross x lagom
beauty in the body
a mirror: the guardian of the threshold
“Where there used to be worry and fear, I place knowing and trust. I trust my eyes and my skin, and know that they are doing exactly what they need to to heal themselves. I am believing more + more in the power of my body to self heal. I am leaning into its incredible intelligence, unraveled over millennia, which can morph towards wellness when gifted with the right kinds of attention and support. I am learning to accept, and to love…”
Emmanuel’s Book
“Being with Emmanuel one comes to appreciate the vast evolutionary context in which our lives are being lived. We see ourselves in a larger tapestry as part of the creative pulse that is God. And at each moment we are at just the right place in the journey. As Emmanuel points out, “Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.” — Ram Dass
more yin less yang
imagining a yin utopia, spiralling towards balance. “go inward, go yinward.”
full wolf moon divination
“The miracle is that we are here at all.” — Richard Wagamese
scans from Noopiming - the cure for white ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Like soul balm, and rest for the mind. An important and expansive read for anyone living on the lands around the Great Lakes — especially those in Tkaronto, or the surrounding areas. Imaginative, flirty humour, reminding us of what thrives and always resisted.
scans from meditations from the road
on grace, the paradox of being human and divine, growing up, being with our pain, the unconscious, dreams, the mind, miracles, spiritual growth, on god, on love, on becoming community creatures again, on emptying ourselves
the principle of interconnectedness
can you write about yourself without using the nouns I/me/my/mine?
555 — trust that divinely guided changes are unfolding for you
poems of hope + resilience
full moon lunar eclipse in saggitarius
In what ways can we speak from our experience like elders, like our grandmothers and grandfathers, with compassion but with strength that illuminates another facet to be taken into account?
Like Einsten said “we cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.”
on clearing
you are emitting a vibrational frequency at all times. we are energy and we live in a vibrational universe — all things come through vibrational form first. this is why the spiritual work, the work of attuning to spirit, is crucial in our liberation work. now is the time to align with our highest selves. it is time fully embody the medicine we were called here to manifest. “now is the time for you to stop playing small. get brave. get courageous. stop complacency, stop making excuses. go deeper.” (natoya hall)
the magic words
as I kill off
the dull decayed shock
that blocks me
from finding and speaking
the magic words
that got lost
inside my old misunderstanding
of death.
creation energy — the power of the linglingo
The Linglingo is an ancient Philippine symbol for fertility and virility. ‘Linglingo’ means “lingo that serves the act of creation”, “lingo that issues the thought of manifestation”, “lingo that conjures the power to bring forth”.
the wave is the wave
the buddha said, ‘when conditions are sufficient, the things manifests, and when they are not sufficient, the thing remains hidden.’
interbeing
“Our entire western civilizational tradition prevented us from recognizing that any damage that we did to the outer world of nature would be a damage to our own inner life.”
compassion
If we don’t care for others, we can never know our own minds.
concentration
Little by little you must train yourself for life, for happiness. You have to realize happiness is not something found at the end of a road. You have to understand that it is here, now. Mindfulness practice is not an evasion or an escape. It means entering vigorously into life — with the strength generated by the energy of mindfulness. Without this freedom and concentration, there is no happiness.
in gratitude
Earth collapses into water, water into fire, fire into air. Air to pure consciousness.