how far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?

"If I am practicing spiritual poverty,
which says that I own nothing, then
the problems aren't mine
and neither are the energy and compassion
pouring through my heart to try to solve them.
I am just a link in the
process.
If I don't take anything personally,
then I can do great work
without flagging.
The Dalai Lama once said, 'Try with all your might
-- to work very, very hard
-- to make the world a better place,
and if all your
efforts are to no avail . . . no hard feelings!'"

- Bo Lozoff, *Utne Reader*

deep stuff

Mira is there in the neon green wig.....ha-ha


The goal is to touch the deep stuff while we’re here - beauty, love, talent, skill, sacrifice, transformation, gratitude, generosity of spirit, real friendship, and of course the “peace that surpasses understanding.” And that is what is always the same, whether we are “in the palace or the forest.” We are always somewhere and there are always things going on around us and always things to watch out for, always difficult people or situations to deal with. And we always have the opportunity to be among the many people who stay calm and choose faith, who choose love, who choose goodwill, who choose to see and touch the beautiful in life, not just be thrown by the ugly. We don’t succeed at this by denying the ugly, but by including it. And by focusing our precious energy on the choices we have of how to respond to life, not wasting our energy on what life is doing to us at any given time. This is what we’ve got. Now, how do we wish to respond to it?
-Bo Lozoff