Comment on Just-Sitting in the Desert by DermCOW
Yes… they are not long, the days of wine and roses (and mountains for us) - Out of a misty dream, our path emerges and then closes within a dream. Li Po (Li Bai) would have understood that — but not Tu...
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Thanks, DJE — (that’s you hiding behind the cow photo?) True enough. (Why do I have to struggle with the urge to rename the poet To Fu!)
View ArticleComment on Ring the Bells - by Pauline
“Every heart, every heart to love will come but like a refugee.” There are perfect moments – listening to this was one of them. Thank you for sharing this. Perfection, perception… we’d do well to pay...
View ArticleComment on Ring the Bells - by rebekah
‘profound emotions’ …Cohen never lets me down in that respect. Thank you for posting this — I had not heard it before. Such simple words … and yet so poignant.
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That it is — simple and poignant. And powerful —
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[...] Perfection, if it COULD be achieved, might not be such a blessing. Take it from songwriter/poet Leonard Cohen: Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There is a crack...
View ArticleComment on Ring the Bells - by barb19
Rebekah was so touched by your post, she re-blogged it and I’m so glad she did, because I got the pleasure (and the goosebumps) of enjoying it too. It’s brilliant, those words so simple yet powerful...
View ArticleComment on Ring the Bells - by Touch2Touch
It’s nice to know that wonderful idea embodied so well in Leonard Cohen’s song is being shared, and traveling – The wonders of blogging. BTW, I’ve peeked at some of your posts and think I’m going to...
View ArticleComment on Proverbs, and other Anonymous Authors — by Pauline
Ha! My mother used to repeat that jingle to me all the time! I like better Anna Quindlen’s thought – The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the...
View ArticleComment on Proverbs, and other Anonymous Authors — by Touch2Touch
The work of becoming “perfectly” you????!!!!! (Note: not perfect you, but perfectly you –)
View ArticleComment on Proverbs, and other Anonymous Authors — by...
You two have the right idea. Pauline, I love your thought. I know we will never be perfect. I just attempt to be the best wife, daughter and mommy possible. When I give all I can and try my...
View ArticleComment on Proverbs, and other Anonymous Authors — by Touch2Touch
As you are perfectly — not perfect! — but perfectly Tara.
View ArticleComment on Proverbs, and other Anonymous Authors — by Rebekah
Here I’m enjoying the comments just as much as the post itself. What Pauline said really spoke to me. It’s very hard to become perfectly me — a person who doesn’t give up on doing things just because...
View ArticleComment on Proverbs, and other Anonymous Authors — by Touch2Touch
Keep on, Rebekah. And keep on keeping on —
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Comment on Mindfulness: Another Take by Stef
I have written about mindfulness on my meditation blog at length; for a connection to “unitasking”, see bullets 11 & 12 here: http://meditationmania.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/afterward/.
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