Love Notes XLVI
The light within us does not come from another. Sometimes, an encounter simply helps us remember what has always been there. A reflection on teaching, presence, and the quiet miracle of remembrance.
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Love, Resistance, and the Quiet Architecture of Creation.
As with all my work, this piece arises from decades of lived experience. I have been writing it, in one form or another, for many years—returning to it, adding to it, refining it, and allowing it to deepen as life itself has unfolded.
The Field Where We All Meet
There are words that do not merely speak, they remember.
A Gentle Return to Stillness
A meditation for calming the nervous system, restoring a sense of safety, and resting in the quiet presence of love.
A Blessing For The Dark Times
May a small circle of safety find you, even if it is only the space of one breath.
Seeing The Sacred Everywhere -Part II
What does it mean to see the sacred everywhere when the world contains so much suffering? Perhaps the sacred is not always what is happening, but what suffering cannot extinguish.
Seeing the Sacred Part I
We don’t learn to see the sacred everywhere by making everything sacred. We learn by noticing that it was never absent.
Only Breath - Rumi
At the heart of this poem is the stripping away of every identity: religion, geography, body, soul, origin — even the separate “I.” What remains is the Beloved: the indivisible reality beneath all forms, the ground to which we all belong.
The World We Live In Is Made of Resonance
Sound is never merely heard. It is relationship made audible. Every tone, every voice, and every silence shapes the nervous system, inviting us either to soften into presence or prepare for danger.
A Meditation For Grief - Carrying The Love With Us.
A meditation for those moving through grief—not to escape sorrow, but to enter it gently enough to discover the stillness, presence, and deeper ground that loss cannot take away.
Hope - A Contemplation and Blessing.
Hope is not the denial of pain, nor the insistence that everything will turn out as we wish. It is the quiet thread within us that remains when certainty disappears—the willingness to stay open, to take one more breath, and to trust that life has not abandoned us.
Love Notes XLV
Grief is the shape love takes when something we cherish can no longer remain as it was. It does not mean love has disappeared—only that its form has changed.
Field Notes
The Original Wound
Perhaps the deepest wound is the belief that we have become separated from love. Healing begins in remembering that we never truly were.
Love and Presence
Requiem for a Gentle Soul
Some souls touch our lives only briefly, yet leave behind something quiet and unmistakable. A few words for Mark, a gentle soul whose path crossed mine for a little while—and whose passing deserves a moment of tenderness, remembrance, and peace.
Love Notes
Love Notes XLIV
When the noise within us begins to quiet, we discover that the world has been waiting in silence too. In that meeting, something timeless reveals itself—not as an answer, but as a truth already known.
Podcast
The Great Mystery
What if nothing ever truly leaves Love—and what we call separation is only an appearance that, in time, must give way?
Mudras: Where Body, Energy and Consciousness Meet.
August 22nd 2013 The ancient practice of gesture, energy, grounding, and embodied awareness ES Weightless Moments : Mathilda Skonare Karlsson0:00/191.7841× For many people, the word mudra immediately brings to mind someone sitting in meditation, perhaps cross-legged, with the thumb and forefinger gently touching. That is certainly a
Field Notes
The Intelligence of Space : What Silence Knows.
There is a kind of knowing that appears only when nothing is being added. In the quiet spaces between thought, word, and movement, something deeper begins to speak.
Field Notes
Cook Rice, Serve Rice
Sometimes love does not arrive as a grand gesture. Sometimes it is simply a pot of rice, a pair of hands, and someone doing what they can with what they have. Perhaps this is what holiness looks like when it becomes ordinary.
Love and Presence
September 11th 2001 : Standing Before The Mystery
The mystery that is vast enough to hold both the horror and the love without having to explain either away.
Contemplations
Contemplation in D-Minor
A quiet contemplation on love stripped of self-importance—love as humility, kindness, compassion, surrender, and the simple recognition of beauty in all things.
Sacred Lullabies
Gently Comes The Night
A lullaby for the quiet hours, when the world grows still and night gathers gently around us. A reminder that even in sleep, we are held — precious, loved, and never beyond the reach of love.
Poems, Quotes and Parables
Evening Contemplation
A quiet invitation to soften the heart, enter humility, and listen beneath the noise—where love, truth, and the Tao have been speaking all along.
Love Notes
Love Notes XLIII
A quiet blessing on the enduring presence of Love—its power, beauty, and timelessness within us.