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I just love this poem.  A wise, simple teaching.

3/29/2015

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Autobiography In Five Chapters
by Portia Nelso

1)  I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost...I am hopeless.
It takes forever to find a way out.

2)  I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I'm in the same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

3)  I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in...it's a habit.
My eyes are open
I know where I am
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

4)  I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I walk around it.

5)  I walk down another street.
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Hope  by Victoria Safford

3/10/2015

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Hope," by Victoria Safford. 
"Our mission is to plant ourselves at the gates of Hope — not the prudent gates of Optimism, which are somewhat narrower; 
nor the stalwart, boring gates of Common Sense; 
nor the strident gates of Self-Righteousness, which creak on shrill and angry hinges (people cannot hear us there; they cannot pass through);
 nor the cheerful, flimsy garden gate of “Everything is gonna be all right.”
 But a different, sometimes lonely place,
 the place of truth-telling, about your own soul first of all and its condition, 
the place of resistance and defiance,
 the piece of ground from which you see the world both as it is and as it could be, as it will be;
 the place from which you glimpse not only struggle, but joy in the struggle.
 And we stand there, beckoning and calling, telling people what we are seeing, asking people what they see."
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A Beautiful Bedtime Prayer

3/3/2015

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Lord it is night. The night is for stillness. Let us be still in the presence of God. It is night after a long day. What has been done has been done; what has not been done has not been done. Let it be. The night is dark. Let our fears of the darkness of the world and of our own lives rest in you. The night is quiet. Let the quietness of your peace enfold us, all dear to us, and all who have no peace. The night heralds the dawn. Let us look expectantly to a new day, new joys, new possibilities. In your name we pray. Amen.


This is from the New Zealand Prayer Book
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    Rev. Arvid Straube has been helping people grow spiritually for more than 35 years as a Unitarian Universalist parish minister. He has been practicing and teaching Vipassana 
    meditation for over 20 years, studying with many teachers including Joseph Goldstein, Thich Nhat Hanh and Shinzen Young.

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