ii. 3/3 Causal - becoming elders

because sadness goes with compassion, sadness goes with determination to remedy the cause. Despair: You’re at the bottom of the hole, there’s no way out. That’s fatalism. But suffering comes from causes and conditions. Those are impermanent, and impermanence is what allows for change.

Mattieu Ricard NYT interview

We share DNA with every other living being. Approximately 98 percent of our DNA is shared with primates, and about 35 percent is shared with plants.... We all come from the same originating source, and we all comprise the same foundational elements.

We are part of a uni-verse, a collection of individual notes in one continuous song; the song that... See more

Beautiful description. All part of the same song.

Sherri Mitchell via cac newsletter

To support our awakening:

1. Tune in to your instrument - develop relational rituals first with yourself, then with energies beyond you

2. Work with that instrument to build familiarity and depth to hold the paradox and weight, to be coherence and stillness amidst the maelstrom

3. Connect with Spirit, tune in, and merge

4. Finding a community to

inspired by Aiden Cinnamon Tea

The most powerful journeys we must take are the ones we are not ready for and cannot prepare for.

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Bayo Akomolafe

Canadian writer, Stephen Jenkinson, and for-most grief tender wrote:

"Perhaps the most radical act in a troubled time is to proceed as if you're needed."”

Grace in Aging

Journalist Krista Tippett describes an embodied form of grace—the surprising grace of aging. As our minds and bodies slow down, we make space for simple contentment:

To inhabit my body in all its grace and its flaws appears as a gift for the new/mundane bodily territory I’m on in midlife. Aging is the ultimate slow motion loss,... See more

Krista tippet on Grace in aging. Beautifully written

True transcendence frees us from the tyranny of I am, the idolatry of we are, and the scapegoating of they are

From Richard Rohr

Mystics are men and women, who, through mystical experiences are touched by the realization that down in the deep-down depths of things, God is welling up and giving Herself away in and as every breath and heartbeat. They taste that oneness, and in moments, when we taste that oneness, we’re like a momentary mystic.

—James Finley

Daily mystic

Breath as passage way to easing back or stepping forwards into infinite space and unity. Breathe in the gift of plants. Breathe out a gift back to them. Treat your body as the compost it will one day become.

We desperately need healing for groups, institutions, marriages, the wounds of war, violence, racism, and the endless social problems in which we are drowning today. But we won’t know how to heal if we don’t learn the skills at ground zero: the individual human heart.

—Richard Rohr

Healing the world begins with ourselves