Sublime

Deep in our bones lies an intuition that we arrive here carrying a bundle of gifts to offer to the community.

Joan was raised to embody the qualities inherent in the Western code: self-reliance, optimism, not complaining, giving people space, and claiming your own.

Van Breda asked monks at a Franciscan monastery near Freiburg if they could hide the manuscripts or help smuggle them out, but they were reluctant. Then a Benedictine nun stepped in: Sister Adelgundis Jägerschmidt, from a nearby Lioba Sisters convent. She was another former student of phenomenology

The task is to make kin in lines of inventive connection as a practice of learning to live and die well with each other in a thick present. Our task is to make trouble, to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places.

Unlike humans, wolves do not deem the ups and downs of life, energy, power, food, nor opportunity as startling or punitive. The peaks and valleys just are, and wolves ride them as efficiently, as fluidly, as possible. The instinctual nature has the miraculous ability to live through all positive boon, all negative consequence, and still maintain

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his library, to members of the San Francisco Zen Center, the Berkeley Zen Center, and the Sitting Frog Zendo in Port Townsend, Washington, for sharing their questions and insights regarding this teaching, and to Robert