Blessed are you who bear the light in unbearable times, who testify to its endurance amid the unendurable, who bear witness to its persistence when everything seems in shadow and grief.
Blessed are you in whom the light lives, in whom the brightness blazes – your heart a chapel, an altar where in the deepest night can be seen the fire that shines forth in you in unaccountable faith, in stubborn hope, in love that illumines every broken thing it finds.
“The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe…” ~Swami Prabhavananda
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What happens if I stay open-hearted and vulnerable, no matter what happens around me?
Can I be spacious and hard-hearted?
No, when my heart is open and spacious, my mean malicious thoughts just blow away.
Can I have a spacious heart and be sad?
Not for long – if I hold my heart open and allow my grief and sadness to flow, they wash away.
Isn’t that what Jesus and Gandhi and Buddha taught – to stay open-hearted and spacious?
I am reminded of a story I read once about the Dalai Lama; a woman came to see the Dalai Lama and told him a story of how she and other Buddhist nuns had been put down, abused and mistreated by the male monks in their spiritual communities. Upon hearing her story, the Dalai Lama bowed his head and wept. He wept openly in the middle of his great hall, surrounded by his advisors. He wept openly in front of the many important people who were waiting to speak to him. And everyone in the great hall that day, was changed. The Dalai Lama embodied vulnerability and spacious heart for everyone to see and feel.
I choose a spacious heart today I choose spacious even when it feels vulnerable. I choose spacious even when it gets scary. I choose spacious.
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Defintion: Spa·cious – /ˈspāSHəs/
Adjective: Having ample space. capacious – roomy – wide – large – ample – extensive
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” ~Carl Sagan
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What magnificent expression of the cosmos am I? How do I choose to express the Universe within me today?
And how do you choose to express your Universe?
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Why are you so enchanted by this world,
when a mine of gold lies within you? ~Rumi
“Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
