Musings From The Trail

Musings From The Trail

Tell Your Heart

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“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.
And that no heart has ever suffered
when it goes in search of its dreams.”

~Paulo Coelho

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Cour·age – 
/ˈkərij/
noun
the ability to do something that frightens one.
“she called on all her courage to face the ordeal”
strength in the face of pain or grief.
“he fought his illness with great courage”
Synonyms:  bravery, courageousness, pluck, pluckiness, valor, fearlessness, intrepidity,
nerve, daring, audacity, boldness, grit, true grit, hardihood, heroism, gallantry

Made to Break

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If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.

~ Andrew Harvey

❤️

The World is All Forgetting

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This feels appropriate right now…

I lost my way, I forgot to call on your name.

The raw heart beat against the world, and the tears were for my lost victory.

But you are here. You have always been here.

The world is all forgetting, and the heart is a rage of directions,

but your name unifies the heart, and the world is lifted into its place.

Blessed is the one who waits in the traveler’s heart for his turning.”

~Leonard Cohen
Poem #50, from The Book of Mercy

Safe Travels, Leonard.

 

I Was TOUCHED

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This is what came bubbling up and out of me this morning…

I was TOUCHED
Touched by a man who thought
MY body was his, all his
To do as he pleased.

I was TOUCHED
And it hurt so much I couldn’t breathe.
I took the dirt and the pain of it
and I buried it deep.

I was TOUCHED
And I buried it all deep inside me
Buried it deep where no one would see
And covered it with shame.

I was TOUCHED.

☾☽

Dedicated to all the women and girls out there who have been touched in ways that hurt

AND the good men who want to understand.

Heaven or Hell – Which Will I Choose?

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Pema Chodron book

 

In her book, Awakening Loving-Kindness, Pema Chodron offers us a wonderful story about the illusions of heaven and hell:

“There’s another story that you may have read that has to do with what we call heaven and hell, life and death, good and bad. It’s a story about how those things don’t really exist except as a creation of our own minds. It goes like this: A big burly samurai comes to the wise man and says, “Tell me the nature of heaven and hell.” And the roshi looks him in the face and says: “Why should I tell a scruffy, disgusting, miserable slob like you?”

The samurai starts to get purple in the face, his hair starts to stand up, but the roshi won’t stop, he keeps saying, “A miserable worm like you, do you think I should tell you anything?” Consumed by rage, the samurai draws his sword, and he’s just about to cut off the head of the roshi. Then the roshi says, “That’s hell.”

The samurai, who is in fact a sensitive person, instantly gets it, that he just created his own hell; he was deep in hell. It was black and hot, filled with hatred, self-protection, anger, and resentment, so much so that he was going to kill this man. Tears fill his eyes and he starts to cry and he puts his palms together and the roshi says, “That’s heaven.” “

We create our own reality moment by moment.