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Independence Day

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Today is independence day. Tomorrow will also be independence day. I wave the flag of the present moment. I listen to the robin and watch the swallow streak across the twilit sky. The deer, the stray dog, the heart-wounded veteran don't need to hear loud noises tonight. Just the gentle explosion of peonies in my garden. Watch the sun set and greet whoever you meet with a breath of peace. Something in your chest will melt away the borders of nations. There is only one earth. Watercolor by Yvonne Hemingway 

You Are The Light

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  Jesus said, "I Am the light of the world." But he also said, "You are the light of the world." There is so much light flowing into us right now, a golden flame from below, a violet flame from above, meeting as a Star of David in our heart. The light burns away the shadows, consuming our negative energy. This is why there is such apparent chaos. The shadows have governed our world, through political parties, corporate hierarchies, and entrenched bureaucracies. Their negative energy must be churned up to be cast out and dissolved into the nothingness from which it arose. Then each of us, in our own way, may take our sovereignty back. "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world." (Ephesians 6:12) Light streams from deep inside us, and light streams down from star systems beyond our sun, using our star as a window. Yet it is not the same sun it used to be: for...

The Garden Where Nothing Went Wrong

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This sense that something went wrong. This sense that we have fallen and taken the world down with us. The sense that all might have turned out better had we not made some colossal mistake in the beginning. The strangest feeling that nature disapproves of us and every flower is shouting about some impending cataclysm, because our dark mother dared to taste the fruit of an unbearable delight. Dear friend, don't you know that humans hesitate and cower before uncertainty like this age after age? It's the way we feel when we don't know how to breathe, when we don't know how to pause between our thoughts and root down in the garden between heartbeats. Some say heaven will appear when this tribulation is over. I say heaven is an infinitesimal  grain of silence at the tip of your exhalation, just before you receive the gift of another breath. Meet me here. We'll dance barefoot under the tree of stars whe...

Nonduality & Devotion are One (Video)

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