Graceful Presence

The Place Where You Are Now by Hafiz This place where you are right now God circled on a map for you. Wherever your eyes and arms an...

Awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence. Have joy and peace in the temple of your ...

Even if you consume  as many books as the sands of the Ganges If you want the secret of Buddhism, here it is: Everything is in the...

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life’s star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from ...

That day I saw beneath dark clouds the passing light over the water and I heard the voice of the world speak out, I knew then, as I ha...

To be blessed said the old woman is to live and work so hard God’s love washes right through you like milk through a cow To be blessed...

Shared joy with you here at the Nameless Cafe.  Enjoying the hint of Autumn, the still sunny days, the fullness of Summer's backside... ...

“Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it’s awkward. When it’s uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the ...

A teacher once asked me a profound question: "Why do you limit who you are?" It is possible that your idea of truth, whether t...

Moving deeply in love, we might notice a sense of incompleteness, that something is missing. Love flows. The paradox is while it's flo...

This past week our country was in mourning for the people in Boston where a tragic bombing incident occurred.  I was uplifted by this poem r...

A Spiritual Journey   And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spi...

May you be at ease May you be peaceful May you be happy May you be safe May you awaken to the light of your true nature May you...

Walking, I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are ...

We asked for a table in the sun at the Nameless.  "Good morning, my dearest."  The morning is  oh-so-lovely with a whisper breeze,...

  Awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.   Have joy and peace in the temple of your sense...

Serenity reflections.

I have been preparing for a pilgrimage these past weeks of summer. In September I am going on the  T he Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a...

Author and lecturer Paula D'Arcy spent time each week with Morrie (of Tuesdays with Morrie ) in his final year when he knew he was dying...

I love this photo a friend took of her niece. To me it portrays  so many contrasts - hard and soft, young an old, living and dying, earth a...

Before you can do something that you’ve never done before,  you have to imagine it’s possible.  Jean Shinoda Bolen

My room at the Ralston White Retreat Center - where I attended a retreat and kept noble silence for four days. It was deeply quieting.   My...

Enough. These few words are enough.   If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the life ...

My teacher said, "To be real is some measure of self love. A wholesome wanting - to know ourselves as we are - is an essential element ...

Beauty emanating from the lichen on rocks during a hike in the Umpqua National Forest, Oregon. Graceful Presence is here, in this, too.

The past week I enjoyed five days of silence and listening by attending a Mindfulness and Inquiry Retreat with a favorite teacher, Frank O...

"Somewhere in our history religion became synonymous with God. Religion is a longing for something, but it is not the thing itself. T...

may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn fr...