Tag Archives: heart-mind

December thread

Posted on December 17, 2017 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

A spider thread sparkled in the dawn splendor. Leafless, the tree was naked and asleep to December winds. A thread wiggled laughing with a sunbeam and behold what was always there illumined. reposted from December 2013    

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A radical new identity

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

What if our idea of being human is off the mark? What if we are not primarily homo sapiens but are bodhisattvas? This is my thesis: that the true expression of being human is an ever-greater illumined consciousness, an ever-wider … Continue reading →

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Refuge

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

I take refuge. And All-ness opens, absorbing me forward, outward, centralized within dispersion. It, YOU, go forever, absorbing all. There is no me. There is no YOU, just abundant centralized dispersion. Forever and forward. Direction falls apart; yet there is … Continue reading →

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