Living in Gratitude

"Grateful seeing is the ability to look first for what is good and working in our lives without minimizing or denying the hardships or challenges that are also present. Many traditional societies hold the perspective, or worldview, that what has been given to us ultimately ignites growth and strengthens us. Individuals who are viewed as seers in Indigenous societies are highly respected, honored, and valued for their gifts of insight, vision, and grateful seeing. The Maasai of East Africa, for example, call their seers diviners, ones who perceive in the seen and unseen worlds, that which is divine and good. We, too, can learn to be seers- seers of the blessings, learnings, mercies, and protections that are ever present on a daily basis. "

from Living in Gratitude
Angeles Arrien (1940-April 24th, 2014) 

Your Daily Gandhi

Eternal Consciousness

Our real self, the soul, is immortal. We may sleep for a little while in that change called death, but we can never be destroyed. We exist, and that existence is eternal. The wave comes to shore, and then goes back to sea; it is not lost. It becomes one with the ocean, or returns again in the form of another wave. The body has come and it will vanish; but the soul essence within it will never cease to exist. Nothing can terminate the eternal consciousness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Last Night as I was Sleeping (Antonio Machado)

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt  - marvelous error! -
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of new life,
that I have never drunk?

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt-marvelous error!-
that I had a beehive,
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt- marvelous error!-
that a fiery sun was giving light
inside my heart.
It was fiery because I felt 
warmth as from a hearth,
and sun because it gave light
and brought tears to my eyes.

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt-marvelous error!-
that it was God I had
here inside my heart.

Art by Daniel Holeman

Your Daily Emerson

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, 
drink the wild air."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your Daily Emerson

Your Daily Rumi