by Lesley | Aug 6, 2014 | courage, Creativity, God, love, materialsim |
My dear, this world, its laws, our perceptions, are such a minute part of existence.—Hafiz I see that life is a game. I didn’t know this so I would take life seriously, think that I couldn’t handle it, and thus I would fling myself onto the altars of the...
by Lesley | Jun 18, 2014 | courage, karma, materialsim, Surrender |
Dear Adventurous Souls, I am turning the The Inner Adventure posts into a book. In order to do this, I returned to the blog’s early days, a time when my outer life crumbled in order to be built anew. Here is one story from that time. Enjoy! If, like the prophet Noah,...
by Lesley | Apr 16, 2014 | consciousness, materialsim, Soul, Spiritual concepts |
“I want to be cremated and have my ashes spread near the creek on the Big Tesuque Trail in the Santa Fe Mountains.” On a sunny spring morning, I sit at my dining room table and write this in the will I am preparing. I think little of it. It is but a directive for some...
by Lesley | Mar 11, 2014 | Community, Devotion, Forgiveness, materialsim, Relationships, Soul |
I’m working peacefully at my computer when I glance out the window and see a six-foot cedar post. I stand to look more closely and come to find that my neighbor is erecting a coyote fence between her property and mine. Immediately, my mind goes into emergency mode....
by Lesley | Jan 8, 2014 | bliss, Divine, eternity, materialsim |
This poem by my friend JoHanna Hartwig perfectly depicts this lovely time of year. Solstice In the sweetest hours of dawn the world hangs in perfect balance. We dreamers on this plane tell ourselves we are awaiting the sun’s return. But I ask… Is...
by Lesley | Dec 18, 2013 | bliss, child, Devotion, eternity, materialsim, Soul |
I pull the little hand-carved Christ figurine from the box and place it in the manger. Next I find Mary and Joseph and set them on either side of the child’s tiny crib. As I do this my heart both tugs downward and rises upward. It’s an odd bitter sweetness on this...
