“Both poetry and planting were increasingly truer expressions of the same thing: reaching for the unknown & being in relationship to the world.”
— William Stanley Merwin
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-poet-and-the-palm-tree/
Emmanuel’s Book
“Being with Emmanuel one comes to appreciate the vast evolutionary context in which our lives are being lived. We see ourselves in a larger tapestry as part of the creative pulse that is God. And at each moment we are at just the right place in the journey. As Emmanuel points out, “Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.” — Ram Dass
concentration
Little by little you must train yourself for life, for happiness. You have to realize happiness is not something found at the end of a road. You have to understand that it is here, now. Mindfulness practice is not an evasion or an escape. It means entering vigorously into life — with the strength generated by the energy of mindfulness. Without this freedom and concentration, there is no happiness.