by Celia Coates “Vehemently disturbed” – that was the woman’s immediate answer this week when the reporter asked her how she was feeling about what’s happening in this country. Her words caught my attention. She was not just mentioning feeling fear about the current state of things (a feeling that is painfully common these days)…
Category: Wisdom
Learning About Love
by Celia Coates In the last WINN, the one about love and the meaning of life, I wrote that we need to begin with loving ourselves and that that would be a subject for a future post. It surprised me when the future arrived quickly and became this week and this post. I’ve been clearing…
Love and Fear, Community and Cult
by Celia Coates A few weeks ago, I headed for my favorite grocery store and I was not feeling peaceful – I was a little edgy. As I wandered down the well-stocked aisles, one of the cheerful staff approached and asked me what I was looking for. Flippantly I answered, “The meaning of life.” Without…
Light, Love, and Wisdom
By Carolyn Scripps In 1990, on December 24th, I had an experience of awakening, of “seeing the light.” My husband and I lived in Lawrence, Kansas with our toddler and baby. Earlier that day, my young nieces were dropped off to spend the holiday with us. I was ready for our first “Christmas Craft Day”…
The Second “Love All Around”
By Brenda Molloy From Celia: If you have not read Brenda’s two earlier, informative posts about fractals and her art, you might scroll to the end of this third post and link to them now. On November 8th another image of “Love All Around” came in so pure and so quickly that it felt as…
Becoming Beacons of Light
By Gretchen Krivoshia It has always been the time to cultivate loving kindness but given the turmoil in our world, it is needed now more than ever. We need to do what we can to increase compassion and caring – for ourselves and others – to become the beacons of light that we are capable…
Healing With Nature
By Brian Luke Seaward When the winds blows, this is my medicine. When it rains, this is my medicine. When it hails, this is my medicine. When the skies clear after a storm, this is my medicine. -Native American Prayer One semester, while serving on the faculty of the American University, I invited a Lakota…
More Than One Ecosystem
By Celia Coates In this week filled with terrible news, a welcome email came from Dean Radin, the chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. It included these words: “Crisis is an evolutionary driver. Crisis signals to organisms that incremental change will no longer suffice to survive. The materialistic world view that has led…
Listening
By Celia Coates This will be a short WINN – just a small story and an opinion. The story involves something that has been happening for years, something that I now call listening to downloads. In the early quiet of the morning when I go from sleep to waking, there are times when words or…
Three Aspects of Time
By Genevieve Paulson Genevieve Paulson is a profound and practical spiritual teacher, author, and great, great, grandmother. This excerpt is from her fifth book, JOURNEY INTO COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS, which has the subtitle – Through Reincarnation, Time and Space, Inner and Outer Worlds, Universal Laws, Spirit, Nature, and many other energies along the way. Before trying…
Sharing
By Celia Coates One of the reasons we enjoy stories is that they often allow us to see beyond our own lives. We can envision events and characters that are different from what’s familiar and imagine new possibilities for how things might be. We can get these glimpses without plowing through dense texts or attending…
Dorothy Walters, Mystic and Poet
by Celia Coates Dorothy Walters, Mystic and Poet Word came this week of the death of Dorothy Walters. She was born on March 17, 1928 and became a professor of English literature who also helped to found one of the earliest women’s studies programs while at Wichita State University in Kansas. In 1981 her life,…