The Way Home

In the mailbox this brisk, chilly, windy, rainy Spring Wednesday morning in the Northeast corner of Okielamd…

For a fully enlightened being, the difference between what is neurosis and what is wisdom is very hard to perceive, because somehow the energy underlying both of them is the same. The basic creative energy of life—life force—bubbles up and courses through all of existence…Even though there are so many teachings, so many meditations, so many instructions, the basic point of it all is just to learn to be extremely honest …about what exists in your mind—the whole thing that adds up to what we call “me” or “I.”  —Pema Chödrön (from The Wisdom of No Escape,  Shambhala, 1991).  

Don't treat yourself so gingerly; you can let go of stuff.just pick it up and put it down. Pick it up and put it down….After all, we’re all just walking each other home —Ram Dass.