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Nature Reminds Us

Nature Reminds Us

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention/to the syntax of things, will never wholly kiss you.  e.e.cummings It’s a tragedy really, we as partners who wish for love and passion, in our apparently normal emptiness running through the compulsive analytics and...

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Fox Queen Powerful-Work

Fox Queen Powerful-Work

Some humans prefer to believe in their destructive illusions and ego-invented creeds and are blind to the mammalian need to love the world. But the Fox Queen of this forest long ago recognized what makes her suffer. She has tasted the bitter weeds that numb her soul...

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Fox Flows on Loving-Playfulness

Fox Flows on Loving-Playfulness

LOVE Today fox is awakened into the spirit of care, which grows tendrils everywhere and has eventual blooms of mutual devotion. Fox’s intuition is that Love is the creative view that encompasses and integrates the world. PLAY Today fox is awakened into Play, an...

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Bears Dancing Is Powerful-Work

Bears Dancing Is Powerful-Work

WORK Bears have done their own Work which is separate yet intertwined with relational Work. They have learned to compassionately and gently hold their own pain and self-deception. And, so, in the dance of any one day, they are less dependent on practiced steps, less...

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Fox in Sacred Perception

Fox in Sacred Perception

The fox sees deeply as the timeless, energetic moonlight shines down and moves through him from his furry crown to his royal tail. He has been engaging in a radical but safe unveiling, exposing his wounds and fears, coming to see clearly. His discernment is unadorned...

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Essential Identity

Essential Identity

Bear holding the bouquet of Lotus-dendron is an essential identity. This Inspired Self resists being contained in language. It's not a behavior nor an activity, not a habit, not a job or even a career, not a role or an obligation of an expectation and insight. Putting...

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Bears in Powerful-Play

Bears in Powerful-Play

The past trails off into the infinite unknown. Their future trails off into an equally infinite unknown. But they dwell fully in the moment and make the most of it, giving each other bear hugs and belly rubs, astonished to have ended up in just this time and space together.

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