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March 1983The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.
Joanna Rogers Macy
Tai-Chi takes extraordinary discipline and perseverance to gain any degree of mastery, and yet, it’s ideally suited to someone who’s interested in a complete series of exercises to do in a short period of time every day. It’s a Taoist paradox.
By Susan WallinMarch 1983We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul.
By Ralph Waldo EmersonFebruary 1983February 1983The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
Ramakrishna
A lot of my work is to just stay as clear as I can, so I can be there, available and loving, but at the same time have a penetrating enough awareness that I don’t buy into the superficial sentimentality of the situation. And death, of course, is the ultimate melodrama.
By Howard Jay RubinJanuary 1983The Original Odd Couple, a soccer coach, a bibliophile
By Our ReadersJanuary 1983I am more and more convinced that only emptiness is creative. On all levels this is true. To be full of tradition is to have no room for the new. To be full of responsibility is to have no room for play. To be full of activity is to have no room for reflection. To be full of self is to have no room to receive another.
By Jim RalstonJanuary 1983The honesty that comes from the heart, the higher octave of the intellect and feeling mind, the flash when love enters in at the eye
By Our ReadersNovember 1982Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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