santidevi

My feet are wide, high arched, and look like feet not prone to shoes. They have carried me up mountains, across slick rock, through Paris streets, and Indian temples. They have climbed trees, dug deep into sand, crossed rivers, and held squealing children dangling in the air. They like to feel the ground beneath them, [...]

i bow deeply, breathe slowly into the quiet of my stilled mind.
the mantra forms in my belly, an embryo of it’s own making.
dissolving once again and the soil beneath me slips away.
tethered  to this world only by the beat of my heart.
i am scraped clean, and splayed into the freedom of nothingness.
the gypsy north wind [...]

I stand in an office on the 34th floor of a high rise in downtown Denver. I look out windows that frame an obstructed view of the front range.  Pressing my face against the glass I feel the sun warm, imagine the air that invisibly touches everything.  Beneath my feet the world hums, people look [...]

Come back.  Be in this precious moment.  I realize that I am not where I Am, but 4,576 miles away in Kinsale, in the locus of my longing.  I close my eyes and I am there, walking cobblestones streets, looking out upon the sea, sitting amongst the “standing people” in a forest shrouded in mist. [...]

I begin to find my feet.  Nothing feels entirely familiar at the moment.  I was internal for so long that engaging in the world seems utterly foreign.  It is as though I am here for the first time. The solitude and silence that characterized the duration of my fast, has lent a simplicity [...]

What does it mean to surrender?  
Surrender requires humility, humility requires surrender.  When we stop resisting and judging what “is” we begin to experience the divine intelligence inherent in the phenomenal world. This same intelligence reveals itself within our own nature.  Contrary to what one might theorize this revelation does not inspire arrogance or self [...]