image / Pichaya Peanpattanangkul


We have carried the frontier between the past and the present with us all our lives, we are an ecology
within a hundred other ecologies, a noisy  meeting place, a bridge from a directly perceived outer world leading to an indirect, unknown and as yet unspoken interior.

We live now but all our history and even our future is already occurring even as we walk the street,
fading into the jubilant evening light of a day, strangely and even reluctantly, already beginning to end.

- David Whyte,
excerpted from Consolations pp 123-124


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Image / Adam Derewecki via Pixabay


Nowhere, Beloved, will the world exist, but within us.

Our lives are constant transformations.The external

grows ever smaller. Where a solid house once stood,

now a mental image takes its place,

almost as if it were all in the imagination.

Our era has created vast reservoirs of power,

as formless as the currents of energy they transmit.

Temples are no longer known. In our hearts

these can be secretly saved.


- Rainer Maria Rilke, excerpted from "The Interior Castle",
published in A Year With Rilke (pg 77, March 18)


Dana Wyss Healing Arts
Breathe deeply, practice often, be well.
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Image "Beech Trees in Spring Wood"  / Vera Kuttelvaserova Stuchelova


Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence.
Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate.
They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it.
Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

When I think of this, I am both cheered and saddened.
Cheered at the thought of the many instants that arise and are available to do good in the world.
Saddened by all the misspent moments that have piled on top of each other and led to this war.

- Ruth Ozeki, from A Tale for the Time Being


Dana Wyss Healing Arts
Breathe deeply, practice often, be well.
http://www.danawyss.com/

If a mountain range woke up one day, decided to uproot itself and tour the universe, this is how I imagine it would look on the tail end of the journey:

Appearing somehow peaceful despite breakneck speeds, steady amidst the near-constant pummeling and pelting of debris, marked by the journey, yes, and hurtling onward toward all yet unseen.

That's where this took me. What do you see?

Wishing you all steady peace amidst any chaos of the week, and an appreciation for how life and this journey is shaping you.

Dana Wyss Healing Arts
Breathe deeply, practice often, be well.
http://www.danawyss.com/

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay


"True freedom is being without anxiety about imperfection."

- Sengchan


Dana Wyss Healing Arts
Breathe deeply, practice often, be well.
http://www.danawyss.com/