“I belong to no religion.
My religion is love.
Every heart is my temple.”
~Rumi
Every Heart Is My Temple
Tag Archives: Bhutan
Focusing on the Light
“The spirit of a time is an incredibly subtle, yet hugely powerful force. And it is comprised of the mentality and spirit of all individuals together. Therefore, the way you look at things is not simply a private matter. Your outlook actually and concretely affects what goes on. When you give in to helplessness, you collude with despair and add to it. When you take back your power and choose to see the possibilities for healing and transformation, your creativity awakens and flows to become an active force of renewal and encouragement in the world. In this way, even in your own hidden life, you can become a powerful agent of transformation in a broken, darkened world. There is a huge force field that opens when intention focuses and directs itself toward transformation.”-John O’Donohue
Focusing on the light as an active force of renewal and encouragement in the world… Thank you John O’Donohue, thank you to all the heart centered ones around the world doing all that they can, thank you for continuing to focus on the light, the goodness… It is difficult in these days. Let’s keep trying our best.
The Winds of Being
“I hope for youthe fires of transformationthat burns away the dross of egoleaving oneness, grace, and light.
That you may breathe the winds of beingWith wings of an eagle to soarSowing life into each otheropening hearts and doors
For you are a spring of heavenA breeze in the desert of lifeGiving hope to the hopeless and brokenBringing grace, and peace, and light.”-Bob Holmes, “Ode to a Mystic”
Doors
“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few
but precious.If you have a deep scar, that is a door.
If you have an old, old story,
that is a door.If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it,
that is a door.If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
-Clarissa Pinkola Estés
A Hundred Scars From Caring
“They say beauty comes from a spirit that has weathered many hardships in life and somehow continues with resilience.Grace can be found in a soul who ages softly, even amid the tempest.I think the loveliest by far is the one whose gentle heart bears a hundred scars from caring, yet still finds a way to pick up the lamp, one more time, to light the way for love.”-Susan Frybort
Simple Religion
“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Nature, Your own mind, Your own heart is the Temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
-Dalai Lama XIV
Bhutan – A Gallery of Photos
I had dreamed about Bhutan… mesmerized by the thought of its majestic mountains and mystery. Experiencing it finally in person, I found it to be full to brimming with radiance. Its people and environment warm and absorbing, magical. Gross National Happiness a real thing to strive for, not money and things. Spirituality and prayer, quiet, respect for elders and the land. Bhutan left a deep impression that walks with me still and always will. I treasure the time there and all it left inside me.
Click onto any individual image below to see a full size version… use arrows to see each in full size.
Becoming Indigenous
“Knowing her grandchildren
would inherit the world she left behind,
she did not work for flourishing
In her time only.
It was through her actions of reciprocity,
the give and take with the land,
that the original immigrant
became indigenous.
For all of us,
becoming indigenous to
a place means living as
if your children’s future mattered,
to take care of the land as if our lives,
both material and spiritual,
depended on it.”~Robin Wall Kimmerer
Within My Heart
“I looked in temples, churches and
mosques; but I found the Divine within
my heart.”~ Rumi
Sound Healing
Sound. Primordial manifesting. Healing and transporting. The music of the spheres providing the foundation of our experience. The word.
Traveling with the sound healer Tom Kenyon in Bhutan brought the totality of sound’s power to bear on my life. In conference rooms and temples, the pure resonance and connections of his tonings were astounding.
The nuns pictured above too held us transported with their chants & singing.
Every culture uses sound and music and has a need for these expressions. Drumming, toning, chanting, singing….
Tom Kenyon’s work as a therapist brought him initially to the exploration of the potential of the power in sound for healing for his patients. This exploration moved into deeper and deeper realms… his five octave voice is a miracle. The sounds, toning, music, and chant seem to come through him, not from him.
“I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the ‘hollow reed’…”
-Tom Kenyon
“It’s ok to look up to make sure there’s only one person up here making these strange sounds. But what’s important is what’s happening inside YOU. That’s where the power is.”
-Tom Kenyon
A new film about his work, called “Song of the New Earth” is making the rounds of screenings around the country.
Check it out here:
http://woodycreekpictures.com/films/song-of-the-new-earth/
And here’s a link to his website for a list of seminars and some free downloads:
You may not embrace, understand, or believe all that is contained there, but if you can allow an opening to healing and connection while absorbed in the sound, you may find an expansion of your perception, and find help with healing and connections.
Click here to access a sound healing session called the Inner Sun Meditation:
https://tomkenyon.app.box.com/s/swra2vzh5pfxj196h8ac
I often listen to Tom Kenyon tapes for meditation and for healing and hope they may be helpful to you. As the quote from Tom states below, I’ve seen miracles happen with sound.
“I’ve seen miracles happen with sound…”
~Tom Kenyon“Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole.”
-Pythagoras (569-475 BC)“Do you know our soul is composed of harmony”
-Leonardo da Vinci