This week's featured meditatation is "Granite Face"  

The Depths of the Soul

It is thru our striding toward Excellence that we reach wisdom ... From it kindness blossoms, and grace, empthy, and love and approach the soul's depths.

Journey

As we trek this forest of possibilities, its future unknowable, when we make Life itself our meditation, we find bliss within its light and wonder.

Borne on the Winds

The blossoms and grace of harmony are gifts that touch the secret soul; they bear mastery and joy. With harmony people flower; anxieties and perplexities drift away.

Granite Face

Patience stands at the crux of achievements that come through sweat and sacrifice. It mastery takes iron discipline, unlocks monumental rewards.

Grit

Sometimes warrior-courage is the only remedy for great sorrow, which must be endured the same way that joy is endured.

Spilling

Intolerance is slavery that breeds hatred, spills disaster. One way of surmounting this ugliness is by holding close an empathy for all. Hope flows toward the brook of kindness.

The Grace of Gratitude

Being thankful for both the good and bad elevates us. Grateful spirits understand happiness; giving thanks is, indeed, gratitude in action.

Distant Shores

Claiming responsibility for our own successes, we conquer doubts and despairs. Charting a course and staying it, we reach distant shores.

Rhyme of the Soul

Throughout this journey you will find wisdom and the art of living in harmony with the rhyme of your deepest self.

Through the Deepest Wood

If you follow your deepest desires you will find yourself; by wakening inner strengths, choose best among myriad paths.

The Eagles' Pass

With the virtues of patience and fortitude we surmount the misfortune that Fate's loom has spun.

Clotho's Loom

Selflessness is where the warrior's path begins; it is a path marked by courage and valor. When joined with grace, harmony follows.

Outside the Blur

When we can simply let go, stepping outside the blur of emotions, we experience reality with greater focus.

Centerpoint

When we find our still, quiet center-point where our spirit finds freedom there our rational self encounters the riches of our imagination.

Forgiveness

Success is wrought by the nobility of compassion, victory through the genius of forgiveness.

Discoveries

The challenges of responsibility and self-reliance offer a sure footed trek across the life's shifting sands.

Dance

When we are grateful for each sunrise, we drink that day fully. When we invest ourself with an inner song, our reward will the the spirit's embracing the truths we have found.

Whispers

When we ponder the nature of our self-worth we are freed to nurture gratitude and contentment. By turning meaningful goals into affirmations, they integrate themselves deep within and lend great potential.

Inner Sunshine

The act of framing Life as a meditation distinguishes our path; it's virtue defines depth; blossoms arise from this sunrise of grace.

Harvest

As this wheel of life turns upon itself, whoever sows consideration gains respect and harvests honor and friendship.

North Wind

Faced with grievous hardship , if we accept its iron challenge, we come to understand that the chill winds of grief are both unique and universal.

Creating and Dissolving

Obscurities are dissolved when the mind is controlled; the transcendent insight shines brightly. Our awareness merges into the eternal realm when mind and soul are balanced.

The Texture of Thought

Awakening to the myriad personal points of meaning, we uncover strengths of character; we begin to appreciate the qualities of thought, pondering, reflection.

Petals

Treating Life as a meditation, its sorrows and pleasures are writ deep; it becomes a discipline for our inner warrior.

Sphere

Life is strewn with the scars of sorrow. Much defies speech, tears, and life's promise. The world shares these burdens; they are inescapable.

Narrow Trail

Justice treads a narrow trail along the cliffside as injustices stew in the venom and toxins of ill-will. Civilizations that fail this fragile course annihilate their core.

Challenges and Liberation

Whether from books or experience, education inspires the best within us. Learning challenges and liberates. Its nourishment encourages self-discovery and guides us into the future with reason and discernment.

Cragsmen

Great strength of will is realized when vision and soul are joined. This mind-set makes virtually anything achievable as you become a cragsman on this grand journey.

Touchstone

Without some harmony between your personal values and the world's, the future is hamstrung. Personal themes become integral values, your touchstones.

Algebra of Life

Emotional intelligence is the poetry of our deepest self. When emotions are balanced by reason and harmony, they can color life brilliantly. When we can control the great energies behind emotion we can reflect, and reach for a further self-wisdom.

ImagiZen

From the butterflies of imagination swarm infinite possibilities. Imagination comes from an intuition that is freed to seek the unbounded. It is the mind's eye; it is our unconscious genius made manifest.

Cherishing the Significant

By placing our wants and needs into perspective, we approach wisdom. By striving for neither austerity nor great wealth our path will be unfettered. When we cherish the significant and discard the superficial, we can make our way rich with contentment.

Warrior's Shadows

When we understand that meaning and purposes of our change with the turn of life's seasons, we know where we fit into this grand scheme. Realizing our imperance, we step into the dance of eternity and walk in warrior's shadows.

Scaling the Heights

Once we begin following the paths of goodness, excellence blossoms; by excelling, we liven everything on this trek. Excellence cloaks itself in the glow of quality just as a noble character reaches for its zenith.

Wreaking Violence

Hatred rules in the dark underside of society where people hide, mired in the slither of ill-reason. Hatred squanders lifetimes; it ravages the soul; it is an active ignorance that twists logic and devalues humanity itself.

The Quest

When we glean a sense of the enduring truths-- love, beauty, integrity, excellence among them-- we build a granite foundation for our quest. ... The quest for authenticity begins at the hub of our being. We dream of transcending the transitory.

Roots of Malevolence

Greed is born of personal insecurities and self-doubts; unchecked its poison will annihilate all traces of integrity. By stepping outside the blindness of greed you leave behind the taste of emptiness. The spirit reaches its zenith when it surrenders the roots of malevolence.

Pushing back the Jungle

From the sunshine of sharing and the synergy of harmony and love come progress. The human species has survived because cooperation precedes competition. Pushing back the savageness of selfishness yields opportunities for synergizes of balance, harmony, and love.

Striking the Midnight

The better path understands eternal pleasures of simplicity... . When the true self is reawakened--wiping dust from a mirror--it appreciates the Natural. Examining things meditatively, patiently watching thoughts meander thither and yon, we are least alone.

Saber

The breath of conscience is a center-point of the soul. By following a path toward self-control, with conscience as a guidepost, we accept full responsibility for our actions. We start building a mellow disposition when a clear conscience and peaceful spirit entwine.

Sunlight of Beauty

When we make goodness a touchstone, life offers itself as beauty. By opening to the greater world and offer the highest service that we can, the sum of our lives will be judged by these deeds. Let our tribute be that we treated others with generosity.

Original Nature

Meditation lets us re-discover our Original Nature. Growing from our deepest self--in harmony with our Will--we center our destiny.

First, with Eagle Eyes

When an enlightened and uncommon-sense self-interest taps us on the shoulder we understand that our first burdens belong to ourself! If we ignore our own well-being, lose our balance and slip and fall, then how can we help others?

Grasping the Scope

Kindness, love, and cooperation are blossoms of an evolved heart. Uniting kindness and empathy helps us grasp our natural interdependence. When these work with the innate desire of cooperation the yield is the soul's harvest.

Ground of Mystery

Without friendships the way is lonely; they help sustain us through good times and bad. The ground of friendship is a mystery! Whatever draws friend to friend, it is like the deepest love, inestimable.

Searching the Terrain

As we make our way along this rugged journey we trust the harmony of our innate wisdom, its stream profound, primordial. Searching this terrain will unearth the root of virtue, of balance whose light are of self-discovery.

Beacons

If you ask what stirs us to the excellence of purpose, you have only to look at our ideals--these become guideposts. If you wonder what drives determination and liberates enthusiasm, you need to look again at the ideals that encourage our Will.

Bedrock

From humility flows the earth of humanity; humility symbolizes a light of greatness and strength of character.

Born of Love

Acts of loving kindness and selflessness are born out of the love for self that cannot exist unless we truly value ourselves. When we realize the height of our intrinsic worth goodwill and charity are sown in the fertile soil of our soul.

Reference Points

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Facets of Danger

Hatred's own wrath will hurl you upon the jagged rocks of irrationality. hatred is activity stupidity, it is fear mired in its own blindness. It hides from the light of reason and sensibility.

To Live Earnestly

Authenticity sings a rich song of soul; it is in accord with our truest nature. When we begin to live sincerely the world becomes an extension of our own lives.

Integrity

Character stands at the summit of integrity, built on treasured ideals, from our experiences and insights. A sound character is our most valuable asset;   building it lasts a lifetime .

To Hold the Universe

Happiness begin with the task of gratitude; a contented heart expands to hold the universe. Only then will true thankfulness flow--like sparkling water from a deep spring.

Natural Laws

Life dances at the edge of Chaos. By welcoming the ebbs and flows like warriors we are poised for great adventures. Striving for growth we make our way along this labyrinth.

Chrysalis

The persistant climb toward self-perfection is a steady move toward liberation. Of course, perfection blossoms within realms of imperfection. This striving is but love transmuted into action.

Lighting the Path

The genuis of enthusiasm is a beacon that lights the trail, robs endurance of suffering, is our sustenance through dark days.

Soul's Joy

Gratitude comes from our deepest self, from the joy of the soul. A thankful heart is an origin of virtue, the same way that a loving heart is of contentment.

Welding Imagination

Heightened awareness is more essential to innovation than the gold of knowledge. Determination fires the core of creativity, welding imagination to accomplishment.

The Laughter of the Brook

Warmed by the beauty of forest and solitude, we give thanks for the grace of happiness, the potentials of dusk and dawn. For talents, inspirations, challenges and opportunities.

As L[if][ov]e Is

In its constellation of possibilities love's sunshine and shadow know no bounds. Its height contradicts logic and transcends the infinity of death.

Circularity

The lopsided continually balances; the balanced continually skews. We understand the Universal circularity, as life's endless rebirth from Its source.

The Soul's Zenith

Understanding love in its larger view includes several definitions, among them the ultimate statement that love is truth, as a touchstone of virtue, as soul-wisdom that the heart beholds.

In the Strata of Sorrow

Nothing stans in isolation; nothing is absolute. Within the darkness lie the seeds for happiness and contentment. Hiding in the canyons of grief, in the strata of sorrow, the Light waits.

Realm of the Ineffible

When we throw up our hands and ask: *why*? life rarely gives us a thunderous (or whisperous) reply. It's usually only after we have pondered replies that we begin to understand...

Enduring at the Summit

The sweet rose we call love does need cultivation. Enduring at it summit as it sees its way, love reaches out, it snuggles close. Unfurling its pedals, love follows its own way.

Reflecting Pool

By acknowledging our flaws and relinquishing them, our characters approach the perfection of the transcendent; and we mirror the harmony of still waters.

Pierian Springs

Sometimes events are serendipitous, sometimes tragic; our actions reflect our realities. When ordinary events prevail we have the opportunity to drink from the fountain of the Muses, for inspiration, for poetry, for wisdom.

Ritual

Cycles of change and chance command life's rhythm and rhyme. Ritual no more guarantee our fate than beating on drums guarantee rain.

Flux and Flow

Emotions can color life brightly; letting emotions run amok courts disaster. Wisdom pauses reflectively in contemplation of emotions' flux and flow.

Ballast

Sound character traits that we have absorbed in youth or acquired in earlier years can become our ballast when adversity strikes.

A Sacred Point

Meditation looks inward and though as we live life-as-meditation, we participate in the entire span of being. It is essential in stepping toward higher spiritual and soulful ground.

Realization

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19 April, 2008



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