Author Archives: ashley

here’s a new word game. it’s a twist between the game memory and those magnets that may be on some of yours or your friend’s refrigerators… you can either scatter the words together in sentences or pick two that you think go together… (or if you have another idea…do that!) **********humility ********** freedom ************ giving […]

in response to the dialogue about parenting and invoking individuality, i was told that i am entitled to nourishment and encouraging as well as being surrounded by positive light. WOW… what a blessing that we are each entitled to such divine attention. the same person went on to say that “entitlements are best enjoyed (in […]

“you are not accidental. existence needs you. without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. that’s what gives you dignity, that the whole existence will miss you. the stars and sun and moon, the trees and birds and earth — everything in the universe will feel a small place is […]

birgitt williams posted this on the oslistserv: “For those who study the ICHING, you will know that the first hexagram is all masculine or dynamic energy. I see this equal to the energy of wanting to scatter seed (very masculine) anywhere, see where it lands and whatever happens is the only thing…. The second hexagram […]

lama surya das spoke about conditioning. everything is about conditioning. re-condition skill-fully to de-condition. osho speaks of society as being the force that constructs personality. we must de-condition this personality and re-condition our own individuality, individuality that is given to us by existence. Osho states that society “gives you a personality, a cozy personality, nice, […]

in the jewish religion, we celebrate the first night of passover at sundown tonight. i’d like to share with you some words from a hagadah (the book that guides the evening seder) that my friends Mandi and Brad Rubenstein wrote: “The Passover Seder…provides a setting of family and love and unity in which all can […]