Things Simply Happen

 

Things simply happen—we do our rituals, we travel about, we bear children, live among them, and die. We can’t change these facts, but if we cultivate awareness that everyone, everywhere has similar experiences of life and death, it can take the urgency out of our responses, opening a space for equanimity to arise.  - Manjusura, “The View From Above”

I read this passage and felt the “rightness” of it.  We all have our own belief systems, and our beliefs carry us through the dark times.  Everyone has dark times and it seems that we often forget that others have similar experiences.  It is the magic of life that allows us to have similar paths.  From this, we learn new ideas and beliefs.  We grow.  Our mind expands.  We live life more easily.

Blessings,

Judy

Fox In The Shadows

              

Fox sits quietly by the edge of the clearing, in the shadows, and waits for me to be aware of her.  She has been a regular visitor for some time.  Today, she comes to speak to me about working in the background – the shadow place as it is often called – because in the shadows, you can disguise who you are and why you need to do things a certain way.

Fox has had experience at misdirecting and at shape shifting.  When you have young, it is the one way that she can easily protect them.  She urges us to spend less time on the internet, and in sharing our private lives.  She asks us to be outside more.  

She sends us blessings.

See more of Fox’s thoughts at:

https://www.lightstationwisdom.com/2025/01/fox-in-forest.html

https://www.lightstationwisdom.com/2024/12/fox-haven.html

https://www.lightstationwisdom.com/2023/11/fox-play.html

https://www.lightstationwisdom.com/2024/04/foxy-times-spirit-animal.html

Blessings,

Judy

About Failure

                      

The writing on the picture says, “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another, with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill

These days, we do not seem to be able to recognize the difference between success and failure.  What I mean is, some successes are actually failures because they harm people, the environment, animals, and damage or pollute water.  An example is building a state of the art wind turbine farm on the prairies that provides excess electricity (success) but causes hearing impairment to those that live beside the turbines and kills migrating birds because it is on a migration path (failure). The turbines are big and eyesores (failure).

France is creating modified trees with small fans as leaves that will turn in the slightest breeze and create electricity while being easy to look at and which do not harm birds.

May your day be full of new ideas and fun things!

 

Blessings,

Judy