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Welcome to The Mindful Pen, your literary partner in crime. I used to train AI how to write, and the experience taught me that I’d much rather pour my time and energy into helping real people. I’m here to help … Continue reading Introducing the Mindful Pen
You can order a copy of Shakti’s Breast Sermon from cactuspress@gmail.com. Continue reading Shakti’s Breast Sermon (chapbook)
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Many of you know that for the last four and a half years I’ve been working on a science fiction novel called The Atman Cure, the story of a woman who gets her own custom-made hologram psychotherapist. I’m happy to … Continue reading The Atman Cure (a novel)
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Sure, you can buy my book on Amazon, but will it be autographed, with a personal message for you alone? Drop me a line at wandawaterman@protonmail.com and I’ll pop one in the mail for you for a mere $20.00, shipping … Continue reading Dervish at the crossroads: A soundquest through the first two decades of the new millennium
Sarah Roubato~~ L’amitié entre un adulte et un enfant… c’est possible ? Vous connaissez ? Vous savez y a des enfants qu’on rencontre, et là, on ne sait pas pourquoi, quelque chose se passe. Ça vous est déjà arrivé ? Continue reading DEUX VIEILLES ÂMES
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Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most rewarding forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your mind something to focus on so that it … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for Recognizing the Glory of the Natural Universe
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Ironically, centring can mean acknowledging that everything is mostly composed of empty space, which connects us to everything else. Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most rewarding forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your mind something to … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for Centring the Self
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False belief to acknowledge and dissolve: If I love someone in thought, feeling, word, and deed, I’m entitled to an equal quantity and quality of love from that person in return. Continue reading Journaling: An Inner Falsehood Whose Time is Up
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Loneliness comes because Being itself longs to connect with your form and to experience your love by means of another creature. If you can channel your loneliness into your art, you invite Being to meet you there and to help … Continue reading Journaling: Loneliness Comes Because . . .
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This is the space you give me now, and this is what fills it: a dank subway tunnel echoing with the dripping of water from the culverts above, a couple chattering intently on the opposite landing beside a pair of … Continue reading Journaling: This is the Space
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It’s not wrong thinking that leads us astray so much as thinking too much, which can cause paralysis, helplessness, and confusion. So the next time you’re stuck on the horns of a moral dilemma, climb down off your sacred cow, … Continue reading Journaling: Quit Thinking So Darn Much
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Resisting and avenging evil have no positive permanent outcomes. Forgiveness, on the other hand, does. Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most rewarding forms … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme For Suffering Caused by the Spiritual Unconsciousness of Others
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The myths whose purpose is to explain how certain things in our physical universe came to be as they are— for instance, how the buffalo’s horns grew crooked, how a particular island was formed, or how the moon rose to … Continue reading Journaling: Myth and Being
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Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most rewarding forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your mind something to focus on so that it … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for Your Higher Power
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If you start riding down that dirt road You’ll pass, by turns, Long aisles of tamarack and pine (Just think of Glooscap) And then a stretch of poplar, birch, and maple (Think, now, of Robin Hood). The trees are shoed … Continue reading Poem: My Bicycle Route
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The parents who insisted their children be deprogrammed were also deceived, enslaved, and manipulated by a cult best known as “the American dream.” It wasn’t the deception, enslavement, and manipulation of their children that hurt them— it was the fact … Continue reading Journaling: After Watching “Deprogrammed” (2015 documentary)
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It may take a while for the meaning of this mantra to become clear, but when it does the reward is exquisite. Deep, conscious breathing is … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for Transcendence
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Bring down my woolen shawl, Elude, And your pipe, and the blackberry wine. Wrap them in the quilt, Elude, And come to the river With your pretty white smile, your black moustache, And your long hair ahangin’ in your eye. … Continue reading Poem: The Trapper’s Wife
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Trying to force creative production is ineffective, as creative forces don’t respond well to external pressure. To begin creative work we need only provide time and space to creativity and to then bid it come. Sometimes we’re at a place … Continue reading Journaling: Baiting Creativity
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Being longs for you. This is an urgent longing. Your need to be intimately connected with Being is just as urgent. Perhaps you’ve already heard the … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for True Belonging
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Il pleure dans mon cœurComme il pleut sur la ville ;Quelle est cette langueurQui pénètre mon cœur ? from “Il pleure dans mon coeur” by Paul Verlaine My heart fades within me Like the rot on those blooms. From where … Continue reading Poem: The Lilacs are Wilting From the Trees
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How much hurrying is ever really necessary or frutiful? Isn’t hurrying just a way of mindlessly obeying an infantile, clamoring ego, either ours or someone else’s? If hurrying ever does create “extra” time, we hardly know what to do with … Continue reading Journaling: On Hurrying
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Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most rewarding forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your mind something to focus on so that it … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for the True Self
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When I look out upon this earth and see These breathing things so seemingly self-making (Oh, how they burst and sprout and raise their faces!), These quickened things so solemnly sky-staring (This sky with lights and waters overspilling!), I want … Continue reading Poem: God Seeing
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Image: Anonymous, Marcia Painting Self-Portrait Using Mirror (detail), in Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Mulieribus Claris, c. 1403. Bibliothèque Nationale de France. NOT ME What looks back What wallows in pain, seeking more pain What seeks to justify itself What clings to the past What feels … Continue reading Journaling: Not Me, Me
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Thought this couple was just too cute not to share. Continue reading Metro Demons on a Rainy Halloween in Montreal
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Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most rewarding forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your mind something to focus on so that it … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for Unconditional Happiness
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Thank you, Giorgio Finetti, for this amazing composition and musical arrangement. This song was loosely based on my poem “Evening in a New Town,” published in Tigertail. Continue reading Song Demo: Bougie Town
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I had no cause to judge comfort and security until I saw how they froze people’s hearts into defensive mode, compelling them to see the world as a threat to their comfort and security when before they might have regarded … Continue reading Journaling: On Comfort
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Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most rewarding forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your mind something to focus on so that it can escape its own chatter. The Mindful Bard breath mantras can be practised at … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for Cultivating Gratitude
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Many thanks to Reynalds and Cristina Leroux of Bordeaux, France, for this beautiful composition and musical arrangement! Continue reading Song Demo: Oh, You!
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Remember that the One is not only mystery, magesty, and might, but also the lightness, the nothingmatterness, the Fellini clown, the minstrel of the dawn, Mr. Tambourine Man, the man with the child in his eyes. Continue reading Journaling: Remember That the One
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Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most rewarding forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your mind something to focus on so that it … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme for Rejection
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In addition to songwriting I often like to give a new spin to old standards. Here’s my latest. Continue reading Song Demo: Blue Moon (de una niña rebelde)
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Earth, Earth, my Babylon, Your cheeks are white and ruddy. Filling your lap with children, soft you sing. These trees are like the trees at home; O Laurel bright, a sword between me and thee. Within the gate, beside the … Continue reading Poem: In the Garden
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The Star Trek writers’ frequent use of time travel is not just a clever speculative plot device. In each episode where time travel occurs, the characters are forced to accept the present as it is. Even in imagining that one … Continue reading Journaling: The Meaning of Time Travel on Star Trek
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Deep, conscious breathing is among the simplest and most rewarding forms of meditation. Mantras help by giving your mind something to focus on so that it … Continue reading Breath Mantra Meme For Troubled Times
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Grandfather Sun and Grandmother Moon Each find me sitting against this tree. Three days and three nights have I watched the sky; During this time I have not taken food Nor spoken with anyone. I am restless, and relieve myself … Continue reading Poem: Lame Deer’s Vision Quest
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Last night in a dream I was looking at my computer screen when the cartoon figure of an ancient prophet appeared, dancing, smiling, and waving a tambourine. The screen instructed me to slide this icon into my applications folder. Even … Continue reading Journaling: Go Rejoicing!
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The wind sang low At the window in the hall door. Bless me! exclaimed in a space between rooms, Could that be a visitant there? It was as if a gust of air Had blow aside the wayward view; The … Continue reading Poem: The Angel of the Oak
