being here. We remove ourselves in Awareness, the special one that humans have. We take the opportunity to bath and then to relax in the Yoga room, or to pray in the Shrine at the tip of the crown Chakra room. We discover how to make our homes even more a sanctuary, even if it is in a coat closet, as long as it’s cozy and is working for our heart to be heard.
again somehow a gift from afar to my growing life. As long as they stood in Yellowstone, they now stand to hold me as their closest friend. I treat them like royalty, because they were once a forest, withstanding many a forest fire until the one that brought them to me. Lessons. So what is it they are teaching me? One thing is to simply trust, though sometimes I forget. But when I listen, they whisper the secrets of remembering secret gardens within, and they embrace me, hold me, honor me, share me. They offer me to those who have not felt this kind of love before. Amazing now to know, after long, long journeys, that I am beautiful, I am courageous, I am here and NOW! Let’s dance together in the wild, with the bears and swarms of bees, the moose and the deer, the families that visit, the fox, and the grouse, the butterflies and the winged ones, the plant kingdom and the fly. The tiniest spiders you have ever seen live nearby. The land is my altar, my sanctuary. The interior is my hearth. Its fireplace is my warmth; the stove is my nutrition, the green house my resource, the water my blood. Four hundred feet of well provides Rocky Mountain spring water. My health is living and thriving at 8500 feet, as I walk the land and enjoy here the colors of the Aspens and the Pines. Practice. Amazingly, there is a deeper silence in the midst of all of this. It’s the one we add by our
It takes years to understand this and it takes the right place. It’s an adjustment from the lavishness, and so-called conveniences, of the big cities to the simplicity here of the big shovel and the strength at your core to get down your driveway in 3 feet of snow! To blend into the mountains with that snow and to embrace the slick drive down the mountain, the karma to let go and again remember to trust, over and over again. Truth be told, bets were made against me that I would only last a year here by myself, and with my doggies and children. Ha! 22 years later, still here. Every day brings the light to shine anew, opening and renewing, and reminding that it is only you who can discover you again! Miracles are only just happening now. They need time too—over the years the growing hosts of visitors, making this place a hosting-place at least when not inclement! In the most recent years this has included hosting for retreats, spiritual practice and sacred ceremony across multiple traditions, and video roundtables and intimate meetings of world change-makers. Here they can share, and I with them, all that has been built here. For these friendships with soul families from around the world, this beautiful natural space becomes a Benefactor, full of hidden mysteries. Our global family from across in the interspiritual landscape loves it here. If from the city, they can experience something that is rare for them, and important— the transitions of day to night, twilight and early dawn (nearly forgotten by city livers). And here they can explore the dark with no fear of it, just as I have learned over the years.
Karuna hosting Ajeet Kaur and musicians in Hacienda de Guru Ram Das Gold Hill
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