Behind Each Eye

Laura Basha

Photo By: Kazuend
 

It had been over 40 years since we had all been together. Separated by the annihilation born of a traumatic youth, we finally trusted enough to reunite to see our mother after all these years. It was moving to me to observe us, 4 women now, cooking, navigating the kitchen, each doing her part as only four women who have raised children know how to do. Silently, musically, harmonized with no outer conductor needed.
 

We return next month, to Florida, to move this our mother who never mothered very well, to a safer place where we can all be there for her in her elder years. She is alone and she needs to be mothered and we can be that for each other and for her.
 

Bring what you are looking for.
 

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Behind Each Eye

 

Spring overall. But inside us
there is another unity.

 

Behind each eye 
one glowing weather.

 

Every forest branch moves differently
in the breeze, but as they sway,
they connect at the roots.

 

– Rumi

Living Simply

Laura Basha

 
Photo By: Ludde Lorentz
 

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how
efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose
and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these,
whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar.

 

– Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty

Thoughts on Presence

 

Photo By: Johan Desaeyere
 

“If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert.
 

If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you’re back in time. …
 

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.
This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.
 

Most humans are never fully present in the Now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one.
 

But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
 

And that’s a revelation for some people: to realize that your life is only ever now. …
 

Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have,
you cannot lose something that you are.”

 

– Eckhart Tolle

 

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Become present to your inner purpose.

 

As you reflect on it and align with it,
your actions will be informed by your own true self,
and
you will be infused with wisdom and power that benefits all concerned.

 

– Laura Basha, Ph.D.

Awakening to the Spirit of Our Earth

 

Photo By: Peter Forster
 

“The grass grows in the fields, and the leaves on the trees, and every year they are, in great part, renewed. So that we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that it’s flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.
 

… its breathing, and the increase and decrease of the blood in the pulses, is represented in the earth by the flow and ebb of the sea; and the heat of the spirit of the world is the fire which pervades the earth, and the seat of the vegetative soul is in the fires …”

 

– Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519)

Breaking Free

 
Photo By: Aaron Burden
 

Out of a hundred thousand kites,
At best but one or two break free;

 

And Thou dost laugh and clap Thy hands,
O Mother, watching them.

 

– Sri Ramakrishna

Peace of Mind

 
Photo By: Gabriel Barletta
 

… if anyone speaks to you about any matter, do not argue with him. 
But if he speaks rightly, say: Yes. 
If he speaks wrongly say to him: You know what you are saying. 
But do not argue with him about the things he has said. 
Thus your mind will be at peace.

 

– Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert, Saying X