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Why "whatever" doesn't work, or expectations

Posted on Jul 5th, 2008 by Nicole : wakingdreamer Nicole

I've been reflecting lately on the way that a friendship that is not really just a friendship but not really anything more... can be a form of limbo. Not a place one wants to hang... More »

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Nine Ways Not to Talk About God - Raimon Panikkar

Posted on Jan 13th, 2007 by Nicole : wakingdreamer Nicole

Image Source: Bigfoto I am very grateful to my friend MaryW who just posted on Integral Christianity: "Thanks to zaadzter Balder whom I know from other forums, I've been introduced to the ideas of Raimon Panikkar.... More »

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corazon espinado

Posted on Nov 8th, 2006 by Nicole : wakingdreamer Nicole

how do i explain this helplessness i feel before you the acquiescence to fall endlessly in love through silent space as you recede behind your screen what is it about you that pierces me so... More »

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Evening Solace - Charlotte Bronte

Posted on Nov 8th, 2006 by Nicole : wakingdreamer Nicole

(who but Herbie once more?) The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed;­ The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. And days may pass... More »

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meeting - silent lotus

Posted on Nov 7th, 2006 by Nicole : wakingdreamer Nicole

Meeting Is this A chance First meeting Or have we known Each other somewhere before Are you the silence from within The love of my core - silent lotus

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Maggie Ross' blog

Posted on Oct 17th, 2006 by Nicole : wakingdreamer Nicole

from http://ravenwilderness.blogspot.com/ The Healing Pain of Our Divisions II Even supposing that rationalism, for example, might allow earnest theologians to"prove" the existence of God; if the God who emerges from such an exercise is a... More »

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The Silence - Wendell Berry

Posted on Oct 15th, 2006 by Nicole : wakingdreamer Nicole

The Silence Wendell Barry Though the air is full of singing my head is loud with the labor of words. Though the season is rich with fruit, my tongue hungers for the sweet of speech.... More »

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more beloved Rilke

Posted on Oct 13th, 2006 by Nicole : wakingdreamer Nicole

The Unicorn Rainer Maria Rilke The saintly hermit, midway through his prayers stopped suddenly, and raised his eyes to witness the unbelievable: for there before him stood the legendary creature, startling white, that had approached,... More »

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the Word of the Silence

Posted on Oct 12th, 2006 by Nicole : wakingdreamer Nicole

A bare impersonal hush is now my mind, A world of sight clear and inimitable, A volume of silence by a Godhead signed, A greatness pure, virgin of will. Once on its pages Ignorance could... More »

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