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Beginner's Heart
taking care of the heart’s chariot
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Britton Gildersleeve
The heart rides around in a body. Consider the mind the charioteer. I’m not always a good caretaker of my chariot, this body I run around in. I do better some weeks than others, but I still don’t rock this w hole health thing. I don’t eat enough veggies, I know — although I like…
thunderheads, and big sky mind
By
Britton Gildersleeve
Some days it’s harder than usual to calm. To remember that the mind is really just a space where thoughts (& feelings) come & go. But this is the basis of my wisdom tradition, and I know it’s true. So on days like today, when I’m trying (hard) to breathe through the small chaos of…
What did George Fox say? or, the Quakers vs. the Puritans
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Britton Gildersleeve
I’ve been thinking a lot lately, trying to make sense out of the craziness rampant in too many American city police departments. The newest idiocy is the story of a St. Paul, Minnesota man who was, basically, tased for sitting while black. Oh — in a public space. And because he didn’t give police his…
FaceBook memes and gratitude
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Britton Gildersleeve
Right now on FB, my youngest sister has tagged the three of us other sisters to do the ‘gratitude challenge.’ In which for five days, you have to come up w/ three things a day for which you’re grateful. Just three, I said? Because I started a gratitude journal years ago, so I’ve been practicing.…
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