Tes.

Female

Escondido, CA

United States

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  • Tes.

    Gracious Love in All Forms... What Can We Co-Create Together?!!!!!!!!!!
  • Ron Tocknell

    Welcome to the Architects, Tess. What can we Co-Create together? I guess that's what we're hoping to discover, isn't it? I wonder if it's possible for everyone on the planet to know each other personally?
  • Tes.

    Dramatic life changes have me travelling, ungrounded, disconnected and mostly, unplugged (off email and phone). Seeking a truly peaceful inner reality. Intending to get more involved with you all when I arrive at a stable location. For now, sending, and appreciating, mutual prayers.
    Namastae.
    Tes.
  • The Ancient One

    Please Call Me By My True Names
    By Thich Nhat Hanh


    Don't say that I will depart tomorrow--even today I am still arriving.

    Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

    I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.

    I am a mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river. And I am the bird that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.

    I am a frog swimming happily in the clear water of a pond. And I am the grass-snake that silently feeds itself on the frog.

    I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, my legs as thin as bamboo sticks. And I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda.

    I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat, who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate. And I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.

    I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hinds. And I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to my people dying slowly in a forced-labor camp.

    My joy is like Spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth. My pain is like a river of tears, so vast it fills the four oceans.

    Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once, so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

    Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up and the door of my heart could be left open, the door of compassion.

    This poem is from "Call Me By My True Names" The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh.
  • The Dreaming People

  • Jesus

    just stopping by to say hi and share a friend I found in the VI.

  • Patrick Seely

    Happy Holidays!

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