All Hearts Are One

If you place two living heart cells from different people in a

Petrie dish, they will in time find and maintain a third and

common beat - Molly Vass

Wishing that everyday was Valentine's Day; the day of expressing

our Love for another I wanted to share (paraphrase) some thoughts on our connection to every sentient being from one of my most favorite writers- Mark Nepo from The Book of Awakening.

This biological fact holds the secret of all relationship. It is cellular proof that beneath any resistance we might pose and beyond all attempts that

fall short , there is in the very nature of life itself some essential joining force. This inborn ability to find and enliven a common beat is the miracle of love. This force is what makes compassion possible, even probable. If two cells can find the common pulse beneath everything, how much more can full hearts feel when we stop fighting how our hearts want to join. It is then that we find both the strength and peace that come from our hearts beating in unison with all that is alive.

The Energy of Winter
Making friends with Silence and the Art of
Listening
　
Life slows down during the winter. We tend to stay close to home.
The Earth invites us to rest in silence and solitude. She encourages us to draw
from the well of collective wisdom during this season or retreat.
The three months of winter are called the period of closing and storing.
Water freezes and the Earth cracks open. We are wise to retire early and
rise later in the morning, waiting for the rising of the sun.The
Chinese medical model sees Winter as a time to go deeply into one ‘s
self, meditating, finding the silence within.It is being in harmony
with the season of gestation and regeneration.
Water is the element of winter and its vast reservoir of creativity, love
and compassion holds all possibilities. In this reservoir the truth resides.
The creative source provides all life, nourishment, rest and restoration.
Listening deeply in this place, the silence soothes and restores us, allowing
the truth of our oneness with all sentient beings to open our hearts. It
is listening that dissolves the obstacles that keep us separate from one
another and the whole of all life.
It is by listening that we become like a womb, fully receptive to the unknown
willing to wait, to allow the gestation and manifestation of the creative truth.
I give you my listening and you speak your life... and together we bring
forth the world in peace.