Spirit Path Meditation and Spiritual Enrichment Center

09/25/2025

“There is only this world pressing against you at this moment.

There is only one moment in which you are alive,
this moment here and now.

The awakened way to live is by accepting each moment
as an unrepeatable miracle.”

- Storm Jameson

09/22/2025

“Certainty undermines one’s power,
and turns happiness
into a long shot.
Certainty confines.

Dears, there is nothing in your life
that will not change.

Look what the insanity of righteous knowledge can do:
crusade and maim thousands
in wanting to convert that which
is already gold
into gold.

Certainty can become an illness
that creates hate and
greed.

Know that you are ever changing—
you are ever beyond
yourself,

and what you may have once put your seal upon,
may no longer be
the
truth.”

- Tukaram

09/16/2025

“Maybe the journey
isn’t so much about
becoming anything.
Maybe it’s about
unbecoming
everything that isn’t
really you,
so you can be who
you were meant to
be in the first place.”

- summersaldana.com

09/14/2025

“We are often in battle.
So often defending every side of ourselves
it may seem, all alone.

Sit down, my dear,
surely one who has lasted as long as you
knows you cannot slay your panic.

Go within
with as much courage as you can,
let whatever is
come charging into your awareness.

You will awaken to your true nature
which has been waiting for you.

What is that luminous rain I see
all around you?

It looks like, O it looks like
Holy fallout

filling your mouth and palms
with Joy!”

- Hafiz

09/10/2025

“Always we hope
someone else has the answer . . .
at the center of your being
you have the answer,

you know who you are
and you know what you want.

There is no need
to run outside
for better seeing.

Nor to peer from a window.

Rather abide at the center of your being;
for the more you leave it, the less you learn.

Awaken to your heart
and see
the way to do
is to be.”

- Lao Tzu

09/07/2025

09/02/2025

“One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.”

- Parker J. Palmer

08/30/2025

“How many years of beauty do I have left?
she asks me.
How many more do you want?�Here. Here is 34. Here is 50.

When you are 80 years old
and your beauty rises in ways
your cells cannot even imagine now
and your wild bones grow luminous and
ripe, having carried the weight
of a passionate life.

When your hair is aflame
with winter
and you have decades of
learning and leaving and loving
sewn into
the corners of your eyes
and your children come home
to find their own history
in your face.

When you know what it feels like to fail
ferociously
and have gained the
capacity
to rise and rise and rise again.

When you can make your tea
on a quiet and ridiculously lonely afternoon
and still have a song in your heart
Queen owl wings beating
beneath the cotton of your sweater.

Because your beauty began there
beneath the sweater and the skin,
remember?

This is when I will take you
into my arms and coo
YOU BRAVE AND GLORIOUS THING
you’ve come so far.

I see you.
Your beauty is breathtaking."

~ Jeannette Encinias

08/26/2025

“I can be hard to take when I’m wrong, but I’m often insufferable when I’m right.

I have told others off and watch them fold because I was right and they were wrong. It doesn’t help much to be right when it is used in that way.

I’ve learned that much about life, thanks to the pain and embarrassment I have caused.”

— Lin Jensen

08/23/2025

“So, I invite you now to close your eyes as
a symbol of letting go of your own concerns.

Surely, the universe can take care of you
and itself at least for these few minutes
without you thinking about it.”

- Thomas Keating

08/21/2025

"May I live this day
compassionate of heart,
clear in word,
gracious in awareness,
courageous in thought,
generous in love."

- John O'Donohue