Ontos: A Center for Being

07/15/2024

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

06/30/2024

Still Water

We can make our minds
so like still water
that beings gather about us,
that they may see,
it may be,
their own images,
and so live for a moment
with a clearer,
perhaps even with a fiercer life
because of our quiet.

~William Butler Yeats

06/06/2024

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

05/19/2024

Guardian Angel
By Rolf Jacobsen

I am the bird that knocks at your window in the morning
and your companion, whom you cannot know,
the blossoms that light up for the blind.

I am the glacier’s crest above the forests, the dazzling one
and the brass voices from cathedral towers.
The thought that suddenly comes over you at midday
and fills you with a singular happiness.

I am one you have loved long ago.
I walk alongside you by day and look intently at you
and put my mouth on your heart
but you don’t know it.

I am your third arm and your second
shadow, the white one,
whom you don’t have the heart for
and who cannot ever forget you.

05/15/2024

Shared the YouTube video earlier, but here it is to listen on your favorite streaming platform - newest episode of Musitations.

00:00 Intro06:23 Travis' Journey12:20 Travis attacked by Dogs in a Monastery in Thailand!17:00 Travis and Drew's humbly start their YouTube channel in a 350sq ft studio apartment!21:00 Travis shares about surprises and insights about his Sound Healing Journey25:00 Michael's Yoga Nidra, Samskaras...

05/14/2024

Brand new episode on Sound Healing on my Podcast Musitations. Check it out here. :)

00:00 Intro06:23 Travis' Journey12:20 Travis attacked by Dogs in a Monastery in Thailand!17:00 Travis and Drew's humbly start their YouTube channel in a 350s...

05/10/2024

Imagination is neither the language of nature nor the language of man, but both at once, the medium of communion between the two — as if the birds, unable to understand the speech of man, and man, unable to understand the songs of birds, yet longing to communicate, were to agree on a tongue made up of sounds they both could comprehend — the voice of running water perhaps or the wind in the trees. Imagination is the elemental speech in all senses, the first and the last, of primitive man and of the poets. ~Harold Goddard

03/12/2024

"In comfort the soul sleeps, in trouble the soul awakens." ~Michael Meade Mosaic Voices

02/29/2024

I glanced at her and took my glasses
off - they were still singing. They buzzed
like a locust on the coffee table and then
ceased. Her voice belled forth, and the
sunlight bent. I felt the ceiling arch, and
knew that nails up there took a new grip
on whatever they touched. "I am your own
way of looking at things," she said. "When
you allow me to live with you, every
glance at the world around you will be
a sort of salvation." And I took her hand.

~William Stafford
When I Met My Muse

02/21/2024

Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. -Anais Nin, author (21 Feb 1903-1977)

02/09/2024

"When you engage grief and suffering, it breaks the heart open to joy and delight. At every grief ritual I've led, people's hearts let go of their cumulative sorrow, an opening takes place, and a
delight comes into the room. If we refuse to go into that lower register of grief and loss, we live in a flat-line culture of small, emotionally controlled lives." ~Frances Weller

01/31/2024

“If I had an hour to solve a problem, and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask. For if I knew the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes.”
~ Albert Einstein

The quest-ion always takes us on a quest...

01/07/2024

The Reed Flute’s Song (A Rumi Poem)

Listen to the story told by the reed,
of being separated.

“Since I was cut from the reedbed,
I have made this crying sound.

Anyone apart from someone he loves
understand what I say.

Anyone pulled from a source
longs to go back.

At any gathering I am there,
mingling in the laughing and grieving,

a friend to each, but few
will hear the secrets hidden

within the notes. No ears for that.
Body flowing out of spirit,

spirit up from body: no concealing
that mixing. But it’s not given us

to see the soul. The reed flute
is fire, not wind. Be that empty.”

01/05/2024

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
– Indian Proverb

12/31/2023

Man lives at the boundary between two worlds.
He steps forth from the darkness of metaphysical being, shoots like a blazing meteor through the phenomenal world, and then leaves it again to pursue his course into infinity.
~Carl Jung, Zofingia Lectures, Para 142