Author name: Augusta

Life is a schoolroom for our human lessons… ~ The Cottage Woman Many of the questions I asked the cottage woman (personally known as Metude) were for the people I was working with who were seeking spiritual and personal development. As I began to visit her, I recognized the wisdom she offered others could apply […]

We are not our body…. We are that which possesses a body and that which stands outside the body…. (We) exist quite apart and independent of it. ~ N. Walsch Thank goodness, we are not our bodies. The essence of who we are is larger than this earth plane, larger than my chest, stomach, or

Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes but simply is… ~ Ram Dass For several years this thought that happiness must come in layers has pushed to be written. After many happiness parties and life situations, I still felt something was missing. However, what is tricky — is to know when I

Greetings to each, a new start… After five years of writings, some of which are now published in the book Moments That Blink Back, it is time again to start anew. Yet first, I want to thank you, the readers, for your encouraging and appreciative responses to the book. Since my last writing was posted

Go outdoors and see beyond what you see, feel beyond what you feel, and love beyond what you love. ~ An ancient friend A reader was telling me this morning she had what one could call an enlightenment. In that, it dawned on her in a totally new way that she is here for a

Five minutes there. Five minutes back. I should be able to make it. Excitement makes me smile. This is my first walk outdoors for almost half a year. I step out the door backward, holding the house rail, to accommodate my healing legs. Ah, solid pavement. Testing my weight on legs and cane — they

If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another. ~ Joan Halifax Tibetans have a great reverence for life in all its forms. In the fifties, as a young boy, the Dalai

Stillness is your essential nature…. You are that awareness disguised as a person. ~ Eckhart Tolle I have been fidgeting, standing on one foot, then the other. Minutes tick by, nothing. Stillness is my destination: that land of Being, that land of no thought, no story, no judgment and no second-guessing myself. Yet, I have not

A reader who is losing a very special person asked me the other day how he can prepare himself. Those that part from us due to sickness, geography or even death leave a soul absence. Of course, there really is no answer to the reader’s question, no balm of gilead, no substitute, no pseudo relationship

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.                                                                             ~ e.e.