Recipe for Enlivenment:
To every day add
- A little listening
- A pinch of play
- Stir kindly with words
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The Fullness of Emptiness: There’s magic in listening to the gong fade…
The gong rang. I listened carefully until there was no sound at all, and in its absence I felt the Fullness of Emptiness. © Marijke McCandless 2020 Thank you for stopping by to sit with me for a minute! (originally published on Medium in Illumination publication,...
On Becoming a Thought Whisper: How to allow thoughts to self-liberate
Who am I? This question, above all others, synopsizes the spiritual path. This is the question spiritual teachers encourage their students to ask. From the aspirant’s point of view, it feels like a big important question—the key to unlocking the door to enlightenment....
Bubbling up from within: a meditation for writing practice
Sometimes, we just don’t know what to write, but we’ve made a commitment to write everyday. What then? There are any number of writing prompt books, like Judy Reeves’ A Writer’s Book of Days. These are helpful to get us going, but if you can’t get your hands on one of...
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Belated Valentine’s Day Card: This is what love and compassion look like in action
Click here to read in Lighthouse, Medium publication I biked to the mailbox, located a mile away from my new house, to collect the mail. It had been a tough week. My husband broke his foot one week earlier. I was still catching up. I opened the crammed-pack full...
Rekindling the Magic of Love Letters: A love letter may be the (handwritten) long embrace someone desperately needs
I want to talk about the the magic of writing a love letter — not only the kind we might write to our beloved partner, but also the kind we might write to our mother, our friend, our dying neighbor, or our own self. These days we are trained to write either...
Writing My Way Home
Have you ever examined why you write? I have, and it turned out to be different than I thought. I thought I wrote because I was bursting with something to tell, something to share. I discovered that I write because writing exposes important themes of my life and...
