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The Story of The Art of Hosting
Toke, Monica and Jan share stories of how they discovered the patterns that have become the Art of Hosting.
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FollowThe Gift ~ Hafiz
Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
“You owe Me.”
Look what happens
with a love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.
~ Hafiz*
* There is some dispute whether this poem is truly from Hafiz. Regardless who wrote it, … Continue reading
Out Beyond ~ Rumi
Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
~ Rumi
The Real Voyage of Discovery ~ Marcel Proust
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
Gratitude ~ Marianne Williamson
” I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn’t connect with them. It was as thought I was eating but couldn’t … Continue reading
The Knight ~ Rilke
The knight rides forth in coal-black steel
into the teeming world.
Outside his armor everything is there: sunlight and valley,
friend and foe and feast,
May, maiden, forest and grail,
and God himself in a thousand forms to be found along every road.
But inside the … Continue reading
The Breeze at Dawn ~ Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and … Continue reading
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Ten Questions that Have No Right to Go Away ~ David Whyte
These questions are from a beautiful essay by David Whyte. Read on to hear his reflections on the Ten Questions That have No Right to Go Away.
1) Do I know how to have real conversation?
2) What can I be wholehearted … Continue reading
Crisis Management ~ Einstein
“In a crisis if I had only an hour
I’d spend the first 50 minutes
defining the problem and the
last 10 minutes solving it.”
~Albert Einstein
Pain & Pleasure ~ Pema Chodran
“Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.”
~Pema Chodran
from When Things Fall Apart (page 61)