Instructions before visiting earth

Someone on Instagram shared this poem by James McCrae, and I was instantly hooked.

I’m always amazed at how creativity — whether through poetry, art, music, writing, speaking, dancing, performing… anything that rises from deep within and finds its way into the world — has the power to touch another soul so profoundly.
There is something sacred about that exchange.
We need this. Always and forever.
Thank you, James, for this one.

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The mountain and the journey

During a recent Meditation Circle, I read an excerpt from Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère that beautifully captures what meditation really is — not escaping our experience, but being with it. He ends with a Zen poem about a mountain that keeps changing shape — a reminder that the path of meditation, like life itself, is less about reaching the top and more about learning to truly see.

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