tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42993784695198174212024-02-02T05:40:44.837-07:00daily meditationsjulie atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076356753626180466noreply@blogger.comBlogger1277125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4299378469519817421.post-70718620212172199482014-05-16T23:57:00.001-06:002014-05-16T23:57:44.630-06:00amazing -<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tLiLOiMNSuE" width="420"></iframe>julie atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076356753626180466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4299378469519817421.post-17041964086793058772014-05-01T22:41:00.001-06:002014-05-01T22:41:53.198-06:00sophie in cochrane ~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />julie atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076356753626180466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4299378469519817421.post-59062442408102923972014-04-30T08:06:00.001-06:002014-04-30T08:09:37.265-06:00protection for our friends the humpbacks! ~<img class="CSS_LIGHTBOX_SCALED_IMAGE_IMG" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjugt5tq8sV6GrsjasoRwVAdDjcar10wMEh0-N7TQq1dpF1E_9TiG7vNTUJ4ocXHKQoFUyFUX54i2Y7PfsaG59CzpEQzKYikHiZYXMMfB36bdTzWBT9ryNvsTsccKIIRiuO_um95HuGrLxv/s1600/whales.jpg" style="height: 567px; width: 756px;" /> <br />
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"Guess how the Harper government celebrated Earth Day? It decided to<b>
slash protections to endangered humpback whales, and make it easier for
Enbridge to push through its risky Northern Gateway oil pipeline." You can sign the petition <a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/humpbacks-not-threatened-for-enbridge/?sub=mtl">here.</a></b>julie atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076356753626180466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4299378469519817421.post-17697056682091618492014-04-28T08:28:00.001-06:002014-04-28T08:28:39.786-06:00the unveiling ~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />julie atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076356753626180466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4299378469519817421.post-20617422014140275702014-04-05T18:04:00.000-06:002014-04-05T18:04:29.355-06:00tulip ~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />julie atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076356753626180466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4299378469519817421.post-15976445359914870422014-04-02T10:03:00.002-06:002014-04-02T10:07:13.909-06:00for these times: the sublime beauty and intensity -<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ESpi9J-pt_w" width="420"></iframe>julie atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076356753626180466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4299378469519817421.post-54246958239148086952014-03-29T10:34:00.002-06:002014-03-29T10:34:42.567-06:00frequent communion ~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Should ever your individuality perceive a problem, relaxation into universality provides the answer. Frequent communication with the great eternal Being at the center of all life keeps you clear, pure, connected. After such times of communion, you go back to your individuality, either knowing that it is time to release this one of your many forms, or you return to your individuality healthy, alive, vibrant, full of life for the season in which you thrive. You choose if your forms of expression shall live or die. And those forms you choose to animate, you empower with the fullness of your life.</div>
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julie atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076356753626180466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4299378469519817421.post-65336673259714962922014-03-28T14:33:00.002-06:002014-03-28T14:33:47.085-06:00old cottonwood ~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />julie atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076356753626180466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4299378469519817421.post-11835260795966154792014-03-28T13:53:00.000-06:002014-03-28T13:53:02.106-06:00convergence of erie creek and the salmo river ~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />julie atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076356753626180466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4299378469519817421.post-27694576161410965812014-03-14T08:04:00.002-06:002014-03-15T15:19:49.436-06:00anthony benn ~April 3, 1925 - March 14, 2014.<br />
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<br />julie atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076356753626180466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4299378469519817421.post-63536826285618223952014-02-18T10:32:00.001-07:002014-02-18T10:32:28.169-07:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/61229312" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe>julie atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076356753626180466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4299378469519817421.post-27371281600011020702014-02-12T17:51:00.002-07:002014-02-12T17:51:18.546-07:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/76732709?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/76732709">Giving Our Best: A Retreat with Pema Chödrön on Practicing the Way of the Bodhisattva - Trailer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/shambhala">Shambhala Publications</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.julie atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04076356753626180466noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4299378469519817421.post-14908701437503522572014-02-08T11:21:00.000-07:002014-02-12T22:10:48.100-07:00small comfort ~<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Taking refuge in the Buddha means that we are willing to spend our life
reconnecting with the quality of being continually awake. Every time we
feel like taking refuge in a habitual means of escape, we take off more
armor, undoing all the stuff that covers over our wisdom and our
gentleness and our awake quality. We’re not trying to be something we
aren’t; rather, we’re reconnecting with who we are. So when we say, “I
take refuge in the Buddha,” that means I take refuge in the courage and
the potential of fearlessness, of removing all the armor that covers
this awakeness of mine. I am awake; I will spend my life
taking this armor off. Nobody else can take it off because nobody else
knows where all the little locks are, nobody else knows where it’s sewed
up tight, where it’s going to take a lot of work to get that particular
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<i>Pema Chodron ~ Comfortable with Uncertainty </i></div>
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