One River Foundation

Category: The Conversation

An invitation to engage with humanity’s Perennial Wisdom.

The Conversation is a “trialogue” between you and the posted teaching, between you and yourself as you seek to respond to the prompts accompanying each teaching, and between you and others who are moved to share their responses here. The Conversation is a way of internalizing Perennial Wisdom and allowing it to speak directly to you, and it is a way of connecting with others who are doing the same.

We hope you will find The Conversation stimulating, enlightening, thought-provoking, revealing, and maybe just a little challenging.

The Conversation is on-going. Please join us each month for a new Conversation, with a new teaching, and our global community of spiritually independent seekers, creatives, boundary crossers, and holy rascals.

  • Conversation: 12

    The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all.
    From Her have come out both good and evil.
    (Teachings of Ma Sarada)

    God is the Source of all opposites. How might you learn to see God in evil, tragedy, sorrow? How might such seeing change your life?

    An invitation to engage with humanity’s Perennial Wisdom.

    The Conversation is a “trialogue” between you and the posted teaching, between you and yourself as you seek to respond to the prompts accompanying each teaching, and between you and others who are moved to share their responses here. The Conversation is a way of internalizing Perennial Wisdom and allowing it to speak directly to you, and it is a way of connecting with others who are doing the same.

    A new Conversation will begin each month, but you are always welcome to join or re-join a previous month’s Conversation.

    Here are the rules for The Conversation:

    1. Be brief: say what you need to say, but not one word more.
    2. Be honest: say what must be said even if doing so is challenging.
    3. Be kind: say what you feel called to say with compassion for both yourself and, if you are commenting on the words of others, for those others who were bold enough to share their thoughts with you.

    We hope you will find The Conversation stimulating, enlightening, thought-provoking, revealing, and maybe just a little challenging.

  • Conversation: 11

    To see the world in a grain of sand,
    And a heaven in a wild flower;
    Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
    And eternity in an hour.
    (William Blake, Auguries of Innocence)

    The infinite infuses the finite. You are so much more that you imagine yourself to be. How do you understand this “more,” and what prevents you from being it?

    An invitation to engage with humanity’s Perennial Wisdom.

    The Conversation is a “trialogue” between you and the posted teaching, between you and yourself as you seek to respond to the prompts accompanying each teaching, and between you and others who are moved to share their responses here. The Conversation is a way of internalizing Perennial Wisdom and allowing it to speak directly to you, and it is a way of connecting with others who are doing the same.

    A new Conversation will begin each month, but you are always welcome to join or re-join a previous month’s Conversation.

    Here are the rules for The Conversation:

    1. Be brief: say what you need to say, but not one word more.
    2. Be honest: say what must be said even if doing so is challenging.
    3. Be kind: say what you feel called to say with compassion for both yourself and, if you are commenting on the words of others, for those others who were bold enough to share their thoughts with you.

    We hope you will find The Conversation stimulating, enlightening, thought-provoking, revealing, and maybe just a little challenging.

  • Conversation: 10

    Each being contains in itself the whole intelligible world.
    Therefore All is everywhere.
    Each is All, and All is each.
    Only when you cease to be an individual
    will you penetrate the whole world.
    (Plotinus)

    What might it mean for you to cease to be an individual? If this is the cost of awakening, is it one you are willing to pay?

    An invitation to engage with humanity’s Perennial Wisdom.

    The Conversation is a “trialogue” between you and the posted teaching, between you and yourself as you seek to respond to the prompts accompanying each teaching, and between you and others who are moved to share their responses here. The Conversation is a way of internalizing Perennial Wisdom and allowing it to speak directly to you, and it is a way of connecting with others who are doing the same.

    A new Conversation will begin each month, but you are always welcome to join or re-join a previous month’s Conversation.

    Here are the rules for The Conversation:

    1. Be brief: say what you need to say, but not one word more.
    2. Be honest: say what must be said even if doing so is challenging.
    3. Be kind: say what you feel called to say with compassion for both yourself and, if you are commenting on the words of others, for those others who were bold enough to share their thoughts with you.

    We hope you will find The Conversation stimulating, enlightening, thought-provoking, revealing, and maybe just a little challenging.

  • Conversation: 9

    The more God is in all things
    the more God is outside them.
    The more God is within,
    the more God is without.
    (Meister Eckhart)

    If God is everywhere, if God manifests in, with, and as all things, then in what way does your search for God (or the Absolute, or Reality, etc.) actually make finding God all the more difficult?

    An invitation to engage with humanity’s Perennial Wisdom.

    The Conversation is a “trialogue” between you and the posted teaching, between you and yourself as you seek to respond to the prompts accompanying each teaching, and between you and others who are moved to share their responses here. The Conversation is a way of internalizing Perennial Wisdom and allowing it to speak directly to you, and it is a way of connecting with others who are doing the same.

    A new Conversation will begin each month, but you are always welcome to join or re-join a previous month’s Conversation.

    Here are the rules for The Conversation:

    1. Be brief: say what you need to say, but not one word more.
    2. Be honest: say what must be said even if doing so is challenging.
    3. Be kind: say what you feel called to say with compassion for both yourself and, if you are commenting on the words of others, for those others who were bold enough to share their thoughts with you.

    We hope you will find The Conversation stimulating, enlightening, thought-provoking, revealing, and maybe just a little challenging.