Category Archives: Inspirations & Strategies from Nature

One Coffee Shop Lady Told Another…

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Larry Glover

Your deep true Self
Arises out of, and is itself
Nothing less than wonder
mystery and awe, the stillness
and the silence
From which you run Continue reading →

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Nature’s Path to Your Soul?

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Larry Glover

…there’s a world of renewal just outside your door, and a host of plants and animals available to help you find your way back to your peace, your joy, your roots. Continue reading →

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Saying “Yes!” to Life — ReWilding the Self #8

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Larry Glover

In this terrible crisis of the Deepwater oil gusher is the telling of a story of war against our very selves that is collapsing in upon itself. This story mirrors to us the many ways our lives, life styles and very identities are currently configured for self-destruction.

Mirrored to us as well is yet an older story: Life’s invitation to itself once again to experience a transformation of identity. This is the path of the upward spiral of resilience. And it is ours personally to claim as birthright—as we each hear the awakening within.

So say, “Yes!” to Life. Within this affirmation is the awakening power of our transformation. Continue reading →

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ReWilding the Self -4

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Larry Glover

Yes, this rewilding of the self requires the unflinching courage to open our eyes and hearts to what is. This is the time we live in. And it is the time of our awakening; the time for offering our gifts to the world, Continue reading →

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ReWilding the Self -3

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Larry Glover

Rewilding one’s self is coming to know one’s own body as the Earth’s body, and to again identify Earth as one’s own body as well. It is to again become indigenuous the cosmos, the Earth, and to the place of your local living. Continue reading →

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Growing Roots Into Earth

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Larry Glover

…grounded in the reality of Life’s reciprocity and its consequent preference for strategies of mutualism. Mutualism is an evolutionary symbiotic strategy of wellness, hardiness and wholeness that can incorporate both competitive and cooperative hinging between species and individuals, resulting in ‘mutual benefit.’ Continue reading →

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The Once and Future Human

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Larry Glover

And that letting go of all one knows
honoring the willingness and courage
to not know — to at last not name and define
to cease reading the maps drawn by those
who live under the spell of answers and knowing
and trust at last… Continue reading →

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Honoring the Dark Unknown

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Larry Glover

The Heart and Science of Resiliency in Turbulent Times… workshop was enthusiastically received… Continue reading →

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But for Lao-tzu…

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Larry Glover

Thus it is I live more wholly in the un-knowing of an open mind and an open heart, for surely their gentleness and their wild resilience is like that of water, saying “Yes!” to all it encounters. Imagine a world where corporate and national sustainability policies were informed by the wild intelligence and un-knowing of water! Continue reading →

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The Wild Resilience of Jane Goodall

Posted on November 28, 2009 by Larry Glover

When the night wind makes the pine trees creak
And the pale clouds glide across the dark sky,
Go out, my child, go out and seek
Your soul: the eternal I. Continue reading →

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