by Mari Perron | May 30, 2018 | A Course of Love
When I left for my trip to Philadelphia, the trees in Minnesota weren’t budded yet. They were only fringed with new growth, delicate and feather-like, too fragile to even hold color. When I returned, the change of spring had arrived. It feels like a metaphor for the...
by Mari Perron | Mar 14, 2018 | A Course of Love
[Y]our heart is the well of spirit from which true answers are drawn. Your heart is a full well, a wellspring from which you can continually draw with no danger of ever drawing an empty bucket. You need never thirst again when you have accepted this. D:11.10 I was...
by Mari Perron | Dec 17, 2017 | A Course of Love
Here in Minnesota, I often look out in the late afternoon and see that the sun, held in a gloomy pre-evening sky, looks exactly like the moon. It’s a time when one could easily awaken and wonder if it is day or it is night. This is the time of the solstice. Many...
by Mari Perron | Nov 19, 2017 | A Course of Love
Past the ego’s guarded gate: empowering revelations After my mom’s death in August, I was taken by surprise to realize there were things I was holding against her and myself. Things I had not forgiven. Things that came to me the day after the funeral...
by Mari Perron | Sep 10, 2017 | A Course of Love
The mind cannot hold open the doors of the heart and yet we turn within, turn to the mind, and show it where its openness lies, where sweetness abides, where love’s knowing is found. All the mind can do is rearrange reality and hold it still and captive and rule...
