Kairos Center for Change

07/02/2025

This post (below) from Byron Katie struck a deep chord—echoing the wisdom of all mystical traditions that point to unconditional Love as the true finish line.

Not a love that can be imitated, strategized, or problem-solved. Which leaves only one path: to meet the full weight of consciousness in the present moment.

This, ultimately, is what daily, intentional spiritual practice prepares us for—to bear that weight.

Regardless of identification or affiliation—agnostic, atheist, religious—
Reality meets us on the scrimmage line of life.

All attempts to bypass that burden are temporary at best. Because “wherever you go, there you are.”

This Love demands presence through discomfort, without escape.
Reconciliation and integration happen in the stillness of the scrimmage line—nowhere else.
This Love calls us to courageous action: to do the “right” thing, simply because it is right—regardless of outcome or recognition.

The path isn’t clever. It’s honest.
And it’s everything.

06/30/2025

There comes a moment—often quiet, sometimes shattering—when inner work as we’ve known it reaches its limit. The patterns are familiar. The insights clear. The self-awareness hard-won.And yet… something deeper begins to stir beneath it all—something the mind alone can’t touch. Carl Jung called it the religious instinct—that innate pull toward the sacred, toward meaning, toward something greater than the ego....

There comes a moment—often quiet, sometimes shattering—when inner work as we’ve known it reaches its limit. The patterns are familiar. The insights clear. The self-awareness hard-won.And yet… something deeper begins to stir beneath it all—something the mind alone can’t touch. Carl Jung c...

02/12/2025

by Joyce Rupp Once upon a timea child of happiness danced upon the land,knew friendship with the earthand celebrated lifewith her love of solitude and simple things. She grew into a young woman,whose vision of self was clouded,clothed with the complexities of insecurityand the necessity of leaving the hallowed wombof the quiet earth....

https://kairoscenter4change.com/2025/02/12/my-journey-to-wisdom/

01/29/2025

A small excerpt from from The Red Book, Carl Jung's personal examen of his own unconscious through visions, dreams and active imagination. "Outside it is a wide cold starry night. It is no small matter to acknowledge one’s yearning. For this many need to make a particular effort at honesty. All too many do not want to know where their yearning is, because it would seem to them impossible or too distressing....

A small excerpt from from The Red Book, Carl Jung’s personal examen of his own unconscious through visions, dreams and active imagination. “Outside it is a wide cold starry night. It is no small matter to acknowledge one’s yearning. For this many need to make a particular effort at honesty. Al...

07/17/2024

by Sue Spivak Singing Frog Press © 2024. https://singingfrogpress.com/2024/07/16/a-charm-of-humming-birds/          kan, which means “to sing” is          the PIE root of the word charm This morning I wake from the dreamin which I finally understandhow the silence of th...

07/06/2024

BY WALT WHITMAN When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,  When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,  When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,  How ...

07/05/2024

10 My beloved spoke and said to me, “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me.11 See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.12 Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come,the cooing of doves is heard in our land.13 The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossomi...

07/05/2024

As a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness. Jeremiah 2:2

As a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness. Jeremiah 2:2

04/18/2024

"A thing is wisest when it is most fully itself, when it tastes most like itself, in keeping with its nature. It is "foolish" when it forgets to be what it is, when it no longer has its proper flavor, as when salt loses its strength, or when oil becomes rancid, or when wine turns to vinegar. Salt is one of those primary realities that can contribute to enhancing the quality of other things but that is itself hopeless once it goes bad: as in the case of water and fire, what…...

“A thing is wisest when it is most fully itself, when it tastes most like itself, in keeping with its nature. It is “foolish” when it forgets to be what it is, when it no longer has its proper flavor, as when salt loses its strength, or when oil becomes rancid, or when wine turns … Continue ...

04/10/2024

”In essence the natural order is nothing but a constant miracle that performs. Do not naturalize a miracle. Find the miracle in nature.“ Gate of Trust, Rabbeinu Bacvhya ibn Pekuda

”In essence the natural order is nothing but a constant miracle that performs. Do not naturalize a miracle. Find the miracle in nature.“ Gate of Trust, Rabbeinu Bacvhya ibn Pekuda

04/10/2024

Mad Farmer by Wendell Berry: Love the quick profit, the annual raise,vacation with pay. Want moreof everything ready-made. Be afraidto know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head.Not even your future will be a mysteryany more. Your mind will be punched in a cardand shut away in a little drawer....

Mad Farmer by Wendell Berry: Love the quick profit, the annual raise,vacation with pay. Want moreof everything ready-made. Be afraidto know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head.Not even your future will be a mysteryany more. Your mind will be punched in a cardand shut ...

04/10/2024

Above all trust in the slow work of GodWe are quite naturally impatient in everythingTo reach the end without delay.We should like to skip the intermediate stagesWe are impatient of beingOn the ways to somethingUnknown and something newAnd yet, it is the law of all progress progressThat it is made b...