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Nature’s Gift
By Sharon Ray Norman Paulsen, the founder of Sunburst, loved spending time out in Nature. "Mother's Nature" he called it. He said: "Look at that sun shining out there. Look at that blue sky and the waters upon the earth. What a miracle! Look at the mountains and...
The Balance of Equanimity
By Sharon Ray The symbol for the virtue of equanimity is a woman holding the balance scales, blindfolded, that she may judge without prejudice. (She is not allowed to peek!). One quality that is an opposite of equanimity is that of being judgmental. How wonderful it...
The Divine Gardener
By Sharon Ray In hard times, may the Sufi story of "The Good Gardner and the Pea" help to bring us into peace and equanimity. There once was a Good Gardner who planted the seed of a pea bush. He first chose a spot in his garden where the light would be just right for...
Endeavoring to Practice Equanimity
By Sharon Ray In this month of Libra, I am endeavoring to practice equanimity. Another term for it is "being centered." It's not so easy to stay centered through all my life's challenges, especially if I resist them, and try to push them away as if God has just served...
Self-Control is the Key to a Happy Life
by Sharon Ray Walking the Sunburst Path, each month of the zodiac brings the opportunity to celebrate, study, and focus on a virtue. The virtue of Virgo is Continence. Some of us have had the privilege to take care of our elderly friends and family and so have had the...
Fun Among the Rungs
By Sharon Ray Being outdoors is ENLIVENING! This is how I feel after my playdate with Sandy today, a day that began with watching her crack a square top into a round coconut with a cleaver. We drank the nectar of gods out of the shell, just the way Nature seems to...
Faith and Setting the Butterfly Free
By Sharon Ray On my friend Valerie’s birthday, we honored her at breakfast. Val said that one of her goals this year is to have “FUN!” and she inspired us all to “enlighten up!” lol! When I hear the word “fun,” I think “recreation” which is a rung on the ladder of...
Love Blooms In the Drought
By Sharon Ray “You, O Lord, are served when chaos blends into a great ocean and becomes food for the life that swims there…” These are the words from the Daily Prayer of the Bodhisattva that keep coming to mind as love blooms in this drought. I have noticed that where...
Endure Unto the End, My Child!
By Sharon Ray On the 21st of December we celebrated the winter solstice; the day of least sunlight had arrived. From that point forward day length has been increasing by about one minute each day, and will continue to increase until the summer solstice, the longest...
The Namaste of Humility
By Sharon Ray In Sunburst’s teachings, each month one of 12 virtues is a focus of study. It’s not that the other 11 fall away from our consciousness, they are sort of in the chorus while one steps forward to sing a solo. This month the vibration that the planet is...
