You're my friend
I call everyone “friend.” It's a spiritual practice for me. I learned to use “friend” rather than “sir/ma’am” (I live in the South, where...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Apr 10, 20202 min read
Brave New World
As we navigate this "brave new world"... I had the opportunity today to attend a webinar of chaplains from around the country, several of...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Feb 11, 20201 min read
Two Arrows
I have learned many things from my Buddhist friends and reading and listening to Buddhist teachers, but perhaps my favorite so far is the...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Apr 27, 20192 min read
Even the Green Leaves Fall
We tend to think of autumn as the season of change, maybe because it’s a showy season, the vibrant color, the dramatic sacrifice of...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Mar 30, 20192 min read
What is walking meditation?
Of all the types and styles of meditation, all the various approaches I have encountered over the past several years of study and...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Nov 21, 20181 min read
Mercy to the Humans: a poem for Thanksgiving and Advent
Mercy to the Humans We ask for mercy. Mercy comes. For our shaky health, for our unpredictable bills For our deadlines, for our broken...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Aug 25, 20183 min read
In the Beginning
Everything has a beginning, a middle and an end. It is a simple but profound truth, and our hearts find more serenity when we keep this...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Aug 5, 20183 min read
Bring Me a Shrubbery
i. In our yard, outside the window bench where I sit to meditate each morning, the house is hemmed in with azalea bushes that bloom...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Jan 31, 20182 min read
What is Mindfulness Meditation? and Why am I Doing It...?
As a yoga student and then teacher, I became familiar with the practice as a moving meditation, along with breathing exercises, and often...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Jan 19, 20182 min read
There's Always More
There is always something blooming here in central Florida, it seems. I’ve been here just over a year now, and it is striking to me that...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Jan 1, 20182 min read
New Year, New You (?)
Dear friends—are you setting resolutions today? One, or perhaps several ways in which you plan to improve yourself and your life in 2018?...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Dec 11, 20172 min read
See If You Can Let It Be Easy...
“See if you can let it be easy,” my Linklater voice teacher would often say, as she coached my small group of local actors through...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Nov 30, 20173 min read
Nostalgia: What to do with our feelings about sweetness past?
Here is a spiritual and practical question I’ve been sitting with lately: what is a proper relationship with the past? We are just coming...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Nov 21, 20172 min read
Ways In: Entering the Spiritual Path
In America, we mark our public doors with an illuminated red sign that reads, “EXIT.” In England, the doors are labeled “Way In” from the...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Nov 18, 20173 min read
What Falls Away
This is the season for letting go of what no longer serves or supports you. The teaching of the malas is an idea from Hinduism that...
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Olga-Maria Cruz
Sep 25, 20173 min read
Committing to Conversation
How to stay in conversation on the journey through disagreement & misunderstanding. I am exploring (again) a call to vocational ministry,...
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