Author: Veronica Hallissey

  • In Looking Back

    In Looking Back The Teachers Speak. . . . The smallest act of mercy has large repercussions. Remember that. When the smallest act of kindness is received it is passed on without thinking because the act gains a life of its own and struggles for expression. It gathers momentum as it moves through the person’s…

  • Glimpses

    Glimpses You cannot know what deep is until you have fallen into a hole.   But no hole is so deep you cannot dig yourself out The phrase ‘you had to be there’ recognizes that the event of itself is empty even as the participant retells it.  The emotional climate was all. Exceeding the limit in…

  • More Rock. . . Part II

    It Is Called The Hero’s Journey   Part II The Teachers Speak. . .   Once you know that a change is being made, then you will find things pertaining to that change bearing down upon you.  You will find subtle changes in your attitude.  In even what you consider priorities for the day.  And when this…

  • More Pieces of The Rock

    Can We Change Who We Are  Part I (The doctor looked at his middle aged patient and said you know,  there was a time when an old friend would know your despair and arrive at your home with a good bottle of wine and say let’s go out in the yard and talk.  And the…

  • Abundance

    Since the publication of Kiss The Moon,  I have had a few requests to use the poem,  Abundance, in ceremonies of commitment.  In these months of May and June ,  I would be honored if you choose the poem to be read at your ceremony.  It is one of my favorites and I think speaks…

  • A Different Reality

    A Different Reality I have read Michael Talbot’s book called The Holographic Universe and in it is a different way to explain reality.   It is what the theory of quantum physics is about and I was surprised that I have been living this physics.   In rereading journals I have found much that I had forgotten…

  • I Lit The Candle

    I Lit The Candle I lit the candle and waited. Time passed. I lit the candle and waited. Fill me, Sweet Spirit. Let my heart learn once again the habit of loving. Come into my kitchen among the cutlery and pots, to the table in the middle of chaos. Two chairs. I light the candle…

  • Pieces Of The Rock

    Pieces Of The Rock Nowadays we nicely say that one is in denial when what one is too embarrassed to own.   We say it never happened.  An elder always quoted her favorite saying as an absolute.   You can always catch a thief she said but you can never catch a liar.  Jesus said all ye…

  • Fairy Dust

       Fairy Dust Will the children find how shaky all things are and the gods who are their parents, all illusion? What will I say then? “All of it, my dear, all of it is nothing but fairy dust, created by a head in search of its own dream.” Where would I be then? In…

  • The Homecoming

      The Homecoming The Teachers Speak. . . .there are many ways to explain the life most lead on the Earth planet with even a normal set of senses.  Yet there are so many different ways outside the senses and if one tried to understand fully the picture,  one would become immobile.   There are that…