...The grief you cry out from
Draws you toward union.
Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup.
Listen to the moan of a dog for its master.
That whining is the connection.
There are love dogs
No one knows the names of.
Give your life
to be one of them.
~Rumi,
The Essential Rumi |
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The Zero Circle
Be helpless, dumbfounded, unable
To say yes or no
Then a stretcher will come from Grace
To gather us up.
We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty.
If we say we do, we're lying.
If we say no, we don't see it,
That "no" will chop off our head
And shut tight our window onto spirit.
Let us, therefore, not be sure of anything,
Beside ourselves, and only that,
So that miraculous beings come running to help.
Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute,
We shall finally be saying with tremendous eloquence
"Lead us."
When we have totally surrendered to that Beauty
We shall be a mighty kindness.
~ Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks
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ear Ones
Today, December 7, is my Mother's Birthday. I mention this because she is the first to have initiated me into love, heartbreak, and Grace. This is the neighborhood we have entered as we cross the threshold into the liminal space of Holy Days and powerful collective, archetypal energies. For some, time and space may collapse as memories of people, events, and times past arise, filling our hearts with love, loss, grief, joy, depression, missing of people we love.
I feel a heightened awareness of the impermanence, imperfection, and incompleteness of things in our fragile human existence, in my own life. This year, with conditions being what they are in the larger world and in our own personal, local worlds, I hear from others and can feel in my own heart that the mystical union of love and heartbreak is palpably pulsating in the hearts of many.
Through the alchemy of this mystical union, I have come to realize how everyone in my life who was 'lost' somehow, alive or not, is now being 'found' and welcomed back into my heart, if not my life. Amazing Grace is happening all the time here. Everything in life, every love and every heartbreak, is full of Grace.
To read more, click here.
In Boundless Love as we deepen in the Luminous Darkness,
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Introductio n to Samyama Meditation Practice
Teleconference with Sheila Foster
Three Mondays: January 9, 16 & 30
Time: 2pm - 3:30 PT; 3pm - 4:30 MT; 5 - 6:30 pm ET
Please register no later than January 2
Samyama makes it possible to directly experience life as it is, be in the present moment, and meet ourselves in our own precious hearts, no matter what is happening in any given moment. It is also a path and a portal to the realization of our essential being, the pure awareness that is the unified field.
To read more about Samyama and its possibilites, how it came to me, as well as what others say about their experiences with it, please go to this link. |
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Living Grace Fully:
Awake in Your Own Extra/Ordinary Life
A Year-Long Women's Novena Journey Teleconference Begins January 2012
Please register by December 15
WE and the Planet are radically changing! We can struggle, resist, and fight with what is happening, or we can learn to flow with what is, be the change so that we can, simply by be-ing, help to midwife the collective change as it is unfolding. Share your Journey in 2012 with a group of women deeply devoted to being Love, awakening consciousness, and Living Grace Fully. Discover and realize the ongoing presence of Grace in your life.
Borrow the Beloved's eyes. Look through them and you'll see the Beloved's face everywhere... things you have hated will become helpers. ~Rumi flyer Please read What Participants Say About Their Living Grace Fully Experiences HERE |
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The Extravagant Gesture:
Making Art at the Edge
 The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.
~ Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Mondays Jan. 9, 16, 23& 30 ~ $150
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Meditation MP3 Downloads
at the Temple of the Sacred Feminine Store
Always at the Beginning Samyama Meditations
Volumes 1 &2
and others, including some with didgeridoo
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NEW E-BOOK at Amazon!!
I have one story in this beautiful collection by nine women writers, edited by Dena Clayton
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Mother-Daughter Memories: Love Revealed is an anthology of compelling true stories written by nine women. The slices of life unveiled in this collection run the gamut from raw to sweet, surprising to tender, blissful to terrifying, and back again. These recollections are written with exquisite honesty, integrity, and sometimes humor. Readers will recognize issues and themes from their own lives, and will find messages of love, hope, and courage that will sustain them on their own journeys through their own mother-daughter relationships.
Click Here for download info if you do not use a Kindle.
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 Please check out our evocumentary film Eve's Fire about women's Sacred Feminine initiation.
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Meditation CDs
Invoking the Sacred Feminine
Invoking the Sacred Masculine in Women
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