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Love Said To Me
Love said to me,
this is beyond anything that you know.
Be silent.
I said, please reveal this to me
I am dying in anticipation.
Love said to me,
that is where I want you:
Always on the edge,
be silent.
You dwell in this hall of images and illusions, leave this house now
and be silent.
~ Rumi
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Pale sunlight,
pale the wall.
Love moves away.
The light changes.
I need more grace
than I thought.
~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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Dear Ones
This is the year we have been awaiting with great anticipation. It is a good time to be in the 'not knowing anything' mode, because we really don't know what is going to happen. A good daily practice is to 'not know' rather than expend energy on stories about what's going on in our own lives, or even within ourselves. Many are experiencing increased energetic phenomena, dreams, synchronicities, physcial changes, as well as a great surge of old wounds surfacing for healing. Many are aware of the presence of ancestors who are asking for help or offering their help.
The times they are a changin' and we can best attune ourselves by doing our best to stay present, be present, focus on now, open to what is as it is, and stay out of stories about what is or isn't. Energies are intensifying and shifting rapidly and intensely. I find it useful not to name these experiences as 'anxiety' or 'fear', but rather to experience them directly, with curiosity and compassion, and to simply be with them rather than try to know what is happening. The deep knowing will reveal itself in time...or out of time. As what we might call 'fear' arises, it's kinder to ourselves and allows for the energies and feelings to flow freely if we just simply BE with it, feel it fully and directly in our heart centers... naming it locks it into a form and in time and we can end up in a mind loop with that. Better not to have conclusions about what anything is or isn't.
Grace, ease and flow can be experienced if we keep turning inward, toward direct experience within our hearts, feeling what is in our bodies, and being utterly present to it all without fixating it with a name, a story, a 'knowing' of any kind. Any names are just names, they point to direct experiences and make it possible to talk about such things, but the names are not 'it'. Let's be with what is! Any information, knowledge, guidance needed will arise as needed. Grace is always present, even in those dark times when we think we have been abandoned and utterly alone.
What if we looked at everything that happens--no matter what it is or how it appears--inside or outside, collectively or personally, as Grace, the many faces and forms of Grace? Grace with her gentle touch, her full breast ready to feed our hunger, Grace with her claws and teeth, Grace as a soothing balm, as well as Grace as a fire burning away what is not real... can we live and trust in the Mystery of Grace in these amazing times at the edge?
I invite you into that possibility...
In Grace,
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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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Living Grace Fully:
Awake in Your Own Extra/Ordinary Life
A Year-Long Women's Novena Journey Teleconference
February 2012 - January 2013
~ Begins February 6 2012
Please register by January 23
Meets the First Mondays of the Month
6-7:30 PM ET ~ 4-5:30 PM MT
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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March 2012 - March 2013:
A Year of Deep Planetary and Personal Initiations
into the
~Mystical Union of Love & Heartbreak~
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We are invoking a temenos, a sacred alchemical vessel, in which to explore and work with our own Heart Initiations as they arise during this year. Spiritual practices, writings, art, rituals, and heart work skills will be engaged within this
non-dual/mythic caravan of wild women.
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For information please email Sheila:
temenosctr@aol.com
You can read about Sacred Feminine Initiation and Samyama at
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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.
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