Books
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The Body Awaits our Attention.
"A Spiritual Life is about becoming more at home in your own skin." Parker J. Palmer While doing yoga this morning, well it was actually after yoga, that it occurred to me, that by doing yoga I am taking care… Continue reading
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A spiritual experience for me.
"We often underestimate the power of giving voice, but it is real and sustaining. It is the basis of all song. It is why prisoners break into song. It is why the blues are sung, even when no one is… Continue reading
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Live where I was Planted.
"In nature, we are quietly given countless models of how to give ourselves over to what appears dark and hopeless, but which ultimately is an awakening. This moving through the dark into blossom is the threshold of God." "As a… Continue reading
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Acknowledgement of Hurting.
"Unintended hurt is as common as branches snapped in wind. But it is the unacknowledged hurt that becomes a wound." Mark Nepo I believe we all will hurt others and be hurt…as long as we are living and in relationships.… Continue reading
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Truth or Pretending not to know the truth.
"Peace from Broken Pieces, by Iyanla Vansant…speaks of our pathology, our patterns that we inherited from our parents and they got them from their parents; how we replicate their lives, unless we break the cycle. I taught my children by… Continue reading
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I no longer have to pretend.
"I learned to survive by withholding what feels real. When events happen – when someone says or does something that hurts me – I have learned to absorb the hit and pretend that nothing changed, that everything is the same.… Continue reading
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If you don’t know…
I heard Wayne Dyer speak of what we know, and the comparrison to what we don't know and yet how we live in the small place believing only in what we know. As I heard him talk about moving out… Continue reading
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Feelings feel felt.
"The fastest way to freedom is to feel your feelings." Gita Bellin "This sounds pretty simple, but though it's easy to know you have feelings, easy to know their weight and agitation and suddenness of mood, it is another, more… Continue reading
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Free will is outside of the Program.
"The structure of the human mind has been likened to a computer in that the mind's basic structure is akin to the hardware and its content to the software. The mind has limited control over the content of the programming;… Continue reading
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Be a Surprise
"I know that over the years, through fear and expectation, my mind has gathered and hoarded places I needed to go, things I needed to have, selves I needed to be. But here I am, without most of them –… Continue reading