If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.
If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.
It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.
Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.
Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.
We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.
There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.
Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.
Everybody needs a seashell in her bathroom to remind her the ocean is her home.
How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts directed toward God. The essence of the centered life is attention to God in all we think, say and do. It is the growing realization of His presence in our most down-to-earth living.
Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.
To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with me out to the rim of life, Beyond security. Take me to the exquisite edge of courage And release me to become.
The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.
Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.
Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.
I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.
It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.
You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men had named. Neither had I noticed that when women give this power away, it is rarely used to liberate and restore value to women. More often it is used to shore up and enhance the privileged position of men.
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