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Look at yourself and remember me. ―Rumi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626a019b313c077c4f7dadb5/a2dba1f4-8623-4249-b67c-1e7726b063ea/Roots+have+wings+copy.jpg Musings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626a019b313c077c4f7dadb5/75b5c905-334a-4795-a61f-8de7eb0d25ad/Goddess.jpg Musings - The Quiet Power /// I walked backwards, against time and that’s where I caught the moon, singing at me. I steeped downwards, into my seat and that’s where I caught freedom, waiting for me, like a lilac. I ended thought, and I ended story. I stopped designing, and arguing, and sculpting a happy life. I didn’t die. I didn’t turn to dust. Instead I chopped vegetables, and made a calm lake in me where the water was clear and sourced and still. And when the ones I loved came to it, I had something to give them, and it offered them a soft road out of pain. I became beloved. And I came to know that this was it. The quiet power. I could give something mighty, lasting, that stopped the wheel of chaos, by tending to the river inside, keeping the water rich and deep, keeping a bench for you to visit. – Tara Mohr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626a019b313c077c4f7dadb5/d554e8b5-f240-45c2-abc2-288363c6d87c/IMG-3670.JPG Musings - The wild Self /// The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door. ―Clarissa Pinkola Estés https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626a019b313c077c4f7dadb5/94509ae1-ca6a-46d5-a3a9-6f58d8d3bfa6/Seaglass+N+Serendipity.jpg Musings - Chemistry or Alchemy /// The master was asked what was the difference between chemistry and alchemy in couple relationships and he replied with these beautiful and wise words: People who seek ′′Chemistry′′ are love scientists, i.e. they are used to action and reaction. People who encounter ′′Alchemy′′ are artists of love, constantly creating new ways of loving. Chemicals love out of necessity. The alchemists by choice. Chemistry dies with time, Alchemy is born through time ... Chemistry loves the packaging. Alchemy enjoys the content. Chemistry happens. Alchemy builds itself. Everyone is looking for chemistry, only a few find alchemy. Chemistry attracts and distracts sexist and feminist. Alchemy integrates the male and female principle, so it transforms into a relationship of free individuals with their own wings, rather than an attraction that is subject to the whims of the ego. In conclusion, the master said looking at his students: Alchemy brings together what chemistry separates. Alchemy is royal marriage. Chemistry & divorce we see everyday in most couples. Let's start building conscious relationships, because chemistry will always make your body age. While alchemy will always caress us from within. - Author Unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626a019b313c077c4f7dadb5/8bd75608-8adc-4420-88cd-f67b816f7755/Tumblr.png Musings - From The Depths Of Primordial Essence /// We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are born the return begins, at once the setting forth and the coming back; we die in every moment. Because of this many have cried out. The goal of life is death! But as soon as we are born we begin the struggle to create, to compose, to turn matter into life; we are born in every moment. Because of this many have cried out: The goal of ephemeral life is immortality! In the temporary living organism these two streams collide: (a) the ascent toward composition, toward life, toward immortality; (b) the descent toward decomposition, toward matter, toward death. Both streams well up from the depths of primordial essence. Life startles us at first; it seems somewhat beyond the law, somewhat contrary to nature, somewhat like a counteraction to the dark eternal fountains; but deeper down we feel that Life is itself without beginning, an indestructible force of the Universe. Otherwise, from where did that superhuman strength come which hurls us from the unborn to the born and gives us - plants, animals, men - courage for the struggle. But both opposing forces are holy. it is our duty, therefore, to grasp that vision which can embrace and harmonize these two enormous, timeless and indestructible forces, and with this vision to modulate our thinking and our action. -Nikos Kazantzakis, The Saviors of God https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626a019b313c077c4f7dadb5/b8fe8370-95a4-4614-b830-11369369044f/Elle+Artiste+Peintre.jpg Musings - Merge With The Invisible /// Beyond the mind, on the edge of the heart’s holy precipice, I proceed, trembling. One foot grips the secure soil, the other gropes in the darkness above the abyss. Behind all appearances, I divine a struggling essence. I want to merge with it. I feel that behind appearances this struggle essences is also striving to merge with my hear heart. But the body stands between us and separates us. The mind stands between us and separates us. What is my duty? To shatter the body, to rush and merge with the Invisible? 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In your most authoritative spiritual voice, would you urge the little one to first "get over it,” accept everything the way it is, urgently forgive those who have harmed them, or quickly “raise their vibration?” Or would you provide sanctuary and safe passage from a long voyage? A warm, safe, contained temple in which the stories, the feelings, and the images of this one ragingly alive nervous system can be illuminated and held, articulated and metabolized in an environment of open, tender interest, curiosity, and love? Inside this majestic human body the beloved is at work, spinning out worlds of experience which are soaked with intelligence, sacred data, and saturated with both sweet and fierce grace. Things are rarely what they seem here… doorways and portals opening and closing by way of the breath of the divine as it makes its way into form… as it finds its way into this rare world of time and space… with you as its vessel. - Matt Licata https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626a019b313c077c4f7dadb5/874e41c0-68cd-4d5d-bed9-273d735c217f/How+to+embrace+your+inner+witch.jpg Musings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/626a019b313c077c4f7dadb5/f4d9b030-a2fc-468a-b3b7-1499376833ae/Paintings.png Musings Still, I Rise You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries? Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard ’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin’ in my own backyard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise. Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise. 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