Hey, you are in for a treat sister. To me listening to gifted poets like Sara Kay is pure darshan far beyond most of the staring-talking-very- slowly-namaste-I am-beyond-everything (but-i-have-a-huge-monster-under-my-bed)-kind-of-spiritual-gurus. Poetry offered in this way (here as so-called Slam Poetry) does not just TALK about love, or just TALK about spirit, it transports me right into [Read More...]
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The Guest House
Image ashesandsnow.org This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He [Read More...]
Go to the limits of your longing
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, Go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let [Read More...]
You Learn
by ? After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts And presents aren’t promises, And you begin to accept your defeats With your head up [Read More...]
The Warrior Prayer
By Stuart Wilde Thank you Cynthia Welch for bringing this powerful poem to our Awakening Women community I am what I am. In having faith in the beauty within me, I develop trust. In softness I have strength. In silence I walk with the gods. In peace I understand myself and the world. In conflict [Read More...]
The other name for longing is love.
We flocked to the mountains. Women from all over Switzerland, Germany and I from California. What called us here? In this ancient house I can hear the floor yearning with every step, the walls wake me up in the night with their songs of longing. The long dead sufi teacher for whom this retreat place [Read More...]
The Divine Mother's Game of Hide and Seek
Poem By Malika Shay,RYT,LE I find Her Woven Message Threaded deep Inside the Sacred Dance. She Whispers Through Each strand of My Hair, She Sings In a soft, purring, gentle Voice; Powering Her Fluidity, through my Hips. I Find Her Inside the Golden Shrine of my Chest. Sometimes She plays a Horrific Crescendo Drum, ((( [Read More...]
A DANGEROUS WOMAN
Poem by Jennifer Farley I am a dangerous woman… Infinitely compassionate and wildly loving. Softly strong and strongly soft in my ways. Don’t get to close, you may see dreams come true and wishes appear from thin air. I am a dangerous woman……. Able to give unconditional love from an endless well within. Blindingly bright [Read More...]
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses
We, however are not prisoners. No traps or snares are set about us, and there is nothing which should intimidate or worry us. We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at [Read More...]
Love after Love
by Derek Wolcott The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to [Read More...]
Talk to me of love
Talk to me of love by Ivan Donn Carswell Talk to me of love with wonder in your eyes, of limber magic flying through the veiling air and soft-edged silks trailing in a vintage plume, the bloom of fragrant lavender intimate in your hair – and I will recline there in the sweetest ease. Talk [Read More...]
Are you feeding the right wolf?
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son,the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It [Read More...]
The place where you are right now God circled on a map for you
The place where you are right now God circled on a map for you wherever your eyes and arms and heart can move Against the earth and the sky, the beloved has bowed there- The beloved has bowed there knowing You were coming… ~Hafiz
Are You Part of the 11%?
Jay Marianne Williamson, she is such a Durga embodiment! Here she is speaking that feminine voice of hope, of the willingness to take a stand. I take a stand for a vision of love for this planet. Anybody else?
Rumi In my Heart
This record by Chopra has been on of my favorite for years, it is perfect to play in Women’s Temple groups
I want to free what waits within me
The heart feels soft and warm, and I reach for Rilke, who speaks words from beyond… I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one has dared to wish for may for once spring clear without my contriving. If this is [Read More...]
Beauty…
“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”K.Gibran
