Loyal to puritan ideals of perfection,
and illusions of control,
we turned our spirituality into a grand escape plan,
yet another way to judge and reject ourselves,
and Source Mother.

In our chase to control Her/our untameable
totality of being, we sacrificed
our wild belonging,
our dignity and compassion;
even in the name of spirituality
we reinforced the very separation we longed to heal.

Practicing with Eternal Mother
is an initiation into wholeness.

Resting into Her wakes us up from
the nightmarish realm of fragmentation.
It unclenches the root cramp,
the origin of suffering:
the unbearable feeling
of being separate from our source.

On the Goddess path, and the practice
of embodied spirituality,
we step out of the exhausting battle
of the fragmented self through the
descent of consciousness down inside the body.

Here we begin the holy work of welcoming
the rejected parts of ourselves home,
of weaving ourselves back into wholeness.

And, through this process we awaken
Eternal Mother within us,
a steady capacity to stay with, to guard,
to hold ourselves and the world in the
luminous intelligence of the heart.

The love of Eternal Mother is not
something you have to earn or deserve,
it is who you are and have always been.

Your heart is rooted in Her heart,
it holds and loves all of you,
just as you are.

~ ~ ~

Patriarchy may try to negate body
and flee Earth with its constant heartbeat of death,
but Goddess forces us back to embrace them,
to take our human life in our arms
and clasp it for the divine life it is-
the nice, sanitary, harmonious moments
as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.

If such a consciousness truly is set loose in the world,
nothing will be the same.
It will free us to be in a sacred body,
on a sacred planet,
in sacred communion with all of it.
It will infect the universe with holiness.
We will discover the Divine deep within the earth
and the cells of our bodies,
and we will love her there with all our hearts
and all our souls and all our minds.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

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If you feel the longing to soften, to listen, and to restore and deepen root safety, clarity and freedom within, welcome to the Eternal Mother gathering in Boulder, Colorado in September.

>> Learn all about it and register here

With abiding love,
Chameli