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Our Deepest Fear, Marianne Williamson

7/29/2011

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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure,
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us,
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you NOT to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear; our presence automatically liberates others."
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"Sacred Journey," Cheryl Thiele

7/29/2011

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Let us celebrate
The Sacred Journey,
As we discover
Wisdom through forgiveness,
Bravery through perseverance,
Fortitude through discipline,
And generosity through compassion.
Let us celebrate
The Sacred Journey,
As we walk our words with
Integrity, accountability,
Respect, and gratitude.
Let us celebrate
The Sacred Journey,
For we are focused
On our heart’s true path of service.
Our Sacred Journey
Is honored with
Joy and humility
As we live the legacy,
Knowing our choices affect
The next seven generations
And ALL Our Relations.

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The Peace of Wild Things, by Wendell Berry

7/28/2011

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The Peace of Wild Things
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When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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"Lake and Maple" Jane Hirshfield

7/25/2011

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I want to give myself
utterly
as this maple
that burned and burned
for three days without stinting
and then in two more
dropped off every leaf;
as this lake that,
no matter what comes
to its green-blue depths,
both takes and returns it.
In the still heart,
that refuses nothing,
the world is twice-born--
two earths wheeling,
two heavens,
two egrets reaching
down into subtraction;
even the fish
for an instant doubled,
before it is gone.
I want the fish.
I want the losing it all
when it rains and I want
the returning transparence.
I want the place
by the edge-flowers where
the shallow sand is deceptive,
where whatever
steps in must plunge,
and I want that plunging.
I want the ones
who come in secret to drink
only in early darkness,
and I want the ones
who are swallowed.
I want the way
the water sees without eyes,
hears without ears,
shivers without will or fear
at the gentlest touch.
I want the way it
accepts the cold moonlight
and lets it pass,
the way it lets
all of it pass
without judgment or comment.
There is a lake,
Lalla Ded sand, no larger
than on seed of mustard,
that all things return to.
O heart, if you
will not, cannot, give me the lake
then give me the song.
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"I will not die an unlived life" Dawna Markova

7/25/2011

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I will not die an unlived life.

I will not live in fear

of falling or catching fire.

I choose to inhabit my days,

to allow my living to open me,

to make me less afraid,

more accessible;

to loosen my heart

until it becomes a wing,

a torch, a promise.

I choose to risk my significance,

to love so that which came to me as seed

goes to the next as blossom,

and that which came to me as blossom,

goes on as fruit.
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    Favorite Musings

    This is a collection of our favorite writings.  We are so grateful to these inspired souls and so happy to have this medium in which we can share!

    Archives

    July 2011

    Categories

    All
    Courage
    Faith
    Fearless
    Freedom
    God
    Grace
    Heart
    Inner Strength
    Inspiration
    Journey
    Light
    Meditation
    Passion
    Path
    Peace
    Philosophy
    Power
    Quiet
    Sacred
    Service
    Surrender
    Trust

    Various Writers & Authors In Our Collection

    Some of our favorites are (no particular order):
    Rumi
    Soren Kierkegaard
    Michael Borg
    William Shakespeare
    Mark Twain
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Joseph Campbell
    David Hume
    Emmanuel Kant
    H. Emilie Cady
    TS Elliot
    Edgar Allen Poe
    Calvin & Hobbs
    Mary Oliver

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