Those who are drawn to the root of love are mystics. Mystics are not satisfied with the surface patterns of love, with the emotional tangles and insecurities of human loving. They seek a purer wine, a more potent passion. They need the essence of love, its divine substance. ~ Irina Tweedie
Not anyone who says, “I’m going to be
careful and smart in the matters of love,”
who says, “I’m going to choose slowly,”
but only those lovers who didn’t choose at all
but were, as it were, chosen
by something invisible
and powerful and uncontrollable
and beautiful and possibly even
unsuitable–
only those know what I’m talking about
in this talking about love.
-Mary Oliver
I think that may be all that needs to be said this week…
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I think unconditional love is a beautiful thing, so long as we don’t use it against ourselves. I can love all of humanity, but that doesn’t mean that I will put up with all of humanity. The boundary, for me, is set at healthy self-regard. When my unconditional love for another undermines my
self-respect, the fence goes up. Not because I don’t believe in their possibilities, but because I have come to realize that there is no value in sacrificing my actuality for their potentiality. I make a distinction between human potential- which may well be infinite- and human reality- which is often quite finite, particularly in those who choose, over decades, to remain asleep. Yes they may well awaken, but we should never postpone any part of our own life waiting for that to happen. Unconditional love begins at home, with the protecting and honoring of our own unique journey.
to truly love
we must love ourselves –
and then others –
to experience true freedom and make a real difference in the world
As Ram Dass so wonderfully said,
The most you can do for all of us, is to become all you are meant to become.
and so………….sometimes…………
we MUST….
BURN things….
ill just call you a lesson I have learned
ill just call you a bridge that I must burn
you wont get no satisfaction
as I light the match and turn
all those things I learned the hard way
broken dreams that I have earned
every heartache
every heartbreak
all begin and end with you
so I’ll say goodbye my darlin’
now I wish for something new
and I’ll wake up in the morning
to a sky of brilliant blue
I will look for love my darling
for the love I’m overdue
and I’ll call you a lesson I have learned
I’ll just call you a lesson I have learned
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when you reach freedom, stretch far
you’ll know it..cobwebs leave the corner
don’t hide,
just glide to the nearest door…mere shadows leave reflections on the wall
when you reach freedom within,
pause…hold it tenderly,
keep the moment for you alone…
only saints walk naked in the world…
death is over, and freedom one…
leave the church of your birth and fly…
to the trees above the river
gaze…outward.
never again will there be others who know for you…
pause and listen to the voice coming up ,
deep down in the roots of a woman…free.
on the shores of my soul
I invite you to come
just sit with me a while
wonder & wander the possibilities
of where our love can lead
the river is wide
from shore to shore
over the troubled waters
we must cross once
then over and back
again and again
to reach our homes
on distant shores
it’s the only way we can stay joyously alive
it’s the only way we can truly live
where we leave fear & war & pain behind
we must build a bridge of love
let’s build a bridge of love
even if we live, what’s considered a ‘loooong’ life it’s only about 100 years…
that seemed like a lot of time 40 years ago…
now…
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now….quickly approaching 52
seems like it has flown by as fast as the proverbial guy below…
why, just a few days ago,
I was a kid, climbing trees, playing with earthworms and acorns, collecting frogs and fireflies,
singing songs on the sidewalk….
me and my ‘dirdie’
oh time
oh love
oh life
awaken us all
to hear
to see
to be aware
shake our comfort zones
let us scream
let us cry
let us shout
let us waste no more of our living
help us choose wisely
help us live passionately
help us love mercy
establishing justice
inhabiting grace
keep us humble
keep us growing
keep us connected
knowing our own valve
as well as every others
Oh God of love
Oh God of life
Oh God of joy
awaken us
bring us peace
Amen
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If you find all your roads and paths blocked, be still
you will be shown a secret way that no one knows.
~ Rumi
you may not be at a place you enjoy at moment
PLEASE remember to remember:
life is changing
you are changing
you can make like a tree and “leave”
or
you can become like a tree and root deep
either way…
you are loved!
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I walk through the raspy voices of the fallen leaves
shuffle through the playlist of your memory
rifle through suitcases of past days
stepping on milestones strategically placed
arriving at this moments’ frigid windchill
to stand on the sandy shore
of blue skied tomorrows
chloroformed dreams
full of next choices
to do
to be
to want
to know
I turn toward the day, falling down with such grace
the brilliant colors of the future before me
the promises of love written all across the horizon
a love song playlist
softly shuffling under my feet
life, with all its beauty, sings my name softly
a lullaby, like no other,
sleep, child, all is well
you are love
you are loved
“What’s your favorite memory?” she once asked me.
“Walking in the sunshine,” I replied.
“And why is that your favorite?”
“Because I felt happy. I felt happy, loved, loving, and free. It’s my first memory.”
“That’s what you are,” she responded. “That’s your energy. No matter what, forever, for always, that’s what you will have the ability to be: happy, loved, loving, and free. Your original energy will always be accessible to you, because, ultimately, your original energy is who you are.”
Most of what I learned in those new age classes and groups eventually fell by the wayside, but my grandmother’s wisdom remained. Not that it was unique. Buddhist and Hindu teachings have long told us that everything is energy, dancing in form, while the dance itself is an endless flow between the form and the formless.
In other words, everything is interconnected; and, as “energy beings,” we can magnetize (into our lives) the things and people that are right for us. This is not exactly the same as the Law of Attraction where it seems one has to be specific. Rather, what I’m referring to simply entails that we know and be ourselves.
This has made the concept of connection and attraction much easier for me to understand, because it indicates that connection and attraction, for the most part, is not something we can look for or control—not if we want it to be real.
Connection and attraction is an invisible—”behind the scenes”— process that happens when we allow it to flow freely by focusing on who we are at the core.
When we remember and then become an expression of our soul signature—our original energy that most of us got to know in early childhood—we allow that energy to flow without being affected by the vibes around us.
The more we emit our soul signature—our unique expression, our spiritual DNA—the more we’re prepared for what we desire to manifest itself at any time, because it won’t surprise or scare us.
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Mary Dunlop
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
~Henry David Thoreau
This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.
– Martin Luther
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