Love A Woman

"If you want to change the world… love a woman, just one woman
Love and protect her as if she is the last holy vessel. Love her through her fear of abandonment which she has been holding for all of humanity.
No, the wound is not hers to heal alone.
No, she is not weak in her co-dependence.

If you want to change the world… love a woman, all the way through, until she believes you, until her instincts, her visions, her voice, her art, her passion,
her wildness have returned to her-
until she is a force of love more powerful than all the political media demons who seek to devalue and destroy her.

If you want to change the world,
lay down your causes, your guns and protest signs. Lay down your inner war, your righteous anger and love a woman…
beyond all of your striving for greatness, beyond your tenacious quest for enlightenment.

The holy grail stands before you
if you would only take her in your arms
and let go of searching for something beyond this intimacy.

If you want to change the world…love a woman to the depths of your shadow,
to the highest reaches of your Being,
back to the Garden where you first met her, to the gateway of the rainbow realm where you walk through together as Light as One, to the point of no return, to the ends and the beginning of a new Earth.

Grief

“In the Lakota/Sioux tradition, a person who is grieving is considered most waken, most holy.

There's a sense that when someone is struck by the sudden lightning of loss, he or she stands on the threshold of the spirit world. The prayers of those who grieve are considered especially strong, and it is proper to ask them for their help.

You might recall what it's like to be with someone who has grieved deeply. The person has no layer of protection, nothing left to defend. The mystery is looking out through that person's eyes. For the time being, he or she has accepted the reality of loss and has stopped clinging to the past or grasping at the future. In the groundless openness of sorrow, there is a wholeness of presence and a deep natural wisdom.”

Tara Brach

This Little Light of Ours

 

So True

"Whatever the darkness there is in this world, there is a constant, irresistible stream of beauty and meaning."                               

Idakatherine Graver 

So Proud of My Friend

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Thank you Alexandra

This afternoon my wise friend Alexandra reminded me of the question Jack Kornfield calls the very last question each one of us will ask in this life...

That question is "How good was my love?" 

We Are The Change We Seek

Akhilanda

Akhilanda

Akhilanda represents the essence of the Phoenix; she’s the indestructible energy that embraces change. She knows that everything is conspiring to transform her into only more love and light. 

Akhilanda is an elusive goddess from Hindu mythology. Her full name is Akhilandaeshvari. Ishvari in Sanskrit means “female power” or “goddess,” and Akhilanda means “never not broken,” so she is the goddess of never not broken. She can never be broken, because she always is. She is the embodiment of what we try to avoid—the dissolution of our ego’s identity.

Her power is unparalleled. She radiates the potent light and joy that’s the goal of change, transformation, or pain. There is very little written about her; she is meant to be known through experience. She is an intimate, interior goddess that we meet when we are in the darkest moments of grief and heartbreak.

She shows us where our energy is trapped, where we have been stifled in routines or others’ expectations of us. And she whispers the liberation we will experience once we let ourselves break open and allow the new expression of our self to come blazing through. She reminds us that we always have the power to choose to see every event as yet another opportunity to become more light, to become more of the radiant soul we are here to be.”