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Do you not see how mighty is the Goddess Aphrodite?
She sows and gives that love from which all we upon this earth are born.
– Empedocles ca. 490-430 BCE
Instead of honoring the various Christian martyrs named St. Valentine on this date, let us celebrate what we REALLY want this day to be about: the divine, the [...]
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From my friend, renowned astrologer Lynn Hayes today:
This Full Moon will be a very interesting event – so interesting that it’s getting its own radio show entitled “Fire and the Full Moon.” It’s not only a powerful Moon astrologically, but it’s at perigee, meaning it’s at its closest proximity to the Earth. This [...]
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Many people fail to understand the magic of poetry. Perhaps it was a run-in with some dull English teacher in middle school; or forced marches through obscure parts of Dante and Whittier, with the emphasis on rote memorization, not the passion and meaning of the words.
But as most shamans, priestesses, bards, Kahunas, Druids, and [...]
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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and, in time, trusted.
- Martha Graham
From her discussion of coping with the pitfalls of success, Julia now changes direction and adds another tool which will help us recover a sense of autonomy, which is the theme of this chapter.
“Exercise,” she writes, “teaches the rewards of process.”
She explains that most [...]
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To accept the responsibility of being a child of God is to accept the best that life has to offer you.
— Stella Terrill Mann
More directly from Julia today.
“There is a connection,” she writes, “between self-nurturing and self-respect. If I allow myself to be bullied and cowed by other peoples’ urges for me to [...]
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He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao-Tzu
Welcome to Chapter Eleven – Recovering a Sense of Autonomy
It has been a long journey, hasn’t it? Well the end is in sight, my friends. This is the second to last chapter and we now begin to wrap it up. I seriously [...]
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For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.
- Dr. Judith M. Bardwick, author and psychological analyst for Fortune 500 corporations
Finding a firm line which we recognize is a boundary between enthusiastic work and unhealthy behavior can be very difficult for those of us with work addictions. To get some perspective, [...]
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All politics is local.
– Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill
As the holiday shopping season kicks into high gear, please consider making as many of your purchases as you can from local merchants and businesses. Sure, going to the big sales at the malls, or online shopping may seem to save you a few dollars, but if [...]
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Be really whole
And all things will come to you.
– Lao-tzu
Today, we finish up the exercises from Chapter Nine, “Recovering a Sense of Compassion.” I hope that this chapter truly has opened up some of your deepest blocks, so that compassion and love for your inner creator are unleashed to flood through your spirit.
How did you [...]
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Blessed be.
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