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Swami Beyondananda’s
State of the Universe Address for 2010
Part 2
Step One: Wake Up Laughing
Do you realize that billions of people worldwide go to bed serious every night? And wake up the same way?
Seriously.
So naturally — or in this case, unnaturally — the world is in serious condition. Between the stresses of work, the economy, and a [...]
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Swami Beyondananda’s
State of the Universe Address
2010
“Wake Up Laughing, And Wise Up Loving:
The Upwising Has Begun!”
– Swami Beyondananda
“We’re not here to earn God’s love, we’re here to spend it!”
- Swami Beyondananda
Well, another 12-month episode of that long-running comedy of situations, Universe Knows Best, is in the can, and you’ll be happy to know the show has [...]
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A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places.
– Paul Gardner
Today, we bid goodbye to the work begun at Imbolc, 2009, working our way through The Artist’s Way. I leave you with some final thoughts.
First, as we have admitted by now that we are recovering artists, we are urged to make a [...]
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The race isn’t over until you cross the finish line. You’ll be surprised at how much can change in the last twenty strides.
–Jackie Dugall (Women’s Cross Country champion and award-winning coach)
Just as our Tarot card of the week has predicted, we are leaving behind the tenderly placed heart lessons found in the chapters of this [...]
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Hark, now hear the sailors cry,
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly
Into the mystic.
– Van Morrison
Another Eight this week, and a rare one, too. The Eight of Cups appears for the first time in about four years, bringing with it its many mysterious implications. In her classic work, Seventy [...]
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Fire of dawn-light in Her hair,
Fire flows like milk from Her hands.
Fire of bright promise in Her springing step,
Fire of the flame in Her eyes.
A blessing on Your hearthfire,
On Your gift of words,
On the brightness of Your sacred body,
A blessing on Your flame.
– Cait Johnson
Blessings for this cross-quarter holiday of Imbolc (which is also Lughnassadh [...]
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There, at the foot of the tree, belonging to no man,
A silver apple falls.
There, amongst the branches, the mother sits.
Weaver of dreams against the weft of the wood,
Insight falls like gentle rain on a moon-bathed garden.
– Song to Hecate, by Alison Jones
Now we make ready for the great festival of Imbolc, sometimes called Candlemas or [...]
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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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The Children of Nut – Part Two
© Dan Furst
From the Universal Festival Calendar for January, 2010.
As so often happens in the world’s history and myths, the trickster who knows how to make the game playful can accomplish results that elude the mightiest warriors and the most patient negotiators.
– Dan Furst
We’re clearly playing a similar [...]
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The Children of Nut – Part One
© Dan Furst
From the Universal Festival Calendar for January, 2010.
It’s Jump Time, as Jean Houston entitled her new book on Shaping Your Future in a World of Radical Change. As you know if you’re a regular reader of the UFC [And I urge you to become one! - B.], [...]
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