MartyT Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 I agree, Mary ~ it is beautiful. ♥ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted October 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 From Megan Devine's post (Refuge in Grief) on Facebook love this. Yes - fire everything but love. Mirabai Starr, Author So don't do anything fancy. Just rest in your groundlessness and witness what happens. Be willing to not know. See if the God of Love shows up when you fire all the other gods. The god of "I'm a good person; bad things shouldn't happen to me." The "only-people-who-look-like-I-do-are-worthy" god. The god who makes sense. The gods you put in boxes bar your way to the Infinite. Let them go. From GOD OF LOVE (Monkfish 2012) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyT Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 Wonderful concept, Mary. I love it too. Thank you. ♥ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted October 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 Yes, Marty, it touched my soul. "rest in your groundlessness" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 "So many people ask me if healing is possible. Yes, yes, yes. Healing occurs when you have a safe, sacred space where you feel seen, heard and honored. I love the word "honored."It is so rarely used anymore. How would it feel if you felt honored for being exactly who you are in this moment? For feeling exactly what you are feeling in this moment? For taking each and every step you've taken that brought you to this moment? How would it feel to be honored? For being you? There is a new way to do grief a way where we honor each other's path knowing we are all in this together." Join us at www.facebook.com/tomzuba1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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enna Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 StillnessSpeaks.com Deep inside of each one of us is light that is utterly peaceful and quiet. It is the you in me and the me in you. It is unaffected and undisturbed by the outer world. It is unchanged by birth and death. It is not limited by time and space. Teachers can teach you about the world, but only you can come to know the inner you. This inner light is always pure, ever present, and free of sorrow. Learn to rest in the Self. Come to know the Bliss. - Vashishta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfh Posted October 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 I like this....a lot! We are, indeed, light dancing on this planet....sometimes a dance of joy and sometimes not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mfh Posted October 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2014 Rumi Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. ~ Shams Tabrizi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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enna Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 “Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.” ~Dalai Lama The greatest gratitude is reverence for life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralfae Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 Oh, Anne, I love that! One of Doug's last prayers was thanking G*d for Life. I go out almost every night to look at or for the stars and stand in awe of existence and my life. We truly are blessed. Namaste, fae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted October 28, 2014 Report Share Posted October 28, 2014 That is one of my favorites also, fae. I catch myself often just looking up at the sky. This thought from Tom Zuba struck me hard today ~ we seem to always be "waging war." "When someone we love dearly dies the battle of all battle begins. We wage war with life.Big time. I know I did. Our natural instinct seems to be to resist what is. To resist to push back to fight this new life. Our new life. Surrendering to the new truth that someone we love has died feels like we are allowing it to be real. To be true. And that is the last thing we want to happen. We want to keep reality at bay for as long as we can. So we use as much energy as we can to wage war. Most of us keep doing this until the pain we are in is so overwhelming we can't fight another second. We don't have it in us. And bit by bit by bit we surrender. To what is. The war we have been waging ends. And when the smoke clears. And the embers stop burning. And the heat cools. We look around slowly and ask ourself "Now what?" "Now what?" "Now what?" So where are you? Are you still waging war? Are you asking "Now what?" Are you taking your next step?" There is a new way to do grief and we must become the teachers. Join us at www.facebook.com/tomzuba1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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enna Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 Facing a new day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralfae Posted November 1, 2014 Report Share Posted November 1, 2014 Facing a new day. You can Anne, you really can. We all can, one hour, one day at a time. Namaste, fae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 The Only Place By Steve Taylor "When the future is full of dread And the past full of regret Where can you take refuge except the present? When maelstroms of tormenting thoughts push back the barricades of your sanity The present is the calm centre where you can rest. And slowly, as you rest there The niggling thoughts and fears dissolve away like shadows shrinking under the midday sun until you don’t need refuge any more. The present is the only place where there is no thought-created pain. The present is the only place." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enna Posted November 5, 2014 Report Share Posted November 5, 2014 Forgiveness is for Ourselves ~ FORGIVENESS is a heartache and difficult to achieve because strangely, the act of forgiveness not only refuses to eliminate the original wound, but actually draws us closer to its source. To approach forgiveness is to close in on the nature of the hurt itself, the only remedy being, as we approach its raw center, to reimagine our relation to it. It may be that the part of us that was struck and hurt can never forgive, and that forgiveness itself never arises from the part of us that was actually wounded. The wounded self may be the part of us incapable of forgetting, and perhaps, not meant to forget…stranger still, it is that wounded, branded, un-forgetting part of us that eventually makes forgiveness an act of compassion rather than one of simple forgetting. Forgiveness is a skill, a way of preserving clarity, sanity and generosity in an individual life, a beautiful question and a way of shaping the mind to a future we want for ourselves; an admittance that if forgiveness comes through understanding, and if understanding is just a matter of time and application then we might as well begin forgiving right at the beginning of any drama, rather than put ourselves through the full cycle of festering, incapacitation, reluctant healing and eventual blessing. …at the end of life, the wish to be forgiven is ultimately the chief desire of almost every human being. In refusing to wait; in extending forgiveness to others now, we begin the long journey of becoming the person who will be large enough, able enough and generous enough to receive, at our very end, that necessary absolution ourselves. Excerpted from ‘FORGIVENESS’ From the upcoming book of essays CONSOLATIONS: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words. ©2014 David Whyte Available the first week in December 2014 PHOTO © David Whyte Nov 5th 2014 Early Morning Mist. Versailles, France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartyT Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 What Dr. Joanne Cacciatore said in her blog years ago: Grief is not an illness to pathologize. The best "help" for grief is a compassionate community of nonjudgmental others. [found on Mary's Personal Growth and Grief Support Center's Facebook page] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wifflesnook Posted November 6, 2014 Report Share Posted November 6, 2014 “Tis a Fearful Thing ‘Tis a fearful thing to love what death can touch. A fearful thing to love, to hope, to dream, to be – to be, And oh, to lose. A thing for fools, this, And a holy thing, a holy thing to love. For your life has lived in me, your laugh once lifted me, your word was gift to me. To remember this brings painful joy. ‘Tis a human thing, love, a holy thing, to love what death has touched.” ― Yehuda HaLevi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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