Musings From The Trail
Fiery Leo full moon eclipse this morning may be stirring up
old fears and old wounds within you and those you are close to.
Gently pull your child-self into your heart and
LOVE up the world around you.
Be KIND to everyone today, including yourself.
💗
“The most direct way for each individual
to help end a war on terror is to stop being afraid.
The way to stop being afraid is to start loving more often.“
~Matt Kahn
“My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.
What are the words you do not yet have?
What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day
and attempt to make your own,
until you sicken and die of them,
still in silence?
… And at last you’ll know with surpassing certainty
that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth.
And that is not speaking.”
~Audre Lorde
feminist poet
“The opposite of love is not hate,
it’s indifference.”
~Elie Wiesel
It can be difficult to follow the current political news, much less act on it. So much of what is happening now is crazy and scary. I try to hold this quote from Elie Wiesel (above) close to my heart.
Sometimes I have powerful negative feelings bubble up when I see what’s happening in America today. I feel deep fear and anger and even hate at times. That’s ok. Those too are normal human emotions. It’s all spiritual grist for the mill – even the crazy ugly stuff.
Denying or stuffing my negative reactions to the news doesn’t help anyone. Denial ties me up in knots. I lose my ability to act. But if I can allow myself the space to feel whatever I’m feeling about the chaos around me, no matter how uncomfortable, I come out the other side stronger and clearer and more capable of acting from a space of love and compassion.
“Human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist…
They don’t use the knowledge the spirit has put into every one of them…
and so they stumble blindly on the road to nowhere –
a paved highway which they themselves bulldoze and make smooth
so that they can get faster to the big, empty hole
which they’ll find at the end, waiting to swallow them up.
It’s a quick comfortable superhighway but I know where it leads.
I’ve been there in my vision and it makes me shudder to think about it”
~John Fire Lame Deer,
“Seeker of Visions”
