Think Like a Tree Soak up the sun Affirm life’s magic Be graceful in the wind Stand tall after a storm Feel refreshed after it rains Grow strong without notice Be prepared for each season Provide shelter to strangers Hang tough through a cold spell Emerge renewed at the first signs of spring Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky Be still long enough to hear your own leaves rustling.
“The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.”
“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.
“We all have direct access to the totality of spirit; it is breathing us right now. There is nothing we have to make up or believe in in order to realize our true nature… Merely watching other people feast at the table will not relieve your hunger. When you bring teachings into embodied practice, you eat the fruit, you digest the fruit, and you become the fruit –that is real spiritual transformation.”
~Chameli Ardagh
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Eat the fruit, digest the fruit,LOVE the fruit, become the fruit… and transform.
In the end, Love is key. Love is what transforms us.
Here we are in our humanness, in our grumpiness, in our glory, in our sexiness, in our dirty dishes, in our exhaustion,in our irritation and in our genius.
Gradually, with practice, we begin to see that the way life shows up is not an error or deviation from Her.
There is nothing to quickly overcome so we can get back to our lives and back to our spiritual path. The Goddess reveals that all of this is Her; all of this is holy. There is nothing we need to get rid of.
