Persuading you to put on trousers this morning, even though you didn't really believe "surfers wear them at this time of the year too, y'know..."
Day 4 of feeling so poorly I can't do anything except tap and click on my lap top and read.
So thankful my Dad has been around to help with Sam.
Starting to feel inspired to write now that my brain has had a chance to rest and think because the whirling dervish who normally transports it has had final warning from her body that she needs to rest and get well.
Still buzzing.
Furious at the Comprehensive spending review and feeling more and more lucky instead of desperate about my current situation, and trying not to fear the future.
Disappointed that I am not performing poetry tonight as planned.
Needing some community, as ever.
Wondering if I can still plant bulbs in the front garden now there has been a thick frost?
Loving the Plum Village web site : "Breathe, you are online"
Looking for peace.
Striving to be a good mum.
Living in the moment and practising mindfulness.
Thinking about the Tor.
Wishing I was better with words.
Leaving the bags at the gate and running up the hill feeling free.
The veil is thin...Let Go
Love, Love, Love xxx
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Thursday, 21 October 2010
Monday, 2 August 2010
Love is a Verb
I spent one day at the Goddess Conference in Glastonbury. This year the theme was the Goddess as Lover. I returned, as ever, from that place with plenty of food for thought.
The two quotes below are from the article Love, Self and Sacrifice by Stephen Howard MD:
"To care for one’s self is to care for one’s capacity to encounter, to connect, and to love. The impoverished self can love only poorly, while genuine love flows from the nurtured self. When I am tending to myself and not being sacrificial, I can choose to give. Then my giving is an act of generosity and love, springing from a full heart."
"Love is customarily thought of as a feeling. But feelings are in the area of emotion, and if we relate to someone only emotionally then we relate as partial persons. Loving is an act, an act of the whole person, of the self, encountering and connecting and committing.
When we speak of encounter, of love and spirit, many of us speak of God. It can only be the self, the fully experiencing person, which connects with such a God. If God’s primary manifestation in the world is love, then for the self which is full and nurtured love indeed is boundless. The limits of nurturing and of our own spiritual capacities can be exhausted; love itself is inexhaustible."
The two quotes below are from the article Love, Self and Sacrifice by Stephen Howard MD:"To care for one’s self is to care for one’s capacity to encounter, to connect, and to love. The impoverished self can love only poorly, while genuine love flows from the nurtured self. When I am tending to myself and not being sacrificial, I can choose to give. Then my giving is an act of generosity and love, springing from a full heart."
"Love is customarily thought of as a feeling. But feelings are in the area of emotion, and if we relate to someone only emotionally then we relate as partial persons. Loving is an act, an act of the whole person, of the self, encountering and connecting and committing.
When we speak of encounter, of love and spirit, many of us speak of God. It can only be the self, the fully experiencing person, which connects with such a God. If God’s primary manifestation in the world is love, then for the self which is full and nurtured love indeed is boundless. The limits of nurturing and of our own spiritual capacities can be exhausted; love itself is inexhaustible."
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