DESPAIR

DESPAIR takes us in when we have nowhere else to go; when we feel the heart cannot break anymore, when our world or our loved ones disappear, when we feel we cannot be loved or do not deserve to be loved, when our God disappoints, when our world disappoints, or when our body is carrying …

EVERYTHING IS WAITING FOR YOU

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you, at times, have felt the grand array; the swelling presence, and …

NAMING LOVE

Naming love too early is a beautiful but harrowing human difficulty. Most of our heartbreak comes from attempting to name who or what we love and the way we love, too early in the vulnerable journey of discovery. We can never know in the beginning, in giving ourselves to a person, to a work, to …

TO A FRIEND IN CRISIS

Friend, I don’t know how to help you. I don’t know how to take away your pain. I don’t know how to remove your heartache, your fear, your sorrow, the longings that burn deep inside. I have known these visitors. I have never found a way to annihilate them in myself. I am as broken …

WALKING IN BEAUTY

A prayer from the Navajo Nation Today I will walk out, today everything unnecessary will leave me, I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body. I will have a light body, I will be forever happy, nothing will hinder me.  I walk with Beauty below me. I walk with …

FEMALE ASSERTIVENESS : STOP RESOLVING THE TENSION

by Bethany Webster Tension is natural. There are infinite ways that tension arises and dissolves within us as individuals and as groups. Like a primordial wave, tension and its inevitable release are like an ancient swell that builds and subsides in all life. For example, tension exists in the form of a line between two points. …

« THERE IS POWER IN LOVE »

  « And now in the name of our loving, liberating and life-giving God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. « From the Song of Solomon, in the Bible: Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are …

NEW SKIN

« We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. » ~ Joseph Campbell ~       

I QUIT

« This is gonna make a lot of people sad and probably some happy but I can’t worry about that now. I quit. Fine…call me a quitter, I don’t care I just can’t do this anymore. I’ve changed. You’re not to blame, I’m just not the same person you knew before. So… not to be rude, …

KEEP AIMING

An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it probably means it’s going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming.

ESSENTIALISM

Essentialism : « The art of selecting in life only persons, actions and decisions that can bring quality in your life, that can add value« . That’s it . We call it « struggling » sometimes, but it’s actually only « freedom ». Silvia Bargagni  

SOLDATS, UNISSONS-NOUS !

« …Je suis désolé, mais je ne veux pas être empereur, ce n’est pas mon affaire. Je ne veux ni conquérir, ni diriger personne. Je voudrais aider tout le monde dans la mesure du possible, juifs, chrétiens, païens, blancs et noirs. Nous voudrions tous nous aider si nous le pouvions, les êtres humains sont ainsi faits. Nous …

THE CALL

I have heard it all my life, A voice calling a name I recognized as my own. Sometimes it comes as a soft-bellied whisper. Sometimes it holds an edge of urgency. But always it says: Wake up my love. You are walking asleep. There’s no safety in that! Remember what you are and let this …

CHILDREN

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, « Speak to us of Children. » And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to …