I have an altar space in my prayer corner in our living room. It is set on top of a beautiful old secretary desk that is from my father's family and so in the last century and a half has traveled from Latvia to Vienna to New York to Sacramento to San Francisco to Berkeley [...]
Archive for July, 2006
Give Birth Slowly
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A New Moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe. What nine months of attention does for an embryo forty early mornings will do for your gradually growing wholeness. -Rumi Imagine if we allowed the moon to teach us the wisdom of patience. Or pregnancy to teach us the wisdom of slowness. What in your daily life might you take the time to observe to be reminded of the beauty and necessity of the slow unfolding of our souls?
BLOG Subscription Option
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I have received some email requests from folks asking about how to subscribe to this blog. I have discovered Feedblitz, a simple website that does this well. Your email is used only to send you blog updates and is a separate process from being on the Creating Space mailing list. Here are the instructions: REGISTER for the [...]
Trust In the Slow Work of God
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To follow up on my last post, some wonderful and wise words from the great mystic Chardin: Above all, trust the slow work of God. We are, quite naturally, impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something [...]
Celebrating Slowness
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Those of you who have seen me and asked about my vacation in Kauai have heard me talk primarily about one thing: Sea Turtles. Snorkeling with those ancient and slow creatures was a highlight for me and turtles keep showing up in my imagination as a guide for me in these summer days. Last Friday I went [...]
Being Formed
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God, help me to think of my small, formless, imperfect soul as constantly subject to your loving, creative action, here and now, in all the bustle of my daily life, its ups and downs, its anxieties and tensions and its dreary, unspiritual stretches—and gradually giving it, through these things, its ordained form and significance. So [...]
Trust What is Emerging
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No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson If you are [...]
The Art of Surrender
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These last few weeks certain themes have been on my mind in connection with creativity: radical self-care, dream-tending, contemplative living, and humility. My body continues to feel tired and my intuition and dreams have been screaming at me to not make the trip down to Berkeley to teach later this month. And so early this [...]
Napping for Nature
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As if I needed one more reason to nap more. . .gotta love those British research projects! ("Sleep more and save the environment") My father was definitely a workaholic, but being European by upbringing, he always came home in the middle of his 12-14 hour workday for a two hour lunch and nap break. I am proud [...]
Celebrating Freedom by Seeking Peace
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Monday night my husband and I watched the documentary "Why We Fight" which opens with Eisenhower's farewell speech warning the American people of not becoming beholden to the "military industrial complex." Much of the film is about situating our current national obsessions with war in historical and economic context. Essentially, the war machine is profitable, [...]
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