Last week I began to send out the latest issue of my Reflective Art Journal — Illuminating Mystery: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice — a wonderful collaboration between several amazing artists and myself. The feedback is coming in and the comments go something like this:
“it’s beautiful! I always look forward to your Sacred Artist Interviews [...]
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In the dead of night he suddenly beheld a flood of light shining down from above more brilliant than the sun, and . . . the whole world was gathered up before his eyes in what appeared to be a single ray of light.
-The Life and Miracles of Saint Benedict by Pope St. Gregory the [...]
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Earth our Mother, breathe forth life
All night sleeping
Now awaking
In the east
Now see the dawn
Earth, our mother, breathe and waken
Leaves are stirring
All things moving
New day coming
Life renewing
Eagle soaring, see the morning
See the new mysterious morning
Something marvelous and sacred
Though it happens every day
Dawn the child of God and Darkness
-Pawnee Prayer
Dawn is the Hour of the day that [...]
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1. Having phenomenal friends, women who claim their voice and power with such radiance that I can’t help but try my best to follow suit.
2. Being in the process of writing not just one, but two different books on the spiritual life. One is a book about the Awakening the Creative Spirit program for Morehouse [...]
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The last couple of days my body has asked for rest and so I have listened rather than pushed forward. And in the quiet spaces I have been listening. Lent is doing its work on me. Shadows are being illumined, layers of myself are being peeled back to reveal the depths of who I am, [...]
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For see, the winter is past,
the rains are over and gone.
The flowers appear on the earth,
the time of pruning the vines has come,
and the song of the dove is heard in our land.
The fig tree puts forth its figs,
and the vines, in bloom, give forth fragrance.
Arise, my beloved, my beautiful one,
and come!
-Song of Songs 2:11-13
The [...]
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When we stand in the light, we cast a shadow. Light and shade are to each other as breathing in is to breathing out. Some aspects of ourselves are in the light, visible to us and others. Other aspects, positive and negative, are in the shadow, unseen by us, even when seen by others. These [...]
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Enough. These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
We have refused
Again and again
Until now.
Until now.
- David Whyte
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Two months from today (May 17-22, 2009) a dozen or so participants will gather at the beautiful Hood Canal (see photo above) in the height of spring here in the Northwest for five days of creative awakening. I have been co-teaching this program with the delightful Betsey Beckman for four years now (and a previous [...]
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All the true vows
are secret vows
the ones we speak out loud
are the ones we break.
There is only one life
you can call your own
and a thousand others
you can call by any name you want.
Hold to the truth you make
every day with your own body,
don’t turn your face away.
Hold to your own truth
at the center of the [...]
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