Goddess ReligionThe Spirit is the life of the life of all creatures;
the way in which everything is penetrated with connectedness and relatedness;
a burning fire who sparks, ignites, inflames, kindles hearts;
a guide in the fog; a balm for wounds; a shining serenity;
an overflowing fountain that spreads to all sides.
She is life, movement, color, radiance, restorative stillness in the din.
Her power makes all withered sticks and souls green again with the juice of life.
She purifies, absolves, strengthens, heals, gathers the perplexed, seeks the lost.
She pours the juice of contrition into hardened hearts.
She plays music in the soul, being herself the melody of praise and joy.
She awakens mighty hope, blowing everywhere the winds of renewal in creation.
(Hildegarde von Bingen, Scivias via Max Dashu)Within the study of mythology, female figures have too often been viewed reductively, purely in terms of their sexual function and thus confined in a catch-all category labelled fertility. (Carolyne Larrington's "Introduction" to The Feminist Companion to Mythology)
...the apple grew wild in ancient times on the Southern shores of the Black Sea.... (p. 261, ch. XV, Robert Grave's The White Goddess)
Many are the wand-bearers, few are the Bacchoi. (Plato's Phaedra)
Mother NatureAnother world is not only possible, she's on her way. Maybe many
of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.
(Arundhati Roy) BloggingWe blog to know we are not alone.
(Sage Starwalker, paraphrasing Shadowlands)The utility of blogging ... is that it is recreating the lost world of a humanity that is connected to itself and hence to everything.
(Robert Paterson's Weblog)The next generation of theologians will start as bloggers.
(They Blinked) Relationship & Community
A marriage is a struggle, basically, to learn to really trust another person even though that person is flawed. The only way you can do it is to give all that you have and not keep score.
(Whitley Strieber) SpiritualityAt this point in my relationship with the holy, I find myself not coming away to engage the holy, but entering into instead; entering
into natural processes, the forest, etc., recognizing the connectedness of all creation, contemplating smaller and smaller portions of
creation, and recognizing that all of creation is present in all of creation.
(Betty Berlenbach (Episcopal Priest), as quoted in ch. 5 "Contented Soul," Bernadette Murphy's Zen and the Art of Knitting)
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