If you want to change the world…

by Lisa Citore

This is what Lisa writes on her website about her poem:

“When a fairly spiritual male friend of mine who had finally found and was deepening into committed relationship with his soul mate confided in me he was thinking of being single again, and in the next breath expressed his latest idea for raising consciousness worldwide, I wrote this poem.”

If you want to change the world… love a woman-really love her.
Find the one who calls to your soul, who doesn’t make sense.
Throw away your check list and put your ear to her heart and listen.
Hear the names, the prayers, the songs of every living thing-
every winged one, every furry and scaled one,
every underground and underwater one, every green and flowering one,
every not yet born and dying one…
Hear their melancholy praises back to the One who gave them life.
If you haven’t heard your own name yet, you haven’t listened long enough.
If your eyes aren’t filled with tears, if you aren’t bowing at her feet,
you haven’t ever grieved having almost lost her.

If you want to change the world… love a woman-one woman
beyond yourself, beyond desire and reason,
beyond your male preferences for youth, beauty and variety
and all your superficial concepts of freedom.
We have given ourselves so many choices
we have forgotten that true liberation
comes from standing in the middle of the soul’s fire
and burning through our resistance to Love.
There is only one Goddess.
Look into Her eyes and see-really see
if she is the one to bring the axe to your head.
If not, walk away. Right now.
Don’t waste time “trying.”
Know that your decision has nothing to do with her
because ultimately it’s not with who,
but when we choose to surrender.

If you want to change the world… love a woman.
Love her for life-beyond your fear of death,
beyond your fear of being manipulated
by the Mother inside your head.
Don’t tell her you’re willing to die for her.
Say you’re willing to LIVE with her,
plant trees with her and watch them grow.
Be her hero by telling her how beautiful she is in her vulnerable majesty,
by helping her to remember every day that she IS Goddess
through your adoration and devotion.

If you want to change the world… love a woman
in all her faces, through all her seasons
and she will heal you of your schizophrenia-
your double-mindedness and half-heartedness
which keeps your Spirit and body separate-
which keeps you alone and always looking outside your Self
for something to make your life worth living.
There will always be another woman.
Soon the new shiny one will become the old dull one
and you’ll grow restless again, trading in women like cars,
trading in the Goddess for the latest object of your desire.
Man doesn’t need any more choices.
What man needs is Woman, the Way of the Feminine,
of Patience and Compassion, non-seeking, non-doing,
of breathing in one place and sinking deep intertwining roots
strong enough to hold the Earth together
while she shakes off the cement and steel from her skin.

If you want to change the world… love a woman, just one woman .
Love and protect her as if she is the last holy vessel.
Love her through her fear of abandonment
which she has been holding for all of humanity.
No, the wound is not hers to heal alone.
No, she is not weak in her codependence.

If you want to change the world… love a woman
all the way through
until she believes you,
until her instincts, her visions, her voice, her art, her passion,
her wildness have returned to her-
until she is a force of love more powerful
than all the political media demons who seek to devalue and destroy her.

If you want to change the world,
lay down your causes, your guns and protest signs.
Lay down your inner war, your righteous anger
and love a woman…
beyond all of your striving for greatness,
beyond your tenacious quest for enlightenment.
The holy grail stands before you
if you would only take her in your arms
and let go of searching for something beyond this intimacy.

What if peace is a dream which can only be re-membered
through the heart of Woman?
What if a man’s love for Woman, the Way of the Feminine
is the key to opening Her heart?

If you want to change the world…love a woman
to the depths of your shadow,
to the highest reaches of your Being,
back to the Garden where you first met her,
to the gateway of the rainbow realm
where you walk through together as Light as One,
to the point of no return,
to the ends and the beginning of a new Earth.

Animo!

Para cuando te parece que todo va mal.

Our deepest fear

by Marianne Williamson
from A Return To Love: Reflections on
the Principles of A Course in Miracles

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Don't worry, be happy

by Louise Hay

I love to laugh! Who doesn’t? The subconscious mind, however, has no sense of humor. If you make a joke about yourself or put yourself down and just think—Oh, it doesn’t mean anything, I’m only kidding myself—the subconscious mind accepts it as true and creates this thought accordingly. So we have to learn to use our humor lovingly and wisely.
There’s so much humor in life that it’s not necessary to denigrate another person or group with put-downs. Even in humor we’re working to help make the world a more loving and safer place to live.

Because words have power, I pay attention to them and carefully select them. I know my thoughts and my words shape my life, like a potter shapes clay into a bowl, a vase, a dinner plate, or a teapot. I am the words I think and speak. So why not create space inside myself for loving, optimistic, and cheerful patterns to constantly germinate, take root, and grow? Laughter is good.

Look at all the wonderful people out there spreading the joy. I admire people like Loretta LaRoche who sees something humorous in everyday experiences. She just released the tradepaper version of her wonderful book Lighten Up! —which is filled with her signature wisdom and wit. Check it out!

The latest affirmation that I say to people is: “Don’t Worry, Be Happy!” Singer/songwriter Bobby McFerrin had the right idea when he wrote that song many years ago. No matter what life gives you, you can turn it around.

You are the light of the world. Follow your inner star to sparkle and shine in your own unique way. You have a beautiful soul, and an outer body and a personality. But your soul is the center. Your soul is the part of you that’s eternal. Your soul can’t be hurt or destroyed. It can only be enriched by whatever your life experiences are. I believe that laughing, singing, and dancing are natural, normal spontaneous expressions. So, don’t worry, be happy, and dance your way through life.

Here are a few more affirmations to help you lighten up:
-I am a joyful breeze entering a room.
-Whenever I pass a mirror, I smile with joy at the beautiful being I see.
-Harmony and joy surround me today. My day is full of miracles.
-Today I groove in the “vastness of it all.”

Excerpted from I Can Do It® 2011 Calendar by Louise Hay. Copyright © 2010 (Hay House).

http://www.healyourlife.com/author-louise-l-hay/2010/09/lifeshelp/success-and-abundance/dont-worry-be-happy

Sweet darkness by David Whyte

When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.

There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your womb
tonight.

The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.

You must learn one thing:
The world was made to be free in.

Give up on all other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.

— David Whyte, House of Belonging

Retos / Challenges

Cuando llegas al limite de la luz que conoces y estás a punto de entrar a la oscuridad de lo des conocido, la Fe es saber que sucederá una de dos cosas: habrá algo solido en que pararte o te enseñarán a volar

-Patrick Overton

When you come to the edge of the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing that one of two things will happen - there will be something solid there for you to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

Patrick Overton

Feliz día del Padre

Esta historia comenzó en Winchester, Massachusetts, hace 43 años, cuando nació Rick Hoyt.

.De alguna manera se le enredó el cordón umbilical alrededor de su cuello, dañando su cerebro y sus extremidades.

.Los doctores le dijeron a los padres de Rick que iba a ser un vegetal para el resto de su vida. Pero Dick Hoyt, el padre de Rick, notó la manera en que los ojos de Rick le siguieron por la habitación y en ese momento inició su esperanza.

.Cuando Rick cumplió 11 años de edad, lo llevó al departamento de ingeniería en la Universidad Tufts y preguntó si había algo para ayudar al niño a comunicarse. -”De ninguna manera,” le respóndieron. “no ocurre nada en su cerebro.”

.“Cuéntale un chiste,” Dick le dijo a uno de los ingenieros de la Unversidad. Lo hicieron. Rick sonrió.

.Resulta que mucho ocurría en su cerebro. lograrón crear un sistema en el que a través de un equipo, le permitió controlar el cursor al tocar un interruptor con el lateral de la cabeza, Rick finalmente pudo comunicarse, escribiendo a través del computador. Primeras palabras: “arriba Bruins! ” (Un famoso equipo de hockey sobre hielo).

.Después de un tiempo escuchó que un joven de secundaria había quedado paralizado en un accidente y la escuela organizó un maratón de caridad para él, Rick le logró escribir a su padre, “Papá, quiero participar”.

.“Sí claro” dijo el Papá de Rick de una manera sarcástica . Jamás he corridó más de una milla seguida, cómo voy a empujar a mi hijo cinco millas? Sin embargo, lo intentó”. Después de la carrera, “parecía yo el minusválido, por dos semanas estuve adolorido como nunca antes” dijo Dick el Padre.

.Ese día cambió la vida de Rick por completo. “Papá,” Le escribió, en el monitor “cuando estábamos en la carrera, pude sentir como si ya no era más discapacitado”.

.Y esa frase le cambió la vida de Dick. A partir de ese momento se propuso a darle a Rick ese sentimiento tan a menudo como podía. Logró desarrollar una condición física lo suficientemente fuerte que él y Rick estaban dispuestos a tratar la Maratón de Boston en 1979.

.“De ninguna manera”, se le dijo a Dick. Los Hoyt’s no eran un solo corredor, y que esta no era una carrera para gente en silla de ruedas. Así que, por los primeros años, y Rick Dick sólo se unían a la carrera en forma extra oficial corriendo de todos modos con el resto de la gente sin ser parte formal del evento.

.Unos años después, encontraron la manera de entrar en la carrera oficial: En 1983, corrieron en otro maratón tan rápido que lograron hacer el tiempo requerido para calificar en la carrera de Boston al año siguiente.

.Entonces alguien dijo: “Oye, Dick, ¿por qué no un triatlón?”

.¿Cómo es que un tipo, que nunca aprendió a nadar y no ha andado en bicicleta desde que tenía seis años, iba a arrastrar a su hijo de 110 libras a través de un triatlón?

.Sin embargo, Dick Lo intentó pór su hijo.

.EL día de hoy han hecho 212 triatlones, incluyendo cuatro agotadoras competencias de 15 horas en la famosa carrera de Ironman en Hawai.

.Este año, con las edades 65 y 43, Dick y Rick terminaron su 24vo Maratón de Boston, llegando en la posición número 5083, en una carrera donde corren más 20,000 participantes. Su mejor momento? Dos horas y 40 minutos en 1992 – sólo a 35 minutos del récord mundial, que, si te pones a pensar este record, fué hecho por una persona que empujaba a otro hombre en una silla de ruedas.

.Así como el pastor carga a un cordero, Yo te cargo a tí cerca de mi corazón…

Isaías 40:11

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