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“It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart violent and religious.” - Anne Sexton, The Furies

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“…when we reflect that muscle holding a chronic pattern of tension is working just as hard and requires just as much metabolic support as does muscle that is exercising actively and getting actual work done, it becomes clear why and how muscular tension plays such a large and diffuse role in our physical and mental health. Nor is it difficult to understand why body work which effectively addresses chronic and wasteful contractions can contribute so much towards changes for the better in our physical processes, our feelings and our behaviour”… 

JOBS BODY by Deane Juhan…

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“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.” - Zhuangzi [Alive On All Channels]

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* * * * You are the traveler, you are the path and you are the destination. Be careful never to lose the way to yourself. ~ Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi

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art-grome :: VISIT :  ljjjackson :: A time to listen.

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“In the oldest religion, everything was alive, not supernaturally but naturally alive … For the whole life-effort of man was to get his life into contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air-life, earth-life, sun-life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so to derive energy, power, and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator, is the root meaning of religion.”

- D. H. Lawrence

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Alive Together Lisel Mueller Speaking of marvels, I am alive together with you, when I might have been alive with anyone under the sun, when I might have been Abelard’s woman or the whore of a Renaissance pope or a peasant wife with not enough food and not enough love, with my children dead of the plague. I might have slept in an alcove next to the man with the golden nose, who poked it into the business of stars, or sewn a starry flag for a general with wooden teeth. I might have been the exemplary Pocahontas or a woman without a name weeping in Master’s bed for my husband, exchanged for a mule, my daughter, lost in a drunken bet. I might have been stretched on a totem pole to appease a vindictive god or left, a useless girl-child, to die on a cliff. I like to think I might have been Mary Shelley in love with a wrong-headed angel, or Mary’s friend. I might have been you. This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless, our chances of being alive together statistically nonexistent; still we have made it, alive in a time when rationalists in square hats and hatless Jehovah’s Witnesses agree it is almost over, alive with our lively children who-but for endless ifs- might have missed out on being alive together with marvels and follies and longings and lies and wishes and error and humor and mercy and journeys and voices and faces and colors and summers and mornings and knowledge and tears and chance.

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They say nothing lasts forever but they’re just scared it will last longer than they can love it. — Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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As I understand it, Brockport Village, NY officials asked Pastor Dan Brockway of First Baptist Church to change his message. He declined.

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The Tools of Fear By Tao Te Ching Weapons are the tools of fear. A decent person will avoid them except in the direst necessity and, if compelled, will use them only with the utmost restraint…. Our enemies are not demons but human beings like ourselves. The decent person doesn’t wish them personal harm. Nor do they rejoice in victory. How could we rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of people? Enter a battle gravely with sorrow and with great compassion as if attending a funeral. circa 550 BCE The Tools of Fear | Inward/Outward

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