There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.
If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.
The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have become museums for tourists, where woman-flesh-devil are associated, and nature is raped for any deplorable excuse. Dieting with fierce will-power is the masculine route; dieting with love of her own nature is the feminine. Her only real hope is to care for her own body and experience it as the vessel through which her Self may be born.
For the first time in history, men and women are seriously exploring the possibilities of relationships based on separateness rather than togetherness. Instead of clinging to Yahweh, to a rigid set of laws established by a jealous Father-God who will rant in fury if he is disobeyed, they are simply ignoring that ranting, walking away from it, and attempting to put their trust in the irrational. In other words, they are trying to live by the spirit.
The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
Soul, to me, means “embodied essence,” when we experience ourselves and others in our full humanity - part animal, part divine. Healing comes through embodiment of the soul. The soul in matter is what I think the feminine side of God is all about. . . The feminine soul is what grounds us; it loves and accepts us in our totality.
Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.
I've been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.
It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about your books than you do!