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Another Quote to Encourage Creatives: Rumi
As my broken shoulder mends (and the rate is ‘amazing’ and ‘astonishing’ to my consultant and physio respectively) and I am able to do more and more with my left hand and arm. (I’m a leftie, so it’s quite important!) I’m bit by bit picking up my creative threads. Spiritually and mentally, there are some exciting developments brewing.
Nonetheless, I’ve been feeling down in the dumps about my creative hiatus. My hands fell this morning on a little book I have* of extracts from the love poems of Rumi, described on the cover as, “The great Sufi saint who embraced God through the path of love.” I opened it upon words which resonated strongly with my present state of spirit – and body. Continue reading
Posted in Christian writing, Inspiration, spirituality, Writing
Tagged Book Reviews, Christian Writing, Christianity, Consciousness, Contemplation, Inspirational Poetry, Inspirational quotes, Jesus, love, Rumi, Silence, Spiritual, Spiritual Leaders, Spiritual Poetry, spirituality, Sufism, Theme
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Hone Life Word of the Week: Play: The Eighth Bowl
“All the world’s a stage and men and women merely players upon it.”
The Hone Life word of the week is play, as in playfulness rather than stage play, but in letting this quote select me, I’m demonstrating playfulness in letting my right brain, intuition, serendipity, synchronicity, Higher Consciousness, whatever you want to call it, have dominion. I’m being playful in my contemplation of play. Continue reading
Posted in Art, Christian writing, Folklore & Mythology, Inspiration, Research, Science, spirituality, Writing
Tagged Adam, Ancient Sumeria, Anyu, Apocalypse, Artistic Playfulness, As You Like It, Augustine, cells, Christian Writing, Christianity, Early Fathers, Eden, End Times, Enki, Enlil, Eucharist, Freelance Writing, Genesis, God, Golden Age, Graal, Hesiod, HigherConsciousness, Intuition, John of Patmos, Manichaeism, Nephilim, NewTestament, Ovid, Play, Playfulness, Prometheus, Revelation, Ritual, Seed, Serendipity, Seven Angels, Seven Bowls, Seven Seals, Seven Trumpets, Seventh Age, Shakespeare, Synchronicity, The Ages of Man, Theme, Triad, Trinity, Works and Days
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A Weekly Honing : Tradition
I was recently contacted and asked if I’d like to write for a site called Hone Life. I would write a short opinion, based on a single word which would be changed each Sunday, and accompany my article with a … Continue reading
The Light of Tabor
The year begins its spiral unfurling. And it comes to me what I am to do in 2013. In one word. Consolidate. Continue reading
Just One Look
“Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure”. Meister Eckhart
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Tagged Christianity, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism
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