10.21.2024. The World Craves Your Light
NO In-Person Metta Practice today.
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Please take a moment to pause, be, open & soften.
Offer Metta, warmth & care, to those that catch your heart today.
The five gestures of Metta:
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To yourself.
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To someone easy to love
A sweet dog-friend or pet applies here too, it is where your heart pops open into the sweetest of “awwww’s”.
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To a teacher, guide or mentor
someone who has opened, unblocked your heart,, reflected your beauty-Light,
helped surface your gold.
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To an acquaintance
someone you do not know, the woman serving you a coffee and scone.
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To someone not so easy to love,
where you bump, lock away, zip-up tight ten puffy overcoats over your tender,
vulnerable heart.
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May you be happy. May you be peaceful. May you be free from suffering in all forms.
May you be safe. May you be held in Loving Presence.
May you know the world craves your Light, needs your boldness.
May you know you are Holy Ground.
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Below, lovely offerings for your Heart: 2 Poems. 3 Quotes. 1 Inspire. 1 Someone to Honor. 1 Sign-Up! 1 Closing Song-Album for Your Inner Child.
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Two Poems to Share
The Road | Arlene Gay Levine
Here is the road: the light
comes and goes then returns again.
Be gentle with your fellow travelers
as they move through the world of stone and stars
whirling with you yet every one alone.
The road waits.
Do not ask questions but when it invites you
to dance at daybreak, say yes.
Each step is the journey; a single note the song.
🌿 “The Road" by Arlene Gay Levine,
from Wishing You Well: "Prayers and Poems for Comfort, Healing, and Recovery.
Tumbling down
the rabbit hole of beauty
This I know to be true
There is much sublime
beyond in this world
Even in the midst
of the four am
gut wrenching
Sorrow-suffering.
Useful | James Crews
This is my one prayer,
one intention carried
in the clay of skin:
to be a useful cup
fired in the kiln of life.
Cracked as I am, shaped
by flawed but caring
human hands, let me hold
what is mine to hold,
then give it back,
transformed by the keeping,
to anyone thirsty enough
to receive it.
🌿 a poet to know about. A poet to follow. His new book
Unlocking the Heart: Writing for Mindfulness, Courage, and Self-Compassion
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Three Quotes | Pema Chödrön. Vasantha Jeyaseelan. Mahatma Gandhi.
“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.” — Pema Chödrön
“When life breaks you, it is because you are ready to be put back together differently. Every piece of you that feels shattered is a piece that will find a new place, a new purpose, a new meaning. Trust that the cracks are where the light gets in. And sometimes, in our brokenness, we find our greatest wholeness. We find the courage to rebuild, to reimagine, to redefine what it means to be strong. You are not broken; you are breaking through.” — Attributed to Vasantha Jeyaseelan
“Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider your actions, for they become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they shall become your destiny.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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Something to Inspire| YOU WILL BE OKAY
The one thing we know for sure, is that nothing lasts forever. In this journey, you will grieve. You will grieve people who are still alive, as well as those passed on. You will grieve shattered dreams, and you will grieve versions of yourself, and others, you had to break free from. But that's okay. In this life nothing lasts forever but with that same truth comes the knowledge that all pain will lose its bite too. And great new things will emerge. Wonderful new people who shine light into your soul will come on in, if you leave space. And as long as you cry when you must, laugh when you can and love every day your little broken heart still beats, you will be okay. You will be more than okay.
Posted in Maria Shriver’s, The Sunday Paper. A lovely offering to know about, to receive every Sunday filled insights and inspiration. This one was sent to me by my dear friend Julie Fedeli birthing her new book Midlife Upgrade out into the world.
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Someone to Honor | Barbara Holmes
“Find what you were given to do and do it.”
-Barbara Holmes
This past week Barbara Holmes, the author of Joy Unspeakable, passed. May she rest in peace. A guiding light in the world who will be dearly missed.
A powerful podcast-interview with her two-months ago through the Center for Action and Contemplation. Give a listen. Exploring the Path of Descent, charting our course and walking the circular labyrinth of life. Speaking about her own life and her journey, and her view from her hospital bed.
“I just wish some of the elders had told me that all the striving in the first phase of life would fade away…and now we come to this point, where we have to listen to the path of descent. It is the path of transformation…darkness, failure, relapse and woundedness are our primary teachers.”
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Something to Share | One-Day Embodiment Retreat: Awakening Your Yes!
Those on our list check your in-box! Registration for our One-Day Retreat of Deep Listening & Unearthing Your Inner ‘Yes’ was posted. Learn more here.
“The world craves your Light.”
Let’s begin!
Step into your heart of self-discovery and open to your authentic ‘Yes’ that resides within you. Join us for the courageous work of listening and putting voice to your life and soul that is waiting to emerge, that is already known deep within your being
Join us Courtney Riley, Megan Dunne Krouse & Wini Nimrod
Let Courtney know you are Yes!
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
– Maya Angelo
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Closing Song | Songs for the Inner Child
A dear friend of our Metta Monday Community needed songs to soothe, to hold her dear as she headed into intense surgery last Thursday. (please hold her in your prayers as she embarks on her recovery) People shared favorite songs for her to add to a Healing Playlist her daughters were making for her.
Here is an album that is one of my most beloved, an oldie but so lovely to know about, Songs for the Inner Child by Shaina Noll.
Listen to when your heart and soul are needing remembering, soothing care and weeping the tenderest of soft tears. Each song is an offering of the healing Mother’s heart, chants and lullabies. 10 songs (44 min.)
“How Could Anyone ever tell you you were anything less than beautiful?”
(5:29 min)
And sending along her offering of gratitude….
“I want to thank you everyone. I felt so much love, warmth and comfort from every one of you wonderful ladies. Honestly, it was just what I needed. I felt so much tension and anxiety lifted from my body. Being fearful is an awful feeling…when I got home, my family were all amazed at how much better I seemed…And I am loving all my audio suggestions for during my recovery. Have already been testing them out and they are perfect. Please thank everyone again for me!”
Listen to album here on YouTube
Or on Spotify here
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Have a blessed day 💖
🌿 Thank you for being here!
This Metta Newsletter is a Love-offering, it is…
…an offering to bloom more Light ✨
…more Goodness 💞
…more gorgeous tenderness on the planet.🌎
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