ii. 3/3 Causal - becoming elders

“Becoming fire means letting our passion for life and beauty ignite us in the world…. We are called to set the whole world on fire with our passion for God.”

-Christine Valters Paintner

Swap “God” for “Life.” Its the same. God inadvertently frames as an exterior motivator. Life is us, and everything around us. Its both inside and out, unifying.

my vow to support, strengthen, and awaken those devoted to the human spirit who are seeking how best to serve. May we be together in this exploration and recognition of who we are.

From Meg Wheatley

My culture does not honor the ancestors as a quaint spirituality of the past, but as a living source of strength for the present. They did it and so will we.

Ancestors and Wisdom

We desperately need healing for groups, institutions, marriages, the wounds of war, violence, racism, and the endless social problems in which we are drowning today. But we won’t know how to heal if we don’t learn the skills at ground zero: the individual human heart.

—Richard Rohr

Healing the world begins with ourselves

To be born means from nothing you become something; from no one you become someone. But nothing can be born from nothing. A flower is born from soil, minerals, seeds, sunshine, rain, and many other things. Meditation reveals to us the no-birth of all things. Life is a continuation.

Thich Nhat Hanh • Beyond Birth and Death

Thich Nhat Hanh

9/17/20

Lion’s Roar

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Ep. 268 – Ram Dass and Stephen Levine: The Heart of Healing

Experience of working with those dying. They’re a mirror for our own fear and pain. Can we be with a dying person with love rather than fear and heal each other in those moments? Can we move toward the pain and let the healing in?

Pain throws us into separateness which can lead us to the universal. Connects to tonglen practice of picturing those around the world feeling same emotion or sensation you’re feeling at that same time.

Mystics are men and women, who, through mystical experiences are touched by the realization that down in the deep-down depths of things, God is welling up and giving Herself away in and as every breath and heartbeat. They taste that oneness, and in moments, when we taste that oneness, we’re like a momentary mystic.

—James Finley

Daily mystic

Breath as passage way to easing back or stepping forwards into infinite space and unity. Breathe in the gift of plants. Breathe out a gift back to them. Treat your body as the compost it will one day become.

The most powerful journeys we must take are the ones we are not ready for and cannot prepare for.

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Bayo Akomolafe

When creating an ofrenda (Day of the Dead altar), you can include items like: marigolds (cempasúchil), candles, sugar skulls, pan de muerto (Day of the Dead bread), a glass of water, family photos, papel picado (colorful tissue paper), incense, personal items of the deceased, and traditional Mexican food; all of which symbolize guiding the spirits... See more

Building an ofrenda and staying connected to ancestors