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Gather your burdens in a basket in your heart. Set them at the feet of the Mother. Say, “Take this, Great Mama, because I cannot carry all this shit for another minute.” And then crawl into her broad lap and nestle against her ample bosom and take a nap. When you wake, the basket will still be there, but half its contents will be gone, and the
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Hymns to the Goddess and Hymn to Kali (Major Works of Sir John Woodroffe Book 1)
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The Monks and Me: How 40 Days at Thich Nhat Hanh's French Monastery Guided Me Home
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For guidance, I turned to a poem called “Dark Night of the Soul” by a sixteenth-century mystic, St. John of the Cross.
Mary Morrissey • Brave Thinking: The Art and Science of Creating a Life You Love
It’s not as if falling in love with the Divine rescues us from the travails of the human condition. Our partners betray us sometimes, and our dead remain dead. It’s that keeping the heart open, even in hell, makes space for the Beloved. It is in the darkest nights of our souls, when all we know is that we know nothing, that the presence of the
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