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Alleluia-
Verse for the Virgin
Alleluia! light
burst from your untouched
womb like a flower
on the farther side
of death. The world-tree
is blossoming. Two
realms become one.
-Hildegard of Bingen
(Trans. Barbara Newman from Women »»
Filed under: Art, Birth, Creation Spirituality, Hildegard of Bingen, Making art, Poetry, Sculpture, St. Francis, Women Mystics, artist as vessel, clay, womb | Art, artist as vessel, Birth, clay, Creation Spirituality, Hildegard of Bingen, Poetry, Sculpture, St. Francis, womb|9 Comments
I am speechless with excitement because I just discovered that one of my favorite poets, Dorothy Walters, has her own blog: Kundalini Splendor. It is filled with »»
Filed under: Beethoven, Birth, Blogs, Dorothy Walters, Healing, Illness, Making art, Mystics, Poetry, Stigmata, Virgin Mary, creation, creativity, womb | Beethoven, Birth, Blogroll, creation, creativity, Dorothy Walters, Illness, Making art, Poetry, Stigmata, Virgin Mary, womb|2 Comments
The greatest spiritual crisis facing humanity today is rectifying our relationship to the Earth. Sadly, our culture has taught us that physicality »»
Filed under: Birth, Boneventure, Earth, Elisabet Sahtouris, Healing, Hildegard of Bingen, Illumination, John Muir, Lex Hixon, Matthew Fox, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism, Mystics, Plotinus, Poetry, Spiritual Path, Thomas Berry, Women Mystics, creation, fear, surrender, via negativa, womb | Birth, Bonaventure, creation, Earth, Elisabet Sahtouris, fear, Healing, Hildegard of Bingen, Illumination, John Muir, Lex Hixon, Matthew Fox, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism, Mystics, Plotinus, Spiritual Path, Spirituality, surrender, The One, Thomas Berry, via negativa, womb, Women Mystics|2 Comments
A cantilena formerly ascribed to Johannes Tauler 14th century German Mystic:
I will sing of bareness a new song,
for true purity is without thought.
Thoughts may not be there,
so »»
Filed under: Birth, Blogs, Johannes Tauler, Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, Spiritual Path, artist as vessel, creation, via negativa, womb | artist as vessel, Birth, Blogroll, creation, Johannes Tauler, Mysticism, Mystics, Poetry, Spiritual Path, via negativa, womb|2 Comments
Sometimes when I get in my head too much (which is often!) I have trouble working. I get disconnected from my materials and the physical world. When »»
Filed under: Birth, Poetry, Theodore Roethke, creation, womb | Birth, creation, Poetry, Roethke, womb|3 Comments
Today is Meister Eckhart appreciation day! Meister Eckhart is a 14th century German mystic. A Domincan Friar, who was extremely controversial in his time even being tried »»
Filed under: Birth, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism, Mystics, creation, neoplatonism | Birth, creation, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism, Mystics, neoplatonism|3 Comments
Warning not for the shy or faint of heart or modest. A bit late, but I just found this AMAZING Halloween costume on Unfogged.
Filed under: Birth | Birth, Oddities|1 Comment
This is so radical:
When I stood in my first cause, I then had no “God,” and then I was my own cause. I wanted nothing, »»
Filed under: Birth, Christianity, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism, Mystics, Plotinus, womb | Birth, Chistianity, Meister Eckhart, Mysticism, Mystics, Plotinus, womb|No Comments
Of the Divine Word
Pregnant with the holy
Word will come the Virgin
Walking down the road
If you will take her in.
(The original Spanish is so much better…)
Del Verbo divino
La »»
Filed under: Birth, Christianity, Making art, Mysticism, Plotinus, Poetry, St. John of the Cross, Virgin Mary, creativity | Birth, creativity, Making art, Mysticism, Plotinus, Poetry, St. John of the Cross, Virgin Mary|No Comments
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