The Altar is a place to hand over all that was, all that can be and empty into the stillness of the heart
With every breath, rests into Love.
Into the presence
Into spaciousness
Where Love enters and lays on the Altar of the Heart.
Author: medicinalmeadows
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#Reflection for #Sundaynightcandlelight 13th – 14th July
The Sanctuary inside the Temple is quiet and still
There is a softening with every echoing step towards the Altar.
On the Altar the candle flame in the glass bowl beams a warming red.
The gaze softens, the body responds. All that is required is to breathe, feel the glow within and breathe some more, and some more….
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Reflection for #sundaynightcandlelight 6th -7th July
Where is my safe place?
My body is a Temple
My Breath is Sanctuary
The felt sense is the Altar
The Cornice is my Edge
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Reflection #sundaynightcandlelight 29th – 30th Jun
I planted seeds some time ago. They have been rooting in the dark soil, reaching their flowering potential.
Today I see the first opening, first light, blossoming.
And now I wait to see how this unfolds. Knowing I made these wishes, these prayers, then forgot. Then noticed, with childlike curiosity, bubbling, at what is about to be.
Nothing is lost, the beginning is the past, the unfolding is the future, the opening is here.
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Contemplation #sundaynightcandlelight 22nd -23rd June
Every morning we hold the opportunity to pursue new choices and options. When creativity meets this belief we see fresh possibilities, new light, a slant on a perspective, an opening in a narrow route of an opinion. A thought is a choice, a narrative that can be reshaped, a truth that can be nourished and fed from the heart.
Truth can be seen as a Becoming. It is moveable, changeable and exquisite. Truth is an internal creative process. Our Truth doesn’t need words, it just needs our Love.
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Reflection for #Sundaynightcandlelight 15th – 16th June
All evolution involves a return
Way of the Rose 🌹 Perdita Finn & Clark Strand
Gospel of Mary
Jean-Yves Leloup
#awakening #beginnings #lettinggo #gospelofmary #jeanyvesleloup #johnodonohue #kenosis
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The world wide web #sundaynightcandlelight 8th – 9th June
Nothing exists in itself or by itself, for the world is a vast tapestry woven of relations.
Not even the smallest strand in this web can be tugged without affecting all the myriad strands and interdependencies to which it is connected, and of which it is composed.
This is true of matter and it is also true of the nature of the human body and the psyche that animates it.
“All that is born, all that is created, all the elements of nature are interwoven and united with each other.”
Jean Yves Leloup, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
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Blessings, Contemplation for #sundaynightcandlelight 1st – 2nd June
Blessed be the longing that brought you here and quickens your soul with wonder.
May you have courage to listen to the voice of desire that disturbs you when you have settled for something safe.
May you have the wisdom to enter generously into your own unease to discover the new direction your longing wants you to take.
May the forms of your being – in love, creativity and friendship be equal to the grandeur and the call of your soul.
May the one you long for long for you.
May your dreams gradually reveal the destination of your desire.
May a secret Providence guide your thought and nurture your feeling.
May your mind inhabit your life with the sureness with which your body inhabits the world.
May your heart never be haunted by ghost- structures of old damage.
May you come to accept your longing as divine urgency.
May you know the urgency with which God longs for you.
#Benedictus A book of blessings by
#JohnODonohue#contemplation #bridginglight #prayer #radicalprayer #abbeyofbridginglight
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Inner Temple
This picture reminds me of the inner temple, this space we have within, always available, always attainable.
The journey towards a feeling of stillness is rarely a place outside of ourselves. It is within. How did we ever forget that peacefulness is inside,
and our body is the temple!
I am reminded that when seeking calm and restoration, the seeking is a state of realisation, a remembrance, that what I am searching for is right here already.
The key is remembering how to access this state within myself, not outside myself.
A picture like this reminds me to turn the view around because the place where I was standing taking this picture was within the chapel.
A chapel is a space, not a building.
I just need to, turn around, turn within, to Begin.
#innertemple #calm #guidance #energyworkers #mindfulness #centringprayer #furnessabbey -
Celebrate myself with love and kindness
I dont really know where that phrase comes from, but I recite it to myself when I see I am making my way through this world
