All evolution involves a return

Way of the Rose 🌹 Perdita Finn &  Clark Strand

Gospel of Mary

Jean-Yves Leloup

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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.

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

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Contemplation for #sundaynightcandlelight

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.
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The Night Stairs. This is Furness Abbey, Our Lady of Furness, the Vale of Nightshade. To me it is a tranquil and peaceful land with streams on both sides singing into the atmosphere.
These are the recently reconstructed night stairs. My imaginal space creates the picture of gentle harmonics of chanting monks, with lanterns descending the night stairs for 2am prayers. The chanting undulates through the stone walls,  spirals  upwards through the vale carried by the winds of the north west coastal landscape. The melodies are transported over the waters, the intentions of the prayers flow through mists to shores and over the fields and mountains. The ascending prayers cascade down the mountain streams to all the earth, infused with the hums, the vibrations, the prayer intentions for all humanity, from the monks of the vale of Furness Abbey.
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