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Meditation for Mothers
This group meets weekly to practice the art of meditation: stilling the mind. Benefits of this practice include
better health, deeper personal relationships, and a greater feeling of freedom, security, awareness, and joy.
The form of meditation presented is that taught as the heart of Sri Eknath Easwaran's Eight
Point Program for Spiritual Living. One aspires to a focused mind through the slow, silent repetition of passages and/or prayers.
Mothers of all ages and faiths are welcome. Beginners are encouraged to join.
Each session includes a period of discussion, instruction, and reading (usually works by Easwaran) followed
by 1/2 hour of meditation. Beautiful hand-copied passages to use during meditation are provided. Email
debra@motherhouse.us for more information.
One day at a time;
This is enough.
Do not look back
and grieve over the past,
For it is gone;
And do not be troubled
about the future,
For it has yet to come.
Live in the present
and make it so beautiful
that it will be worth
remembering.
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What actions are most excellent?
To gladden the heart
of a human being.
To feed the hungry.
To help the afflicted.
To lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful.
To remove the wrongs of the injured.
That person is the most beloved of God
who does most good to God's creatures.
-the prophet Muhammad
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Listen more often to things than to beings
Listen more often to things than to being
Tis the ancestors' breath
When the fire's voice is heard
Tis the ancestors' breath
In the voice of the waters
Those who have died have never never left
The dead are not under the earth
They are in the rustling trees
They are in the groaning woods
They are in the crying grass
They are in the moaning rocks
The dead are not under the earth
Those who have died have never never left
The dead have a pact with the living
they are in the woman's breast
They are in the wailing child
They are with us in the home
They are with us in the crowd
The dead have a pact with the living
Listen more often to things than to beings
Listen more often to things than to being
Tis the ancestors' breath
When the fire's voice is heard
Tis the ancestors' breath
In the voice of the waters.
- Birago Diop
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When
The Violin
Can forgive the past
It starts singing.
When the violin can stop worrying
About the future
You will become
Such a drunk laughing nuisance
That God
Will then lean down
And start combing you into
Her hair.
When the violin can forgive
Every wound caused by
Others
The heart starts
Singing.
-Hafiz
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I asked God if it was okay
to be melodramatic
and she said yes.
I asked her if it was okay
to be short
and she said it sure is
I asked her if I could wear nail polish
or not wear nail polish
and she said honey
she calls me that sometimes
She said you can do just exactly
what you want to
Thanks God I said
And is it even okay
if I don't paragraph
my letters
Sweercakes God said
Who knows where she picked that up
What I'm telling you is
Yes Yes Yes
-Kaylin Haught
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-Robert Lax
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