The Original Gift: A Meditation on Sacred Reciprocity and Relationship
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The Original Gift: A Meditation on Sacred Reciprocity and Relationship

Value all relationship as sacred. Close your eyes and feel the breeze as it dances around you. The wind is not offended that you are in its way. It laughs as it tickles your skin. It is not hurt when you alter it’s chemistry by breathing it into your lungs. You have changed the air, and it thanks you for the gift you have given. It dances now in your blood stream awaiting its return to the sky. It now knows what it is like to be human. What a gift! And in return, if you listen, the air will show you how to fly.

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Existence
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Existence

With intention, I drag myself up to an ancient oak tree,

and I say to old grandfather, “what would it feel like to be a limitless me?”

And on that breath a single molecule flowed,

That which was once me, was now with the tree.

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Resolving a Spiritual Wound: A Practitioner's Perspective on Releasing Shame
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Resolving a Spiritual Wound: A Practitioner's Perspective on Releasing Shame

Isn't it curious that we have an emotion, a feeling that exists only in community. For without community there could be no shame. Shame is the feeling that comes from doing something outside of the agreements of community. If there were no community, how would we know to be ashamed? Being different than the tribe is the root of shame. Being witnessed stepping out of bounds. Coloring outside of the lines. Shame is the emotion of failing to fit in, it is the original emotion of the other.

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