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Howard McQueen's Blog – February 2011 Archive (5)

WHERE COMPASSION AND UNITY DWELL

© 2011 Howard McQueen

 

As we capture and focus our attention

  into the service of navigating toward unity,

  we begin to meet in the vast field [1]

  where compassion and love dwell.

 

As we learn to nourish family and community,

  we begin to tend to the soil

  fertilized and nourished by our shared, core values.

 

As we learn to heal ourselves

  and hold this healing space and environment for…

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Added by Howard McQueen on February 19, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments

WASTELANDS & SACRED SPACES

 

This below posting from a Heron Dance email.  See  http://www.herondance.org/subscribe-renew/past-reflections.html 

 

 

Some Joseph Campbell (no relation) thoughts on the subject from various sources, including Michael Tom's interviews of him and Diane Osbon's A Joseph Campbell…

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Added by Howard McQueen on February 6, 2011 at 1:40pm — No Comments

CHEERLEADING - AGAIN?

(c) 2011 Howard McQueen

 

Why is it we become stuck and mired in circumstances?

 

I've noticed that there are occasions when my agendas for how life should unfold assert themselves.

When unfolding circumstances don't appear to support my agendas, I have this uncanny ability to put on my cheerleader outfit and begin lobbying on their behalf.

 

We all do this from time to time.  It is how we learn to navigate through the world, and how we learn…

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Added by Howard McQueen on February 4, 2011 at 5:30pm — No Comments

WINTER'S REVEALINGS

(c) 2011 Howard McQueen

 

Winter strips the landscape

 of all the annual beauty and camoflage.

The naked limbs and branches of trees

 reveal their exoskeletons,

 rooted in nothing but thin air.

 

Such stark contrast to the verdant

 flora and fauna blossoming in Spring.

 

Ah Winter,

 a time to rest and reflect,

 a time to draw inward and concentrate the essence

 for another ride around the…

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Added by Howard McQueen on February 4, 2011 at 5:28pm — No Comments

RISKING IT ALL FOR LOVE

Version 2.0

© 2011 Howard McQueen

 

Feeling deeply what is running inside us

 opens us to mystically knowing the We-ness,

 the immensity of shared interconnectedness,

 the infinite richness of experiencing

  and expressing

 heart-felt sharing with fellow beings.

 

To be human is to be, at times, overwhelmed and fragmented.

We are all on a journey to uncover, to rediscover wholeness.

We recover our wholeness…

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Added by Howard McQueen on February 2, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

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