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Food For Thought: Seduction

I ran across this yesterday on Facebook from Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. It’s a marvelous nibble of Food For Thought on the topic of seduction. Enjoy…

“If you’ve ever hung over the railing of a bridge looking down at the water passing, sometimes you feel a little vertigo as though you are being pulled to maybe jump in and be taken by the current. This is true of seduction also.

There can be a pull that is unexplainable, a desire to just fall forward, jump in for a fabulous destruction of self by which i mean a ‘take down’ of… the overly egotistical psyche. This positive deconstruction can be liberating for it shakes out all detritus and wholeness rises thus…

but there’s also detrimental destruction of self via seduction …by a blue bearded woman or a blue bearded man who claims they cannot do without… who whilst wheedling, wheeling and dealing, holds aces up the sleeve that you… do not know about. And you wonder why they always pull so compellingly on your tripes (gut) and you always seem to lose one more pound of flesh.

Make sure you know which kind of seduction you’re facing… within yourself, and with others. And if its the kind to throw you into a rapids you cannot survive… step away, step away from the railing… and walk to solid, non-moving ground. Find a tree. Lean forehead against it’s bark.” ~~ from The Contemplari manuscript, ©2000, by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, all rights reserved.

And heed the advice if need be… we can be seduced on so many levels by so many things. We live in a technological world that feeds our temptations everyday, with an explosion of images and words and things we feel we must have. It’s always so important to stand your ground, when something doesn’t feel right.

(Photo: Tree on the Merrimack River ~~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)

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Food For Thought: Life As You Wish

There is such truth in this, but sometimes it can be so difficult to break through our own difficulties…

In almost every case, nothing is stopping you, nothing is holding you back but your own thoughts about yourself and about “how life is.” Your personal freedom to experience yourself and life as you wish is not being limited. ~~ Neale Donald Walsch

No matter what holds you back, continue to push through and fly free…

(c. Photo: Little Yellow Plane ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)

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Food For Thought: Choice

We always have a choice… always:

The statement “I have no choice” is a lie. Be honest with yourself as to why you are choosing to do a particular thing. Then, do it gladly, knowing that you are always getting to do what you want. You can choose. Isn’t that power? ~~ Neale Donald Walsch

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Clapton & Company: Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad

There’s a fabulous line up of great musicians (including Derek Trucks and Doyle Bramhall II) on the stage with Eric Clapton for this version of “Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad” from the Crossroads 2007 Benefit:

It’s the perrenial question isn’t it, when the heart gets broken.

Food For Thought… On this Valentine’s Eve, there are people asking this question… May they all be blessed with the light of love tomorrow.

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Food for Thought

Words of wisdom…

“We must strengthen, defend, preserve and comfort each other. We must love one another. We must bear one another’s burdens. We must not look only on our things, but also on the things of our brethren. We must rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together.” ~~ John Winthrop

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Food For Thought

Food for thought from M. Scott Peck

The religious who, of course, ascribe the origins of grace to God, believing it to be literally God’s love, have through the ages had the same difficulty locating God. There are within theology two lengthy and opposing traditions in the regard: one, the doctrine of Emanance, which holds that grace emanates down from an external God to men; the other the doctrine of Immanence, which holds that grace emanates out from the God within the center of man’s being.

 

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