"A Woman's Corner"

Who are you when you are not being productive? Who were you before the alarm clock rang this morning? Who are you in your dreams?

May you create the inner spaciousness you need to allow a moment of rest when all thoughts fly above you like kites in a strong wind.

"The seed that is to grow must lose itself as seed; and they that creep may graduate through chrysalis to wings. 

Wilt thou then, O mortal, cling to husks which falsely seem to you the self?" Wu Ming Fu, twelfth century

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Women alone

May you create the inner spaciousness you need in order to hear all that life is asking of you.

"The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busyness. There's a central core of wholeheartedness totally missing from what you're doing." Brother David Steindl-Rast

Women In Training

What is the unlived life that is calling to you? 

"It is never too late to become what you might have been." George Eliot

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Women Fulfilling Their Dreams

New Life

What suprises you in your current life? What inspires and moves you? May you find your true wealth in the simple moments you are living now ...

"Self care is never a selfish act -- it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I was put on earth to offer to others. Any time we can listen to our true self, and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves, but for the many others whoes lives we touch." Parker Palmer .

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Women who practise self-renewal

May you allow yourself stillness so you can open your mind to your deepes truth ...  

What is it too soon for? What is it too late for? What is it just the right time for? 

"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You buil it out of your ow past, out of your affections and loyalities, out of the experienceof humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice. You are the only one who can put it together into that uniqu patter that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the paticular balance of success or failure is of no accout. " John Gardner 

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