ONE BILLION RISING IS: A global strike An invitation to dance A call to men and women to refuse to participate in the status quo until rape and rape culture ends An act of solidarity, demonstrating to women the commonality of their struggles and their power in numbers A refusal to accept violence against women and girls as a given A new time and a new way of being San Francisco India Read more
Sharon Salzberg’s book “Real Happiness: the power of meditation” promises that through meditation “You’ll be in closer touch with the best parts of yourself”. Okay, so she didn’t promise that I’d get there in a week, but sitting with the worst parts of myself is freakin’ killing me guys… Read more
Women of Spirit and Faith, and our sister organization, The Women’s Task Force at the Parliament of the World’s Religions, will be participating in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (held in NYC March 4th-15th), as women from around the world gather to focus on eliminating violence against women. One of their offerings will feature a panel of women leaders from diverse religious perspectives exploring the complex topic ” Religion, Culture and Violence Against Women”. You are invited to join in this... Read more
Who in my life inspires me? Who gives me hope? Who keeps me alive? My mind has been racing and I couldn’t decide who and what situation I wanted to mention, until I realized I wanted to mention everyone. Every single person in my life has been a part of the journey to allow me to discover myself and my opinion of why we are here and who we are: that we are all One, that the purpose of life is to realize that we are all One with a steadfast confidence that Love can and will change the world, and that we are to be the agents of that change. Read more
During the month of February, Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program, is inviting anyone who wants to try, to participate in the meditation program she has laid out in her book. It won't be the first time I've meditated, but it will be the first time I've blogged about it. I'll be meditating every day and blogging about it every week. Looking forward to sharing the highs, the lows, and the bits where I want to tear my own skin off. Namaste. Read more
They say it takes a village to raise a child, and looking at the list of people who it takes to keep me inspired, I have to agree. Three years ago my regular support network consisted of my boyfriend and our cat. Then my boyfriend and I split up. Then he left and took the cat. I was - to put it mildly - f***ed. On the bright side, that was the moment that forced me to rethink my approach to community. Read more
Ann Smith shares how her sister in the South inspires her to do better work in the North. Read more
My children and their children inspire me to be a better person. They give me hope for a future more sacred than that which my generation offered to them. Read more
This month marks nine years since my beloved grandfather passed away. Throughout my life, he'd constantly remind us of Dada's Three D's: the three qualities that he believed were most essential to living a good life. Discipline, Dedication, and Devotion. Discipline: to do the right thing at the right time with the right limits in the right way. Dedication: to give oneself completely to whatever we had undertaken, and not to give up. Devotion: to always work with love for God, for others, and from the space of the heart. I remember him sitting us down once at the dining table - I must have been 11 or 12 - and saying all this, adding, "One day, when I'm gone, remember this. Remember me by remembering this. Promise me you'll remember". Read more
This month at the Divine Feminine blog, we want to hear about people who inspire you. Inspiration is something we all seek, either consciously or unconsciously. Not surprising when you think that the word literally means "the act of inhaling". What inspires us gives us life. Though we welcome all posts, we are particularly interested in inspiration you gather from people of a different generation and/or with different faith or spiritual practices to your own. Read more
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