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Care of the Heart
As I began working on this blog, I was in turmoil. I was "trying" to create something worth posting, but it was an effort. I had things going on in my life that I needed to tend to. Nothing was working and I didn't know what to do or where to turn. Then, over the course of four mornings, I received, on waking, a song each day. On the fifth day, these lyrics from Gordon Lightfoot's "Alone Again, Naturally," wouldn't leave my mind: There are more hearts broken in the world that can't be mended, left unattended. What do we do? What do we do? I wondered, after the lyrics stayed with me on a drive across town and in the shower and broke in during conversation...if it was telling me something. If you've been on a journey of discovery, you will likely know exactly what I mean, and how something as simple as a song, received as a message, can change your life. For most of that afternoon I experienced a heightened sense of awareness, mainly of a bodily type that I don't experience often. And finally, when I got time to sit with it, two things came to me. The first was that it was about A Course of Love. A Course of Love could mend broken hearts. The second was: Care of the Heart. Care of the Heart may be a shameless take-off on Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul, (which I loved and credited with starting my spiritual journey) but it came to me in this way -- we need to know how to care for our hearts. I've had more experience (like most of us) with not caring for my heart than with caring for it, but those experiences may have prepared me (and you) for a time of really wanting and being consumed by the desire to care for our Hearts. We wonder...how do we do that? What does it mean? How do we define heart? And yet...there is a sense that this is known to us. Despite not knowing quite what I have to say about this, I knew it was, somehow, what I have to say. And so I'm beginning this new journey and sharing it with you...this exploration of what it is to care for, and take care of, our hearts.Blogroll
- A Course of Love's website
- Andrew Harvey's website
- Ann Lamott on How to Find Out Who You Really Are
- Brene Brown's website
- Celia Hales's Blog
- Earl Purdy
- Elizabeth Lesser on Being Broken Open
- My other blog, Spit and Vinegar
- My other other blog, Pubjournal
- Occupy Together
- Poetry for the Soul
- Purchase A Course of Love
- Purchase A Course of Love at Barnes & Noble
- Purchase The Dialogues of A Course of Love
- Purchase The Treatises of A Course of Love
- See Mari's first books: The Grace Trilogy
- See Mari's latest book: The Given Self
- Spanish edition of A Course of Love
- Spirituality and Aging
- Spring Forest Qigong
- The Given Self
- The Heart Embodied
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Giving up the poker
I came in from the cabin this morning already a little distraught over how I’m living my life. As soon as I “want to get something done” this mood is sure to come over me. It doesn’t matter so much … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, Gathering in Dialogue, giving up, Meridel LeSueur, true vocation
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The year of relationship?
We’re just beginning to get a bit of light snow, the kind you can barely see. It’s been such an odd winter. People around here joke that we missed it, or it us. There have only been two days all … Continue reading
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It’s just life
It’s been so long since I’ve written that I feel the re-entry bends, the feeling that I “stepped out” of the practice, the routine, the sharing…and now what? How do I catch up? It’s like this conversation I had with … Continue reading
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