Written by Paula Pryce for The Contemplative Society, re-posted with permission. A most cruel and horrible dragon issued forth . . . of various colours, with a beard and hair […]
Dear friends, Thank you for your loving words and heartfelt prayers after my recent letter to you in early October. My parents and I have returned to Asheville, where significant […]
Dear beloved friends, I’m writing to you from the back porch of dear friends in Raleigh, North Carolina, where I have set up a temporary home. My husband and I […]
Across every major sector, changemakers are coming to realize we will need more than just action plans and policies to stabilize our home planet and enact a vision of the […]
I am advocating a re-frame of that moment of retiring from a recognized role of positional power. I see it as the ending of one form of agency and the beginning of another source of influence that I am naming relational power. Within that frame is the call for elders.
Cynthia reminds us of the tools we have to awaken our hearts, the task to which we were born: “…only with awakened hearts are we actually able to fulfill our purpose within the cosmos and take our place in that great dance of divine manifestation”
Each morning we wake to find ourselves on a river upon which we have never been, we proceed in uncharted waters, and we do not know where we are headed.
Chapter VI describes the necessary soul gesture of surrender, which requires the willing deconstruction of our small self, or the passage of the acorn self into the oak tree