Here you go... Soul Mates!

[Michael Herman]

executive director! ...sounds like you're gonna be *in charge* julie!
congrats! and the montessori regional conference winter last year ran in
open space. proceedings were posted in wiki at
http://www.globalchicago.net/ams maybe something of interest there. best
of luck in the new gig. <grin> m



Julie Smith wrote:

> Thank you for this beautiful quote, Anne. I was recently hired as
> Executive Director of a Montessori school, and almost immediately felt
> compelled to post a quote of the day as a way of revealing my soul to
> my new community. This quote from Clarissa Pinkola Estes is a
> beautiful description of the insistent internal nudging that I
> experienced, and that compelled me to reveal myself in this way.
>
> It took me a bit of soul searching to submit to my internal nudging
> because revealing myself made me feel vulnerable to criticism from my
> new community. As I was working my way through these feelings, I
> couldn t shake the idea that posting these quotes was another way of
> walking the circle, of providing a focal point for slowing down
> externally and raising awareness internally. Every day as I take one
> quote down and tack another to the bulletin board, I m walking the
> circle with my community. The wisdom that flows through the words
> flows through me, reminding me to walk slowly, slowly, gracefully,
> mindfully, holding safe and open space for everything and everyone,
> whispering greetings of  namaste  in my heart to everyone I meet. Just
> as when I walk a circle, I can already see faces and bodies begin to
> relax. Already, I ve seen conversations begin to open, and rifts begin
> to heal. Already, I feel the sprouting of seeds of right-relationship,
> of self-empowerment and self-determination, of mutual respect and
> trust. It s really quite an exhilarating experience.
>
> Julie
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> stadler
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:18 PM
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> Subject: Here you go... Soul Mates!
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> "We have been in training for a dark time such as this... We have a
> history of being gutted, and yet remember this especially--we have
> also, of necessity, perfected the knack of resurrection. Over and over
> again we have been the living proof that that which has been exiled,
> lost, or foundered can be restored to life again.
>
> One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene
> in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck
> shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks,
> can send up flares, builds signal fires, and causes proper matters to
> catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these
> is to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both are acts of
> immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light
> from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you
> would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you
> can do."
>
> ~Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves
>
> YES! I say Yes! And gratitude, gratitude, gratitude!
>
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