Here you go... Soul Mates!

[chris weaver]

hi julie - congratulations from me too...and it's lovely to read your
thoughts again after a couple-month pause...

chris

> From: Michael Herman <mherman at GLOBALCHICAGO.NET>
> Organization: Michael Herman Associates
> Reply-To: OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:15:02 -0600
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Here you go... Soul Mates!
>
> 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

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