Graceful Awakenings

09/15/2025

" Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated, (0:07) but I'm overwhelmed seeing the flags of the United States of America (0:14) at half staff calling this nation to honor and venerate a man who was an unapologetic racist (0:25) and spent all of his life sowing seeds of division and hate into this land (0:38) and hearing people with selective rage who were mad about Charlie Kirk but didn't give (0:46) a damn about Melissa Hortman and her husband when they were shot down in their home (0:52) tell me I ought to have compassion for the death of a man who had no respect for my own life (1:03) I am sorry but there's nowhere in Bible where we are taught to honor evil (1:14) and how you die does not redeem how you lived (1:20) but you do not become a hero in your death when you are a weapon of the enemy in your life (1:35) I can abhor the violence that took your life but I don't have to celebrate how you chose to live (1:50) I am overwhelmed "

08/03/2024

In Your Eyes
Song by PPeter Gabrielel
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Lyrics
I get so lost, sometimes
Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
When I want to run away
I drive off in my car
But whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are
All my instincts, they return
And the grand facade, so soon will burn
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside
In your eyes
The light, the heat
(Your eyes)
I am complete
(Your eyes)
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
(Your eyes)
The resolution of all the fruitless searches
(Your eyes)
I see the light and the heat
(Your eyes) I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
The heat I see in your eyes
In your eyes
In your eyes
In your eyes
Love, I don't like to see so much pain
So much wasted and this moment keeps slipping away
I get so tired of working so hard for our survival
I look to the time with you to keep me awake and alive
And all my instincts, they return
And the grand facade, so soon will burn
Without a noise, without my pride
I reach out from the inside
In your eyes
The light, the heat
(Your eyes)
I am complete
(Your eyes)
I see the doorway to a thousand churches
(Your eyes)
The resolution of all the fruitless searches
(Your eyes)
I see the light and the heat
(Your eyes) I want to be that complete
I want to touch the light
The heat I see in your eyes
In your eyes
In your eyes
In your eyes
Accepting all I've done and said
I want to stand and stare again
'Til there's nothing left, woah
It remains there in your eyes
Whatever comes and goes
Oh, it's in your eyes
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Peter Gabriel
In Your Eyes lyrics © Real World Music Ltd

07/30/2024

This is always a fav of, mine.

Dr. William Lynn Weaver remembers being one of 13 black student to integrate an all-white high school in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1964.

06/27/2024

https://www.fourdirectionsteachings.com/interactive.html

FourDirectionsTeachings.com is a visually stunning audio narrated resource for learning about Indigenous knowledge and philosophy from five diverse First Nations in Canada. The site is provided in English with French subtitles and includes curriculum resources in both English and French.

05/24/2024

one of my favorite stories.

At eight years old, Storm Reyes was already working full time with other migrant farm workers in the fields outside Tacoma, Washington. One day, a bookmobile...

04/24/2024

02/07/2024

"If it is meant to be, it's up to me. "

02/04/2024

"There's no point in us thinking that a past exists that we could have now." Chögyam Trungpa.

02/03/2024

02/01/2024

https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/author-quotes/short-sweet-quotes-colette/

01/07/2024

“To the strange mystic strength of the human animal, who can take a wishful dream and give it a dimension of its own.” TZ

02/18/2023

"This use of the creative imagination and the fruits of its endeavor will work out into the many fields of human art according to the ray of the creative artist. We must not forget that the artist is found on all rays; there is no particular ray which produces more artists than another. The form will apparently take spontaneous expression when the inner life of the artist is regulated, producing the outer organisation of his life forms. True creative art is a soul function; the primary task, therefore, of the artist is alignment, meditation and the focusing of his attention upon the world of meaning. This is followed by the attempt to express divine ideas in adequate forms, according to the innate capacity and the ray tendencies of the artist in any field which he may choose and which is for him the best medium for his endeavor." p. 249 Esoteric Psychology II
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