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Spirituality and the New Feminism

Posted in Education, Quotations, tagged , , on November 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »

[This post is by my friend Robin Rice and is copied with her permission.]
Spirituality and the New Feminism
By Robin Rice
(Robin Rice is an author, spiritual mentor and contemporary shaman. Visit her at www.BeWhoYouAre.com.)
The first time I heard the word “feminism,” it sounded to me like there were rocks in the speaker’s throat. I don’t remember [...]

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The Sun in Drag

Posted in Quotations, tagged , on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Somehow, this poem seemed particularly appropriate when I read it this morning.
The Sun in Drag

You are the Sun in Drag.
You are God[dess] hiding from yourself.
Remove all the “mine” – that is the veil.
Why ever worry about
Anything?
Listen to what your friend Hafiz
Knows for certain:
The appearance of this world [...]

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Dance

Posted in Quotations, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I Wish I Could Speak Like Music

I wish I could speak like music.

I wish I could put the swaying splendor
Of the fields into words

So that you could hold Truth
Against your body
And dance.

I am trying the best I can
With this crude brush, the tongue,

To cover you with light.

I wish I could speak like divine music.

I want [...]

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Quote of the Day – June 28, 2008

Posted in Equal Rights, Quotations, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Trans people, as well as lesbians, gays and bisexuals, are often criticized for comparing our struggle for equal rights to the Civil Rights Struggle of the ’50’s and ’60’s. I myself did so on this years’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, pointing out Dr. King’s own condemnation of incrementalism as a viable strategy [...]

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Quote of the Day – June 15, 2008

Posted in Quotations, tagged , , on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

“Joy is the most infallible indication of the awareness of the presence of God(dess).”

– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Find a Better Job

Posted in Quotations, tagged , , on May 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Here’s a thought for all of you who, like me, spend entirely too much time worrying about the future, what other people think or whatever your flavor of the day is:

Now

That

All your worry

Has proved such an

Unlucrative

Business,

Why

Not

Find a better

Job.

The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, The Great Sufi Master, Translations by Daniel Landinsky

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