Awaken to Love | Soulwoman Life Planner 2016 / Fun Quiz

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Kissing the Ground

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kiss the ground. ~ Rumi

Upon receiving a letter brimming with despair from one of our Love Illuminations community members this morning, I'm feeling a little low. I'm wondering if I know anything worth sharing... anything with the power to help someone who feels tossed about in love like a small boat on a choppy sea.

Thank goodness for Rumi. His prescription for dropping our burdens is so simple and real that it moves us beyond tears, beyond laughter, beyond dejection and desperation, to action. Take down the dulcimer, Rumi says. Take down a simple stringed instrument and pluck out a tune.

My way of taking down the dulcimer is playing with my partner and Dizzy, our beautiful Labrador, on the beach. It's dancing around the kitchen, munching cookies, and hoping the Sunday roast doesn't burn to a crisp - again. It's driving along on a cool summer evening, windows down and listening to the Eagles. (Yes, I'm from that era.) It's having sushi with my two best friends. It's feeling skin on skin.

There are hundreds of ways to counter despair with a simple act that connects us with our most authentic self, hundreds of ways to embrace the magnificence of life, to give and receive love.

Kiss the ground, let the beauty we love be what we do.

Mindfulness Moment

• Sit quietly and consider a situation that is causing you despair.
• Slow your breathing, and connect with your inner wisdom, your courage, your authentic self.
• Set an intention to move yourself out of discouragement and into action.
• Settle into the miracle of life.

Such is the Beauty of Love.

Mia Rose xo

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'To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.'

~ John Burroughs

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