Gaia: SOUL KITCHEN: Cultivating Soul in Everyday Life

Soul vs. Spirit...

http://siona.gaia.com — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:54:16 GMT

I've always seen the two as different--as spirit being the lighter, vibrant, 'headier' or more intellectual side of the mystery, and soul being the gritty, earthy, rich, muddy, dark and embodied side. And while sometimes I think I have plenty of spirit in my life, I worry that the 'soul' side is suffering.

Does anyone here relate?

Gratitiude

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:08:25 GMT

For all of the things that You have done

For being there when there was no one

I thank You

For the times that I've followed my own will

I messed things up

But You've loved me still

I thank You

For everything You've showed me

You've held me and molded me

I thank You

Because of who You are

I know that I can go far

You told me to look towards Your kingdom

You told me that when You pronounced my freedom

O Lord, how can I repay You?

How can I repay You for all that You do?

By being obedient and trusting in You

Thank You Lord, thank You

For all that You have done

And for all that You will do

Thank You Lord for loving me in spite of what I've done

just me

http://new-beginnings.gaia.com — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:02:40 GMT

new at this so hello to all

Re: Finding My Place

http://extensionsofhope.gaia.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:34:49 GMT

First of all BIG SHOUT OUT for actually making it through the PTA meetings. They can be intense, boring, mindless and fun at the same time.

I know you love your girls + you seem fun so I know you don't mind making noise, getting loud or doing the cheering either.

So you once looked into a mirror and saw a hemp-wearing, tofu eating chick.

Today you don't see that reflection.

Instead you see a soccer mom. That does not thrill you and you need some advice?

I am a 23 year old mom of a young son so this is all new to me but I think I am pretty hip. I'm in love with his daddy so I glow and life is good for me so I am in awe. One thing I did have to learn though may help you too.

I learned that I can be myself more if I involve my son in the things that I do. So you do soccer and cheerleading get the girls interested in the things you like. Get some bangin' tofu recipes and really dive deep into tofu night. Be very true to yourself and if you like extraordinary, by all means get extraordinary!

I always recommend you make a living so if you can SAHM, I say be a SAHMw/$. If you like hemp clothes a lot do you know how to make anything, maybe you could make things out of hemp material?? That would be cool you could even sell them as fundraisers for the PTA or whatever is out there for your girls. Anyways the point is parents should be themselves at all times and maybe you are learning that yourself is more than what you ever thought it would be.

Each part of your life makes up who you are today so embrace it all. Don't feel like you have to be stuck being one way or the other. I think maybe that is why black girls change their hair so much because one day I may feel like a hair down college girl, and another day I feel like a little chinky eyes black china doll with a very tight bun. Either way I just go with my flow and be who I am.

My advice to you would be do the things that make you confident in who you are. Do the things that make you smile and have fun. Do anything that you would do for free for the rest of your life. When you think of that thing (those things) that you you love that much.. make a living off of it!

I hope some of this helps

Re: SOUL INSPIRATION:

http://extensionsofhope.gaia.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:29:42 GMT

"Yesterday is a wind at your back"

"Today is a gift"

"Tomorrow is a promised hope"

Re: SOUL INSPIRATION:

http://extensionsofhope.gaia.com — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:29:22 GMT

"Yesterday is a wind at your back"

"Today is a gift"

"Tomorrow is a promised hope"

Reverance to My Maker

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:56:51 GMT

You've made me who I am today
Someone to love and care for in every way
I am amazed at how I've changed
My entire life and being, You've rearranged
God, there is none like You
No one can tough my heart like You do
If I'd known of Your beauty before now
I'd have come further in my relationship than I am now
Yet, I am glad to know You
I worship and adore You
Thank You for this peace You've given me
Thank You for a love so heavenly

Earth Day Ritual performance piece

http://libramoon.gaia.com — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:44:57 GMT

http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

It's really a simple story Beings find planet. Beings treat planet badly. Planet goes about her business. Beings start to realize that they need planet, and had best learn to make friends rather than futilely keeping up enmity.

Gaea: A Ritual Performance

                     layers of imagery, music, tribal drums, futuristic dreams

Gaea was there, in the beginning. Gaea was all. Gaea was wise.
How could we not have seen, in the blindness of pride, of avarice,
of service pledged to false gods? The journey was long.
The journey was cold.
The journey was lonely. Asleep in a box with wilderness dreams. Or awake on the watch, wondering what was to come. Thus it was those false gods bespake us: Out of the cold vastness of space and time,
out of the fear that was all the companion we knew,
out of a need to make it all Someone else's responsibility,
out of a need to believe all would be well for our kind. Our planet was dying.
We did what we could to survive.
Survival we find
an appopriate end
to any means.
Survival will give us
the time we need
to find a better way
to survive. The strongest of us,
the proudest of us,
the meanest of us,
would not allow us to die.
We took off in our ship with the barest of plans to find another land
where our kind could live ...
expand. Now,
hybrid children evolved
from refugees
fleeing a hostile star.
Skygods and Earth Mother of ancient lore. It's time we relinquish fear and hatred, accept Gaea as partner and home
that we may all live and thrive. The land, when we found her was so warm and inviting.
We felt safe, supported, encouraged to grow. We ate of her fruit and her herds.
We built with her trees, stone and clay.
We drank from her cool crystal streams which we soiled with our waste.
Gaea was saviour and womb.
We repaid her with rape. We didn't understand,
thought her merely land,
thought ourselves masters from afar.

Gaea sent storms to bring us to our senses, wild winds and seas. Gaea tried to shake us off: Earthquakes, Floods, Famine, Plagues
sending us scattering into hiding. Intermingling with her primates, Gaea's children.
Without question or shame, we murdered what we could not steal.
Without honor or remorse, we laid waste to our host, to our adopted home,
then cursed her for not giving more. By accident or design, chimera adapting to Gaea's marketplace creating
new ways to define our origins from outer space
We lied to our halfling children, denigrated their Gaean kin,
twisted their virtues into a false concept that we called "sin." What Gaea did to us? Cruel, evil, in need of the whip. we seal over her bounty
into mad parody of Mother Ship. Unforgiving of the mess of living, the miracles of life.
In our ignorant pride we gave ourselves law to decide
propriety over fate turning in our minds mother love into a mirror of hate. Frozen in fear and rage, children swept out in the storm,
trapped in a self-made cage we had hoped to protect us from harm. Gaea, we cry, why do you treat us so angrily?
What will it take for us to wake up and see it is we who are wrong?
To hear and be aware of Gaea's song singing in our blood?
To learn the cycles, the seasons, the reasons for fire, wind and flood? To redefine our race, to find out that our place is here among our Gaean kin? The telling of new tale must begin. Gaea opens to sunshine to ease our agitation
Easy winds, easy gushing of summer rain
Feeding the greedy young grains,
growing along the plains, the flowers of the storm.
Feeding the beasts of the field,
continuing the cycle, as all is revealed. Love is the web,
craftily spun by great mother spider,
Gaea's familiar,
weaving magestic grace
no longer concealed. It was never our place
to control, nor others' to steal. Gaea creates in intricate arrangements, feeding us all of us all, a transformative stew.
So much energy wasted; painful lies to find our way through our beings to create such beautiful
children, reaching out to become and be free,
enjoying our destiny,
as Gaea's beloved. Arising in the circle, giving voice to pain -- grateful to Gaea's grace, dancing in her cleansing rain,
we sing in voice united: It would be so nice (paradise)
You and I
Floating in the sunlight
Ready to break free
To be
Exactly who we are.

(c) April 9, 2006 Laurie Corzett

Re: SOUL INSPIRATION:

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:49:51 GMT

Eyes are windows to man's soul and his heart is the key to his life.

"Guard your heart for it is the wellspring to life"-- Psalms 4:23

Re: SOUL INSPIRATION:

http://thatgal.gaia.com — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:14:08 GMT

My motto used to be:

Work hard - play harder.

But I d*** well know it ain't working for me no more. So we'll see what comes next. Maybe I'll get inspired here - or maybe not. :-)

PS: I absolutely love most of the quotes posted so far! Thank you!

Finding My Place

http://yogamama5.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:54:48 GMT

I'm Susan, SAHM of 4. I'm trying to find my place in the world again. I've gotten lost in bake sales and PTA meetings. I want to be ME again...my old hemp-wearing, tofu-eating self. She's lost somewhere amongst the pompoms and soccer balls. Can you help me find her???

The Medicine Woman

http://wren-alitama.gaia.com — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:33:50 GMT

and the Medicine Woman said..the people will come and they will be asking to be taught..and to find their roots and the roots of their people....tell them the stories..and teach them if they ask to be taught..such is the way of the People....

What is in a mans heart ..or a woman's, is what is the most important thing that counts...all is Spirit and as we choose to use (or misuse) this Spirit.... it goes out into the World and does the intention or purpose that is the intent of this choice....Spirit is all there is..and to choose Peace instead of war is the greater truth ....and is the way of Spirit....to choose love and honor instead of dishonor..to those around you or to yourself ..is the greater truth and coinsides with what Spirit intends for us...to choose Love instead of hate..or ridicule is the sign of true holiness...and all else is false and manmade and of the world ..not the true intent of Spirit....if we could but love and let each other be...if we could but love and give honor to those around us...we will be doing what Spirit Wills us to do....and giving honor to ourselves....and Spirit will smile on us and we will be happy and guided on our path... When we do anything disharmonious ..this blocks us from seeing and doing the Will of Spirit...misuse of this Divine Gift is so very sad..and causes tears ....for those who choose to malighn each other...and causes there to be more disharmony in the world...there is so much of this now...my Brothers and Sisters...Let us instead choose to add to the harmony of this world and to the healing of our Mother Earth....and to love each other without judgement or dishonor..for when we dishonor someone..we dishonor ourselves....and even the Angels cry..... Wren ... Alitama

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Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:00:51 GMT

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Peace
Liz

Re: Illumination

http://sanmugan2006.gaia.com — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:17:03 GMT

more you give, more you get , and live better.

I used to get a lot of pictures of my spiritual guide but I do not need them at all because I have the feeling that he is with me all the time. When people request for pictures of him I used to give away all that I have but again without my requesting i will get more pictures of him from several sources.

Illumination

http://serenitypeace.gaia.com — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:36:01 GMT

The illumination of my soul

Began simply like a spark from coal

A need, a hunger, stronger still

Developed out of its own will

I heard a voice I knew

Letting me know what to do

Look up, seek high

Don't just get by

Be so real it hurts your pride

The naysayers; they lied

You are all that and even more

Each opportunity an open door

You're meant to go through

You're meant to do and do and do

You're meant to be the best

But not better than the rest

Just the best at who you are

Traveling wide and far

Sharing your gifts with all

Being confident, standing tall

The more you give

The better you live

The more you get

Makes more to give yet

I took those words and held them close

Accepting the gift from the cosmos

Dreams

http://serenitypeace.gaia.com — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:33:02 GMT

There in the distance,

I can see my dreams

They call me forth

Summoning me

Showing me all that can be

Showing me what my soul already knows

The beauty that permeates this world

The beauty that permeates me

My dreams grow impatient

Where are you? They ask

Why are you not fighting for us?

Why are you so afraid?

I feel the longing, the need

Pulling, beckoning, urging

Doing its very best to

Drag me from my comfort zone

Refusing to go unanswered

Refusing to be quiet

Demanding action

Demanding resolution

I wait for enlightenment

I listen to the yearnings

I make way for the solution

Possibilities explode into reality

Spirit engulfs my soul

Lighting the path before me

Infusing me with courage

Imparting its strength

Olancha

http://LostHills.gaia.com — Fri, 11 May 2007 04:37:43 GMT

I wrote this earlier this year...

Olancha

Archie Logsdon, Lost Hills

God lies sleeping, deep in the forest of Oregon.

When he walked the streets of Paradise,

The band played every night, and colors swirled across the sky.

Now the cops walk arm in arm behind janitors

Sweeping up the pieces of forgotten dreams.

Trash day is tomorrow.

Plant me in a pasture in Olancha.

I'm a Lupine

Stretching my limbs to the sky.

Hitching with a madman. 357 under the seat.

The ghosts of dead lovers and highway patrolmen

Staggering across the desert

In the cold stone light of the moon.

Biscuits and Gravy, and lightning in my coffee.

Check my pulse in the bathroom mirror

And light up another day.

I'm a black tailed weasel

In a pasture in Olancha,

Playing with my lover in the sun.

Up yon dirt road, past the LA County dams you can find them,

Shining against the gravelled bottoms like silver dollars.

The power of love brought them here

To these highest places, to spawn in the naked

light of the sun.

In my pasture, I can dream of distant times

When molten glass rained from the sky,

And thunder crashed beneath our feet.

You were just a child, and I was dying

In the parched sands of your certainty.

Leave me in my pasture in Olancha,

My face to the wind,

Staring into the fires of the sun.

I am just a Lupine...

.....peace

Re: Tending the Dream Garden

http://LostHills.gaia.com — Fri, 11 May 2007 04:34:24 GMT

There is wisdom here.
Thanks...

Re: MoonPoem

http://LostHills.gaia.com — Fri, 11 May 2007 04:30:55 GMT

That is very good.
....gracias

cookingTHE IDEAL LIFE AWARDS, A SUCCESS & ZAADZ WAS THERE!PHOTOS!

http://onegoal.gaia.com — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:04:53 GMT

I greet You, the spirit within!

The "Co-creating the Ideal Life 2013" 2007 Awards is a Success. Different Groups & Individuals were recognized and Zaadz was recognized too.

See some photos on my "Profile" and on my "Photo Album" in my website:
www.onegoalinc.com

There will be another event in August and i need people to work with me in many ways...
HELP! i CANNOT ENJOY IT BY MYSELF, I HAVE TO SHARE IT WITH ALL OF YOU!

Be part of the Experience! This is the reason we are here on earth in this auspicious moment! Don't miss the opportunity, this is one in a lifetime!

If not us, who?
If not now, when?

With Infinite Blessings & Joy,
Janaki