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Archive for June 13, 2023
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It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.
– Maria Tatar –
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The Deep Cultural Work of Chatter
“The horror of the oral, of stories that lack the luster of the literary, stems in part from the link between old wives’ tales and gossip, or idle chatter. How could these trifles possibly be dignified with print? But gossip has value precisely because it creates opportunities for talking through the emotional entanglements of our social lives. Its participants jointly construct narratives from the stuff of everyday life, spicy plots charged with speculative glee. Gossip takes up a range of topics, among them scandal, which invites us to engage in talk about moral dilemmas and social conflicts. And, more important, it serves as a resource for those without access to other options for securing knowledge, operating as a licensed form of release that may not upend the order of things but still serves as an expressive outlet.” Folklorist Maria Tatar shares more about the surprising and subversive power of gossip in this excerpt from her book,”The Heroine with 1001 Faces.” { read more }
Be The Change
More about Tatar’s book in this interview by the Harvard Gazette. { more } |
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Weekly excerpt to help us remember the sacred.
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 Forgiveness is the most powerful thing that you can do for your physiology and your spirituality, and it remains one of the least attractive things to us, largely because our egos rule so unequivocally. To forgive is somehow associated with saying that it is all right, that we accept the evil deed. But this is not forgiveness.
Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds. Forgiveness is a spiritual act of love for yourself and it sends a message to everyone, including yourself, that you are an object of love and that that is what you are going to impart.
This is the process of unbonding from old wounds and no longer hanging onto them as prized possessions. It means letting go of the language of blame and self-pity and no longer leading with one’s wounds and injuries from the past. It means privately forgiving and not asking anyone else to understand. It means leaving behind the eye-for-an-eye attitude that only makes for more pain and the need for more revenge, and replacing it with an attitude of love and forgiveness. The spiritual literature available to us from all religious persuasions honors this way.
Feeling worthy is essential to being able to [stay rooted in what you most deeply value]. It is simply a matter of common sense. If you don’t feel that you deserve something, why would the divine energy that is in all things send it your way? Thus, you must shift to knowing that you and the divine energy are one and the same, and that it is your ego that is conniving to keep you from knowing the power of this in your own life. |
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| What does forgiveness mean to you? Can you share a personal story of a time you let go of the language of blame and self-pity? What helps you choose love over hatred?
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Inspiring Links of the Week
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 