"Every society honors it's live conformists and it's dead troublemakers." Mignon McLaughlin

Honoring the Feminine

"Any individual or society that fails to honor or provide the opportunity for women to fully exert their power can never truly prosper.   All creativity, growth, imagination, nurturing-all possibilities are born from the womb of the Divine Feminine.   To deny her a rightful place, either within ourselves or in the world in which we live is to do irreparable harm and endure the loss of countless joys."  Rod Stryker

We Have Come To Be Danced

We have come to be danced
Not the jiffy booby, shake your booty for him dance
But the wring the sadness from our skin dance
The blow the chip off our shoulder dance.
The slap the apology from our posture dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the monkey see, monkey do dance
One two dance like you
One two three, dance like me dance
but the grave robber, tomb stalker
Tearing scabs and scars open dance
The rub the rhythm raw against our soul dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the nice, invisible, self-conscious shuffle
But the matted hair flying, voodoo mama
Shaman shakin’ ancient bones dance
The strip us from our casings, return our wings
Sharpen our claws and tongues dance
The shed dead cells and slip into
The luminous skin of love dance.

We have come to be danced
Not the hold our breath and wallow in the shallow end of the floor dance
But the meeting of the trinity, the body breath and beat dance
The shout hallelujah from the top of our thighs dance
The mother may I?
Yes you may take 10 giant leaps dance
The olly olly oxen free free free dance
The everyone can come to our heaven dance.

We have come to be danced
Where the kingdom’s collide
In the cathedral of flesh
To burn back into the light
To unravel, to play, to fly, to pray
To root in skin sanctuary
We have come to be danced
We have come.

by Jewel Mathieson

Authenticity

"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and to allow our natural channel to open."  Shakti Gawain

Conformity and Authenticity

"Don't worry about what the world wants from you; worry about what makes you come alive. Because what the world really needs are people who are more alive.  Your real job is to increase the color and zest of your life."  Lawrence LeShan

Discovering our Gifts

"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."  Shakti Gawain

Individuality

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying 'amen' to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."  Robert Louis Stevenson

Health

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" - J Krishnamurti.

Individuality

"Whether he is wealthy or poor, the Rebel is really an emperor because he has broken the chains of society's repressive conditioning and opinions. He has formed himself by embracing all the colors of the rainbow, emerging from the dark and formless roots of his unconscious past and growing wings to fly into the sky. His very way of bei...ng is rebellious - not because he is fighting against anybody or anything, but because he has discovered his own true nature and is determined to live in accordance with it. The eagle is his spirit animal, a messenger between earth and sky. "    OSHO.

How Many?

How many people who believe they never dream are sleepwalking in their marriage, in their job, in their church, blindly adhering to ideas they never question, with no heart in what they are doing?"  Marion Woodman

Image of God

"It has been so false to imagine that God could condemn us or make us suffer or eventually put us into eternal places of torment.  Any God or Divine Presence that could wait for millions of years to dream up your identity, your spirit and your soul could never nurture you and then prepare destruction for you.  The mercy and forgiveness and the lovely lyrical gentleness of the Divine Presence is around every person.   And you should never allow anyone to break your trust in the tenderness and gentleness of God because that is closer to you than the words of any other human or the stipulations or regulations of any institution."   John O' Donahue

Death and Conformity

"Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do."   Bertrand
Russell

Your Place

"It takes so long to learn to take your place in your own life."   Ineborg Bachman