Ingrid Goff Maidoff - Tending Joy

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& the Sacred Essence of Joy

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A Sacred Pause

Your daily life
is your temple and your religion.
When you enter into it, take with you your all.

~Kahlil Gibran

 

Hope, a poem

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from the book What Holds Us, New and Selected Poems

I wrote this poem shortly after 9-11, when I was feeling stunned and unsure of what we are meant to do in our ordinary and yet sacred lives- with such turmoil in the world.

Sometimes the first line is missed in the playing of the slideshow (shoot!)  It is:  “I hung hope out with the laundry…clothes-pinned tenderly beside a pillow case and two sheets.  I could tell she needed air, a sweet puff of wind…”

To Reconnect With Your Loving Center

Take a moment
to follow your breath.

Breathe in Peace,
Breathe out Love.

Breathe in Peace,
Breathe out Love.

Breathe in Love,
Breathe out Peace.

Breathe in Love,
Breathe out Peace.

Allow yourself to be nourished
and awakened by this simple
practice often.

from the book, Good Mother, Welcome

A Sacred Pause

Baby girl smelling giant roseWhether you are aware of it or not,
you are whole.
You are perfectly imperfect…
You delight the Universe
and you are good enough.

~From The Joy Book

Love everything.  Love your way into Joy.

A Sacred Pause

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 “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” ~ Henry Miller

A Sacred Pause

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Happiness lies in thinking or doing
that which one considers beautiful.
~Hazarat Inayat Khan

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