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Image: Michael as weigher of souls. Early Gothic fresco in the choir of St. Michael’s Basilica in Altenstadt near Schongau, Germany. Photo: Gerd Eichmann, 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0

https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/compassion-as-a-creative-force/

And now I know why summer's place / Between them spring and autumn lies, / Amidst them joy and yearning, / And reason for yer shining sword raised high / Above gray clouds / Oh, Michael the Dragon Surpasser

ending of Michaelmas, a poem by Vladimir Nazor

Dark and cold we may be, but this

Is no winter now. The frozen misery

Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;

The thunder is the thunder of the floes,

The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.

Thank God our time is now when wrong

Comes up to face us everywhere,

Never to leave us till we take

The longest stride of soul we ever took.

Affairs are now soul size.

The enterprise

Is exploration into God.

Where are you making for? It takes

So many thousand years to wake,

But will you wake for pity’s sake!

-Christopher Fry

It is part of what we must learn in this age, namely, to live out of pure trust, without any security in existence—trust in the ever-present help of the spiritual world. Truly, nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us. Let us discipline our will. And let us seek the awakening from within ourselves, every morning and every evening.

In the morning: O Michael, I seek your protection and commit myself to follow you with all the strength of my heart; that my day may become a reflection of your destiny-shaping spirit.

In the evening: O Michael, I bear my grief into the setting sun, lay all my cares into her shining womb: cleansed in the light, clothed in love they return to me as helping thoughts, as strength for deeds of loving sacrifice.

Rudolf Steiner

They live a thousand years.

This, alone, is enough to

invite admiration. Robust.

Unfussy. They survive drought,

disease, pollution, pests.

They thrive in the midst of sirens

and car fumes, gridlocks and

garbage cans, concrete and horns.

And all across the city today,

a golden fluttering, a radiant trembling

on even the darkest streets. As if

to endure is not enough. As if we are

also here to burn bright, to shine, to offer

to the world every scrap of beauty we can.

—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Deep Soul food for Equanimity

Gideon Heugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36H7eUC-h0M

I have the Courage to make my own Choices and to let you also.

A verse that helps give that courage.

"When you are in Doubt, be Still, and Wait

When Doubt no longer exists for you, then go

Forward with Courage.

So long as Mists envelop you, be still; be Still until 

The Sunlight pours through and Dispels the Mists-as It surely Will.

Then Act with Courage."

🎉❤️🕊️✨🕯️And be the best Christ centered friend that I can be to my Self and other Selves. 😊

in every person and situation,

in every moment,

NOT what you are AGAINST.

The minute you begin to be against something

in critical thought or feeling,

you cut yourself off from it.

So don't waste energy cutting yourself off.

Seek to connect through love.

- from "Friend of my Heart" Meeting Christ in Everyday Life by Claire Blatchford

in every person and situation,

in every moment,

Not what you are AGAINST.

The minute you begin to be against something

in thought or feeling

you cut yourself off from it.

So don't waste energy cutting yourself off.

Seek to connect through love.

~ Claire Blatchford, from "Friend of My Heart: Meeting Christ in Everyday Life"

Christina

Against Fear --by Adam Bittleston

May the events that seek me

Come unto me;

May I receive them

With a quiet mind

Through the Father’s ground of peace

On which we walk.

May the people who seek me

Come unto me;

May I receive them

With an understanding heart

Through the Christ’s stream of love

 In which we live.

May the spirits which seek me

Come unto me;

May I receive them

With a clear soul

Through the healing Spirit’s Light

By which we see.

The sphere of the Spirit is the soul's true home,
And human beings will surely reach it
By walking in the path of honest thought;
By choosing as their  guide the fount of love
Implanted in their heart;
By opening the eye of their soul
To Nature's script
Spread out before them through all the Universe,
Telling the story of the Spirit
In all that lives and thrives,
And in the silent spaciousness of lifeless things,
And in the stream of Time — the process of becoming.

— Rudolf Steiner
[in Verses and Meditations]

Link to the Zoom Meeting:- 

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(written for Tilla, from London, Dec 20, 1947

In the quietness of the heart,

In the peace of the world,

In the purity of the senses,

In the humility of life,

There, an inwardness can arise.

And this inwardness

Becomes the cloak of Mary.

From the cloak of the Virgin

Stars of love can shine.

And the shining love of the stars

Awakens our heart.

And deep within our heart

Awakens all-prevailing love.

Thus love flows into the world

From our quiet heart-space.

And we bring peace

And the peace cleanses our senses.

And the purified senses shine

Into the world, and humility

Illumines our will.

Through this Mary arises

Once more in her blue cloak.

She holds the child in her arms, 

And the soul sings the unending song

Of the ever returning rebirth of the rose.

(From the book "Stories, Poems and Meditations" by Karl Koenig.)

I bear within myself

Forces to make me strong.

Now will I be imbued with their glowing warmth.

Now will I fill myself

With my own will’s resolve.

And I will feel the quiet

Pouring through all my being

When by my steadfast striving

I become strong

To find within myself the source of strength

The strength of inner quiet.

(Rudolf Steiner)

1 Spend time in nature

2 Pay attention to messages in dreams

3 Look for possibilities in problems

4 Take risks with courage

5 Keep learning and growing

https://www.whitneyhopler.com/post/5-lessons-on-wonder-from-st-patrick

"Is it too much to ask to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all?  Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?"

"What we do to another we do to ourselves.  We are basically all One."

frontrangeanthrocafe.org/

https://anthroposophysocial.com/

Rudolf Steiner’s 6 Essential Exercises

An Exploration Through Drawing

“An appropriate path of schooling will refer to certain qualities to be acquired by those who wish, through practice, to seek their way into higher worlds. Such qualities are, above all: the souls mastery of its thoughts, of its will, and it’s feelings “. -Rudolf Steiner, Occult Science

In this online workshop we will explore each exercise for one week with drawing exercises. No experience is necessary, all exercises will be demonstrated and do not take drawing skill.

The 6, so-called, subsidiary exercises are of key importance in the path of Anthroposophy.

April 1 - May 13

Wednesdays 11:30 AM or 5:00 PM EST

Sliding scale $0-200

To register for this course email Laura

laurasummer@taconic.net