Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nirmala Werner - Week of Nov 1, 2021

Coming home to our body

November 1, 2021

Links to poems:

Appreciation of the body

November 2, 2021

Links and quotes:

Quote from Rumi: “I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had and lift you like a prayer to the sky.”

Hafiz: Why Abstain from Love? Available in this collection of poems

Meeting difficult emotions with body, breath and voice

November 3, 2021

Links

Hafiz: Don’t surrender your loneliness

Hafiz: The heart is right

A gentle embrace of sexuality

November 4, 2021

Links and quotes:

Galway Kinnell: Saint Francis and the Sow

Quote from Sri Ramakrishna: Oh longing mind, dwell within the depth of your own pure nature, do not seek your home elsewhere…your naked awareness alone, o mind, is the inexhaustible abundance for which you long so desperately.

Heart connection and reaching out

November 5, 2021

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Antonio Machado: Last Night As I Was Sleeping

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