Be Love Linda Van Leuven, Ph.D. Miranda & William’s Wedding June 21, 2015 It is a great honor to be here today. I was Miranda’s Women’s Studies and Sociology Professor at UCLA, which makes me the obvious choice to speak at her wedding to William… As we celebrate the life they have created, and are […]
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The older woman walks ever so slowly down the block towards me. She moved here to be with her family, the children and grandchildren, and lives with them now. Her movements are a walking meditation. We often greet each other with good news of the day, which amounts to the weather. Our talk of climate
Sometimes I turn the water off — not because I am done watering, but because I am done wondering if I turned the water off.
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Yesterday, I had a prospective Room Renter come look at the house. She let me know how disappointed she was, how it wasn’t what she expected — how she needed wall to wall closets, and added “because I’m a Girl.” and she said this while looking at me, evidently not a girl. And I heard
My Teacher often encouraged me to make mistakes — to collect rejections — and in so doing, to become unashamed in asking, in taking action, or in any movement forward. She would suggest that I practice “failing”, encouraged me to “Go Forth & Fail”, a very counter-intuitive Meditation. And before one talk I was to
I thought I heard the Sound of Om the Divine Hum of Life Course-ing thru Subtle Bodies. a Spiritual Thumbs-Up, or audible Progression of Nothing. A Vibrational feedback loop, a Calling. I thought I heard the Sound of Om, but it was just the Leaf-Blower of Love. LVL©2010
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It seems many folks on the ‘Awakening’ or Non-Dual path say things like, ‘I’m not here,’ or ‘There’s No One home’, as a mark of Liberation — a mark of their dissolution. Apparently, the small egoic mind– like Elvis–has left the Building, and there needs to be an announcement. ‘There’s No One Here,’ and well,
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I like to start at the end. Which makes no sense after you realize that there is no end, no beginning, just “This.” The “Be Here Now” of “no time like the present,” even as we discover that a linear sense of Time is not absolute; where the future doesn’t exist outside of thought, because