Labyrinth Wellness, LLC: August 2011

Monday, August 29, 2011

HOPE six years later - a beautiful soul shares her story

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/29/140029377/6-years-after-hurricane-katrina-much-to-be-rebuilt

If you have four minutes, please listen to the audio recording of this radio interview I heard this morning. It changed the entire course of my day.

It sparked in me a deep compassion that took me by surprise me and moved me to sobbing tears as I drove our son to school. Hearing Donald's voice and then Colleen's...I just can't put it into words how connected to them I felt. Please share it if you feel it, too.

Don't be embarrassed of your compassion, dear friends. It's OK to love people - especially strangers. The world needs our love and our HOPE as much as we need to share it.

Peace for your Path,
Robin

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The Caregivers Issue of the Veriditas Journal

Please let me know how you like the latest issue of The Spirit of Veriditas, Voices From the Labyrinth.

This is our Spring/Summer 2011 Caregivers Issue: http://www.veriditas.org/newsletters/journal.pdf

Happy Reading and Peace for your Path,
Robin

Saturday, August 20, 2011

walking (OK, maybe RUNNING) in circles for weeks...

In preparation for this last Saturday and Sunday of summer vacation, I have decided to STOP and take a bit of my own advice...

1. Unplug from my computer and phone (right after I finish this post)
2. Take a long, hot shower (since I am still sandy and salty from our morning beach romp with Lily)
3. Breathe
4. Nap
5. Walk the labyrinth (or at least trace the wooden one resting on my coffee table)

Sorry things have been so quiet here on our blog lately. Lots of new, exciting details to work out with the launch of OurGift here in the Palm Beaches while still balancing some last minute summer fun with family. Life is good! Hope yours is too....

See you soon on the Path!

Love,
Robin

Pilates on the Path: Saturday confessions...

Pilates on the Path: Saturday confessions...: I've been a little busy preparing to launch OurGift.Org here in the Palm Beaches. I have to confess that my Pilates self-practice has suff...

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Pono on the Path

I absolutely LOVE this idea of living...(Thanks again, Amy, for another wonderful video to share).

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

PLEASE share this article to help get the word out to PROTECT the manatees

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/cerabino-sorry-manatees-no-refuge-from-tea-partys-1686203.html

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

HOPE walked into the House last night!

Love this article!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-raushenbush/gabrielle-giffords-hope_b_916056.html

Thank you so much, Representative Gabrielle Giffords, for reminding us just when we needed a reminder.

poetry for your path

"And Mary said, 'My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior'." - Luke 1:46-47

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." - Rachel Carson

"I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music." - Hafiz

"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace." - Thomas Merton

"The search for grace, costly grace, involves the acceptance of pain and the creative grief which accompanies growth into maturity. Don't be afraid the pain will destroy the wholeness. It leads, instead, to the kind of wholeness that rejoices in Resurrection." - Madeleine L'Engle

Isaiah 43:1-4

"It is true that sin is the cause of all this pain, but all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well." - Julian of Norwich

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." - Rumi

"The labyrinth does not engage our thinking minds. It invites our intuitive, pattern-seeking, symbolic mind to come forth." - Dr. Lauren Artress

"You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred, and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you." - Sue Monk Kidd

"Divinity is like a wheel, a circle, a whole." - Hildegard von Bingen

"Draw a sacred circle around your recovery. Give yourself the gift of faith. Trust you are on the right path. You are." - Julia Cameron

"The joy of Being is the joy of being conscious." - Eckhart Tolle

"There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us." - Marianne Williamson

"The enemy of whole vision is reasoning power's divorce from the imagination." - William Blake

"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take that step into the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen: there will be something solid for us to stand on, or we will learn to fly." - Patrick Overton

"There are beautiful wild forces within us. Let them turn the mills inside and fill sacks that feed even heaven." - St. Francis of Assisi

Psalm 103

"One of the most wonderful truths you will discover on the path to authenticity is that your aspirations are your possibilities." - Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking." - Pablo Neruda

"I write because I am confused and seek to understand". - Robin Bradley Hansel

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it." - Anais Nin

"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life." - Proverbs 12:12

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -

Anais Nin

"Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people." - Richard J. Foster

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." - Anne Lamott

"You are the veil that hides the paradise you seek." - Saint Brendan

Peace for your Path...