It is Your True Nature to Create
One of my favorite books is Mirabai Starr's Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics.
I've now purchased it six times because I keep giving copies away – it has been that transformational for me. Throughout the book, Mirabai again and again offers language to help us trust our own experiences and begin to see the divine in them.
Here is one of my favorite passages for reflection:
When you were a child, you knew yourself to be cocreator of the universe. But little by little you forgot who you were.
When you were a child, everything was about color. Now you pick black as your automatic font color, because that is the coin of the realm.
When you were a child, you made up songs. You don't sing much anymore; you lecture, you yell, or you keep a safe silence.
When you were a child, you traveled from place to place by dancing, and now you cultivate stillness, which is great, but you are forgetting how to move to the music of your soul. You can hardly even hear that inner music over the clamor of all your obligations. … It is not only your birthright to create, it is your true nature.
The world will be healed when you take up your brush and shake your body and sing your heart out.
📝 Questions:
What truth did you know as a child that you have forgotten or laid aside?
What does it look and feel like to move to the music of your soul?
🧰 Resource:
Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics by Mirabai Starr
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