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GliderGuider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 06:21 AM
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If You Want to Change the World … Love a Woman
Edited on Fri Aug-05-11 06:27 AM by GliderGuider
If You Want to Change the World … Love a Woman
by Lisa Citore

If you want to change the world … love a woman - really love her.
Find the one who calls to your soul, who doesn’t make sense.
Throw away your check list and put your ear to her heart and listen.
Hear the names, the prayers, the songs of every living thing-
every winged one, every furry and scaled one,
every underground and underwater one, every green and flowering one,
every not yet born and dying one …
Hear their melancholy praises back to the One who gave them life.
If you haven’t heard your own name yet, you haven’t listened long enough.
If your eyes aren’t filled with tears, if you aren’t bowing at her feet,
you haven’t ever grieved having almost lost her.

If you want to change the world … love a woman - one woman
beyond yourself, beyond desire and reason,
beyond your male preferences for youth, beauty and variety
and all your superficial concepts of freedom.
We have given ourselves so many choices
we have forgotten that true liberation
comes from standing in the middle of the soul’s fire
and burning through our resistance to Love.
There is only one Goddess.
Look into Her eyes and see - really see
if she is the one to bring the axe to your head.
If not, walk away. Right now.
Don’t waste time "trying."
Know that your decision has nothing to do with her
because ultimately it’s not with who,
but when we choose to surrender.

If you want to change the world … love a woman.
Love her for life - beyond your fear of death,
beyond your fear of being manipulated
by the Mother inside your head.
Don’t tell her you’re willing to die for her.
Say you’re willing to LIVE with her,
plant trees with her and watch them grow.
Be her hero by telling her how beautiful she is in her vulnerable majesty,
by helping her to remember every day that she IS Goddess
through your adoration and devotion.

If you want to change the world … love a woman
in all her faces, through all her seasons
and she will heal you of your schizophrenia-
your double-mindedness and half-heartedness
which keeps your Spirit and body separate-
which keeps you alone and always looking outside your Self
for something to make your life worth living.
There will always be another woman.
Soon the new shiny one will become the old dull one
and you’ll grow restless again, trading in women like cars,
trading in the Goddess for the latest object of your desire.
Man doesn’t need any more choices.
What man needs is Woman, the Way of the Feminine,
of Patience and Compassion, non-seeking, non-doing,
of breathing in one place and sinking deep intertwining roots
strong enough to hold the Earth together
while she shakes off the cement and steel from her skin.

If you want to change the world … love a woman, just one woman.
Love and protect her as if she is the last holy vessel.
Love her through her fear of abandonment
which she has been holding for all of humanity.
No, the wound is not hers to heal alone.
No, she is not weak in her codependence.

If you want to change the world … love a woman
all the way through
until she believes you,
until her instincts, her visions, her voice, her art, her passion,
her wildness have returned to her-
until she is a force of love more powerful
than all the political media demons who seek to devalue and
destroy her.

If you want to change the world,
lay down your causes, your guns and protest signs.
Lay down your inner war, your righteous anger
and love a woman …
beyond all of your striving for greatness,
beyond your tenacious quest for enlightenment.
The holy grail stands before you
if you would only take her in your arms
and let go of searching for something beyond this intimacy.
What if peace is a dream which can only be remembered
through the heart of Woman?
What if a man’s love for Woman, the Way of the Feminine
is the key to opening Her heart?

If you want to change the world …love a woman
to the depths of your shadow,
to the highest reaches of your Being,
back to the Garden where you first met her,
to the gateway of the rainbow realm
where you walk through together as Light as One,
to the point of no return,
to the ends and the beginning of a new Earth.
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 09:14 AM
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1. Well my dear, GliderGuider...
You are certainly changing the world.

:thumbsup:

Much love to both you and the wonderfully amazing woman you love.

:loveya:

Thank you for posting this.

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GliderGuider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 09:45 AM
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4. Thanks! I've been a bit overwhelmed since I read it early this morning.
Edited on Fri Aug-05-11 09:47 AM by GliderGuider
And to think I lost her for almost 30 years.
I feel blessed in every way. :hug:
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Howler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 09:34 AM
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2. Oh WOW!!!!!
That is one of the most beautiful pieces I have read in quite a while GliderGuider.
Thank you!!!
That brought tears to my eyes.
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GliderGuider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 09:43 AM
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3. It brought tears to my eyes when Kath sent it to me this morning.
I had to share it - it says so much about what I think being Love is all about.
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kimmerspixelated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 06:51 PM
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5. Stunningingly beautiful.. Thanks for sharing...
Is that your real name?
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GliderGuider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 07:49 PM
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7. I wish :-) I'm a bit of a poet, but nothing like that.
This is a sample of my poetry, that I wrote last year for Kath, who is my Twin Flame:

Binary Stars
by Paul Chefurka

Before you were,
Was I?
Or did you gaze me into life,
Eye to I?

Two perfect burning spheres
In mutual orbit,
Our surrounding space suffused
With silent hymns.

Emerging from our eternity in the thirsty dark
We drink the quickening glow,
Share a single breath of life
As the Phoenix reawakens.


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Why Syzygy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 07:23 PM
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6. This
is breath-taking. Thank you for posting. I found the source link and shared with facebook friends.
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GliderGuider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 07:58 PM
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8. Great! It deserves all the publicity it can get IMO.
:hug:
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