I want to share with you a new book that I was introduced to when on my booksigning tour. On the way to Santa Cruz, I stopped and visited Alice Gardner who just finished a book with themes similar to mine. It's called Life Beyond Belief and it is a beautiful, simple summary of just that--what does life look like when you begin to live from Presence.
I was especially moved by the following paragraph: A common control pattern involves a resistance to letting go of a low self-esteem state that prevents us from engaging in work in the world that is visible of significant.
At the end of my talk that I gave to different audiences, I shared a quote by Gangaji: Women know a lot simply from what their bodies have gone through. We know a lot about meeting suffering, about what passes, what comes and goes. Women know an enormous amount about the broken heart and vulnerability. It's time for women to stand up. Not like men, but as ordinary women, telling the truth. There has been enough hiding.
Then I shared how difficult it was for me to do that--to stand up and claim what I know. But that is exactly what is needed at this time. One woman in the audience in Santa Cruz said that when she heard me say that, she felt her own self being called to stand up, too--to stop hiding. "You don't have to be awakened to claim the truth of what you know," I said.
It wasn't until I read Alice's book afterwards that I saw how this hiding is actually a control pattern. This constriction is subtle, but as soon as you recognize it, it is obvious. So I encourage all of you to go ahead--claim what you know. Stop hiding! Let Life have its way. It's going to anyway.
You can find out more about Alice's book by going to her website: www.awakepublishing.com
And if you haven't been to my website, check it out: www.extraordinarywisdom.net
About Me
- Rita Marie Robinson
- Like many of my generation, I have been on a lifelong search. Innocently looking outside of myself for the answer, I explored many paths—from the occult to shamanism to Buddhism and New Thought Churches. My work interests were equally eclectic—I worked as a radio journalist, in real estate sales and development, and finally as a psychotherapist. I received my Masters Degree in 1995 from Pacifica Graduate Institute, known for its archetypal and soul-centered approach to counseling. After the death of my husband in 1994, I trained as a Hospice volunteer and in Compassionate Care of the Dying with Joan Halifax. I have lived and worked in Santa Barbara, Santa Fe and Telluride, Colorado where I currently live on a peaceful mountaintop with my husband, dog, cat and big garden.
3 comments:
the whole "enough hiding" thing dovetails perfectly with my choice to start my own blog--funny how just writing something "out loud" changes the way it feels inside of me.
i'm really excited to read the book!!
valerie
How wonderful to discover your blog Rita, and to see you mentioning my book. I thought you might have found time to read it by now. Thanks so much for your support and friendship. Alice Gardner
I hope that the title of the last post to your blog is an indication of how little hiding your life is about these days; too busy out in the world encouraging others, to be at the computer feeding the machine!
I am dropping by to let you know that your website and book have been referenced on the Oprah ANE thread that I just joined last night.
Meanwhile check out my three main blogs:
kerriebwrye.blogspot.com
onefemaleculturalcreative.blogspot.com
ducorps.blogspot.com
They have each been and continue to be a way of standing up in my truth since my full-time, hands on parenting days, recently changed to that next stage in both our lives.
The blogs are one of the ways I am rebuilding my own path back into the world of participation for myself.
Just wanted to share.
Thanks!
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