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		<title>Gratitude and Devotion Coda: Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy Mother, in Whom we live, move and have our being, from You all things emerge and unto You all things return.
Beloved, I vow to keep opening my heart to you, to surrender to your love.
Holy Mother, I vow to serve and to celebrate and to reverence Life in all Your forms with authenticity and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahamsa.wordpress.com&blog=1307382&post=210&subd=ahamsa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Elements of Magic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday 3rd – Sunday 5th April, 2009

Eskdalemuir, Dumfries &#38; Galloway, Scotland

A core class in the Reclaiming tradition

led by flame and Halo

Join us for a residential weekend in the peaceful hills of southern Scotland.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahamsa.wordpress.com&blog=1307382&post=194&subd=ahamsa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Devotion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The need for devotion to something outside ourselves is even more profound than the need for companionship. If we are not to go to pieces or wither away, we must have some purpose in life; for no man can live for himself alone.&#8221; &#8212; Ross Parmenter
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		<title>Gratitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 06:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I&#8217;d been experiencing some confusion between fulfilling my soul&#8217;s purpose and recognisable &#8216;achievement&#8217; and recognition in the world. When I&#8217;m peaceful and balanced, I know the difference: my soul&#8217;s purpose is essential, while worldly achievement and recognition is a nice add-on, if it comes.
What has clarified that confusion for me is remembering to practice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahamsa.wordpress.com&blog=1307382&post=44&subd=ahamsa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve added some new links to the Weblinks categories (down on the right):
Nick Wilding
I met Nick through the Rural Leadership Programme at Falkland Centre for Stewardship. In addition to being one of the leading lights of the Centre for Human Ecology, he&#8217;s an inspiration in the areas of relationship, community, sustainability and just being an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahamsa.wordpress.com&blog=1307382&post=48&subd=ahamsa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Elements of Spiritual Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the Feri tradition*, we use the five-pointed star familiar from Wicca and Freemasonry &#8211; the &#8216;Lesser Seal of Solomon&#8217; &#8211; not merely as a symbol but as a tool to aid meditation and connection by linking each point to the elements and to other qualities which relate to those elements.

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		<title>Relationships</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a saying that goes around some New Age and self-development circles that relationships are &#8216;Yoga for Westerners&#8217;. What I think this means is that, for those of us living in the urbanised, technology and profit-driven &#8216;Western&#8217; (or &#8216;Northern&#8217;) world, the path to enlightenment, or awakening, or self-realisation, or union with God, or whatever [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahamsa.wordpress.com&blog=1307382&post=41&subd=ahamsa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Healing inspiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year I treated myself to a We&#8217;Moon diary. I&#8217;ve not had one for ten years and I&#8217;d forgotten what a wonderful resource of wisdom it can be.
Today, I found this poem, written by (Jane) Mara. I hope it speaks to you as deeply as it does to me.
 Mending the Tattered Web of My [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahamsa.wordpress.com&blog=1307382&post=43&subd=ahamsa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual practice &#8211; what is it for?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve found daily practice a trial &#8211; more like working through a menu than renewing my soul &#8211; so much so that I&#8217;ve given myself permission to have a &#8216;fallow period&#8217; of just noticing myself, rather than sitting down to focused meditation or energy work.
The twelve days of Yule are almost over now, though, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahamsa.wordpress.com&blog=1307382&post=42&subd=ahamsa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A poem for the season</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samhuinn
My altar is laid out upon white cloth:
a single candle and a water glass,
some clear-wrapped Woolworths fudge, a china cup
of Earl Grey tea (no milk), a rosary.
All my dead grandparents are honoured here,
and all of those who&#8217;ve died that I loved best -
a tooth, a collar, brushed out puppy fluff -
and ancestors of spirit, genii,
their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ahamsa.wordpress.com&blog=1307382&post=40&subd=ahamsa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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