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For All The Marys
Martha Crawford Martha Crawford

For All The Marys

And how the dominating forces that we are facing now, that wish to stifle the self-actualization, intuition, intelligence, and power of non-maternal feminine autonomy have always been there.

And have always been resisted.

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The Dreaming Soul
Martha Crawford Martha Crawford

The Dreaming Soul

Religion is just as good a psychology as our scientific psychology is a doctrine of the soul which it denies.  ~ Rank

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Point Vierge
Martha Crawford Martha Crawford

Point Vierge

Then one by one they wake up and become birds. They manifest themselves as birds, beginning to sing. Presently they will be fully themselves and even fly.

~ Conjectures of a  Guilty Bystander, Thomas Merton

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A Common Center
Martha Crawford Martha Crawford

A Common Center

Healthy community groups are circles of peers who (metaphorically) stand around a common center – a cause, a value, a belief system, an identity, a mission, a challenge, a shared story, or experience. The center is their shared concern, the deeper purposes of their gathering together.

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New Instruments
Martha Crawford Martha Crawford

New Instruments

The reverberations bring about a change of being.

~ Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

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A Mother’s Curse
Martha Crawford Martha Crawford

A Mother’s Curse

Progenitors, creators and the earth have been too patient for far too long.

Beware a Mother’s Curse.

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A glimpse
Martha Crawford Martha Crawford

A glimpse

We exalt the Explicit, we idolize the seemingly permanent.

We underestimate the power of the implicit.

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Trivial Pursuits
Martha Crawford Martha Crawford

Trivial Pursuits

One can try to think, feel, experience and communicate everything, but the moment such expressions see the light of day they are robbed of their significance and meaning and are thrown in the dump. - Dorothee Soelle

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Our Temptations
Martha Crawford Martha Crawford

Our Temptations

The virulent demons that are inhabiting you are not grotesque little monsters with thrashing tales. They are illusions, stories you are telling yourself that are utterly fallacious; bizarre and fantastic lies which you nevertheless believe, and which consequently are taking your life from you.

~ Martin Bell, The Way of the Wolf

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