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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment Eckhart Tolle
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment
Eckhart Tolle
Sunflower by Susie O Warren Visit here to order a print.
Still Life With Fruit Life will not be neatly wrapped and tied, boxed or pigeon-holed. Just when we think all the fruit is in the bowl and we can name it piece by piece, the still life is upended. Plums and peaches roll to the far corners of the room. Now it's the empty bowl that beckons. Can we have faith and wait? Can we allow the mystery of choice or chance or circumstance to give birth to fullness once again? Can we trust the fruit will be ripe for picking when it's time to break the fast? - Danna Faulds, from Go In and In
Still Life With Fruit Life will not be neatly wrapped and tied, boxed or pigeon-holed. Just when we think all the fruit is in the bowl and we can name it piece by piece, the still life is upended. Plums and peaches roll to the far corners of the room. Now it's the empty bowl that beckons. Can we have faith and wait? Can we allow the mystery of choice or chance or circumstance to give birth to fullness once again? Can we trust the fruit will be ripe for picking when it's time to break the fast?
- Danna Faulds, from Go In and In
Dear Fellow Travelers,
There is a theory that birds evolved from reptiles. Based on a model created from the oldest feathered fossil discovered, scientists found that the only way this “reptile” bird could fly was to leap and then soar from tree to tree—similar to how a flying squirrel propels itself. I believe that the feathers developed in response to the very strong and innate desire to LIVE and PROSPER. This desire is built into all living creatures and leads us. It is why miracles—like a reptile learning to fly—occur.
It seems to me that humans have forgotten that we too are part of this process and are becoming perfectly poised for a miraculous leap of our own. We are evolving even as I write and you read this.
Soul Flares exists to remind us that miracles depend on all of our smal land large acts of faith, love, and truth.We believe in the ripple effect—that every time we follow our own inner guidance, we add momentum and strength to our species' movement towards a profound shift. Through this e-newsletter, our website, and the Wild Soul retreats Soul Flares and its readers, artists, and supporters send out LIFE inspiring ripples.
Soul Flares needs your help right now to continue its important work.
We ask for:
- $400 to pay our accountant for preparing the annual 990 tax form. - $1000 to support the Soul Flares retreat scholarship fund, which allows women and men of all income levels to find healing and be inspiration at a Soul Flares retreat. Soul Flares has given out 10 scholarships this year. (Please consider Giving Miles to our United Plus Account. Or, if you have a United Mileage Plus account, Transferring Miles to Soul Flares. United Mileage Plus #03176031866) - $1000 for the ongoing development of a Soul Flares sponsored Girls Rites of Passage Program here in Vermont. (The results of this work will be shared in the form of a guide so that others can begin this much-needed work in their own communities.) - Donations to help support the publication of a book I am putting together this summer called Loving Ourselves Through Change: The Journey from Emptiness to Spaciousness. This book will be similar to Art as a Way of Life—a combination of excerpts, writing, and art. It will serve all of us who have experienced profound loss or change.
- $400 to pay our accountant for preparing the annual 990 tax form.
- $1000 to support the Soul Flares retreat scholarship fund, which allows women and men of all income levels to find healing and be inspiration at a Soul Flares retreat. Soul Flares has given out 10 scholarships this year. (Please consider Giving Miles to our United Plus Account. Or, if you have a United Mileage Plus account, Transferring Miles to Soul Flares. United Mileage Plus #03176031866)
- $1000 for the ongoing development of a Soul Flares sponsored Girls Rites of Passage Program here in Vermont. (The results of this work will be shared in the form of a guide so that others can begin this much-needed work in their own communities.)
- Donations to help support the publication of a book I am putting together this summer called Loving Ourselves Through Change: The Journey from Emptiness to Spaciousness. This book will be similar to Art as a Way of Life—a combination of excerpts, writing, and art. It will serve all of us who have experienced profound loss or change.
To make a tax-deductible to Soul Flares please visit here or send your donation to 1329 John Fowler Rd, Plainfield, VT 05667.
You can also support Soul Flares by purchasing art, books, music, and notecards through the Soul Flares Store.
Blessings and love to you on your journey,
Annie O’Shaughnessy
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What's New at Soul Flares
A few more spaces are left for the August Wild Soul retreat in Bolinas California. (Visit here or see below)
Development of a Girls Rites of Passage program sponsored by Soul Flares.
“Who Do You Say That I Am?” new chapbook by Jangchub Palwo
HeartWings, Love Notes for a Joyous Life by Tasha Halpert
Feedback on the latest Wild Soul Retreat by a participant.
More Reader Recommended Books added—Add your own!
Wholesale Art Printing: Let Soul Flares create archival prints from your artwork to sell or to give to friends.
New submissions added to Readers Write topic: How Do We Feed Our Spirit?
New Topic for July: Other Ways of Knowing (See more below)
Soul Flares reader Carol Harada is offering another “Harvesting the Dream with Collage” workshop in California.
Reconnecting With Our Wild Souls - Bolinas California, August 15-18 for Men and Women of all Ages. We have a few spaces left!
With news that air travel will be getting very expensive, I may not be traveling to California next year, so I invite all West coast readers to consider making this trip to Bolinas to gather together. Commonweal Retreat center is a powerfully healing place right on the ocean. Some recent feedback:
I made a leap of faith—I got the point. I found my joy. I realized that I haven’t really been showing up in daily life. I am beginning to remember what being present actually feels like—and I like it. I can’t stop thinking about it. I want more. It was wonderful. I miss the people I met there. I miss the complete authenticity of every interaction. Such wonderful souls. - Sue Birch, Wild Soul Participant
I made a leap of faith—I got the point. I found my joy. I realized that I haven’t really been showing up in daily life. I am beginning to remember what being present actually feels like—and I like it. I can’t stop thinking about it. I want more. It was wonderful. I miss the people I met there. I miss the complete authenticity of every interaction. Such wonderful souls.
- Sue Birch, Wild Soul Participant
Visit here to learn more about this 3-day retreat and to place your $100 deposit. (Total cost is $450 for 9 meals, 3 nights—$100 discount for scholarship recipients. Additional donations encouraged for scholarship fund)
Visit here to DOWNLOAD Wild Soul Program Description.
Or email me at annie@soulflares.org with questions.
Wild Soul Writings: We do some writing during every retreat. Please visit here to read some of these wonderful writings.
FREE BOOK: Words for Wild Souls edited by Annie O'Shaughnessy
As a gift to you from Soul Flares, I offer you a free downloadable book of words that have guided and inspired me and fellow Wild Souls over the years. These poems, excerpts and essays are words to take in slowly, to share, and to use in your own work as therapists, mothers, fathers, friends, teachers, etc.
Please let your own soul shine by sharing these words with others. They will thank you.
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May-June Topic: How Do We Feed Our Spirit?
These past two years I've come to the conclusion that living in a way that feeds one’s spirit is essential. It is essential for being a positive presence on this planet, for being a loving partner, friend, and mom.
Visit here to check out new submissions to “How Do We Feed Our Spirit?”
New Topic for July: Other Ways of Knowing
I have learned a huge amount through books, schools, and fellow travelers. I respect the incredible power of the human intellect, but I am more and more interested in the others ways of “knowing.” Some questions to consider:
- What intelligence do our bodies express? - How do we experience inner guidance or intuition? - Do you feel guided by an intelligence that is beyond your understanding? - Do you believe in spirit guides, animal guides, plant spirit medicine?
- What intelligence do our bodies express?
- How do we experience inner guidance or intuition?
- Do you feel guided by an intelligence that is beyond your understanding?
- Do you believe in spirit guides, animal guides, plant spirit medicine?
Please email your thoughts to submissions@soulflares.org so we can share them with the community.
Visit here to read the submissions we have already received.
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Soul Flares is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded by writer and workshop facilitator Annie O’Shaughnessy, dedicated to providing beauty, inspiration, support, and community for people trying to live a soulful, creative life in harmony with nature and all beings. Through art, workshops, bi-weekly e-newsletter, and an online community, Soul Flares will provide light for seekers on the path.
This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 24 June, 2008.
