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Excerpted Inspirations #74
Easwaran also introduced me - and in so doing so addressed many of my deepest concerns - to the life and works of Mahatma Gandhi...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Apr 25, 20230 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #73
I believe that we are created by love and that sooner or later, the persuasion of love will draw us up out of our darkness...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Apr 18, 20230 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #72
She was very conscientious about watering her garden...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Apr 11, 20230 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #71
Surely the little thing was frightened sometimes, playing alone in a garden...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Apr 4, 20230 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #70
Veronique knew the landscape of the island as well as she knew the landscape of her own home...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Mar 28, 20230 min read
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THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE' Numbers 156b-165
Word Cloud of Conjugial Love 156b-165: Summary of the Numbers: This section of Conjugial Love covers "The Conjunction of Souls and Minds...

Julie Conaron
Mar 21, 20236 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #69
Suddenly Tamar was out on the floor alone. Josef with swift instinct began playing, and Tamar danced...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Mar 21, 20230 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #68
But as I sat scrawling these silly figures on brown paper, it began to dawn on me...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Mar 14, 20230 min read
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THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE' Numbers 154-155b
Word Cloud of Conjugial Love 154-155(b) Summary of the Numbers Swedenborg starts this section by saying that people who believe that...
Roslyn Taylor
Mar 13, 20235 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #67
Then, when we moved to Oxford, Bishop Gore came to stay with us for a few days. I expected to be terrified...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Mar 7, 20230 min read
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THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE' Numbers 138-153
Word Cloud for Numbers 138-153: Summary of the Numbers: Merriam-Webster defines "chastity" as abstention from unlawful sexual intercourse...

Kelly Milne
Mar 6, 20232 min read
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THE WOMEN'S COMPANION TO 'CONJUGIAL LOVE' Numbers 127-137
Word Cloud for Numbers 127-137: Summary of the Numbers: Swedenborg starts off by talking about the correspondences of Conjugial Love. ...

Liz Kufs
Mar 1, 20238 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #66
It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Feb 28, 20230 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #65
Later on, as we carried the hassocks back to the church and put them in our pew, my aunt said...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Feb 21, 20230 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #64
"My hands must be free if I'm to help you as I ought. I will be kind; I will trust you: but I don't swear anything...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Feb 14, 20230 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #63
A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then - oh joy...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Feb 7, 20230 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #62
I totally failed my grandfather but he did not fail me, though it was years before I realized...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Jan 31, 20230 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #61
The primitive, physical, functional pattern of the morning of life, the active years before forty or fifty, is outlived. But...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Jan 24, 20230 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #60
The Spiritual Midwife
The following discussion on spiritual energy is based on observations made at more than 1000 birthings...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Jan 17, 20230 min read
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Excerpted Inspirations #59
"Look," he said, examining the snowflakes on his sleeve...

Linda Odhner, with photos by Liz Kufs
Jan 10, 20230 min read
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