SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: - How do you describe your experience of "liquid fire?" - What practices do you have to connect, maintain, and reconnect to that "liquid fire"? - What stories, personal or otherwise, demonstrate to you this collective calling forth of "liquid fire"?
Love this passage! Redefining the death-like experience of releasing the fearful versions of our stories & allowing "full ecological restoration to be our legacy"... so very beautiful. What is evoked for me here is the image of an artistic living... In fact, it's striking that she talks about nature reeducating us from the toes up (and from the inside out), because apparently recent research shows that humans who grew up to become artists tended to have drawn stick figures differently as children -- namely, feet first. Here's to artfully releasing fear & living bravey.
My association to "liquid fire" is my feeling passionately about something to the extent that I am compelled to speak out about it no matter what others may say or think. Connecting to that liquid fire comes easy for me -- what is difficult is garnering the courage to stand up for what I see and believe. When I have, I have felt good about myself. When I haven't, I feel a deep regret that stays with me for a long time. I think of Margaret Mead saying "Never forget that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." And Abbie Hoffman saying there is no such thing as an innocent bystander -- if you are a bystander, you're not innocent. My calling forth my liquid fire is fostered by reminding myself that I have a right and responsibility to express my viewpoint, my truth.
Wow! 'Planet sized heart' what a depiction of the possibility and motivation to adopt largeness of generosity and compassion :)