Profiles include: Jane Goodall, Erica Jong, Lynne Twist, Anita Roddick, Joan Borysenko, Sherry Anderson, SARK, Gail Sheey, Laurel Mellin. Ilene cummings

THE GREAT SPIRITUAL PATH Quicktime Windows Media

Embrace your wisdom, power and beauty.

Learn how to:

• Bring spiritual practice into every day life.
• Deal with stress, life changes, grief, death, forgiveness.
• Live with love and gratitude.
• Re-invent yourself and fulfill your destiny
• Express your power and become a catalyst for positive change.

Words to live. Ten Commandments of an Ageless Beauty

THE WISDOM YEARS Quicktime Windows Media

ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER (The Invitation)

I really do think finding wisdom is about cultivating a contemplative aspect of your life, a way to slow down and let go, a way to listen, that wisdom will find us when we do that. And that’s where real power lies, is in being with what is, connecting deeply with ourselves and the world.

When I think of being an old woman, besides wondering if I have loved well, the question really is have I lived fully. Have I really gone down the roads that I wanted to go down and made choices, not out of fear, but out of what drew me.

MY MOTHER MYSELF Quicktime Windows Media

ILENE CUMMINGS CLIP
The wonderful poem by Appolonaire of come to the edge, life said, and they said I’m afraid. And she said come, come to the edge. And they came and she pushed them and they flew. And this is what we all need to do. We need to fly. We were born to fly. We weren’t born to hide ourselves We weren’t born to negate ourselves. We weren’t born to try to be somebody that we’re not, and we can’t be, biologically we can’t be. Flying means moving on. It means new territory and new horizons. It’s Womansong. It’s a new song. It’s finding your voice. And a new feminine identity.

JOAN BORYSENKO

So the question is, what is the role, who am I, what is the part that does not change. So in other words, you can say there’s the ocean and the waves. What part of me is the unchangeable ocean versus the wave. And that I think is another way of saying what’s your spiritual center. What’s your spiritual core. The analogy the Navajo’s might use is to walk in beauty. What is it to feel that sense of harmony, of beauty before you, of beauty behind you, of beauty above and below you. A feeling, ah, I’m home. I’m not playing a role. This is who I really am.