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Metanoia



Last Updated: 7/2/2009

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June 5, 2009 - Friday 3:11 PM

Current mood:  quiet
Category: Writing and Poetry







"Like dew drops on a lotus leaf, I vanish"

~Senryu~
Currently listening:
Seppuku
By Sanjuro
Release date: 2007-05-15
May 26, 2009 - Tuesday 3:11 AM

Current mood:  thoughtful
Category: Writing and Poetry





"Does sunset sometimes look like it is coming up? Do you know what a faithful love is like? You're crying. You say you have burned yourself. But can you think of anyone who's not hazy with smoke?"

~Rumi~

Currently listening:
Out of the Depths
By Idan Raichel Project
May 15, 2009 - Friday 3:11 AM

Current mood:  blessed
Category: Writing and Poetry



I Asked


"I've been fully submerged and drawn into the sea. Why should I just be a drop?"
~Rumi~




Currently listening:
Best of Me
By Maxi Priest
Release date: 1992-06-29
April 11, 2009 - Saturday 3:11 AM

Current mood:  thoughtful
Category: Writing and Poetry

***To hear spoken word version, scroll through the mp3 player located at the top of this blog page, and click on the title track***

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"Love~ Like death...Changes everything"

~Kahlil Gibran~







Below is a clip of my favorite interpretation of Christ and Mary Magdaline. The scene is about 9 min. long if you have the time, it is well worth the view as it reveals the beginnings of what I am trying to convey in this piece. I find Jeremy Sisto's interpretation of Jesus to be so human and still divine...as I would see him, and Debra Messing's Interpretation of Mary Magdaline speaks to me and to many women I know...







Below is a link to a 5 part series on Mary Magdaline and the Gnostic Scriptures that reveals Mary's true role in Jesus' life, and Gnostic Christianity. Absolutely fascinating for those that this subject is of interest:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9040673538707206364



Enjoy this Holiday weekend for what it may mean for you~
Currently listening:
Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ
By Peter Gabriel
Release date: 01 June, 1989
February 18, 2009 - Wednesday 4:11 AM

Current mood:  quixotic
Category: Writing and Poetry





Happy Valentine's Day Love...

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"The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along"
~Rumi~








Currently listening:
The Notebook
By Various Artists
Release date: 2004-06-08
January 2, 2009 - Friday 10:11 AM

Current mood:lost in the wind...
Category: Writing and Poetry


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"Talk about choices does not apply to me. While intelligence considers options...I am somewhere lost in the wind"
~Rumi~
Currently listening:
Remember Two Things
By The Dave Matthews Band
Release date: 1997-06-24
January 2, 2009 - Friday 10:11 AM

Current mood:quietly peaceful
Category: Writing and Poetry


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"
Let Yourself Be Silently Drawn By the Stronger Pull of What You Really Love"
 ~Rumi~



Currently listening:
Testimony, Vol. 1, Life & Relationship
By India.Arie
Release date: 2006-06-27
December 31, 2008 - Wednesday 10:11 PM

Current mood:  warm
Category: Writing and Poetry


Once upon a time there was a man named Doubt who came upon a woman named Faith. Doubt was moved by the possibility of faith, but was his nature to test that which he had never known.


Doubt stood at the crossroads...shreiking of pain and ugliness...the horror he believed himself to be. And Faith turned her back to him and spoke:


"I acknowledge your pain, but I refuse to dance with it. I validate your every ache but I refuse to feed it. For I do not look upon your yesterdays and judge you by your sorrows. I look at you for who you are today and what you do with your tomorrows. I stand at the crossroads and wait for you to open the gate...To see what I see of you in both faith and belief...For the gift of today and a lifetime of tomorrows...built by design of an unconditional love that follows...But only flourishes beneath the light of faith and truly seeing someone outside of their mistakes...Believing in their worth to rise above their heart's aches...Because my first name may be Faith, but you yourself named me Love."


~Destination~


I was speaking into your eyes

When you tripped over my words

Spilling your pieces upon the floor

You thought were left unheard

But I have no interests in your

Shattered fragments and broken parts

I never wanted you to see yourself broken

When you were whole right from the start

 

I don't need to shine my light upon you

To prove the opulence of your existence

Or glow of your own radiance…And really…

You don't need my faith or persistence

 

That's not why I am here…

 

I only speak from the place of which you teach me

And share all of which you've already known

Reflect back to you the seeds that you have sown

The karma you've owned, and new harvest grown

But you have cut yourself down to the very bone

And now it is time…For you to find your way home

 

You know…That foreign place…

That one you have never known

Somewhere between near and far,

Here and way over there

 

Where souls meet upon the dusty roads

Of long forgotten prayers

A breeze-like whisper with outstretched wings

Carrying silent promises that echo forming rings

And even though the truth still sometimes stings:

 

It is all about the journey, and not the destination

Fear not the outcome or tasting bitter rejection

Nothing can be destroyed that forever has always been

So serve yourself a slice of life on the stairway to heaven

Be open to the journey without remorse or hesitation

The greatest of experiences come without any expectation

 

Leila A. Marceau

8/17/08


"But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears."

~Kahlil Gibran~

 

Currently listening:
Belief
By The Innocence
Release date: 1997-12-02
December 31, 2008 - Wednesday 10:11 AM

Category: Writing and Poetry


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Currently listening:
Silence
By Sarah McLachlan
Release date: 1999-11-23
December 30, 2008 - Tuesday 10:11 PM

Category: Writing and Poetry


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"ἕνεκεν τοῦ νόμου σου ὑπέμεινά σε κύριε ὑπέμεινεν ἡ ψυχή μου εἰς τὸν λόγον σου"




Currently listening:
The Idan Raichel Project
By Idan Raichel
Release date: 2006-11-07
December 24, 2008 - Wednesday 4:11 PM

Current mood:cherished...
Category: Writing and Poetry

***Please take a moment to press play on this beautiful song created by Nate aka Odysseus. He composed this song using much of my poem as the lyrics. He is a gifted musician beyond what I can ever express, and a very dear friend to me. Listen and enjoy...and visit his page to hear more of his magical creations***
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Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA
myspace.com/odysseusmusicmagic


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'
انا لحبيبي وحبيبي لي. الراعي بين السوسن'

~Song of Songs 6:3~









Currently listening:
Devotion
By DJ Cheb i Sabbah
Release date: 2008-01-29
December 16, 2008 - Tuesday 12:11 PM

Current mood:...soft...
Category: Writing and Poetry


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"I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times in life after life, in age after age...forever"
~Tagore
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Currently listening:
Ces Vagues Que l'Amour Souleve
By Titi Robin
Release date: 2005-09-13
December 12, 2008 - Friday 10:57 PM

Category: Writing and Poetry


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Currently listening:
Karmacode
By Lacuna Coil
Release date: 2006-04-04
December 6, 2008 - Saturday 8:55 AM

Current mood:  busy
Category: Blogging


Dear Friends~

As many of you know, the entire year of 2008' has been a long strand of struggle and misfortune. Not a cornerstone of my life has been left unaffected, including my health, my heart, my spirit, my career, and my finances. It was a devastating blow in light of the miracle my life had been the year prior, and journey to India.

My goal at the beginning of the year was to travel abroad and do more non-profit work for humanitarian aid. I came very close to landing a job that would have sent me to Africa, but the recession has effected us all, and non profit organizations for foreign aid are suffering greatly because Americans are more concerned with our own economy at this time. I can only pray that this venture is only temporarily on the backburner.

After being unemployed for months that seemed like forever, I have just been hired by an international consulting firm based out of Chicago. To be a workaholic is a job requirement and expectation. I will be on the road more often than not, covering all of NH, ME, and MA, as well as traveling throughout the US and Canada. With long hours and hard work, this should be very lucrative. I pray I do not sell my soul in the process.

My whole life has been marked by radical change and direction, hence my screen name, Metanoia. This is not the first time I have had to completely reinvent myself, and it certainly will not be the last.

I want to take a minute to thank the true friends who have stood beside me and believed in me even when I did not believe in myself. I never forget a single act of kindness, and I am ever grateful to those countless few.

Obviously, these changes are going to seriously limit my interactions within this network as I will not be able to be posting and commenting very often. Though I will try to as often as time permits. I wanted everyone to know so it is not taken personally.

I pray this coming year will bring fruition and blessings to us all.


Namaste~

Leila


Currently listening:
I Still Believe-Tameiki
Release date: 2007-06-05
December 4, 2008 - Thursday 12:11 PM

Current mood:  blessed
Category: Writing and Poetry

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"When one is united to the core of another, to speak of that is to breathe the name Hu, empty of self and filled with love. As the saying goes: The pot drips what is in it"
~Rumi~


Currently listening:
Misty Forest Morning
By David and Steve Gordon
Release date: 1998-08-25