SpaceClear Reflections

It’s Only Weather

Posted on07. Sep, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.” –Pema Chodron
I often use the metaphor of the weather to teach a key principle of letting go I call spacious detachment. It tickled me to see it being used in the very same way by a world-renown Buddhist teacher.
Enjoy this beauty of a message:

How to [...]

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Starting Over

Posted on31. Aug, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

September. It’s my favorite month of the year.
More than just it being one of the most beautiful and bountiful months in New England where I live, September has always been a time of shift and new beginnings…
An invitation to show up, regroup, renew, start over.
But you don’t need to wait until September or New Year’s [...]

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The Spacious Ways of Lincoln and Einstein

Posted on24. Aug, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Once we change the very way we see, we may begin to experience the connections that tie us all together.” –Lynne McTaggart
What do Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley, William James,Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Schweitzer have in common?
Lynne McTaggart, author of The Field answers this question in a blog post entitled “Transcending the [...]

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The Truth of You

Posted on13. Aug, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Beautiful video. Gorgeous images. Timeless wisdom.
Use the flaws  (i.e. misspellings) as another opportunity to observe attachment and… let it go!
Passion. Not perfection.

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Expanding and Contracting

Posted on13. Jul, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

I adore this line by the poet Rumi:
“Your deepest presence is in every small contraction and expansion, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings.”
As it relates to clearing the clutter in our lives, it resonates so much for me. So I went online and found the poem. Enjoy!
Birdwings
“Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a [...]

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The Science of Clearing Spaces

Posted on09. Jul, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

If you caught my last  post “Clearing the Residue of Previous Occupants” and saw me walking around with a strange piece of wire identifying disturbed areas in a home, you might have wondered what the heck I was “doing” exactly. You might have found my short and simple reply to that question even more puzzling:
“I’m [...]

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Clearing the Residue of Previous Occupants

Posted on06. Jul, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

How many times have you gone into a big warehouse store feeling just fine and come out totally depleted? Or, maybe you’re standing in the checkout line of your supermarket and suddenly feel a wave of emotion, like depression, worry about money, anxiety—something you weren’t feeling before? Perhaps you walk into a room and feel [...]

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Listening to the Nudges

Posted on22. Jun, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Respond to every call that excites your spirit” -Rumi
You’ve probably seen my emails or notices about a contest I’ve entered.
The opportunity to participate was announced last February several times, which I dismissed several times. Felt too gimmicky. Besides, after three years of doggedly doing everything I could to get my book noticed, I felt [...]

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Taking the High Road

Posted on01. Jun, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Here’s what I’m wondering today: What helps you move from that place I call “Not-knowing”… to…
Knowing…?
You know… that crossroad-y place we find ourselves in sometimes, where we don’t know what to do next? Or the even messier, not-knowing place that makes us squirm for answers to be delivered now!… That place where nothing makes sense or [...]

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Living the Answers

Posted on25. May, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

This is the last in a series of posts on reinventing ourselves,* excerpted from Your Spacious Self. Enjoy!
Quitting the career and job that defined me for two decades detailed in the last three posts* led to a long period of fumbling in a foggy netherworld I call not knowing. I still find myself visiting that [...]

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Connecting the Dots

Posted on21. May, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

This post is the continuation of a series on reinventing ourselves. It follows this last one: “Making Friends with Not-Knowing.” **  Enjoy this excerpt from Your Spacious Self: Clear Your Clutter and Discover Who You Are:
Just days after this big moment of clarity, a book about clearing spaces was delivered un-beckoned to my front door [...]

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Making Friends with Not-Knowing

Posted on18. May, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

This is the continuation of my previous post: “Stepping Out of Comfort into Not-Knowing,”  which tells the story of how and why I quit a successful teaching career of twenty years – on purpose.
What happened next? In today’s post I share the goodies that could only be revealed to me by hanging out in the [...]

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Stepping Out of Comfort into Not-Knowing

Posted on14. May, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“There is a grief that occurs when who you thought you were begins to disappear.” – Ram Dass
As I prepare to pitch my book and my message to the folks sponsoring the Next Top Spiritual Author contest, I’m being reminded of the moment my life took a radical turn that led to my becoming an [...]

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Clearing a Space after a Person Dies

Posted on04. May, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

I was invited to clear an apartment recently belonging to woman who had suffered and died of ovarian cancer. The two women handling her estate called me in because they felt that the space did not feel good to them and they hoped to be able to sell it quickly and easily. One of them [...]

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“Reel” Good News

Posted on27. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Now for some Reel Good News.
This just in from my friends at the Spiritual Cinema Circle…
“Barbara Marx Hubbard, has created a must-see documentary Visions of a Universal Humanity which is an exploration of science-based evidence that we are at the precipice of the greatest evolutionary jump in human history.
Wrapped in awe-inspiring imagery and soul-lifting music, [...]

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Gathering Your Clearing Mojo

Posted on23. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

What needs gathering in your home or life that you can do in one minute or less?
My spring newsletter might inspire you.  The theme this quarter is about “gathering” – as in loose ends, all those papers cluttering up your desk, the clothes that you no longer need or love…
Gathering steam… gathering your self.
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Love, Earth

Posted on22. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist with a beautiful, if quirky message. I subscribe to his daily cartoon blog: Gapingvoid.
Below is his message for today. Happy Earth Day everyone!
“Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanic Eruptions, She may not be happy right now, but she’s all we’ve got.
Let’s take care of her.”
–From Gapingvoid
Cartoon image: “Love Earth” by Hugh MacLeod, available for [...]

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