SpaceClear Reflections

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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Support Equals Real Ease

Posted on27. Nov, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strong pull of what you really love.” – Rumi
One of my biggest ah-has in the clearing journey has been this one: It’s all well and good to feel our feelings to their full and natural completion, but if we don’t feel supported as we clear our clutter, we [...]

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Gratitude: A Visual Feast

Posted on24. Nov, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” – Rumi
‘Tis the season. Gratitude in pictures…and a movie. What are you grateful for? How does gratitude make you feel?

Happy Thanksgiving!
Credits:

“Gratitude” Album Cover by  uulyrics.com
“Love and Gratitude” Photograph of Water Crystal by Dr. Masaru Emoto
“I am Grateful” Video by igetrealtv

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Meet Them At the Door Laughing

Posted on03. Jul, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Accepting what is. Laughing ’til it hurts. Birdsong. The feeling of pure spacious ease. Taking nothing personally. Joyful anticipation. Dancing or listening to really hot Latin music. Rumi’s infinite wisdom in the poem below.
Those are some of the ways I experience freedom.
How about you?
This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, [...]

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The Beauty of Doing What You Love

Posted on05. Jun, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

If your read my last post, you probably saw that I was experiencing a rather “roomy” moment, thanks to the wisdom of my new BFF, 13th century Persian mystic and poet, Rumi.
I resonate with everything about the guy. His words infuse every cell of my being. I can’t take my eyes off of the richly [...]

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Feeling Rumi

Posted on02. Jun, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Let the beauty we love be what we do.”–Rumi
I re-discovered Rumi last week. I went on the internet looking for something else and landed on a very unassuming site that had something like 50 poems by this 13th century Sufi mystic. I ended up spending the better part of two hours scrolling down each one, [...]

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