Self Love Notes Archives - Shannon Crossman Writer & Wordcatcher https://shannoncrossman.com/category/self-love-notes/ Poet, Fabulist, Memoir Writer Tue, 01 Jun 2021 17:55:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://shannoncrossman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-Site-Favicon-Transp-32x32.png Self Love Notes Archives - Shannon Crossman Writer & Wordcatcher https://shannoncrossman.com/category/self-love-notes/ 32 32 Being Soft & Open in a Sometimes Hard World… https://shannoncrossman.com/soft-open-sometimes-hard-world/ https://shannoncrossman.com/soft-open-sometimes-hard-world/#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:17:44 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=1248 So many invitations to close the heart, to shut down, to NOT feel. Flying on the wings of words uttered with cruelty and vitriol, rolling across the wires of television, the Internet and the myriad ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/soft-open-sometimes-hard-world/feed/ 0 Let Yourself Rest Rather Than Resist https://shannoncrossman.com/let-yourself-rest-rather-than-resist/ https://shannoncrossman.com/let-yourself-rest-rather-than-resist/#respond Sat, 07 Sep 2013 21:55:59 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=882 “The fish will be the last to discover water.”  ~Albert Einstein Be the Smarter Fish. Sometimes we get caught up in the net of our lives. Hauled onto the hard wood of the ship flopping ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/let-yourself-rest-rather-than-resist/feed/ 0 Go only as far as you need. Then STOP. https://shannoncrossman.com/go-only-as-far-as-you-need-then-stop/ https://shannoncrossman.com/go-only-as-far-as-you-need-then-stop/#comments Fri, 30 Aug 2013 20:29:19 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=876 Forgive me for this, but forget the race to the top. Please. Let go of constant streaming activity. Just stop. Sink into your holy self. Submerge your synapses in silence. Engage in the wholehearted, holy ...

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]]> https://shannoncrossman.com/go-only-as-far-as-you-need-then-stop/feed/ 1 Make Yourself a Divine Bonfire of Light https://shannoncrossman.com/make-yourself-a-divine-bonfire-of-light/ https://shannoncrossman.com/make-yourself-a-divine-bonfire-of-light/#comments Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:07:57 +0000 http://www.shannoncrossman.com/sandbox/?p=865 Burn up. Burn away. Burn higher. Burn on. Whatever you do, do not extinguish your light. It serves as a marker on the trail of awareness. Hide it or put it out and we are ...

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