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Deathbed Phenomenon

1/8/2025

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UPDATE:

THANK YOU to all who attended and shared so generously in our meeting today! Our group was beautiful - vulnerable, courageous, curious, sad, angry, joyful, authentic.
I appreciate you all so very much!

For those who are curious, the wonderful book that was mentioned by one of our attendees:

The Inner Work of Age : Shifting from Role to Soul by Connie Zweig.
You can find it here:
https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/the-inner-work-of-age-shifting-from-role-to-soul-9781644113400

You can find other resources I recommend here:
https://www.heartfullivinganddying.com/resources.html

See you next month!
Love Always,
Maya

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Good Day All,

We will meet today on zoom at our usual time - 12noon East Coast time. As always, ALL ARE WELCOME, please invite anyone you feel might benefit. You are welcome to share the link:

Topic: Memento Mori; Open, Honest Conversations on Death & Dying
Time: This is a recurring link, we use it for all our meetings.
Click to Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88247254767?pwd=b712bgGudloGE1lDqLaYoIb6eBanXh.1
Meeting ID: 882 4725 4767
Passcode: 057490
(More info on the Memento Mori page of this site)

Today, as an opening topic, I (Maya) will share briefly on what is known as "Death Bed Phenomenon". However, as always, anything around Death & Dying that you feel moved to ask or share is welcome. In this circle, we practice gentle respect for all views and beliefs, all spiritualities or lack thereof - this is a "come as you are" space.

Hope to see you there!

Love to All,
Maya

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2025; Let Moving One Grain Be Your Goal

1/1/2025

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I would - and perhaps I should - be offering everyone a "HAPPY" New Year.

But this, for me, in these times, would not be quite authentic. Yes, of course I do wish upon us all many joys and much wellness and all the Good Things. And yet to feel these without also knowing of the pain of those around our globe who suffer so greatly, would not be my wish for any of us. What I wish, rather, is MORE awareness, and that somehow, amidst the full and open presence with the world's suffering, we would also maintain our equanimity.

But not through compartmentalizing, nor any form of denial; instead,

I wish you a wealth of sustenance -- of the spirit, mind, heart and body -- that you may be present and whole in your service of the mending of the world and it's inhabitants, systems and harmonization.

I wish you courage beyond what you have known so far, that you might surprise yourself with a passion to serve, to heal, to help, in whatever way makes your spirit soar.

That you may, yes, regenerate, but/and then use that regeneration to make even one moment of one person's experience BETTER.

You do not have to move mountains, but also remember that if you move one grain of sand, and others do too, we may, in fact, be moving mountains together.

So, I wish you the strength this year to move one grain. If that one grain is the last lifted off a child under rubble, or the grain sprinkled on an icy step that kept a grandma from falling, or the one removed from a puppy's eye, it is enough. And it will be like a mountain moved for each of those beings who received your grain-shift. (Even if that grain-move is invisible to the naked eye, if it's movement brings you into greater alignment with your truest self, it is an achievement, and cannot help but move us all towards a better world.) The world needs your grain; we are all a part of this.

If you can let the movement of that one grain be your goal, your resolution for 2025, you are sure to have a good year, and so will someone else.

All Blessings of whatever sort suits you (could be the Light of The Divine igniting your Heart, or simply NOT getting hit by that heating bill as hard as you thought...),
As always, with Love,

Maya

https://bdsmovement.net/

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Deathbed Phenomenon

2025; Let Moving One Grain Be Your Goal

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