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Patricia Pearce

The Embrace #123: The Extraordinary Power of Blessing

While on a retreat recently I had a dream. In this dream I am a guest teacher of some kind for a group of students. …I tell them to go out and practice blessing people, and to come back the next day and share what that experience was like.

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The Embrace #121: Our Dance of Awakening

The Embrace #121: Our Dance of Awakening

Have you felt yourself to be on a roller coaster ride of late? Are you sometimes experiencing brilliant highs of joy and elation and other times deep grief and disillusionment? Are you having moments of sheer bliss and feeling attunement with all love swimming within and around you?

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The Embrace #119: No Order of Difficulty in Miracles

The Embrace #119: No Order of Difficulty in Miracles

Some years ago, I traveled down into Mexico to study Spanish. I had taken an extended leave from my job allowing this opportunity. A lovely Mexican family hosted me. My departure date to return to America had arrived. I was standing in line for check-in at the Morelia airport. When I got up to the ticket counter, the representative asked for my passport.

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The Embrace #118: Our Harrowing Time of Healing

The Embrace #118: Our Harrowing Time of Healing

Last week I returned from the Netherlands where I took part in an event in The Hague organized by Take Heart Publications. There about fifty people gathered from a dozen countries to join together around the theme of Co-Creating Our New Earth.

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The Embrace #117: My Heart is Still Beating, Mama

The Embrace #117: My Heart is Still Beating, Mama

Love never dies. Bodies may pass, be left to rest. But Love never dies. A few years ago, in 2020, I experienced a miscarriage. It was one of the most heart wrenching times of my life, yet it turned out to be one of the most magical, loving, heart-opening experiences ever.

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The Embrace #116: Crisis of Being Human

The Embrace #116: Crisis of Being Human

Dear friends, I am Jeshua, a brother and kindred spirit. I call on you to believe in who you are and in what you bring to Earth at this time. There is a fire within you – a calling, an inspiration. You are called in a certain way, but that call does not come from outside you; that fire, that inspiration, comes from inside you.

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The Embrace #115: Oneness through Relational Mysticism

The Embrace #115: Oneness through Relational Mysticism

Many great teachers tell us that we are all one—we are not separate from the Earth we walk upon, the trees that shade us, or from one another. We belong to each other and to all of nature. How can we live and breathe and know the reality of these words in the depths of our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls?

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The Embrace #114: Doing by Being: A New Activism

The Embrace #114: Doing by Being: A New Activism

I grew up thinking that things should be achieved with effort and dedication. I learned in the past that merit and striving had an intrinsic capacity to add value to my actions. “If I do it with sacrifice, somehow it will be worth more.”

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