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Original Language
English

Half life

Themes

Birth, Rebirth

Fire

Heart

Lover and Beloved

Womb

Recommended Books

	Breaking the Drought: Visions of Grace, by Stephen Levine
	Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening, by Stephen Levine / Ondrea Levine
	A Gradual Awakening, by Stephen Levine
	The Grief Process: Meditations for Healing (Sounds True CD), by Stephen Levine
	Guided Meditations, Explorations and Healings, by Stephen Levine

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We walk through half our life
as if it were a fever dream

barely touching the ground

our eyes half open
our heart half closed.

Not half knowing who we are
we watch the ghost of us drift
from room to room
through friends and lovers
never quite as real as advertised.

Not saying half we mean
or meaning half we say
we dream ourselves
from birth to birth
seeking some true self.

Until the fever breaks
and the heart can not abide
a moment longer
as the rest of us awakens,
summoned from the dream,
not half caring for anything but love.

-- from Breaking the Drought: Visions of Grace, by Stephen Levine

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