{"id":4033,"date":"2011-10-16T07:22:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T11:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/?p=4033"},"modified":"2011-10-14T07:23:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T11:23:21","slug":"sunday-inspiration-the-world-is-your-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2011\/10\/sunday-inspiration-the-world-is-your-lover.html","title":{"rendered":"Sunday inspiration: The world is your lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/?attachment_id=8302\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8302\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8302\" src=\"https:\/\/astrodynamics.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/world-lover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up &#8211; release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast, true nature. For some of us, our love for the world is so passionate that we cannot ask it to wait until we are enlightened. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For when you see the world as lover, every being, every phenomenon, can become &#8211; if you have a clever, appreciative eye &#8211; an expression of that ongoing, erotic impulse. It takes form right now in each one of us and in everyone and everything we encounter &#8211; the bus driver, the clerk at the checkout counter, the leaping squirrel.<\/p>\n<p>As we seek to discover the lover in each lifeform, you can find yourself in the dance of rasa-lila, sweet play, where each of the milkmaids who yearned for Krishna finds him magically at her side, her very own partner in the dance. The one beloved has become many, and the world itself her lover.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joannamacy.net\" target=\"_blank\">Joanna Macy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up &#8211; release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast, true nature. 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