{"id":232,"date":"2011-02-21T13:14:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T13:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/2011\/02\/dont-let-the-words-go-away.html"},"modified":"2011-02-21T13:14:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T13:14:07","slug":"dont-let-the-words-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2011\/02\/dont-let-the-words-go-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Don’t let the words go away"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Birds<\/a><\/span>Just a thought for today, which underscores the need for us to claim our voice and say what we need to say.<\/p>\n

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It’s just one sentence from Tobias Wolff’s “In the Garden of the North American Martyrs”<\/span> on what happens when we fail to give voice to our authentic thoughts and feelings, and our words go away:<\/span><\/div>\n

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Her own thoughts she left to
\nherself, and the words for them grew faint as time went on; without quite
\ndisappearing they shrank to remote, nervous points, like birds flying away.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In our active dreaming circles, we develop an everyday practice for sharing dreams and life experiences that encourages each member to claim her voice and then to take turns at opening the space for another to do that too. There is real power, and soul healing, to be found when we agree to make a space with others where we can each tell our story and speak our truth, be heard with respect and compassion, and then be helped to take action<\/i> to live our bigger story.<\/span><\/p>\n


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