Audio Excerpts | Different Ways

Aug 19, 2022
2 min

Episode Forty Eight, Everywhere

Love can take on many guises and roles in human lives. It can be a romance or a parent's care; it can be a heightened sense of patriotism...

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Cile

Aug 16, 2022
1 min

Episode Forty Seven, The Vintage Man

Overthinking. Just about everyone I know, including myself is guilty of this. Hafiz warns of this hazard when igniting the creative...

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Episode Forty Six, Some Fill With Each Good Rain

Cile

Aug 12, 2022
2 min

Episode Forty Six, Some Fill With Each Good Rain

I grew up with low self esteem as did many young women of my age born in the 50's. We were sucked up into a post war mindset that...

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Cile

Aug 9, 2022
2 min

Episode Forty Five, Effacement

There comes a holy time in our lives when we learn the truth of ourselves. It is not usually a fun time because we are born to fuck...

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Cile

Jul 22, 2022
2 min

Episode Forty, Love is the Funeral Pyre

It is said when a caterpillar settles into its cocoon that the transformative process requires that the caterpillar turn into a complete...

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Cile

Jul 19, 2022
2 min

Episode Thirty Nine, So Many Gifts

It is said that when we are born we become a portal in time and space and within this opening pour all our gifts both light and dark. How...

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Episode Thirty Eight, That Shapes the Eye

Cile

Jul 15, 2022
1 min

Episode Thirty Eight, That Shapes the Eye

Do you ever notice what happens to the eye when one laughs from the heart? It shines a special kind of light - a divine light, you might...

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Cile

Jul 12, 2022
3 min

Episode Thirty Seven, For a Single Tear

For too many life is nothing but sorrow. For others there is a choice about that. I suspect this might strike some as unfair but I don't...

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Episode Thirty Six, When I Want to Kiss God

Cile

Jul 8, 2022
1 min

Episode Thirty Six, When I Want to Kiss God

If we are fortunate, we recognize that God is not something outside of our everyday reality but that which stirs within our bones as life...

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Episode Thirty Five, Someone Untied Your Camel

Cile

Jul 5, 2022
2 min

Episode Thirty Five, Someone Untied Your Camel

It is sometimes impossible to not be effected by the events of this world. We have come hard by our skills to navigate these challenging...

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Cile

Jul 1, 2022
1 min

Episode Thirty Four, What the Hell

Why not tell the world who we are - how we are - what we think - what we believe? Perhaps we have forgotten how to ask an open ended...

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Episode Thirty Three, If the Falling of a Hoof

Cile

Jun 28, 2022
2 min

Episode Thirty Three, If the Falling of a Hoof

When contemplating the meaning of one's life, we often get to the irreconcilable quandary of the meaning up against whatever we have...

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Episode Thirty Two, I Hold the Lion's Paw

Cile

Jun 24, 2022
1 min

Episode Thirty Two, I Hold the Lion's Paw

...And the sun and moon Sometimes argue over Who will tuck me in at night... We begin chapter four holding the lion's paw and taken by...

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Episode Thirty One, An Infant in Your Arms

Cile

Jun 21, 2022
1 min

Episode Thirty One, An Infant in Your Arms

What we imagine and what we expect design our reality. Our fears and phantasms fix our world in its place. Should we decide to release...

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Episode Thirty, The Ear That Was Sold to a Fish

Cile

Jun 17, 2022
2 min

Episode Thirty, The Ear That Was Sold to a Fish

It had never occurred to me before I studied this poem that I had ever made deals over my existence in this life. But I did step outside...

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Cile

Jun 14, 2022
1 min

Episode Twenty Nine, Curfews

I think if an ancient human being was magically transported into this time of the world they might go mad instantly. It would not be so...

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Cile

Jun 10, 2022
2 min

Episode Twenty Eight, This One is Mine

If we get to live long enough, we might have the opportunity to pick up our younger selves and lay claim to them. Many of us enter this...

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Cile

Jun 7, 2022
2 min

Episode Twenty Seven, A Crystal Rim

The Earth Lifts its glass to the sun And light - light Is poured... So begins this poem of Hafiz and so begins our lives before we take...

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Cile

Jun 3, 2022
2 min

Episode Twenty Six, To Build a Swing

I have a young granddaughter who loves to swing. My son keeps a swing set well maintained in their backyard for her. Often, when...

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Episode Twenty Five, If God Invited You To a Party

Cile

May 31, 2022
2 min

Episode Twenty Five, If God Invited You To a Party

An invitation to be oneself. The authentic self. The self that others rarely see this side of a cocktail; the self that we keep under...

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