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Letters to the Women of the WorldInstitute for Circlework 2012, all rights reserved. Do not copy without written permission.Letters in English (For Arabic and Hebrew letters please click on PDF)Dear Women of the World,Know that you are precious, loved, and appreciated. Know that you are connected by your heart of every other woman on the planet. When one of us suffers, we all feel the pain; when one of us knows joy it ripples out of the heart to all hearts. Keep your heart open, ready to receive the beauty of women’s love.The earth, our mother, needs us now, more than ever before, to connect with each other, to love and protect each other, to co-create a world that benefits all people and sustains the earth herself.I ask you to begin now! Let go of old ways of thinking only of today. Move toward heart-centered decision-making that takes into consideration all living beings and future generations. Act from love. Be love. It is your deepest truth.From, Joan, with love. CA, USADear Sisters of my Heart,I may not have ever seen your face, but I know that we share the same Mother. We are related through our human form, all a part of the one human family.I love you, I love you, I love you. And I am dedicating my life to help bring love to ALL our lives. I hold your preciousness in the chamber of my heart.I fill it with love.I fill you with love.I love you.Cara, United StatesDear Sisters, Please. I invite you to look at one another and as you do so to recognize that we are all part of one another. So if you admire your sister, remember she is part of you and if you don’t like her, remember she is part of you. To truly know we are all one and we all need ot be loved by one another.Rosalyn Clements, Toronto, Ontario.CanadaDear Sisters,We are getting closer and closer. Stronger, more conscious. We are here to bring change and healing to the world. Don’t be afraid anymore. We are being guided to receive help.As we get more empathy within ourselves we can transform oppression, violence, ignorance, passivity, sickness. We, as women, can and will bring love and nurturance to this world, to our children.We want to live in peace. Let us know peace in ourselves so we can bring it to all beings.Helena, BrazilTo the World’s Sisters,Sisters, come shine your light along with me. Sister go shine your light out beyond. I will follow as far as the tree on the hill, but will cheer you on for eternity.From, Jennie, Pennsylvania, USATo my circle of Sisters,May you witness and experience compassion, understanding, healing, love and peace.May you become aware of your true self inspiring authentic living.May you be grounded to Earth Mother as well as connected to the Divine Goddess.May you be protected on all levels of being and live vibrantly, passionately, soulfully, bringing light and harmony to the world.Much love,Natasha, CanadaTo All Dear Sisters,My heart is so full, so spacious. In this circle, I entered my own womanhood deeper than I ever had. I feel my heart beating in unison with the hearts of my dear Sisters all over the world, wherever you may be, however you love, under whatever conditions. Please enter in the beauty of your hearts and know that we are ONE.Tonya, CanadaDear Sisters,I think it is never too late to begin, so let’s start and feel for each other, wherever we are. And support each other. Something which won’t look valuable to you, one of us would be really thirsty for it. Let’s start depending on ourselves, cause each of us have a a very valuable and vital identity. No one will identify us. It is us, ourselves, who must come to the frontline and find a way to fight our battle. Learn to defeat. We can really support each other in whatever name the world has given us, if it is a mother, sister, daughter, etc. We are all one. Let’s not let the world play with us. Let’s be a tool of success to each other wherever we exist in the world.Hasini Safi, AfghanistanTo my heart Sisters,I see you when I look in the mirror. I feel you when I weep with despair and when I left my face to the heavens and laugh with joy. I feel it when your heart aches. I feel it when you sigh with relief. I hold you in mind as I drift off to sleep. I see each of you when I look at the millions of drops of dew sparkling in the morning sun. We are all precious points of light dancing in the sun. Never forget that you are light.Filled with love, your heart sister,Sarah Lebret, Ithaca, NY, USADearest Women of the World,As I sit at the closing of this precious Circlework Training, I am touched deeply by the life-death cycle. In our circle a new being was born, initiating a Circle Sister into the Grandmother tribe. Death was also present in our sacred circle in the form of lost loves (human and animal), summer’s ending, and even the circle’s closure.This life-death cycle exists in all cultures, in all countries, throughout time. We cannot sustain this existence without the loving support of our global sisters. So wherever you are …. Sit together, hold hands, tell your stories, share your tears, and find ways to touch each other’s hearts. The world is a better place when sisters hold each other up through life’s changing tides and currents. I wish you the sweetness of sisters, the joys of connection, and the courageWith love, Seena, New York, USADear Sisters,My wish is that you all know your beauty and strength… that you know your gift for healing yourself and our mother earth…that you know we are connected to each other in love and sorrow. Know we are connected in divine wisdom.I wish for you to always feel the grace of our divine mother through the hearts of other women. I ish for all that violence and ignorance is transformed through the strength of our wills combined into a voice of force never to be forgotten. Know we individually carry the strength of the One.We can rest in each others hearts as we do the hard work that is coming…that we are being asked to do. Know your beauty, know your strength.In gratitude,Gaila NewburgUSATo our Sisters in Afghanistan,First and foremost know this; there is great love for you here. There are many of us who feel tremendous kinship for you and for your suffering. This feeling of solidarity and sisterhood is deep and steadfast like the beating of our hearts.In both of our countries there are those with power and weapons. Driven by fear and anger their actions are like a scream, loud and terrifying. However, like a scream they will have to run out of breath. And in the silence we will once again hear the beating of all of our hearts.With love, we hold you in the light.Your heart sisters, Circlework Training, September 2010Dearest sisters,How I love your beauty, your feminine soft strength. How I long to know you and understand who you are and from where you come. What is it you long for? What is it you desire? Are you loved? You so deserve to be loved, to be accepted, to be honored... You hold wisdom. You hold the power to heal. Please take exquisite care of yourselves, so you do not become depleted taking care of others. Please know I love you, I cherish you and I honor you, dea sisters.My love always.Shanti, Shanti, Shanti ShalomEllen Bloom, Plainfield, VA, USADear sisters,Share with me your stories and I will share mine. We will see that beyond our surface differences, underneath the layers of separation and division, we are all the same-- our hearts fashioned and sewn together with the same primordial fabric from the world's first mother. With this fabric, we can weave peace and healing into our world-- for our ancestors, our children, our men and ourselves. I know you have courage, love, wisdom and compassion. May we keep our hearts wide and vast and move forward with joy. And when we feel that we lose hope and cannot go on, let us remember and rest in our common intention for peace and healing.Jessica Chasnoff, Bellingham, WA, USA Dear sisters,We are all uniting, opening to each other!Healing is happening.There is Divine help.We will all be strong, empowered, together!We canWe areWe will!Love,Helena Cooper, Ithaca, NY, USADear sisters,Drop into the vast darkness of your womb and the vast wholeness of your heart. Drop into your heart and listen. We are all needed. I need you, your intelligence, your nurturing, your creativity, your resilience, your strength, your uniqueness, and you need mine. Each one of us is a ray of the Light that lights the world.Drop into the emptiness, the dark, scary places, and call for Light. Call for what you really need. What you truly need is already reaching for you. And when you and I meet and become one, you heal, I heal, we heal our world.Je descends dans la noirceur effrayante demandant a l'Amour qui surpasse toute intelligence de me tenir intimement proche. Mes peines, mes blessures et mes frayeurs sont reelles. Je les apprivoise. Ils sont comme une enfant appeuree. Je berce mon ventre et mon coeur avec amour, sachant que notre Peine, notre Joie sont les meme.Camille Doucet, Ithaca, NY, USADear sisters,I love you beyond measure. I want your freedom. I want us to love, unite, and nurture in community. I feel your repression and want you to know that my expression is for both of us. I feel the field that connects us and I want to express our beauty, our sexuality, our gentleness, our power, our love and compassion, our joy in one another, our equanimity, our nurturance.Love Jana Hexter, Ithaca, NY, USADear sisters,I’ve been watching. I’ve been listening. I’ve been searching in the dark deep places where old pains nest.We’ve grieved longCarried grief like a babe in armsFor multiple generations.It’s time now to openOur broken heartsTo ourselves, to each other,To all beings.The dark mother of us allShall hold the grief for us. She will support us as we circle,Learn to trust each otherAnd take heart-centered action togetherFor the benefit of all beings,For the benefit of her body the earth.It is time. Take heartCare for your bodiesTrust. This is our time.Trusting in the power of our love,Joan Kiley, Oakland, CA, USADear sisters,You all carry the seed of the Divine. Always know you are not alone. All of us are the source of life, we all are wise, drawing from the infinite well of knowledge. Let healing waters pour through and around your hearts to heal your wounds. Let it flow between your legs to remember your sacredness. We are all one. You are held by all...never alone in your grief. We all share your grief and we know the healing power of our hearts, which can never be divided in our unity with each other and the Divine. Know the wholeness of your heart, even when you feel it has crumbled from violence. Draw strength from within and let yourselve be held in the circle of all women. When we are healed, then it is time to circle the men, help heal them into peace. The children need us. The children need us. The children need us.In love,Gaila Newburg, Petaluma, CA, USADear sisters,May you feel the warmth of this prayer. May this written blessing, infused with potent heart-love connect us heart to heart. I send this love, this warmth, that it may strengthen us, connect us, empower and sustain us as we stand to bring the new conciousness through. Courage Sisters! Our work is sacred. Take refuge in the heart. The heart is the door, the pathway, the Answer. In love,Cara Stone, Ithaca, NY, USADear sisters,Givers of life, hold back no more. Your love is most powerful above all else. Be true and trust the pulse of your femininity to guide us all to Light, Higher Love, a peaceful world. Fear no one. Just love fully. Be the blessed beings that you are called to be. Carry your truth forward to help all beings on the planet. Glorious is the circle, your true feminine nature. Please let Goddess reveal herselffor the sake of all future generations.All beauty, all bounty, all bliss. Sat Nam. Lourdes Roa, Scottsville, NY, USAUSA, Sep 2009My dear sisters: I am so happy to be writing this letter to you. I hear your cries and feel your pain across the miles as together we birth this new world. Be gentle with one another as together we breathe through the birthing pains, and listen - listen deeply - for the new stories we must begin to tell.I wait in quiet anticipation for the sound of your words, and smile in delight at the thought of hearing your voices ringing true along with my own. Shalom Salaam PeaceLinda Dixon, Casper, WY, USA Dear beloved sisters,Dear beloved sisters in Africa,Dear beloved sisters in the World,I am blessed to be here, with myself, trying to find and hold my own little child within me, I am crying now, I will not achieve the inner peace and happiness till you will find it, I can touch you tiredness and your beads of sweat that goes down from your forehead till your feets, I also can feel the exploitation of you there, I can hear your deep painful voices coming up from your mouth, crying, screaming, I can hear it is very loud, and its hitting within my soul I’m part of you, and you are part of me I’m sitting on the ground and in front of my eyes a beautiful blue sky and amazing green landscape around me, and I wish that your eyes can see it in this moment, its like our divine mother calling her daughters, and praying for protection and love. my task is to care for my little Nimala and not letting her become hurt again, and to shine, to be the woman that will take care and guide other women I have strong desire that all of you will join this holy and unique place and circle with these wonderful women, its our path and the only way that will lead us back to the Grace, our wisdom, our knowledge and to the real source of true love which will serve the world and all the coming generation Life is more joyful; with pure tears that comes from the little child within usIn peace,Light & love to you,Nimala Kharoufeh, Palestine Dear sister:I am writing you this message at this moment from deep inside my heart to tell you that you are beautiful, no matter what others tell you. You are beauty because God created you to help with the creation. You are the vessel that keeps life going. You give life, light and love. You are beautiful and your beauty is shining on everyone and everything around you. Without you, there will be no continuity for lifeor loveyou are the teacher and master of love & life. Be true to your heart and open it up. Let it lead you and dont be afraid to follow. With all the love that is filling my heart on this warm and beautiful day. I love you,Eilda, West Bank, PalestineDear sisters,To all the women around the world. Love yourself. Be gentle with yourself. Respect yourself. If you love yourself, you can give love. Change the patterns of your thoughts and put a new pattern instead of it and this will be a new beginning. Fill yourself with power, love and believe that you deserve the best.With love,Renee, West Bank, PalestineDear sister,I’m here for you whenever & wherever you feel sad, tired or weak, look around you and take your sisters in your heart. Let your tears wet their chests and faces. Let them know your pain or happiness. You’re in the center of our lives and hearts.Sahar, West Bank, Palestine, Jan 2010Dear sister: I wish you peace world wide, and inner peace, love yourself, honor your body, so you’ll be able to love and honor others.Your sister from Palestine loves you,Nahed, West Bank, PalestineDear sister,There is a charm in every one of you. Your heart is a home and your chest is where grace and hugs live. You are beautiful in your own special way. You are strong inside. You just need to love and care for yourself as you love and care for others, because youre wonderful!Love and Peace,Amanda, West Bank, PalestineDear sisters all over the world, Im here to support you and wish you my love and hope in order to let you stay strong, so you can continue your way in this difficult planet. We all know that you are suffering and want us to stand by you. And we will do it!Saeda, West Bank, PalestineMy beautiful sisters,I can feel your strength and it makes me strong. I can feel your pain. Send it to me and to your sisters everywhere and we will carry it together. Know that you are loved and that you are never alone. Your light is beautiful and it lights my way when there is darkness. Thank you for being part of me and for allowing me to be part of you.Love, Danna, West Bank, Palestine, Jan 2010To all the women of the world,We, in Palestine, feel your suffering.Women of Palestine are with you.I send love and compassion to all of you.Life is worth living after all.Be happy with what you have and what you are because others may not have it.Happiness is the only thing that cannot be a result of wealthiness.Be strong and raise your voice.Stand up for your rights.Never give up.Do what feels right to you.Nama, West Bank, PalestineDear sisters,I know that most of you or most of us are under this feeling that you are not equal, so you need to do a lot to prove yourself, however, you don’t need to do that, you have the gift and power to do a lot even though you are not taking the chance right now but still you have the power to carry the world up. You are the ones who can save the world, who can, through your precious role in life as a mother create a new world. You have all the strength and power to do that. Just claim your faith.Nouram, West Bank, PalestineDear sisters, As a woman, I am able to feel and understand women’s pain and frustrations in this world. Looking all around the world, I see women’s needs and rights are the same with slight differences, at the end we share so many things. I am a proud Palestinian woman and would love to give all my sisters i
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