SAFE HARBOR
CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL HEALING
CATHY GINTER, SPIRITUAL HEALER & MASTER TAROTOLOGIST
Committed to the Path of Wisdom and Inner Peace
I am devoted to our One Self... that is LOVE!!!
Between moon and star,
From dusk to the birth of dawn,
I AM, embracing. . .
Awakening ~ An Evening of Self Discovery
Facilitated by Cathy Ginter, Spiritual Healer
"Being right on the spot nails us. It nails us right to the point of time and space that we are in. When we stop there and don’t act out, don’t repress, don’t blame it on anyone else, and also don’t blame it on ourselves, then we meet with an open-ended question that has no conceptual answer. We also encounter our heart." -Pema Chödrön
Wednesday evening, June 4th at 7:30 PM ~ Good Medicine
How to Turn Pain into Compassion with Tonglen Meditation
(The Spirit of Tonglen and Bringing Your Practice to Life)
Tonight, Pema guides us deeper into the practice of Tonglen Meditation. In this manner, everything and everyone becomes our most perfect teacher... the nectar that softens the heart and opens the pathway to enlightenment.
The Awakening group meets the 1st Wednesday of each month and focuses on spiritual films that inspire us to practice and devotion. As ever, I am here to support your Self discovery.
*** Tonight's program is a "home" viewing among friends, held in the privacy of my living room. ***
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"I AM" Haiku by Cathy Ginter ~ February 2007
Photograph of Antennae Galaxy compliments of the Hubble Space Telescope
Photographs of Cathy Ginter and Safe Harbor by Melody Rose Nolan
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"There is a mountain six miles wide, six miles long and six miles high. Every hundred years, a bird flies over the mountain with a silk scarf in its beak and runs the scarf over the top of the mountain. In the time it takes for the scarf to wear away the mountain, that's how long you have been taking birth. Stop worrying about enlightenment. Practice with patience, timelessness and joy." -The Buddha
My Recommended Reading List for the Journey
A Course in Miracles
Talks with Ramana Maharshi ~ On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
The Bhagavad Gita
The Heart of Awareness ~ A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita by Thomas Byrom
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tze
Illuminations ~ on the road to nowhere by Paul Ferrini
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
I AM THAT ~ Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Freedom from the Known by J. Krishnamurti
Essence of the Heart Sutra ~ from the teachings of the Dalai Lama
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The Relationship Dynamic
One of the larger questions that we encounter when we embark on the spiritual journey is: how do we best connect with friends and family members who might not so easily support our apparent transformation? Once we find ourselves at a place where we are truly willing to leave our baggage behind, we experience such freedom and joy. Yet instead of the love and support that we would eagerly receive from our loved ones, we are sometimes met with fear and apprehension.On the flip side, the effort to maintain the status quo in our relationships is like a feather, attempting to hold back a tidal wave. It is only a matter of time before we tire of all the energy, required to maintain a false façade. What is even truer is the awareness that any desire or expectation on our part completely clouds our vision and traps us in a space in between mirrors of illusion. Herein, every thought is deceptive.As we evolve spiritually, the relationship dynamic that we generate with others is certainly going to be different. The real opportunity in all of our relationships is to be consistent in our willingness to tell the truth. However, this integrity requires that we are first ever willing to be completely honest with ourselves. Keep in mind that the great deceiver arises from the recesses of our own psyche. The choice of whether or not to indulge in another round of compulsive thinking becomes our 'choice moment.' Thus, it remains our responsibility to remember exactly where the first thought will lead and then to choose, 'not!'If we can allow this important transformation to occur without touching it with a thread of our previous, conditioned belief system, then a miracle begins to take place, and the weariness itself becomes such a gift. At the moment of our complete surrender, we have an opportunity to allow the tidal wave to carry us into the depths of the sea where we can drown in It, once and for all. What remains is calm and compassion."The Relationship Dynamic" © November 14, 2007 by Cathy Ginter
"What you are looking for is what is looking." ~ St. Francis of Assisi
