The Spirituality of Motherhood - Lessons from the REAL Masters
May 11, 2012
With Mother's Day coming up, at least in my part of the globe, I thought I would combine 2 themes of this blog - the spirituality of motherhood and interfaith explorations. My plan was to compile a series of uplifting and soul-inspiring quotes about motherhood from history's greatest spiritual leaders and teachers.
Except I couldn't find many.
Oh sure, there were a few along the lines of 'love everyone like a mother loves her children', but that was about it.
Note: For 2012 Mother's Day, I had hoped to offer a new recorded meditation here, one designed to aid with energetic balance - something most of us moms often feel we could use a little help with from time to time! As it happens, actual motherhood has prevented me from doing that this week, so I will work towards getting a new recording up next week. In the meantime, I wanted to offer up a post I did for motherhood 3 years ago (the reblog above), which quotes many of my favorite spiritual teachers and authors on motherhood - Gangaji, Karen Maezen Miller, Tsultrim Allione, and more. I hope you enjoy it! In response to this post at the time, a reader emailed me a link to information on the history of Mother's Day. It was originally created as a day in celebration of peace by Julia Ward Howe (a link to more info on this is in the comments of the post.) So Peace! - Lisa
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Nice words Lisa. Being a mother these days is very hard as what people think it is. It would be a good idea to really appreciate our mothers and thank them because they are there for us no matter what.