I don’t know why, but I feel to share some poems from Love’s Secret today.
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This is a little book, very dear to my heart, created without compromise and published last year.
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I still don’t feel like I’ve properly spoken about this book or begun to share how much it means to me, how much I cherish it.
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I never really look at it, having said that, but it will forever be a memory, a stamp of the greatest mystery of all, how love takes you, uses you, recreates you and makes you both whole and incomplete.
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I hope you like it!
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Love Katie ❤️❤️❤️
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Love’s Secret
A Journey to the Beyond
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Poet, Katie Abbott
Editor and Publisher, Dr Timothy Winter, Director of Studies (Theology and Religious Studies) at Wolfson College and the Shaykh Zayed Lecturer of Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at University of Cambridge
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#poetry #devotionalpoetry #poem #lovepoem #lovepoems #spiritualpoems #mysticism #mystic #mysticalpoetry #mystical #sufipoetry #sufipoet #sufipoems #poetrycommunity #poet #poetsofinstagram #poetrylovers #spiritualpath #spiritualjourney #awakening #loveofgod #pauseplace
Morning all,
Hiding in the safety of the “stories” at the moment, probably in more ways than one. So posting nowadays always feels a bit strange.
No idea who will see this but I am writing to let you know that the next time we will be meeting in person in the studio in East London is for a two month journey that I will be holding, called ‘Truth’.
It composes of two live weekends, one in June and one in July and two online seminars.
We will be exploring with as much courage and grace as is given, the extraordinary journey of Truth we are called to take. What it means to open fully, to accept all the many facets and opposites that live within us, and to work with it all, to love with it, to live with it and to share it.
Truth is an extraordinary power. For better or for worse it pulls us apart and remakes us. But like a newborn, it is unstoppable in its ability to grow. It requires all of us and its beauty and precious nature knows no bounds.
Pause Place is a place that is difficult to pin point because it has a dream like quality. It is almost impossible to come to terms with the constellations that are made possible when we gather in this way.
It is not of this world and yet it is.
We are not of this world and yet we are.
You will be so so so welcome. Whoever you are and however you come.
No name required, no questions asked. Just the willingness to live and let live.
And to let love take us and remake us.
Applications open today.
I hope to hear from you.
With love,
Katie ♥️🕊️
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Thank you @mercedesjustlikethecar for some of these beautiful studios taken in the studio during White Dove.
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#truth #love #mysticsm #pauseplace
If you can start to live with the rhythms of your own nature, you can begin to feel a greater acceptance for the disposition you have been given
No amount of healing takes you away from who you are, but we may heal enough to be given space to live this
I have found personally that I must encourage myself to stay grounded in my own certainly that life is ever changing
That the way I felt yesterday, is not necessarily the way I feel today and that despite this there is an anchor to the heart
There is a weight that I carry that links me to the soul
That embeds myself within the currents of my own story
My own soul
This type of commitment comes after life has committed to you
You must find the way or sense the way that life has committed to you and then you must live it
This wayward essence of the heart itself, that the world can never understand, but that guides you none the less, into the light it takes you, into the place where reality dissolves into full consciousness
Where you are free to live
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Painting by René Magritte
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#mysticism #surrealism #awakening #truenature #pauseplace
This is 45, mid life, this is twenty years of running my own business, ten years of Pause Place, this is raising two beautiful boys and a strong kind man by my side….
This is also continued self reflection, internal struggle, at times, waves of depression and questioning regularly. This is anxiety and insecurity.
This is it all.
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In three weeks time we begin the Pause Place journey TRUTH. It is not too late to apply and you will be so welcome for this tender and deep exploration.
But before that- New York- a week today the whole family travels to NY for seven nights to celebrate Nigel’s @nigelhowlett solo show ‘Pursuit of Truth’. Our work is always entwined and this time- it’s time to celebrate!!!
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To find out more about TRUTH and to join us on this journey, please visit the website or the link in the bio @pause_place
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Thank you @lornamilburnphotography for these portraits and an incredible time together in the studio ♥️
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#freedom #hope #possibility #truth #pauseplace
The problem with the beloved is that he knows our weak spots
The gift of the beloved is that he knows our weak spots
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Unedited photo from stunning shoot with @lornamilburnphotography … you know how impatient I am and couldn’t resist sharing..
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These photos and many more to come are for TRUTH, the journey beginning in the studio in June
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I can already feel it and it’s going to be ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 but we will be held in so much love and tenderness
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If you are interested in the Truth, in anyway, follow the link in the bio @pause_place and join us
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This work is so immensely precious.
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Love Katie ♥️
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#truth #love #beautypauseplace @lornamilburnphotography
India in November 🌹🕊️
In November, Akal Anand and I will be returning to India to host a very special retreat at Kaner.
Kaner is a treasure, situated in the heart of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan.
Part of its beauty is its access to a place that one would not commonly be able to experience. Surrounded by land inhabited only by local people who have been there for generation, it is undisturbed.
The peace comes through the natural environment and the rhythm of desert life. Flowers, animal and plant free in their nature.
The particular beauty that this retreat offers is the exquisite taste of real India- the food is locally grown and mouthwatering delicious, the care and attention to detail to introduce India to its guests is palpable and mainly we are held, in such love and such grace.
Collaborating with Akal Anand is a dream come true because our styles are different but complimentary. Together we can nurture body and spirit, heart and soul.
If you are looking for a truly natural and beautiful journey to India, that is utterly authentic and deeply nourishing this is the opportunity.
We called this retreat Love’s Deepening- because that is what we do there, we deepen, unfold and let go.
We have begun to take bookings and the group is forming.
To join us please visit the link in the bio.
Yesterday I was walking with a friend in the park and ended up speaking about this book.
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I hadn’t told her about it before, which surprised me
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I said to her, as I have said to others, if I do nothing else on this Earth but this, it will be enough because it contains all the innocence and beauty of the early stages of mysticism, and what it means for the heart and soul to be free
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Not planning on stopping here, but let’s see, each day is a gift and we never know what is around the corner
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Loving you with all my heart ♥️
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Love’s Secret, A Journey to the Beyond, published by the Quilliam Press some years ago now due to the extraordinary soul that is @abdalhakimmurad
Thank you for hearing the truth in these words 🙏🏻
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#poetry #truth #liberation #pauseplace #abdalhakimmurad
Every identity you have clung to, is not the truth.
You don’t need to be burdened by who you are. Or who you are not.
Just let it go and open.
To being nothing again, and nobody.
So you can be free again, in the unknown again, and let it all come through again, like the morning again.
Let what wants to live in you, live in you and let it surprise you.
This is when you share your identity with the world and let it be His.
Don’t get involved so much.
Let yourself be free.
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The journey to Truth begins in June in the studio in London.
You don’t need to know anything about mysticism, or what your purpose is in being here.
Itʼs freer than that.
And more open.
Its a journey and an adventure. It’s about who you are when you stop trying.
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To find out more and to apply, płease visit the website or link in the bio @pause_place
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With love, Katie ❤️
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Thank you dearest Lorna @lornamilburnphotography for this phot of freedom in the park. So grateful for you.
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#freedom #love #truth #beauty #pauseplace
In four weeks time we gather in the studio for our journey called Truth.
If you are interested in a space where you can feel deeply, I am sure you will feel at home.
What is contained within us is extraordinary, it just needs space to breathe.
Your lived experience of the truth is what will change your life, nothing else but this.
It is incredibly simple but also requires all of you.
With the support and breath and spaciousness of one another, we can possibly let go enough to start living freely.
And my role always, is to keep the space as clear as I possibly can
So that the truth starts to sing
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I really open my arms and welcome you. Whoever you are, reach out.
It is such a beautiful adventure.
Applications are available on the website or via the link in the bio @pause_place
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✨✨✨The weekend with Katie was remarkable, I have never slowed down so much so quickly and it came at a time when I needed it. Katie shared such wisdom, presence and honesty and the energy was thick with peace. This showed me a way to lead that was quite opposite to what I thought I needed to be. I thought I needed to “perform” or carry everyone with strength but Katie showed me that allowing the different parts of ourselves to gently land and integrate is where the healing and beauty is. @laztheplantscientist
Rebecca- just found these words on my phone! Thank you so much!
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With love,
Katie ❤️
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#truth #meaning #beauty #pauseplace #mandala
Spiritual or mystical experiences have really very little to do with who you are as a human being
They come into your life at their own accordance, with often very little interest in who you are as a person, how healed or not healed you may be, the wounds you carry or any such like
That is why the years that follow on from an awakening can be disillusioning
On the one hand you carry an understanding that bypasses logic and reason and on the other hand, your humanity remains and often, it needs time and space to grow and to learn, to come to some place of home within itself
Too much logical input to resolve things can block your spirit, your soul, and equally your spirit and soul can be blocked by too little resolution
It is such a delicate balance.
Look after yourself, do what you need to be as clear and present in your life as you can be but also allow that energy of the beyond to take you and to move you
Do not get stifled by the world and its ways, keep the heart open and devotional
But also recognise you are still a simple human being and always will be
This is the real gift of spiritual life
To leave the practices behind and all the methodologies
Until it comes freely from you, until your commitment is solid and your faith in humanity secure
Balance is essential.
Unbalance equally so.
Both two parts of this same, beautifully uncertain coin
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Thank you @lornamilburnphotography for this photograph and our companionship ♥️
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#mysticism #truth #healing #pauseplace #love
One of the most beautiful elements that has always been present in Pause Place is a quality of respect for the space, for the silence, for the timing of the unfolding and for one another
It is impossible to explain how this feels or how it is made possible because it is an inner alignment and an attention that brings the heart into a silent focus, where the mind, however much it is included, knows to wait and to listen
It is essential to the work and the absolute foundation of all that unfolds
I can never understand how people can support or cope with too much information or noise or structure or tools or anything else like that
Silence has a quality of feeling.
It is the only way I know of to get close to my Beloved, and it is the group itself and the courtesies they effortlessly abide by that gives space to love, to reality and to truth.
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The next journey with Pause Place begins in June and takes place over two live weekends. This is space for you to explore the truth of your experience, the profound connection that exists within and between us and to re-centre and realign with the beauty and significance of our human lives. The group is now gathering. Please follow the link in our bio to join us @pause_place ♥️
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TRUTH- a journey over the summer months with Pause Place.
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#mandala #love #presence #connection #pauseplace
So easily the mind can question the path I am on, question my sanity, question my choices and way and then I am reminded that all is Gods wills, that there cannot be another way, and I can breathe again and return to the heart.
I can rest in my body rather than be run riot through the mind.
Love is a state of trust. Trust in self, trust in other and trust in life.
If you discover the heart along the way, trust in that.
That’s all, just trust in that.
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Thank you @lornamilburnphotography for this portrait. We were actually hysterically excited to be in this particular cafe in Hampstead with so many yummy things! Dying to go back!
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#truth #beauty #love #pauseplace #mysticsm
