I Sit Listening To The Wind

by Judith Duerk

I Sit Listening to the Wind is the newly revised companion volume to the classic Circle of Stones. As Judith Duerk powerfully shows, the world is crying out for a developed Feminine voice, a voice that can mediate, once again, the ancient values of the Feminine. These are values of interiority and of the sacredness of the earth, that honor the privacy of individual process; values of the deeper Self held within us all. Many women experience a battle within themselves between the critical, dismissing voice of their masculine side and the interior, self-sustaining voice of their feminine side. Without coming to terms and seeking balance with our masculine side, our feminine side can never reach its full potential. For those seeking balance between the masculine urge to DO and the feminine desire to BE, Duerk's mixture of prose, poetry, and reflective questions creates a model for integration.

Genres: Nonfiction, Goddess, Spirituality, Womens

103 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Chloe · Rating 4 out of 5]

After purchasing this book, the title really stuck with me and I found myself repeating it to myself even without the awareness of what message I was manifesting. Through that patience and continued curiosity, I believe I picked this up at the perfect time. It was a call to action to create community and take responsibility for my own perspective and it came at a time I needed to hear it so succinctly, through the voice of many women my elder who had lived and loved to share the tale.
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Yet, the entire world today is in desperate need of women of sensitivity and clarity who can point out what is poisonous just below the surface. Women with the courage to speak out for their subjective values, who will take a stand for individual truth.


How might your life have been different, if when you felt time pressing in on you, there were a place to go where you were allowed to simply be?
...And you knew that there would finally be time enough for you...


What is allowed to be expressed by women in those societies is often merely an insubstantial and sweet applauding of the accepted standards established by the Masculine.


She lives in an arid approachable way. And her depths become enraged! The whole wellspring of womanly creativity within her is furious for not being tapped. And the greater the individuality and insight that have been dammed up, the greater the rage!


What if we began to trust our feelings, even our depression, as our deepest truth? What if we women began to stand by our pain, and refuse to let animus invalidate it.


To be able to see the original wounding with such pathos, that you at last feel compassion for that terribly wounded child who wanted so strongly to survive that she was willing to adopt extreme patterns.


There are poems inside me, and if I live long enough, I wish to bring them to birth.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Similar to the author’s previous book, Circle of Stones, which I just read. It’s a book for contemplation that would probably have been more impactful for me if I hadn’t read so many others like it.

[Bailee Lamb · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked up this book not realizing it was the second of a series, and I wish I had read the other one first. This book was a little wordy at times and distracting from the purpose, however I do think that was in part due to my lack of self awareness about the masculine/feminine relationship within myself. I plan on reading this again after I read the first book. This did awaken the notion inside me that I am wildly out of touch with my feminine energy, as I have had to rely on my masculine energy to get me through most of my life experiences and relationships. I enjoyed the read despite not fully comprehending it at times. (I expect this rating to increase after reading it again and the first book as well.)

[Tamzin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is definitely not for everyone. It is extremely contemplative and you have to really go within yourself at every page to get anything out of it. Also, it contains some quite outdated views of gender- but if you think of it as the female energies as the spirit and the amicus as the ego, you can pretty much get the gist of this. I think what makes this more catered to women is the added layer of a woman's role in life if she chooses to be a mother and also being a woman with more spirit in a society dominated by ego.

[Jewl · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the sequel to Circle of Stones. I liked the first better, but this is still an inspiring read for women.

[LemontreeLime · Rating 2 out of 5]

I tried to read this, but was not in the right mind frame and gave it away. It wasn't bad, however.

[Ana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another book like poetry.

[Mygoodreads · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very inspiring. Also helps to grow. Every girl's a must read.