“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for – and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool – for love – for […]
Newly Minted Butterfly
“The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle’s flame. The first one went closer and said, ‘ I know about love.’ The second one touched the flame lightly with his wings and said, ‘ I know how love’s fire can burn.’ The third one threw himself into the heart of […]
Moving On
“Stop thinking so much. It is alright NOT to have all the answers.” When I think about moving on I am stymied by the shear weight of the task. The letting go of old things, the sorting and packing. The gargatuan schematic that has to be created so everthing gets done right, with a place […]
Summoning What Really Matters
Okay, let’s take a moment and use all our powers of imagination. Let’s pretend for the next 10 minutes. Let’s crank up our happiness quotient as if we are children making things up just to try things on and see how they feel… just for the fun of it. Are you there with me? Is […]
Unpack Your Love
“I believe we are all held safely by Love.” “Unpack your Love” is what came through the meditations. “Unpack it. Open it. See into all it’s light and shadow. Inspect all that is included in your thinking about Love.” My Love includes Attraction, Sex, Parenting, Kindness, Hurt, Compassion, Self-Loathing, Abandonment, Attachment and Detachment, Unconditional Trust, Grief, Joy and […]
Becoming a Magician
“This is how I want to spend my life, collaborating with forces of inspiration I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand.” ~elizabeth gilbert from her book Big Magic. My life is everything I make it. In this way I am a magician! Magician suggests things like: amazing feats, extreme skill, and secret […]
All Things are Possible
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible” ~walt disney I am making room for the possibility of bliss. I am letting go of old constraints. I have reasoned that without opening up to the idea of bliss I would not be able to approach it. So I am making room to be in bliss, […]
More Truth about Love
“I love you and it is no concern of yours.”~anonymous Perhaps you do not experience yourself this way, but my thoughts of you contain joy, wonder and adventure. These, of course, are my experiences. They come from me and you are not actually in them. But you reflect these feelings within me. And I like that! […]
Belonging
“When you appreciate yourself, you realize that you don’t have to feel wretched or condemned. You don’t have to artificially puff yourself up, either. You discover your basic dignity, which comes along with gentleness. You have always possessed this, but you may never have recognized it before. You don’t have to be a egomaniac to […]
A Simple Reminder…
“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.” ~marcus anneals seneca …good health, a magnificent home, […]
The Cycle of Knowing and Not Knowing
Summer has ended. Fall has just begun. Hurdling toward shortening daylight and the contraction of things today I am reminiscing about contemplation. NOW is a good time to plant. Hibernating, then germinating in the darkness of uncertainty with time and patience thoughts break open up through thawing grounds. Once their time has come there will […]
Essentially Especially You
“You are a unique being. It is not in your doing, it is in your being that matters. This is where the magic happens. Your doing is just the last step in the distillation of you.” I was fortunate enough to visit a lavender distillery this summer in France. There I saw how fields of […]
