“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 […]
Co-Creating
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Without Boundaries
“One must learn the patience of right timing but that patience itself is an active participation in the rhythm and balance of the Divine stream of life.” ~david spangler How am I without boundaries? Does South mean sweet tea and biscuits and North mean bagels and coffee? I have come to see that geography has less […]
Is NOW enough?
“Could there be a preciousness and value to existence stemming from the very fact of its temporary duration?” ~alan lighman What if that was all there is? What if it ended there? Would that be enough? It was perfect. The anticipation and then the meeting up a second time. All the stories, the descriptions, the […]
Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and 3 Guys Named John
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” ~john muir Have you ever arrived at a point in your life – when you mandated a change must be made? This is a reminder that it is in the everyday ordinary in which we live. And […]