Life can be a lot like wandering along an unseen path through an unknown wilderness – sometimes we are graced by wildflowers and guided by the stars, and other times we are pricked, scraped, and bruised by thistles, thorns, and other sharp things. Life, it seems, is beautiful but can also be brutal. Difficult as […]
Every living thing – people and plants, stars and streams alike – has a unique voice. This unique voice allows them to express the essence of who they are, what they know, and how they feel. With it they can sing out loud the song of their distinctive soul. Everything speaks – the flowers speak […]
Sometimes the things that can’t be seen are those with the greatest power. Just like the wind is far more than the occasional rustle of a leaf; our thoughts, dreams, and fears are far more than the occasional image passing through our skulls. Though cleverly cloaked in invisibility, they are made up of raw energy […]
You, my dear, are a creator – and you are perpetually in the throes of artistic design. Even now, as you read these words, you are crafting a masterpiece of such proportions that it will take an entire lifetime to complete. Your every inhale is like the whisper of a pen over paper. Your every […]
To those who would call me strange, I say that I would rather be your kind of strange than mine because, to me, strange is denying the truth of our nature. To me, strange is ignoring the pull of the moon’s tides in our veins simply because we can’t yet measure its influence. Strange is […]
We are natural-born creators, the architects of our lives and the sculptors of our shared reality. We’re born into this realm with a personal toolkit that allows us to alter our world from the inside out. In this toolkit we have a physical body that can build, a mind with which to invent, and a […]
Did you know that you have Divine beginnings? You were born of endless potential, made up of stardust and love mixed with rainbows and fire. You came from everything and nothing, everywhere and nowhere. You are a child of the Divine. Though you once rested in the arms of heaven; you knew that there was […]
In many ways, spiritual truths are a lot like spring rains. When the rain falls upon the upturned face of a flower she has no choice but to acknowledge its presence – but only when that rain gets at her roots, only after it seeps down past the grass and the rocks, making its way […]
What things in life have soft petals without also having a few sharp thorns? This balance is what makes life so very sweet – the chance to appreciate the complex mixtures between soft and sharp, tenderness and tearing. Too often we instinctively pull back after our fingers are pricked, and we learn to fear the […]
My secret prayer for you, my friend, is that one day you can look without closing your eyes. I hope you see that no matter how long you avert your gaze, the fresh wounds and the old scars remain; and so too do the mistakes you’ve made that caused others pain. My secret prayer for […]
We each have within us an infinite palette of emotions that we use to paint our personal realities. There’s a complex array of possible hues; and for each different hue there are as many different shades. There’s the crimson heat of passion and the rosy warmth of friendship. There are teal waters of tranquility, golden […]
Recognizing beauty is as much about the eyes that look as it is about what they are looking at. We peer into the world through the windows of our souls – and covering those windows like sheer curtains are all of our beliefs, our expectations, and our assumptions about what we’re looking at. This semi-translucent […]
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