Your journey within
By Elana Hernon It is in our culture and ideas in Western medicine that if something is a problem, if you can, you can cut it out. This thinking is also applied to many areas of our lives. For instance, think about ego. It is common to think that ego comes between yourself and God …
By Elana Hernon I had joined an online meeting some time ago, and I remember one of the participants asking the spiritual leader/teacher how to become a saint. The teacher said it was egotistical to think that way. I think differently. If a desire to be a saint is in your heart and it is …
Why you have been placed with the individuals that surround you in your lifetime, if not for your own and for their growth and greatest joy and perfection as souls? This is the goal of all existence, to fill ourselves with the joy and bliss of being. To know the absolute is to limit; but …
Emotions are like a storm, but you are the sea, wide, endless and full to the depths. There is motion at the surface and raindrops may pelt at the waters, but underneath the outer layers is a teeming world, filled with secret, vibrant life. There is a calm, a swaying to beautiful subterranean undersea music, …
Only when you recognize the true extent of your greatness can you fully understand that you are a boundless creator. There is such great light in you! Much like a gaslight, it can be turned up and down, regulated as you desire or as you allow your emotions to open yourselves up or close you …
I know all the tricks. All the ways we hide. The ways we put off inspiration--that desire to paint, to dance, to exercise--by cleaning that pile of papers in the corner or by hitting next on Netflix. Maybe you don't know who you really are or why you're here. Maybe the world sometimes feels so …
You are far, far more than the eye can see, Dearest One. You are a creator, the creative force itself, and your thoughts are the most important manifestations you bring to life. This is the Truth of your existence, and all that we collectively experience is the direct result of the choices each of us makes. Once …
A Meditation Imagine for a moment that you are a single spark of light, floating in the vastness of space. Your light forms a halo around you, and you are bathed in it, cocooned in light. You know only the quiet and a vast, endless feeling of safety and serenity. You are swaddled in the …
In all situations and in any time when you feel your compass point in many differing directions, simply ask yourself, "What would Love do?" This simple act will provided more insight than you know, for there is an inherent wisdom inside each of you, and this intelligence knows its answers far better than does your …
Many years ago, I woke up one night at 4 am with the realization that I felt an incredible sense of abandonment. I started scanning back and back through my life, trying to figure out when it first manifested itself, and I felt myself going back to being a newborn. I have never had conscious …
There’s a line in a song that I have always remembered—it goes, “Mother, I’m cut at the root like a weed ‘cause there’s no-one to hear my small story.” For me, that sums up a feeling that’s haunted me for years, of being small and of needing to shout in order to make myself heard …
The last two weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about my life, the choices I’ve made and why everything has come together as it has. A conversation a week ago drove it all home: showed me that all the events I’ve lived, all the people I’ve come into contact with and the relationships that have …
All of my life, there was one thing I promised myself I would never be: mediocre. Maybe I wouldn’t be Shakespeare or Brad Pitt or Helen of Troy, but I’d be interesting and have something to say. No dull life of a housewife for me: I would travel, read literature, write and befriend interesting people. …
Honest Spirituality. 