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 …
Avoidance
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 Know Who You Are
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 …
What Would Love Do?
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 …
How Do Old Patterns Hold Us Back?
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 …
Who Cares?
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 …
Putting it All Together
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 …
The Journey Begins
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. …
