Moving with the motions and changes of life is like floating on the ocean tides. The tides are huge--they are part of the big picture. And yet the movement is constant, and the water is ever-changing. There is nothing to hold or stop this water's flowing beauty. This is the largest kind of freedom. I am being encouraged in my life to flow with my life's guidance in the same way that waves wash up on the shore. Beautiful, graceful, and life-affirming; also moving as part of the bigger picture. Ultimately, living in this free way allows for the greatest expression of my authentic life. The best things in life are free.
"All good things are wild and free."
--Henry David Thoreau
When you begin to think outside the box, you one day come to understand that there is no box to think outside of. This is the day you realize that you've been living a life of dualities/polarities. And that a life of freedom, love and joy is best lived outside of these human-made containers and constraints. I am discovering these things--especially that joy is the immediate by-product of such an understanding.
Spring light boldly shines--flushing out darkness, cobwebs, and old thinking. Allow this time of spring to stretch you outside--outside of your home and your containers.
"Enlightenment is life without a future, liberation from the pretense of safety.
Without a future, where did the past go?
It is the end of the known, and the endless exploration of the Unknown. It is the end of the struggle to be anybody or get anything.
It is the end of looking for anything.
It is the end of trying to become anything.
It is the end of trying to hold onto anything.
It is the end of trying to make something happen.
What a relief!"
--Scott Morrison
Fed by radiance, I am aware that my inner light is continuing to expand and to push beyond the box that my thinking head wants to keep it in. It's a slow, gentle, mellow process. This is good, since it's more like a seepage than a flash of enlightenment.
Because it's happening slowly I am able to receive it more easily. The small doses allow me to integrate and utilize the larger light. I have greater freedom to open, and to allow love to flow.
"The soul is a candle that will burn away the darkness,
only the glorious duties of love we will have."
--St. John of the Cross
"Your spirit is urging you continually to live with love and compassion...loving your way into the realization of God."
--Meredith L. Young-Sowers
This is a season of Light.
Light that has continued to be provided. Light that has been promised. Light that has come. Light that returns. Light that acknowledges gifts. We are here to live and be and shine that light. Sometimes we feel like our light has been dampened, shadowed, or nearly extinguished. We may feel disconnected from Larger light. No matter how dark our lives may seem, a spark still lives in us. It is our task in life to find that spark and to fan it into a flame.
"Love is a tower of light. Inside, blazing fire."
--Jelaluddin Rumi
We are here to live our lives. Sometimes that's an easy thing to do, and other times we are clueless as to how to proceed. Living a life of authenticity has been my motivation always. It has been built into me that this way of living is the only satisfying way for me to live. And still it is challenging to know what my authentic life looks like. It's constantly changing, rearranging, opening, turning, and sending me down paths I would not have imagined. My best thought about living my life authentically is that it is done most truly when I completely let it happen without interference. And when I stay connected to my wild energy. Not crazy energy, just true self energy. I find myself well-supported at this point of intersection with All That Is.
"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy."
--Abraham Joshua Heschel
Life is a journey with unbelievable twists and turns. Opportunity has knocked, and I hardly recognize it as my life. I know it is my life, because I am co-creating it with the Universe. But it is calling forward previously unexplored parts of myself. I am growing and being and learning and expanding and asking and wondering. Walking down the Unknown trail is the largest sort of adventure. I have asked to be shown, and that is happening. I feel grateful for my life, filled with every unfamiliar grace.
"Here...is a powerful mantra that will encourage the process of release and acceptance of the true nature of your divinity: 'I am love, I give love, I accept love, I believe in love, I extend love, I am always becoming love.'"
--Meredith L. Young-Sowers
I am learning infinite patience. I believe in opportunity. I also believe that "opportunity knocks." I am opening to powerful opportunities that will contribute to my life changes. I know that I am a person who can make the most of opportunities that come my way, whether they are large or small. But there's the issue of waiting. I may think it's time for an opportunity to arise, but the Universe may be in a different time frame. Waiting in the moments of each day is part of this process. If a person isn't being present, or is preoccupied with distracting busy-ness, an opportunity may go unnoticed. I am in the Mystery of staying open and unencumbered by distractions. Watching with an alert, but not grasping, attitude. This will allow me the freedom and wisdom to act on an opportunity that's custom-made for me.
"The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. We know that in everything God works for good with those who love God."
--St. Paul
