into NOVEMBER : honoring the liminality
we cross into the 11th month of November bridging All Hollows Eve, the Gaelic festival of Samhain and Dia de los Muertos...
Wisdom
Step into your present~
"Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey has only one: the step you are taking right now. As you become more deeply aware of this one step, you realize that it already contains within itself all...
Nothing is perfect and everything is perfect~
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways...
This universe is a shared dream~
"This universe is a mass shared dream that all six-and-a-half billion of us are collaboratively dreaming up into materialization. When we realize this, we can put our lucidity together so that we can co-creatively dream a much more grace-filled universe...
Music is medicine~
"...it touches the deepest part of man's being. Music reaches farther than any other impression from the external world can reach...Therefore music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between the form and the formless.
You are a constant~
"Whether the wave is ascending or descending, the ocean is always there. You are a fish in the ocean of time, you are a constant in an ocean of change...
We are all affecting the world every moment~
"Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness...
Expand ideas about what is possible~
" Allow yourself to expand ideas about what is possible and do not worry if you don't yet have the skills to create it...
Practice intentional solitude~
"Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul....
Follow your own footprints~
"In this life
we find our way
by following each step with another.
Take a step.
and follow it.
If you see a path emerging,
ignore it.
Do not follow a path...
Remember the Law of Cycles~
"Since everything in the universe is a form of energy, everything falls within the domain of the Law of Cycles: Sunrise and sunset, the waxing and waning moon, the ebb and flow of tides, and the seasons of the year...
Be a free spirit~
"We dance to shed skins, tear off masks, crack molds, and experience the breakdown the shattering of borders between body, heart and mind, between genders and generations, between nations and nomads...
Listen and hear the still voice within~
"When we listen and hear the small, still voice within our hearts, we can access our greatest potential, joy and desire. This is the heart's vision-the personal dream...
Reclaim your truth~
As we let go of the past aspects of ourselves that were fragmented and tied into the traumas of the past, we reclaim all those lost parts that have been in the shadows...
Dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth~
"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone...
Something happening at last~
"In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing....
It’s in the being~
"The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather...
Acts of love are never lost~
"Good deeds, kindness, forgiveness, tolerance, acts of love, none of these are ever lost, and some day they will return to us...
Believe in yourself~
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
~E.E. Cummings
Goodness, integrity and wisdom already exist within~
"Goodness, integrity and wisdom already exist within your spirit...
True power is love~
"It is time to redefine power, to expand our concept of what being powerful really means. True power is love. It is not power over someone. It is everyone, all of us, standing together in a circle, building power side...
