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  • The need to express who we are is archetypal~

    The need to express who we are is archetypal~

    Anna Ristuccia

    PHOTO:  ANNA RISTUCCIA

    “…the need to express who we are is archetypal; that is both necessary and timeless. And expressing who we are is less about describing ourselves than it is about letting who we are out in a regular rhythm that is an imperative as breathing.
    “It is this exchange or flow of who we are- in and out- that keeps us connected to all that is living.
    “Just as we must inhale and exhale hundreds of times a day, we must feel and express constantly. When out of balance we suffer….”
    “Ultimately, expressing who we are has a physics all its own. More than being understood, it is about not hiding our basic nature.
    “Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other… for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.”
    ~Mark Nepo from The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life

     

     

     

  • Find your creative currency~

    Find your creative currency~

    anna verlot shelton

    PHOTO: ANNA VERLOT SHELTON

     

    “The first key to reclaiming your creative abundance is to find your creative currency: the channel or flow that feeds your energy field. It could be exercise, gardening, cooking, dancing, journaling, fishing, playing a sport, or gathering with friends. It does not matter what it is, and you do not have to be able to make a living at it.
    “Your creative currency is the thing or things that feed your soul and make you feel tangibly alive. It is the channel in which your life is meant to flow. Dwelling near it, you return to what is essential for you.
    “In order to define your creative channel, think about what inspires you. And be creative with your thinking. For example, texture inspires me. When I go for a walk, I don’t just focus on my arrival at some destination; I look for texture: the shapes of layered leaves on the ground, the silver and brown of bark on the trees, and the way filtered light lifts and defines bare branches.
    “My aesthetic is delighted by the deep orange of a rusted metal sculpture in one yard and the striated patterns of a bamboo fence in the other. Both the weathered grey sheen on concrete on the sidewalk and the layered clouds across the sky intrigue my senses.
    “The opportunity to see, with an artist’s eye, the color and forms of the world around you can serve to inspire if you pay attention to what your senses respond to…”
    “Nurturing the daily aesthetic of our inner creative nature is a way to engage with life…I make a practice of noticing and interacting with beauty in textural forms throughout each day. When we respond to the beauty around us, we weave this beauty into the fabric of living.”
    ~Tami Lynn Kent from  Wild Creative: Igniting Your Passion and Potential in Work, Home, and Life
  • Love soothes our wounds~

    Love soothes our wounds~

    Walter Chappell-via-MYSTICMAMMA

    PHOTO: WALTER CHAPPELL

    “Most things break instead of transform because they resist. The quiet miracle of love is that without our interference, it, like water, accepts whatever is tossed or dropped or placed into it, embracing it completely.
    “Of course, we are human and are easily hurt if not loved back or if loved poorly. But we waste so much of life’s energy deliberating who and what shall be worthy of our love when in the deepest elemental sense, these choices are not in our province, anymore than rain can choose what it shall fall upon.
    “Certainly we need to make decisions: Who will I spend my time with? Who will I learn from? Who will I live with? Who will I marry?
    “But beneath all that, the element of love doesn’t stop being elemental. It does not stop covering everything before it. And over a lifetime, the pain of withholding this great and quiet force is more damaging than the pain of being rejected or loved poorly.
    “For love, like water can be dammed, but toward what end?
    “In truth, the more we let love flow through, the more we have to love. This is the inner glow that sages and saints of all ages seem to share: the wash of their love over everything before them; not just people, but birds and rocks and flowers and air.
    “Beneath the many choices we have to make, love, like water, flows back into the world through us. It is the one great secret available to all.
    “Yet somewhere the misperception has been enshrined that to withhold love will stop hurt. In truth, it is the other way around. As water soaks scars, love soothes our wounds.
    “If opened up to, love will accept the angrily thrown stone, and our small tears will lose some of their burn in the great ocean of tears, and the arrow released to the bottom of the river will lose its point.
    ~Mark Nepo from The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

     

  • Partake fully in the experience ~

    Partake fully in the experience ~

    Rimantas DICHAVIČIUS

    PHOTO: RIMANTAS DICHAVIÄŒIUS

    “Take time to savor your connectedness to the eternal. Make a place in the structure of your schedule of ‘obligations’ to experience the sensations that come of having opened the heightened expressions of your own beingness. And give yourself permission to release the need to understand the unfathomable and instead, give yourself the latitude to partake fully in the experience of it.
    “The choices you have afforded yourself are limitless on this journey, even in your present form. You can opt for a different direction entirely, any time you choose, simply by choosing that.
    “Considerations that would rule out following the direction of your greatest joy are simply choices, justifiable or not.
    “When implementing such choices, be aware of the inner directness of the momentum stimulating that choice, and embrace that choice fully. There is no benefit to you to make choices reluctantly, out of altruistic feelings of duty.
    “Any choice is capable of immeasurable rewards when initiated with clarity and a sense of willing participation.
    “And you may discover, to your delight and surprise, that the selection of an avenue that may have appeared to be a lesser choice is one that delivers a richness in perspective that could not have been attained any other way.”
    ~Rasha from Oneness
  • Life is a sacred journey~

    Life is a sacred journey~

    mystic mama

    PHOTO: BARBARA AND MICHAEL LEISGEN

    “Your life is a sacred journey. And it is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way.
    “You are on the path exactly where you are meant to be right now. And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.“
    ~Caroline Joy Adams