Soul on deck
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’The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these - to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do’
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Passing time
Time. It’s so hard to give.
The gifts of an embodied life
Our focus and sometimes addiction to the virtual world means we're not usually aware of body sensations.
Eyes wide open
A part of me is so afraid to look at what is hurting me.
What we are most often lonely for….
Not many of us have been shown how to nurture and attend to ourselves in a way that helps us grow and develop healthily.
You cannot keep spring from coming
Life wants to renew and express itself.
The most important thing is remembering the most important thing
We go into a trance of habitual doing and distraction all of the time, and there is a part of us that knows this, that every day we forget why we are here.
The Crucible
Picture a loved one. Bring them to mind. Think about this, if you truly love them would you want them to feel bad towards themselves? Probably not, so why don’t you apply that to yourself?
The biggest lie
The biggest lie we have been told is that we don’t have the power or abilities to shift.
The places you choose to fight
Angry, defiant, raging against your reality. This is the one within you that starts war.
In the same place
What would have to happen for your mind and body to be in the same place at the same time?
Thinking traps
We fixate on the times we feel we’re falling short.
The best fruit is laboured for
Whatever pushes you. Let it do so with gratitude. The best fruit is laboured for.
You will see it all
If you have been avoiding quiet intimate moments with yourself, you are avoiding what is seeking to feed you.
Fighting to arrive
This will take five minutes. If you can listen closely who knows what might happen?
The noise, the fear, the confusion. It can all stop.
It's important to realise that it’s not just up to you what thoughts you cling to and what person you create. Society plays a big part.
If we dare to look
If we dare to look, we see that we live our entire lives based on the models we built around ourselves.
Freedom is very close
You deserve to remember your true nature.
You have given your mind an impossible task… Part 2
Thinking is something you watch the mind do. It is not something that you have to think about, you are it. You can watch the mind being neurotic and not get involved.
You have given your mind an impossible task… Part 1
Our minds have very little control over the world, and yet we are trying to use our analytical minds to protect ourselves from the natural unfolding of life.
What have you abandoned?
If we persist with fighting, we’re just creating separation.