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“At times, the ground will fall away from underneath us and we’re unable to find the center. It’s the death of an old dream, of me and my life and how I was so sure it was supposed to turn out.

In these moments, we’re asked to place the entirety of our unlived life on an altar in front of us, and help the shattered soul-pieces to find their way into the next world.

Despite the temptation to prematurely transform, transcend, or rise above the material in the vessel, the invitation is by way of descent – into the body temple, to provide sanctuary and safe passage in which the grief can be alchemized, felt, and integrated.

This grieving unveils a process that the alchemists called the solutio, symbolized by salt and the flowing of tears – physical tears in the eyes and also tears of the subtle body, an aching, burning, and longing deep within the soul, weeping for union.

It’s so easy to conclude in these moments that something has gone wrong, that we’re not okay, and that we’ve been forsaken. This psychic groove is the legacy of familial, cultural, and intergenerational networks of trauma and wounding in attachment, held in in the somatic unconscious.

In moments when the figures of the unlived and unfelt arise within us, the neural network opens, is supple, porous, and becomes translucent and permeable, evidence of its own yearning to be re-encoded.

It is love that is the great re-encoder.

In order to break through the density of habitual consciousness and tangles in the soma, the subtle body, the soul must at times upset and dissolve the psychic status quo.

By turning inside out the dreams and fantasies of me and the life I thought I was living, we are taken into an open field where for just a moment we might be given a glimpse behind the veil, at what’s truly happening here and the intelligence which is orchestrating it.”

- Matt Licata

Photo: catching the light, Southern Finland

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That small voice of doubt thst whispers, ever so softly, just enough to make you hesitate. It disguises itself as care but it doesn't have your best interests at heart. It isn't your friend. It doesn't want you to experience or grow. It is the voice of the devil on your shoulder. The very fact you can hear it means you are on the verge of something great. Pay it no heed and walk confidently on.

THE EDGE YOU CARRY WITH YOU

What is this beguiling reluctance to be happy?

This quickness in turning away the moment you might arrive?

The felt sense, that a moment's unguarded joy might after all, just kill you?

You know so very well the edge of darkness you have always carried with you.

You know so very well, your childhood legacy: that particular, inherited sense of hurt, given to you so freely by the world you entered.

And you know too well by now the body's hesitation at the invitation to undo everything others seemed to want to make you learn.

But your edge of darkness has always made its own definition secretly as an edge of light

and the door you closed might, by its very nature be one just waiting to be leant against and opened.

And happiness might just be a single step away, on the other side of that next unhelpful and undeserving thought.

Your way home, understood now, not as an achievement, but as a giving up, a blessed undoing, an arrival in the body and a full rest in the give and take of the breath.

This living breathing body always waiting to greet you at the door, always no matter the long years you've been away, still wanting you to come home.

-- David Whyte, from Still Possible

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Silence reveals itself only to itself. Only when we enter as nothing and stay as nothing, will silence open its secret

-Adyashanti

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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. – Johann Wolfgange Von Goethe

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For my friend - “Every soul, when its time on this earthly plane ends, is like a drop returning to the ocean—becoming one with the vast expanse of spiritual energy.” – Deepak Chopra

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Speak from your heart.

If they don't understand you, your words are not for them.

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Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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"Nature is the direct expression of the divine imagination" - John O'Donoghue.

💙 All we behold is an expression of the divine within us.

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Sometimes we make a deep connection with someone that helps us find our way through life. These connections are often platonic and may last for a long time or sometimes they last just long enough for us to find our way. Such is love.

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Relationships can hit rocky patches and in those times when we tell our partner that they are doing something that we find hurtful and we ask them to stop, we often get no response. The no response IS their response. That is our answer.

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Be still and know that you are loved

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Law of attraction has been known for thousands of years as one of the most fundamental of the universal laws

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渌洋湖湿地公园 Luyang Lake Wetlands Park, Yangzhou, Jiangsu

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~ Pink and Green ~

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Spring Nocturne, watercolor by artbyworth

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