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hell is within you

flames engulf internal realms

the fire transforms you

survive, forever

you became untouchable

enigmatic strength

heart is now of gold

decay is transmogrified 

reborn from ashes

existence is now

ever present, always near

awaken and live

-Sloan2017-

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it’s your brain, shape it

It was never about the money for me, man. Society tried to lie to me and create my mindset for me. The indoctrination of the society I grew up in tried to shape my mindset into one that felt as though all I needed in life was to accumulate dollars. My whole life, the concept of careers and money seemed arbitrary to me. I remember growing up, and people were always asking what will I do with my life? You know, from a small age, the people around you get you on this wave, it’s like they get out all of these little boxes and try to get you to decide which one you fit in. However, you don’t just fit into one box, nobody does. Some people live their entire lives in one box. Dwelling in this identity and persona that they have molded themselves into. We identify with our careers the way we wear the skin on our bodies. In American society, we are taught that, “time is money and money is power.” We aren’t told that this is merely one perspective.

We aren’t taught in school how to develop a perspective for ourselves. When you allow someone to mold and shape your brain, you are giving away your true identity. You may loosely “identify” with many different things, your style of clothing, your passion, etc. But how about the way we feel and how we think? Do you ever stop and wonder, “are my opinions truly my own, or did I take them on from elsewhere?” Or, “why do I feel so strongly about this?” Observe yourself. The stirrings that occur within you are such great information to you, and for you.. To ultimately discover who you are, and who you are not. We shed many different skins in this lifetime, and by skins I mean ideologies and beliefs. Release your attachments to the way that you perceive and conceptualize the world around you. We are nature. Nature is constantly evolving and spinning with the cycles of life. It is okay to change the way you think and feel. You won’t remain the same forever. Accept this and grow.

The thing is, we have all of these individuals that feel and think so strongly about different topics and ideologies, and sometimes this passion is really stemming from elsewhere. People see what is broadcasted on the television, or they read it from their smartphones, and take it for complete and utter truth. No questions asked. We, the human race, tend to adapt to what is happening around us. It is vital to question yourself and your beliefs/ideologies. Discover if they are truly yours. Are you living the life you live because you think for yourself? Or, are you suffocating in an ill-fitting box somewhere, because you allowed someone to think for you? I understand if this is emotionally triggering for you. Many people wake up one day and are simply heartbroken because they have discovered their life to be a lie. It doesn’t mean you are weak. You have been trapped in an illusion and you are not at fault. Breaking free is something you are simply meant to do.

We put limitations on ourselves because it is what the system that was given to us taught us to do. We can unlearn all of this, we don’t need to hold on to it. You decide what is true, and real. Authentic. No one else can decide for you, only if you give others the power to think for you is it possible for others to decide for you.  

Time isn’t money. Time is presence.

Money isn’t power. Freedom is.

As long as we remain slaves to something external for our joy, we will remain enslaved. The thing about freedom, is that it dwells within you already. Accessing this liberation is where most people give up hopes of attaining this peace. It can be frustrating, because at time this liberation seems fleeting. This peace, seems to come and go. We forget that the peace doesn’t move, only we do. We fluctuate, we are pulled by the tide in many different directions. Cross-hatching the waves at times, allowing the current to pull our sleeping bodies. Sometimes we doubt whether this peace is really there, but it is. You come back to the space. We discover again and again. Cultivating the will power and the strength to overcome the mental blockages that we have created for ourselves. Essentially, you are undoing and rewiring your brain. The way you function and behave, the activities that you immerse yourself in.. You are creating your reality.

It is the ultimate masterpiece, your life. An outcome of so many different possibilities. It may seem, on the surface, to have no direction, but it does. You choose. Taking the responsibility of creating your life is key to living out your dream. We are always on our way home, not a physical home, but a home of the spirit. Sometimes we get a little lost, but we always come back around. 

Be patient with yourself

-Sloan2017-

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She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.

Donald Miller (via thequotejournals)

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we all experience the silent suffering.

like water,

threatening to overwhelm us all - always on the verge of the boiling point - the tremors shake and ripple within us

nowhere to go, or hide, so we keep it inside

pain is a motivator, a catalyst to do right. being in tune to your internal world is no easy task. it takes courage and effort, but we see the light and it makes us feel where we need to be and go.. the next piece of the puzzle.

everything is a gift,

every place · every person · each moment ·

~ the magnetic tidal waves of our existence ripple outward and emulate the frequencies of life itself. pulling us where ever we are needed or meant to be in any given moment.

observing time as it spins, watching the world move in its natural state

I love merely feeling the vibration of a place, soaking in the subtle nuances.

blending in with the many facets, it seems as though I have been there all along.

all of the dualities - the peace and the chaos

a wise man once told me to ride the middle of the fence, that way you observe both sides.

an old friend reminds me to laugh and smile every chance you get

10 August 2017 sloan©

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love affair with the water

silky and gorgeous I love that you are formless shapeless, calm, flowing

your depths of vastness sometimes chaotic, danger movements with ease, flow

drowning your victims yet allowing them to float balance of strength, ease

droplets soft yet loud pit pattering the window silk coming from clouds

-Sloan2017©-

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if only for a moment

sometimes people become apart of you before we can realize it or even give our consent for that matter…

life is funny in that way.

the places you go, the people you meet. sometimes, in rare occurrence, eyes meet, and there is something there.

deeper. a hint of something real.

before we even know what’s happening, you feel yourself travelling

further. swimming in the depths of another, dripping with their soul

something magic, extraterrestrial

love, perhaps but it feels to be more than that something ethereal a fleeting glimpse, feelings and emotions that cannot be contained perpetually intertwined, a vibration that was created in an instant, you carry within you for the rest of your existence.

may as well not even consider the ending, does it truthfully ever end? i mean, the beginning was never considered

it just fell together, in the same manner that the waves of the ocean crash on the rocks. kissing them ever so violently, so sweetly

it is not something to be thought of nor prepared for. merely the rythym of Nature. experience while you are here. our paths cross if only for a moment, a kiss in the wind, a sigh of contentment

the rise and fall of your chest, your body breathing for you

if only for a moment…

-Sloan2017©-

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fragility of existence

a heart the size of a raisin, a pea.

yet still, existence is present. palpable. tangible.

life flows through all beings; plants, trees, animals, and humans. we are all an extension of one another. there is something incredibly therapeutic about spending time with young children, animals, or nature. perhaps it is therapeutic because within them, there is no concept of time. pure being, is all there is in the natural, genuine world. a turkey that is 3 days old is merely being receptive of life being an occurrence. 

somewhere, along the way, we forget about being receptive to the natural, genuine world. we get sucked into tall office buildings with no windows and screens with no end. we slowly decay in houses with windows, cutting ourselves from the expansion of wilderness.

you know that feeling, when you look up and all you can see is a canopy of trees? you feel the energy of the forest itself. being alive. for me, I feel the trees breathing with me.  

it is said that when you observe something, you become what you are observing. while observing flowers, you merge with the vibration of the flower itself. us, life forms, are not so different from other life forms.

in this concept of physical reality, that we witness with the sense of sight.. sure, everything may look completely different. but what if we were to alter this idea of reality? what if, rather than seeing forms with sight, we saw the molecular structure of life forces instead?

perhaps, everything would look like the night sky. 

in a reality in which we consciously create, may we also remember the delicacy of existence itself. these infant turkeys that I had the immense pleasure of spending my day with, completely transformed my current reality. I saw life through their eyes. chirp. play. cuddle. and poop. just.. being.

whenever you are immersed in the present moment, you are experiencing reality. from my perspective, there is no reality beyond the present moment. 

perhaps there is no reality at all? as soon as we verbalize “it”, the understanding/the essence is gone. we try to break concepts and ideas into a tangible perspective, so that we can grasp and understand. as a species, I feel we are obsessed with knowing.

but perhaps it isn’t even all that important. this knowing in which we seek. I look at these baby birds, the children, and the trees. not looking at their physical form, but observing their experience. the wonder. the ingenuity of presence itself. 

the baby birds seek warmth, comfort, and sustenance. 

the children seek laughter and adventure.

the trees seek to be. and they are.

we may seek to know, but will the search ever stop? there will always be more to know. more to learn. more to discover.

discovering the brink, the peak of a moment. the inhalation of breath, the emptiness in the exhale. a soft curve in the branches of the trees. the wonder in the eyes of a new being.

existence is a strange occurrence, delicate and fragile, yet loud and unmitigated. may we be absorbed in a state of rapture before the presence of being here, alive and experiencing the Universal wave

-Sloan2017-

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"But can I share my demons with you, too?

Or do you only want the light?

Because that isn't who I am."

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love, unconditional

fleeting glances, soul glimpse

subtle energy

reverberating 

endlessly, perpetual

a cosmic rhythm 

if ever goodbye comes

tears will leak from both the eyes

lakes of joy, of pain

do we love to gain ?

romanticize emotion

drown in the shallows

rouse to the meadow

love lives within the gallows

hello sweet lover

-Sloan2017-

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we all experience the silent suffering. like water, threatening to overwhelm us all - always on the verge of the boiling point - the tremors shake and ripple within us nowhere to go, or hide, so we keep it inside pain is a motivator, a catalyst to do right. being in tune to your internal world is no easy task. it takes courage and effort, but we see the light and it makes us feel where we need to be and go.. the next piece of the puzzle. everything is a gift, every place · every person · each moment · ~ the magnetic tidal waves of our existence ripple outward and emulate the frequencies of life itself. pulling us where ever we are needed or meant to be in any given moment. observing time as it spins, watching the world move in its natural state I love merely feeling the vibration of a place, soaking in the subtle nuances. blending in with the many facets, it seems as though I have been there all along. all of the dualities - the peace and the chaos a wise man once told me to ride the middle of the fence, that way you observe both sides. an old friend reminds me to laugh and smile every chance you get 10 August 2017 sloan©

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if only for a moment

sometimes people become apart of you before we can realize it or even give our consent for that matter... life is funny in that way. the places you go, the people you meet. sometimes, in rare occurrence, eyes meet, and there is something there. deeper. a hint of something real. before we even know what's happening, you feel yourself travelling further. swimming in the depths of another, dripping with their soul something magic, extraterrestrial love, perhaps but it feels to be more than that something ethereal a fleeting glimpse, feelings and emotions that cannot be contained perpetually intertwined, a vibration that was created in an instant, you carry within you for the rest of your existence. may as well not even consider the ending, does it truthfully ever end? i mean, the beginning was never considered it just fell together, in the same manner that the waves of the ocean crash on the rocks. kissing them ever so violently, so sweetly it is not something to be thought of nor prepared for. merely the rythym of Nature. experience while you are here. our paths cross if only for a moment, a kiss in the wind, a sigh of contentment the rise and fall of your chest, your body breathing for you if only for a moment... -Sloan2017©-

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Seattle, Wa -Sloan2017©-

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I believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.

Susan Cain (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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alone forever friends are cells of my body vibration of love consider the sky is it up or is it down floating through spacetime existence is strange burdens of the captain speak abandon the ship straight into the flames we go, looking to be love elusive it seems in love with the drugs but the drugs never loved me in the flames I die only for rebirth water i now have become sink or swim-die, live -Sloan2017©-