2020 – Step 141: Winds of Change

"When you move beyond consciousness, you caress the beloved.  When you move into the unknown, the beloved caresses you."  ~Rumi   Which is it?  When "I" protect myself - "I" am protecting you - OR - when "I" protect you "I" am protecting myself?  It's called Duality.  When life isn't going right - go left.  …

Step 320: Sunday Blessings – A Striking Moment

"Keep only those things that speak to your heart.  Then take the plunge and discard all the rest."  Marie Kondo - Queen of Decluttering December begins at the end of November.  Water flows without any guidance.  The only constant in Life is CHANGE.  The opposite of worry is trust.  The Soul seeks expansion and growth.  …

Step 239: Arc of Inspiration

"Sanguine - (adjective) - cheerfully optimistic, hopeful or confident - (noun) - a red iron-oxide crayon used in making drawings." In the East it's called - "Dragon Power."  In the West it's called "The Hand of God."  No matter what you call it - when Human is receptive to the 'twists and turns' - Inspiration …

Step 98: Inner Expansion

  Articulating feelings and/or emotions is not always easy.  How does one articulate that which we cannot make sense of?  It's hard enough with "external other" - but communicating with "inner other" takes time and patience.  We have no frame of reference.  Discernment reveals Truth.  When faced with confusion the question is - "who are …

Step 65: Next Step – Rapture

“The great loneliness — like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly... It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over, when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet …