“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.”-Albert Einstein
“In the rush to return to normal, use this time to consider which parts of normal are worth rushing back to.”
-Dave Hollis
“Live in fertile soil. Take in nutrients like your life depends on it. Breathe fresh air, in and out. Take a break from the rapids, surrender, and the current will either carry you or kick you out towards its gentle edges. Move away from depleting habitats. Leave a sedentary mind and body for the one that is waiting for you on the other side of this and any other present uncertainty. Your future gains certainty when you rise, like your voluntary breath, actively inspiring, consciously and unconsciously inhaling and exhaling.”
-Erika Putnam
Caroline Myss is a pioneer in healing, truth finding, spirituality and individual power that I have learned from through the years and her post today really resonated with me. Thoughts, power and where it originates, the word, and the fruitlessness of judgement… Her explanations provide simple yet powerful paths to truths of our existence here on the planet! Myss calls maintaining spiritual congruence the fifth mystical law. Here they are:
“Practice spiritual congruence by living these truths:
You should say only what you believe and believe what you say.
Power originates behind your eyes, not in front of your eyes. Once power becomes visible, it evaporates. True power is invisible.
Thought precedes the creation of matter. Therefore, your thoughts are instruments of creation as much as your words, deeds, and finances. Become conscious about the quality of your thoughts, because each one sets patterns of cause and effect into motion. Every thought is a tool. Every thought is a prayer.
Judgement anchors you to the person or thing you judge, making you its servant. Judge others too harshly and you become their prisoner.”
-Caroline Myss
“Even in movement there is stillness If we would but awaken.
Between our breaths breathing in and breathing out, Between the blinking of our eyes and the beating of our heart,
In that space, as time begins falling into the timeless We focus on that still point and cross the threshold
Awareness rises.”
-Bob Holmes
“They say beauty comes from a spirit that has weathered many hardships in life and somehow continues with resilience.Grace can be found in a soul who ages softly, even amid the tempest.I think the loveliest by far is the one whose gentle heart bears a hundred scars from caring, yet still finds a way to pick up the lamp, one more time, to light the way for love.”-Susan Frybort
“The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.”-Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
-John O’Donohue
“If everything around you seems dark,
Look again,
You may be the light.”-Rumi
“We are all visitors
to this time,
this place.
We are just passing through.Our purpose here is to observe,
to learn, to grow
to love….and then,
we return home.”— Aboriginal proverb
This summer solstice has been an embrace, an opening, a huge release and a tremendous expansion – inner and outer. What a gift!
Mother Earth in her wisdom, in her sustaining and nurturing power and love, is as ever, guiding, comforting, and expressing beauty in myriad ways.
The wild roses at home are radiating wonder holding rain drops as precious gifts.
It is all a gift to me.
Happy Summer Solstice!
“I too have known loneliness.
I too have known what it is to feel
misunderstood,
rejected, and suddenly
not at all beautiful.
Oh, mother earth,
your comfort is great, your arms never withhold.
It has saved my life to know this.
Your rivers flowing, your roses opening in the morning….”-Mary Oliver
