When I see you, your tender fingers searching for a mere morsel of food on the ground, I am ashamed because in the past I have chosen to look away. How could I have turned my back. How could I have turned off my heart. It is only when I realize that your hunger is also my hunger. That you tears, that tell me the story of your pain and despair, are my tears. Only then will I be able to see, be able to act,  be able to change.  

Namaste

When I hate myself, how can I love you. If all I do is feel pain and shame, this is the energy that I will illuminate into this world. The tears I cry inside will match the tears that run down your face. Your tears would be caused by my self loathing being shot outwards through my words and actions. The shame in your heart will teach you to hate yourself, and the cycle is created.

I see what this cycle can do and because of this, I now take responsibility for how you will experience my existence in this world. I will love myself, so you will know what love is. I will be your example, so through my words you will know how it feels to be uplifted by the presence of another human being. My hope for you is that you may learn to see the greatness of your own spirit, because you will see its reflection in my eyes.

Namaste.

You can find out more about the artist of the above print at http://www.alicavanaugh.com/.

In the last ten years, the biggest lesson I have learnt is to recognize the Divine in every moment, whether that moment brings tears of pure joy to my eyes or tears of deep sorrow.

I had a very traumatic birth experience with my firstborn. I had him at home, as was planned with a midwife in attendance. When he arrived to experience his first sacred breathes on this earth, he could not welcome a flush of earthly air because both of his lungs had collapsed during the birthing process. He was quickly resuscitated and 911 was urgently called. He was transferred to the local children’s hospital where he stayed and then fully recovered.

One memory of that early morning that I will never forget, when I had my first experience bringing a child into this world, was the moment right after he was born. I saw the panic in the eyes of all who were in attendance. When I looked over to my husband, I will never forget the fear I saw on his face. Although those around me completely had a normal human reaction of panic, I on the other hand felt completely calm. I had a deep intuitive moment, where I felt that the Divine was telling me that everything was going to be okay and to trust him. 

Later I would cry tears of sorrow over the experience of almost losing my son, but I will never forget that even in my most traumatic moment, the Divine was present. This has taught me that I am never truly alone. I have had the realization that anything and everything can be taken away from me, but nothing can take away my spirit.  

Namaste

When is the last time you felt joy and expressed it with abandon? We live in a society where the expression of negative emotions are not encouraged, but we are also discouraged in expressing emotions like joy, love and happiness. Don’t be too happy lest your neighbour gets jealous but don’t be too sad lest you bring that same neighbour down.

We have lost our instinctual ability to express what we are feeling. We first tend to filter our emotions through our mind and then decide how we want to express them. Although it is important not to have knee jerk reactions when we are angry, I don’t think that joy, love and happiness needs to be filtered so much. Many of us have even forgotten what it feels like to be truly happy. Our mind tends to put rules on the domain of the Divine. Emotion is the domain of the Divine.

Emotion is the language of the spirit and to hear the clarity of its voice, this language must be fully expressed. Sometimes I have been so happy I felt like dancing. Next time I will.

Namaste

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person that can live at peace with others.

Peace Pilgrim Quotes

It is the innate desire of all living things to grow towards the direction of light. We see this in the curve of plants  as they reach towards the energy of the sun. Our own intuition pulls us towards the Divine, and our sole purpose in life is to follow.

Namaste

The Divine’s power is not just something that we find somewhere “out there”, this power resides in you.

Namaste

There are so many forms of art but the goal of all art is the same, and that is to evoke emotion. When I first saw this picture I instantly felt happy. I hope that you enjoy it as well.

Namaste

You were meant to fly.

Namaste