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July 2009 
Open your life to experiment. You will only know by tasting!
Posted on Jul 5th, 2009
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It is worth considering are you blissful the way you are living? If you are not, you must take risks! Be open and vulnerable to a new path, a new way. Undertake a search. Just open yourself to what you fear. This much is clear, that you have nothing to lose. And I say open to what you fear, because, yes, the new always seems to be frightening. So if you are afraid, it is a good sign you are looking in the right direction! (big smile)!
Whenever someone steps forward on a new path he hesitates, but only through stepping forward on the new is there growth in life. Ask yourself this: The way I have lived up to now, the way I have thought, have I gained anything from it or not? Don't ask what you might gain, will gain, could gain..No. Ask have you gained or not.
Open your life to experiment. You will only know it by entering into the experiment. You will only know by tasting. How can you decide whether something is tasty or not without tasting it? You will have to trust. You will have trust somebody. You will have to trust yourself. Or...just trust!
The mind will keep you in tradition. But the heart is always eager to go with the new and the head is always saying NO!...the head is always ready to stay with the old, the known. And there your heart is beating to leap! To jump! To say yes! Your heart is rejoicing, your heart wants to take the step, but the cunning mind says, "Stop. Let's consider the pros and cons!...What if this, what if that? It's too much trouble..you will get hurt..you will hurt someone." But if you listen to the mind, you will never take the step to go on the wonderful journey called life. Everyone has become like this.
You will have to gather courage. Courage to go against your neighbor, your wife and husband, your children, your society, your friends, your self (!)....but even if you appear to lose, you won! It takes guts to jump into the unknown, just the way it takes guts for the baby bird to leap off the nest..just as it takes guts for the new born to take on its new life outside of the mother's womb.
But I will say that this new is sweet suffering. Because, yes, suffering will come. Suffering is intrinsic to going into the unknown. But it is sweet! Take the plunge. Staying continually with the old is like a slow suicide. Don't allow yourself to fall into the habit of always turning away from the new. Gather the courage to be open and explore new avenues. Never ask your mind, it will always find excuses. Ask your heart. If you begin to tremble, if a frightening feeling arises, if your lips take a small smile...GO!
If you wish to cross this roaring ocean
Take life into your hands and plunge into the waves.
These waves are coming from places faraway
Bringing messages afresh from the new world.
How much longer will you sit on this shore
contemplating?
while veenas taking voice call you sweetly
from the other shore.
If you wish new life, new youth, new heart
Today you must embrace the swelling ocean.
Set forth today with a new confidence
Lift up your eyes, create a new history.
Let the old sky be left far behind,
Adorn your world today with a new sky.
If the voices of a new creation resound in your being
You must adorn every particle anew
This pain of annihilation
Will become the sweet song of new Creation.
This darkness of night
Will become the benediction of the sun.
Now let this ancient, decrepit idol of the ages crumble,
Any rock you lay your hand on will become the divine.
You are kin to the Himalayas,
What do the depths of the ocean matter.
Today you must contain the boundless sky
in your wings.
If you wish to cross this roaring ocean
Take life in your hand and plunge into the waves!
EVEN IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF DROWNING, PLUNGE!
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Thank you :)
Hi Asteri!!!! O, thank you! and you're welcome!
Love, Cheyenne
Every obstacle and every new door is like a pile of manure to dive into and through. The coat of caca will wash off.
Many new doors will also occur as a cliff, trust in your wings, for only in this way do you truly discover and align with your Soul.
Blessed IS,
Jeremias
O, Jeremias! What a laugh you give me! …every new door is like a pile of manure to dive into….and through!!!!!!!!
hmmmmm? uh! okay! yes…I never thought of it that way, but I think you've got something. It is the fear of our ugliness. We want to veil ourselves and hope no one sees it. The manure to me is the fear, the anger the fumes with whoever removes your veil and shows you your rubbish within!
But if you don't see it, how can you be free of it? If you don't become liberated from this inner garbage, this manure, you have accumulated and which you think is keeping you afloat, you will drown in it. It will be the cause of your drowning. They are like rocks to your chest, though you may think they are precious stones.
Jeremias! Where do you come from? Such wonderful words always!
Much love,
Cheyenne
Thanks Cheyenne, I love how deeply you listen and then expand so beautifully,
Re: “Jeremias! Where do you come from? “ I am a cosmic visitor who was here for the beginning of the Earth Experiment and returned for the completion.
Blessed IS,
Jeremias
Thank you, Jeremias! yes, we are all ancient. No one is new here. We have all walked on many paths!
Your coming is certainly not accidental - the contact with death, masters and this life!
Many live accidental contacts and nothing happens for them…they stray away. But others there is a satisfaction, a deep thirst quenched when they find what they seek, they find meaning, a glimpse of what they have been seeking through many many doors! Then they understand their destiny…
You must have passed through many many doors to ssay…I am a cosmic vistor…been here since beginningless time!
Oh…I think me too!
Thank you again, Jeremias!
Blessed IS!!!!
Love,
Cheyenne
Thank you my sweet Cheyenne for this profound and beautiful post.
I particulary liked your big smile after saying: So if you are afraid, it is a good sign you are looking in the right direction!
It says more than a thousand words, it tells me of knowing, understanding and an opening to trust no-matter-what.
Love,
Lucienne
Lucienne!!!!!!! You know this smile, yes???!!! I love that feeling. I know it well…but I've noticed the 'other' knows that feeling too…
they usually chicken out before I do! (big laugh!)….that is..well, when two are involved.
Trust no matter what…because the beauty is not where it takes you, the beauty is going into the unknown, growing, learning. Trusting Yourself!!!! Believing in the adventure, the great unknown. It very often goes bad! But you learn something. I enjoy that part too. Because YOU become more no matter what the outcome!
Big Smile, Lucienne!
And lots of love!!!
Cheyenne
its so true and more and more discover it. See also entry from Helen Titchen Beeth:
best_practice_vs_experimentationBest practice vs. experimentation
Experiment, play, exploration and taking risks. Even organizations and institutions realize it more and more.
However the best guarded space of closed perception is between the ears:)
And I would say the leading/cuttuing edge of deep change isnt even in defined experimenting. its completely unknown.
I have posted something about
Instapundit, Pandit, Poets and Pioneer of Physics
When we simply jump into the unknown…even before eny reference point is secured and defined….the greatest discoveries may lay ahead….
Thanks Che and all for holding the space of it all!
Albert
*tears*
utterly beautiful.
all the books, websites, pieces of wisdom, essays I'm reading…
I could throw them all away.
this is all I really need Cheyenne.
thank you.
thank you.
now push me the hell off!!
:D
love
xo
Cheyenne, I put a link to your beautiful blog in the Living Metaphysic pod. Just wanted to let you know.
Luv.
Oh, Albert, thank you! That space between the ears…I tell you honestly, I've come to believe it is useless. There's more than one place to think from in the body. The brain, the logical center is not the only way of knowing and coming to decisions. There's also the solar plexus…and my favorite, the hara!…
I sit like a frog on a rock, looking dumb and uninterested..until the energy moves…you do not think, you just go!…go! It is a beautiful feeling when energy is carrying you, thinking you, moving you. Oh, you can feel the growth and the bliss is you are not doing anything. It is happening! It is happening!
Thank you, Albert! I will certainly enjoy reading the links!!!
Love, Che
“All you need is love..du, du, du..du du..all you need is love, love. Love is all you need.”
Okay…I had to sing that song, Valerie…All you need is no-mind. Love and no-mind are the same experience.
Oh, Valerie, I know intimately this feeling you have. Intimately…even this feeling is sweet. It used to drill me to the wall, throwing me violently back and forth..it would not be 5 a.m. and I would look like I hadn't slept in three days!….
You are a VERY intelligent woman. I would like to tell you….an intelligent woman can get by with anything she wishes (big wink)!….be clever! You'll be sharper. More alive, more beautiful. MORE intelligent! Do it your way, and nobody else's and you'll okay!
It's a magic pill this jump! do it! If I have to come NY…I will get you in much trouble! Trust your brilliance. And manage a strong sitting practice and you cannot go wrong. ….trust your brilliance. That is what it is for!
big hug!
Cheyenne
Thank you, Lucienne!!!! Sending you love! Always!
Cheyenne I'm just stumbling in from LM and catching the wave.
Beautiful things don't die. La la fah la la :-)
WOW!!!!! Shewwwwww…..!!!!
Geeezzzz….I suddenly feel my life is very boring!
Thank you dearly, FastDart!
Love,
Cheyenne
Whoa! This post lit me up like a Christmas Tree Cheyenne! I especially resonated with this part…
“There's more than one place to think from in the body. The brain, the logical center is not the only way of knowing and coming to decisions. There's also the solar plexus…and my favorite, the hara!…
I like what Adyashanti says: If life is feeling dry, then the elevator is stuck on the top floor. What I have seen is I can feel myself contract around concepts. I notice that I get a head buzzing sensation, and thought starts planning and strategizing at greater and greater speed. Throw in a little laundry detergent and you would have a high speed washing machine. ;o) That darned old amygdala which served our ancient survival needs so well seems to get in the way of real joy in today's world without even realizing it. If I can “feel its” presence operating, then there is chance “in the openness” to see what arises.
I would add the heart along with the solar plexus and hara. This post blew open all 3 here. The entire boyd most definitely. How juicy!
As a feeling type the “undefended inner heart” is really helpful not only for joy. It allows me to empathize with the humanness here and feel where I resonate and head in that direction. Also to naturally and authentically (without thinking) offer tenderness and compassion. The resonance is key, and body is the expansion to feel it. So feeling into this post and the comments, I can resonate. From the head just platitudes and rules and shoulds. No more shoulding on myself. (laughing)
It am learning it helps to be really vulnerable inside to myself. For example, when my waitress friend gave me hugs the other day in the middle of the restaurant openly, I just told her in my heart how good I feel being around her. Doing it on the inside melted me further. I felt compassion for this body\mind and appreciation for its loving nature.
So, yes I am with Albert on the experimentation whole heartedly, and also the inner penetration to open. Then 1 small step (in this case a hug) and the survival mechanism gets bypassed. Too big a step can cause a freezing. I like the small step because it is tender and intimate. Savoring can occur, and over time the explosion of the build up. However, careful not to make this a contoling practice. When leap wants to happen let it happen. I wanted to read that. Deep Bow! The knowingness know without the help of the brain. Bankei said it perfectly. When you hear a bird sing or dog bark, you immediately know what it was without thinking about it.
Following the dynamic quality of resonance from the “undefended inner heart” in each moment through it's changefulness and yes even its contradictions. So I am not a person fixed. I am an experiencingness. I am experiencing. That is the promise of the opening here I feel.
Pierced open completely Cheyenne!
In Deep Gratitude!
z
Hi Z!!! You're so beautiful. Yes, I would definitely qualify you as wide open!!!!
And I had to belly laugh! I knew when I wrote down the other centers..inside I said, there are three, yes?…but only two would come to me! I completely left out the heart. And that's because mine is breaking..melting into the earth and losing all hope!!! So I laughed..omg, how convenient for me to forget the heart. Of course, the heart too!! Thank you Z.
And I loved every word! We have been trained, like robots, to live for societies reasons and purposes. And it is very sad that millions of lives are wasted living the 'American Dream'. Even if you gain every promise, you are empty in the end. And not the emptiness of a buddha…emptiness of a sad life.
What is so difficult to come to terms with, I believe, is that life isn't meant for you to GET something. But to grow, learn - and in my opinion - lose!!! You win when you leave utterly empty, destroyed of all dreams…anything you held back was used up, went into, and utterly consumed. You consume your desire till you are nothing…and in that nothingness you gain awareness of the whole, of yourself as the whole. You lose yourself by consuming yourself!
And if you are very meditative, in situations such as hugging that beautiful waitress, you come to see that she was just an excuse to allow yourself. You can do it without her, but until we understand where its coming from, how to do it, it is good to have the other. But if we stay dependent on another to feel our freedom in love, sex, and expression of feelings….we remain entrapped. But with awareness, you get better and more skillful at staying out of your way. Soon you need no excuse…it is allowed to happen at any time. The Waitress, for example, gave an opportunity to allow yourself. Her presence allowed you to trust yourself and feel…but it was latent sitting in you all along waiting on the moment you allowed. Then one day, you don't need the other to support the freedom, you just do it in an empty room. You feel bliss in an empty room! Like one that dances alone, why not love alone, be romantic alone, why not make love alone (!)..my favorite (big laugh!)…okay. I should not say that…just teasing.
It's when you lose, you win! Since the day I woke up to this left-handed path…(meaning the left hand connects to the right brain of poetry, love, art, language)….oh, when I see a disaster, I run to it..hoping it will finish me off! I love living without hope, direction and purpose! The Eternal Fool! Because you come to know one thing is certain! You are immortal! And you learn something else, all your foolish efforts to get anything are meaningless. You were free all along to do whatever you wanted, nothing was ever stopping you. Everything was always there for you, at your feet. Brahma himself is your servant. And that doesn't mean Santa Clause in the sky getting you what you want…it means all bliss is dressing you, lighting your way, unfolding your life moment to moment. The ultimate is in a slight smile, or a big jump! It's felt deep in the belly, yes???
Z, your post is so beautiful. And thank you dearly for sharing yourself this way. You shine!
Thank you dearly,
Love,
Cheyenne
Cheyenne,
Thanks to Lucienne's post in Living Metaphysics, I am here too. And I am plunging in at this time in my life and last night I saw an Owl, it wasn't dark, it came surprisingly out of the East and flew low right in front of me. It tells me all I think I know of what my life is, will change dramatically.
Yes, for months, something has been coming to me and I would say, I'm afraid of the price. But for me, Spirit has been gentle. Just a little courage to push a little bit to go somewhere only I wanted to go. The others came along for the ride and then, while I did my thing, they did theirs.
My life has changed as a result, and there is no going back, but Spirit keeps showing me - all my little fears, those mind things you talk about, that is all they are, fleeting bits of nothing. Spirit is so loving it will not give me my fears as long as I know I truly don't want those. And as long as I trust that Love, then only the love comes and shows me the gentle way.
So, I'm moving into the unknown myself at this time, and there is still much I don't know about where I am heading my self but I will be okay; and I am estatically happy whenever I moving in that direction for a little while; and then, for a little while, I have to fall back into today and let my outer life reconfigure a bit, to keep it gentle transformation.
Long ago I learned it really isn't necessary to risk all and leap, killing all you love for your spiritual growth. Spirit has shown me I can have my cake and eat it too, if I really want it to be that way. That is really the key - does one really want it?
Sometimes we think we do, when really we are just seeking escape. Nothing wrong with seeking escape, it is better than the slow suicide. I have leapt wildly and that turned out okay, too. I would not be, where I am as I type this, if I had not leapt wildly at that point. It was hard work at times but I learned to trust that I will always be okay.
I'm really glad you wrote this blog about leaping into the unknown.
Peace & Blessings -
Deb
Deepest Bow Cheyenne! You are sooo inspiring, intimate, vulnerable, and just plain HOT!
Loved This Post & Your Essence! Moves me Deeply It Does!
z
p.s. You can suggest anything to me including making love to myself. I can't be phased by anything like that. There is nothing outside of the box because? There is no box. The self imposed boundaries on relationships could be a fun topic. If you tee it up I will play. (laughing)
Deb!!! Thank you for your beautiful post! You made so many wonderful, wonderful comments. That it doesn't have to be a big jump! It can be gentle. The whole time reading your post, my mind was seeing the gentle dove of peace lighting your way.
Very masterful, the way you approach this!….motion and rest. motion and rest.
Trust and Love are my feet….! Walking slowing along the path! No rush! All in the right time. Our trembling is beautiful!
And the Owl (!) is good sign! You will have the eyes to see in the dark, wisdom is lighting your path! The spirit is calling you!
I've been in those FIRE HOT situations where the questions was forcing you to kill what you love against 'spiritual growth'…and when it passed and my body lie limp from the exhaustion of dilemma, I saw it was never for me to decide. It was happening and living the dilemma WAS the spiritual growth.
Yes! Sometimes we go forward like a pussy cat, test the water…hmmm…test again..mmmmm…JUMP!
Thank you very sincerely, Deb, for this beautiful gentle post full of wisdom and love!
with love!
Cheyenne
Zennie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Lookin for some hot stuff baby this evenin
I need some hot stuff baby tonight
I want some hot stuff baby this evenin
Gotta have some hot stuff
Gotta have some lovin tonight
I need hot stuff
I want some hot stuff
I need hot stuff”
Oh, Z, thank you so much! That is some complement! I laughed out loud, loving your enthusiasm and love!
Ah! There is no box! The Goose is out of the Bottle (zen).
and I think making love alone is very beautiful. LIke making love to the divine. It is not always so that we have a lover there to share with, and at times the energy my be overwhelming and you can still create a beautiful circle of energy just by remembering the embrace of a love, allowing the energy to flow…not saying no, because no one is there….oh, saying YES to whatever comes is a form of “Tantra”….it is the path of saying YES. LIfe becomes your lover and your lover is calling…go, enjoy, be full in your bliss, in your giving and receiving…life is moving in you and you respond in kind.
If a person can be full in making love alone, that energy grows in acceptance and spreads all over the body, giving a health and vibrancy, and one no longer needs to exploit another….what we sought before is freely flowing in our soul.
everyone is different….I've noticed from practice and watching others…there are different types of people - some sexuality is all they know, some food, some money and riches…that is what they do and know. Fascinating…yet, for me, it's still the going beyond, whatever your path, your way, your style. It's the going beyond.
Thank you Z for your loving enthusiasm! You brought me a big smile!
Much love!
Cheyenne
As I have said…Better to make a mistake motivated by courage than a good choice motivated by fear!
What do you fear, Ookami San? What is courage but fear moving forward?
Fearlessness!….is the absence of both courage and fear!
What is a good choice, what is a poor one? How can one tell?
Outside of awareness, what choice is there?
Master Ookami San, light my way.
Gassho…
and with love!!!
Cheyenne
I love this blog! Truly inspirational.
Courage is transfearlessness…its all there in the Shambala sutras
yet yes…jump in with both feet…be bold in life, make some mistakes, make some choices, just do it
Gassho!
Thank you, RLtruthseeker-artist!…(wow ~ what a title!)…beautiful icon!
Oh! Beautiful…!!! (big smile) Self-Empowerment! Thank you, Ookami san!!! To master the dark forces that rise up you must meet the fear and transcend the aggression!
oooohhhh, I am still fussy about that word 'courage', but you have said it well!!!! Very!
Gassho!
Cheyenne
Master Ookami San! I have entered my fussiness……
How fun courage is! Co-u-rage!…..Becoming one with rage! Meeting and joining with the rage……and transcending it! Rage is a lover! A tiger by the tail! Taming the beast!
I see better this word! I was resisting it because it seemed to imply, to me, that I was doing something to resist fear. But when I understand it is a way to join and become on with rage, with darkness…this is more interesting to me!
Gassho!
with love!
Cheyenne
It is far better to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
I still wear the lifevest,but someone by the name of LuChen keeps trying to remove it. She is teaching me to swim in the sea of uncertainty.
Thank you, Ram Prem
Ram Prem! I see….well, this LuChen sounds like someone that cares about you! She is eager to see you fly! And swim…!
Lifevests are good, yes? At least you're getting wet! That is start!!! A very good one!
YOU! Thank you, Ram Prem!!!!
Always,
Cheyenne
No “wise and insightful comment here” your blog says it ALL! I took that plunge many years ago and am sooooo GLAD that I did!
Would not want to imagine life without taking the plunge!
Being a water sign may be a plus…LOL!
Thanks, Cheyenne! Delightful!
Joy, Joy, Joy,
Starseed
Oh, Starseed! Thank you dearly! When those water signs do something, they immerse themselves totally, yes?
It is very encouraging reading your post!
Thank you so much for sharing your joy!!!! It enlivened my heart!!!!
With much love,
Cheyenne
O these water signs:):)some are really bad and extreme. LOl…thats LIFE too isnt it?
Albert
Such an idea can come that if you do something totally then you are going to an extreme. It is only when you are being total that you are not at an extreme!
It is the mind that is an extremist…always putting the mark higher, then reducing it because of fear, judging by what's average. If we merely listen to the body and heart and act totally, then there is no extreme. It is by rejecting ourselves we become extremist…the mind rejecting the truth..making nonsense and games out of it. The mind doesn't allow the soul to be heard, always judging everything by rules of average.
Beware of the rules of average.
Albert!!! Maybe being bad and extreme is your average!
Thank you!
Love,
Che
I'm a water sign!
*Scorpio*
you know what they say about Scorpios don't you?
;)
Oh, Valerie! Yes!
“Their sexuality is deep, all-consuming and intense. They seek transformation through the sexual experience, which they never undertake lightly. Ruled by Mars, the god of primitive action and Pluto the lord of the underworld, they mix primal passion with a profound need to uncover the mysteries of life and death, including and especially sexual ones. Their emotions run deep and their faculty of intuition is remarkably accurate, so their antennae can prick up and pick out a prospective partner at first sight.
Scorpio rules the generative organs and so they have no doubt grown up with a heightened sense of the fascination, not to say fear and loathing, with which lesser mortals view sexuality and Scorpio sexuality in particular. They are seen as sexually dynamic, threatening, voracious, insatiable, overwhelming and generally mysterious. This is of course not without foundation and they have been known to take advantage of this fascination, rather like a snake hypnotising a bird before devouring it.
However, they fundamentally need to get to the very bottom of everything, so that they may transform and transmute themselves through the harnessing of natural energies. Sexual activity comes naturally to them, although some seek to repress and transform the sexual scorpion into the eagle of high spirituality. They mix fire with water to create a steamy swamp of overheated passion and desire.
Anything is acceptable in their sensual world, for they are interested in the end, not the means. If it blows their mind, or it expands their sexual repertoire, or enables them to exert their dominance, it will be fine by them.
Admirers should be ready and willing to be consumed, if they wish to get the best from them. Also, if they are looking for some powerful sexual pleasure, they need look no further.”
(big wink)…oh, yes, I have heard!…
Love!!!
Cheyenne
Still so loving this blog.
Big Smile! And BIGGGG Hug, Lucienne!!!
A frog jump <<<PLOP>>>
Hi Chi! I like that..the frog felt the water…and he jumped! He didn't need to read a scripture, he needed no one to imitate. Each one of us must find our original innermost core desires. With no scripture, no guide, in the dark nite…and with one jump leap into the fire of your soul. Everybody has a different Tao. The frog has water…the moth the flame. Those who cling to scripture or word are simply avoiding the great adventure.
Thank you Chi!
Good to meet you!
Cheyenne
Very nice to meet you to Cheyenne
Hi, I love say something to Ram Prem about lifevest.
Dear Ram Prem, when some one take a way you suppost, lifevest, that it
mean that she can put it back again.
Only you can take in truth you lifevest. Is a decision that come from
a very deep resolution when you have enough of it. And you don't
take a way, it just drop. Only is need it a sincere heart and a total
spontanety on here-now
But, when the resolution is no trully there, you can continue the dream,
that some one can do it for you.
Revolution of the heart, much love Chaitanyo - Chi
yes, Cheyenne, I see you have heard!
they've got me down, for sure.
totally.
if you'll excuse me, i've got some serious hypnotizing to do…
;)
Cheyenne,
Your words here have blossomed so throughout the community. Your words here sparked deeper thoughts passing between my friend Alluvja and I via the grapevine, related to what I wrote here.
I said to Lucienne ”Yes, I've plunged before and it was effective. I prefer gentle shifts these days. Must be the aging process.” And BTW, I wrote today, to a young friend, my first at Gaia, with a link to your blog here, for I did encourage her to take the plunge a few years ago and she has been upon quite the adventure.
Oh penetrating soul that Alluvja is, always she encourages me to look deeper and so, she replied upon my grapevine ”Deb, I dont think it's the age at all. I think it rather has to do with what we are actually believing deep down. How deep is our faith in our bliss and our acceptance on how much we are truly loved. In my experience the thought that I was “having to go” thru something that was deep down and scary, turned out to be a phantom of the mind. The scary part always relates to our fear and resistance never to God. Yet even knowing that now, the mind is very persistant”
To which I agreed ”I really see the truth of what you said, that such beliefs, as in a need for something scary or deep, are also and no more than phantoms of the mind, related to our fear and resistance - never to God's will for our highest good. As usual, you are the perfect counterpoint to clarify my own thinking. Just one of the reasons I cherish your presence in my life.”
Even away from this blog, the thoughts ripple throughout the community in their mysterious movements.
Deep bows to your insights -
Deb
Dear Deb! Wow! What a beautiful interaction between Lucienne and You! That Goddess Lucienne!!!! She IS special!!! And so are YOU! This is perfect!!!
I must separate this:
I actually believe it is what you're believing deep down.
How deep is your faith in our bliss and acceptance on how much we are truly loved?
Are our blocks real or phantoms of the mind?
Whoa! The scary part relates to our fear and resistance to never meet God.
Even when knowing, the mind is very persistant.
This is beautiful!!!! I have certainly noticed the deadening effect of too much intellectualizing. We create a facade of an answer just to curtain our fear. Yet life is ALWAYS a mystery. And always is it simple. All answers are temporary. If we can come to live the mystery, become one with it, lose ourselves in it, the ride…then the whole quality changes, but nothing is ever solved, known as certain.
Our problems are often simple, but in the mind there are problems (!)…and we look at reality through the mind, so reality becomes problematic. The mind divides everything and creates problems…and then creates solutions which become deeper problem. When in fact it is all a delay tactic.
Thank you sincerely for sharing this personal interaction, Deb! It's perfect and stunningly beautiful and insightful.
And thank you for your complement to me too, Deb…but I must say, I give all complements to the masters that I study and love and to the people here at Gaia that continually inspire me and help me learn!
Just Beautiful!
Much Love,
Cheyenne
Good Morning, Deb!
Thinking of your beautiful post this morning - I was reflecting off your gentle approach.
O, and laughing thinking about how many times I have held my breath as I press 'send' on an email, said something to a friend, made a call and revealed or requested something I wished to experience….just took that out-of-the comfort-zone step. and then waiting on the in-breath…I just exhaled..now what will come back (?). Now life is out of my hands! nothing whatever I can do but wait upon the response…sometimes no response. But the exercise is strengthening.
The whole Art to me is to always act honestly from the belly. It is very simple and gentle because it is in the moment. If the belly urges ~ do it! (Certainly too, the heart. But personally I act from the belly.) Not because you'll gain…you may or may not according to the head. But life takes on a different moment-to-moment reality. It's always about the belly….not the head!!!
The courage comes knowing you only must do half the work..reality will do the other half. Remaining honest in this moment, not calculating and being clever…just raw and real, honest and sincere… often shaking being so naked. And that is the reward. No reward beyond this is needed….just acting in a very vulnerable and naked way. Telling the truth.
And the responses reveal a life I could never dream up. I can only dream up half the dream…reality gives it the other half. And, oh, my goodness, the beautiful part is you never know what will happen…learning that seeking an outcome is futile…because no outcome I could dream up ever matches reality…Reality is very exciting when it is lived moment to moment, realtime and alive. No outcome is needed beyond this. this itself is enough - sometimes too much (big smile!))))
It is a very gentle way because all that is required is a little honesty and sincerity and a slight action….then wait. And life responds!
motion and rest…act and wait…act and wait. I feel often we don't wait!…or we don't act…they work best together….act..then wait.
Sending you a hug today, Deb!
Love,
Cheyenne
Cheyenne,
What a wonderful gift to see this message this morning before I go out for my weekly Life Visioning guided meditation (which interestingly, I believe will someday bring me to your place; and we shall hike the wilds together and talk of many things … but I digress).
One of those times you had the courage to hit the 'send' button, I should share with you now and here, was quite meaningful to me for the work I am now doing deep in my own heart. You said -
“How fun courage is! Co-u-rage!…..Becoming one with rage! Meeting and joining with the rage……and transcending it! Rage is a lover! A tiger by the tail! Taming the beast!”
How interesting that we are on parallel paths of exploring Rage, and Co-u-rage too. Yes, this caring, loving, heart-full woman who writes this message to you now, is plunging deep into how it came to be that Rage explodes from me into the faces of my children, and how to get at the root of those emotions and reclaim my emotional integrity, and now I make friends with Anger, only in order to utilize that anger for the purpose that it exists - “to provoke change”.
So, this is the one little place, where your own courage to hit the send button, sincerely touched my life; and I can almost imagine that after doing so, you had at least one moment of wondering why - or perhaps not, perhaps you just accepted and allowed that it was the proper thing to do in that moment.
Yet, my soul was certainly co-creating the drawing out of those ideas from your belly, and I have put that little bit aside for myself, that I might revisit those thoughts, as I have need.
Emotion is truly the aliveness that our life has. Without it, we are the living dead. How sad that it is the way with so many people, that they shut down so entirely, that they are not really living, even though they draw breath. Depression is the outward sign of that giving up on the value of having emotions.
You, dear honest authentic Cheyenne, are wonderfully, fully and contagiously alive. Yes. Motion and rest, act and wait. The pathless path that is The Way. Yes, there comes that crucial moment, that if we don't act, the vision is no more than a fantasy. And there is also that moment, that we must wait, or the vision explodes in our face and comes to naught.
It is the dance with Spirit that I sense we both love. I felt your thoughts this morning and then, saw the truth, that we connect in heart, mind and yes - belly.
Peace & Blessings -
Deb
This blog is getting more precious all the time.
This is what I wrote in my haiku blog at FB yesterday when I felt a blast of anger so tangible it was like a ball in my hands. ( I actually might still get a paintbrush too!)
Eventhough the haikus dont feel quite right for me yet I posted them anyway for even their imperfection is part of the creative process.
Anger - Crimson Flames.
Breathe into my brush, paint a
different picture.
Breathe into my brush
Angry fire of crimson flames
transmute to passion.
Love You!
Lucienne,
Oh, that is how uncomfortable the expression of Anger can feel.
Appreciating the preciousness of you -
Deb
I actually didn't experience it as that uncomfortable. It was just what it was and I chose not to judge it but use it's magnificant firy energy to create something other than simply just lashing out.
Dear Deb and Lucienne!!!! These beautiful words, wow! Meow!!! purrrrrrrrrrrrr…I'm feeling a little frightened but stimulated to play!…fantastic!
Thank you, Deb! O, and yes, I opted to be a belly person, because my heart is so easily moved to sentiment. I found better advice at the belly!
I too have had tremendous moments entering rage. And its so important as the repressed energy left untouched turns to poison in us. That's why we are irritable, annoyed, worried, tense. Inside we are greedy, full of lust, violence, anger, rage, jealousy. The inner has a tremendous power and the outer is very weak. How we are on the outer is very temporary and superficial. How we are internally is eternal and goes deep.
When I was in my childbearing years…goodness, five children in 10 years…I was busy. Perpetually awake, endlessly drained…and I had no mercy even on myself. I still demanded practice, perfection (ha!)….just never gave myself a break. One day everyone left the house. And the weak facade, the weak surface, could not hold back the tremdendous force within. I held it down always so I wouldn't hurt anyone, always feeling I had to act 'accordingly'. But once everyone was gone. And a moment of what I was going through hit me and I picked up a chair and threw it, but it didnt' stop there…I destroyed everything in this room. I witnessed it all. No stopping it. Every move was feeding the fury. Glass broken, chairs destroyed, table up against walls, everything off shelves, there was nothing left for me to destroy..and I sat on the floor and cried…but it was so beautiful. So beautiful a moment. My family came in and said, OMG, are you okay? Yes. I said smiling. I am fine. I will clean this up. Got a hammer?
The experience was actually orgamsic. Time stopped. I was in eternity, there was no thought. Afterwards empty, silent. Total presense. But unless we can release this energy, we remain loveless, full of rage, ready to explode at any time for any reason…what can we do? It is just happening. But the right time is needed. I made sure no one was with me, to hurt them.
Of course that was an extraordinarily stressful time and experience. And other beautiful moments like this have happened since and have been transformative. Rage, like any emotion, can be entered slowly. Like learning to swim, you do not jump immediately into deep water. You first swim in shallow water and only on the surface. And once you become familiar with how to swim, how to be move, it does not matter if you are in four feet or ten thousand feet deep water, you can still swim. To the non-swimmer, the unexperienced it means death. But to the one who can swim the surface, he can also swim the depths! There are only boundaries of how deep you can go if you don't know how to swim. So one can start shallow, just being present with themselves, remaining on the surface, until they can remain afloat, not become too distraught…too caught up, then you can go deep! As deep as you like!
And even this is not the end of the growth. After we search deeper into these places of repression, we do transcend humanity to some degree, and then something divine enters you. Like a light in a dark room…And once the divine enters it's like you start coming apart at the seams!!! (big laugh!)…someone's got the string to sweater and you're coming apart. It's beautiful and devastating!
Oh, but to me, Deb, we only have a few years here. How many years do we think we have? …but there is tremendous beauty for one who has traveled deep into themselves.
It is very beautiful your courage!……your honesty.
and Lucienne! I know you're a wild woman! I just feel it…just the right moment and anything can happen! (big smile!). Actually, you too Deb! You two are beautiful!!!!! I have this big smile on my face…wishing I could witness it all!!! Be with you! In love!
I'm actually very naughty and it would be my pleasure to edge you on!
OH, I don't mean to be too silly. I actually love the truth of this! And thank you so much for sharing this!
Much love!
Cheyenne
Lucienne!
Anger - Crimson Flames.
Breathe into my brush, paint a
different picture.
Breathe into my brush
Angry fire of crimson flames
transmute to passion.
wow! sheewww!!!! I feel the heat from here! Beautiful!
Love,
Che
Dearest Cheyenne,
Reading your post about the rage just rendered me silent for a moment. Captivating the energy of what you just shared with us I am engulfed with gratitude for your honesty, your love, your courage, your realness and all the sharing that is happening here. I Love You, but you already know that.
I grew up with a dominant mother (my father died young) that had no trouble expressing her anger but did not allow us to have ours. It was “bad to be angry” and I was told my father would turn around in his grave. Of course I knew that was bulshit, but emotionally I must have taken it in regardless. I didn't want to be a bad girl. Of course when I grew up I did a lot of things that “bad gurls” do… eh..eh..
But I did have some problems expressing anger. Strangely enough not towards my mother, we fought a lot when i was a teenager eventhough I intensely disliked it, I had to stand my ground and apparently I felt secure enough to do so. It's more in situations where I feel insecure that expressing anger was and at times still is difficult for me.
It's not in my temperament really, I'm not an “angry person” but I have experienced rage so fiercly a couple of times that I actually was about to jump on men that were twice my seize. Luckily I was held down by friends because these guys could have easily harmed me. I really dont know how to fight and will definetely lose physically (I am a pussycat really) but there was such force behind my anger, I didn't care I was ready to jump!
So it is a great energy, but energy it's all it is and as we grow I believe we can learn to direct energy into any frequencey we want to.
I also believe that there are times in our lives when we have build up stress, it is important to release it. I also believe that in growing in consciousness Spirit will guides us to that which is really blocking our expansion so we can release it and epxress the emotions behind it in order to be able to let go. And sometimes it can be a gentle healing, sometimes it is a difficult birthing. However, I dont believe it's something we have to keep looking for. In the 70ties there was a climate and a lot of emphasis on “cartharsis” , you saw it with the “Human Potential Movement” groups, you saw it with the Rajneesh groups. Carthasis was “in” . And I was influenced somewhat, like many, by a belief system that kind of was like ”you first gotto get into all your shit and get that out” before you're ready for enlightenment. Well I'm telling everyone, you'll have to wait a long time for enlightenment because there will be always something there, you're never gonna get rid of it 'cos it feeds on itself.
I believe it's actually just another ”mental structure” that you can get stuck in. Carthasis has its place also for me, but at the same time I believe healing can be instantaniously as well, and ever so gentle if we only have enough faith.
My wild part Lol, I am grateful I have been able to express a little bit of that throughout my life, but I am also aware a lot of it is still repressed. I hold back at times, out of fear perhaps, I am sensitive, I do get insecure and hurt . I'm not imuum for the attitudes and responses of others. I'm just a simple girl awakening slowly to how wise she really is and taking that and trying to rejoice in that and dance it and share it and being here and growing in my wisdom like we all are, and it's an eternal journey forever going on.
Hugs,
Lucienne
Wow, the intensity of light pouring in upon this aspect of being human through us … it is “my work” at the moment and so, there it is the LOA pouring out a blessing upon me. Perhaps, I should give a bit of background. Early in June, I attended an amazing spiritual conference in Chicago. The energy was significant and there was a unique aspect. The woman who formed and ran the promotion company for the Celebrate Your Life conferences with her 2 daughters died the Monday before the conference openned on Friday, leaving her daughters in the very capable hands of a diverse group of spiritually attuned individuals, to help them process through and move through, what they had to do to meet their obligation to the attendees.
From the humorously serious feminism of Christiane Northrup to the non-physical communication channel (for troubled people who recently passed from earthly life) through James Van Pragh to many, many others including Michael Bernard Beckwith (doing his first appearance at this brand of event), it was quite quickening to be immersed in the energy of it all.
I left there on a Monday morning, quite high in vibrational and trailing clouds of glory. As I contemplated what was next for me, it came to me as inspiration, that I was to study Anger, with my own self as the subject. Not that this was an entirely new subject for me. My older son is of the persistent, determined, stubborn and challenging artistic soul temperment. When his younger brother was about 18 mos, I went through a very depressing period with my older son, as he tried to wrest back my attention from the younger one, using inappropriate behavior as his method of choice.
At the time, I picked up a book - Anger and the Indigo Child by Dianne Lancaster - based upon a program she has trademarked called Transforming Anger Into Love. One phrase got me through that period - it was that “Anger is a God given emotion with a purpose - to provoke change”. Once I could accept my Anger (yes, I too was a “good” girl who did all the “bad” things out of my parent's sight), I made wonderful progress with my son. Always, I was informed by the terrible relationship between my mother and youngest sister, a path I was being fore-warned to take seriously or I might find my own self on it with my son later on in life.
Yet, the moments of Rage continued coming back and when I returned from Chicago, I pulled that book back off the shelf, for I had never finished reading it and I started to read it again, with a more matured spiritual awareness. So, much is coming clear for me now and Anger has many faces - fear, anxiety, depression and rage - all related to Love. Without getting into so much, I will say I am on a high-speed, intensive course of study; and the two of you - Cheyenne and Lucienne - are part of my path at the moment.
I'm seeing patterns of behavior, like you Lucienne - relationship issues between my mom and dad that I am playing out with my husband, and patterns with my son, of a milder nature than the really extreme situation of my mom and younger sister, but I believe with a similar root. Rage that I now understand is not loving and very dangerous. Rage kills and abuses other people. The destroyed room, Cheyenne, is a low price to pay for the cleansing of the explosion from within, that the stress of too many demands will finally unleash. I have those stresses, though they are easing alot.
And I'm seeing Anger ripples, going back as young as when I was 18 mos and took my younger sister's bottle from her, because my mom had taken mine from me and I didn't understand the why.
Oh, I could go on and on, but that is probably enough for the moment. The light is shining so intensely here and so beautifully through this blog. My heart is grateful to have been drawn in.
Burning purely -
Deb
Dear Lucienne, wow..
I can well imagine this pain of losing the father and how even this must effected your mother and your family. And even though we know it is 'bullshit', the mechanism still sets up…and too because you are intelligent I can imagine you resenting this, which makes it even more powerful - and difficult- to release.
And it is very healthy for a girl to rebel and reject her mother. I even prompt my 9 year old daughter already that, “yes, one day coming up very soon, you will need to reject me, maybe even hate me, to become who you were always meant to be. I am your mother and I have permeated your every cell and your rebellion will be necessary to become you alone! I want you to know I love you and do not ever feel wrong when the time comes to reject me. It is a natural part of growing up. You are my daughter, but you are still YOU, someone very different than me.” So good for you, Lucienne! I think it only shows your health, your love! And perfect guidance!
Oh, expressing anger can be so difficult because it is such an overwhelming energy…goodness, if we don't control some, what might we do???? (big smile!)….I learned to LOVE fighting…it just occurred to me one day..as I was fighting someone…that i often fight (laugh)…to love it. Step up and enjoy it! If we are going to do it THIS much, I might as well enjoy it! And that day, I changed…a wonderful transformation happened when I came to love fighting, enjoy it. I was able to do it so differently - even better (!) - a light arose when I accepted fighting with joy and courage…I didn't feel I needed to fear it any longer, just enjoy it. It's a natural part of life.
And Lucienne! I am so happy that someone was there to hold you back! I can easily see this!…you up against the Gwedo!…
Oh, you're life experience is priceless! I can imagine that movement was good for what it was, but also see very well your point! And how beautiful your allowing spirit to guide the many births and deaths we go through!
Lucienne, I am grateful for your sharing…both your wisdom and you. Your life and light shine! You give me a feeling of such a Special Angel! I see your big blue eyes now!
BIg Embrace for your sharing and love!
Cheyenne
Dear Deb, thank you for your sharing! And it is so beautiful to be walking so close together!
There were so many emotions that went through my soul envisioning this workshop that you encountered! What a day might bring, you will never know!
From studying the Course in Miracles I gained a so much comfort and positive reinforcement…not to mention relief (big smile)…from recognizing when someone is rageful, angry, hurt that it is a call for love. When my children are acting rude or destructive I say to them…”Oh, you must need a hug, you are not being loved enough or else you would not be behaving this way. Let's sit together a few minutes.” I notice they do not need much time before they are ready to be away from me!….and I learned this for myself too when I get fussy or hard to deal with…to just say it…”I need a hug! I need some love!” So much better said than what I was saying. It helped me so much to recognize rage, anger, disputation, any negative emotion, as a call for love…both for myself and others.
Yet I still wish to encourage your practice of entering the rage. I feel most people do not get out of a problem, a negative pattern, because they never fully enter it….they half-hearted go into it and only half-hearted get out. But if one can FULLY enter their rage and hatefulness WITH AWARENESS, that person can fully exit….once it is seen entirely, not just seen, but experienced, THEN it can be let go. One can see it for what it is…and the destructiveness of it. That moment on the floor, crying, a room utterly destroyed…I could see the whole nonsense of it…I could feel the love and beauty of existence. Existence doing its own thing…making no mind whatever of what I am doing…beauty everywhere, even in my own life. But I was too exhausted and trapped in my own pain.
Another reason for rage may be we are literally exhausted from fighting and the lack of rest, a good nite's sleep keeps up trapped in the cycle. If we don't sleep well our life is in chaos and relationships become entangled and everything becomes poison. Simply because we are not rested. And contrarily, when we we rest, underlying our activities there is a peace, love and health, we can find better ways to deal with the stresses we all face.
Deb, you are a VERY courageous woman! To make your self the labratory, the subject, and to enter the anger and rage to heal your consciousness, to awaken and heal not only your life, but generations of pain that was passed down to you…I send you all love and support!
One day at a time!!!!! And I am sincerely grateful for your sharing, Deb! Your Strength and Light Shine like a Beacon!!!!
Humbly and gratefully,
Thank you!
Much love,
Cheyenne
Oh, this is so very good. Yes. I remember so well my rejection of my mother and how wise your advice is to your own daughter. How true. How I wish I had had that guidance. All hope is in our very real evolution. People don't treat their children now, the way they have for so many, many generations in the past, and that is the hope for peace expanding.
I have noted that acting up or disruptive behavior is a cry for attention and I have found myself doing that, giving love. Never often enough.
My own chronic challenge, it seems at the moment, is to address my need for more rest. My sister, my daughter and a couple of friends are all embarked with me upon a year-long program developed by Cheryl Richardson called The Art of Extreme Self-Care. Just the name of it, called to me so strongly. Almost no need to even know the details.
In Month One, we seek to identify our needs. Two stand out strongly that would appear easy to address but prove elusive in my life … eating meals when they are needed, and not putting them off for hours, while other's needs and demands are attended to … and getting enough rest.
We currently live in the modern day equivalent of a one-room cabin. It has its positives and its negatives, as most things in life do. Lack of privacy is one of the negatives and in fact, we have a family bed - actually 2 King-size platform mattresses, adjoined side by side (having 2 consumes space but is helpful, its a long story). So, one parent and one child, sleep in each bed in a big room that is also our entertainment center as well as bedroom, and children's play area and business office too. LOL. It makes for a special and also, at times, stressful closeness.
Much of my Anger and even, Rage, comes from stress, which is certainly aggravated by lack of sleep. Currently, 6 hrs is a good night for me. I may even succeed in getting to bed early but can't sleep for the activity of the family, unless utterly exhausted - yes, that exhausted has happened too.
We are very seasonal in our lifestyle - long days of less sleep in summer and short days of “intending” more sleep in winter. Hmmm, there is a pattern there.
I believe that Women have a natural inclination towards Rage, which we are thankfully addressing here for I have seen that it is sadly all too common. It comes of our natural response to the needs of others through nurturing. However, if we forget to make ourselves a priority for that nurturing, there is a hidden price in doing so. Without mindfulness, resentments creep in unconsciously and suddenly - the explosion.
In the end, our natural ability to Love intensely, I believe, will actually take on greater purity, when we acknowledge that our needs are as valid as the needs of those we serve with our very lives.
It has been an amazing journey, your blog has set us upon - Cheyenne (and Lucienne has been thankfully there with us). And while I feared we had strayed from the original topic, I see that we are actually plunging in as you had suggested - this time into the vibrational body that is our emotions, our very aliveness - without which we can not make the most of this blessing of having a body and being here upon the physical Earth.
In Elizabeth Lesser's book on American spirituality (The Seeker's Guide) at the beginning of the section on Heartfulness, she quotes Joseph Campbell -
“People say that what we're seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
Deb
Dear Debyemm, what you just say at the end is soooo beautiful and so truth,
until we realize that the word experience is changing for continues experiencing of being alive…
Thank you, much love, Chaitanyo
Dear, dear Deb! What a powerful time. I will tell you, I have sat with my mouth open with other women saying to me…just as of yesterday…”It is time for me to deal with my anger and rage.” (!!!!)…inside I am in awe. What sort of movement is this? A powerful surge of renewal.
We come from a generation where the women were put behind, under, and taught all the WRONG manners!….it is no wonder, as you say, women have more rage. Anyone who has been taught and put down and behind in those subtle clever ways would rebel! It is a blessing.
I went to Primal Therapy for three weeks isolation once. They lock you up in a room and you have no communication with any soul, in any fashion and daily you sit in a closet size room with no windows, padded walls and teddy bears everywhere while a talented psychologist comes at you for three to six hours a day! I would call it divine HELL! It was still one the most beautiful experiences I ever had…digging deep into the pain of my soul and howling like a wolf…they took nothing but your all as acceptable.
It was very worth it. It did end, the rage and anger. Silent and integrated…ok with who you are. Nothing special, just not trying to hold down a mountain of fire and pain!
I wish to send you much love, Deb, on this journey!
And I agree with Chaitanyo!…that quote you gave is perfection!…I laugh thinking about 'meaning'…who cares about meaning! Just let me listen to your heart beat!….So beautiful!
Thank you dearly, DEB!
All my love!
Cheyenne
Cheyenne,
Thank you for allowing so much space on your blog for this discussion.
You are certainly familiar with deep plunges.
Grateful bows, to your fiercely gentle, warrior spirit -
Deb
Dear Deb! Hi! The Gaia mail is now going to my spam folder, so I sometime don't see a message till I open the internet!
Thank you! I deeply appreciate sharing both strengths and challenges, so I wish to thank YOU!!!!
And I am not so happy with taking deep plunges, but - well, whatever will bring us home, bliss and happiness, I will do! Risking my life is so little compared to tasting bliss!
The Primal Therapy, for example, I did not go because I was feeling any emotional stress to speak of, but I have a quite challenging condition that came on suddenly when I was in my early 20s…and that is I am severely allergic to any form of perfume or scents. My husband calls me parts–per-million. Anyone that comes near me, must be ABSOLUTELY perfume-free or I suffer terribly. While researching options and possible help, the Primal Center suggested that sometimes trapped trauma can cause certain ailments…I was hoping it was free me up somehow. As I'm strong a bull in every other way!!!!
Deep Bow and big, big hug to You, Deb! And thank you so sincerely!!!
Alllove,
Cheyenne
Humbled by the content of this blog entry, I will limit my comment to just saying that your article is encouraging and helpfull. Especially for those who's feeling of direction has been shattered by the shadows of their past, and torn between the many choices they stand before. When I look in the mirror, I see one of them. Thank you Cheyenne!
Sparks,
Nino.
Dear Nino! I could feel your words! Of course when one is shattered by the shadows of the past and is torn and confused, we feel pain. It burns. It is like a fire that burns you. But it should not be escaped. It is good. People need real suffering. all that is false will burn and all that is real will be there, what is real cannot burn. Then you come to what is authentic. And when you are authentic, you are no longer confused, because mind is not the issue. YOU are. Then whatever you do, it is right. You are free of the false.
I love this, Nino! “When I look in the mirror, I see one of them.” wow. silence. (big smile)..
..for every little bit of clarity we find, it lessens the disease. Clarity is the falling of barriers, one by one, until one day there is no duality, only clarity.
Sparks to YOU, Nino! And thank you dearly for sharing!
Love,
Cheyenne
lots of comments on this blog. A great blog. It reminds me of a quote that I read recently that was supposedly said by Eleanor Roosevelt- to every day, do something that scares you. I can't actually find that particular quote anywhere else, but I did find this one which is similar I think.
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
Jenni, Hi! I was just reading your site today! What a pleasant surprise!
Eleanor Roosevelt…do something that scares you!
and
“You must do things you think you cannot do.”
Beautiful! Thank you!
I find it is not so hard to find. You do not have to go and find a cliff somewhere to jump off…no. Just tell the truth! Raw honesty! Examine yourself deeply and find exactly what is happening in you and SAY IT always!
I find that very exciting, sometimes scary…and a voice inside says to me “you can't do that!”…I smile back…oh, yes I can. What the hell!? Just do it!
Then smiling very big to see if and what comes back! That's called a life!
Thank you dearly, Jenni! I appreciate the quotes you shared!!!
with love!
Cheyenne