SOUL shit!

 

The INNER Journey

New Edges

New Shores

New Depths

New corridors

New Heights

New Energies

OPENing

Ready to come out & PLAY

New Beginnings

NEW life

Oh, the Surprises that await!

Oh, the JOY that awaits!

DISCOVERING

EXPLORING

JUMPING

FREE FALLING

Who am I?

For Real

For REAL

Wearing costumes

Taking them OFF

Playing roles

Changing

Shape-shifting

Morphing

Growing

Expanding

BECOMING!

Beyond who I think I am

Beyond who others say I am

Beyond who others need me to be

Beyond the concept of authenticity

TRYing to live an idea

Of who I think I should be

TRYing to fit a mold

The status quo says is

GOOD

Acceptable

Lovable

Worthy

But what if this is BULLSHIT?

TRYing is Lying

To stand 10 feet Tall

In ALL that we are

Unapologetic

FULLY human

Magnificent

GRACE in form

Weird

Absurd

BEAUTYfull

Poetry in motion

Expressive

ALIVE

Living the PASSION

LIMITLESSness

This journey of life

Instantaneously

Drops us

Into our Self

FREEing

Spontaneity

PLAYing

Uncontainable

BURSTing

KNOW THYSELF!

Urges the Wisdom of the Ages

What does this mean?

Oh, the INNER journey

The voyage into the depths of me

The grandest adventure of ALL

SOUL shit!

Unexplainable

Unreasonable

Undeniable

As we are

SHOWN

What we cannot explain

What is not reasonable

But is undeniable

REAL!

Trippy

Mystical

Hidden within

Yet PRESENT

Guiding us all our days

A Secret Self

The MORE

The SURPRISE

Magnetically

PULLing us

To those we need to meet

Encounters

Some brief

Yet PROFOUND

Life-changing

Looking into the eyes

Of someone

And

KNOWing them

Exchanging ENERGY

Through words

Through touch

Through silence

NOURISHing

FEEDing

Taking us into OUR Self

PULLing us

To those places we need to go

Familiar

In ways that make no sense

KNOWN

Yet

UnKNOWN

Eternal

Light within the Tunnels

Never-ending

Within Us

Within the World

SOUL SHIT!

Today is Halloween!  The rituals of this day, carving pumpkins, bobbing for apples, standing around bon fires, trick or treating, dressing up in costumes that are fun and express parts of our Self unseen in our everyday lives but very much alive within our Spirit.  Dressing up as Super Heroes, monsters, witches, historical figures, queens, kings and so on, we play roles that are familiar and fun and enlivening.  Archetypal energies that we embody get to come out and PLAY on this grand night.  Often, we are unconscious why we choose to BE what we become on Halloween but on a soul level there is much more at work.    

What a great metaphor for how we are guided every single day, going here and there, meeting those we are destined to meet whether the connection is brief or lifelong, leading us home to our truest Self, our truest life.  We speak of light at the end of the tunnel but the tunnel never ends at the level of soul even as we transition from the physical realm into the spiritual.  It is trippy stuff – unreasonable, unexplainable YET undeniable!  The magnetic PULL that is within us so mystical and profound that when we follow the call of the soul and tune in to its sweet whispers, we are forever changed.  We cannot unring the bells and their chimes are so magnificent we wouldn’t choose to go back to the disconnected life, the staleness that comes from repressing ALL that we are, ALL the secrets within waiting to be revealed.  SOUL shit!

The invitation this day and this lifetime is to swim in the well within, the soul, allowing these magical waters so vast to lead you home again and again and again.  KNOW THYSELF!  Not just intellectually but at the level of soul that morphs and grows and expands and holds within it seeds of potential bursting with JOY, PASSION, LOVE, SWEETness beyond measure, further than the mind can think.  Tune in to every encounter you have with another human being and let the richness wash over you.  Tune in to how you feel when you arrive at a place where you feel you have been before but haven’t.  Recognize that EVERYTHING, every step of your life has led you right here, right now into this moment where NEW LIFE springs eternal.  SOUL shit!  No words.  We are creatures of SOUL:  Experiencing life so profoundly that trying to explain it, trying to language it strips the bounty, the beauty, the ALIVEness. 

Oh, the SURPRISES that await!  Oh, the JOY that abounds!  This inner voyage that connects us to the outer world at a depth that showers us with a sense of abundance breath by magic breath, loving life fiercely…SOUL shit!

BRAVE in All Things!

 

Bravery is NOT

The absence of FEAR

Rather the inclusion

Of ALL

That we are FEELing

EXPERIENCEing the human emotions

Terror

Fear

Worry

Doubt

Anxiety

Tension

Vulnerability

In ALL things

In ALL moments

BE BRAVE

FEEL all that you are FEELing

Let it all COME forward

Give it SPACE to breathe

Allowing the emotions

FREES US

From the grips

From the holding patterns

That CHOKE us

Robbing our precious life force

That keep us STUCK

In ruts

In the dead

In the past that is DONE

In the life that has been

No room

For ALL that is to be

Right here!

Right now!

Potential HATCHing

Life BIRTHing

From our BRAVE Self

That dares to FEEL

That dares to ALLOW

That dares to EXPERIENCE

The stinging

The cutting

The biting

The stripping

The excavating

TRUSTing LIFE

Including it ALL

DISCOVERing

The SWEETness

Carved from the BITING bitterness

We let go

Of the idea of BRAVEry

And

Reach for the TRUTH

BRAVE in All Things

Comes

From our willingness

To be PRESENT

To life

On life’s terms

To let it TOUCH us

FEELing the sensations

With emotional honesty

KICKING

SCREAMING

LAUGHING

CRYING

CHEERING

JUMPING

DANCING

SINGING

CURSING

Oh, it feels damn GOOD

To be BRAVE

Letting ALL things

BE

As they are

Moment by moment by moment

Tuning in

Connecting

Welcoming

Savoring

Tasting

LIFE!

Pure GOODness

UNCONDITIONALLY:

Delicious

Juicy

Come what may

ALL Things

Make up LIFE

When we put the knife down

No longer needing to CUT OUT

That which we want to AVOID

No longer trying

To CENSOR what “is”

To DEADen what we came here to KNOW

Our SELF

KNOWing:

We ARE Life

ALL of it

ALL things

We ARE

BRAVE in All Things!

FREEly dancing with the breath of the heavens

Moment by moment

Choice by choice

Day by day

BRAVE

Warriors of LIFE

LOVing each day

LIVing it ALL!

No matter where you are on this human journey, the invitation this day is pause and recognize you are a warrior of life!  Being BRAVE in All Things! is daring to be present to life, experiencing it all because the truth is:  THIS, this moment is life – it is ALL life and trying to cut out anything keeps the richness, the fullness at bay.  Stand in the moments of your life allowing them to wash through you, to awaken you to the beauty that is ever-present.  In this way of being, we are FREE, dancing with the soul force of the universe, the heavens that guide us into our truest life where we come to KNOW our Self, the magnificence we are, the power the pulses through our every breath.  Being unconditionally present to life is bravery beyond measure because in this energy we are wide open, lifted to heights unparalleled to a life where miracles abound, where joy blossoms without ceasing here and now…right here!  Right now!  You are BRAVE in all things.  YOU are ALL things!

WALKing Together in the UNKNOWN

I am with YOU

Hand in hand

Heart to heart

Soul to soul

WALKing together

In the UNKNOWN

I’ve got YOU

And

You’ve got ME

I am NOT Alone

We are NOT Alone

EVER!

THANK the heavens!

WALKING by Faith

SEEing the TRUTH

LIGHTing the way

Knowing ALL that we are

Stoking the inner fires

Ever-burning

Longing to BLAZE

Living the PASSION

Tuning in to the Mystical

This journey

Creatures of Soul

On this Human adventure

Unpredictable

And predictable

BOTH!

BIG

In Small ways

SMALL

In BIGness

The PARADOX of Life

Immeasurable experiences

OPEN

Door by door by door

Our presence required

To extract

The bounty

The beauty

The magnificence

The miracles

Abounding

Oscillating

Bursting

Springing

Spiraling

What we think we know

CONTRADICTED

As more is revealed

As what was concealed

Is made Visible

Here and now!

Giggling

Delighting

Raising our hands in the air

Playing with abandon

WILD

FREE

UNTAMED

UNTETHERED

JOYously squealing WEEEEEEE…

Riding the ups & downs

Leaning in to the twists & turns

Making room for the curve balls

Thrown

Full force

Slamming in to US

Knocking us down

Lifting us HIGHER than ever before

WTF?!

What is this?

LIFE

In all its Glory

The Divine Comedy that is Life

SHOWing us we are here

To GROW

To EXPAND

To COME ALIVE

Saying NEVER!

And being led into the NEVER!

Saying NOT ME!

And seeing clearly ME TOO!

Hahahaha…

(The joke is on US)

Discovering MORE

KNOWing our Self

Not as a fixed idea

But a BLOSSOMing

Expression of the Divine

Limitless

Infinite

Walking together

BLOOMing together

In the UNKNOWN

CLAIMing the parts of our Self

Once judged as most FU%#ed UP

Exiled to the Island of misfit toys

Extracting the BEAUTY

Eyes Wide OPEN

Appreciating it ALL

Acknowledging the GIFTS

Of our once rejected Self

The TRUTH

Of this LOVEly energy

No less than the BREATH

Of the heavens BLOWing through US

Integrated

Alive

USEful

GOODness

Singing HARMONIOUSLY

As US

As individuals

As the Collective

AWEsome!

LOVE US

AWAKEning

No longer asleep at the wheel

Of our precious LIFE

We WALK our path

Step by Step

Day by Day

GROUNDED

Nothing to fix

Nothing to apologize for

ONLY life to LIVE

Walking OUR Walk

Allowing others to walk their walk

WALKing Together in the UNKNOWN

LIFE bursting

MAGIC is ours.

I am good at being alone, embodying a cat energy that likes to come out and play on its terms when it feels like it and with whom it wants to play with.  This makes me laugh, delighting in how I am wired, no longer judging how I should be or what I should do.  But even when I am physically alone walking my path, making my way in the world within me and outside, I am conscious that I am never alone.  And this fills my heart that feels the whole of the world walking hand in hand, heart to heart, soul to soul with me.  We are all walking together into the unknown, the more, the promises discovered each moment of each day.  This is a sacred dance where I follow my inner rhythm while simultaneously all of humanity follows theirs as we are ever-guided by the soul force of the Universe taking us where we need to go, where we must travel in order to free more of our Self and more Life ready to express and hatch through us.  Birthing our Self a never ending privilege filled with moments of blood curdling screams as pain grips the whole of us and filled with the ecstasy of wonder as joy springs like fireworks lighting what was once dark.  The labor pains become a faint memory overridden by the gratitude that we get to bring life through, we get to be alive, we get to birth miracles. 

The invitation is to stand on your own two feet, feeling your individual strength, walking your path connected to the truth:  You are never alone!  Feel the hand of humanity, the hand of the divine within your hand as you make you way.  The power of the universe blows through YOU.  Feel your heart connected to the heart of the world.  The LOVE that created the heavens and the earth is YOU.  Feel your soul plugged in to the Infinite.  Ohhhh, all that a waits this day, this lifetime walking together into the UNKNOWN