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Will you meet me?

"Out Beyond Ideas" By poet Rumi Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.  I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase  each other doesn't make any sense Never have I felt that this poem felt truer or more resonant than right now. The real world is not about your morality, your rightness - it's not about how guilty you feel for your decisions you must make in full free will, it's not about being so very very good. There are many different poems that speak to this knowing that we have deep inside, about the truth of our nature being very different from ideas of good and bad, right and wrong. Because our nature is limitless, we are enough. I will meet you in that field. Will you meet me?

Love is not a reward, it is our being

 You are loved beyond reason. It is not a reward. I heard this in the my head the other day, in the voice of my WWOOF host, one of the two people in the couple who is hosting me while I volunteer for their projects right now. This is really, really, important.

The New 48 Laws of Power

  The new laws of power This is in response to the "48 laws of power" as written by Robert Greene. I read that and I was disgusted. If you want to understand the comparison, it's easy to find on a search engine. So without further ado, here is the new version. In Joy! You are equal to the master in all ways and qualities Trust your friends, and have no enemies. Reveal your intentions and make them known, be transparent. Speak as much as you need to. Speak, for goodness sakes, speak. Fuck your reputation. Authentic creation is more important than doing things to get attention. Authenticity is truly powerful. Do your own work, and don’t take credit for the work of others. Don’t play games with people. If you want something from someone, tell them. Don’t be an asshole. Stop being concerned with winning. You aren’t in a competition. Take compassionate actions to help people who are less fortunate than yourself. Don’t look down on them. They can’t “infect” you with their bad l...

this beats throwing up

 I made his feelings, opinions, beliefs and thoughts about mine be more important than my own. Once I did that, I started doing it with everyone. But what I finally realized is it was a pattern from my childhood - one among many that I thought when I had a "spiritual awakening" that I could simply shed off like a snake's skin or cast aside like an old cloak and be done with, never to deal with it again. But I was wrong! I used to do this all the time, I remember making my parent's opinion of my truth more important than my truth because I thought they needed me to take care of them, and I thought they needed my agreement to sustain their version of spiritual truth. The thought of openly believing something different from them felt like the act of highest betrayal. I thought, genuinely and unconsciously, that I was responsible for my parent's foundation of truth. That I had the power to rock that boat. So i didn't. But when I reached the age of 24 going on 25, ...

Healing my heart through writing

 You can judge a person's character by the amount of truth they can stand. I was a serial toxic relationship dater and bad sex addict for many many years and now I am 27 and I have put myself into a life circumstance where I can no longer fall into these pitfalls of human suffering.  Overly detaching and calling it general human suffering isn't the way, but detaching enough to understand that it was a collective experience, one that I was both affected by and affecting is the form of self-compassion that I am holding myself with these days. A theme that's majorly coming up for me is honesty. In my most recent relationship, not counting all the hookups I've had and short flings, there was a strong breech of honesty and good communication. I don't want to label anything as an "all toxic" relationship or any person as "all toxic" because to do that is to strike the nuances out of everything it encompasses.  All that being said the relationship was a...

Hawaii, Day 1

written 1/23/17 I arrived in Hawaii with my sister and our friend today.  As the plane took off and left the rainy coast of California, it came to my awareness that we were leaving Turtle Island, the mainland, North America…I was creating a whole vast distance of ocean between myself and the land I had lived on for so long…to go and create my life on this island as home. This island I had never been on before, but had been calling me since a certain age I couldn’t recall. I had had this creeping, strange and compelling fear in the back of my mind since I decided to go to Hawaii. This fear of dying. Of the plane crashing and us never arriving, or maybe even surviving and living to tell this epic tale. I became aware of my fear of dying on the flight and I realized this fear was TRULY the fear of the transformation. It was, in a sense, the jetlag of my conscious self struggling to keep up with the rapidly changing reality, and the fact that I was changing. It can manifest it...

This Universe is Built On Love

This is a universe fundamentally built on love. That’s why it takes so much effort to hate, to hurt others or yourself, to cause war, because it is not natural to us, whatsoever. We are made to believe, because of a mass agenda to keep humanity from awakening consciousness, that we are inherently violent and that we cannot live in a way that is peaceful, harmonious, easy, gentle, and naturally joyous. This is so far from the truth. Peace and harmony are our origins. This is, perhaps, a radical statement. But only because the brainwashing is so effective. We are made to believe that we are inherently violent and incapable of peace because those who are in “control” do not want us to create peace! If we believed it were possible and that we were inherently capable of harmony, we would create it effortlessly. It is our birthright to live a rich, soul-wealthy life. If there is harmony, and we all grow our food, and produce our own items as needed, what is the use of money? If we share ...