Search your heart and see
Artist Zhang Enli
Always we hope
someone else has the answer
Some other place will be better, some other time
it will all turn out.
This is it.
No one else has the answer.
No other place will be better, and it has already turned out.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and what you want.
There is no need to run outside for better seeing.
Nor to peer from a window.
Rather abide at
the center of your being; for the more you leave it the less you learn.
Search your heart and see
the way to do is to be.
-LAO TZU,
Dependence
Artist Oscar Matt
Suddenly I realized what the matter was. My basic flaw had always been dependence - almost absolute dependence - on people or circumstances to supply me with prestige, security, and the like. Failing to get these things according to my perfectionist dreams and specifications, I had fought for them. And when defeat came, so did my depression...
Bill W.
How liberating
Artist's Tools II
Anj Smith
2023
How liberating to consider that you don't need anything outside yourself to be healed or happy! What a relief to not have to pursue endless books, classes, teachers, diets, travels, gadgets, and techniques to find peace! How much money you will save on therapy and seminars! The ego tells us that heaven is a place to get to. The Course assures us that we carry heaven with us.
-A course in miracles
Living and loving
Edward Hopper
Rooms By The Sea 1951
IF WE HAVE TOO MANY WORRIES, FEARS, AND DOUBTS,
WE HAVE NO ROOM FOR LIVING AND LOVING.
WE NEED TO PRACTICE LETTING GO.
- THICH NHAT HANH
Everyone is a mirror
Artist Yang Cao
Everyone is a mirror and our reflection of things we don't like about ourselves is most vivid in those who have the same qualities. In other words, you may see a piece of yourself in this other person even if you don't realize it. This truth may come as a surprise to some of you, and your initial reaction may be to disagree. But I invite you to look deeper.
DON MIGUEL RUIZ JR.
Pain is a result of denial or resistance to your natural self
Artist WANDA KOOP
Objects of Interest
Here is a formula for relief from pain that sounds simplistic, but is utterly profound: Stop doing what hurts you and start doing what heals you. It is only because you accept-even revere-suffering that it persists. Pain is a result of denial or resistance to your natural self.
When you live from your divine nature, suffering will fall away. You will no longer see life as a jungle or live in a realm where survival is at stake. You don't deserve to suffer. No one does. When this truth sinks into your psyche, you will arrive at the tipping point of your spiritual journey, and bleak expectations will give way to the broad-est, brightest vision. The world will literally become new and you will live, as Thoreau promised, with "the license of a higher order of be-ings."
The world becomes a place of hope, because its only purpose is to be a place where hope of happiness can be fulfilled. And no one stands outside this hope. Alan Cohen
Mindset
Artist Nicolas de Staël
"The attitude you bring to a situation determines your experience.
Good bad or neutral.
The experience is as difficult as your mindset dictates."
-Rick Rubin
Deep visioning
Artist Zhang Enli
When in the deep visioning trust that your intuition is always guiding you to look at the precise block at the precise time.
Extraordinary
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe
Cacao (Pohoroa ana si)
2021
It’s time to step out of the shackles of these stories That you’ve created
Your no longer being abused by someone, your being abused by your own thoughts and by your own patterns and you don’t need to , you’re extraordinary, your powerful and your needed
I’m possible
Artist Amber Janey
Nothing is impossible; the word itself says
'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn
Overeating sugar
Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Paris, June-July 1907
Overeating is stunting your total spiritual growth.
It is staying low-worth and low-value, saying I can’t feel too good.
When I’m overeating sugar, I know I’m covering up a feeling; anxiousness from growing too fast is what it feels like. I want to slow the speed of energy that is moving through me, and I want to return to comfort.
Of course, this is the lie that food is comfort; it is a way out, more like a way to distract myself. It is an excellent way to stay on the sidelines, to not join in on what is happening on the inner planes.
This creates anxiety, I know having been so self-aware, it seems, my whole life. Sugar brings me down to earth while simultaneously taking me off of earth.
It takes courage to look within and ask myself why I’m doing this. I am more interested in being free than anything else…
Asking myself why has become the most important question for me, it takes me from complete vagueness to clarity and understanding.
Why am I eating this? Why am I calling this person? Why am I writing this? Why am I afraid? The answers always come within the moment, and sometimes, when I forget I even asked.
I listen closer to my inner voice now; I give it great respect and a lot of room to be correct. I trust it.
Life works well without my trying to control it. It always has.
What gives me strength and pause is the certainty that I am being moved to make different choices, not because I have to but because if I want to feel good in this body while I’m here on this planet, I become open to being changed.
I see that once I began to shift on the inside, the subconscious momentum began. I want more and more freedom, and this feels good.
You are worth it and ready to be more than what you’ve been told you can be.
Loneliness
Hilma af Klint, Altarpiece, Group X, No 1, 1915
Loneliness is perfectly natural when becoming more spiritually awake.During times of transition, finding ourselves and taking a stand.Let’s not take loneliness literally and look for love in all the wrong places.
Contribute
Forgetting
"Paul Klee• Strong Dream • 1929
"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much and forgetting that you are special too."
— Ernest Hemingway
Life is art
Artist Suzi Balamaci
“I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams.
The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art”
Between the two
Artist Dave Pollot
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
At - onement
Paul Klee, All'inizio, 1916
The mind never allows you to be where you are,
it never allows you to see things as they are. Either it drags you into memories — which are nothing but footprints on the sands of time — or it drags you into the future: great projections,
great expectations, desires, goals ...
And you become so much involved with them,
as if they have some reality!
Live in the world, but not through the mind. Don’t let the past or the future stand between you and reality. And you will know what Buddha calls the eternal law. You will pulsate with it, vibrate with it. You will be just a wave in the great ocean of the law. You will be in such attunement, in such at-onement, in such deep harmony and accord that the whole sky will start showering flowers on you, the whole existence will rejoice with you.
Buddha
