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The Pattern Integrity that is Uniquely You

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Part 1. Introduction

Tie a knot in a rope and you have a pattern of a knot. If you tie the same knot in any material it will produce the same pattern. The pattern is not dependent on the material…rope, shoe lace, fishing line, cooked noodles. The pattern of the knot is made visible by the medium. A loop in a rope has no pattern integrity because the loop will quickly disappear at the slightest provocation.

Dropping a stone into water produces ripples of waves. Dropping anything of mass into liquid will produce the same ripples, whether that liquid is water, wine, milk, oil… Pattern Integrity.

According to Buckminster Fuller, every human being is a unique pattern integrity, temporarily given shape by flesh, just as the knot was given shape by the rope. All the materials in the cells of your body are completely replaced at least every 7 years, somehow showing up with the same arrangement, colour and function, regardless of whether you ate meat and potatoes or banana’s. Quite amazing really. Who ‘we’ are is not the body. We are, life is…metaphysical, and is expressed in the pattern integrity of the body.

“So what?” you may ask. “So everything”…I say..

Taking this theme of Bucky’s to the next level, there is an integrity in our design, and being. We are a particular and unique ‘knot’. Part of this is beyond our control. I can’t argue with being 5’1”. Or having blue eyes. Being good at maths, bad at spelling, bad at hand eye co-ordination. I could train myself to be better at spelling, but my brain does funny things with letters, so it would be something I would have to work at. Whereas you may find spelling a breeze. Or ball games.

These aspects of our pattern integrity are built into the design. But what about how we express our pattern integrity? Here is where things get interesting.

Everyone not only has a physical pattern integrity, we also have a metaphysical pattern integrity. We have a unique voice that needs to be spoken, a unique essence, a unique self.

Our pattern integrity is archetypal. We all know people who are natural clowns. Or natural gamblers. Or the archetypal mother. The entrepreneur. You can no more remove the ‘clown’ from the person who was born ‘clown’ as you could remove water from the ocean.

To make it more complex, our pattern integrity has multiple archetypes. You may have the clown, the lover and the magical child all embodied within you. Different aspects of self appear at different times. And each aspect has the shadow and the light. We have the clown who makes people happy, and the clown who creates chaos and mayhem, or can be malicious in their clowning.

Our core pattern integrity is pure. It has no contamination. It is the aspect of self that is ageless and timeless. Our other patterns, such as the clown, are more superficial manifestations of this core essence. Our core essence, or core pattern integrity is the quiet, all knowing, all wise aspect of self. And yet at the same time, this essence is individual to us, resonating at a particular frequency, portraying a particular personality.

You know who your core pattern integrity is. Bold statement. But true. She or he has been present from the beginning, and will continue on after our bodies are done. As Bucky said, we are metaphysical. There are many paths to reaching her or him. It is actually quite simple.

In my work with energetic coach Emily, we went through a process for me to access my core essence. Given I am a highly visual person, this process had me open a door, and behind the door I was in a garden. I could have been anywhere. A garden by the sea is what became present to me. When Emily asked me to be present to my core essence, she was there. A giant angelic type being, at least 9-10’ tall, ethereal, radiant, light. And beautiful. Joyous, shining, beautiful. Others experience something completely different, for example, a friend of mine is so clearly a very happy, tail wagging dog. And for others, it is not a visual reference but a feeling or emotive reference.

Interestingly, when people who have spoken to me on the phone meet me in person for the first time, the usual reaction is shock at my height. They always see me as much taller.  And the feedback I most get from people is that I am inspiring, I have light coming from my eyes, from my being. Of course if they meet me when I am far from my pattern integrity, then I am small, and there are no lights..

Our task, as humans, is to stay connected to our pattern integrity as much as we are able. To be essence. Every other form of expression is some form of contamination, some form of static to the signal that is uniquely us. I recall the first Star Wars movies, where Princess Leia was delivering a message in a holographic form via the robot R2D2. Towards the end of the message, the signal was disrupted and her image became static. This is what happens when we lose connection to our pattern integrity. Our essence distorts. People cannot receive us clearly. Or at all. This is how people can go unnoticed/invisible for long periods of time. Or can be so savagely mis-understood. The path from essence to delivery is distorted. We have to look to ourselves, we have to do the inner work to clean the signal delivery.

In all of my years of holding integrity as the essence…I have been vigilant to the times when my signals are off. In plain English, when what I say is not what I do, and who I am is not what is true. When there is an incongruence. Aligning the signal with the essence has been my inner work. It has also been the work I have done with clients. There is tremendous liberation and ease in maintaining our pattern integrity. Unfortunately, we have all become masters at incongruence, at giving off distortions in our signals, for many and various reasons.

Rare are the people and companies who choose with consciousness to live and work through the fullest expression of their pattern integrity. This is not about perfection, but rather the commitment to choosing pattern integrity as a conscious act. The people I know who are on this path are very few. It is not an easy path. We have to be willing to stand in the fire of all that distorts. We have to surround ourselves with people who hold us to our integrity. We have to be able to take the feedback. To listen. To bow in humility. To adjust, modify, and stand up again.

I contend that pattern integrity is humanities greatest yearning. And our deepest absence.

In Part 2, I will look at building a personal relationship with your pattern integrity. Give her or him or it a name. Bring your essence into dialogue. Learn to listen to the clear signals she gives.
In Part 3, I will extend this to the pattern integrity of your business and your relationships to others, for there is a unique essence to all dynamics and relationships in Universe. We can learn to tune in, to listen to the pattern integrity of our business, of our marriage, of our relationship with our children, with the tree’s, with Earth. All available to us…if we but listen. (see the previous two articles in tunability, and listening)

I would love to hear from you your experience of being aligned with your pattern integrity, what happens when you are?

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My Definition of Success-How Lucky am I?

Friday, August 28th, 2009

What is my definition of success?

Two Angels, Natalie and Rachel

Two Angels, Natalie and Rachel

As August 2009 comes to a close I sit here on a beautiful Friday afternoon on the Gold Coast in Queensland Australia and feel so blessed.

In the background I have the beautiful piano music of Michael Jones playing. The cool breeze is coming through the wide open doors that open onto my courtyard. There are birds calling in the background and the sun is shining in a blue cloudless sky. I have spent the morning working with some of my incredible clients and then engaged in a phone conversation that left every part of my physical and metaphysical form singing with the sheer joy and beauty of it.

My life has come so far, and I look back at all of the peaks and valleys and the journey to here with such awe and gratitude. This week alone has been one of such immensity and possibility it simply must go down in my life as resonating with infinite success.

In my early 20’s I had a burn for success. I was ambitious, I wanted to be the King of the World. (Queen of the World just doesn’t have the same ring to it!) The Universe had other plans. I see the perfection in everything that has unfolded. The relationships that came and went, and the pain and the joy they brought with them, the synchronous events that took me from one path to another, unexpectedly falling pregnant…the joys and disappointments, the places traveled…

While I truly get that everything matters, no event is small, or insignificant, there are events that seem to have such importance, where the color of the thread that has weaved the tapestry of my life has added a defining hue.

The move from Architecture school to Chiropractic college was one such event. While my work as a Chiropractor was limited in time, the study of the human body, of health and disease, has been a corner stone of my life. At the same time, the two disciplines are both a study of structure and form, a connection clear to me, but elusive to most. Structure and form and the understanding of the space between has been a constant on my path. Understanding energy, flow, systems, form…

Working at Camp Eden, an alternate Health retreat, for a year, started me on a journey from pure science to the realm of the invisible, mind, body, metaphysics and personal development. My world view cracked open.

Working with DC Kordova and Robert Kyiosaki (Money and You program) brought me to Buckminster Fuller. His work has guided my life ever since. Everything he did speaks to me…his quest to demonstrate the existence of God/ Great Spirit, his life demonstration of Integrity, his childlike passion and joy, and his commitment to the whole of Universe.

Meeting Joseph at a Dan Millman seminar opened my world to the conversation around mental illness, life, death and depression and also brought me to the work of Caroline Myss. Joseph also opened me to love.

Meeting Michele through Money and You has given me a very special friend for life, plus brought me to coaching, a vocation I had been seeking for all of my life.

Coaching brought me to so many of my beloved friends, Marcia, Cheryl, Lorraine, DJ…and into work that I truly loved. Plus it allowed me to formulate the work around Dare to Care and to really develop myself as a communicator in service to the best in people. An Amchara to others. Such a privileged path.

All along this path I have been in a constant self inquiry, choosing always to go deeper into  the darkness when it shows up, rather than run from the pain. Learning, questioning, staying still, feeling, being, expanding, seeking support from others.

Running became a place for me to combine everything…silence, movement, inner work, discipline, being in nature, meeting my beast and getting to know him, learning about my body and speaking physical fluently, traveling the world to run marathons…building relationships.

Mother hood really opened my heart. There is no doubt in my mind that my daughter was to be in my life. She was conceived while I was on the  birth control pill, was very much in charge of how and when she was going to be born, and then opened my heart on her arrival. And she was born an angel. Of that I am sure. My job was to simply allow this angel wings to fly, and not mess her up, because the beauty and perfection were so present. Anyone who  meets her is touched by her angel. It has been a privilege to be a steward in her unfolding.

During this whole time of my life there has been a quest and hunger for more. I have wanted to engage in a much bigger conversation, and work that is global in scope. It became apparent that money and the accumulation of it was never highest on my list. Living life out loud was always the highest and service to others has become ever more important.

For years I have questioned the definition of success. What is it? And what does success mean to me?

In the beginning my definition of success was very much rooted in the material world. Money and stuff! Having lots of homes around the world, traveling first class, dressing in fabulous designer clothes. But life was teaching me a richer meaning and definition of success, and I am grateful for that. The road to finding a definition of success that truly nourishes me has not been easy. And yet it has been infinitely perfect.

At some point I arrived at a definition of success that was rooted in my choices. That for me to be successful meant that I was honouring my intuitive guidance no matter what. I was successful if I paid attention to my deepest truth, and lived by that. This still works for me and is my challenge and joy. It is certainly not the easiest road, as there are times when my ego wants something very much…like status and recognition. Or when the opportunity to make a lot of money is oh so very tempting even though I know my heart and soul would not resonate with the opportunity and my spirit would be prostituted.

Today in a conversation that moved me to such a place of deep gratitude I heard David Martin’s definition of success.

“If I end the day with friends and strangers sharing a good meal then I am a wealthy person in the world”

This week I have had many occasions to do just this. For my path has brought me to those larger conversation that I have yearned for with people that I so love being with that I can hardly stand the joy of it. There is no mistakes…in Brazil I broke bread with people who are doing incredible work world wide, and from Brazil I get to spend this week in dialogue with some of these people as we start to co-create artifacts that every fibre of my being tells me will be of such value to the world.

Jonathan Fields shared in his blog the following..

Will this choice allow me to…

Spend the greatest amount of time..

absorbed in activities and relationships that fill me up…

while surrounding myself with people I cannot get enough of, and…

earning enough to live comfortably in the world…

“while adding value comprehensively…” (my personal addition)

My definition of success therefore goes something like this..

If I honour my highest truth at all times..
and get to spend my time doing work that adds value comprehensively…
with people who demonstrate beauty, integrity, and truth in all they do,
trusting at all times in the infinite wisdom of Universe..

then I am indeed successful.

Oh joy, oh joy…how lucky am I?

I would love to hear from you about what success means to you…

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The Graceful Art of Self Discipline

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

As a student of R.Buckminster Fuller, I have found his core foundation of self disciplines very inspiring. (See Critical Path, Chapter 4.) Late last year I resolved to form my own set. I will be clear, this is not the first time I have created a list -or code- to live by. The distinction is that this is the first time I have, in my increasing maturity, created a list that I know in my heart resonates with my highest values and that I hold the highest commitment to.
I was determined to keep this list as brief as possible. And to have it as part of my daily practice of review. No good to make it and throw it in the drawer. Each day I read this list and check that I honour my agreement to self. If I am unable to honour this agreement to self, then I will watch as my self esteem erodes, and I become a person I am unable to trust. I will not be my word.

Discipline =Disciple unto the self.
Disciple = pupil, to learn, to take apart, to grasp intellectually.

An important distinction to make about discipline is that to truly be a disciple unto the self, we need to discriminate between when to do what we have said we would do because to not would be failing ourselves and others, and when the body/soul/mind would be better served to take a break. This is the fine distinction between discipline and obsession. Obsession is when the mind/ego is in control, discipline is when the self/our highest wisdom, is clearly heard and acted on. Learning to distinguish between the voice of the ego and the voice of the highest self is one of the journeys we take as we learn to honour self. These skill sets are critical in leadership development and positive deviance.

Show me anyone who has ever achieved anything of significance without a healthy dose of discipline?

Many people find discipline abhorrent. In our world, the search for freedom is such a big deal, that we have simply forgotten that the partner of freedom is discipline. They are paired, forever, as the two sides of a coin.
In 2005 I wrote an article about this paradox of freedom. Please review this at
http://casts.webvalence.com/sites/DareToCare/Broadcast.D20051129.html
If you want more freedom, consider then your own self disciplines. If you want a foundation for leadership development, or to be a better leader…this is a place to start.

I share with you now the list I have as my core self disciplines. I will go through each one briefly, explaining what they are and what they mean to me. They are in no particular order. Each one is significant and synergistic.

1. Clean Communication
2. Daily exercise-maintain health
3. Spend less than I earn. Pay cash only for personal items.
4. Learn fully from my mistakes.
5. Be in Gratitude
6. Give more than I take
7. Be open/receptive
8. Let go, let God
9. Impeccable Integrity
10. Use gravitational attraction as my marketing plan, by giving massively to more people.
11. Say no to anything unless it is an absolute yes.

1. Clean Communication
This simply means that there is nothing I need to say, to anyone, at anytime. I have no residual upset, there is nothing about another persons actions or words to me that bug me on any level. I have a more comprehensive article on this at…..

2. Daily Exercise-Maintain Health
This one is easy for me, as I have been practising health and self care for 15 years. However, it is important that I keep this on the list, as I also get to look at the multiple ways I maintain health. Good food from local suppliers, great sleep, great company and emotional support, plenty of exercise that makes me feel good and happy, keeping my weight at its right place..these are some of the components of great health. I feel vital, alive, energised.

3.Spend less than I earn. Spend only cash for personal items
This one has been an achilles heel for me (and for many others, as evident in our current global situation). How easy has it been to pay for things by credit! Enough. We have to learn patience, restraint, and what ENOUGH means.

4.Learn Fully From My Mistakes
Mistakes are the way we learn. They are the good guys, yet we so often see them as the bad guys. They become bad guys if we make the same mistake over and over again.To take the time to review mistakes, understand our process in making them, and be certain we do not need to repeat the mistake again, is a worthy investment of time. You will know when you have got the lesson because there will be zero residue. No guilt, shame, embarrassment, upset, angst, anger etc. All gone. Very liberating.

5. Be in Gratitude
People I admire most alive and dead speak about gratitude and the daily practise of gratitude. Each night before I go to bed I have a gratitude journal, where I list the things I am grateful for on this day. This is really easy to do when you have great days, harder to do when you are miserable, or have endured suffering. We can always find gratitude. We breath, we think…As a runner I am always grateful for being able to walk and run. Those times when I am injured and am unable to run or walk without pain remind me of the very simple pleasure of running and walking freely. We have so much to be grateful for.

6. Give more than I take
Generosity of heart, mind and spirit is worth cultivating. There is a big distinction between givers and takers. Persistent takers suck energy. Their gluttony for certain things indicates a broken part of themselves that is forever unfilled. Some givers have to also learn to take.  They can find receiving unbearable, indicating a part of themselves that feels unworthy. I aim to be ever mindful of giving more, and to be sure that I do. Giving comes in many forms. A kind thought, a smile, a compliment, physical gifts, time, energy, prayer.

7. Be Open/Receptive
An open mind and open heart require vigilance to maintain. It is very easy for us to shut down. We either shut down our thinking, and live in righteousness, or shut down our heart and block expansiveness and love. We can also shut down our body, and withdraw self from the world. As we grow in maturity we do need to learn discrimination about when it is wise to build some boundaries and protections. Not every message out there is healthy for the soul. Distinguishing between messages sent with love and to add value, and messages sent to harm and overpower is an important part of learning about being open and receptive.

8. Let go Let God
This is one of my most challenging self disciplines. I am not religious, however I do believe in a higher organising intelligence that we simply do not have a vocabulary to describe adequately. Call it God, or the unified field, or Great Spirit, or Divine Intelligence, to surrender to Grace is one of the most sacred acts of trust, and one of the highest ways to honour self.
First we do have to learn to distinguish between the voice of ego and the voice of truth. The voice of truth is usually calm, without emotion, consistent. The voice of ego usually has an energy about it that is edgy, demanding, desiring, wanting.
In this practice we need to allow silence and grace into our lives. It requires complete surrender and deep trust.
It is certainly the road less travelled, and in no way guarantees our life will be a blissful place where we spend our days skipping down the yellow brick road tossing daffodils. What it does guarantee is that we will grow in self esteem, and our lives will be rich beyond measure with love, the miraculous, the mysterious and beautiful.

9. Impeccable Integrity
The practise of integrity is multifaceted. Integrity means wholeness. To live an integrous life means to live in truth at every level of self. Expressing ourselves as we were designed. On the micro level it means no lying, either overtly, or covertly. It means that what we say to self and others, is what we do. It means taking the highest road possible. When we look into our eyes in the mirror, we know we are in truth.

10. Using gravitational attraction as my marketing plan, by giving massively to ever more people.
Gravitational attraction is about increased mass. I don’t mean literal physical mass, but metaphysical energetic mass. The more we live in impeccable integrity and all of the other self disciplines mentioned, the more mass we have. And the more mass we have the more attraction works.(This point speaks to marketing at the individual level specifically. No matter what work you do, self employed, employed etc, you need to have a personal marketing plan. Gravitational attraction also works for businesses and companies. It is the invisible difference that makes the difference.)
There are some very subtly seductive marketing methods that make my skin crawl. They appeal to our greed, or loneliness, or our desires to be rich. We read their long spiels and find ourselves saying yes to something that we actually don’t really want.
Bucky refused to market at all. While I do think his choice was the extreme, and he did so consciously to demonstrate how the Universe would support him, integrous marketing allows for the people who want and need the service you are offering to be able to find you to make a clear choice that is in their highest interests. It means offering way more value than people expect, and allowing relationship to build through generosity. Simultaneously, a clear acknowledgement of the value you have to offer is presented.

11. Say no to anything unless it is an absolute yes
Syzergy means alignment. When we are in complete alignment and every cell, muscle, heart beat, says to us YES, then go for it. Anything that is not this needs to be put on hold, worked through, more questions need to be asked, until we reach this place of YES.
This practice means we avoid the experience of…if only I had of listened.It also honours our spirit and infinite wisdom.

Bucky’s self disciplines and mine are different. When I decided to write my own set, I wanted to choose ones that I could honour and knew I would keep.

I have shown you my choices with the intention of inspiring you to create your own. If you have had a weak self discipline up until this time, then only choose one to start. Be sure you choose with great consciousness and intent. And then stick to it as if your life depended on it. For at the soul level, it really does.

Remember, these are there to set you free.

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Meltdown

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

The days have gone sliding by since I last put words on a page. Caught up in life, finding my way to carve a path in the busy day to write.

So much has occurred. Life gets really interesting when you let go and surrender to Universe. I stand aside from myself and watch the strange and mysterious events show up, ever in wonder at the miracle of it all.

We are in a Meltdown. The whole world. Individuals, companies, states, nations, and the environment.

I have just surfaced from my own meltdown. People all around me are either on their way out, on their way in, or have no idea that its about to hit. Many of my friends and colleagues have already forged the path through and are looking at the world with new sight. I do believe that for those of us who are already through will be needed in force to help the masses as they awake to the fact that the fabric of their existence has been ripped apart.

This is a time of deep structural change. A global shift. No longer can we get away with rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. All of us need to face the massive change inside and out. There is no running too…only delay of the inevitable.

If you are up to date with science, you will know that everything is connected. There is no such thing as having a thought in your head in isolation. There is a collective way of being, a global mind set, cultures, tribes, and world views. So using a term like “meltdown” is not to be taken lightly. As Buckminster Fuller would say, we must always start with Universe. And our current situation is not just another recession. No, this one is a confluence of events-a crash of the titanic forces…the environment, the economy, our values system, globalisation, technology, peak oil, energy, any form of fundamentalism, poverty, the increasing gap between the rich and poor.

Isn’t it interesting that the collective word for this crisis is “meltdown”? Also “credit freeze?”. Caroline Myss, one of my beloved teachers, has talked about the great depression and the language that was used at that time. People and nations where ~crippled~. At the same time the world was also dealing with a polio epidemic, in which people, including the American President who walked the people out of the depression, was crippled. It was only after the economy was no longer crippled, and the prevailing psyche was also no longer crippled, that we found a cure for polio. We had to move through the collective language and experience and find a place that was not crippled, in order to come through.

From an archetypal point of view, expressing our global economic crisis as a meltdown links this event directly to the meltdown in our environment…the emergence of climate change..the melting of the ice caps. The economic crisis simply cannot be disconnected from our environmental crisis. They are two faces of the same coin. A credit freeze, somehow speaks of free flow of money being caught in the ice-in the ice caps? If so, we need the ice caps to melt in order to free up the flow. Are we seeking to continue to rape the environment in order to free up the God called cash? Is this what we are asking from the expression of the collective unconscious? Or is the freeze simply our paralysis? Extreme fear blocking flow?

Just like the crash of ‘29 crippled people, our crisis is causing meltdown, in a holographic way and on every level. The very parts of us and the world that we have held as being solid are melting before us. The prevailing feeling is of walking on ground that is unstable, shifting, unpredictable. Humans like certainty,constancy, and mild to zero change.

Well folks, embrace change. Because it is the strongest event in the room right now, and it is blowing a gail.

What is the change that is required of us to move through this?

What is it that needs to be restructured inside us all? What parts of ourselves do need melting down? These are the questions we all need to ask, and explore. For as surely as the wind blows, the work to be done is both internal and external.

For myself, I had to look at some of the big questions? What is money, what is wealth? Success? What do I value? What parts of myself are no longer valid and needing expression, and what parts of myself will emerge through the meltdown. Do I have credit freeze? Aka–are there parts of myself that are frozen and not in flow? (Internal)

Finally, given all this, how do I now express myself in the world? (External) What value do I offer that is required in our post meltdown world? Or, even, how can I support people and companies through the meltdown?

My meltdown was not pretty. I wasn’t sleeping, crying a lot, occasionally paralyzed with fear. I spent a lot of time speaking with my coaches, and my mastermind group. I wrote in my journal. I prayed. I went through waves of hopelessness, and completely lost all sense of possibility.

I discovered that slowly, over many years, I had lost parts of myself that are essential to my being. These parts had been buried, because other parts had become dominant. Kahlil Gibran describes this in words far more eloquent than I am able.

~And tell me, people of Orphalese, what have you in these houses? And what is it you guard with fastened doors?
Have you peace, the quiet urge that reveals your power?
Have you remembrances, the glimmering arches that span the summit of the mind?
Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain?
Tell me, have you these in your houses?
Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, the stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master?

Ay, and it becomes a tamer, and with hook and scourge makes puppets of your larger desires.
………
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning to the funeral.~

What I needed to meltdown was the parts of myself that had become my master. Things like working like a fiend to be able to buy more stuff. Spending money I didn’t have. And the belief that had overtaken me that said that in order to get my goals met, I needed to do x,w and z. And that I was responsible and that only I could create this via my actions. Be in action–create–create. The burden was on my shoulders. I also needed to meltdown what success means to me. Hmm…would I rather a big goody bag, or a life of rich experience? And then to really choose a life of rich experience. That is not to say we cannot have both. But to take on life, really go for it, surrender completely to it, and be completely OK with what shows up. To get that there is a bigger plan than I have any idea of, and that the daily, moment to moment surrender to this is where my joy lives. This is a successful life. To be in uncompromising integrity to self and others. And to do that I need to slow down and listen, the let go and trust, before I take action. To act from spirit and with grace by my side. To take Universe/God on as my full business/life partner.

The parts of me that I have found again, that were frozen within (my interior credit freeze) is the belief in the miraculous. That life doesn’t follow some straight path of cause and effect. There is a whole other dimension here that is beyond our comprehension and will be forever so. I had to remember the world of grace, and synchronicity, and the mysterious. I have known this all along, however I discovered I had forgotten how to access this…and that more than anything, this is my starting point. I found the path to this by recognising that I had also lost connection to a daily experience- a full bodied experience- of beauty. It is through music, classical, instrumental, that I can ~be~ joy in a heart beat. More than just looking at a sunset, being a sunset. Being joy dancing bare foot on the beach.

Again quoting from Gibran

~But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor,
Into that seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.~

I needed to meltdown those rigid structures to find the immense well of beauty and love, and truth that have always been and will always be. That this is the life I choose. First and foremost. Watered by the springs of compassion and shared with beloved friends. Is there anything else?

What joy…

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