Friday, November 11, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Tree of Life
Tree of Life Blessing
By Shiloh Sophia McCloud
May you choose outrageous actions
that challenge who you are
and encourage who you are becoming.
May you take one step, however small,
toward that which you have always longed for.
Now is the "right time."
May you recognize the unique and powerful contribution
that you bring to the people whose lives you touch.
May you be as wonderful as you really are,
and do things because you want to,
not just because you should.
May you celebrate your creativity
and believe that you are an
artist with a unique vision that no one else has.
May you find peace and purpose and possibility
amidst the chaos
while remaining aware of the unrest in the world.
May you reach towards the Spirit
with a longing that keeps
you awake to the miracles available all around you.
May your faith move any mountains
that stand in your way
and bring you great teachers to awaken your understanding.
May you give up shame, guilt and self-neglect
and replace them with qualities like freedom,
integrity and self-nurturing.
May you offer the gifts and blessings
of your soul work
to beings of the world
when the time is ripe for you to release them.
May you passionately and deeply love and be loved
by someone who can see who you really are.
May your body speak to you and teach you
how to care for the temple
that houses your bright spirit.
May you walk gently on the earth
and honor your hearth and family
with your action and your rest.
May you find and enjoy the fruit of abundance
so that your life path can be fortified and furthered.
May you embrace the Tree of Life
and be informed by the wisdom
she brings to those on her path.
May LOVE be at the center of all your choices
and may you, with me,
send this blessing to all beings.
Amen.
By Shiloh Sophia McCloud
May you choose outrageous actions
that challenge who you are
and encourage who you are becoming.
May you take one step, however small,
toward that which you have always longed for.
Now is the "right time."
May you recognize the unique and powerful contribution
that you bring to the people whose lives you touch.
May you be as wonderful as you really are,
and do things because you want to,
not just because you should.
May you celebrate your creativity
and believe that you are an
artist with a unique vision that no one else has.
May you find peace and purpose and possibility
amidst the chaos
while remaining aware of the unrest in the world.
May you reach towards the Spirit
with a longing that keeps
you awake to the miracles available all around you.
May your faith move any mountains
that stand in your way
and bring you great teachers to awaken your understanding.
May you give up shame, guilt and self-neglect
and replace them with qualities like freedom,
integrity and self-nurturing.
May you offer the gifts and blessings
of your soul work
to beings of the world
when the time is ripe for you to release them.
May you passionately and deeply love and be loved
by someone who can see who you really are.
May your body speak to you and teach you
how to care for the temple
that houses your bright spirit.
May you walk gently on the earth
and honor your hearth and family
with your action and your rest.
May you find and enjoy the fruit of abundance
so that your life path can be fortified and furthered.
May you embrace the Tree of Life
and be informed by the wisdom
she brings to those on her path.
May LOVE be at the center of all your choices
and may you, with me,
send this blessing to all beings.
Amen.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
What's Love, where to find it! (A beautiful poem by my friend and mentor Christine Arylo)
I send you this letter from my heart to your heart,
knowing that the great human equalizer,
the thing we all have in common,
that truly bonds us all is love.
I believe that each of us wants to be deeply loved,
and that without that love,
we will never find the happiness we crave.
No matter how much money you make,
how beautiful your body or how many accolades you acquire,
at the core of who you are, you desire to be deeply loved.
And yet, how many of us would be willing to stand up
and admit to the world
this deepest of deep desires?
Would you?
Of course you might express that you would really like a loving relationship,
that your family is important to you,
or even that you'd like to take better care of yourself.
But would you peel back the curtain that protects your delicate soul
to reveal that inside is the most innocent and pure heart,
one who craves to be seen by another so deeply
that you could almost feel that person witnessing your soul?
Would you show us the holes of loneliness
that sometimes surface on that same heart
when your soul feels unseen, unheard, un-understood?
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
The loneliest times of my life have been in relationship -
be it with a parent, a friend or a romantic partner -
in which I called out to be seen...
when I reached out for unconditional love...
and neither was returned.
After many years of trying to find that deep love
from the people around me whom I loved,
I was gifted with a profound realization,
one that I have since come to understand is the secret to everything in life.
When we live by it, the happiness and love we seek is ever present.
When we don't, we will find ourselves forever
seeking out happiness and love, in vain.
The secret is this:
The deep love you seek starts and ends with the love you have for you.
Every person on this planet, including you, desires to be deeply loved.
At the core of your soul, your spirit requires that in this lifetime
you seek out and find unconditional and pure love.
The reason most of us spend our lives searching without ever really finding it,
is not because this precious love doesn't exist, or even that it is rare.
You've been taught to look in the wrong places - outside of yourself -
when the truth is that the love you seek
starts and ends with the love you have for you.
It is your right to fall so deeply in love with yourself
that you only invite that same kind of pure love into your life.
It is your quest in this lifetime
to get to know who you truly are in your soul,
beyond all the surface and societal muck that covers up your beautiful spirit.
It is your gift to learn to accept the person you are today,
right now in this moment and love him or her, all of you.
And it is your duty to free yourself
to fully express every piece of you without apology,
So brightly that you light every heart you touch like a firefly,
including your own.
That is self-love.
Being.
Loving.
Living.
You.
Without apology. Without holding back.
When you can do this,
you not only receive the extraordinary ability to feel the greatest of love,
but you also gain the ability to give that same deep love back,
giving others the gift of witnessing and loving their beautiful souls.
My wish for you is that today,
you start and/or deepen your adventure of falling madly in love
with the powerful, beautiful and free being you are,
just because you are you!
with great heart,
Christine Arylo
knowing that the great human equalizer,
the thing we all have in common,
that truly bonds us all is love.
I believe that each of us wants to be deeply loved,
and that without that love,
we will never find the happiness we crave.
No matter how much money you make,
how beautiful your body or how many accolades you acquire,
at the core of who you are, you desire to be deeply loved.
And yet, how many of us would be willing to stand up
and admit to the world
this deepest of deep desires?
Would you?
Of course you might express that you would really like a loving relationship,
that your family is important to you,
or even that you'd like to take better care of yourself.
But would you peel back the curtain that protects your delicate soul
to reveal that inside is the most innocent and pure heart,
one who craves to be seen by another so deeply
that you could almost feel that person witnessing your soul?
Would you show us the holes of loneliness
that sometimes surface on that same heart
when your soul feels unseen, unheard, un-understood?
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
The loneliest times of my life have been in relationship -
be it with a parent, a friend or a romantic partner -
in which I called out to be seen...
when I reached out for unconditional love...
and neither was returned.
After many years of trying to find that deep love
from the people around me whom I loved,
I was gifted with a profound realization,
one that I have since come to understand is the secret to everything in life.
When we live by it, the happiness and love we seek is ever present.
When we don't, we will find ourselves forever
seeking out happiness and love, in vain.
The secret is this:
The deep love you seek starts and ends with the love you have for you.
Every person on this planet, including you, desires to be deeply loved.
At the core of your soul, your spirit requires that in this lifetime
you seek out and find unconditional and pure love.
The reason most of us spend our lives searching without ever really finding it,
is not because this precious love doesn't exist, or even that it is rare.
You've been taught to look in the wrong places - outside of yourself -
when the truth is that the love you seek
starts and ends with the love you have for you.
It is your right to fall so deeply in love with yourself
that you only invite that same kind of pure love into your life.
It is your quest in this lifetime
to get to know who you truly are in your soul,
beyond all the surface and societal muck that covers up your beautiful spirit.
It is your gift to learn to accept the person you are today,
right now in this moment and love him or her, all of you.
And it is your duty to free yourself
to fully express every piece of you without apology,
So brightly that you light every heart you touch like a firefly,
including your own.
That is self-love.
Being.
Loving.
Living.
You.
Without apology. Without holding back.
When you can do this,
you not only receive the extraordinary ability to feel the greatest of love,
but you also gain the ability to give that same deep love back,
giving others the gift of witnessing and loving their beautiful souls.
My wish for you is that today,
you start and/or deepen your adventure of falling madly in love
with the powerful, beautiful and free being you are,
just because you are you!
with great heart,
Christine Arylo
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
25 paise coin fades into history!
I have so many childhood memories around 25 paise coin. My grandfather sent me 25 paise everyday as my pocket money for the day with the man who delivered my lunch to school. And I bought candy with that money. That money was enough to buy me two pieces of candy or a helium balloon. The coin was a link and a reminder to that innocent phase of my life. 25 paise is no longer economically viable, so it is gone, but with it has gone those reminders of a time, when small things made me happy and made my day. Ah, I feel a gaping hole in my heart :(.
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