You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it.
May you always do what you are afraid to do.
With Love and Gratitude,
Dafna
Happy Independence Day!
Bill McChesney
Free yourself to shine your gorgeous light unabashedly. Don't worry if others can't love and accept you as you are. Loving and accepting yourself as you are is more than enough.
Pain comes from making choices based on fear, limitation, and conforming to those dreaded shoulds. You are free to choose. Choose freely.
With Love and Gratitude,
Dafna
BE the exception
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Don’t settle for mediocrity. And don’t let what others believe run your life.
Dream bigger.
Even bigger than that.
The Invitation by Oriah
Jude Hill
A poem for you on this gorgeous day:
It doesn’t interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me
how old you are.
I want to know
if you will risk
looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me
what planets are
squaring your moon...
I want to know
if you have touched
the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened
by life’s betrayals
or have become shriveled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know
if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know
if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations
of being human.
It doesn’t interest me
if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear
the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know
if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”
It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live
or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn’t interest me
who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
It doesn’t interest me
where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know
what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know
if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like
the company you keep
in the empty moments.
© Mountain Dreaming,
from the book The Invitation
With hindsight and insight
B Zedan
With hindsight and insight
Rewrite your old story
What if the villains were innocent-
clueless but innocent?
How would your story change?
Change your past, change your present
Change your present, change your future
Isn't that so much more fun?
Everyday I write the book
Try Not
Try Not
Do. or Do Not
There is no try
-Yoda
Fact or fiction?
Karrie Nodalo
Faith or Fear?
Is the Universe a friendly place?
You decide.
Choose.
Between here and there
William A. Clark
Between here and there, the only thing that matters is what you think, from now 'til then.
Choices, choices, choices -
The Universe
The Place Will Comfort You
Bhavna Sayana
The Place Will Comfort You
but first it will make you cry:
the gravity of the place,
the splendid
weight of these rocks,
will tug on you,
gently, at first, then,
with more insistence, pull
until, surrendering,
you descend, become
completely at home,
among the fallen
yellow leaves,
not knowing why you weep
or when
the water will end,
not knowing anything but this:
this that loved you to the ground
this that stays you,
this that holds you,
keeps you here,
in love
with the low, leaving light
that is yours, yours still,
yours yet
to bear,
light before which
you can do nothing
but bow.
Cresheim Creek
November, 2013
(c) 2013 by Susan Windle
Sending you blessings of gratitude.
May you kindle and feed your flames of inner light as the dark days of December approach.
Namaste.
Message from the Universe
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When it comes to having big dreams, I know it can feel like you're kidding yourself.
And when it comes to making big decisions, I know it can feel like you're all alone.
Would it help you to know that you're a really big deal here? That you've already moved mountains? That you will do even greater things than you can now imagine?
You crack us up,
The Universe
Hello Beautiful People
Your message today is to pay attention to your driving. In the ride of your life, circumstances are your feedback. Green light? GO! Yellow? Proceed with caution. Or, are you the one who drives fast and furious hoping nothing bad will happen?
YOU are the driver of your life. STOP handing over the car keys.
With Love and Gratitude, Dafna
OPTIMISM
OPTIMISM is a feeling or belief that good things will happen in the future; a feeling or belief that what you hope for will happen (Merriam-Webster)
CHOOSE OPTIMISM. It's so much more fun than the alternatives.
Hello Powerful People
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is.
- Albert Einstein -
Hey Rock Star
The next time you pick up the phone to tell someone why you think they’re a dumb-ass, or that they’re wrong and you are right about some circumstance, STOP. Walk away from the phone. And no sneaking in a quick text.
Don’t waste another moment of your beautiful life trying to prove you’re right. You have nothing to earn or prove. You are gorgeous just the way you are. If they can't see you in all of your magnificence, that's their problem.
With love and gratitude, Dafna
Perfect
Perfection is the worst form of self-hatred. Where are you still striving for perfection? What will it take for you to let the imperfect be perfect?
Fear
What you reject is where you hold fear. What are you rejecting (disliking, can't stand-ing, or hating) today?
Got milk?
When looking for truth, getting caught in your or someone else's negative ego story, is like going to the hardware store for milk.
Smoke and Mirrors
Stand strong. While seemingly sweet and caring, your ego’s compelling pleas are simply smoke and mirrors. They offer you nothing yet entice you and play on your vulnerability and compassionate nature. Do not be swayed. Sometimes loving and turning away is the most self-respecting thing to do.
Stay strong. Feel your feelings. Cry whatever needs to be released and let go. In the process you will come home to yourself. You deserve to be loved in the way you love others- with commitment, compassion, fierce loyalty and forgiveness. Don’t be swayed by your is ego trying to entice you to go back to sleep. Stay awake.
Love you.
Love yourself
Forgiveness
1. Forgiveness is for you. The resentment you feel towards another who has caused you hurt, harms you not them. It's like drinking poison and waiting for it to kill your enemy.
2. The aramaic word for FORGIVE literally means UNTIE. Your anger and/or resentment has tied you to the person who hurt you. Freeing yourself through forgiveness is like freeing yourself from your chains of bondage to that person. Forgiveness is for you.
3. Stop telling the story. The more you tell of story of the transgression, the more you drive a stake into the ground that keeps you anchored to your hurt. Choose a different narrative. Tell a different story. This will free you from playing the role of the "wronged person" or victim.
Forgiveness is a choice which may need to be elected over and over again. It requires fortitude, resilience and a belief in your ability to transform. It takes time and compassion of/for oneself. It is both incredibly difficult and at the same time the simplest, most loving, freeing action that exists.
Where can you cultivate more forgiveness today? What deeper forgiveness can you stretch into?
Breathing Lessons
When was the last time you stopped to take a deep breath? Do it now. Now do it again. And again. Breathing deep is the antidote to suffering. It diminishes stress, frustration, worry, anxiety, overwhelm, etc. and creates the necessary space between you and whatever constricting emotion you feel. Find a structure to remind you to slow down and breathe.