Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

by Cleo Wade

Love is an action, a thing in motion. Therefore, it requires fuel.

loving relationship is built on compromise and working with our partner to continuously evolve into our best selves. This is not possible without hard truths, tough conversations, personal growth, and behavioral shifts. The ego does not like any of this. The ego wants us to believe that we are always right and that our way of doing things is always the best way. Our spirit, on the other hand, knows that the people we love are in our life to challenge us to rise to new levels of consideration and care in all that we do.

Create a list of your needs and make space for them in your life. Respecting and expressing your needs can superpower your life.

We all take risks, but if we want to master risk-taking, we must learn to do so without attaching anxious energy to our decisions. Anxiety disconnects us from our power. Acceptance allows us to relax into our power and move through any circumstance with clarity and confidence.

Light allows us to see things for what they are so that we may proceed with understanding, compassion, and grace. We can navigate our journey with much more confidence when we see the world through the light we shine on it.

Create a sacred space for your relationships by attending to them with trust, love, care, kindness, and support. When we set an intention that the energy between ourselves and someone else is a compassionate, judgment-free zone, we make it possible to be loving shelters for one another. Most people in life are just looking for a safe place to be themselves. When we give that to another person and allow them to give that to us as well, it is a way of keeping each other warm even on life’s coldest days.

Live with intention. Before you do something, ask yourself why. Ask yourself what you want. Ask yourself why you want it. Ask yourself how you want to feel and how you want to live. Investigate. The clarity of knowing what you care about and what motivates you helps you to be better at allowing those things to guide your decision-making. We can often find ourselves where we don’t want to be because our goals or sense of self have gotten hijacked by fear-based opportunity-seeking, pressure from others, or our own insecurities. Gift yourself the confidence to be clear

about what you want, to be tapped into your driving purpose, and to know the source of your ambitions. Connect to your internal compass; let the integrity of your core values lead you onward and upward.

Our work ethic is something that must be applied to our home, our family, our community, and our world. Don’t allow for your goals to exist only in the workplace or where they can be financially rewarded. Live with ambition for your entire existence. Every aspect of your life can be made better with your hard work, love, and devotion.

our purpose lies in what we bring to the world,

not from the accolades the world brings to us.

When we focus solely on validations from the outside world, we end up being very easily controlled by circumstance, but when we remain humble and firmly rooted in our ever- present goodness, we can celebrate our accomplishments and learn from our ...

Don’t keep your sweetness inside of you or keep it exclusive to your inner circle. Let it be part of how you move through the world.

we can just as easily transform it into positive energy? Be the reason someone realizes how simple it is to be nice.

When we have a better attitude, we create better solutions, and we have a better life.

Intimacy requires us to be careful with ourselves. Full of care. Intimacy with our thoughts means being careful with them and showing them affection when we have moments of insecurity or doubt, and by expressing our emotions rather than suppressing them. Intimacy with our body means taking care of our body by feeding it with life-affirming food, language, and movement rather than abusing it with shame, holding it to impossible standards, and weighing it down with toxic substances inside it. Intimacy with ourselves means showing up for all aspects of our being and doing it with trust, gentleness, and care. When we learn how to have intimacy with ourselves, we are much braver when it comes to creating intimacy with others.