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But beware what you don’t believe.
“Intuition, darling, is when you think something quickly. It’s a little message that’s coming to you. People get those, you know, but they don’t listen to them. Of course, I hear them better than most.”
Your psychic is your poet. Both when we read poetry and when our future selves are read to us, we want to feel less alone, and we want to see the world and our lives from a new point of view. When we get even one of those rich pleasures from a poem and its poet, it’s more than enough. But we hold our psychics to a different standard. We expect more. We expect proof.
“The most important thing is helping somebody to realize they don’t have to be stuck.
the religious and spiritual paths end in the same place every time: gratitude, purpose, and compassion.
What does matter is that we own our beliefs and that they are worthy and true of us.
The commitments you honor or cut corners on, the amount of time you spend distracted and entertained or rinsing away stories with meditative silence and/or creative absorption is wafting your aura, drifting from your lips, like an invisible contagion.
If we ever stop to think about it, we also realize that if others’ energy is doing that to us, then our energy is surely doing that to them as well.
Be open to everything until proven harmful. Not right versus wrong but harmful versus helpful. We need right and wrong, fact and fiction, but that’s not all we need. If something helps you and doesn’t hurt you (or any other living creatures), who cares if it can be proven?
“Were you born . . . were you literally born only to have a reputation with people who are all going to die soon? Is that the reason you were born?
If you think about the millions of things that had to align for your soul to be . . . Did all the stars and all the powers of the universe align so that you can have a reputation in America as a writer?” “You gain the power of not giving a [expletive].”
Pain isn’t the problem. It’s creating from fear of pain that is the problem.
“Is it in the highest and best?”
Because once you reach the moment in which it might, just might, finally be appropriate to be legitimately concerned, you can act. You can begin to shift your next steps as necessary.
Dr. Sarah Bamford Seidelmann told me was that “the best healers, no matter where they’re working, whether they’re a Reiki person or an acupuncturist or a doctor or a neurosurgeon or a therapist, they’re listening. And I mean they’re sensing, and that’s really at its essence what shamanism is.”
Be magnificently in alignment, and you won’t even have to go get it.” While she gives credit to
learning your soul purpose is actually fine-tuning what you channel, because that’s actually who you are being on the planet.”
Finding your soul purpose isn’t a onetime exercise. Sweet,
will help you do whatever it is you have to do or make you feel more peaceful and more calm or stronger.
“The only certainty is that we are here, in this moment, in this now. It is up to us: to live fully, experiencing each moment, aware, alert and attentive.”
“psychotherapy is New Age therapy. Spiritual therapy is old-age therapy.” She said there is physical therapy, mental
The purpose of her life is not to provide her parents the fulfillment we failed to find in ourselves.
Spirituality and religion have both, independently and in conjunction with one another, gotten a bad rep over the centuries. Religion because of abuses of power and money and control, like all large enterprises in which profit margins matter. And spirituality, sometimes for very similar reasons, but also for becoming a punch line, for being a weaselly way out of committing to anything at
“I would love for you to actually create a different word than spirituality . . . Maybe we should start calling it instinctual practice. It’s just returning to our being, which is a soul in a human form with access to all the answers. Because, to me, spirituality has become identical to religion almost . . . You can sit in church every
“When you are truly in alignment with your soul, you don’t feel in control. You feel peacefully loved and supported in the total unknowing at all times.”
For Isa, spirituality is having a relationship with an outside reality and embracing what she sees as this truer nature of reality in order to open a new realm of tradition that taps into an individual’s own interior. Religion she understands as a practice that takes the place of that interior work. Spirituality is a process. Religion is a discipline. Religion is memorizing your multiplication tables; spirituality is learning why the multiplication tables work—knowing not just that seven times seven is forty-nine but knowing why.
are from the truth. Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can’t go.”
Grief is not earthly or temporal. Grief is about being left behind.
“If you’re present, you are in touch with the past, present, and future. They’re all there, at once, equally. It’s all informing.
The idea of the past and the future being bookends around the present implies that the past and the future are supportive rather than in tension with or a distraction from the present.
co-rising: everyone is helping each other wake up all the time not by anything they’re intentionally doing, but just by being who they are; the way they’re designed to be is to help everyone else wake up. So whoever that person’s being at that moment
and what does not. Take a shamanic journey. Find out if it leads you to answers. Have a reading done with an empath. Is it helpful? If it’s not, cool. Don’t come back. They emphasize the power to let go, the power to release power. What is more powerful than not needing power? They acknowledge power,
The finite makes everything that comes before it more meaningful.
I see then that the only person I need to trust is myself. The only person who can make me feel safe is myself. In the end, it turns out, all I have
delight. A man who understands that falling in true love is never a risk, because
if you fall in love already whole, you can’t lose anything, you can only gain. And I know that I will say to such a man someday, I choose you.
But a meditative state implies, to me, a certain degree of silence and stillness, and healthy sex is neither silent nor still.
wouldn’t. I’m a little wiser, a little more mature, a little better in almost every way than I was before M. I understand that he was a reaction to my ex B. I understand that it was a reaction I needed to have, needed to go through.
what makes us spiritual is our awareness that our lives, our relationships, and the natural world both seen and unseen are filled with an ultimate presence. It is our awareness of transcendence, in us, around us,
I am not religious. I am not spiritual. I am in tune.
