A Ceremony Called Life Quotes

“To be sure, just because the darkness and the light are equally sacred does not mean we benefit by becoming complacent about the darkness we may meet in ourselves. Ultimately, if we are to cleanse the mirror of perception and purify ourselves, then we must bring light into the darkness. That’s always been the path of consciousness and the movement of illumination. This coexistence of darkness and light indeed creates a dance in which the clarity of light is invited to lead, but it does not create a hierarchy.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“Get to know the master within you. Fall at the feet of your Self.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“When your chair is positioned facing the wall, you see the wall. When it is positioned facing the sea, you see the sea. The same is true for us. Perspective is everything. Align with the divine.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“Celebration is the sparkle in the eye of the one who glows. It is the song that plays in the house of freedom. Celebration is the dance of life, it’s the one dancing to the drumbeat of the heart, it’s your birthday cake, it’s you blowing out the trick candles, it’s you delighting in the fire of life.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“Could you imagine a windstorm without the rustling of the leaves? You are made of the same stuff as the leaves–and the wind. You are meant to be rustled and sung.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“Being yourself is the most natural thing in the world, and yet, in true form to the paradox of life, it is often the hardest thing.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“No matter how much you have or how accomplished you consider yourself to be, the soul longs for the true freedom, expansion, love, and creativity that rests beyond identification - until it finally meets it.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“As we stand before this sacred doorway [the doorway to meaning], we realize its response to us is conditional, albeit only in the sense that it’s reflective. If we stand before it arrogant and haughty, indeed the door will remained locked. If we stand before it in doubt, it will disappear. If we knock upon it distracted, our minds somewhere else, we fail to see it open. Anyone in the world can go through it, and there could never be a key. Yet it opens only when we approach it in a certain, truthful way. Otherwise, we may not notice its openness and its infinite offering again and again.

To pass into this fertile land of meaning, we must arrive in reverence. We must approach the door in silence, focused upon the primordial pulse of our beings and all of life. We must allow ourselves to open into acceptance, for within acceptance lives our accountability and, therefore, our ability to extract meaning for our growth—and the possibility for things to come to life. We must allow ourselves to be released into the current, the movement of acceptance, otherwise known as surrender, so that we may be taken and discovered unto ourselves. And once we are through, by God, we must celebrate, for what else is there to do?”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“Suffering comes when we resist that which is happening and when we believe that which is happening shouldn't be happening, and that it's therefore a problem.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“When we depend on anything turning out a certain way or believe that it must turn out that way, we are deluding ourselves. When we buy into expectations and ideas about life and what should happen, and they then don't come to fruition as we had wished or planned, we often feel disappointed - but not because of trust. Not because life or anyone has done anything wrong. Rather, we suffer in those moments because of our perspective, our expectations, and our attachments to beliefs, people and so on.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“Most of us were born into environments filled with people under the spell of the isolated self, and so they projected that perspective onto us. They tried to tell us how to live and what to believe and wanted us to agree with their versions of right and wrong. Without a doubt, most of us were groomed to become controlling adults and distrustful of our nature.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“No matter what has happened, no matter how much you may feel like you need forgiveness from someone else, the only person you truly need it from is yourself.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“In many ways we are like children who were never allowed to be ourselves. We need to go back to the heart of our inner child and free it, so we can finally be allowed to be creative unlimitedly, all over our life, and let our wild and playful spirit run free. That is the heart of freedom. It is with our inner child.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“As we stand before this sacred doorway [the doorway to meaning], we realize its response to us is conditional, albeit only in the sense that it’s reflective. If we stand before it arrogant and haughty, indeed the door will remained locked. If we stand before it in doubt, it will disappear. If we knock upon it distracted, our minds somewhere else, we fail to see it open. Anyone in the world can go through it, and there could never be a key. Yet it opens only when we approach it in a certain, truthful way. Otherwise, we may not notice its openness and its infinite offering again and again.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“Only by honoring the greater truths (the macrocosmic truth) may we begin to honor our subjective truths (our microcosmic truth). This is a recognition of the greater mystery of life and a deep honoring of being a child of that great mystery. In that profound recognition rests the awareness that the same macrocosmic mystery is within us, and it manifests and takes its course in many ways. When we simply recognize this fundamental aspect of the nature of existence, we can begin to understand its presence in our lives. And then finding ourselves moving away from the career or relationship we thought we’d be in for the rest of our life is less of a shock or a “something must be wrong” and more of a deep, humble sigh of “alright, okay, here we go, and so it is.” This is the way life moves. We do not hold the reins, and to feign so creates only pain. Evolution necessitates change.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“You see, life is an inherently benevolent process. When you start to view your life with even a smidgen of detachment, the curtains begin to draw back. You see that, for starters, you actually can indeed draw back the curtains, and then you see the old dusty stage set that is ready to go.

And you choose just that: you choose for it to go; you choose to purify. You choose to unshackle the gorgeous beast within, to let it out and talk to it, to see what it wants. You choose to run your fingers through its crazy, ratty hair, pulling out whatever little bugs got too cozy in there over the years. You give it a glass of water and a shower, and you show it the sun. You welcome it. All of this to say: Get to know the master within you. Fall at the feet of your Self.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water

“An act of mastery is mastery itself.”
― Tehya Sky, A Ceremony Called Life: When Your Morning Coffee Is as Sacred as Holy Water