Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.
The reality is, it takes daily cultivation of a spiritual path, preferably with spiritual kin in proximity, to sustain not the feeling of elation, but the focused, mindful path of steady growth.
We don't heal in isolation, but in community.
All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.
When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.
Healing is active involvement in your process, ongoing.
Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
Life is not a test administered by ourselves or a higher authority, and we’re not in form to learn lessons. We’re here to thrive, to celebrate being our authentic selves until it literally kills us.
We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we lose sight of the overall path.