Surfing new waves of possibility on the back of the incredible poodle bird, rare and wise indeed.
Life is fleeting
Gone, gone
Awake
Awake each one!
Don’t waste this life! A Zen Chant
Fall can strike a cord of urgency, particularly if we are not attending to our our deepest calling and creative purpose. The crisp clean air is just enough to awaken to the soul’s questions:
“Who am I and where am I going?”
Two bold questions striking hard, straight to the heart of life’s greatest challenge. Our lives resemble the great mythological hero’s journey of personal discovery. In our youth, nap sack on our back and filled to the brim with questions, we set out to answer them through the roles we fulfill, the people we meet and the ideas we attempt to manifest. Each question answered serves to empty us, giving us more and more access to the creative impulse that ignites the soul’s journey.
But sometimes the life story gets stuck. Our time is spent more in what’s not working, the pain of loss and regret, betrayal and abandonment. Becoming a broken record of repeated phrases of how life is suppose to work, we fall asleep to the greater unfolding. We forget the mystery that is calling us.
Thankfully there is an antidote. Fall is the time of year to empty yourself of those stuck places. No questions asked, simply, let the stuck story go.
We are built to grow and become more and more creative. If we have not filled ourselves with life’s disappointments, we find, we crave the mystery of awe and feel reverie calling.
Contemplate: which stories are you telling? pain, fear, struggle and how bad everything is? or hope, inspiration, joy and wonder? Are you thinking about what you will lose if there is too much change? or are you playing with ideas about how you might participate to serve a new world?
Cultivate the questions that inspire, nourish and beg you to keep walking forward. This is really a very good time in our history. Because we have been immersed in the wasteland of chaos uncertainty, confusion and doubt for so long, we are individually and collectively ripe for the emergence of sudden bursts of insight, creative inspiration and novel solutions to our greatest problems. Don’t miss your opportunity to participate. Surrender the old stories so you can be ready.
Fall Practice
1. Ask yourself: what has been the intractable problem of my life? what has not changed no matter what I have tried? Name it.
2. What are my feelings that emerge as I name it?
3. What is my broken story? What problem do I talk about all the time?
4. Surrender both the feelings and the story.
5. Open yourself to a new story and dream awake new possibilities.
6. From now until the winter Solstice on December 21st make a daily practice of:
Picking up some written material, a magazine, a book, or the newspaper and @ random pick either a sentence, a word or an image.
Write it down on a 3 X 5 card and reflect upon it through out the day.
@ the end of the day, write about it or make a picture
date and keep your reflection
Do this quickly. The idea is to be in the flow of the process, not to make a beautiful picture or write a book. The practice will help you stoke the fires of your creative imagination. When the old story emerges, don’t ponder it, let it go. Instead explore the image, phrase or word you selected for the day.
7. Make a date with yourself any time between December 21 and 26, to reflect on what was revealed to you.
Be well,
surrender yourself before the great beginning
Gayle
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Celebrating The Beauty Of The New World
Life is a precious gift. How easy it is to forget this simple truth as we go about the business of modern life. Our minds filled with fears, worries, and doubts about what might happen. Our hearts heavy with the sorrow of a perceived powerlessness, yet empty of the special connection we need with one another to fully express ourselves.
I just returned from a short trip to Europe, specifically the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France. As usual, I was mesmerized by the beauty of the land, the ancient buildings and the painting of the masters in particular. They were extraordinary. I found myself wondering what has happened to our modern eye and why we can’t capture such intensity. I must have stood in front of the Night Watch by Rembrandt for 15 minutes awe struck by his ability to paint such fine detail, movement, social status and a whole way of life. I felt as if I were in the painting.
My imagination drew me in. I played with thoughts and feelings about how people lived in the old world. I made contrasts in my mind’s eye about then and now. I mused over every detail of life, and wondered if we live any differently today.
I have strong roots in Europe and have often thought I should move there. I have felt a romantic pull to live the simple life, close to the land, in strong connection to a community of people with cultural rituals that unite us with every word, gesture and thought. But, as I sat with these old paintings, I felt the haunting of a social repression, a weariness of soul and a creative longing that could never be expressed. The old world reflected an old covenant. It’s a charter based upon ignorance, greed, and aggression. Its cruelty of servitude, domination and the suppression of human rights was held in place by strong cultural traditions of the privileged over the masses.
In that instant I could not wait to come home. I felt grateful to live in the new country. We are the ancestors of the pilgrims who came to The Americas, to forge a better life, built upon higher values and ideals. We sought freedom, a liberation of spirit to create a new covenant with life, with one another and with the right to express our god given creativity.
Again, my heart felt heavy. I wondered if we were simply the old people stuck in the old covenant, living in the new world. Have we not learned the lessens of the new covenant? Are our current social, political and economic challenges a reflection of the old world? What could happen if we could live deeply connected to a new covenant which comes from:
a liberated self awareness and social responsibility of interconnectedness, collaboration, creative problem solving, dialogue with a deep caring and loving service that knows the unity of all life.
Though I do not profess to have any special gifts or talents, I choose to live as if I did. I choose to believe that the desire I carry in my heart to live in the new country with the values of a new covenant is task for every ordinary human being. But, when carried out by a whole community, it becomes extraordinary. I choose to believe the culmination of every act of ecological sustainability, human kindness, voice and vote matter. I believe each creative idea brought forth and every desire to serve the innate beauty of the earth is the task of our life time.
I choose to believe that the challenges we face reflect the old and new new worlds colliding. The old is coming down and the new is not yet formed. I am grateful to be home, liberated from an ancient powerlessness that has held me in check. I am moved by every ordinary act that comes from the heart of a new way of perceiving our human challenges. I feel safe, strong and courageous, humbled by my ordinary human role. This is the poem I wrote that captures the simple truth living deep in our individuated collective hearts. May we flame the collective desire to create a new covenant that moves us safely into a new world. May we see our current challenges as the birth of something new and wonderful.
Extra “Ordinary”
No great world stopping gifts, have I
No great talent to speak of,
Yet something so extraordinary lives within me.
The soul of a lion,
yet the ego no bigger than an ordinary house cat
flames the echoes in my heart,
calling me.
I am just an ordinary person.
whose extra-ordinary voice calls out,
where are we?
won’t you come?
won’t you come to dance?
won’t you come to sing?
Come dine with me,
may I listen to your new story,
may I know the hope that beats strong in you.
No life can go unsung,
no tale too small for these ordinary ears.
It all matters
when you listen deeply enough.
This call so wondrous, so large,
can it really live inside of me, inside you, inside us,
extra ordinary beings, could we be?
This call is just the extraordinary love of one ordinary person,
calling out to her community.
Knowing we can change this world.
For, we are extra-ordinary indeed.
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“Certainly in order to be able to go out to the other, you must have the starting place, you must have been, you must be, with yourself”. Martin Buber
All the world’s great ancient traditions tell us that true healing involves the transformation of our inner being. All symptoms, whether physical, mental, emotion or spiritual have their origin in our thoughts, feeling, beliefs and attitudes. When we desire a change in the world, we attend to our inner being. For as the ancients have always known and science is just beginning to show us, thoughts and feelings do affect the physical world.
To the extent we are unaware of our inner realm, we can become emotionally reactive to the world we see “out there”. When the emotions of worry, fear, anger and grief fill our lives, we become prone to inertia, depression and hopelessness. All of which further deplete our life energy and disconnect us from our center and the truth of who we are.
True healing, honors the ancient wisdom that reminds us to shift from being outer reactive to inner directed. As we witness the world, remember, it is a mirror for what lies within. If we can see it, it lives within, giving us the direct access to heal it ourselves. This is very good news; there is something we can do.
We are in the short but intense season of Indian Summer, the time just before fall. It is considered to be the most healing time of year, to prepare ourselves to enter a new year’s cycle. We do this by committing to what nurtures us and by releasing what is no longer necessary. Before September 21st, find a time when you can be with yourself every day. Go inward and find that wonderful sweet silence taking you away from the demands of an over committed life. Clear a place just for you, a place where you can witness the truth of who you are and what you need to fulfill your life’s dream.
A Self Reflective Exercise: Mandala of The Self
On a blank piece of paper draw a circle and place a picture of yourself or write your name in the center. Divide the circle into four equal parts, like a compass with,
north representing the quality of mind and its thinking-thoughts
south being the seat of heart and what it loves, as well, its emotions and feelings
east gives you access to your creative fire- your vital life energy and connection to spirit
west helps you to look at your physical life and what has taken root.
Allow inner guidance to lead you. Tracking your answers in your journal, in the next 10 days, explore these questions. Notice what you would like to enhance and do more of and what you would like to do less of and even release. Try asking all four quadrant questions every day. Each time you ask, you will find yourself going deeper into what is good, true and beautiful about your nature.
When you ask, be receptive to what ever is revealed to you: thoughts, feelings, images, people, songs, ideas, etc. Place your answers in the quadrant that matches your question.
The Questions
West: What habit pattern is no longer serving me? What would enhance my physical well being?
East: What is the status of my energy? my vital life energy? my spirit? What renews my creative energy? What is depleting my creative life?
South: What do I love doing and it loves me back? [equal in giving and receiving]
North: What are my unique gifts, talents and abilities? Which ones do I need to remember to use in times of challenge? What are my gifts that when I use them they inspire me and all those around me?
During the day, notice what catches your attention. Does it support your body, mind, heart or creative fire. Make a note and add it to the appropriate quadrant. Be playful and colorful, add images from magazines, words, fortune cookie messages, and what ever you are drawn to add. Play with using color pencils or even crayons.
In the spirit of learning, explore your deepest thoughts and as always, I invite you to share your insights.
May you be well, whole and fulfilled with each breath.
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Prayer is the language of soul. It can provide a bridge between where we are now and what we long for. Whether we come as a healer wishing to speak to The Divine Source of Life, as an artist longing for communion with the hand of creation or as a scientist, wishing to dialogue with the Quantum Field, we are the same. We are humans desiring an audience with spirit.
This is a difficult time. A critical and challenging world as Mitt Romney called it. Far too many people are suffering senseless injustices that appear to have no resolution. Long ago I stopped reading the paper or watching TV news. Despite these obvious ways of keeping the world at bay, I am perceiving a sharp increase in the tension and stress of daily life, the heaviness of so much unrest, depression, anxiety, fear, and anger. The increasing acts of violence, war and conflict seem to be tearing the fabric of life from its very seams.
It is exactly in these times when prayer provides the healing salve that restores our vitality, our WindHorse, so that we can meet our challenges with courage, commitment and perseverance.
I feel the pain of mothers taking their children to school for the first time, fearful that they will be safe. Then off to college, then to war. Always, with the prayer beneath their breath, keep my child safe. I feel the fear of my friends who have lost their jobs but can’t afford to retire. I sense the isolation of many friends who live alone, wondering who will be their for them, should they need help. I sense the worry of so many friends who live on a fixed incomes that can’t stretch enough to meet the insane rise in goods and services.
And, as I write this, I suffer along side my friend who is caring for her Dad who is dying slowly from alzheimer’s, the disease that ravages the mind. She watches as he leaves her in those times he calls his vacancies. And, another who just lost her brother-in-law in a sudden and tragic auto accident.
I am not a stranger to deep grief and in my dark moments I have prayed and been restored. I think of Rumi’s words of love during times of loss, “oh break my heart, oh break my heart, oh break my heart again, so that I might learn to love even more deeply.”
Suffering can trigger us to turn towards The Divine. There is suffering and there is something we can do. The great and ancient teachers spoke much about prayer, and it was the Buddha who taught us, there is suffering, it is increasing and there is a way through suffering, by
choosing the path that restores you. BE the solution and become what you wish to receive.
Prayer may not remove the cause of suffering. It prepares you to go beyond it, restored in spirit, you become empowered with greater insight and understanding.
In The Spontaneous Healing Of Belief by Gregg Braden, he tells us several important things about prayer. First, prayer is a feeling and not just words. The power of prayer are the feelings you receive from the actual exchange with the Divine Presence. What you feel is everything. Prayer is the force that has the power to restore your WindHorse, gaining the inner strength to deal with the outer challenge.
Second, prayer is the code language that brings you into dialogue with the source of life itself. The code has three parts, begin, work and completion. Let’s see how this works.
First, begin by establishing your relationship with the Divine, calling by the name you know this presence to be for you.
Great Spirit I come before you.
You are the hallowed name that lives within me and all around me and
I know that simply by being in your presence, I shall be restored.
Second, is the working part where you place your request, listen and receive.
I hurt more than hell itself.
I have reached the place where I am lost and have no answers.
I am emptied.
I surrender and come before you to ask for your guidance,
to restore my wisdom, my peace, and understanding.
I have come for the answers that will set my life right.
I need your help to feel love in my heart again.
I take this time to be in relation with you,
knowing that with each breath I am renewed through you.
My inhalation is your exhalation and your inhalation is my exhalation.
Through the breath, I am receiving the things for which I have requested.
Third, give thanks, knowing that as you have asked you shall receive.
Great Spirit,
I give thanks, for the love that is restored.
My heart is filled with the loving kindness that I can now give back to the world. In faith I know that my prayer for wisdom will be answered and it is my job to remain open to the clues that are sent. In closing, I give gratitude to the Divine Wisdom that cares for all life. Amen
Pain indicates that something is wrong. It is a time to stop, and seek council from something older and wiser than ourselves. We are not meant to suffer in vain nor to struggle endlessly trying to find the answers.
When life hurts and there is pain and suffering
Stop and be with it.
Rather than falling into despair,
this time bring yourself into prayer. Restore your vitality, spirit and inner strength. Then your WindHorse will carry you to the higher ground where prayers are answered.
What are your favorite prayers? I invite you to share them with us.
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Since the beginning of time, we have shared a rich connection with horses. In, Horses and The Mystical Path, Adele, Marlena and Thomas McCormick explore the Celtic tradition of kinship with horses. Befriending a horse can help us enter the adventure of the divine mystery to live our creative life. They invite us to stand before a horse with “utter humility, full of respect and wonder, and encounter the ground of your own being.” For as Philip Newell states, “The horse and rider are elemental. They ride at the heart of the wind of God.”
Continuing in the spirit of horse as metaphor, ask yourself three questions:
1. Where in my life do I need the Divine Force, My WindHorse, to carry me?
2. What is my personal image of my WindHorse? [it may not be a horse]
3. Where does my WindHorse take me to meet the great mystery and the Mind of God.
Here are two examples of my friends, Rebecca and Susan who found their own unique WindHorse. For now Rebecca’s is a bike and for Susan Cornelis, it is her rich inner life and creative art.
Rebecca plans on riding 100 miles in September in Hawaii. She is participating in an endurance event as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Team In Training. They are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. She is completing this event in honor of all the individuals who are battling blood cancers. These people are the real heroes on our team, and we need your support to cross the ultimate finish line – a cure! Visit her Team in Training Site
Susan found her winged horse of courage and confidence. I strongly encourage you to visit her Art and Sketchbook Blog to witness more of her inspirational art. You might even want to take one of her workshops.
Acrylic, pencil, and pen on Lama Li sketchbook paper
he arrived this morning
no doubt he’s been waiting
in the wings, on his wings,
chomping at the bit,
(i doubt he has one). . .
my soul carrier,
high octane in his equine tank
for a fast start,
endurance beyond and of my wildest dreams
now about to take off. . .
-Susan Cornelis
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I love the Tibetan ancient wisdom and how it supports our health and well being so we can live our life’s dream. This practice comes from Ruling Your World, Ancient Strategies For Modern Life by Sakyon Mipham.
Let’s begin in the place where all great beginnings occur: in the quantum field of pure potential that comes from the awareness of timelessness.
Create this contemplative moment by taking your eyes of the world.
Exhale.
Placing yours whole being on the breath,
exhale to calm your mind
inhale to revitalize your body.
Dropping your shoulders,
cup your two hands together
and place them on your lap.
Imagine that your hands form a bowl that receive the blessings of the Divine Life Force.
Allow yourself to enter this ever present timeless moment, in full awareness. Slow down, breathe in and breath out. This simple act, shifts your mind and your heart to be receptive to new insights. The hemispheres of the brain become relational and receptive to each other.
Being with yourself in this way allows your energy to become renewed. Just that, breath and you. See if for this moment you can be fully present for yourself filled with love, respect and care, allowing your energy to be restored, balanced, rhythmic and in harmony.
This is the Tibetan practice of WindHorse, using the power of lungta. Lung which is wind or breath and ta which means horse. The image is a strong one, reminding us to ride our lives with courage, discernment and confidence. It asks us to serve all life with wisdom and compassion.
What a profound image this really is. Imagine for a moment, riding a horse. Put down any ideas about liking or disliking horses or about your ability to even ride them. For this moment, simply image how it would feel to ride a horse without even needing reins or a saddle. Galloping across the open plains toward the horizon, arms up open and receiving the life force, wind blowing through your hair. No resistance, just life open, flowing, giving and receiving.
WindHorse- is the caring presence and way of being that supports and nourishes all life. When our windhorse is strong, our basic goodness is available and we live our dreams without obstacles.
Imagine that simply by doing a breathing practice everyday, you can exhale out what the Tibetans call drip. Drip refers to the stress of negative thinking, believing and feeling that deplete our energy and life force. Depletion of energy creates even more fear and discouragement, pushing us into survival consciousness. Negativity is contagious, harmful, and creates obstacles that further depletes us as we try to make something happen.
There is an antidote. Through your awareness you can notice when you are feeling depleted, stressful or negative. Instead of pushing through the feeling or ignoring it, stop and do something that restores you. Take the time to love and nourish yourself. Do your WindHorse Practice to renew, regenerate and revitalize yourself. WindHorse attracts what the Tibetans call drala which is the grace of positive, life enhancing energy. When we are filled with loving energy, we experience WindHorse and thus attract more drala.
We are blessed to be humans, filled with the ability to witness and become aware of our lives. We can see how we are conducting our lives. Are we filled with loving kindness? If so, WindHorse continues to renew our positive energy as we attract all that we need to achieve our dreams. What are the practices you do to restore Wind, your life force and Horse, your ability to take loving action?
This is a very important key in finding and living our dreams. Creativity requires energy. Creating something new often asks us to surrender something of the past that cannot support the future. This takes great faith and vitality to move into a future dream that is not yet manifested. The old no longer serves but the new is not yet formed. This needs your WindHorse. Take some time today and create your inner environment of loving energy, inspiration and care- WindHorse – in order to meet the field of infinite potential. Enhance your vibration to be vital, alive, hopeful and receptive.
BEfore you continue with your day,
enhance drala: fill yourself with the positive life giving feelings of love with joy, health and well being.
surrender and let go of drip: fear, anger, frustration or blame. These belong to your past and need not belong in your future.
Fill your whole being with positive energy, be expanded and allow the universe to meet you. Allow WindHorse to run your life today.
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Musings On The Quantum Field of Pure Potential and The Art of Creativity
Human beings are infinitely creative. We are the makers, builders and doers with a profound capacity for invention and ingenuity. Look at what we have created just in the past one hundred years. Then, think of what has been discovered in your own life time. And, we are not done inventing. In fact, the pace of new discoveries is increasing, making it seemingly impossible to keep up. Astounding to find the reason for such advances stems from the new frontier of quantum physics. This is a revolution in thinking about the nature of reality. Instead of believing matter, you and me and the chair you are sitting on, to be composed of hard impenetrable atoms existing in space, we are now asked to embrace a more mystical understanding.
Beginning with Einstein’s theory of relativity and his famous equation, E=MC2, evidence is revealing to us, matter is composed of packets of light-energy called quanta. More astonishing, these quanta particles live as potentials, only becoming matter through our observation or conscious participation with them. When you peel back the layers to discover matter’s building blocks, you find nothing! Could this be the Buddhist’s idea of “emptiness”. As well, the Buddha has told us, “nothing exists alone, for everything is in relation to everything else.” All life exists because of an interconnected exchange of vibrational information within what is now being called the Field.
EXISTENCE IS RELATIONAL through a stream of conscious exchange within a field of pure potential or emptiness.
We are electronically or vibrationally interconnected within this life force field of pure potential through our mutual expression and creative engagement of thoughts, feelings, attitudes and ideas. CREATIVITY REQUIRES PARTICIPATION IN A FIELD OF INFORMATION THAT WE ALL SHARE.
From this perspective, matter or manifestation comes into existence, generated by our conscious participation. It is abundant. The only limit to our creative ability may just be learning how to participate with the field. At the core, creativity is the active and mutual exchange of consciousness, with self, one another, and the collective through this quantum medium of full potential.
Gregg Braden in The Isaiah Effect tells us this ancient language of communication is prayer. Learning to talk to the field which some call the Mind of God or The Absolute, is the art of conscious relationship. This haunting new frontier of infinite empty potential appears to be far more mystical, requiring a sacred encounter through our direct experience. We learn to ask for exactly and totally what we need to manifest the dreams we hold about our lives. This prayer language, allows us to communicate with the field by participating fully, with feeling, desire and passion. For, we must both want what we request but also believe we can attain it.
Before we go further, take a moment and do a relaxation exercise. Let this moment be your meeting with the great mystery of creative inspiration. To enter, you must be willing to come without time on your shoulders. Exhale, bow your head, drop your shoulders, and with a gentle smile on your face, continue.
Quantum physics theorizes that both the unconscious mind [mind without an active intention] and the unconscious matter substance [matter, not yet observed] coexist in the field in a state of pure potentiality. Could this mind-matter stuff held in the field, be what Zen calls Big Mind or what some call The Higher Mind? Could this be where the Self with a capital S, seeks the source of creative inspiration just waiting to be tapped? The rational knowing mind, so perfectly suited for everyday living, is simply not big enough to hold anything new. Creativity might be about learning to trust the impulse to go beyond rational mind, into the field of the quantum soup of pure potential, to dream awake the creative urges that live deep within us.
Ah! I am struck with insight. Jesus said we must become like little children to enter this Big Mind, or what he called the Kingdom of Heaven. Before the age of six, children live in an Alpha mind state. The brain in its formative years, vibrates at a slower more relaxed state, perfect for learning all the new things it must in order to grow. The adult mind in its everyday state of waking consciousness utilizes the rapid Beta pattern, conducive for navigating the known world. In order to learn, the mind moves into the slower brain patterns of Alpha, Theta or even Delta, the slowest of all.
Again, I am struck. Who enters heaven? What is the activating ingredient that awakens the mind-matter substrate of pure potential? You! Me! Anyone who is drawn to learn how! You are a creator, an organizer of matter material through the gift of mind. Mind and its directing force, consciousness, appears to be the organizing element. Through the act of observing and paying attention in these deeper mind states, the particles of mind stuff cooperate and begin to organize into a coherent new pattern. In time, this new pattern-image receives its name to which we all agree to call it. Our consciousness pulls the energy from the field [or if you will the mind of God] distilling the image into manifestation.
For example, think about these words, television sets, cell phones, electric cars, or ipods. What would it sound like to someone living in the 1800s or even the early 1900s, to be asked, “did you get your ipod yet?”
The willingness to grow beyond our present lived experience of reality, to have a new experience in our lives, requires a great deal of unity in focus and intention. In all great beginning, it takes a burst of energy, a strong wind to clear ourselves, so we can reach into our imagination for something new that moves our lives forward. Through the repetition of thought and belief in ourselves, the new image gains momentum and like an infectious process with a life of its own it changes the terrain of the known. Something new is born through the contagion of a new image.
I am awe struck by the simple complexity of life’s design. I can create new experiences if I am willing to clear out the old. I can have what I choose, but I must be willing to surrender all the old material and send it back into the Field. When the old and the new collide in a war of right and wrong [which they will] I, the chosen continue to choose the new image over the old. Through the loving eye of the observer in an Alpha state, choosing the new design, the old looses its witness and surrenders its force.
Strange how this is. When we keep fighting against the old image, it gains strength and ultimately wins. The new image then recedes back into the un-lived potential waiting for another dreamer to come along.
Be the chosen one and say yes to the new images dancing inside your imagination.
Cultivating New Dreams, Just Say Yes
Say yes
to the ground that is not yet formed
firmly beneath you
dreaming.
Dare to dream something new
as you move away from the wounds of anger, fear and resentment,
these only leave marks in the river of your being
that grow things that need to be cut away.
The real dream is one that moves you in a dance with creation,
of your true nature, acting from a faith in things not yet seen, while
facing the things that don’t belong to this true picture of your new reality.
With the daring of a small child,
dream awake this infinite moment with the creator
asking for just what you need, bargaining for all the raw materials necessary
to build this new world that has appealed to your body’s senses of what is right in you.
Take this precious moment and become very, very still. Imagine your breath stilling the waves of your mind. Quite, simple and awake. Now, ask yourself: what is the dream that is longing to be lived through me? What are the materials I could ask for that would help build my new world? What are the images that want to be inspired through me? How do I feel as I think about living my dream?
Pretend for a moment you are Cinderella, awaiting the inspiration of the fire of the first kiss to awaken that dream that sets your passion on fire. What is the nature of this passion?
Now, you have asked the dreaming questions. Pay attention and see what comes. Be the patience of Job and wait and see and notice and pay attention. If you have a journal make some notes to yourself. If you don’t have nor have you ever had a journal, get one. The journal practice is one of the greatest ways I know to practice the simple art of creative living: asking for, receiving and acting upon what has been given.
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