Pierre Collection II

I can plan for the future of course! But the future doesn’t actually exist, I can only apply my action right here, right now. And the action that I take this very moment, is what creates my next moment. – pierre –

The future is not a thing that exists, NOW is the only existence we have. Yet the eternal present moment is always in motion, and we will meet an older version of ourselves year after year. The only way that we can take care of the older version of ourselves – who we will inevitably meet – IS by doing our best right now. – pierre –

Brain science clearly shows that over time, regular meditators have reduced activity in their DMN and they get stuck in “negative mind loops” for shorter periods of time. – pierre –

All wise action, come from a place of surrender… – pierre –

Of course it’s true that you couldn’t swim in any direction of your choosing without actually taking action. The thing is though, that you wouldn’t even learn how to swim without first surrendering yourself to the water, allowing your body to be held by the water. I believe it is equally true that we could become better at surrendering ourselves to life, and then find our way with less effort because we’ve developed a sense of how life moves. – pierre –

You wouldn’t even learn how to swim without first surrendering yourself to the water, allowing your body to be held by the water. We can equally surrender ourselves to life, and then learn to move with life as life moves. – pierre –

“Expansion” is not about having the goal to go ‘somewhere’… expansion is the realization that truly being right where you are will take you everywhere! -pierre –

We “fall” into love because it requires a surrender. Love asks of us to let go of the need to control, the need to force an outcome.  – pierre –

The moment that you lose your fear of falling you will fall head over heels in love with life again, trust me, and trust in the ability of your soul to catch you and hold you no matter how hard the fall. – pierre –

Falling is just a part of playing and perhaps we have forgotten to be playful. – pierre –

Anxiety and stress are associated with racing thoughts, which is a high and fast brainwave state. If at the same time we’re trying to make serious decisions, then the spinning nature of thousands of thoughts per second makes finding solutions almost impossible. – pierre –

When you deliberately re-direct your thinking away from being just in your head, down into what your body is feeling, then your brain waves don’t have much of a choice but to slow down too. – pierre –

By tuning into the silence within we get to experience not just our own sense of consciousness, we surrender to consciousness itself. Thus we become open vessels for the vast intelligence of the universe to be expressed through. – pierre –

Whether the stimulus we’re responding to comes from outside ourselves or within, it is when we’re trying to avoid it, hide from it, or get involved in a fight with it that we lose access to this higher wisdom. – pierre –

We have the ability to grow this space when we set the intention of being mindful and present, no running, no hiding and also no fighting. Remind yourself to pause and take a few deep and slow breaths until your soul shows you what the next step is, because in this space we also find access to our wisdom. – pierre –

Meet every moment with full awareness. – pierre –

It is only by feeling into and all the way through what it is that we feel that we get to be the best version of our SELF. When we cultivate the courage to be present with our inner landscape, we discover something powerful: we have the capacity to hold all of it. By becoming really present with what we feel, we gain access to the full spectrum of our inner wisdom. – pierre –

When you find the mountain in you, you find that you are able to be OK no matter what the weather is. Sunshine, rain or storm, you are able to be in the midst of all of this and find that you are completely OK, happy even. This is your inner strength, the part of you that is not disturbed by any of this, this is your wisdom. Listen to this part of you to decide what the next step is. – pierre –

Of course we will encounter fellow humans who react badly from their own wounded separateness. Don’t ever take this as a sign of your own unworthiness again, keep shining your light brightly and gravitate toward those with an equal appreciation for authentic expression.  – pierre –

You are the witness, the observer, the soul, the voice of wisdom – and the more often you can embody this space, the more you will be living, and acting from the wisdom that you are. – pierre –

Creating in fear means we are in constant resistance to life, always swimming upstream. You can turn this around. You can stop “running away from” and decide what it is that you are going to “run toward.” YOU are a born creator. YOU were manifested from the abundance that the Universe IS! Recognize that you have the freedom to use this abundance and create the life that YOU envision. – pierre –

Understanding that for the most part the humans around us are reacting from their own wounding and in need of healing, doesn’t mean that we discard our own boundaries though. But even our boundaries can inflict damage when we enforce them in ignorance and not in understanding. – pierre –

Our boundaries can inflict damage when we enforce them in ignorance and not in understanding. – pierre –

Sometimes we do see the solution to a particular problem but fear paralyses us, and so our inaction leaves only one target for our energy to focus on… more worrying. Very often it is not attending to things that we know we should be changing that becomes the biggest source of our anxiety. But when we put our energy into action, there is just less open space in our mind for empty worrying to occur. – pierre –

What’s been known forever is that we need adversity in order to grow. When you go to gym and expose your muscles to doing what they haven’t done before, then they’re forced into making adaptations and becoming stronger. – pierre –

While being the observer – it’s as if I’ve been lifted just a little bit higher and I have a clearer view of myself, “I can see that at this moment I FEEL as if I’m drowning, fighting wave after wave.” Seeing from this higher perspective doesn’t change the situation and it doesn’t change how I feel, but it certainly changes what I believe about what I am feeling. – pierre –

We are never going to be saved by some big brother or big sister who has come up with the answers and takes the responsibility off of our shoulders. It is only ever going to get better when we realise amongst ourselves a deeper sense of brotherhood and sisterhood, that makes it obvious to each of us that we need to share the responsibility for our interconnected human condition. – pierre –

I think it’s fair to say that we likely don’t have a clue how to make it better, and that the place to start is probably to admit as much and then commit to keep asking the questions together, and to keep trying – not losing hope – no matter how many times we get it wrong. – pierre –

This part of me – call it soul, call it higher-self, call it inner-wisdom, call it SELF – is not scared by emotion and understands that emotion is not necessarily “truth” but often a fear of what “might” be true. This part of me has the ability to lovingly hold whatever emotions arise, until it feels better. – pierre –

If it is completely impossible for you to sit through a meditation, then you are not in control of your life, period! – pierre –

While you have harsh judgement and criticism of yourself, the parts of you that feel guilt and shame will try to hide as much information as possible. While you judge yourself it’s impossible to be completely honest with yourself, because it’s not entirely safe to go there. – pierre –

So if you want to really grow, if you’re serious about using the wisdom from past mistakes to make better decisions in future, then you need to make your inner environment a safe space for all the information to come to the surface, and that only happens in the absence of judgement. – pierre –

Surrender is not asking us to be passive but to recognize that how we act, really is the only thing that we CAN control. Surrender asks us to take action wisely, and then to trust in the unfolding however it happens. – pierre –

Remember though, that surrender is not only about letting go. Surrender means nothing unless we are also surrendered to acting on what needs to get done. – pierre –

We have to do this together! Because we’re not going to build a better world while we leave anyone behind. – pierre –

Wholeness is your birthright! And you are worthy simply because you breathe! But please remember… you cannot be whole while you’re still trying to reject any part of you. Do your healing and bring your whole SELF to the table. The world needs your contribution. – pierre –

Our mind’s resistance to everything that is not “perfectly right” in our lives, continues to hijack us away from our intention of living in gratitude for all the blessings that we DO have. – pierre –

As we embrace silence, we peel back all of the reactive layers of our lives, revealing the core of our being. – pierre –

Make silence a regular practice in your life. It takes time to reap the benefits from this but there’s a deep strength and clarity to you that you’ll only settle into when you become good at slipping into silence amidst all of the noise. 

Fear inspires you to avoid what scares you, while freedom inspires you to create what your soul calls for. – pierre –

When you’re creating in fear, you’ll forever be trying to prove yourself to the world. When you create in love and freedom, you’ll be guided by the expression of your soul. – pierre –

There is a mountain within you that is immovable. It is that place of wisdom to which you can retreat and find that even in the middle of the worst storm your “being” is a place of safety, and from here you can take a little bit of time to witness… be with this… sit with this… and see what is really there… what is it that is really happening, and how does my soul feel about this? – pierre –

Your soul is timeless and not threatened by the momentary fears of your human body. It’s the place where you’ll find refuge and while you rest, you’ll be shown what the next step is to take. – pierre –

Whenever you find yourself triggered ask yourself these questions: “Why am I not free from this? Why does this control my inner state? What is the work that I have to do to soften the reaction that I feel to this?” – pierre –

In the tapestry of human connection, every person we meet becomes a potential teacher, offering us invaluable lessons about ourselves. – pierre –

Through people and circumstances, life will constantly point out to you where you are not free. Every trigger is an opportunity to realize where something has control over you. Let your triggers guide you to freedom. – pierre –

When you have parts of yourself that you dislike, parts you wish didn’t exist, parts of you that you’ve been trying to reject and abandon, it causes a disconnect from your “self”. In essence, while you are trying to leave any part of yourself behind, you cannot be whole. – pierre –

Love, in its purest form, is the catalyst for transformation. It is the force that can heal wounds, mend broken hearts, and inspire greatness. When I am grounded in love, I am able to supply myself with all the validation and acceptance I may need, and so I can let go of trying to control your opinion of me. And when I set you free from the burden of supplying my happiness – when you are free to be the expression of who you are – then we have both stepped towards our own wholeness. – pierre –

This ability to take a step back and look at both sides without judgement or criticism only happens when we have full acceptance of the reality of the present moment, and in this surrendered state we see truth as we might never have seen it before.  – pierre –

Meditation is not an escape, not a coping mechanism to help us avoid the stark realities of our human experience, quite the opposite… within the quiet depths of meditation and stillness lies a profound truth: deeply surrendering to this human experience is where you’ll find your soul. – pierre –

Having this human experience is what your soul surrendered to, so embrace your humanness! Deeply surrendering to this human experience is where you’ll find your soul. – pierre –

Every human is an artist, a creator, and your whole life is the canvas. When we are presented with this idea we might think of Van Gogh, Picasso or any number of other recognized artists but that is just a very thin slice of what it is to create. – pierre –

We are all creating every day! You are creating your life. The environment you create around you will have a direct impact on the people around you and of course, the inner environment that you have created is at the core of everything you do. – pierre –

When I am able to experience my body’s reaction to this trigger without being overwhelmed, this is when I finally do have a choice over how I want to respond. Before this moment of recognition there was no choice, only an old pattern taking control. – pierre –

While you are rejecting any part of YOU, you will not be whole. PERIOD. The road to wholeness is through finding acceptance for every single part of you, especially the “worst” parts. Nothing inside of you is “bad”, every part of you has in some way just been trying SO hard to help you cope. – pierre –

My wish for you is freedom. The kind of freedom you only realize when you notice that old triggers just don’t have the same hold on you that they used to have.  – pierre –

With most other technologies we have some degree of choice in whether we want to engage with it or not, but your human body IS your daily vehicle for the duration of your stay here. Why not become a pro at driving it? – pierre –

Love, LOVES to love! The nature of love is to be loving. – pierre –

If love is the language of connection, then self-love is the dialect we must master first. – pierre –

You are worthy. You are deserving. And you are enough. Just as you are, you are good enough. There is nothing that you have to first do, or fix, to prove that you are good enough or deserving of love. Please allow yourself to be loved just as you are. – pierre –

When your arms are open to holding a space for every emotion that your body experiences, then in essence you are proving your own acceptance of YOU. – pierre –

Include silence as a regular practice in your life, and learn to really listen. When you get beyond the noisiness of your own mind, you’ll find wisdom there. – pierre –

Intention doesn’t guarantee that things work out as you’ve planned, but clear intent is what steers your ship when the storms do arise. Without clear intent you are at the mercy of the storm, with nothing to guide your decision making, and you will be swept in whatever direction your external environment dictates. – pierre –

Finding a deeper connection to our higher-self requires trust. A trust that every time you meditate, every time you stop and consciously slow down your breathing for a few minutes, that you are opening up the door for a deeper wisdom to emerge. A trust that the more time you spend in this higher-self space, the better you’ll get at being open to the completeness and wholeness that is already there. – pierre –

There is wisdom in you, and there is also the voice of fear. The better you become at understanding the loud voice of fear, the more you’ll be able to hear the whisper of wisdom. – pierre –

By truly being you, and doubling down on the you that you really are, then without realizing it you will serve and shape and support the life all around you. But you have the limitless freedom to experiment and play with endless ways of creating, until you have found the expressions that make you the MOST you. So try them all! – pierre –

There are ways in which you can create, that you haven’t even discovered yet! Embrace your limitless nature. – pierre –

Loving yourself despite your past choices is the foundation for making better decisions in the future. Embracing your imperfections, your quirks, and your vulnerabilities in a radical act of self-acceptance is what opens within you the ability to learn from past mistakes. After all – mistakes are lessons for us to learn from, not punishments for which we should pay forever. – pierre –

Whenever you encounter FEAR about yourself, your shortcomings, your mistakes – the very next thing you do will either increase the fear or lower that fear. – pierre –

Loving yourself despite your past choices is the foundation for making better decisions in the future. – pierre –

When my outer senses pick up a bad smell from the world around me it’s so easy to go, “Oh! I smell something bad!” But when it’s an inner sense I’m experiencing I turn it into, “Oh no! I AM something bad!” – pierre –

This is because the first thing we encounter as we try to embrace silence is our own wild and out of control mind. If we’re used to avoiding our own thoughts by numbing them or by any other distractions, then coming face to face with them in a silent space can feel like a personal onslaught. -pierre –

When you’re able to look at you, with no judgement, no criticism, only love and acceptance… then perhaps you’re seeing YOU through the eyes of your soul. – pierre –

When I am able to come face to face with the full spectrum of who I am and feel only acceptance – even though I can clearly see which parts of me I want to keep working on – then I have stepped into an un-limited version of myself, the part of me that is motivated not by fear but by a heart full of love for this human. The part of me that will hold myself to nothing less than the expression of my soul. – pierre –

The masks we wear are not any different than any of the other coping mechanisms we’ve adopted in order to feel like we can survive in what seems like a harsh environment. – pierre –

It is of course most helpful to realize which old patterns don’t serve us any longer, and do the work to soften their effect. Try to remember though that your body and your brain did an amazing job to keep you alive and that it might be a slow process of letting go of the things that were once a necessity. – pierre –

Tonglen meditation is the recognition of this universal togetherness that Einstein saw in science. We can choose to live in a constant war with everything around us but for better or worse, the truth is we are only here because of what came before us. We are a manifestation of the world around us, and we can improve our relationship with this world. After all, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change!  – pierre –

If you are unable to give yourself the intimacy of acceptance that we all yearn for… then you will always feel separate and isolated in this world. – pierre –

Love and self-love are not exactly different kinds of love, they are intertwined, have the same source and one is an extension of the other. I can only love others to the extent that I have learned to love myself. – pierre –

May you learn that at your source, you have always been the love that you’ve been looking for. And that the only thing to do is to share the love that you have found in YOU, with the humans around you. – pierre –

We are given a busy subconscious mind as a tool for survival, and it’s a very successful tool at that. And so trying to will or force a mind to be quiet, is literally a threat to its survival and will be resisted by trying to fight the source of this threat which is you… – pierre –

What we encounter first is not the truth of who we are, instead we come face to face with who we’ve been trying to be in an effort to survive in this crazy world. What we encounter first is everything that we are not. – pierre –

When you develop the ability to look at your failings with kindness, you’ve taken a monumental step toward genuine peace of mind. The greatest turbulence we experience internally often comes from the crushing disappointment we feel when we believe we’ve failed. – pierre –

The beautiful paradox is this: when you look at yourself without judgment, you actually gain the clarity and courage to see yourself honestly. Real honesty is not brutal or cruel. In fact, the most truthful self-assessment happens in an atmosphere of kindness, where you feel safe enough to acknowledge both your strengths and areas for growth. – pierre –

How you react/respond to the people around you, the food you choose to eat, the goals you allow yourself to reach for, especially the inner conversations you have are all based on what you see when you look in the mirror. – pierre –

Your soul speaks, if you will only stop and listen. What makes it so difficult for us to hear is the volume of all of our fears drowning the voice of our soul. You can practice putting down the fears, and you can become better at listening. All the wisdom you need is already within you if you listen. – pierre –

I am the conductor of my life, allowing my inner wisdom to set the pace. – pierre –

Meditation, in its quiet simplicity, becomes a map leading us back to ourselves. – pierre –

You are a Fearless Creator! When the whims of the ever changing weather no longer scare you, it will serve as inspiration for the artist in your soul. – pierre –

Your unshakable self-love creates a safe haven for others. It whispers, “Be you. Be boldly, unapologetically you. Your quirks, your scars, your dreams – they’re all welcome here.” To me this is completely magical. – pierre –

Remember, you are the change you seek. Fall in love with yourself, and watch the world fall in love with its own beautiful reflection. – pierre –

Your entire reality… is created by how you see yourself. – pierre –

Notice how when you pay attention to your physical senses, you’re not judging yourself for what you are “feeling”. You accept that this is what your eyes do… they see stuff. And this is what your nose does… it smells stuff. – pierre –

If happiness is something waiting around some elusive corner in a distant future when things are finally “perfect”, then you’re in trouble… if you can’t find your happiness regularly in nothing more than your own deep connection to your SELF, then happiness might forever be out of reach. – pierre –

Just imagine that! Finding within yourself, within your coming home, so much joy and happiness that nothing the world can offer you will ever compare with the joy of you being you! – pierre –

Outside of surrender all of our actions stem from a place of desperation. In fear we keep splashing in our pond creating less clarity, not more, and in this desperation most of our energy is just wasted. – pierre –

We are human, and therefore we all succumb to the most basic human trait – the need to survive. Add to this the fact that we are social animals who for most of our history lived in tribes because we wouldn’t survive solo, then it’s real easy to see that our first survival mechanism is to be acceptable to the tribe. – pierre –

We have a very deep programme that finds rejection traumatic, and it responds from instinct, trying to make ourselves acceptable to the humans around us. Even if it means that we completely reject ourselves in the process. All in the name of survival. – pierre –

I love to really dig into the science of how we are put together. I feel like I’ve been given the “operators manual” to this vehicle that I’m driving around here on planet Earth, and slowly I’m understanding more of what all the buttons and switches do. – pierre –

The perception in your mind is reflected in the chemistry of your body. From one thought to the next, the chemistry in every cell of your body is adjusted. This means that you can literally change the fate of your cells by changing your thinking. – pierre –

The more regularly you meditate, the clearer you start to see yourself interacting with your environment. It gives you the perspective of “the observer” and then your experience shifts from “I am drowning in this storm!” to… “oh I can see that I feel like I am drowning in a storm.”  – pierre –

Love can only be shared between us, to the extent that it is alive within us. – pierre –

You see, it is when we approach the edges of our own vulnerability that old memories of being punished for having big emotions in the past makes us shrink, and prevents us from fully stepping into “feeling”, withholding from ourselves the very love that would make it safe to just feel this. – pierre –

“Coming to our senses” assists in grounding ourselves in the full physical experience of this moment. It draws our thinking away from chasing phantom ideas, into the fully immersed experience of what this moment is making available. – pierre –

Bringing ourselves into silence again and again, we become more and more familiar with who it is that we really are. And over time, by consistently experiencing our beautiful true essence, we come to a point where the “protection” that all of our old armour gave us just makes no more sense in the light of the raw power that is our being. – pierre –

With each dive into silence, we grow familiar with our unarmored self. We witness its beauty, its strength, its uncensored essence. And, in that light, the old armour suddenly seems ridiculous, a shield against a threat that never existed. – pierre –

We are all creating all the time. How you are “being,” creates your connection to the humans and the world around you, and those hidden jewels are not limited to a talent with a paintbrush or a pen but also the ability to listen, to be organized or simply not to judge this human in front of you who is already being vulnerable. – pierre –

By bringing our attention to the gentle rhythm of our breath, we create an anchor in the present moment. – pierre –

Being the observer of your thoughts and feelings allows you to have the experience without being controlled by the experience. As the observer, it becomes easier to understand that every difficult thought and emotion that visits, will again move along, leaving you with the wisdom that comes from being one who sees. – pierre –

Resisting the reality of this present moment creates a block that prevents us from fully committing our energy to what this moment presents, diverting our attention to old thoughts or anxiety about a future spinning out of control. – pierre –

The ways in which you can create and express yourself are limitless, and whether you do or don’t manifest your limitless nature, is largely determined by the view you have of yourself. – pierre –

How you see yourself determines absolutely everything in your life. The view that you have of yourself sets the parameters for who you will become. And when you change the way you see yourself, everything changes! – pierre –

The world is good not because things are perfect. The world is good because I show up good in this world. – pierre –

The reason that nothing becomes stuck, is precisely because everything is allowed to be felt. – pierre –

Can you allow everything that is being felt to come, and then to experience that in your acceptance – in the absence of your resistance – everything that is felt will always move along like clouds in the sky… – pierre –

The compulsion to instantly evaluate, judge, criticize or otherwise place things or people into a well defined box is such an inherent human survival trait, that we don’t even realize that over time we’ve created these patterns of evaluation to take over the “job” of judging things. You see, it’s not just that we judge, it’s that we have well formed patterns of judgement that means our “programme” has already decided what our judgement will be before the event has even occurred! – pierre –

Monday mornings. The groan-inducing alarm, the looming to-do list, the feeling of starting all over again. But what if we reframed it? What if Mondays weren’t the enemy, but 52 chances a year for a fresh start, fueled by the magic of mindful breaths? 52 new waves of potential to ride! – pierre –

Use what seems like poison as medicine. – pierre –

Finding acceptance for every part of you changes everything. When you understand how every part of you came into being, it’s clear to see how everything inside of you has been doing its best to help you survive. When you see yourself differently, you start to speak to yourself differently, and your inner narrative becomes one of empowerment. – pierre –

If I haven’t done the work to foster acceptance of myself through a deep understanding of my own human-ness – if I haven’t come to feel love for this human that is me – then I will “need” the humans around me to always show up in a way that makes me feel accepted, understood and loved. I am literally burdening the people I “love” with the responsibility of making me feel whole, and I am unable to “allow” them to be who they are. – pierre –

We are often on some kind of autopilot, going through the motions in our work, in our relationships, being more connected to the fears and insecurities in our minds than to the actual actions we’re busy taking.  – pierre –

Here’s what surrender is not: passivity, giving up, or lack of action. True surrender is a deep willingness to avoid nothing, escape nothing, and resist no part of life itself. Instead, it means meeting each moment face-to-face with wide-open eyes and an open heart, so we can see clearly exactly what we’re dealing with. – pierre –

On the other side of surrender always lies clarity. Once we surrender to the acceptance of this precise moment, we stop wasting energy trying to change the wind’s direction. Instead, we ask the only question that matters: “How do I set my sail?” This shift transforms everything. Surrender becomes the most productive thing you could possibly do – anything else is wasted energy. – pierre –

You are not the thoughts you think. You are not the emotions you feel. You are the one who observes thoughts and feelings, and in this observer lies your wisdom.  – pierre –

There is no need to believe your thoughts but equally there is no need to fight with your own thoughts, because the moment you are able to take a step back and be a witness to your own thinking and emotions, then you are not being the thoughts or emotions, you are being the observer witnessing yourself from a higher dimension. And all that is needed is having more practice at “embodying” this observer, because everything you practice you will become better at. – pierre –

It takes time, but what you’re doing in a practice of stillness is you are soaking. You’re allowing your mind to soak in the bathtub of your soul. And sure, you have to keep jumping out and go play human too, but come back often. Don’t wait too long. Within this soaking there is a softening happening. A separation of old, hard layers that were never the real you. And an absorbing too… absorbing the truth of who you are until this knowing has soaked all the way into your bones! With these new bones you will stand differently in this world. With no need to run and hide because you will really see YOU. And when you see yourself differently, you will speak to yourself differently, and also to everyone around you. – pierre –

It was never about just doing nothing but about finding the “wisdom to know the difference”, to know when to be still, go within, take your foot off the accelerator… and when to rise, when to take the next bold step forward, jamming the pedal down hard on the floorboards! – pierre –

Loving from our Ego equals wanting, needing, a desire to possess, to become somehow more by adding something from the outside. And so what “falling in love” often really means, is that my Ego’s “wanting” has become even bigger! – pierre –

But even though you can never lose love and it can never leave you, you can absolutely feel disconnected from the love that is “somewhere” inside of you. And being disconnected from love can certainly feel like hate, and apathy, and… fear. Definitely FEAR. Feeling disconnected from love is a scary place to be and then, is it any wonder the lengths that people will go to in order to try and reach for something or someone to try and feel connected to love again?  – pierre –

What you have been looking for, IS the one who’s looking! You ARE the love you have been seeking and when you truly get this… you will be IN LOVE (in a state of love) with everyone and everything around you. – pierre –

The way in which we come to the realization that we are not our thoughts and emotions is not by avoiding these feelings, but by witnessing these experiences as they are happening, and finding that the witnessing is done by the part of me that sees from a higher vantage point. A higher dimension of my consciousness. – pierre –

When you step into silence, you step out of conditioning and into witnessing. While you’re spending time in silence you become more of an observer, and you start to observe how the conditioning plays out. You start to see how you yourself are being controlled by repetitive patterns created from past experience. – pierre –

From the moment you were born until now, your brain has been creating a recording, and everything you “know”, everything you’re “certain” of is in that recording – what are you able to create from what is known, from your recording? From what is known you can only create the same, you can only recreate the past again and again. You have to become brave enough to step into the unknown, because we can create the new only from what is not known to us yet. It’s only when we let go of certainty and embrace the unknown that we are able to create what is new for us. – pierre –

“Being present” is not just a spiritual idea, it’s the best productivity tool that you have. Living right here in this moment means that all your energy gets directed toward what’s right in front of you, and not diluted by distraction from yesterday or tomorrow. Being present is the most effective application of your energy. – pierre –

The view that I have of myself. What I fear I am, and what I’m scared I might never be… these are the fears that steer my thoughts and my daily actions and reactions. – pierre –

There lives within you, both a scared human and also a Fearless Creator and you get to choose who is in the driver’s seat. Understand this though! You cannot be the Fearless Creator by pushing away the scared human. If you reject and abandon the scared human you are causing only more fear! If you are at war with yourself you only guarantee that your most fearful parts will fight for control of the wheel. – pierre –

We break the bonds that fear holds over us only once we come face to face with our fears about ourselves, and look at them in their eyes until understanding brings a softening to our gaze. – pierre –

Take a look at YOU. See if you can form an awareness of both sides of you? Can you see the scared human who often reacts in fear? Can you also see the Fearless Creator who strives to act in freedom? Can you see the part of you that feels heavy and is easily negative as well as the part of you that loves to feel light and see the positive side to everything? While you’re looking at the whole of YOU, do you “need” to make one side right and one side wrong? A part of you “good” and another part “bad”? Or can you just hold both? – pierre –

Practice observing without judgement. Practice seeing both sides without choosing either – practice this in all things. What you are practicing is seeing through the eyes of your soul, and everything you continue practicing you will become better at. Seeing through the eyes of your soul will lead you to clarity, always. – pierre –

The only thing I can really do for you is work on me. And the only thing you can really do for me, is work on you. – pierre –

You are beautifully designed in all perfection. Everything you think and feel is exactly as it should be for the life experiences you have had. Your body and mind is responding to your environment in the way it was designed to, by figuring out a way to cope, a way to survive. However, your past coping strategies do become programmes that are on repeat and they might not serve you well in your current circumstances. So now you have the choice of being either trapped by the way your mind has become programmed in the past, or transcending it. – pierre –

The awareness of what it is that you are thinking and feeling without judging yourself for having those thoughts and feelings, creates a freedom from them. Accepting their existence as normal is what helps them move through you faster. – pierre –

We become burdened by years of carrying around the words and opinions of the world around us and when we’re finally able to put all of that noise down, we find that our mind is alone, almost as if we’ve been carrying with us a bunch of noisy passengers all along. – pierre –

Do you ever feel like you’re always giving it everything you’ve got, while the world keeps throwing you unexpected curveballs? I know you’re doing your best , and I’m here to tell you that it’s enough. Don’t quit, keep showing up! – pierre –

The world responds to how you see yourself. – pierre –

How you talk to yourself is the most intimate conversation you’ll ever have with anyone in the world! So you can just as well pay attention to getting better at this conversation. – pierre –

The survival part of our human psyche is tasked with keeping us alive, steering us away from what it perceives as danger and towards safety – and the harder we resist and fight the fear in this inner protector, the more scared it becomes. And more scared means he/she has to fight even harder for survival, creating an inner war of me fighting myself.  – pierre –

Having acceptance for our “worst” parts and allowing them to “speak” doesn’t mean that we’re putting our shadow in the driver’s seat, but it does mean we understand that these parts of us are really just scared and trying to find a way to survive. Our own empowerment comes not from fighting our shadow, but from surrendering to our higher-self, who has arms big enough to hold our scared parts until the fear has passed. – pierre –

The paradox is, when you truly accept yourself, you change instantly. You step out of fear and into your wisest self. Like a caterpillar accepting its cocoon, you transform from within. – pierre –

Many of us have experienced moments of disconnection, when life feels hollow despite everything we have. We’ve heard people say, “I feel like there is a hole inside of me that I have been trying to fill, but nothing seems to do the job”. This void isn’t a sign of lack but of misalignment, it means they are unaware of the presence of the guiding force that their soul offers. It’s as if the fearful Ego believes it is completely alone on this voyage, and solely responsible for captaining this vessel through the storms, oblivious to the presence and wisdom it has only to surrender to. – pierre –

Like all biological creatures, a big part of what keeps us alive are the patterns created in our subconscious and embedded in our bodies, ready to fire in an instant to steer us toward safety and away from danger. Having these patterns is what makes us similar to our animal friends, but it is our ability to step completely out of our patterns and take a look at them that makes us uniquely different from all other life forms on this planet. Every moment of not being under the influence of an old pattern, can be called “presence” or being “fully awake”.  – pierre –

Every time you take a deep breath and step out of the old patterns doing what they do, you’re stepping into the best version of you. You’re allowing the beauty of your soul to come to the surface and experience that underneath all of your coping mechanisms,  love is indeed your natural state. – pierre –

We can all learn to be more present to our lives, not turn away from experiences that are uncomfortable, not numb emotions that scare us, but live with our hearts wide open and learn that we can actually even process traumatic events as they happen when we are not trying to be somewhere else. As we get better at this, we learn that we can trust life. – pierre –

When I am able to find happiness in whatever this day brings, I will know how to find it tomorrow and the next day too! But if happiness is around some elusive corner in the faraway future. I am unlikely to ever catch up to it. – pierre –

The more time you spend in deliberate silence allowing your brain to produce thoughts without getting involved with the thoughts, the more you’ll find yourself slipping below the surface of thinking into the truth of what you are. Slipping into a space where the loudest experience is being in the presence of God. – pierre –

When you create from FEAR, you’re creating in order to avoid consequences. Creating because, “if I don’t create I’ll be facing some kind of punishment.” Creating from FEAR means you’re trying to create while running away from something. – pierre –

Creating from FREEDOM comes from deciding what you are running toward! When you create from FREEDOM is it because you embody your birthright… you were created to create! And when you’re able to put down all the fear, you’ll be creating at your highest potential by default! – pierre –

We can learn to live in a gentler way, and find that at the bottom of our softness is a relentless strength that we may have never been aware of! – pierre –

Knowledge is like having treasure in a locked chest. It’s so close but yet so far because even the richest treasure is not worth anything if it is locked away from you – if you have no access to it. You already have SO much knowledge that’s not being put to good use yet, and the key to unlocking this treasure is practice.  – pierre –

What if every thought and feeling you have – even the most uncomfortable ones – became intimately familiar to you? What if you were never blindsided by an emotion because you understood exactly why it shows up, where it comes from, and how to work with it? What if everything within you was welcomed and accepted? – pierre –

How much energy will you waste banging on the door that used to be open? – pierre –

Why would we want to teach our children good values and why would we want to create great societies? It’s because we would love to live in a world where we can just let our guard down and love the humans around us, while we trust that they would do for us the same. We forget this though. We forget why we came up with these “rules”. We get fixated on the tools – on these principles – while forgetting what these principles are supposed to stand for… for love… – pierre –

When we’re communicating with our fellow humans, our own level of evolution will determine whether we call forward their ego or their higher wisdom. We can’t force anyone to step up to their higher-self, but when we are still suffering from our own woundedness, then our reactivity will almost always trap the other person in a defensive – egoic response. When we become free from our own wounds, we give everyone around us the space to be free. – pierre –

Trying to distill “truth” into words always limits it to narrow one dimensional reductions which our human minds often force into our own boxes of prior conceived biases… missing the point… reinforcing old beliefs instead of challenging them… but we have to try regardless, because words are how we communicate. – pierre –

How you show up in this world IS how you create. Your energy, your perspective, your way of moving through the world – all of this is your creative expression. And creativity, as Einstein reminds us, spreads, it creates ripples that extend far beyond our immediate awareness. When you choose to see magic in the mundane, you give others permission to do the same. When you approach challenges with curiosity rather than complaint, you model a different way of being. – pierre –

The wholeness we seek is already who we are. We simply need to find acceptance for all that we are to experience that we can hold it all in wholeness. As we consolidate all of our human aspects, we learn that our individual wholeness extends to a larger oneness. – pierre –

When your journey within inevitably leads to your own wholeness, then it becomes increasingly clear that the humans around you are a part of that same wholeness too. – pierre –

This mountain, battered yet unyielding, represents an essential truth about us: we ourselves possess an eternal constant within, capable of holding all of life’s weather without becoming a victim to any of it. – pierre –

The key lies in recognition. When you can step back and observe what your body is experiencing, when you can describe to yourself how anxiety feels in your chest or how anger tightens your jaw, something remarkable happens: you’re no longer being consumed by the emotion. You’re observing it. And if you’re observing the anger rather than being the anger, then what you’re actually being is that eternal constant, the mountain that can hold it all without being victim to any of it. – pierre –

When we develop the ability to take a step back from constantly reacting to everything, then we discover that we have many more options available to us. This is freedom! No longer being a victim to our own past programming. – pierre –

But when you’ve been doing “the work” to overcome old fears, and when old patterns start losing their power over you because they are not needed anymore – then you won’t reach for old coping mechanisms any longer because you have built a new set of responses that invite your limitless self to shine! – pierre –

The masks you’ve worn in the past don’t have to be permanent. Your true essence, your limitless self, shines brightly beneath. – pierre –

But when I’ve been doing my “work” to integrate all of the “darker” parts of me into a wholeness, when I need nothing of you and I’m allowing you to be just who you are then I also see you a bit more clearly. I see that just like me, you’re doing your best. You’re having your own struggle with your own shadow and none of it was ever really aimed at me. I see me in you, and I see you in me. – pierre –

We have to give ourselves a bit more practice in sitting and watching things happen, while being OK with what is happening. I know this might sound really simplistic, but it’s something most modern humans are unable to do. – pierre –

Being OK with whatever is happening, is not a case of never taking action, but of never taking action in fear. “I will not flail around in desperation. I will breathe, I will slow down, I will wait and I will see. And as soon as I have more clarity I will swim with strong and clear strokes in a direction of my choosing.” – pierre –

Spending regular time in silence… slowly, over time, it lets everything that you are not fall away. Slowly, over time, you remember who you are. Slowly, over time, you become a deeper, bolder version of what you’ve really always been but kept hidden. – pierre –

If you don’t become deliberate about where you direct your attention, then your energy becomes scattered like a leaking garden hose, feeding the weeds growing right in your space. – pierre –

It’s time to be brave and befriend ALL of you. To open your arms wide and welcome every part of you, to your heart. And as every one of these inner voices soften when their fear is healed by your acceptance, you will finally realize your true power. The creative force that you are when you are no longer fighting a war inside. – pierre –

When it comes to your inner world there is nothing that needs being avoided, nothing to be ignored. It is leaning in that leads you home – always awareness, never unconsciousness. – pierre –

Every time that you don’t ignore what you’re feeling but give it the space to be seen – you’re proving your love for YOU. You are being validated by YOU. You are reading the book that is YOU. You are learning the language that is YOU, and you are discovering the destination that is YOU! – pierre –

Learning how to really love YOU causes you to live in a different state, in a different way. When you have a real love for the human you are, you will show up differently, you will walk on this planet differently, you will see the humans around you differently. This is not to be confused with narcissism or ego. Narcissism has nothing to do with actual self-love but is a fear response, it is an inner-child still fighting to prove self worth. Real self-love just doesn’t have to try to defend itself or fight for its right. – pierre –

Peace knows where you live, but it will only find you there if you make sure that you are in fact home. This is so damn beautiful in its simplicity. Seek out your own silence, meditate regularly, do all the work that you can to make yourself more comfortable in your own skin and safe with your own thoughts. That’s where peace will find you. – pierre –

Give your body and mind a bit of time to soak in the bathtub of your soul. Let your soul feed you, come back again and again until it soaks all the way into your bones. Then you will get up and stand differently, walk differently, and see differently. – pierre –

It’s easy to think that we’re only contributing productively when we impact the world in big ways, but I HAVE to remind you that even the tiniest hidden wildflower that has never been seen by a human eye brings a unique gift to the world, and so do you! – pierre –

And then let’s get back to the miracles… I just love his basic explanation that a miracle is simply something that seems impossible from your current (or old) story, something that you were sure would never become available to you, until you evolve enough to see possibility where before you only saw a dead end. – pierre –

Our “survival self” is primed to discriminate. We have an ancient and inherent need for survival from a time long ago when almost any stranger we’d come across would pose an existential threat. – pierre –

We are never going to build a better world while we leave anyone behind. The only way this works is if we are able to open our hearts and also reach the hearts of those who we completely disagree with. – pierre –

Just like a tree needs no-one to stand next to it and coerce it into growing some more, we too find ourselves effortlessly drawn towards our path when we remember who we are. – pierre –

When you get into alignment with who you really are, you’ll naturally create at your highest potential, and you’ll find happiness in exactly who you are being. – pierre –

If we don’t really know who/what we are, then we’ll forever be trying to find our validation in the story the world is selling us. Huge profits are being made by companies who recognize the deep need for validation or escape that is such a part of our human condition. So if we don’t know with certainty who/what we are, then we are susceptible to the “solutions” of shallow validation that this world offers. – pierre –

Our work is not to attack and blame “the world” for preying on our insecurities… our job is to each do our own work so that we step into this world in wholeness and just have no interest in the fake programme of life the world offers. – pierre –

There is a felt connection we can experience with the humans in our circle when we let go of the sense of safety we think we gain from our tight grip on control, or the protection we think we get from being cynical and judgmental. – pierre –

We are not full participants in this human journey until we can experience each other without fear. The message is as always… learn to love yourself so hard that the fear of rejection loses its power. Then you can show up and share your “being” with the world without being scared of how you will be received. – pierre –

If I were the only human on this planet, my humanity would mean nothing. I am human only because you are human too, and this only works when we do it together. – pierre –

We all have a knowing that we can live in a more beautiful way, but we are not going to achieve this in solitary confinement, each on our own island. Seek out and surround yourself with people who believe in possibilities! – pierre –

As a society we have worked ourselves into a corner of fear (scarcity), from where we are reactively “doing”. The compulsion to act without any deep understanding is what creates our hurrying, our greed and our manipulation. Without wisdom, our compulsion of doing creates and re-creates the same old problems again and again… – pierre –

While your sub-conscious breathing is well designed to keep you alive, it is not quite enough to help you thrive. Bringing your conscious awareness to your breath is an act of opening, creating an inner spaciousness that literally expands the access you have to your brain. In moments of stress or overwhelm, conscious breath becomes an anchor, always available, always present. – pierre –

Whenever you look at your thoughts and feelings with judgement, you trigger within yourself a survival mode, driving your brain into a state of narrowing, limiting your own ability to see anything more than how to run, or fight, or hide. – pierre –

Instead of being so quick to try and make ourselves feel better, we need to become better at feeling. That is how we find both peace and healing. – pierre –

By meditating you are showing up for yourself. You are becoming more and more you, as the old layers of armour that you thought you had to hold up for protection slowly unravel. – pierre –

Remember the invisible threads that bind us – the baker who baked your bread, the teacher who educated you, the doctor who cares for your health. We are a symphony of individuals, each playing a vital role in the grand composition of humanity. So let’s move beyond separateness and embrace the power of togetherness. – pierre –

This is at the core of my work and message. Being able to find love for the parts of ourselves that we used to fear and even hate, creates within us the wholeness that we have always been seeking. And then finally we understand that it’s not healing that makes us whole, but it’s becoming whole that makes us heal. – pierre –

Take a few minutes daily to just immerse yourself in your senses. Take a moment to put down all of the distractions and relish the feedback your body gives you. The warmth of your coffee cup, the texture of fabric against your skin, the subtle sounds in your environment… You will be rewarded with more love for the whole of your human experience. – pierre –

You have a soul that is ageless, that knows the ebb and flow of the cosmos, that holds everything that you need to know if you would only stop and listen. – pierre –

What we “hear” inside is more often the loudness of all of our fears. Being a human animal, our fears play the role of keeping us alive and to that end they have to be loud because their job is to get our attention, they have to make us listen! – pierre –

As we practice sitting with our inner experience – accepting rather than fighting what we find – something remarkable happens. The volume begins to shift. Fear, having been heard and honored, no longer needs to shout. And in that newfound quiet, wisdom finally has room to speak. – pierre –

Keep returning to the present. Find acceptance for the being that you are right now, it’s so easy to slip into the narrative that says, “I’ll be acceptable once I’ve finally fixed all my flaws.” – pierre –

Pouring 100% our energy into what the present moment requires of us, is what sets us up for the next moment and the next. – pierre –

Experiencing life at full strength means embracing all of it, the joys and sorrows alike. – pierre –

This acceptance is what opens our eyes and allows us to see the full spectrum of reality available to us. When we are not caught in the grip of flailing against the current then we become open to seeing the abundance of opportunity, the abundance of love and the abundance of life available to us all. – pierre –

Imagine reclaiming all that energy you’ve been spending on resistance. What becomes possible when you redirect that force toward presence, creativity, and aligned action? The shift from fighting reality to accepting it is not about giving up – it’s about powering up. – pierre –

There is a messiness to being human, and most of us were taught that being less than perfect makes us unacceptable. The truth is that being a human animal means that we are both – messy and also beautiful. – pierre –

We don’t step into the power of our light, by pretending we don’t have shadow. Don’t run from any of this. Stay. Sit. Be with it. – pierre –

We don’t do better because we stop making mistakes. We do better because we become a bit softer and gentler and forgive a bit easier… ourselves and others. – pierre –

This is something most of us were taught, that we are not lovable just as we are. That it is only when we live up to certain “standards” of perfection that we become worthy of love. And we’ve been shown that this is true every time that love was withheld from us after making a mistake. And so our formative experiences of love have always been filled with fear… because we’ve always known that we’re not perfect, and so the very experience of being loved has forever felt like it could be ripped away at any moment. – pierre –

Whoever taught you that you’re not lovable just as you are was never right, and being who you are was never wrong. – pierre

There is nothing outside of you to reach for, no distant goal somewhere in the future that will finally make you experience fulfillment. Honour what is calling within you right now. Pay attention to what needs to be allowed to be felt. This brings clarity, and clarity will show you what your next steps are. – pierre –

Our resistance to silence (or otherwise put, our compulsion for distraction) is a symptom of an inner “tightness”. Old messaging that is convinced that something must be rushed toward, or something must be done right now, or something must be avoided at all cost. It’s easy to notice this inner resistance to stillness, just entertain the thought of sitting down for a meditation and notice the inner narratives rising to the surface in rebellion. – pierre –

Everything we experience, past, present, or Our entire experience of life happens internally. Our personal experience of the past, the future and even the present exists only within our own inner world. The past doesn’t exist, it is only alive within our memory. The future hasn’t happened yet, it is only alive in our imagination. The essential practice for each of us is to reshape our relationship with our thoughts so that we can be fully engaged in the present moment, without being tripped up by a past and future that doesn’t exist. – pierre –

This kind of peace is not to be confused with apathy or passivity. It is accompanied by a keen sense of awareness, not avoidance or escape. An awareness that sees all, yet stays in a calm space. – pierre –

The mountain doesn’t try to control the weather. It accepts it, witnesses it, and remains immovable through all of it. That’s the peace available to you right now – not when life becomes perfect, but when you stop insisting that it should be. – pierre –

Where your greatest joy meets the world’s need… THAT is where your purpose lies! But don’t get stuck in asking “what does the world need?” instead trust that your soul’s expression is what the world needs. So ask yourself “what makes me come alive?” and do more of that, because what the world needs is more people who have come alive! – pierre –

A world brimming with passionate, joyful individuals radiating their unique gifts? THAT, is a world worth living in! And we can all easily contribute to a more beautiful world by becoming the most joyous version of ourselves. – pierre –