A message from today's meditation: Happy Monday, and a merry new week! Hello! I'm popping up out of my hidey-hole and starting work again this week, so today was the first LIVE meditation for the year 🙂 Before I get carried away with what my goals are this year and everything I'm looking to create … Continue reading Before I get carried away with my goals for this year, I have a reminder for myself…
YOU are your home. Until this becomes your embodied truth you will be seeking outside of you for what you can only find within. And when you finally come to this truth... you will understand that YOU are the Divine in form, and so is everyone else. "During deep meditation it is possible to dispel … Continue reading YOU are your home.
Today's message from Hermann Hesse speaks of how past, future and the concept of time, all come together in this present moment. Our mind struggles with this though. Our analytical mind's habit is to pull everything apart into separate components and become frazzled as we bounce around between our attachment to the past and our … Continue reading When you drop from your head into your heart, even your brainwaves follow.
If you want to be happy, don't define yourself by what you hate. Don't define yourself by what you are in opposition to. You're setting yourself up for a never ending war that will take more of your energy than what it's worth. Decide what you are FOR, and put all your energy behind THAT! … Continue reading Be a cheerleader – GIMME A YAY!
"I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?" - Hermann Hesse Why is this so very difficult? Because our 'true self' is not the only place that we get promptings from, we get many more promptings from our scared self. And … Continue reading The cause of our greatest pain, is our inability to extend love to our SELF.
In 1623 English poet John Donne wrote down the words, "No man is an island" - even in those moments that we may feel ourselves to be utterly alone, the truth is we are surrounded by other humans. Nothing is created - nothing comes to fruition - unless humans cooperate to bring it into existence. … Continue reading How we react to our differences, determines whether we make war, or find strength in our diversity.
The human condition so often finds itself gripping on tightly to what it perceives as a sense of safety, while violently resisting the things that scare it. Stretched thin - between holding on to what is fleeting, and resisting what is inevitable - leaves us with not much energy left to take action where we … Continue reading In this space of surrender the water is calm and therefore clear.
Our teacher for this week is Hermann Hesse, a Swiss/German author who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1947. I really love his work and looking into whatever the week ahead might bring, here are some thoughts that help me set up my week: "I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever … Continue reading I CHOOSE what to take seriously, and I will laugh at the rest!
Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and essayist that was revered by the literary world. He was celebrated with international acclaim for his unique perspective on poetry. He managed to win the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature during WWII and the reign of Hitler. At such a turbulent period in European history, his works gained a … Continue reading Hermann Hesse collection
