What you can plan
is too small
for you to live.
-David Whyte
“Once a desire has been born within you, you must look at the desire if you are to feel good. And the reason for that is, you cannot revert back to less than life has caused you to become.” – Abraham Hicks
I have posted this image before on my old blog, but I came across it again this morning and it felt as true to me as it did several years ago, so I wanted to post it again. I’m sure you have all had the experience of seeing an image and it being you – well that is what this picture is for me – it’s me!
I’m taking this whole happily ever after thing very seriously, but what I have had to realize is that I am also a seeker by nature. I love a good quest, a good nose, a good search. I think that the issue has been that I have been looking outside of myself for me. Now I am seeking the me at my core: the one that packs light, has wings and comes from a place of joy and connection.
When I was a teacher I used to tell over-exuberant students to use their ‘inside’ voices. I guess I should have taken my own advice and used my own. Lesson learned!
(Image by Joanna Powell Colbert. Click on it to be taken to her website.)
“Our true selves want to be expressed. In fact, they demand it.” – Jamie Ridler
A couple of weeks ago I sat down to work through Jamie’s Soul Reflections course (which I highly recommend!) I have been making collages in a book since I was about 17, so I thought that I knew what I was in for. I was wrong. Somehow she managed to get me to tap into parts of myself that I had either ignored or forgotten or pretended weren’t there for a very long time.
Sometimes I think that the weight I carry around is not food at all, but all of the possibilities I haven’t embraced. I have wondered what would happen if I threw caution to the wind and did the things that I am most afraid of. I honestly think that I might wake up the next day in a body lightened from the release. I’m a worrier and a good girl deep down, and I have always been practical in some ways and ridiculous in others. I always have the map and the aspirin, but they are tucked in beside the tiger’s eye (for protection.) My fantasy shoes are sparkling silver heels, but I live in slippers.
This course reminded me that there is room for all of me. I am practical and silly, but I am also sexy, passionate, vibrant, sassy and capable of magic. My soul finally got a chance to speak and she shook her head, slapped on a tiara, winked and said, “Wake up, woman! You have been slowly going to sleep. Stop wasting time searching for yourself and remember who you ARE. Anything is possible, but you have to let me out to play too.” So we agreed to start enjoying all possibilities.
RrrooooOOOooooaaaaAAAaaaarrrRRrrrrrr!
I feel lighter already.
Which parts of your soul have you been ignoring?
