Art by Emmy Cicierega
“Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.” ~ Robert Anton Wilson
“There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.” ~Thomas Merton
Happy Full Moon! A beautiful opportunity for letting go… to make room for welcoming the new. Time to rise and shine.
“These are times of decision, of change, of choice….it’s time for something to go, something to be removed. Anything that is inhibiting, holding us back, it can be a belief it can person, it can be a job, it can be a country…It can be anything that is holding us back. Now needs to go…it’s like we are being stripped of our known familiar sense of security, sense of identity, sense of who I am.”
“…So what is coming up now for so many of us is a new future…birth of the new always requires the separation from the known, familiar, secure past. It can be beautiful, it’s a flowering, it’s an opening, it’s a creation, and it can be very scary…”
“…Now is the time for planning this future, and it’s a very good time for doing that and preparing ourselves…the ship’s gonna leave the port, the new paradigm is going to take off, and now we are packing our bags and have to decide what to leave and what to take….you cannot take everything with you. Now it’s time to choose.”
~ From the Mystic Mamma Kaypacha report
Art by Ash White
“There is nothing unworthy of acceptance. The door that sticks, the rash that won’t go away, the neighbors loud music – all of it is here whether we like it or not. But their power over us is only commensurate with our resistance. when we stop resisting, we’re free to expand. Once expanded, we have infinite resources to change our situation.” ~ Howard Raphael Cushnir
“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
Street Art by Nme
For A New Beginning ~ “In out of the way places of the heart Where your thoughts never think to wander This beginning has been quietly forming Waiting until you were ready to emerge. For a long time it has watched your desire Feeling the emptiness grow inside you Noticing how you willed yourself on Still unable to leave what you had outgrown. It watched you play with the seduction of safety And the gray promises that sameness whispered Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent Wondered would you always live like this. Then the delight, when your courage kindled, And out you stepped onto new ground, Your eyes young again with energy and dream A path of plenitude opening before you. Though your destination is not clear You can trust the promise of this opening; Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning That is one with your life’s desire. Awaken your spirit to adventure Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk Soon you will be home in a new rhythm For your soul senses the world that awaits you.” ~by John O’ Donohue
Art by Jeffrey Smith
Wishing you all a bright and beautiful New Year! So excited about 2015 and all the epic changes it is sure to bring. May we all let go of the past and fully embrace the new. It’s going to be a wild ride and we have the privilege of being here to experience it. We were born to do this. So much love!!
Art by Yuko Shimizu
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Under The Blue Door 