”If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?”~Don Miguel Ruiz
“I am not starving for your attention or your praise, but I could always eat some good thoughts and sautéed insight, I love breaking the bread of resistance with fellow freedom cooks and there is always room at my table for those who dine on truth and toast to liberation.” ~Chani Nicholas
“The poet’s job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.” ~ Jane Kenyon
“Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.” ~Timothy Leary
“In this epic moment of radical environmental and social disruption, the world is experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation to becoming an ecologically literate and socially just civilization. The existential gauntlet is to make the shift fast enough to outrun global cataclysm. The next five or six years will be the once-in-a-civilization window to change course. We can move from breakdown to breakthrough. The Mayan people call this the “Time of No Time.” From here on, we’re on Earth time. Mother Earth is shaking to her core. It’s a time of madness, disconnection, and hyper-individualism. It’s also a time when new energies are coming into the world — when people are growing a new skin. The Mayan vision says we in the West will find safe harbor only if we can journey past a wall of mirrors. The mirrors will drive us mad—unless we have a strong heart. Some mirrors delude us with an infinity of reflections of our vanity and shadows. Others paralyze us with our terror and rage, feeding an empire that manufactures our fear into resignation. But the empire has no roots and it’s toppling all around us. In this time, everyone is called to take a stand. Everyone is called to be a leader. To get beyond the wall of mirrors, the final challenge is to pass through a tiny door. To do this, we must make ourselves very, very small. To be very humble. Then we must burrow down into the Earth, where indigenous consciousness lives. On the other side is a clear pond. There, for the first time, we’ll be able to see our true reflection. In this Time of No Time, we can go in any direction we want—by dreaming it. Our dreaming can shift the course of the world. Paradoxically, the crisis confronting us today is precisely the dream of our current civilization. That dream of endless growth, hyper-individualism and domination has turned into a nightmare. How do we dream our way out of a nightmare? One way is to wake up. All over the world, people are awakening to a new dream. We’re re-imagining a civilization in the Age of Nature that honors the web of life, each other and future generations. It’s a revolution from the heart of nature.” ~Kenny Ausubel
Street Art by Hijack
“The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn’t seek to impress others—or allow ourselves to be taken—with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you.” ~ Philip T. Sudo
Art by Maesii
“You have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is.” ~Abraham Hicks
Isn’t it so nice how the universe is always working in our favor?
The Universe is awesome!
“Healing is the journey. The destination is yourself. The full recognition of all the different aspects of yourself.. your joy, your sorrow, your pain, your pleasure.. all lead you to the source of who you are. Only by having intimate contact with this source can you experience the fullness of your life. Only by fearlessly looking within can you embrace the landscape of your life and open yourself completely to all the love and compassion that lives inside you.” ~Philip Berk
Art by Sean Lewis
Happy Full Moon!
“A feminine Pisces Full Moon draws us into oneness and compassion, sensitizes us to the subtle realms of feeling and being while dissolving any separation from our own true nature. Surrender is the portal to the garden… We are speeding along to Equinox now on September 22. Change is in the air on so many fronts. But one thing is for sure, Love is all there is.” ~Patricia Liles
Under The Blue Door 