Satsang,
A place to spill forth,
Question upon question,
Until questioning ends.

“The greatest gift you can give the world is the permission to be who you really are.”

If you are disempowered, you cannot be of fullest use to the world or others. If you are resisting who you are you cannot make the best use of the gifts innate in you. Being yourself means you will be happy, inspired and beautiful, and that is just what the world needs. Being yourself is not just self-serving, it is serving the world.

Say it now and mean it:

“I give myself permission to be who I really am.”

Children laughing, playing,
Can you share in their joy?
Open your heart and be one with them?
If you cannot, ask yourself why.
There was once a child inside you,
And can be again.

Apple tree,
You share your gift of love so freely.
Your blossom is beauty made manifest.
I want to capture it,
To bottle it and have it with me always.
But I know it cannot be so,
For beauty is free and will always be.
It cannot be tamed, or caged, or held on to.
Beauty is what is left when fear drops away.
Beauty is your home,
And it is who you really are.

All living things grow from rich compost, and so often it is the things that we let go of and the experiences of suffering we have had along the way that enable our beauty to really flourish.

Can you speak,
Of the heavenly place that has no name,
And no words to express it?

Can you open,
To a love that is blessing you,
Even as you choose to close your heart to it?

Can you imagine,
A sound that has no sound,
But a vibration all of its own?

Can you trust,
That beauty is here to stay,
Forever and ever and ever again?

Whenever we are creating or expressing, the quality of the result is imbued with our state of consciousness at the time. Thus pretty words can come through without the beauty behind them, if the mind is clever enough. And while the mind may marvel at these things and be impressed… yes, impressed upon even… it will not feed our spirit and soul. What we really need most is to be drawn into resonance with our highest selves, with our true essence. And this occurs naturally when we are exposed to those things that are created from that connected place. So, if we must have a goal, then let it be to express our innermost in everything we do.

Communication brings clarity,
Honesty brings change.

I pride myself on my honesty, to not knowingly lie to others, but I must ask myself: “Am I lying to myself?” And, perhaps even more pressingly, “is the way I live a lie?” You may have heard of the saying “a lie of omission” - staying silent, which although technically not lying is deceiving or deliberating withholding information. So real honesty means communicating with others what we are feeling, from the heart, opening and being vulnerable. It means speaking our truth, the things we feel are true, or the things we are moved to share. It means standing up for what we believe in and who we really are, instead of presenting some half truth or pretend mask of ourselves. Only once we are honest can we reach the kinds of resolutions in our relationships that our peace of mind desires. Only then can we allow the true power of our energy to flow.

Open Heart before me,
As I speak,
I am truly heard.

It is a real blessing to be truly heard, to have someone or even a group of someone’s, listening from their heart to what you have to say and express, without any agenda. This is the way we can be acknowledged for our own unique individuality and worth, and communicate in a way that transforms relationships into something beautiful and honouring.