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The Power of Nature
“Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their innermost being, their true nature.” -Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose p. 2 Location: Myakka River in Venice, FL Seeing the beauty in nature is how I know when I am […]
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Letting Go of Happily Ever After
I stopped trying to find “happily ever after”. I learned to understand that it belongs in those one to two hour fairytales that I watch on screen. I realized, I didn’t see the person in front of me when I was focused on the unpredictable forever. I would create a story of how a partner should […]
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Feeling Awe and Gratitude
The first post I have ever written was on January 20, 2016. I just graduated with my B.A. from Eckerd College. I was used to writing on a daily basis. Within a few weeks of not being in school, I started feeling my creativity stir. I kept seeing the WordPress.com advertisement and went for it. I didn’t […]
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Which Path Do You Choose Today? Love or Fear
Two Wolves An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil-he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The […]
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People Act Differently Based on the Strength of Their Inner-Worth
People act differently based on the strength of their inner-worth. If we are reacting to someone else’s negatively, it means it is time to work on building up our own. Treat yourself kindly; you are your greatest strength. Our lives shine when we can: Look at people’s actions from different perspectives- Love is kind. If someone is not acting […]
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Lessons in the Drama
“Argue with your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.” -Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah p. 75 Drama can be a great inspiration to grow. Life can be nice, calm, and move along, but where is the fun in that. When we start seeing drama as a teacher, we can appreciate […]
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Spirituality and Religion From A Loving Place
(4) Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant (5) or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; (6) it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. (7) It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, […]
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Give Yourself the Love You Deserve
Thoughts are like data programmed into a computer, registered on the screen of your life. If you don’t like what you see on the screen, there’s no point in going up to the screen and trying to erase it. Thought is Cause; experience is Effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you […]
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I’m Not Stupid After All: School Testing and Self-Worth
The divergent thinker has considered the problem from all angles and made connections between the question and each of the potential answers. He has now spent four times as long on the question as the person who is tuned to think convergently, and his likelihood of choosing the “right” answer is still no better than […]
From A Loving Place 