Can you hold both simultaneously
Your humanness and your divinity
Your fear and your courage
Your sorrow and your joy
Can you invite them both
to have an equal seat at your table
Can you give yourself permission to have a dream
while knowing that it is going to cost you something
People
Places
Parts of yourself will begin to feel a size too small
And a day will come when you’ll have to make a choice
to love your dreams
or love your drama
Can you expect nothing
and appreciate everything
dance in the uncertainty and not knowing
slow long enough to hear the birds
Can you take nothing personally
Can you take everything personally
Can you define your success
by your ability to see divinity in others
even those
who cause you pain
be an open hand
in a world of closed fists
Can you stop looking to others for the leader
choose to stand
and be the light you seek
You have spent your entire life
preparing for a time such as this
don’t wait till you’re ready
you have everything you need
Never forget this essential truth:
that at any moment
you have the power to shift the trajectory of your life
simply by allowing yourself to begin again
It is your duty to bloom
Not to become some different type of plant
But to bloom
To open up, as you are
To shake yourself out of the trance
To meet the moment with new eyes
Dear one,
Do not take counsel of your fears
Worrying is praying for stuff you don’t want
If you want to change your life
you have to be more available for the ridiculous
than the reality
You must opt in for your life
and opt out of everything that is holding you back
You must never stop inquiring
“What if”
And when
The inevitable day comes
that you lose your way —
find your feet
find your water
find your people
self-sovereignty is not a solitary endeavor
we are not islands
we are a village
and true Self-Sovereignty
cares more about the liberation of the whole
than the elevation of the individual
reach out right now
squeeze the hand of the woman sitting in the circle next to you
feel your own hand being held
feel your heartbeat in their palm
hold these people in your mind’s eye
see yourself
see all of us
walking hand in hand
through a beautiful desert
over the rise of a hill
a beautiful dawn before us
as we walk
we come to a crystal clear glass mirror
stretching from sand to sky
and as we approach it
our hands stay locked
but we meet our own gaze in the mirror
and as we look into our own eyes
we witness the expanse of a bottomless ocean
within us
we’ve been walking thirsty
through a mirage
looking for water
when it was here all along
when
The inevitable day comes
that you lose your way —
find your feet
find your water
find your people
find your people Love, all ways. – Catiebelle Bulmer