Learning to Speak the Language of the Universe

By on January 27, 2012 in Creative Alchemy, Spiritual Practice

flower vase1 There’s something I want to say here. There’s something I want to say, and I’m not sure exactly  how to say it, but it’s about art and work and sharing, and learning the language of the universe.

And here’s the thing — I love that I really have something I want to share with you, and it really wants to come out, and I’ve already flowed through 649 words just letting it come through, but I’ve only just barely started to get to what I wanted to say now. And this is it. I’m saying it now. Are you getting what I’m saying?

This is it.

To most people I said nothing, but to some people — I said something. I said something about what’s really going on right now with me as I’m here looking at what I’m seeing, and trying to give it life — or rather, to let it come alive.
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Capturing the Extraordinary Sweetness of Existence (A 2-Minute Mini Practice)

By on January 18, 2012 in Creative Alchemy, Self-Realization, Spiritual Practice

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
~ Martin Buber

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At the start of a long journey, going somewhere wonderful – India.

Every moment I’m awake and not savoring the sweetness of this existence is a wasted moment.

The challenge, of course, is that every moment cannot be sweet. Or so it seems. Innate to our existence, and all that comes with it, is a bittersweet sorrow of sorts….

Inevitably, life veers towards the bitter and unbearable more often than we may like. There’s something delicious to hold on to and savor, though, just beneath the surface experience of whatever’s going on. It’s the sweet tenderness at the heart of all that is — the warm and glowing essence of existence — and it’s undeniably radiant.

Sometimes I need a little kick to reset my perception to this sweetness beneath the surface.

Here’s a sweet 2-minute practice you can do right now, wherever you happen to be, to help reset your outlook. A journey inside:

The Intimate Witness

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Notes from the Field [Edge Notes]

By on January 11, 2012 in Edge Flow

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Soaring above the cliffs at Point Dume — New Year Year’s Day 2012, Malibu, California

I sit in the Literati Cafe in West Los Angeles — my first real contact with the world online in weeks — fascinated by the flow of energy in this great and dusty metropolis. I do my best to avoid the Starbucks of the world, and the world is a better place for indie coffee houses like this one where the buzz and celebration of life rises high above the monotone of corporate doldrums.

In a few minutes I’m off to a meeting with the publishers of LA Yoga Magazine, where we’re putting the final touches on their website redesign (launching soon).

I’ve been reflecting on how to re-enter this world of ‘fierce wisdom’ with grace and ease — two of my touch-words for 2012. For one, I want to move my online publishing schedule to a consistent once a week — preferably on Wednesdays.

But more importantly, I’m convinced there is more to life online than writing articles about clever pithy things, interviewing people, and creating special premium courses. I’m interested in creating a life I want to live in real life, and in online life. It’s a life of ease, beauty, abundance, community gathering and togetherness. A life in which the most beautiful things in the world are ours, not because we earned them, paid for them, or otherwise gave something for them, but simply because we exist — and by virtue of our innate goodness, they are given to us.

Is that too much to ask? I don’t think so.

Look at how you look at life, and that is how it will be.

Really– how you see the truth of existence — that is how it is.

How are you seeing it?

Decide now. And continue to decide as every moment passes and you are reinvented again and again.

By you, yourself, alone.

And by the grace.

Quote of the moment:

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

Spotlight on:

Dyana Valentine and the 100% crazy awesomeness that is: The Woke up Knowing experience – a monthly (free) thing everyone should experience at least once in their lives.

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This space will continue to be updated with quick notes like this. It’s the kind of thing I’d like to see myself from the people I enjoy staying in touch with online — a quick picture of what’s going on with you to help locate me in the flow of my own journey.

Connecting ever deeper within, and emanating out from there, we have the potential to create really great work that changes lives, and build a sustainable life for ourselves and the people we care about in the world (hopefully, all people).

Much love and blessings,

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