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Exquisite life
The reason life is so intense when we are young is that the exquisite pain we experience is in proportion to how intensely we love; we experience, and welcome in, the full range of feelings as part of the sheer excitement and wonder of life. So what happened to all that? Do we miss it (in preference to being comfortably numb)? Can we call it back…maybe a bit…or did we forfeit it with “maturity”? What if the true wisdom of maturity invites us to remember…? Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development
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Tagged asperger's parent, Aspergers, burnout, experiences, exquiste pain of youth, exuberance, freedom, fully alive, joy of life, living life fully, new stance on maturity, no regrets, parenthood, rich in experiences, synesthesia, the gift of pain, Travel, what life has taught me, wisdom of experience, words of wisdom, young people
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Memories from the stones
Sometimes its as though the stones of a place speak to us; sometimes its a feeling of a place that takes us back in time…reminding us of something important, like a memo to ourselves. Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Archaeology, Art, Art history, Art transformation tool, Biography, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, History, Holiday destinations, Life journey, Literature, Menu, Personal Development, Remembering, Symbolic journeys, Travel, Vegetarianism
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Tagged ancient civilizations, DH Lawrence, etruscans, Italy, Life Bistro, matriarchy, memories, messages across time, out of sync with the times, past lives, Travel, vegan, Volterra
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Amsterdam – where left meets right
There’s something crystalline about places that formed along strictly organised lines masterminded by great architects…and then softened over time. It’s not the history of the places that draws me per se but the process of succumbing and melding with something more fluid, after the event of their creation, that beguiles me; it’s where they are at now that appeals. Like a cup overspilling, the colour and creativity of human life that they burst with – now – is like that liquid I refer to, although it’s not; its more energetic in nature, it’s a feeling that manifests as beauty…. Revisiting Amsterdam, having some epiphanies about what creates the unique energy of a place along the way. Continue reading →
Posted in Architecture, Art, Art in the living space, Consciousness & evolution, Culture, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Environment, Holiday destinations, Menu, Personal Development, Symbolic journeys, Travel, Windows in art
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Tagged Amsterdam, atmosphere of place, butterflies, left and right hemispheres, photography, The Nine Waves of Creation, the ninth wave, Travel, why we love certain places, windows
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Glass butterflies
I noticed something very distinct about Amsterdam and that was how the layout of its main canals, in a layered horse-shoe shape, divided by roads and intersecting canals that fanned it out like a turkey-tail, reminded me of an inverted tree of life or rather, a tree of life labyrinth. I have talked about my labyrinthine experiences walking around the streets of various towns many times before and here was another example showing up in my experience. The labyrinth can be an extremely powerful way of encountering portals at the points where energies intersect and seems to invite multi-faceted experience into your awareness through these portals; which serve as an axis-point between other dimensions (you could think of such a portal as the truck of a tree connecting dimensional “branches”). So, in effect, you can find yourself standing in an ordinary physical “place” when suddenly your three-dimensional “reality” (which starts to take on symbolic significance in ways you didn’t notice before; these everyday things are now”clues” to make you sit up and take notice) seems to intersect more fluidly than ever with other dimensions that you can now perceive.These power nodes train you in multi-dimensional awareness and so you familiarise yourself with its potential in ways that you get to take with you through other walks of life. When you encounter these power-portals, you feel riveted to the spot as coincidences of circumstance “speak” to you in a multitude of ways, offering new layers of deeper meaning and understanding to what you ordinarily encounter with your five senses. Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Art, Art metaphor, Art purpose, Art technique, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, divine masculine, Holiday destinations, Leylines, Life journey, Menu, Personal Development, Photography, Remembering, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys, Travel
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Tagged Amsterdam, butterfly, feeling safe, healing, labyrinth, madagascan sunset moth, metaphysical, oil on canvas, Painting, photography, portal, reconciliation, reflection, Travel, windows, without fear
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Graceful journey: a Scandinavian experience
When grace happens to you, it is like a moment of poise that you just know is exactly where you were destined to be; one you will never forget and will continue to draw upon at times when life drags you back into its slip streams. Like portals between layers of space and time that tell us we are unfailingly on track, can’t even be off-track if we tried, these appointments with our own self-created destiny are powerful nodes of experience that communicate back and forth across time and space and make life feel unimaginably coherent, even in the midst of the most tragic or unexpected things happening around us. Nothing can truly shake us out of this sense of coherence once we plug into this personal journey of the heart. There is true power and strength to be found around so many unlikely street corners on such a journey through life; one which takes us far closer to the true epicentre of our own heart-maze than anything we could experience from following somebody else’s guidance on where we should be going, what we should be doing. Listen to the advice, yes…but the listen to your own inner guidance first; and take some of those detours down less trodden streets and be amazed at what shows up in some unexpected places. That’s when we realise that grace is, ultimately, an inside job and entirely portable, wherever we happen to be. From that space, we realise, place is just a matter of perspective; that the inner work is where it all happens and that, through the attitudes we adopt, we really are the true architects of our world, the creators of our own skyline view and (when we allow life to unfold for us) we are always, unfailingly, in the right place at the right time. Continue reading →
Posted in Ancient sites, Art, Art technique, Birds, Consciousness & evolution, Divine feminine, Gardens & gardening, Health & wellbeing, Holiday destinations, Installation art, Life choices, Life journey, Personal Development, Photography, Symbolic journeys, Travel, Walks
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Tagged appreciating where you live, archipelago, architectural design, benefit of multi-cultural experiences, borders, broadening persective, changing how we eat, Copenhagen, cultural cross-pollination, Denmark, easy life, eco shopping, free movement between places, Gamla Stan, going against the crowds, grace, healing energy pathways, healing the history of a place, heightened moments, holiday experiences, how travel evolves us, labyrinth, life without planning, living gracefully, metaphysical experience, neural plasticity, organic food, photography, positives of travel, right place at right time, sacred feminine, scandinavia, spiritual journey, spontaneity, Stockholm, synchronicity, Travel, travel as a vegetarian, use of space, vegan restaurants, vegetarian diet, what grace is
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