“If you want to be given everything, give everything up.”
– Tao Te Ching
I’m seventeen weeks pregnant today. Pregnancy is often used as a metaphor for the creative process, and living inside the experience now I think it is not only the likeness, it is the blueprint of how manifestation itself works.
This is because the
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn
to relax and wait for the answer.”
William S. Burroughs
All of us have an “inner limit”, a point where we stop our advancement and say “that’s as far as I can go.” Our minds cannot realistically imagine certain things being possible, and so they are relegated to
“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as
much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
Joseph Campbell
On New Year’s Eve, my husband and I chose to stay in and have a quiet evening. We each printed out a SMART goals worksheet, and spent the last half hour
“You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it.
You must learn to see the world anew.”
Albert Einstein
I recently started watching Star Trek again. Mainly episodes of The Next Generation, but also a few of the original series (both are currently available on Netflix). Star Trek was my favorite show growing up,
“The only way to handle pressure is to apply it.”
Darrelle Revis
All my life I have struggled with laziness. An internal inertia that defies all logic, meditation practices, self-help books and seminars. It hits me when I’m in the middle of a work-flow, or just getting started on a project I’m excited about.
It comes in
“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you.
If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.”
Tony Robbins
Recently someone told me that the reading I had done for him was “embarrassingly” off. He listed the ways
“Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist.”
David Ben-Gurion
The above picture is from my wedding a few months ago. I had long dreamed of having a traditional wedding, complete with big poofy dress and elegant scenery. I got to have it exactly as I always wanted, and I looked like the princess I
“A problem well put is half solved.”
― John Dewey
“Zebra” is a slang term in American medicine for arriving at an elaborate medical diagnosis when a more mundane one is more likely. It comes from the analogy of hearing hooves, seeing a mane and tail and guessing zebra when it’s far more likely to be
“Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the
first step through a door until you’re already inside.”
– Ann Voskamp
There are several myths about what it takes to live one’s purpose that I’ve observed, both in my clients and popular media:
1. It requires a leap of faith.
2. You have to go all in or not
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the
unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
Hans Hofmann
I write this at a time of massive momentum and change in my life. I got engaged in October, started back to school in January, and am now in the process of buying a house and planning my wedding while
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