by Lesley | Jul 27, 2016 | cloud, consciousness, Creativity, Devotion, Forgiveness, gratitude, journey, love, Soul, Surrender, third eye |
The mountain does not try to be majestic. It simply stands tall, letting the light and seasons play across its contours. The river does not force itself to flow faster or uphill. It simply follows its own frolicking meander to the sea. The sun...
by Lesley | Mar 24, 2016 | Beloved, bliss, Creativity, Devotion, gratitude, karma, Surrender |
One cannot rush winter one cannot make the earth warm the buds blossom the sparkling rains fall. Each experience inhales and exhales its own perfect breath, the lessons within the moonless nights and pelting hail. Why wait? Why struggle? Spring is...
by Lesley | Oct 6, 2015 | Beloved, courage, Creativity, gratitude, love, Soul, Surrender |
There once was a soul who loved her life so much she wanted to hold onto it. The Beloved said, “Of course, whatever you want.” And so she held tightly to her house with its white shutters her dog with his pleading brown eyes her work helping people and...
by Lesley | Nov 12, 2014 | bliss, child, Creativity, eternity, gratitude, journey |
Please enjoy this poem by the 14th-century mystic, Hafiz. And For No Reason And for no reason I start skipping like a child. And for no reason I turn into a leaf that is carried so high I kiss the Sun’s mouth and dissolve. And for no reason a...
by Lesley | Jul 30, 2014 | Creativity, Devotion, Divine, love, Sound |
The mind is a book, a maze of sentences set in a state of permanence from which it cannot escape itself. The Beloved is an azure sky with puffy white clouds anvil thunderheads, swirling tornados raindrops, hail, sleet blazing sun— a rainbow. This...
