Have you noticed that many children’s tales end with a victory of the heart? The hero, after following a tortuous path of struggles, dreams and hopes, always manages to fulfill his heart’s desire, while sometimes discovering it at the same time. This seems to be the only achievement that matters, the Holy Grail. These stories stay in the collective consciousness for generations because everyone can recognize himself in the hero’s quest and identify with the struggles and the longing for a…

When we decide to venture out of our comfort zones we can often find ourselves faced with challenges and unexpected obstacles. Anything that takes us into the unknown or somewhere we haven’t been before can be considered an initiation. It is a call to move past the fear of the unknown and to conquer and release that fear.

By understanding the process of initiation we can…

Most emotions seem to have a purpose in life. Fear warns us to flee or fight when we are in danger in order to protect us from harm. But does the emotion of jealousy have any function in our lives?

Unbridled emotions like jealousy are very dangerous. Violence and conflict, jealousy and competitiveness tear apart the purity of the innocent human soul and manifest the diabolic forces in every walk of life on a global scale. We must understand their danger and work to transform them into…

Through the caverns of the clouds

A luminous awakening approaches

Only those lucid to the truth

Shall see what mankind has become

When the layers of misguidance

And cloy misconceptions are peeled away

Those still blind

Will be our purpose

and our insanity

Combined

I look to the downtrodden sky

Discerning, that soon

The heavens will unleash upon the earth

An unsuspected solitude

Wrapped in a prism of hope

Heal thyself –…

Pause for Peace

Just let it be

close my eyes

visualize–…

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me. ~ Henri Matisse

When the cold, darker days of winter have passed; when we pack away our heavier draperies and we put away our winter woolens, like Mother Nature, our thoughts turn to lighter ideas of freshness.  We can change to spring décor in our homes to a lighter, brighter theme and still be redecorating on a budget…

circle,

circle, bounce,

bounce.

a sphere,

the sacred shape

the circle.…

Sorrow goodbye~

Embracing life, the journey the path.

cried on the hill top traveled in the wind. through winters blizzards, and summer heat.

died.

in death there is life! life!

Oh Raven hovering over the tree of…