Category Archives: Inspiration Author

Simplicity’s Wealth

Life in modern society has a high price tag of stress, long work hours, broken families. Many of us are discovering that our lifestyles are not giving us quality of life. Our value systems are very broken.

It’s time to adopt a simpler, yet richer, way of living. As Henry David Thoreau said, “Simplify, simplify.”

200927

Seeing Beauty

In our world and society today, it can be very easy to be blind to the wide variety and depth of beauty surrounding us. Firstly, our society tends to create tight definitions of beauty. Secondly, we are deeply distracted by our technologies.

Beauty is everywhere, and nature is a wonderful teacher for seeing it. She hones our ability to see, “seeing” being a very different thing from “looking”. When we truly see something, we enter the realm of feeling it too. Walk in nature and practice seeing. A whole world of beauty will then gradually reveal itself to you, everywhere.

"Beauty surrounds us, but ususally we need to be in a garden to know it" Rumi

Show Me the Magic

“Where is the magic?” This is a question I often asked myself while tramping along the same dirt road in Australia to get my daily exercise. I was feeling very lost, not geographically, but rather, internally. I was on a spirit quest.

There is magic, but one must be observant and intentional. The next step for me was, “Show me the magic.” When I passionately asked and intended to find the answer, it finally came. Surprise, surprise, the answer did not come by way of my cell phone or the internet. Nature showed me the way…

200925

Out of Darkness

A beautiful soul doesn’t just happen. All of life’s trials and tribulations are seeds for soul growth, slowly shaping us into beings of greater light.

2020 has been a year of darkness, but surely, gradually, the stars are revealing themselves. Always welcome the lessons; never stop reaching for the light.

200924

Moments are Pearls

As with love, our happiness expands when we remove the conditions we attach to it. “I’ll be happy when…”

Yes, you likely will be, if that condition is your deep heart’s desire. But what if that certain condition does not come to fruition? What if that magic moment doesn’t arrive? And all those potential other magic moments while you were waiting for happiness to begin dissolved into the sands of time, unnoticed and unexplored.

The moment is now to claim your happiness. Happiness is a decision to see life in a certain way, knowing that every moment of it is a gift. Make the most of every pearl.