Susan L Hart, HartInspirations.com
It’s YOUR life, no one else’s. You choose how to live it. If you don’t choose, someone else will choose for you. The life you are focused on right now is just one of infinite threads that all exist simultaneously. Reach into the future with your mind and claim the possibility that you want. Intend to make it real.
And this is not just “all about you”. You help to create the world around you when you choose, because you are part of the All. What you choose ripples outward to the rest of humanity. It begins with you, in your thoughts, beliefs, and choices.
I invite you to help yourself today to a free copy of The Turquoise Heart. The download page is here. Life is a journey, and for Anna the journey becomes a surreal exploration of some of her own fears and limitations. She begins to ask herself, “Where does the dream end, and reality begin?” You will too, I promise! This is a novelette length read (a little more than 1 hour), and is a prequel to a future longer novel. I hope you will take the time to read it, and send me your feedback. Thanks!
The beautiful butterfly captivates us with its brilliant color and lightness of being. Its joyful flitting among flowers never fails to raise our spirits, and somehow it gives us hope. Hope for what? Well, perhaps simply a world where more color, joy, and lightness of being may be possible. Butterflies cut right through to the core of our being. They speak to our souls about joy.
As adults, the world and its problems have this way of weighing us down. Eventually we forget that we were born with this innate sense of joy. Watch young children. They are still in a cycle of newness, discovering, joyfulness, positivity.
There is a long history of the butterfly as symbol of transformation, resurrection, adaptability to change, lightness and joy. You’ll find more about this in the article: Dance like the Butterfly
Embrace your soul lessons, because they are food for your transformation process. Learn from them, and do not get weighed down by regrets and problems. Allow yourself to grow, bloom, transform completely, to the beautiful butterfly you were always meant to be.
Born to Fly
I had a “friend”
who wanted to
dissect me,
so they could
determine how
to capture me.
I have worked
hard in this life
to unchain and
free my soul –
Why would I
agree to this?
The young me
would yield
to please, but,
the older me
stands firm for
autonomy.
I’m not an ant
made only
for hard work,
I discovered
I have wings,
I’m a butterfly.
Thank you for
the lesson!
I cannot allow
you to pluck
my wings and
pin me down.
I will not deny
that I am
a butterfly,
real friends
let friends fly,
and so must I.
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There is a spiritual revolution quietly brewing in the heart of humanity. A surging, monumental wave undulates persistently around the world. Can you feel it?
The process began with the pandemic. Isolation removed our normal distractions, making room for some valuable time for introspection. Oh, we tried our best to fill up that vacuum with various projects and more social media. But that nagging feeling that our lives weren’t quite right in the first place, “what are we trying to get back to?“ did not fully go away.
The curtain was pulled aside, the yawning void was revealed, and for some people that was scarier than any virus ever could be.
“I thought my life had meaning, now I’m not so sure. Why was I busting my butt all those mornings, commuting to a job I hated? Why did I put the dream of a big house before the dream of a happy and cohesive family? Why did I sacrifice my own dreams so I could try to measure up to society’s yard stick of success?”
And on it goes. The monologue playing in your head would have been different than the next person’s, but you get the idea. We were (and still are) in a time of extreme self-examination, as we open our eyes to the dysfunctional aspects of society.
Much of it is not pretty, so we are inclined to turn our eyes away. But wait! Isn’t that what we’ve been doing for too long now? Losing ourselves in our technological devices? Trusting that everything would be taken care of for us by external authority? Trusting that the formula for life that society insisted we adhere to was a good one? Trusting the message that we shouldn’t trust in ourselves, after all, what could we possibly know?
To say that this time is important is hugely understating it. Humanity is riding a wave, the cusp of a gargantuan shift in consciousness. Change is a scary proposition, and we have a tendency to avoid it at all cost. However, the uncomfortable global reality has thrown down the gauntlet for you, me, and the rest of humanity. The big question hanging in the air is, will we rise to the occasion and create a better society for ourselves, or continue to tell ourselves that someone else will “take care of it”?
It’s important that we all take the time to ask questions, and while we’re searching for the answers, listen not only to our heads, but also to our hearts and guts (intuition). There’s a collective voice crying to be heard, and you and I are part of it.
Hear its song and feel its pulse. We are all inextricably connected.
Inspirational Quotes:
“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”~ Eckhart Tolle
“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment.” ~
“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.” ~
“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ~
“You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.” ~
“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.” ~
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed.” ~
“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.” ~
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world, and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” ~ E.B. White
I know exactly what E.B. White means…
Must it be a choice? Perhaps the answer to E.B. White’s dilemma is to savor the world every day, while we save it. Or maybe savoring it in actual fact saves it? (Gratitude and reverence.)
It’s a very delicate balance. I believe we are here to do both.
What do artists and writers have to say about the world? Speaking as both, I think they fall into two main categories. They either want you to see the beauty, so you’ll savor it. Or they want you to see the ugliness and pain, so that you’ll help to make it better. I think there is value in both approaches.
Inspirational Quotes
“We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
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“What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
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“Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”
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“Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.” ~
“There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.” ~ Blansky
Declaration
The future shines bright for
those who put intention there.
Reach for the brass ring!
Time to see ourselves
as the glorious beings
humans truly are.
Let’s choose to become
the galactic citizens
we were born to be.
Consciousness rising,
awareness of destiny,
the big unveiling!
Excitement builds as
we claim the potential of
our own Creation.
© Susan L Hart 2024
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