You know the value of every article of merchandise,

but if you don't know the value of your own soul,

it's all foolishness.

You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars,

but you don't know whether you yourself

are fortunate or unlucky.

This, this is the essence of all sciences

that you should know who you will be

when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

The intellectual is always showing off;

The lover is always getting lost.

The intellectual runs away, afraid of drowning;

the whole business of love is to drown in the sea.

Intellectuals plan their repose;

lovers are ashamed to rest.

The lover is always alone, even surrounded with people;

like water and oil, he remains apart.

The man who goes to the trouble

of giving advice to a lover

gets nothing. He’s mocked by passion.

Love is like musk. It attracts attention.

Love is a tree, and lovers are its shade.

~ Rumi

Sadness is a heavier energy, lurking just beneath all that fear. Fear keeps the sadness locked in place, by preventing us from ever addressing, honestly and authentically, the fact that we don’t want to feel our own broken hearts.

It’s a defense mechanism that keeps the sadness at bay. We don’t want to open ourselves to our own sadness. Who wants to be that vulnerable? All that loss, that grief, that avalanche of sorrow?

Why would we sign on for such a thing? So many times people tell me they’re afraid that if they start feeling their sadness, they’ll never stop crying.

But here is a radical idea: The ability to be sad is a blessing.

In our childhoods, we were taught that sadness is a sign of weakness. Remember your own childhood: Were you ever called a crybaby? Or made to feel ashamed of your tears? Did you somehow internalize the message that you were supposed to stuff those feelings, put on a brave face, chin up and all that?

I’m here to tell you that if you want to release the vibrational density you’re carrying around, you need to do the precise opposite. Feel it. Feel it all. What’s the worst thing that can happen?

When we allow ourselves to be vulnerable, we are experiencing a blessing. We are offering ourselves the opportunity to see and experience life authentically, without defenses or screens keeping us front our own true nature.

There is an exquisiteness to sadness and pain. It as a quality and resonance that is unique. It’s a way we all can relate to one another, because we all feel sadness. Were it not for our judgement of that emotion, no one would have a problem feeling it.

Sadness is socially unacceptable, we’re conditioned from day one to understand sadness as a sign of weakness, so people refuse to experience it, and it accumulates weight.

Its density grows in the body. Look at the body language and posture of someone who is experiencing a depression: They seem to carry a weight on their shoulders. They’re hunched over. They can hardly get out of bed. It’s like a weeping willow tree as opposed to mighty oak. The oak tree is firm and elegant and upright. The weeping willow has allowed the burdens of life to bend it.

The key is to shift your experience of sadness. Grief? Loss? Tears pouring down your cheeks? Good. Feel it all. Know that you are one of 7.2 billion people on this planet who experience the same thing.

The rejection of sadness further separates you from your own wholeness. Lean into it. Breathe. Accept. Embrace and embody the blessings of sadness, because where there is acceptance, judgement no longer has any power.

When you let this energy wash over you, there will be an intensity to it, but as you keep allowing it to flow through you, it will eventually diminish. Allow life to do its job.

Parallel Worlds

We swim in a starlit sky
ocean, ricocheting

off endless outcomes.
Yet now we have a mighty

faith in miraculous
beginnings and endings

too. Take delight in
knowing that there exist

at least eight elegant solutions
to any perceived problem.

You’ve got this.

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” - Henry Miller

Many people live their lives trapped in a tight box of beliefs or in the expectations of others. They are unaware that boundaries can be transformed into horizons; that the box can be flattened into a platform for unique and creative self-expression; that the tethers of yesterday’s results (whether positive or negative) can be cut, unleashing them into the future where they are free and not cornered by a certain way of living, or lashed down by false cultural labels, expectations, and assumptions.

Becoming aware is being on the brink of everything. It’s reuniting with awe. It’s discovering the edge of the world and letting your feet playfully dangle over Cosmos, eyes wide in astonishment, soul agape with agape-love, as it dawns on you that you are the interconnectedness of everything becoming aware of itself.

Becoming aware is becoming more curious about our place in the world. Curiosity is the birthplace of awe and the crucible of astonishment. With the mighty question-mark as our sword of truth, we are compelled to ask the following galvanizing questions: How, then, shall we live? How, then, shall we love? How, then, shall we die?

An evolved woman predominantly in her feminine energy
Desires to be pursued ...

This is not from her ego
This is not to play games
This is not for validation
Or vanity
Or insecurity ...

This is the natural flow of energy.

The divine masculine energy
Leads
Directs
Is active
And assertive

The divine feminine energy
Receives
Yields
Is passive
And flowing

Sexual attraction is created when the polar energies of two people compliment each other ...

So in the case of a woman carrying predominantly feminine energy, she will be attracted to a man embodying mainly masculine energy ...

She will not be turned on by a male who is passive and yielding because he is in his feminine energy and therefore not in balance with her state of being ... Whereas a woman in her masculine energy will be the perfect compliment for a more gentle man

Yes we all know the goal is to be balanced individuals however couples need to balance as well ... Without polarity there can be no sexual attraction

Harmony is complimentary
Balance is attunement...
Sexual polarity is fireworks

A woman in her feminine energy desires to be pursued
For she knows ...

A man who does not have the confidence to lead
A man who does not have the courage to open his heart
A man who does not have the strength to face rejection
A man who does not have the direction to trust himself
A man who cannot love without needing to be loved in return
A man who lives in fear of the unknown ...

Will be too afraid to lead her
Will be too afraid to trust her
Will be too afraid to open his heart
And will be too afraid to love her ...

To the depths
She knows
She deserves to be loved...

When you know there’s a person out there for you, it’s a feeling that runs deep.

Almost like you’ve both met before in a dream, but agreed to forget this meeting ever happened, just so it can happen again and again.

What if we fall in love, let each other go, and mutually forget so we can repeatedly live in a newfound feeling when we return to each other’s embrace? What if I keep having you and losing you, but I never know about it? What if you visit my dreams at night, and that’s why I can feel you in my body, but my consciousness can’t envision you. What if this manifests itself as the uncontrollable ache in my heart from missing someone I haven’t even met, though deep down every faculty of my being knows you except the one that tries to identify you?

We could be at two opposite poles of the world, or you could be right down my street—you could be anywhere, but you’re not here.

A part of me is with you, but I tell myself it’s not you that I want now, just what’s mine that’s with you.

Give it back.

Just as long as you come with it.

But leave it at the door and go.

Just as long as I take it and find you in it.

But find myself when I find you.

This entangled contradiction of wanting you and wanting myself. I want both.

Yet, I want to be free of the enslavement of desire. I also don’t want to want.

How can I co-exist with this longing for you? My soul has called out your nameless name many times, and I can feel the echo of your presence. I want to deeply hold you, pull you down from this dream, and feel you on the ground.

You are so close. I can feel you waiting for me, too.

I know you are also wondering where I’ve been all this time. Why am I not there with you.

To that, I have no answer except that time embeds itself in the thread of our existence that way.

Time is our invisible, patient, meticulous friend. It has a plan for us, and a unique design that one day, I know, we will be in awe of.

What can we do, till then?

We can touch the earth, and touch the sky, and keep the centre of our heart warm by coming alive to each day. We can nurture ourselves, heal our wounds, and stay open to experiences. We can learn to be content with who we are and to embrace the messiness of what it means to be Human. Our separate journeys make us who we are today, and it’s goddamn beautiful.

When I only longed for you to complete me, I stepped aside from my own value and allowed you to be more important than I was. Now that I’m learning that I am whole and nothing is missing, I am able to see my worth shine like a bright star, and I see you as my co-star. We are both meant to shine bright together.

I was frustrated that my dreams felt like intangible fantasies, but now I see my dreams are little trips that remind me to hold on to my innate sense of worth. We simply awaken that in each other. You’re not distant. There’s nothing to long for in a soul-crushing way anymore. We’ve arrived in this world as children of God, and when I connect to that, I only feel the river of love flowing from my dream to yours.