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The Right Relationship
The Art of Surrender
The need for control is always coupled with deep unconscious desire for surrender; to be witnessed, to be guided, where one can release their vulnerability, and to be led to an experience that transcends boundaries, restrictions – into the mystical, spiritual and the emotionally bonding…
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Love, Devotion & What is Purpose
Devotion is not some high-minded, grand, abstract thing. It is often found in an ordinary moment, in an ordinary day; it’s an injured animal on the side of the road, that we take home to care for it. When devotion finds us, it is an absolute, non-negotiable extend of hands, asking us to love wholeheartedly…
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What True Love Really Is
A love that pays attention is a love that is alive. Volo ut sis. I will that you are. I want you to be. I want every day for you. I want every moment for you. I love your mere existence in my world, in my life, as you are, as it be…
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On The Importance of Delayed Gratification
Pleasure is central to our survival, but as we mature, we need to learn to tolerate the discomfort of delayed gratification, especially if we have a higher purpose or vision; or desire to build a long-lasting relationship based on true intimacy and loyalty…
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Authenticity: How much is it really worth?
So I wonder: How much is authenticity really worth? What price do we pay exactly for living a life of honesty, integrity and freedom of self? Are we willing to walk through life spiritually compromised? Are we willing to choose the courageous higher ground?…
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Costly Signaling Theory + Relationship Accountability
The lack of relationship accountability is like a state of stable ambiguity; people give “just enough” not to feel alone but to get the reward of affection, and yet certainly not give “too much” to compromise because of fears and their unwillingness to commit…
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Why Couples Fight + How to Resolve Relationships Into Peace
In order to have a healthy relationship that is fulfilling, intimate and long-lasting, we need to be able to deal with the hard times and struggles. This requires emotional intelligence, which is based on self-awareness and empathy…
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One Body: Notes on Form, Consciousness + Individuality vs The Collective
Here I am. Girl, reflected in a frame. Frame, with another body inside of it, and it’s almost as if we are both of one body now. But you can see me only if I adjust the lights, just right enough. Perhaps we form at the experience of our own formation. And perhaps shape is our understanding…
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The Love Dance: Feminine + Masculine Energy
Love is the song of alchemy; opposing forces of water and fire, yin and yang, come together, for merging. A beautiful balance unfolds when the he commits his deep consciousness into the she, who deeply commits to fully surrendered love…
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The Dandelion Girl: Love Transcends Time
“The day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, yesterday a deer, and today, you.” Love humbly begins from chance meetings, maturing into something meaningful when carefully nurtured and properly cultivated. Each day Julie sees something beautiful and substantial yet each following day is a deeper layer unfolding, beyond the veil of her eyes…
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The Choice: Love, I Will That I Am
Now is the time to choose love, not fear. We have to hold on, hold close and hold together. We have to align to a higher consciousness and tend to it consistently. We have to build a space of love, safety and connection and hold that space as much as we can; a fortress of trust. Protect it like a sacred heart…
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The Magical Child ~ Showing Our Little Ones How To Make The Ordinary Come Alive
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes and apples. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself…
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Soulmates, No-Shows, Puzzles + The Purpose of Relationships
We need to understand that all people are purposeful in our life. When we define and categorize, we ultimately limit ourselves; we rob ourselves of the experience of a connection. I don’t think we should focus on definitions – it is about the experience. We need to learn to honor all of our connections rather than put them in some human-made boxes of definitions…
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Love Letter: When The Worlds Kiss
Dear Miracle. Yes, you! The Christmas season is here and regardless of religion or spiritual belief, this is a sacred time when we celebrate the biggest miracle of all; the birth of a child, the birth of love. And we are all miracles. It is through our childlike eyes that we can see the purity and the divine in everything and everyone around us…
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The Necessity of Limits & Being Grateful for Them
“Our human and earthly limits, properly understood, are not confinements but rather inducements to fullness of relationship and meaning. Perhaps our most serious cultural loss in recent centuries is the knowledge that some things, though limited, are inexhaustible. If we always have a theoretically better substitute available from somebody or someplace else, we will never make the most of anything…
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How to Cultivate Tenderness toward Ourselves
To keep us tender in this world is the hardest yet most important thing. Our tenderness is where our greatest strength is. When we follow its thread of water, it leads us gently to our core where despite hardships we remained resilient and unbreakable. In a way – our tenderness is our hardiness because no thing and no one was capable of destroying that part of us…
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Love & Prayer
There is incredible power to this kind of devotion; of a deeply spiritual act that kneels us each and every time like nothing else ever could. Prayer is an intimate love song through which we enter into a relationship with the divine. Prayer is an offering of ourselves wholebodily and wholeheartedly. Prayer, despite its gentleness, is never afraid and in our hardest times, it gets its feet dirty holding us…
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Magic, The Natural Connection, Rainmaker & Name Giving
Magic is a shapeshifter. The alchemists described it as “the ability to turn lead into gold” or in other words, it is the ability to turn something mundane into extraordinary. At its true essence, magic is a way of perceiving our world in a new way – engaging with it and falling in love with it again. It runs wild and free but it is not found outside of us – it is rooted and threads in our everyday life, in the soil of our soul…
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Eros & Psyche: Soul Connection, Desire, Zephyr, Zahir and Leather
It’s a story of fate, soul connection, trust, loss, purification and redemption.
Eros (desire) and Psyche (soul or breath of life) remind us to breathe life into the desires of our soul; a story of soul meets body, for the purified true love capable of transcending time and space. It is a reminder of the importance of trust & self love first in order to…
Truth, Trust, Fear and Freedom
There is uncertainty and fear associated with admitting our truths. In a way, we renounce the security of our known life; of the familiar roles we have built which kept us safe but have now ran their course. Identifying with external things and people provides a false sense of security, but mainly, it causes a separation from our Self…
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On Soulmates, Love, Sex & The Purpose of Relationships
If it brings you back to yourself and your true path – the relationship was of higher love and it was meant to be. This is the higher purpose of soulmate relationships. Soulmates act as catalysts; we call in those who…
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Exploring The Intimate Relationship
"Two lovers float entwined in one another, ensnared by their emotion. He envelops and engages; she resists and surrenders. They struggle as one with equal passion and with passion equally. She balances his head in her arms. She supports him and nurtures his soul. He...
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Relationship Dynamics: Archetypes of Knights, Damsels, Kings and Queens
The knight’s armour symbolizes the shield to vulnerability; it is shining because he hasn’t gone through the emotional transformation yet – he is not emotionally mature. We can’t keep on saving and distressing just to feel needed and avoid true intimacy…
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The Importance of Receiving and Interdependence, as Reminded by The Monks’ Alms
I wonder – how many of us have this kind of trust in the universe; that life will find its way to channel through the right people on our path who will support us; to accept that we will still survive even without our “control”…
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