knowing ourselves, angels & intuition

“[The] real cost of never slowing down. It is not just exhaustion. It is disconnection from the part of the self that already knows which direction to move in. A person who is out of touch with themselves does not stop receiving guidance, they just stop being able to hear it, and so they trip over the same patterns and miss the same turns again and again without understanding why.” -Ethan Hawke

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hope vs. powerlessness

“What we have named as anger on the surface is the violent outer response to our own inner powerlessness, a powerlessness connected to such a profound sense of rawness and care that it can find no proper outer body or identity or voice, or way of life to hold it. What we call anger is often simply the unwillingness to live the full measure of our fears or of our not knowing, in the face of [love]…” -David Whyte

  • Frankly, that “new freedom” mindset actually started for me in February, when I started to hold fast to hope and joy as a practice (even when that felt impossible).
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