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To experience the fulfillment of your dream, you must fully accept the calling. That means you must accept that YOU are both worthy and capable of answering that call.
Layers of challenge lurk in that first step: believing in yourself, moving forward onto an uncharted path (risk!), embracing the idea that you can be truly free (liberated from anchors of self-doubt and other conflicts), learning to listen to the pure inspirational voice inside of you - putting that voice first, before all others.
The blessing activates when your love for the dream overwhelms your trepidation. Love is the way forward, passion is the fuel, stamina sees it through.
There's no reason money can't be the definition of success in this case. If wealth is part of your dream, then make your dream wealthy! When richness of spirit combines with an innocent receptivity to abundance, only good will come. -
Pleasure's the icing on the cake. It enhances what is already satisfying and good. It adds to the celebration, enlivens the connection and lights up an already bright perspective even more. The key is to be *available* to pleasurable experiences rather than addicted or enslaved by them. Pleasure's *not* a cure for stress and suffering. It is an enhancement to your appreciation and your willingness to engage with life.
Oh, and it feels great! I say: bring it on. -
Laughing because his smile is an explosion of joy in my heart.
Laughing because the gratitude in me cannot stand still.
Laughing because innocence overflows, carbonated with wisdom.
Laughing because it is a day and we are alive inside it
and beyond it.
Laughing in recognition that you are nearby: kids who play together in the ocean.
Laughing with relief.
Laughing to get high on connection, on letting go, too.
Laughing the way dogs wag tails and bounce in their eagerness.
Laughing because I am home and it feels like luxury to say so.
Laughing because I am home and I am moving on.
What follows laughing? The honest smile.
To smile, to say thank you with my eyes, with my body, my heartbeat, my breath. To smile in my bones, to SHOW it; to be seen, to be received. To be a pulse of being, palpable to the wordless soul of us. To smile back, to reflect, to celebrate, to notice and honor, to echo. To shine and sparkle, to radiate those truths, to overflow with the ease of it, the UNcomplicated complexity of transcendence. To just smile, in honest company, embracing the world in each person, because we exist through each other, and distinct from each other. To embrace, deeply, lightly, infinitely - for a moment. -
Then let LOVE decide and forgo the "self" part. Love isn't about you. Love isn't for or against you. Love isn't small enough to fit ONLY inside you. Love is wiser than you. Love is NOT possession. Love is NOT jealousy. Love is not a ripple on the surface. Love is beyond us, among us, simpler than us. Much simpler than us. If you doubt whether or not you love (someone)(a project)(yourself) then just ask fear to leave the room, stop navel-gazing and tune in to what is true about the sensations available to you. Let love answer back. Keep it simple. Love does NOT feel bad. Love does not feel bitter. Love does not sacrifice your well-being for someone else's gain. Love nourishes. Love delights. Love stabilizes. Love loves common sense. Love loves loving gestures and affection. Love stands by. Love shows up. Love pays attention. Love lets go.
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Let love be in charge. Send fear on vacation and give love full authority over your choices, decisions and actions. Full authority. Now there's no more relevance for self doubt. Just follow orders....
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Love is naturally enjoyable. The impediment to letting love do its thing: fear, self-consciousness, fear, or something like it. Love itself is neutral - it is a benevolence, an unencumbered good wish for someone else and for ourselves. IMO, there's no such thing as "conditional" love, so there's no need to make the distinction of UNconditional. Love is what it is. WE are the added spice. Refine what you add to love by sloughing off self-consciousness and fear and you'll see what I mean.
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My experience suggests that we're better able to ENJOY love and make the most of it when we give it credibility and the benefit of the doubt.
Can you feel love without believing in it? I think it can sneak up on you. I think love has its own momentum. I think it's intrinsic to the human experience. But if your brain is armored against amour, you're in for a tedious and unpleasant struggle against your own best asset . . . until love finally shatters you. That shattering is either your end, or your beginning. Believe it or not, life will change and love will have its way with you. -
There's always something to be interested in, so being bored isn't an option to me. If the people around me are boring - meaning dull, unimaginative or, frankly, bored themselves - then it's interesting to me why they are that way. What makes them boring? What would change that? What qualities turn me on that are missing from this scene... where's the nearest exit? Etc. My mind stays engaged, so I can never blame an exterior cause for my own mental yawn. Boredom is boring.
That said, I'd love to have more zesty co-conspirators in my immediate circle. -
Yes! This. Is. It.
Thankfully, THIS is changing every second. Possibility rules. Aim your compass well... -
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You're it. Seriously - this isn't some "we-are-one" pastel comeback. You are the center of the universe. I am, too.
The universe (as we know it) expands equally in all directions at once. Whatever vantage point you choose, that is the center of the expansion.
Earth. Jupiter. Betelgeuse. Your living room. My kitchen. This moment. Us. -
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Laurie Perez’s Bio
writer, poet, lover, muse: joy broker
Ask me anything and I'll do my best. If you don't have a question, toss me one word and I'll riff on that.
