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Thank You, Sadness
Revelation: I feel the most connected to myself when I feel sad. After I’ve gone through a really hard time. I realized this last night when I was thinking back to 2022 & 2023 and why I was so content with myself and life. It’s because 2022 was such a hard & sad year for…
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Take Pictures of Little Beauties
My soul just wants to be here. To taste. Sense. Feel. Love. Hug. Cry. Experience life. Breathe. See it all. Shower people with love. Discover. Try. Learn. Why else does life come to earth?
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Let Go Of Self-Will
So, here is a secret: You don’t have to do anything. You don’t actually have any self-will in life. You are being led to your most good, authentic, connected life. The life that your soul truly wants for you. The life that your soul is trying to build for you. And all you have to…
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Relinquish The Pressure
Sometimes it makes me mad how little my brain can process or notice things. Sometimes I keep telling myself how I want to work on this, fix that, change this, get better at that. But what I really need to do is let go of guilt and shame. There is no pressure in life except…
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Tethering
Our minds may drift off and imagine, fantasize, and leave us behind. But that’s our creativity. That’s where our newness happens, our growth, our rebirth. We need our minds to leave our bodies to wander and explore and learn. This is not a flaw. It is not bad of you to have a wanderous mind.…
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Why Not?
Either everything is sacred or nothing is sacred. So why not make it all sacred?
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Weakness
Sometimes we want community so badly and we become so worried about making others like us that we don’t relax into our humanness. But tomorrow I want to be weak. Squishy, like the soul. Soft, loving, unshielded, unprotected, warm, unphased if people are cruel to me or not. Weak. I wish to recognize that I…
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Our Souls are Always at Peace
but no matter how much fear I have in the present moment or how many thoughts are coming in and out of my head or where I am or who I am with my soul is always at peace.
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Both the Last and the First
do as if life is short, but nurture as if life is long. act as if today were your last day on earth, but trust that your days are meant to add up to a hundred years. love as if you’re witnessing a sunrise for the first time but take gratitude in the sunrises you’ve…
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Lovers
I can’t help but think that when lovers meet for the first time the universe is watching down excitedly, waiting for them to connect, hoping that everything will go as planned, knowing the future they will have together, and smiling while the lovers are just meeting another person for the first time, unaware of those…
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Fantasizing
Why do I always fantasize about me playing another instrument in front of a group of people? I will never, ever, be able to play the flute like I imagine in my daydreams, or whip out a James Taylor guitar solo around a fire. When I leave my body and daydream these unrealistic scenarios, I…
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Why Does Life Want To Keep Growing?
Life developed on this Earth over three billion years ago as little bacteria that lived in the water. They couldn’t breathe oxygen. They couldn’t see. They were just little specs, little particles of bacteria. But nonetheless, they were little balls of energy. Tiny specs of energy. Just as a fetus is formed from one tiny…
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Rooted
All trees start as a seed, from a single point. And when the trunk is cut, you can see it’s solar system with different rings, planets, parts, stories, orbiting around the center. You can see the seed in the middle. Every year, the tree sheds its leaves and branches while growing a new layer within…
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One in Seven Billion
Accepting that we’re not the kindest person makes us a better friend. Accepting that we’re not the smartest person makes us more wise. Accepting that we don’t have the fittest body makes ourselves seem more beautiful. Accepting that our lives are simply ordinary makes them seem so miraculously extraordinary.
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There Will Always Be A Bed
When I was walking to Camino de Santiago, one of the lessons I learned right away was to not rush through the walk for fear of not getting a bed at the end of each day. On my first day walking, I pretty much ran the whole way. I worried all morning that the beds…
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Floating Away
Why do I always speed up my life when I’m excited about things? Why do I lose contact with my soul and refuse to make myself a nice meal or do my routines or call my friends when I’m excited about something I’m working on? It’s different when I’m at a job and people are…
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Mornings (Dancing Bees)
Morning sun warms you up as the moon quiets itself from a night of teaching. Lemon with yerba mate awaken the stomach. Stretches slowly pull on the body. Cats or children climb on you to wake you up. The insects are hard at work finding their food and doing their daily rituals, and I want…
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Ancestors
My face is a face of all of my ancestors. My face is a face of every brave woman who had to protect herself and her family. Of every young child who learned how to communicate for the first time. Of every hunter who courageously wandered through an unpredictable forest. Of every gatherer who patiently…
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What Is True?
What is true? True is the warmth I feel when I hear a beautiful song. The intuition I feel when I’m in a bad situation. The quickness of breathe I get when I stand close to someone I love. Every. Single. Laugh. The look of pure love in a mother’s eye when she looks at…
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The Only Virus We Can Kill
I’ve been choosing to find joy and delights each morning. I’ve been practicing talking to myself about what I’m grateful for and granting myself permission to enjoy every moment throughout each day. But I couldn’t sleep the other night. During the day before, someone made me feel stressed and anxious. They tried to make me…
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Grandmas Giving Up
We waste so much time trying to live lies because we are so afraid to feel and live the truths we have within us. We are so afraid of being honest with ourselves. I see so many grandmas saying, “I just don’t care anymore.” “I’ve finally given up trying.” “Now, I’m doing whatever the fuck…
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She’s New In Town
I’ve just arrived at the airport in New York. I’ve been traveling solo for five months, and, believe it or not, I’ve noticed that I’ve changed. No way! As I look at myself in the airport mirror, I say, Who’s that hot lil’ cutie?! As I look at the sea of books in the store,…
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The Point To Life
There is no point to life. But yet, we are all connected. The trees to each other, us to the trees, us to each other. I have a family who created me, ancestors who unknowingly shaped me, and the entire universe who every second is mending me. And I’m mending it back with every breath…
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Routines
After traveling for five months, sleeping in different beds, meeting all different people, and discovering new parts of my Self, I have had very little stability. The only stability I have had is my body, mind, and Self. And while that has been a great bond to grow and strengthen, once the Camino ended and…
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The Law of Least Effort
The law of least effort means that the maximum outcome presents itself when the least amount of thought is put into finding it. This law defies everything we are taught in society. We are taught to always be productive, active, constantly doing something because those who work the hardest and/or are the most efficient will…
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Clichés
Why do people hate cliches? I just searched the internet for this very question. Apparently, some say that cliches generalize our specific human experiences. Cliches aren’t creative. Cliches swallow uniqueness. And maybe they do, in a way. But maybe we need that in our lives more than ever. Cliches remind us that even though each…
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We Can’t Do It On Our Own
Let love in from others and from yourself because the universe, the divine, will make you and this world so incredibly beautiful if you trust that what it wants to give you will in fact make your life more beautiful than you ever could alone. It made sunsets, blue oceans, yellow flowers, moss, singing birds,…
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Fight For Her, Now
You felt that she was fading away, that she was getting further and further from you, that she was deeply unhappy, that she was being ignored because society was telling you to do so. But you felt in your heart, in that pit, in the deepest part of you, that that was wrong. That she’s…
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Respect
It’s respect. Respect is the key to self-care. At the times when my mind is angry at myself, it loses the respect for the divinity within me. The woman in the bubble. The times when I am most happy, the most forgiving, accepting, slow, joyful, are the times when I have respect for my body,…
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Lick the Spoon
Contentment is our natural state and we should be using every moment of our lives in order to get back to it. In society, we complicate our lives, distract ourselves from stillness, and take ourselves further away from that state of joy. Ask yourself what you can do each moment you feel clouded with anger,…
Ali Walks Around 