Spirituality
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Sickness
We are still the same after a diagnosis. We were sick before the diagnosis, and we are still sick afterwards. The only thing that is different is that now our minds actually think we are “sick.” We’ve put thoughts into our beings about what that sickness means. But we are still the same. We can…
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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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Hearing Your Own Heart
You know those moments when you hear your own heart beating? It definitely scares a part of me, as it reminds me of the only tiny organ that is keeping me alive and the fragility of my survival and the nearing of my death. But another part is grateful, as it reminds me that my…
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Hug
It’s like the sun, the moon, and the earth are always hugging us. The sun rises every morning, the moon’s always there even if you cannot see it, and the horizon of the earth always stays in the same place in our eyes every single day. The landscape may change and so may the weather…
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Between Two Worlds
This period of humankind is especially hard because we are often conflicted between two worlds: science and spirituality. They both don’t have the answers. They are both manmade and, generally speaking, built mutually exclusive from each other. And if we try to follow both science and spirituality together we tend to get lost. We don’t…
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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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Before Making Decisions…
Before you make a decision, ask yourself: Would I be doing this to become closer to an idealized version of myself? Or to become closer to my real, true self?
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Painful Lessons
Our bodies let our minds do whatever it wants. Our bodies are forever servants to the mind. And with this power, the mind will kill the body if the soul doesn’t teach it to be kind. During the Camino de Santiago, I walked three 30-kilometer days and tore a muscle underneath my glute. And it…
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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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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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Subjects
We leave our bodies when we create fantasies, take photos of ourselves, or dream up expectations. Those acts see our Selves outside of our bodies rather than as the subjects. When in fact, we are the camera, not the photo. Let’s write poetry and burn it. Let’s learn instruments and play alone in the mountains.…
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Trio
Your soul communicates through your body when your mind is quiet.
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Let It In
Let more of the Camino in. Let more of the outside world into yourself. Be more present. Let the people give you what they want to give you. Let the world give you the lessons it’s trying to teach you. Because that is the way. That is what the universe wants for you. Let it…
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My Name Is Not Ali
My name is not Ali. I don’t even know what my name is. But this is not my body either. I have many bodies, but this is the one that the universe chose for me on this earth at this time. Just like the flowers didn’t know if they were going to turn yellow or…
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We Are Not Our Faces
Remember when we were kids and we realized for the first time that we were given a specific body that we could not change? Because of the genetic and ancestral circumstances that created our bodies for us? And how we will never be able to see our own faces? Even when we look in the…
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Bubbles & Snakes
A woman sits cross-legged in a floating bubble, eyes closed, smiling. She is the image of one’s divinity. Untouched, natural, in a vacuum, solely existing within the universe. Unconnected to any physical world. Unconnected to appearance or ego. She only listens to what’s in the bubble: the universe, her intuition, and her body. But she…
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Spider Webs & Ant Hills
Nature can create more marvels than our minds could ever think of. Spider webs, and their intricate and magically floating structures. Ant hills, and their underground labyrinth of self-supporting tunnels. Trees, and their natural foundation that supports their ever-growing tower. Our bodies, and their ability to heal wounds through scabs and regrowth. It’s miraculous, our…
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Multiply by Zero
We are all connected. We are one energy. The earth is like the ocean without water. Animals are like humans without costumes. Everyone has an astounding and compounding impact on every detail in this universe. The problem many conscious humans have with this concept is this means individual humans are not special. Metaphorically, life is…
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Cycle of Life
I’m going to die one day just so that I can be reborn every day.
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Eyelashes & Shooting Stars
We’ve stopped wishing. We’ve stopped grabbing eyelashes that fall on our cheeks, blowing out puffy flowers into the wind, watching for shooting stars, or checking the time for 11:11. Why not wish? If worrying is like praying for something bad to happen, then maybe wishing is praying for the good. Let’s keep looking for eyelashes.
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Three Skills
A wise friend recently told me his best piece of advice: the only three skills that anyone needs to master in order to live a joyous life is how to think, fast, and wait.
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The Chapel
She stands outside a chapel in Santiago. Graffiti lives on the walls behind the people selling goods in tents. Fire trucks are lined up; dogs are barking, horns are screaming, tires are screeching. The city lives in chaos. But when she walks past it all, through the chapel doors, she is suddenly the only one…
Ali Walks Around 