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Independence
I am not afraid to fall in love anymore. I don’t need to safeguard my independence because I know that no matter what happens, I will always still have it. Independence cannot be found or…
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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…
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Cups of Coffee
cups of coffee in the morning stretching the muscles in your body hearing birds chirp looking out into the world through a window feeling the sun on your face feeling the wind tickle your skin…
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Who is Powering Us?
who is powering us? who is powering our hearts? making them beat? who is powering our brains? and making us comprehend everything? who is feeling the pain our gut when we think of death? or…
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Nesting in the City
birds in the city still sing to each other even with all the noise that does not belong. buildings that are not their trees and yet they still make nests. as long as I am…
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Quieter Places
quieter places are more spiritual because we have the space to ask ourselves the questions that come from nowhere else but within us
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Friends
friends are so warm; they make you feel as if you’re drinking a hot, cozy drink on a cold day; they make you feel like you feel understood by another soul without them ever being…
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Take Life With You
life will not go your way; you just have to go your own way and take life with you
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A Love To Live For
the corners of my mouth can’t help but curl up at the sound of your sweet, joyous laugh that sounds like heaven your eyes that curve downwards at the ends that stare into my heart…
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Coming Back
When we get lost, we always come back but it gets a lot harder if we try to convince ourselves that we’re not lost. We get lost; we are human. We sometimes have to get…
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Feel
the whole concept of reframing negative situations to be good the act of looking at the bright side are all important, yes, but not until you feel the negatives first I sometimes forget to feeeeel…
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Badness
We must fully accept ourselves for who we are before we can service the world. And in order to fully accept ourselves, we have to love ourselves even if we are “bad.” We must pretend…
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Houses with Paint Chips
The sensation of your pink cheeks hitting the heated air after stepping inside from a cold morning walk The itchiness of a wool hat on your scalp and ears and the smell of coffee in…
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We Are What We Choose To Think
You are not your reactions. You are not your emotions. You are not even what you think. You are what you choose to think.
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Meaning
Life isn’t about always trying to find joy in every moment. It’s about always trying to find meaning in every moment. Life is tragic, and often times things will happen that will cause pain rather…
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Words
Your soul doesn’t speak in words. It speaks in feelings, temperatures, movement, colors… Words have only been created by us not too long ago compared to our time on this earth. Words are not ancient.…
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For Tomorrow
It’s not about just choosing joy every day. It’s about making the tiniest choices in as many moments as we can find throughout the day that will make it easier to find joy tomorrow.
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There’s Always Enough
Humans are nature, and nature is perfect. And yet, the soul of the universe, as beautiful as it is, is just within a world that doesn’t have enough space for it all to exist at…
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The Truest Forms of Wisdom
Your soul doesn’t speak in words, it speaks in feelings temperatures movement colors. Words are something that us humans have created not very long ago. Words are not ancient. They are not the truest form…
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The Easiest Thing
the only way to find your soul and to have her sit with you throughout life is to live with her in the present moment and although sometimes that may seem impossible finding her is…
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The Absolute Perfection in Messiness
Life is messy. Trees are messy. They have cracks, they’re sticky with sap, and their leaves have rips and plenty of imperfections. Their leaves make a mess on the ground every winter, the wet and…
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Hold Out Your Tongue
A flower will die trying to feed itself with only the water it already contains within itself. And we, too, cannot grow without opening our mouths to water from the skies; without opening ourselves to…
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As It Is
I often hear a thought saying that the world is out to get me. When actually, the world has been working itself out for billions of years. And the world has been working me out…
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Delusion, The Anecdote to Madness
Is delusion an anecdote to madness? We, humans, like to overthink, reason, deduce, search, discover, problem-solve, find solutions; when in reality, there is no solution to anything. There is no purpose to life, there is…
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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…
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Hangin’ Out with My Soul
How amazing is it that we get to share our body with a soul. A soul so incredible, wise, kind, beautiful, infinitely wondrous, and unconditionally dedicated to us. To loving us. How amazing is it…
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I wish to Be A Tree
I wish to be a tree where people can find shelter, birds can rest, and I provide shade on hot summer days and all I do is enjoy the sun grow taller every day and…
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Letter To My Brain
Dear Brain, Thank you. You are the one who allows us reason and logic. You are how we survive. You are how I move my hands to write, how I walk, and how I kiss…
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The Gifts Not Meant For Us
does each one of us have a gift or multiple gifts that we are supposed to share with the world? or are we all just here to make the world better in a bunch of…
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Paradoxes
make a plan but then change it everyday critically think but then quiet your mind survive in the mundane but do not live for it listen to your thoughts but act with your gut recognize…
Ali Walks Around 