Remembering Who I Really Am

It's hard to stay in hate with you when I love you so much.

It's hard to stay in hate with you when I know there's so much yet to be revealed about the situation.

It's hard to stay in hate with you when I can remember, once again, who I really am and my true, pure nature which is loving, compassionate, nurturing, caring, giving, accepting, understanding, and forgiving.

Oktobre Taylor 

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Inner Peace

Art by Sophie Wilkins 

Real people feel everything, the good, the bad, the sad, the painful, the rage, which means inner peace is a constant frequency we are trying to tune into. It's like driving around and trying our hardest to keep the signal of our favorite radio station. Sometimes we move far enough away from the signal that we have to try to drive back in a direction in which we can pick it up again...the inner peace signal...the station that plays our heart song so that we can remember who we really are when we forget.

Young Woman with a Dove by Charles Joshua Chaplin

"Go inside! Don't look outside of self for your peace and happiness," this is what they all keep regurgitating without ever thinking twice that it is unhelpful advice to people who are constantly inside anyway. I'm so far inside most of the time that I find it difficult to come back out. I find it difficult to engage and interact with the physical world.

We are both spirit and physical body which means happiness absolutely is derived outside of self as well as within. There is a fine balance, a dance between the two.

Art by Sophie Wilkins 

It's okay to not be okay. It's okay to lose our inner peace. It's okay to not be calm when the situation calls for it. It's okay to feel all that we feel until we can move closer to that internal signal again where we can hear our inner peace song clearly, once again.

Identity

Is a writer still a writer if they don't really have anything left they want to say... publicly?