CALM

There are many things that calm me, bathe after a day of work, sit on the sofa with my partner or walking my dog​​. But the greater sense of calm comes when I feel I'm on the right path and when events that are happening in my life, will overlap with each other continuously, without pause. 

I learned that part of that "calm" is hidden behind the "knowledge" in the "acceptance" and "non-resistance". 

"I am the carrier of my own calm"

Much love to you all.

LIGHT

"Stop overshadow your own light, you can do it and only you have the power to choose when and how. Don't be afraid to go deep within, that place where the truth is hiding."

I AM GRATEFUL FOR...

I am grateful for being alive and being aware of who I am. 

I am grateful to be able to feel everything, both good and bad. 

I am grateful for having come to where I am. 

I am grateful to have the family I have.

I am grateful for my job. 

I am grateful to feel the sun in the morning as well as by the freshness and peace that it brings the night. 

I am grateful for being able to hear the singing of birds and the murmur of water in a fountain. 

I am grateful for being able to smell the fragrance of the pines. 

I am grateful for the food that nature provides us. 

I am grateful for having seen and visited wonderful places. 

I am grateful for being able to say I love you out loud. 

I am grateful for being able to help anyone in need.

I am grateful for share with you these simple but heartfelt words.

SHADOWS

The contrast is what gives beauty to the photo, alternating light and shadow, the same goes with life.

 Like it or not, we are always walking between light and shadow, that's what makes us appreciate the good things in life and appreciate what we have. The nice thing is that in the end, Let us go walk in shadows or hopping into the light, there is always a perfect balance, because the shadow always increases proportionally with light. 

-Love to you all-

AUTUMN LEAVES

“Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;

Lengthen night and shorten day;

Every leaf speaks bliss to me

Fluttering from the autumn tree.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow

Blossom where the rose should grow;

I shall sing when night’s decay

Ushers in a dreary day."

Emily Brontë, Bronte: Poems

THIS LIFE IS YOURS

(Moss growing slowly in one of my pots)

“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”

 Susan Polis Schutz

ANOTHER CYCLE, ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE

The picture belong to a Nepenthes x Ventrata

I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying.

Jalal ud-Din Rumi

PLAY THE MUSIC

The music has been with us since the beginning of our existence. And as we have evolved, so has the music made ​​at the same time, acquiring different meanings throughout history. I marvel at the influence that music has on our minds. Is able to excite and motivate us or make us mourn. Whatever the case, the therapeutic power exercised by the music in us is indisputable. Writing about it, I immediately popped into my head, Masaru Emoto and his book "the hidden message of water." To summarize for those who do not know who this man is, after several experiments, concluded that music and thoughts affect water, causing it to crystallize in harmony, when water is subjected to classical music or sweet melodies and quite the opposite when water is subjected to heavy metal or treated so hateful.

I personally believe in it and I wonder, if we are 60% water and we add to this that we are energy, how it affects the music we listen

and thoughts that awakens in us?.

In the photo, my headphones ... my preferred way of listening to music <3

PP In most of the clothing stores put music in restaurants and supermarkets as well, something will be :).

THE STORY

There are many stories to tell, could choose from hundreds or thousands of stories. But today I want to tell the story of my life watching this from a spiritual side (in a very abbreviated form). From how I began to delve into this philosophy of life, until today.

Well, it all started many years ago, when Zena told me she practiced Reiki and explained in a very simple way what it was. In those days my concept of spirituality was very basic, believed that spirituality was only related to religion and that gave me certain rejection, as associated with war, power and manipulation, not ceasing to be another sect. Needless to say about Reiki, I had no idea, but I got curious and that's when I started digging. Remember that the Internet was in diapers and could only access to the network in some libraries or at school, whenever I could, I started to search everything about Reiki and if anyone on the island that could initiate me, but all my attempts were in vain, as I say Internet was in a very early stage and there was almost no information about it and what little was found in English or did not convince me.

Some years later things have remained the same, until it suddenly started to get to me all the information I needed to know, I saw brochures in the bus stops, I started meeting people who had contact with Reiki, see articles in magazines but I never had the time, I was studying and had no means. Courses are taught in other islands or the mainland. I gave up with someone here on the island who agreed to initiate me. I remember I was extremely excited and could hardly sleep the night before, after that day, I realized that spirituality was something deeper, more personal, I had found the key that would open the door to self-knowledge and healing. I started working my side most forgotten and I immersed myself in meditation. Over time I changed and began to see the world and myself from another perspective. Today, I feel like a new person and my inner work has become one of my priorities. 

In a society that makes us believe that love is something silly and good for nothing, it is very difficult to express what you feel without being looked at like a freak. And not to mention when talking about spirituality in the broadest sense of the word. That's when everyone says you've gone completely mad.

In a world where everything has to be scientifically proved, measured, cataloged and labeled. So where is the essence that makes us human?

P. D. In the picture I tried to capture the duality between the brightest part of my conscious being (for this reason I have one eye open), compared to the least explored part of my being, completely covered by a blindfold.

PSYCHO

No reason. No one really runs away from anything. It's like a private trap, that holds us in like a prison. You know what I think? That I think we're all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch.

Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)

A WISE OLD MOTHER IS NATURE

She guideth her children's feet

In many a flowery pathway;

And her strong life-currents beat,

Sometimes in intricate channels--

As a mountain stream may run--

But ever her purpose triumphs,

And ever the goal is won.

Her eyes are the eyes of Argus,

And she utters her decree:

The brook shall come to the river,

And the river shall reach the sea.

ANDREW DOWNING

ONE SMALL CANDLE

“There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle”

Robert Alden 

LIKE A SHY LITTLE MOTH

(Window of the Haut Koenigsbourg castle)

Every time I put more consciously intent on letting the "light" to guide me on my way. I do not care if my particular window is engraved a cross, a Star of David or a smiling Buddha. What I want is to open the windows of my inner to nourish myself with the light and love that they give away unconditionally.

On many occasions I have feel like a shy little moth, drawn to the light of a lamp in a dark night, light will always turn at the right time, telling me the way to go again.

 Since I started this adventure a few years ago until today, have been clarified many doubts I had and I know myself better, this fills me with hope and motivates me to continue healing my life. Although progress very slowly and have many obstacles to overcome, I will not give up.

“When you bring the sun inside, no matter if it rains outside”

THE SHINING SPOT

(This photo belongs to a lighted lamp)

Nothing around me, I'm only at infinity. Everything is calm and the only sound I hear is the beating of my heart. Darkness surrounds me, but I have no fear.

 Shortly appears out of nowhere a small spot that little by little begins to shine, to do it with such intensity, that I have to cover my eyes with my hands. My weightless body begins to move and rotate slowly being swallowed up by the white hole.

I am light

IT'S ALMOST TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO MONOTONY

“The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.” 

 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Again, it's almost time to say goodbye to monotony (in a few days I go on vacation, so I will be away about 20 days).

It's something I need urgently, my body and mind need a break!

Going to be a very restful holiday, that's for sure. Can't wait to leave behind for a few days the schedules, away from people (prolonged contact with people, often makes me feel very tired, as I work facing the public), forget about the complaints and cries of the working environment and avoid any further liability other than enjoy and relax.

Want it to be a time to unwind and relax, I Intend to savor every moment and continue my inner work, with more energy than ever.

I can't get out of my head the baths of hot water, lie on the sofa doing nothing, letting my mind wander and fantasize for hours, wake up in the morning leisurely by the smell of a good freshly made chocolate and start a new and radiant day.

THE ALCHEMIST'S APPRENTICE

Among other ingredients, this soap contains: Calendula oil, rosehip oil and essential oils of bergamot, myrrh and listea cubeba.

A few months ago I'm making my own homemade soaps, this natural cosmetics is a new world for me (I have to say that it is addictive), is another way to express what I feel, is an art (this does not mean that my soaps are). For a moment I become a kind of alchemist, fusing oils, weighing and calculating the essences to create a fragrance which pleases me, prepare the molds, mix it and wait for it to harden, so that it can finally unmolding and slicing.

As my daily life, it's all about experience, lose the fear and mix all the options that gives me the life, grab a little here and a little there, to stay with me most like and be co-creator of my life to create my own "recipe".

As a good apprentice, I will do everything possible to bring to my life, the best ingredients I can find, some have them on hand, that's the easiest, but for many others, I'll have to find a way to get them.

A good recipe could be this:

Much love (many tons, love is never enough), with a touch of joy (with a few pounds of laughter, much better). Then fill it with a few cups of tenderness (my mother always has enough tenderness, so that always gives me a handful every time I go to see her). Then cover everything with a generous layer of empathy and sprinkle with a shower of dreams (dreams all you want, take advantage of that dreaming is free). As dressing, lots of hugs (hugs all kind, loving hugs, chokes hugging, passionate hugs, bear hugs ...) and as finishing touch a million of kisses.

What would be your ideal recipe? ...

There are so many possibilities, so much to learn!

WALKING THROUGH THE MEADOW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcE4tZ9aBB8

“Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.”  

― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

AND THE WAVES GROW AND SPREAD...

"Every one of us have inside of us the innate, infinite power to heal and help another through the impact of our love."

 Deeya

Long time ago that I don't post anything, I felt "decentered" listless. But thanks to a conversation with a very special person in my life (many thanks dear Zena!), Almost all of these negative emotions have gone down the drain, that was the feeling I had!, As if I had removed a big stopper that pressed my chest and stomach and not let out all that was hurting me, making me feel bad all this time.

Still have not entirely disappeared, those sensations and feelings, but I feel more cheerful and more focused. I should have seen otherwise, from another perspective, but it was not, so thank you again Zena for listening to me.

These things happen, there are times when I feel bad and others where my life takes a 360º turn and everything becomes wonderful. Nothing is final, at least I think so, life is a continuous succession of cycles, everything changes and evolves, no two moments are equal. But after all is my life and I am extremely grateful for this, for having the opportunity to live and to enjoy it to the fullest, with all that that entails.

Those words along with other events that took place just a day ago, certainly had a "healing" effect. The best analogy I can think of to describe it is like when you throw a stone into a lake and the waves grow and spread, reaching everywhere no matter how big it may be, I felt for a moment as if I were that lake and these healing waves jolted inside me, by rewarding with a sense of peace and relief that had rarely experienced before.

I have to keep moving in my purpose, no matter what happens, is not easy and not always the people around you will understand how you feel (sometimes I don'tt even understand myself), but until they have something to teach, they are also part of this reality we all share.

Much love to you all.

WHEN ONE DOOR CLOSES

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

Helen Keller

WHEN EVERYTHING AROUND ME SEEMS...

Although everything seems to crumble around me, my pillars remain strong. 

  When everything around me seems sad, keep calm and keep moving forward. 

  When everything around me seems overwhelm me, I will focus on my inner work and I will keep trying. 

  When everything around me seems to make no sense, I will breathe deeply and move on. 

  When finished I understand that everything is an illusion, then I'll be quieter. 

When I dare to accept that I am the one that is changing, then I will live quiet.

Much love to you all.

LESS PLANS?

I think that living life without planning, it would be much more fun, I've always been curious to know what would happen if it did not more plans than strictly necessary. It would be fun to welcome spontaneity and let each new moment, became an adventure. Where the script of my life was written by day, it happened all of a more natural and less controlled manner.

I do not know why, but I feel that if I take out this crazy idea, would be a completely different person. Would it be a happy person?, I think so, maybe someday I can turn that idea into reality and to discover.

How beautiful it would be completely owner of my own life and feel free to live my own way, without limitation, do not feel so slave of the system, as they say dreaming is free, so why not dream what would a world without rules? . I accept and understand that we are not yet aware or qualified to do, but, who knows if in the future we can achieve it?

What do you think?

WITHERED ROSE

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes you purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. 

James Allen

I DON'T WANT TO MISS THE PRESENT

Yesterday, I went for a walk with my camera in hand, I was in a part of the island which had long not visited, full of hills and small mountains. Not usually rains frequently, so the vegetation is sparse, but the area was pretty green.

After walking a while, I came across this gorgeous plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), when I was taking the picture, I realized that I was actually living in the now, in the present. My mind was quiet, no travel or the past or the future, I was living a magical moment, I really felt alive and connected to the whole, I was living the moment!. It was something I had all but forgotten, it can't be in two places at once. 

So I don't want to miss the present, I want to keep feeling alive!

 I accept the moment as it is.

THIS IS THE ULTIMATE

"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."

Zhuangzi

GAPS AND CRACKS

Sometimes, I feel as if I was that glass and I was breaking inside. Watching helplessly as these gaps grow at full speed, before I could react, as if an invisible finger was pushing down on me, crushing me slowly, unable to do anything about it.

I'm talking about the stress and pressure, is something inevitable, but the difference is that now when they are presented suddenly, they do so with less intensity, and does not make me much harm. 

Now I can avoid those cracks stop growing. Try disconnecting from everything that stresses me, it's really complicated, there are days I can identify what it is that makes me feel anxious and stressed, such as work or family issue, but many times, I feel stressed without no apparent reason, such as when I'm on vacation.

I'm working on it, it's something that costs a lot of effort, I think partly because I judge myself too much, that I question everything and it's easier to see the faults of others than our own faults.

 Is time to accept and seal the cracks...

But I have to remember that, "there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in".

IT'S TIME TO...

It's time to "HELP" instead of forsake.

It's time to "ACCEPT" instead of deny.

It's time to "LOVE" instead of hate.

It's time to "LIVE" not survive.

It's time to to be "HAPPY".

It's time to "FORGIVE".

It's time to be yourself!.

There are many reasons for which to be happy and authentic and so many excuses to abandon us to our ego and our laziness, to lie dormant without illusions, which only depends on you.

What does your heart tell you?

I WILL CONTINUE TO GROW TOWARD THE "SUN"

Some time ago I realized that is no longer necessary to keep pretending. Gone are the days in which I was falling into the trap of trying pleasing everyone, now I can shout it from the rooftops, I'm not willing to play a different role than myself!. Gone are the days of sadness and feeling of not fitting in anywhere, so they fell into the trap of acting to be accepted, but as I say that's over.

At this stage of my life, I intend to be true to myself, not to fight against my feelings and my way of thinking, just to please the other person. It is difficult, especially when I realize that I'm only in this "adventure" (you can always get advice from someone, something that will definitely be of great help), but they are my decisions that ultimately determine my future.

Many times I feel as if this just happened to me, I'm a misunderstood and when I try to talk to someone of the topic, they look at me with weird face. I try to downplay it is something a little frustrating, because in a way, I feel a prisoner of my own thoughts, unable to share them, except with a few mates.

Is this really true, or there will be someone else who feels the same?

“I will continue to grow toward the "sun" and while within me, my roots will continue to strengthen and accepting my true identity”.

LET IT GO...

Watching this picture, I realize how complex nature are and how complex we are. Actually rarely I get to thinking about it, just because I think I see as something natural and do not pay attention, until I see things like that, so simple, but as I say so complex, so delicate. I think in many ways we should learn from Mother Nature, take the example of all the lessons they provide.

It is true that most of the time I can't interpret the message she tries to show me, but luckily the few who I decipher (always under my own interpretation), are highly enlightening, make me feel that I am on the path I want to follow. A path that will take me to wonderful places, places that can not always be seen with the eyes, "where my inner voice" is the muse of my inspiration, a mentor, compassionate and fair, with a firm hand guiding me through becomings of life. We coexist at different levels, but we are "one", where unconditional love is our alliance.

I have much to learn from this little wonder (Taraxacum officinale or Dandelion). He lets the breeze take part of it without caring, knowing that it lets go, its seeds are ready to fly away and settle in new places. But this only happens when the seeds are fully ripe, ready for their long journey perpetuating the miracle of life. That's when the bud opensleaving them exposed to gradually take their characteristic spherical shape (this ensures that the breeze can detach them all) letting it take them so peculiar transport route. But sometimes not all can come off as easily, it seems that oppose some resistance and will need a slightly stronger breeze to be transported, but eventually they achieve their purpose, it's a matter of patience and waiting for the right time.

This is the example that I propose to follow, try to focus on control and understand my emotions and thoughts, know me better. Continue to mature as a person and continue working it all in depth. when I have "assimilated" and "accepted" I will let my mind like the bud nearly ripe, open and let all this energy gone with the wind. I am sure that all these good intentions, thoughts and emotions, will travel over time until the most remote places and come to form part of the collective consciousness. This way they will reach new hearts and minds, leaving my legacy of peace and love in each one of you.

Do not mean this to sound as if I were a pastor, a speaker or something like that, but that's how I feel it. I also say this because this is not a gift that a few possess. We all have the ability to transmit Our legacy to give the best of ourselves and let impregnate our world completely, not just restrict ourselves to the human race, but rather to each and every one of the components of living beings and whole planet, thereby all our essence will become part of the more subtle plane called collective consciousness, which in turn will become part of cosmic consciousness. Making this world a better place.

Are you willing to give it your best?

IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY

Seems like just yesterday when I walked through Central Park, enjoying the landscape and tranquility. But while I'm back home, I left behind all the green (the place where I live is a very arid area, with little vegetation), when I looked around me, I remembered that integration is possible, a green lung in the middle of the city!. There are many examples of integration between nature and man, not enough in my opinion (but I'm glad to know that there will always be people interested in this integration and continue to keep that purpose in the future).

This is what I'm trying to do, integrate my spiritual side to my everyday life. Continue to expanding my particular “synapse” to the ends of my being.

Spirituality in the way I see, it is a state of life, a state of mind. This state of mind at least in my case is steeped in "love", I feel is the most energy akin to my being. Funny, but again I see that everything is connected, that one thing leads to another and improving any aspect of my life, all other "facets" will improve simultaneously.

-Love is the key to acceptance and acceptance bring you love back into your life.-

(This could be extrapolated to any other thought, feeling or emotion)

SPIRITUAL SYNAPSES

Creating spiritual synapses

Since I started to work my inner world, joining points, working situations and assimilating the content learned, I created a kind of spiritual "synapses". (Leaving aside the cognitive synapses). This spiritual synapses is more subtle, barely unexplored map, some areas I start to know them, something better, especially the "acceptance". But most of the spiritual map remains a mystery, almost unexplored areas. My knowledge expands as ramifications that inevitably will connect me with new situations, especially with emotional and transcendental nature. Personally I think this kind of awakening that I'm experiencing (I do not think an enlightened, much less) is something inebitable. I'am sure that when the critical mass is reached, this same awakening, spontaneously will emerge from a along the entire planet. 

"I'm curious to know where it will take me all that."

Now I feel that at least in my case, all this knowledge is expanding in all directions equally, as an intelligent system, seeking to find the next piece I have to understand and assimilate with the highest priority.

We are all connected in some way, we are a "collective consciousness" and all the "individual" think or do, affect to a greater or lesser degree in this great "hive mind". So I try to take care of all my actions and thoughts, raising them to love, peace, and of course to the "unconditional acceptance."

This kind of network, the contrary to confuse me, inspires me confidence and peace of mind, because it is for my own good.

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life." 

Buddha 

CONSTANTLY BLOOMING

(The picture belongs to the flower of a Lithops spp)

Yesterday after meditating for a few hours, I confirm to myself that, stop trying to control everything that happens in my  life has been the right choice, it has been somewhat liberating, I certainly feel as if I would have taken a huge weight off.

Now I am aware of what I've learned, because as I said in my previous post, "everything is a learning experience" both the good and the bad.

Since now I have the opportunity to change my attitude towards certain issues and implement what I have learned, all this work is also helping me to regain confidence in myself and prove that I can do whatever I set my mind.

Every day new challenges will arise and I will have to face them, some more difficult than others, but all surmountable.

"I accept my condition as an apprentice in this life"

ON MY WAY, SLOWLY BUT SURELY

Not always one gets or achieves what you want, there are days when everything is crazy and a whirlwind of emotions, a day starts great in a few minutes can turn into a nightmare. Who has not ever felt that way?.

There are thousands of reasons and circumstances that can Shoot down all your plans. Many times, however much you try to rationalize it and try to give due importance to the problem, you can not, it's as if your body and mind 

were by separate ways, your head tells you to try to relax, nothing happens and your body seems who refuses to accept his orders. Everything I say is because just the last few days something similar is happening to me. 

I have to be patient, because I'm sure I have something to learn from this experience. Also I have to keep my mind in a positive state, because otherwise it would attract more negative energy or incompatible and that's 

the last thing I need right now. I try to focus on listening to "my inner voice" to find out why I feel this way and take action on the matter.

Will be I have to rely more on myself and let it all happen as it should be, stop trying to control everything that happens to me?, Quite possibly this is a good answer to why I feel so obfuscated. I will continue going deeper

 in that response, to see where it takes me.

On my way, slowly but surely...

AMONG THE CROWD

"Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.' "

Srikumar Rao

I GIVE THANKS

I give thanks for being alive another day, to be able to enjoy all the wonders that nature provides me. And all those beautiful things I'm finding that during the passage of the days.

 I thank also to continue working on this project and for the inspiration that gives me my "inner voice" and my other great tool, my camera, in recent months has become an extension of my body. Has been commissioned to show me life from another perspective and awaken my creativity. Without this attraction that I have to the photography I think this project would not be possible, or it will look a very dull and flat way.

 We all have ways to try to be inspired, some people meditate, others go for a walk, or while cooking some people feel that "spark" which shines brightly in their minds and makes it possible almost as if by magic, synchronize everything for a while and creativity arises, this state of peace and clarity of mind where all these amazing ideas emerge, who were buried under the amnesia which causes us daily routine.

 As I mentioned in my previous posts, this illusion that makes us feel that our lives are scheduled for the second, since we wake up until we go to bed, can be controlled or eliminated.

 But in 90% of cases, who prevents us to change that routine that we perform every day of the year, like an obligation?, nobody stopping us, we ourselves that we stuck to live this routine.

 Acceptance also means "accept" that we can all "change", that we can express ourselves and despite everything, we put the "rules" in our lives. Personally every time feel less afraid and day after day I try to be more "I" and less "they"

 Thank you all for visiting my gallery and my blog, without you none of this would also not be possible!.

ALL IN DUE TIME

"Accept and don't judge" is a phrase that comes to my head every day, I practice it every day and I feel I slowly costs much less to practice this exercise. It is so difficult to "unlearn" all these patterns that limit us and let us not aspire to be more "complete" beings, at least in my case the judge everything and everyone and always look for a guilty  I have deeply rooted in my life, that often seems to be an impossible mission, get rid of all that garbage that nests in my mind.

Lately, I feel something sensible in every way and problems thought solved resurface again, it is necessary, but the truth thereare is some days when I feel that all this is beyond me, since I started to work more deeply in my inner world, all this has been intensifying more and more, but in a way, is the price I have to pay to heal.

"I hope that eventually, my mind and soul will completely open like a rose, releasing all her perfume until reaching its heyday"

Much love to you all