If you can allow these two words to mean the same thing, you’ve found two things:
1) Freedom.
2) The pathway to succcess, story, and transformation.
What more could you ask for?
Presence and awareness.
People and stories.
Patience and process.
These are the preparatory harbors that lead us to the oceanic experience called our lives.
…if you don’t allow yourself to be seen.
Or what if we asked it this way?
What if there’s something that we haven’t yet seen, known, experienced, or danced with because you have kept yourself from being seen?
We are all a part of the collective tuning up.
Think of what 7.5 billion candles would reveal.
…won’t be possible without allowing some peace in.
So we must choose how we will see and posture ourselves today.
For how we see is how we will be.
Yes, the eye is indeed the lamp of the body.
Every Sunday we hold a picture that was first stroked with the paint from Monday’s eyes.
Are you open or are you closed today?
This will affect your painting today and tomorrow.
For if we are closed, we will paint with the stumbling colors of cynicism, critique, and separation.
But if we are open, we will paint with the flowing colors of possibility, hope, and healing.
I’ve never seen the word pain hidden in the word paint until today.
Transform > Transmit
If you don’t know a lot about something, it’s probably easy to say a lot of words about it.
It’s funny how our self proclaimed expert minds are sometimes externally louder than what our humble hands have internally graced and experienced.
On the other hand, if you truly know the ins and outs and beauty of something, you hardly know what to say…And when you do, your heart breaks as you try to paint its form and give a description.
What is the silence that shines out of your broken heart?
What do you know by name, by essence, by soul, by heart?
Tell us a little about that.
Your little insight here is going to take us a long way.
Ashton.Gustafson 