Honoring yourself enough to let go when it is time to move forward can become a gift in the long run. ~Chava
There are so many beautiful landscapes that guide me as I walk in the world. Each day, I find myself wondering how I might navigate through the metaphors that keep me sane as I walk through life. The bottom-line is that the hardest landscape I actively explore is that of my heart.
Doodle is courtesy of Chava
Shema Koli (Hear My Voice)
Living with Soul Honesty, Striving for Soul Honesty
With each breath, as with each step, I am climbing mountains, riding waves, and engaging in life. I am learning to trust the universe as I both reach for the stars and let my roots go down into the earth. With each passing moment, I navigate. Some might say I over-think life, I’d say that I actively engage in life. I take the Tour de Life and I try to make it the best I can.
The older I get the more I realize that my voice matters. While it might not matter to others, it matters to me. And the more sure I am about this, the more I trust my thoughts and my feelings, the more they matter to others too. Personal integrity or authenticity propel me forward, not only with others, but with myself too.
In the last few months, I have been profoundly busy navigating life and feelings. Since my Trek to Tucson, I have had to learn how to live more alone and to build a different relationship with my sons; I have had to build new friendships and seek those that would be good for my life and that I have something to offer their lives. And I had to figure out how to retain those I love while living so far away and having little time. The journey hasn’t always been so easy. Navigating life and those you want in it takes patience and dedication; it also takes discernment and real honesty.
Figuring out life has been intense at times. Through writing, I have been able to weed out my thoughts and keep perspective. I have also been able to explore what feelings, emotions, things, people, attitudes, etc. . .serve me well. Ironically, I am learning that some of the above “stuff” needs to go. There are two things, I am working on as I let go. I am working towards listening more especially to the silence between the words. And I am trying to enjoy what is more and strive for perfectionism less.
As I do my current Dance of Life, I am striving to walk in this world with an inner warmth and a sincerity that is both inwardly true and outwardly real. Navigating life means constantly asking myself, “Chava, where are you? What do you need? What do you want? What’s really happening in your heart and in your soul? In order to live with my own personal integrity, I have to actively engage in life and while figuring out how to to do the Dance of Life.
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