Category: Quotes & Poems

Such A Treat

Our everyday life is often filled with responsibilities, planning and performing, oh so busy. That is not bad, there’s beauty in it, but it often makes us overwhelmed, stressed and dull. Little things start to feel like big things. Making dinner and doing the dishes start to feel like a monumental feat. Sleep gets interrupted by a busy mind. Life, after all, is not meant to be just marshmallows and trips to be beach – all of these issues are common for everyone at some point and at some level, so no one is alone in this. We have to honor our experience and not be so hard on ourselves and others – specially because it is a good thing to have hard days and some hard seasons (it sure makes what truly matters more clear to us). Meditation and time to feel what is going on can be a great asset for everyone, anywhere. No yoga pants needed, no sage needs to be burned, no special music, nothing – just the ability to sit with yourself and stay there for a moment. You, your beautiful mind, watching thoughts go by, breath by breath. Such a treat.

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Feast On Your Life

It’s a funny thing, this Life. I have always been in love with it. I have been in love with a path, with someone else’s life, with an ideal in my heart, an idea of how it should be in my head, or even with the past or the future Life I did or would live.

But things change. I know I have. I now am in love with Life as it fills me up. Life as it alivens me, animates me. The me I am. Not me yesterday, not me tomorrow. Not me through someone else’s eyes, not me created by an idea or me developed through an ideal. Just me. The me I feel, the me I enjoy being. This ever changing, me.

I subscribe to Dr. Sharon Blackie’s emails (she’s wonderful, here is her website), and this morning she shared a poem that resonated with me deeply. Here it:

LOVE AFTER LOVE

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott

Love after love… Love after heartbreak, love after forgetting oneself, love after being lost, love after working hard to measure up, love after self abandonment, love after denial, love…always there for us, even if we forget.

So, I am wondering.. why is it that so many of us waste so much of our Life looking around and trying to measure up or eat the same things that are on other people’s tables… why do we sometimes lose ourselves when loving another, or want what others have, when our Life tastes just as good, actually better, because on our Life we can actually feast on.

There’s nothing I want more for you than for you to be comfortable in your own skin. For you to be content in being you. For you to let go of ideals and rules of how being and living should look like, and for you to feel and create yourself as you please, as it feels right, as you dream.

May you feast on your life.

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I Am Wondering…

One of my greatest lessons of 2019 was not necessarily an aha! moment, but more like a weaving together of many different understandings that at one point merged together into the fabric of my being – and then I couldn’t not see it. I couldn’t not be it. I couldn’t not live it.

Experience has taught me over these last years that anytime I adopted a belief system that was strict, or with attached morality to it, things would come crashing down. Either I would have to keep feeding myself those beliefs in order to continue going (which then included preaching about them and controlling others to do the same), or I would have to face that it created stigma, separation and that in the end, it wasn’t good for me.

Some of my personal experiences that made me feel controlling (of myself or others) are: some form of spiritual beliefs, diets (more specially the ketogenic diet – never again!), and the all natural path (yes, I now use products that contain silicone, and chemicals, sorry, not sorry).

So… the lesson for me is: never ever to adopt a dogmatic belief system. I hope to always remember this, and to never again fall into its trap. I wrote a poem a while ago that celebrated that feeling:



My Dear Vitality
Help me to stay clear from Dogma
As it paralyses my thinking
And it gives rise to judgment
Why is it so easy to fall into its embrace
A comfortable, fitting place
In between all the crowds
Believing I belong to one
But I know the insecurity it brings
I know I do not truly belong
I do not truly fit in
I am unique flow
And Dogma has no place
In my changing Heart
As it feels like a cage
For someone who wants to fly

So, I am wondering… What have you learned about yourself, about your ways, that has brought you change? I would love to hear your story, your perspective. What have you added to your book of knowledge?


Happy New year! 2020 – here we are.

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