Mind Boggling!

I find it it interesting how something so big and something so small are this similar :)

Dreams

Being able to dream with someone opens up a whole new world of possibilities with them.

Follow Your Destiny . Wherever it leads you

there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you stand still, you will remain at this point forever. you realize that if you fall and stay down, life will pass you by.

life's circumstances are not always what you might wish them to be. the pattern of life does not necessarily go as you plan. beyond any understanding, you may at times be led in different directions that you ever imagined, dreamed, or designed. yet if you had never put any effort into choosing a dream then perhaps you would have no direction at all.

rather than wondering about or questioning the direction your life has taken, accept the fact that there is a path before you now. shake off the " whys" and the "what if's", and rid yourself of confusion. whatever was ~ is in the past. whatever is ~ is what is important. the past is a brief reflection. the future is yet to be realized. today is here.

walk your path one step at a time ~ with courage, faith, and determination. keep your head up and cast your dreams to the stars. soon your steps will become firm, and your footing will be solid again. a path you never imagined will become the most comfortable direction you could have ever hoped to follow.

keep your belief in yourself and walk into your new journey. you will find it magnificent, spectacular, and beyond your wildest imaginings.

~ Vicki Silvers

Living from the Heart

I know what I want. I really do. I just find it hard to get there. I'm so used to this mediocrity we call life that I don't even know how to push forward towards my goals. There is so much that I might have to give up, so many things that could go wrong if I really tried. If I gave everything that I am. I know what I want. But it scares me to try to get there. I find myself making excuses for why I haven't started "getting there" yet. I just need to do it. Maybe I can't because I'm busy running circles around myself trying to find a method or an answer or something...and if I stood still for a minute - if I just let myself BE, then maybe I would find that's where the answer is. In the stillness, the peace, the quiet. In that whisper that I can only hear when I am in a place of complete vulnerability. When I'm okay with really feeling. Everything needs to come from my heart. I find that sometimes something starts out from my heart, but as I get set into a routine, I stop listening to my heart and just follow what I'm accustomed to. It's like singing...or dancing. You can never try to "replicate" something that you sang or danced before. You have to start from scratch each time and just wait for whatever happens. And it won't be the same as the time before. It will be completely different, but it will be real.

I have this fire for life, but I am scared of what trying to really live will be like. f I let myself be shaped into someone who lives what the world calls a fulfilling life - where everyone is the same and does the same old thing, I will never forgive myself for not trying. I want to live moment by moment following my heart with everything that I am.

Fear is okay. But I can't let it hold me back.

Love

What is love? Is it that mad rush...that falling in love feeling? Or is it what comes after? The choices and the hard work to keep something beautiful alive?

What should love be? How should it look? How should it feel?

I found a quote that I think describes it perfectly. "Loves makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." - Zora Neale Hurston. I know of so many people who are "in love", but who are hiding their hearts, their dreams, their passions. I've been there, so I know. True Love allows your soul to breathe. It gives life, it encourages, it hopes. It is what we are here for, to love and to be loved.

Thoughts in Writing

Have you ever noticed that it is so much harder to write thoughts and opinions down that it is to just say them? Because when things are in writing, they are so much more concrete than when you just nonchalantly say them. When you write thoughts down for others to see, there is no way that you can deny that you "ever said that". Because you did, and everyone knows it. It's written down for them to see.

So, the conclusion. I usually have a MILLION things to say, but when it comes time to write them down, I swear they've all floated into oblivion. Maybe that means that I don't really know what I want to say. Hmm. Or maybe I'm just scared that someone won't like what they hear, and I won't have a shield to hide behind if they decide to tell me what they don't like about me. Because this is definitely me writing.

Its always harder to be yourself. I think that a lot of people aren't themselves because they are afraid of the responsibility that comes with it. It's all fine and dandy when someone likes something about you, but as soon as someone sees something they don't like, if you're being yourself you don't have anything to hide behind. You end up having to take responsibility for the good and the bad. The successes and the failures. And that's a big thing to have to do. That's why people are still looking for themselves when they're thirty or forty or fifty years old. And that's what people regret. Not living life to the fullest. Because you can't live your life to the fullest if you're trying to be anyone but yourself.