When we listen within and honor our truth — in silence or through expression — we live with integrity and set the tone for peace and harmony.
Sometimes the choice is between being authentic and doing what we think the world wants from us — to be liked, approved, and accepted. And through years of social conditioning, we’ve learned to bend to that demand.
This is the intersection of choosing inner peace or avoiding outer turbulence.
It serves us well to ask ourselves,
Am I living with love, or am I shying away from fear?
Am I being true to myself, or am I doing what I believe is expected of me?
When we do what is expected of us, things stay calm, we are friends with the crowd, at least on the surface. But it comes at a price — our inner peace.
The Force of Emotion
There is freedom and deep power in expressing our feelings in a mature, loving, and direct way.
Holding on to emotions drains our strength. They are not meant to be frozen — we are wasting our time.
We can share them with love, raw as they are — we can transmute them into art, or through the power of the word.
In either case, they need to move through us — they need to be expressed.
Holding on to what is meant to flow suffocates life and depletes us from within — serving nothing but pain, suffering, and decay.
What are you holding on to? Why do you hold on?
Why are we wasting our capacity — why do we block the flow of life?
Why don’t we just allow — accept, let go, and surrender to the flow?
We hold, we struggle, we keep it inside while the pressure builds reaching its peak.
The bubble bursts, releases a charge — ripples forth through the world at large.
Energetic waves of toxicity unfurl instead of amplifying life with love.
A pattern we can break when we choose to live — true to ourselves. This is the difference between being the cause — conscious of our actions and brave in our ways, and being a pawn — reactive, undaring, and afraid for ourselves.
This is a pattern, born of self-protection. It is beautiful in its ways— yet it subtly works against us, as what we avoid tends to do.
We may protect our physical being by staying inside the house, but is that truly living? Is that what we now define as life?
In countless ways we protect ourselves, in numerous more, others as well. But in the end, it has the opposite effect to our utter dismay.
Because what we keep away from all potential harm never has the opportunity to truly grow strong.
Staying small to stay safe becomes a habit of hiding rather than honoring who we truly are.
It might sound good for a sweet little while, yet as it continues, weaker we become.
And the weaker we are, the more we fear, the safer we stay — and the safer we are, the smaller we remain.
Can we see the pattern — the loop that is repeating?
Because if we never leave the cave — who can tell?
How can we know — who we truly are?
So we need to speak out even though it hurts our pride, even though someone might not approve, even though we do not know what will come.
In fact, that is the point, that is life,
uncertain, unfolding, engulfing in flames —
determined, devoted, an angel in chains —
raises his gaze, straightens his back —
still on his knees, spreads out his wings.
The Paradox of Fear
We do not avoid what we fear by fearing it — instead, we are working for it.
Not daring to share our truth is the fear of what it will bring or create — how it might disrupt our comfort.
We think that by avoiding it we are escaping it, but in truth we are only postponing it — allowing what we don’t want to grow stronger, while what waits beyond fear is the love of our dreams.
We are afraid to rock the boat, so we sit completely still — silent as a mouse, patient as an owl — yet without intent except to stay constantly safe.
Don’t move a muscle, do not turn your head. Be careful dear sir, you might break a leg. Sit on your seat and watch the world pass you by.
We don’t want violence, so we stand on the side — we avoid it, we deter — and we are safe in a way. But when we don’t stand in front of it, freely it spreads; when we do not stand up for what we believe, truth loses its voice.
The man who stands silent and watches evil occur, it is said, is an accomplice as he allows it to unfold.
Of course, one can’t do everything, but everyone can do something — so ask yourself truly: what can I do? What is my truth? What is my way? What do I fear that keeps me away?
I am not saying to put yourself in harm’s way, not at all. Please don’t be stupid, choose how you play. Yet it is a message, a truth to be aware of: we are all part of everything, so avoidance is not the cure.
Truth delayed becomes tension — tension surely grows, turns into pain, and pain into more.
When we suppress what is alive, we suffocate its voice. We might forget, but the body never does.
When we honor our truth, healing freely flows — a return to balance, harmony, and peace.
Conscious Expression — The Power of the Pause
Now here comes the practice—a clue that changes all: the blessing of a pause. This might save your world.
And in the sacred pause, if you feel the inspiration to express — follow intuition; do not doubt your gut. This is a wave we have the blessed chance to ride — yet only in that moment, exactly as it arrives.
Yes, there will be others, but not the very same, never will this moment ever come again.
And as we dare to try and fail — the better we become; our skills will surely grow — we are evolving with the tides.
And yes, we will fall down — we are learning all the while; our will shall not resign.
Roll in the ocean, dust off your shoes, breathe, recalibrate, and get back up on the horse.
