Soulshine

“Look Inside yourself; Everything you want, you already are.” Rumi When people attend my retreats, I always tell them “all of your answers are inside of you.” I’ve learned through personal experience that this is absolutely true. No one has my answers to my inner-questions except me. I can ask someone for guidance and I can become more aware of the ways in which my Higher Power is speaking to me through other people. But NO ONE-- no other person-- can give me my answers. I have to do the work. I have to go inside of myself and discover the treasure that I have long been ignoring. This is why I believe Rumi’s statement above is so true: Everything we think we are lacking, we actually have already. We just don’t realize it. And we need to be willing to go inside ourselves and find the answers we need to make our lives whole and complete. It may take us years, but that’s OK. It’s worth it. Every answer we discover, every feeling of self-worth and value we reconnect with ma...

“The eyes of man speak words the tongue cannot pronounce.” Native American Proverb The eyes of humans speak the deepest, and sometimes darkest, truths beyond what human words can express. And there are certainly times when human eyes betray the words that flow across human lips. It seems that there is some sort of invisible umbilical cord between the human heart and human eyes. The eyes always speak the truth within the heart. Is it any wonder then that we often have a hard time looking people in the face when we have something heavy weighting on our hearts. It’s difficult to muster the words we need and to speak to them honestly when we don’t want to hurt them, much less look them in the face as we speak. I have no doubt this is one of the reasons why email and texting are so popular today. Likewise, this mysterious heart-to-eyes connection is also the reason why we find it very difficult to look someone directly in the eyes and lie to them. Inherently, we know that our...