Remember Your Brilliance

"Each day, our tribe of language holds what we call the world together. Yet uttering of the word reveals how each of us relentlessly creates. Everyone is an artist. Each person brings sound out of silence and coaxes the invisible to become visible." Anam Cara John O'Donohue Prologue xv :::::::: '...coaxes the invisible to become visible." What are you creating with your words? Do you imagine the words you speak as power filled entities of magic, creating the world you inhabit? Do you fill your conversations with filler words, to enhance the conversation? Do you construct your responses or do you allow the words to flow from you? Is this true for you always? OR is it dependent upon company and context? You may or may not have noticed how lazy some can be with their language, with their conversations, as if the editing or filtering or thinking has been switched off; for me - this is very telling of their world, of how they live, and wh...

Get dressed. Show up. For the past two weeks I have been involved in self experiment of sorts; getting dressed. Now, don't get me wrong, I get dressed most days.  In the recent past, there were days pajamas were the attire for the whole day. Pajama day.  Easy, relaxing and comfy. These days, I'm on a bit of a roll with changing my habits.  I have been working with myself to change the way I move in the world, and it occurred to me getting dressed first thing may be an easy change to do. I thought it would be uncomfortable and I wouldn't like it. Since I love quiet reflective mornings I figured my pajamas were the perfect costume for this. I was mistaken. Being ready to create the day is more in my style it seems. It has been very easy in fact - getting up and getting dressed right away has lead me to more productive days. As I consider - it's possibly because I get up, get dressed and begin - the day has started - and since I am already dressed, there is...

This morning I was reading from John O'Donohue's book - Eternal Echoes This passage caught my mind from Wittgenstein : 'The limits of my language mean the limits of my world'  Wow I have always been drawn to words, the power they hold in them.  The Bible say, in the beginning was the word... The wonderful and brilliant Maya Angelou said words have power , they are things, they get into you, be careful of the words you use. The word. The creator of worlds What words are you using to create your life. Begin today, begin now, pay attention are they power filled and present? Imagine, the quality of your life is impacted by the quality of your words, by the ability to speak your world into being, create your world by using powerful words of choice. The beautiful words have moved me again John O'Donohue -  "Words become the mirrors of reality"