sugar and salt

you are facing yourself. Not at least…but at most..the shadow is a dark fucker.
i hear u.

Life is a rush into the unknown.
You can duck down & hope nothing hits you,
Or stand as tall as you can, show it your teeth & say:
“Dish it up, baby, and don't be stingy with the jalapenos.”
Grey Owl


Tara you ferocious woman … I did read further & like to throw a bit of spice yr way &
no worries mate ;-) no sugarcoating in sight.. I hear you & I think, also hear where you
are coming from..  Now, for starters, I am one of them folks filled with love & lightness..
..& laughter & I cannot spak for anyone but me & I mostly want to let you know that I too,
have anger, darkness of mood & certainly my share of morbidity as well as a rather big
capacity for venting big time when in need.

This is just to say, that I believe we all have it all & that it is a part of being in this human
experience.. I think it is a situation of this & that & perfectly so.. How else to learn how
to..well, learn anything really? I think too, that we are all light in our souls, but there is
more to the picture, than mere soulness & every layer in our personality is there for us
to look at & lear from & that it all boils down to being a matter of balance.

And yes it sucks when it is only possible to peek out from one of the corners & worse
when it feels as if that is all there is. It does get better when being able to take a wee
step back & look at it instead of looking through it.. &  by it I mean our shadow…
& I could go on & on about this, but I'm not gonna. I don't have that many words in me
today & I know very well too, that when venting is at hand, one's span of attention tends
to feel somewhat limited.. tsk tsk.

If you like reading & have yet to read these.. I highly recommend a couple of books
that might wery well be suitable for looking a bit further into, if you are up for that.. 
The Dark side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford & Return to Love by Marianne Willamson.
Both books cuts right to bone of the matter & at the same time, no heavier a read than
to be done hangin on the beach fx..  so no more words for now..

be good & take care of you.. & yes, love, laughter & lightness yr way too.. tara ;-)


Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host.
But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou

Ah–you say you have no talent; and yet look at the clarity with which you have expressed youself.
If  you can't believe in yourself, perhaps it is because you are still discovering yourself. You are seeing both shadow [in “myself” and light [“in others”]. But the one who is seeing, is you. So both the shadow and the light is within  you.  I read yesterday that we are known not by what others say of us; but what we say about others.

Well, in that case, t.j,, considering what you've written about others–see what you are! Read yr blog with that pov and you'll see that different you.

And as tara [which means star in hindi] says, every person who has light, has been thru the darkness. the darker it burns, the lighter it cools.

been reading some Joseph Campbell, thought i would share;


Follow your bliss

The heroic life is living the individual
adventure.


There is no security
in following the call to adventure.

Nothing is exciting
if you know
what the outcome is going to be.

To refuse the call
means stagnation.

What you don't experience positively
you will experience negatively.


You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.

Where there is a way or path,
it is someone else's path.

You are not on your own path.


If you follow someone else's way,
you are not going to realize
your potential.


if you get to the point that you dont care if you die, then fuck it, live!