Self awareness
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I can choose who I am And how I am with others I can fill them with love I can share them joy I can shine so they see I can water and grow I can be still amongst their noise I can be present in their distraction I can choose love when fear consumes…
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Because It really doesn’t matter In the end Or the middle Or the start Because regardless The sacred shines in you Light is in you Actually Light is you The sacred is you Closer than your thoughts let you believe Closer than faiths have let you see You and the divine are one Sacred unity,…
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I was going to write But then I realised It was more important to be Because sometimes trying to write Takes me out of being me. And on this first day of the year I realised That me in my being Is where I needed to be Dwelling inside Sensing and breathing Wonder and glow…
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I love this time of the year. Its the time of year when I wake up and drink coffee looking out of the window and see how the dark blue early morning light changes through the colours into the sunrise, admitted today it is just a grey light giving tree branches a dark effect. I…
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I have waited a full year to tell you this story. It’s a personal one, but I hope a good one, and please do bear with the length of it, grab yourself a coffee or tea and strap in. Maybe many of you have been reading my work for a while, if you go back…
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With the love of new companions Angels that found me and a loving self I go To The wild path. Step out onto its mysterious threshold hurting, pained, afraid The first act of love To walk the wild path Alone, but not alone. Stones reveal their shapes Masking my pain. Unable to feel, their jagged…
James Ballantyne 