Photo: An oil painting in an antique shop in Venice, with a reflection of another painting behind it.
Some of us feel, at one time or another… a desire to fully express the inner tide of who we are. To be able to live abundantly our deepest longings, and yet during these moments the reality of our lives holds us back. The day-to-day life of commitments and expectations, time restraints and budget, the constant call of choice….
Photo: Holy cards montage.
The tender ache of holding back, or worse the waiting to the point of forgetting that which is at the core of our desire. Maybe the inner desire can be expressed, lived and shared, wherever we are to some extent…instead of an all or nothing approach.
Photo: A small detail of a colored engraving 1800 c.
Honor your desire by planting a seed of it somewhere. Let it take root in a small gesture, a simple act, by writing our desire on a stone and tossing it in a river… write a word a day to yourself and put it in a jar by your bedside…follow your heart by dancing at midnight under the moon… or give yourself permission to not be perfect… draw an ink tattoo on yourself of the image of your desire… create a collage on your bathroom mirror…make vegetable monsters to conquer your fear…put love letters to yourself under your pillow…every-time you see that which you long for, say your name out loud. If you long for it to be true then plant your longing in your heart’s garden and water it regularly with symbolic gesture.
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