Year end review: lessons caught

My 2013 looked something like this...

Collage 2013, Eleni Livitsanos

Open and surrender. Live in love and in truth. Use my voice. 
Commit to beauty. Dance freely. Be love. 

Fill myself. Breathe deeply. 
My breath, the wave I ride to the depths I seek. 
Deep dive. Be true. Listen, then follow. Eyes wide open. 

Begin with opening the heart, she says. 
Make friends with truth, authenticity, beauty.

Then
Connect with circles of women, waiting, 
healing, with presence. 
Listening. 
Sitting with what is. No need to change. You are perfect as you are. 
Acceptance
the most radical expression of love. 
{Spoken by friends easily, casually, teaching; 
me, catching truths as they fly through the air, effortlessly}. 

Start at the beginning, she says.
Where we all begin again and again, 
when everything important falls away. 
And we are left
naked
with the task of piecing ourselves back together. 
A chance to remember {re-member} ourselves in a meaningful
way. A way that makes this life worthy of our choosing.  

And this, dear friends, is our initiation, our path
home to our True Self.
My truth
Revealed. 
Unmasked. 

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