May 25 2018:
The Silence ….. xoxo …..
The squark of the seagull overhead.
The beep and roar of the construction equipment.
The call and honk of the geese.
The thunder of the leaf blower.
The slow ripples in the lake.
The ever so gentle harmony of the song birds.
The blare of ….
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Do You Feel Nature’s Abundance?
I feel the frosty cold
embrace as You brush
across this body.
I feel and Know
your Abundance.
I touch and hug
the beautiful,
scarred and knotted
trees that sprout
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Abundance Is Thanking Mother Earth — Touch & Hug The Beautiful, Scarred Trees
There is a space within
A space occupied, it was.
Occupied with judgment
Occupied with harshness
Occupied with unkind thoughts
towards others.
There is a space within
where the darkness
of judgment used to live.
Judgment lives
here no more.
Evicted.
It has been.
There is a space within.
A soft space of love
of compassion
of empathy
of understanding.
For a journey
of a thousand miles has …. Go below to read further …
“Lead the Way”
I know not what I am doing.
This requires more than
self-confidence could ever provide.
This beckons a confidence not of my self.
A confidence ruled by the force
that causes the musk thistle do what it does.
Sprout, grow, bloom, wither, blow
with the wind, and re-seed.
The force that holds the stars
in the sky and the same force
that grew two beings in my womb.
This beckons a …
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“The Key of Alchemy”
When ignored,
the darkness within
slowly erodes this physical body
When stuffed and buried deep within,
it silently grows stronger.
At some point along the path
and at many times,
the darkness surfaces.
Like a bullet train
or ever so slowly as a tortoise.
It will not be denied.
Keep turning our hearts away, we can.
Yet, the darkness will not depart
until it has space to be recognized.
The darkness, the shadows
only wish and pine for this space.
To be seen and accepted and felt
with compassion and deep love.
As the darkness is wrapped
in a loving embrace,
the transformation begins.
Acceptance, compassion and love,
serve to alchemize the darkness and shadows.
Transforming and melting the darkness
into the light.
The darkness may transform like a
freight train or may ever so slowly
transform as a tortoise.
Yet, it will transform when met
with love and compassion.
The irritation,
The anger,
The loneliness,
The despair,
The confusion.
Surface as they rub
the darkness within.
These feelings and emotions are the
key that allow an
opportunity to free oneself
from the suffering of denying
the darkness.
Freedom to live
consciously and authentically
is the gift this Key bears.
Oh, glory be,
the Key of Alchemy.
-2017, Camilla Downs, Lessons from Nature
August 29 2017:
Thomas has been nudging me to begin creating videos. That paired with internal nudges have led to the beginnings of that ….
Liberation
She was tired.
Tired of trying to figure it out.
Tired of trying to make things work.
Tired of manipulating circumstances
to make things work.
Tired of trying to control situations to make things work.
Tired of living in confusion.
Tired of the suffering
created by way of her thoughts.
Tired of the chains that
bound her to the suffering.
Tired of dragging those
invisible chains through life.
Tired of not loving herself.
Tired of not being loved.
Tired of the responsibility of it all.
Tired of questioning her every decision.
Tired of hiding the Truth from herself.
Tired of running from her own self.
Tired of the darkness within.
Tired of the pull of the ego.
What she craved.
What she desperately needed.
Was … FREEDOM.
In desperation she dropped to her knees.
Crying out to the all knowing,
Take this tired body,
Take this tired mind,
Take this confusion,
Take this suffering,
She let it all go.
She released it to the divine.
She asked for liberation
from her self-induced suffering.
Liberate this soul.
Liberate this heart.
Allow this heart to open.
Allow this heart to
receive and know unconditional love.
Allow this mind to know Clarity.
Liberation to the graceful
place of Knowing Freedom.
Liberation to the Place
of letting go.
Letting Go
And saying Yes
to Life. -©2017 Camilla Downs, Lessons from Nature
(Written in May 2017)
The Light of Freedom
“It’s time to step into the flames of the fire. The time is now to connect with that which you fear from your past. The past no longer exists and cannot cause you harm. However, when it is avoided and sidestepped; it does indeed cause you harm.
This avoidance and sidestepping keeps you a prisoner of the past and held captive to a perceived smallness. As the flame grows, be still and know that you are not alone. Be still and know it cannot hurt you. It cannot consume you.
By bringing your light to the flames of the fire, it will be extinguished and transformed into the light of freedom.
The freedom to claim your power. The freedom to know who you are. The freedom to shine your light with others.
Be still. And Know.” – 2017, Camilla Downs, The Journal
Shine
Shine bright dear one.
What your brothers
and sisters think
of your shine
matters not.
You see others shine,
and shrink even further
into the smallness of
not shining your light.
Each soul is meant to shine
in their own way
And no two ways will
be exactly the same.
Your shine is dulled by
years and years
of ignoring that
which creates the shine.
Dulled by messages received in childhood,
that you are doing it wrong,
that you don’t know how to do it.
Stories learned in childhood of
how one is supposed to live
how it’s supposed to be done.
The light is ever there.
It has not departed.
You have seen glimpses of it.
To allow the light to shine brightly
you must uncover what you buried
so deeply that you remember not
even having buried it.
What you have buried swings
like a pendulum.
One side, the victim
and the other, the judge.
Uncover it you must.
Face it.
Embrace it.
Know you can no longer
be hurt, or judged.
The vital step
of uncovering, confronting
and releasing cannot be skipped.
Fear has stopped you
from fully uncovering
what has been buried.
Eternal joy cannot be
Unless fear is
embraced by we.
I will face the fear
with you.
You are not alone.
Take my hand
and let us walk
together into
the darkness
and we shall emerge
as one to shine bright
and share love with
the world.
~©March 2017 Camilla Downs, Lessons from Nature
Come,
Walk with me.
Do you not see,
that you have
tethered your self
to illusions.
That create the
suffering you experience.
The illusion that you
are little,
that you must
compete and attack
to survive.
An illusion that comes
not from your soul.
Your soul knows the truth.
When you feel bliss,
when you feel time
stand still,
When you are truly joyful,
When you know that all is well,
When you look into
the eyes of another
and see the universe.
When you give and receive
love to yourself,
your brothers and sisters,
animals and Mother Earth.
These are when you have
let illusion fall away
and experience the
Truth of Grandeur.
Practice, you must,
at letting go
of confusion, overwhelm,
and fear for these are
not of the Truth.
For only when you
release the tethered
cord of illusion
will you be set free.
Come,
Walk with Me
And come home
to the Truth.
~2017 Camilla Downs, Lessons from Nature