Ascension Updates
2016: The Year of Passionate Ingenuity
by Samantha OrthliebThere is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. – W. Clement Stone “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” ― Wayne W. Dyer “Our lives are always […]
Riding the Swell of Chaos
by Samantha Orthlieb“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.”― Mary Shelley “I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves […]
A Glimmer on the Horizon
by Samantha Orthlieb“You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved.” ― Stewart O’Nan, “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things […]
Cementing In Our Destiny
by Samantha Orthlieb“Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ‘what kind of tea?”― Neil Gaiman “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”― Rabindranath Tagore “We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part […]
The Sacrifice
by Samantha Orthlieb“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” ~Napoleon Hill “Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.” ~Paul Ryan “Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things […]
Ready, Set, Revolution!
by Samantha Orthlieb“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” —Lao Tzu “Leadership should start from the bottom – these are simply people who see that things need to be done and they start doing it…the ones who are committed…the […]
Through the Looking-Glass
by Samantha Orthlieb“Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.” – Thich Nahat Hanh “The way of the Creative works through change […]
The Turning Point
by Samantha Orthlieb“Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.” ~Terence McKenna “We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of […]
2015 : The Return of Sovereignty
by Samantha OrthliebIt’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you but no one can walk it for you. – Rumi Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you. – Ali ibn abi Talib Come out of the masses, stand alone like a Lion, and live your life […]
Acceptance and Surrender as a way to Joy and Peace
by Samantha Orthlieb“Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working […]
2014: The Year of the Spiritually Fittest (Part 2)
by Samantha Orthlieb“Once you go into a ceremony, you go into the light, around the curve, and you bring your patients back from another world where they are already dead, from lack of spirituality.” – Yakima healer “The white man talks about the mind and body and spirit as if they are separate. For us they are […]
Dying into Big Love
by Samantha Orthlieb“I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this,you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.” – Judith Minty, Letters to My Daughters October 2013 marks the biggest death yet of our inner selves and for the old way of living for our species. And with […]