Ascension Updates
A Spark of Creativity and Passion
by Samantha OrthliebYou must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell “I feel a subtle shift. It is deep within me, though; deep down to my bones. And something is rising up… bubbling to the surface… beginning to make itself known…” – Dana Tate […]
No Where Left To Hide
by Samantha Orthlieb“Heroes aren’t free from fear; they’re just so focused on a worthy goal that they feel they can’t turn back. Heroes don’t feel special, just dogged. They walk their scary paths with shaky knees and trembling hands. One shaky, trembling step at a time. » ~Martha Beck “Yeah I guess my world is changing There’s nowhere […]
Returning Home to Yourself – Part Two
by Samantha OrthliebWe either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. -~Carlos Castaneda Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability. ~Ho Chi Minh It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength […]
Returning Home to Yourself – Part One
by Samantha Orthlieb“To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.” ― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa Imagine if you were Whole. What would that […]
It’s a Mad, Mad World
by Samantha Orthlieb“Catastrophe can become grace, and disaster possibility, only if we transform their energy by accepting what they have to teach us and acting with complete sincerity to transform ourselves” – Dr. Andrew Harvey “Unless we awaken to the mystery of the Sacred Feminine, of the Feminine as sacred, and allow it to illumine and penetrate […]
Truly, Madly, Deeply
by Samantha Orthlieb“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven’t yet come to the end of themselves. We’re still trying to give orders, and interfering with God’s work within us. ” –A.W. Tozer “It’s healthy to say uncle when your bone’s about to break.” –Jonathan Franzen “You have […]
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 […]
Ending Illusion to Live Co-creation and Inner Truth.
by Samantha OrthliebYour problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the […]
Surrendering to Universal Flow
by Samantha Orthlieb“Did we really think this heart centered evolution process would be easy given that we do not surrender well to change and that we would rather do anything and be anything than bare and connect our heart to another??? Yet it is the very thing that we most long for in our soul!” – Samantha […]
Working with Meaninglessness
by Samantha Orthlieb“I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.” ― Criss Jami “Just tell me why; why […]
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 […]
2014: The Year of the Spiritually Fittest (Part 1)
by Samantha Orthlieb“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!’ ‘Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical…There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin “The crisis of our times is not only an […]