Words hold power to shift your situation. Listen to the magic held in the following passages and see if through pure mindfulness, you can hear what they’re trying to change in you.
I signed up for Picture Book Summit this year and had the great fortune of listening to various authors share their expertise. In a session entitled, “Storytelling vs. Story Showing: Balancing Illustration and Text in Picture Books,” author and illustrator LeUyen Pham beautifully said this:
“Going from UCLA, from doing what I thought I was supposed to do with my life to what I should be doing with my life, it’s like slipping into a warm bath. Everything suddenly felt right and real for the first time.”
Richard Rohr says the following in his inspiring book Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life:
“We are given a span of years to discover it [true self], to choose it, and to live our own destiny to the full. If we do not, our True Self will never be offered again, in our own unique form…Our soul’s discovery is utterly crucial, momentous, and of pressing importance for each of us and for the world. We do not ‘make’ or ‘create’ our souls; we just ‘grow’ them up.”
What is life begging you to see? What have you been wanting to do? Why are you grinding up your days as if you had an unlimited amount?
When will you decide to live the life you were meant to live? When will you decide to be fully you?