I want you guys to listen with your hearts wide open. Allow the lyrics and melody to take over. Let it move you. Let it take you to where your soul needs to be.
It is so easy to allow what we're so accustomed to feeling reign over us. Sometimes it is okay to say goodbye and to let go of the shackles that once held us captive. In the midst of all the chaos, while the sun sets, our hearts can feel something new...
Life has a funny way of pouring down the pains of stress, burden, and unfulfilled expectations. However, one thing in my life has been able to keep this in check. My umbrella of faith and love keeps me happy on this journey. Knowing full well that what my soul needs is what brings me pure peace.
Sketch above is one I did sometime last year of me and the girl.
It's one of those nights where my mind and body drifts and sleep is nowhere in sight. A notion that races through my thoughts include the idea of our souls and our physical bodies. Two distinct realms yet woven together to form a distinct bond.
As we traverse within our daily lives, we can't help but meet numerous souls. Through some of these encounters, we are left with that feeling... A feeling that you can't seem to pinpoint but you know it's there. This powerful connection that remains. Something that feels so right where only feelings can truly describe the emotion felt.
I once met a person in a coffee shop that told me that they feel they know me from "another life." The connection I had with this person was profound. Despite our relatively short conversation, a level of peace radiated within our interaction.
Which prompts me to the never ending idea of Rebirth. Reincarnation. Resurrection.
Tibetan Buddhism defines Reincarnation as a rebirth of consciousness, where one's soul essence passes on to another like a flame from a candle to candle.
The Christian faith loosely defines the Resurrection as the resumption of life.
If one takes these beliefs as a whole, you can see how life remains within our soul. As we face death in its multiple forms. Be it in the form of loss, we regain and replenish in other ways.
This doesn't have to begin upon death. It's when one acknowledges that death separates our physical form with our soul's essence, we are able to phsyically, emotionally, and spiritually transcend and evolve.
I'm not sure if it is the memory of ghost's past or just the emotions that are riled up while I'm back here in Michigan finalizing things, but I can feel a darkness tug at me. This feeling, I remember so fondly. Like a needle relentlessly piercing at your skin.
I feel better equipped to handle situations like this as I've had to endure so many obstacles during my life. It's so easy to be fixated on every small minute detail that is wrong in one's life. It's also so easy to be fixated on something you want so bad. With these feelings, the one thing you easily lose is the good things that are present in your life.
I find myself accepting that being human, I will have these dark feelings. Being aware, it allows me to let them go and appreciate what life has to offer. The flexible nuances that life brings me everyday.
I take a step back from the trees to see the woods that is my personal kaliedoscope. I can't help but smile at what is.
The title says it all... I was listening to this song by NIN. It's funny how life experiences causes you to see things differently. I first listened this song a few years ago when it was released. It was really good then, but now it has a deeper resonance. The lyrics are so profound and deep that I couldn't help but share:
See the animal in his cage that you built Are you sure what side you're on? Better not look him too closely in the eye Are you sure what side of the glass you are on? See the safety of the life you have built Everything where it belongs Feel the hollowness inside of your heart And it's all... Right where it belongs
What if everything around you Isn't quite as it seems? What if all the world you think you know Is an elaborate dream? And if you look at your reflection Is it all you want it to be? What if you could look right through the cracks? Would you find yourself... Find yourself afraid to see?
What if all the world's inside of your head Just creations of your own? Your devils and your gods All the living and the dead And you're really all alone? You can live in this illusion You can choose to believe You keep looking but you can't find the woods While you're hiding in the trees
What if everything around you Isn't quite as it seems? What if all the world you used to know Is an elaborate dream? And if you look at your reflection Is it all you want it to be? What if you could look right through the cracks Would you find yourself... Find yourself afraid to see?
