Doors and windows are open to the drizzling rain and the 72 degrees that came with her. These little summer storms clear the air, they let us renew our space each time they blow through. It’s like a combination baptism and smudging. It’s a smuptism.

There’s a place on that forehead right at the third eye that my thumb fits in perfectly. I’ll bet it unlocks something

Being passionate, seeking joy and desiring others to have that joy for themselves will translate into everything we say or do when we refuse to seek anything but the good in life! Evil hates the presence of light. Being light to the world opens endless possibilities.
Lilly Blackheart

“Who were your spiritual teachers?” I am often asked. “What ashrams and monastic communities did you live in?”  Experience has taught me that as soon as I answer these questions, the energy changes.  I either get labelled as an extremist or placed on an undeserved pedestal. I spent years being impressed by friends’ lineages and whom they studied with, what certificates and photos with celebs they accumulated, and what media attention they got for the association.  I realized the trap (for me,) the distraction of talking about it, the illusion that was too easy to get lost in instead of spending alone time accelerating my own inner growth.  I honor my lineage when I recognize that we are all One and The Same and act as if.  I honor my teachers when I share their lessons in my own words through my personal experiences, and when I walk my talk. My lineage is to not get too caught up in what someone says is their lineage, because then I’m waiting for them to either make the teacher proud or shame him, instead of experiencing who they are in the Now without all the labels.
Andrea’s way too long Bio

Love people, even if they don’t love you. Love people’s choices, even if they are not your choices. Love people enough to let them learn from their own mistakes. If they don’t fall, they can’t bounce.

Applaud someone’s good as if it were your own and it will draw itself closer to you. Don’t scheme and connive and deceive and withhold and think anything good can come of it. In 50 years none of it will matter. Let it not matter now.

Would you want someone to kiss you today if they might not want to kiss you tomorrow or ever again?

Ah, this is classic and universal: A friend met two men at the same time. The two men are friends. She’s openly seeing one and secretly seeing the other. One she is very compatible and comfortable with, the other she has wild chemistry with. The secret one doesn’t want to be a secret anymore. RuttRo…