Month: August 2016

The Hidden Path~ August 30, 2016 

Picture taken by me at Muir Woods , CA 8.27.16

Why are we born with a feeling of emptiness ?
Even as children we feel this desperate longing to find happiness outside ourselves.
We walk through an abyss of nothingness,

Trying to get it.

An incredible longing to find true love.

Is it childhood conditioning?

Or is it more than that?

A feeling that drives us, that makes us feel as if though we are searching,

For someone. For something.

So we seek and crawl.

And we love, and lose.

And we learn.

And we keep searching, almost desperately as if thirsting for air.

So we love again, and lose again.

And then finally, through this loss, we learn there’s freedom in letting go,

Unlocking a key to a new self discovery,

A self realization that what we had been  aching for was always sitting inside ourselves.

That what we had always been searching for was our very own soul.

And had we not felt that unquenchable emptiness, we would have never been driven,

To find it.

To awaken.

~gg

Forgiveness ~ 8.19.2016

picture taken by me 8.18.16
Those past relationships that sting.

Friends that become strangers due to our  personal limitations and differences.

People you might have fallen in love with once and never spoke to again.

Years of mistakes. 

Years of repeating those mistakes.

And on the full moon in Aquarius, and anniversary night, 

You walk into a room of old faces from the past; every single situation that had once ended badly,

packed neatly inside this room almost as if for careful examination.

A magnificent coincidence.

The universe so beautifully calculation to  orchestrate such a thing, 

Simply to point out that the things that might have bothered her before, no longer affected.

Only to demonstrate that what remained after these failed relationships, regardless of any wrongdoings or mistakes,

Was love.

Virtual Walls – August 12, 2016

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Artist Unknown

I’m starting to realize just how lonely most people truly are.

Could it be that the warm tenderness we used to feel through human contact has been deeply severed;

Consequences of modern technology, which has intensely crated a false sense of togetherness.

Where we befriend people from afar without getting “too personal,”

Each one of them parading behind a mask;

Acting out their magnificent role on their glorious stage,

A beautiful theatrical performance specifically catered to its audience.

A virtual reality where we can no longer differentiate between truth and deception.

A dangerous story which could leave us vulnerable to unfathomable pain.

And so we choose protection by creating walls that enslave us.

Resulting in our no longer being spectators, but also now participants,

In the very same cold and disconnected world;

leaving us empty;

making us creators of our very own lonely world.

~gg

 

 

Infinity – 8.1.2016

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Sun Analemma in ancient Delphi, Greece. Photographer Anthony Ayuomamitis Source:National Geographic

You feel it, don’t you?

The way the storms move inside your chest?

Does your skin crawl with every breathe you take?

When did you notice it?

That full heaviness that sets in right in middle of your chest.

It’s new, isn’t it?

You don’t even know where it comes from,

Or when it was that it first appeared.

But it’s the interconnectedness of it all.

The feel of the gravitational pull of the earth.

Pushing you forward, setting you onto your destined course.

An infinite oneness;

A mixture of both

joy and the pain;

fear and the love;

And all because….we are one.

~gg

 

 

 

 

The Game ~ August 1, 2016

Photographer Unknown


You win and you lose.

Choices are given to us,

Like a binary code inside a programmed game,

We choose left or right; yes or a no.

But we are blind, and confused. And all we can do is hope.

Feeling powerless along the way,

We look back and learn from what’s happened to us.

Until we realize we can take our power back,

And learn to play.

~gg