Author: Alain Herriott

“Drama is life with the dull parts left out.”  ― Alfred Hitchcock

Funny but true.  We see the world, we look at our experiences and judge it. It says things are too slow or too fast.  The mind is now engaged and we leave the now.  We leave our ability to be truly present.  This evaluative capacity that the world says we should use for everything is what takes us out of the moment and separates our body and mind.  Feeling reintegrates us.  This is why we do it, to unwind the drama, to become aware of who we are and become whole even for the dull parts.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

“The mind creates those things that exist.”  ― Terrt Tempest Williams, PIeces of White Shell

We look around us and we see what we see.  We say this is real and this is what it means.  Someone, maybe a friend or maybe just some random person looks at the same thing and says “No, it means this and I know that this is real and it is the only thing it can mean.”  Such is Maya, the illusion of the senses.  Everything we see, everything we hold as an absolute truth is an interpretation of what our senses experience, and all this is colored by our beliefs, our thoughts.  This is what twists the world askew between people, communication and being.  It may seem odd to include being in this description,  yet it too is a truth.  As we unwind our internal conflicts and beliefs we find our whole self.  This is the nature of being.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

The eye— it cannot choose but see;
we cannot bid the ear be still;
our bodies feel, where’er they be, 
against or with our will.” ―William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

That is it.  We are constantly feeling regardless of our desires or what is going on around us.  It is the sea we swim in and our reason to be.  That art of feeling can be evolved to set us free or to trap us in the world of Maya.  Choose to feel and consciously unravel your fears and Awakening is what you will discover.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

“Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.” —George Shinn

 The only risk is our fear.  By moving beyond this, we enter the unknown — the most fertile ground that there is.  Now we are amazing.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott