Claudia Dawson

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

If things aren't going according to your plan, examine your pictures of reality, looking for signs of limitation and control. Trying to control and manipulate events according to personality's ideas of how things should be is a fruitless activity, and may lead to disappointment, frustration, and anger. So what can you do? When you align with the

How do we experience painful circumstances without becoming embittered by them?

By seeing them as lessons and not as retribution.

“The ba is written sometimes as a winged human head, which is the older form, and sometimes as a human-faced bird. For the ka-ibis is the highest part of the body and it is in the head, and the ba is the first part of us that is conscious of leaving Earth and of being ‘winged’.

The grace of your evolution requires you to give in completely to every limitation until your entire being commits itself to penetrating its human form. There can be no holding back and no hesitation. The direction is through the center and out the other side, courageously, with all three eyes open.

To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love. To know how to love someone, we have to understand them. To understand, we need to listen. That person may be our partner, our friend, our sibling, or our child. You can ask, “Dear one, do you think that I understand you enough? Please tell me your difficulties, your suffering, and your