Sydney Barnett
@sydbarnett
Writer. Singer. Coach.
Sydney Barnett
sydneybarnettmusic.substack.com
Restlessness is a sign you've overstayed your welcome with where you are and need to leave by moving toward the person you can be. Our love of stability keeps us where we are. The key is to leave just before you’re ready. If you leave too late, you miss the opportunity.
Restless Heart
Perhaps the most anti-mimetic attitude of all is an openness to wonder and a desire to let reality surprise you. It rarely disappoints.
Luke Burgis • How to Know What You Really Want
Choose to be open to anything at all happening, to hold nothing fixed, to hold no certainty except that magic is a possibility. And that possibility is magic.
Arjuna Ishaya • 200% – An Instruction Manual for Living Fully
I’m seeking what the poet John Keats called negative capability, that intuitive mode of thought that allows us to reside in “uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.”
Katherine May • Enchantment
I hope you will find the cracks in the world and wedge them wider, so the light of other suns shines through; I hope you will keep the world unruly, messy, full of strange magics; I hope you will run through every open Door and tell stories when you return.
Alix E. Harrow • The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it's worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they
... See moreEveryone comes here with their own story. No matter how close you are to a certain person, you can’t alleviate them of their story. This is hard for women in general because the tendency is to doctor everyone around you.
That hardship of karmic livelihood is both real and not real. The drama of the individual is for them to wake up out of. We as
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To be a very spirited and intuitive person, you have to leave room for impulsivity. You have to leave room for the unprecedented. You have to leave room for the miracle of joy. Call it sacredness. You have to leave room for sacredness in your life.
If you don’t leave room for those things, and it can be a token, then you’re strangling spirit in
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