How long does it take, how many experiences before real change happens? “As long as it takes,” is the answer. In the process you get to learn about yourself, especially if you value every moment and take in every lesson as meaningful, if you tell yourself every day that the long road to change is a good road to be on, for in reality you are growing and changing all the time even though you may think you are traveling at a snail’s pace. Remember, even a snail will eventually arrive at a new place!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

New beginnings can occur at any time, by intention, through ritual, spontaneously through nature or forced by firm conviction. A new beginning is an opportunity to move on, to take up life in a new direction, with new companions perhaps, with new purpose. New beginnings can be small and meaningful to the inner self alone or large and outwardly noticeable to the world around you, but the real significance of new beginnings is that they further you along on your personal journey of change and transformation because, really, that’s what it’s all about!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Without blame make your way through life. Hold yourself accountable for all actions, decisions and choices, for it is you alone, or some part of you, that has gotten you where you are today, whether in a great spot or in a not so great spot. With such blameless accountability firmly owned you may now move on into a new phase, firmly secure in knowing that you really are in charge, as sure of change as you are of the phases of the moon; some nights it shines brightly and on others it is dark. So are the phases of life both light and dark. Things always change and that is good!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Find calmness within as often as possible throughout your day. Let what is outside of you recede as you breathe it away and let calming breath in. In the Tao of you find peace and quiet, find your center and your anchor in the true peace and calm of nature, nature that rumbles softly from the depths of Mother Earth that you are just a babe in her arms and she will take care of you, for you are one of her own loves. Let yourself be that calm and at peace today. It will do you good!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Sun and light, moon and night, all parts of the whole, revealing the human dilemma, earth and spirit, animal and divine, all seeking understanding and wholeness, answers to the big questions. Start small. Use the light and then use the dark to show you the way. Not all needs light to be known. Some things are best learned groping in the dark, the deeper mysteries hidden from the light waiting to be found. All have them inside, the treasures of the deep, in the unknown self. Let not them remain buried through yet another lifetime but seek continually within, asking always why until the answers come. A questing life with all its ups and downs, its lights and darks, its strengths and weaknesses is surely the richest life of all. Inside each of you those riches lie waiting to be discovered, have no doubt!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne