Just as a poison may have the capacity to heal so may a sweet have the capacity to poison. It’s all about amount. So is it with all things. On the path of moderation, the Middle Way, all things are tested as to their worthiness, stability, and balance and only those things that are worthy, stabilizing, and balancing in the right measure are kept, their capacities fully known and explored so that life may indeed be a healing journey. Know yourself in this manner too, so that you may heal and grow eternally.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

As one changes things fall away. Like the butterfly that emerges full grown its cocoon must be left behind. Shedding happens naturally as one embarks on a journey of change. As one changes interests change too, people and things once loved and adhered to must be taken leave of. Transformation by its very nature is a process of leaving that which no longer serves the transformation. All transformations are painful and it may take some time to reconcile one’s own interests and desires as change occurs, but stay on the path of transformation for its rewards are plentiful, its journey eternal, its only purpose the changing you.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Life, it’s all about being in harmony, perfecting the inner and outer selves so that both are equally in alignment with nature. Life is nature, nature is the energy of constant change, change is the bringer of new life. To be in harmony with the nature of change, to harmonize with all else, become like a bird in the sky riding the currents of change, trusting your own wings as much as the air beneath them. That is how to be in harmony.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Finding the Middle Way takes patience. It may not be clear at first what to take along on your journey. To eliminate too much produces hardship just as excess does. Too few burdens and the journey is unpleasant, too many and it is equally so. What goes? What stays? These are the questions to ponder as one makes the choice to live life a certain way, in spirit as much as in the reality of the world. Both matter.

Patience and fortitude are necessary as one makes choices each day, but so is it necessary to be realistic and practical so that life does not become a high-minded ideal lacking in joy. Let the energy of each day guide you on your journey as you make decisions on what is right. Ask for help maintaining balance, integrity, honesty and the means by which to carry out your wishes with grace.

The real ideals of the Middle Way are compassion and loving kindness to all of life, to everything in existence, maintaining the self as no more or less important than anything else but as one with all. Keep that in mind as you take your first steps on your journey today. And don’t forget to love yourself for taking every step you have so far taken and every step to come.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne