In times of great despair turn inward, knowing that although you cannot get what is happening outside of you right you can always get what is happening inside of you right. For when all is right within, all is naturally right with the world too. When there is love within, there will be love coming from within. When there is joy within, there will be joy flowing from within. When there is calmness within, calmness radiates without. As within, so without.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Remain quiet, contained, and centered within the self as the year winds down, as this phase concludes. As the old dies away and the new prepares for birth, consider your own process of ending and beginning. What within you is ending? What within you seeks life? What is it time to let go of? And what is it time to bring forth into life? Sit quietly and remember that the sun sets and rises again, that the moon has its phases, just as you do. Get quiet within. Stay connected to the truth of changing nature within and without and listen to your wise self who knows you better than anyone. With eagerness and anticipation focus on new life to come. Remain positive. Even in the darkest times the potential for light and the possibility of change are just around the darkest corner. Meditate on that. Meditate on the light.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Let love in to soften your heart, to brighten your mind, to enhance the dream that is your life, to carry you forward to your goals. Let love in to guide and teach you, to protect you, to embrace you and imbue you, to enhance you and enable you to see beyond the current dream that is your life to new dreams and new possibilities. Let love in to show you where to go next and how to do what needs doing. Let love in and let it reside in you always, for it is the universal language, understood by all creatures and all beings. Let love in, and speak its language in all you do, in all you say, and in all that you are.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
To be in Tao is to be in balance with all things, inside and out, to be patient, calm, and at peace no matter what is going on in your life, knowing that everything is as it should be for this moment. Without guilt, without blame or shame, without regret, embrace all that you are in this moment and accept how right everything is. In this moment, be in the Tao of you. And in this moment, inside and out, lovingly make peace with where you are.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Life is not a competition; it’s a journey. Life is not a race; it’s a walk along a special path. If you rush along you’ll miss some important things. If you slow down you’ll notice more, take in more, experience more. So slow down to the beat of your heart at peace, to the calm rhythm of your own slow and steady breathing. You can always do better, not against anyone else, but just as a human being on a journey beside other human beings on their own journeys.
Look inward now and slow down, even as you look outward, thinking you have to speed up, that you are missing something out there. You are not. The only thing you are missing is your quiet spirit within and what it is really saying to you, your connection to all it knows and wishes for you. Seek that, for that alone will bring you fulfillment. And the funny thing is, your spirit might indeed instruct you to go find something outside of you, something important you never imagined. It might be that doing better means getting outside of yourself and that nothing could be better than that at this time in your life. But let such directives come from within, from your own spirit, so that they will be right. Slow down and learn to listen to the quiet voice of spirit within.
-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne