The body is a temple
of love, life and eternal truths
May it guide and show us the way
to the beginning…the end
the everything and the nothing
and somewhere in between
~Chantal
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Awakening Osiris – written by Normandi Ellis
Happy New Year!!!! NOTE: READ THE COMMENTS – They’re from the author herself!
I walk this earth swimming in an ocean of beauty. The wind carries my every thought rippling out like water.
When there is doubt there is hope Robert Mirabal – Taos Pueblo
We have no art, we do everything as well as we can.
I’d make animals out of clay, and swim down to the bottom of the deep, deep ocean and listen to what the fish have to say. I’d bring you yesterday and tomorrow with the sun rising inbetween. I’d sit on the moon and watch the stars dance. I’d follow the sun around the world.
Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, flitting around and enjoying myself. I had no idea I was Chuang Tzu. Then suddenly I woke up and was Chuang Tzu again. But I could not tell, had I been Chuang Tzu dreaming I was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I was now Chuang Tzu?
Many thanks to Danielle with White Hot Truth for interviewing me! You are THE hottest blog chic out there! I am participating in an interview that is circulating on blogs. Danielle asks me 5 questions, I answer, then you response with “interview me” and I ask you 5 questions. And around it goes. See rules below.
1. How do you feel when you’re creating your art?
I call it being in the “zone” – connected, dreaming and in the moment. This is that perfect feeling of being peaceful, centered, whole, lost & found – all at the same time!
It’s another time, another place. I see and feel color, endless possibilities, a deepening, like swimming inside the depths of myself. Creativity is where I am truly me at my deepest level.
2. When have you been speechless?
Every time I visit beautiful, beautiful Bali. It’s definitely another world for me. My breath is taken away and I am speechless by the amazing landscapes, the people with their hearts wide open, the women who carry so much femininity and grace, to the most gorgeous smiles I’ve ever seen. They smile with their whole being, from the inside out.
3. What’s your current mantra?
I love mantras but they’ve never really worked for me. I am super visual so my mantra style is mostly visual rather than intellectual. I am able to see things as I wish them to be – or already at the desired outcome.
Right now, I am visualizing everything in it’s purest form. I ask to purify everything into the core of it’s essence. Removing complexity, ego and layers. Keeping it real and keeping it simple.
4. What is standing in your way?
Discipline. Never been much for it (might be the attitude I adopted while playing in punk bands) but now I can see the benefits of having some. Maybe I’ll try it!
I just love the creative process too much, it’s a bit wild and swirls around.
5. If you were a gift, how would you be wrapped?
I’d be wrapped in layers and layers of the finest silk from India, China and Tibet, scented with Amber Oil. Embellished with exotic flowers, jewels and bindis. On the bottom of the package, written in Sanskrit with the most beautiful calligraphy, are the highest intentions one can achieve in this lifetime. Tied with a gift tag that says, “Open if you dare.”
The Rules
*leave me a comment saying: interview me
*all comments will be published
*I will email you five questions. I get to pick the questions
*you can then answer the questions on your blog
*you should also post these rules along with an offer to interview anyone else who emails you wanting to be interviewed
*anyone who asks to be interviewed should be sent 5 questions to answer on their blog
*it would be nice if the questions were individualized for each blogger
Come and join me on this journey of art and life…
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(ps My husband evidently likes me in it too. I couldn't keep him off me that night!)"
Holly Long
"Wow you’re an amazing artist! I especially love your poetic words that reach deep into something that is within the surface for everyone to look at and feel, even touch and breathe in. Yet you have taken the time and have appreciation for what is in front of one’s physical self and become one with the entire universe. You’re absolutely beautiful! I feel your spirit.
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Felisha J.
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From one of my favorite passages
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Everyone would receive butterfly kisses.
