Quotes by Jay Woodman

In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from spruce tops. in the poem Beyond the Beacon from Terra Affirmative.

Have trembled beneath the pressure of a light beam.

Allow the light to fall across you. Shadow or sunlight. Allow it to define your shape. In its way. Another day it may be different. It surely will be. Are we ever the same? Is the light? And the way a form presses into the grass?

from CHAOS?Trust the imagination. Peace is knowing without need for detailed explanation. Joy is openness to possibility. Sing your humming heart free from the heat of all creation. Swim into cool whirling coloured pools. Sleep on rock of consciousness.

from CHAOS?Trust the imagination - lines and shapes revealed - space and light instead of blackness. Silence being tentative, tender life of universe.

Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise.

Lets forgive someone for Valentines day, its a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto.

If you keep wanting to get back in the nest, youre missing the amazing experience of coming out to play at life for a while.

Everything is reflected in both - outside (out there) and inside (in here) - marvel at it, experience, learn. The personal is also the universal, and the universal is also the personal.

What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us.

Life is a bit like a sweet & toy & art & curiosity shop - all in one - only the best bits are free. If you look at all the things you can cherish it helps to balance everything else. Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life.

Smile, ask, listen, provide, thank then take time out to have fun & renew yourself but always dream up more questions. - Julia Woodman

Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in.

Needing to express what it’s like here.... / Trying to digest the incoming stream .... / And dream it all over again.

... as we travel again between life and death, Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers,None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us . . .

Be confident to make your magic.

Try to forgive by trying to understand how it would feel to be in the other’s shoes. If someone hurts you – ask them - “What hurts you so much that you would do this?” Listen to the answer and try to understand what is valid for them. They may have been fighting for your attention, but no one thinks of themselves as attackers, only defenders! So don’t judge their ways, only set them free by giving them a chance to speak. You may both learn a lot from your kindness and courage in asking for the truth. But even if nothing changes, release it, remember that you both have a right to be who you choose to be. When we make judgements were inevitably acting on limited knowledge, so ask if you seek to understand, or simply let them be!

You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path.

We are alive in all our layers of self and selflessness - individuals becoming one.

When you realise you are just as ridiculous & just as #special as everyone else, you love them all.