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Scintillations
Firsts - Skydiving To Save My Life
Cookies And The Art Of Imbalanced Eating
Real Dream Interpretation
Balance Morsels
The Journey of an Artist 
Moody Girl
It Will All Make Sense Later
Equipoise
Books That Changed My Life
Cilantro 
The Universe Spoke To Me
Hurrying To Rest
Future Famous Photographers
VERY slow page!
Letters To My Younger Self
Visualize This!
VERY slow page!
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It Will All Make Sense Later 
by Rebecca Carlisle

One must always act from the heart, from the guts, from the deepest places, from intuition.

Believe in what you are doing.  Do not care if later you will find that you were wrong.  You are wrong all the time.  You are wrong if you don't dare to do what you must do.  It doesn't make one bit of difference if you make a mistake.  Who cares?  Dare, dare, dare.  Say the outrageous things you don't wish to say.  Say them all.  Nothing will happen if you keep your lips shut, but maybe a huge opportunity will arise if you open your mouth and let the truth out.  Perhaps more truth will flow behind it once you begin.  Maybe the truth is stuck inside and you must embarrass yourself thoroughly before it can be released and freed.

Maybe embarrassment is just a weak little shield designed to keep the faint of heart from daring to seek out their true selves.

Missteps and mistakes and fumbles, foibles, stumbles, falls.   Perhaps as you right yourself after one of these activities you will see the world anew.  See something from down below that you may have missed completely had your head not hit the ground.  Pay attention to everything around you.  Nothing is without meaning.  Nothing happens accidentally.  There is something to be learned from each tiny detail in life.  Everything is inextricably linked to everything else.  Sometimes it takes years to piece together fragments of life.  Sometimes things take on a different appearance after one little linking event takes place.  Then all of life comes folding in on you like a perfectly sewn quilt instead of rags and patches and bits of wildly differing fabrics.

The patterns emerge before your eyes and what made no real sense before, suddenly is starkly startlingly unblinkingly obvious.  Once you see it, you cannot deny it any longer.

 


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