Author Archives: nandajurela

Elderberry blossom,that scent is a winner.One part flower, one part sweat,amorous,with staying power and sunshine within,it welcomes summer,butterflies and beesthat know a good thingwhen they smell it,just like me. Elderberry blossom,white and yellow delight.To the wind, you are rapture.To the people, you are medicineera after era.In your syrup,I find my childhoodand a suave allyfor apricotsContinue reading “Hot Calm, and All Organic”

We who have realized the Oneness of life live easier, with less mental anguish. Because we are connected to everything and everyone. That is worth something. NJ11 August 2014

Make time for your core self, and listen to what it has to say. Let the message carry you into the day. Peace is yours when you meet you first. It makes you glow like nothing else. You have a power inside you that elevates all life and makes every thing and everyone more vibrant.Continue reading “First Thing In the Morning”

Do not waste any time proving that you deserve better treatment. The people who love you treat you right. And the people who don’t – well, no proof will be good enough for them. Know your allies who beautify the world. They beautify your world too. NJ1 February 2015

Creating beauty is the only way to keep your psyche intact and leave a place for others to restore themselves. The second best thing to creating beauty is recording beauty. NJ6 June 2014

Love does the work.Everything you worry about,love accomplishes it.Love carries you to complete it.Love made you.Love has made life.Love can make anythingthat has to do with life.Love keeps it simple.Love lets you arrive. You know that.You have allowed it so many times.Allow it today. NJ1 May 2015

A mind made kinder by love can live in peace with everything, even difficult things, and works to overcome ignorance, destructiveness and suffering. NJ May 2014

Thank you, life, for never letting me go for too long without feeling loved. Thank you, mind, for knowing that that was meaningful – to not only adore and shower love on others – but to also feel the love coming to me. Feeling unloved, never getting enough love, never acknowledging the love being given,Continue reading “Nurtured by Love”

Familiar with myself, I can befriend or be at peace with others. Being a friend to myself, I trust my instincts about what and who is right for my well-being. I love discovering myself, becoming healthier, feeling better and better, seeing the warm richness in my psyche, the courage in my mind, and the loveContinue reading “A Friend to Myself”

Thank you, life,for letting me knowhow it isto wake up with a grateful heart,to be losing the taste for chaos,to wake up to a daythat is the answer to many prayers.I dreaded the fearthat what I had asked for was impossible,that my enough was not your enough,that I would be denied.But you opened a pathContinue reading “Early Morning Song”

When your loved one is falling apart, and you remain strong, you are serving love. In the same way, when the world is in anguish, frightened or blue, and you remain strong, you are serving love. You can not always choose strength over getting affected. But when you can, do it. It will have aContinue reading “True to Love”

Bring freshness and well-being to the people you love, so they can feel your love. NJ17 August 2014

The person who loves you brings freshness and well-being to you. NJ 17 August 2014

Curiosity – you can’t fake it until you make it. It determines whether you can learn and understand something or someone. Find out what (and who!) makes you curious. Don’t worry too much about what doesn’t or why; there are many reasons, many of them subconscious and linked to the law of attraction. Time isContinue reading “Curiosity Is the Arrow to Purpose”

Growing It: Attention, Encouragement, Action, Gratitude, Repeat The quality you want to have more of, it is already there, right beside other things. Attention is love, in a real way. So guide your attention toward the things you want to “grow” and enjoy more of. That will alter the proportions of everything that is presentContinue reading “Growing It”

There are many parallels between a spiritual person and a sharp dresser in a highly casual environment. Their choices are hardly understood or endorsed, and the effort they put in seems to be of so little benefit to them personally. Only when you consider that there is priceless bliss in being who you are, thatContinue reading “Level Up!”

Me: “In a reciprocal community, there is no such thing as self-sacrifice…” The river: “The universe is reciprocal. This planet is reciprocal. It is only you people who have forgotten that.” NJ 16 June 2019 (Father’s Day walk)

The sun warms the earth.In appreciation, the earth nurtures its readiest roots and shootsand develops flowers and a profusion of plantsthat feeds all life. The sun warms the body.In appreciation, the body nurtures its best inclinationsand develops luminous flower-like centres of energyand luxurious well-being. Just for today, I am awarethat the sun loves the earthwithContinue reading “O Sole Mio”

To accept yourself means to make peace with your weak points and lack and peace with your good points and blessings. And I dare say, to nurture your excellent points. Your heart is always beating in your chest for you – in grief, in joy, in calm, in progress, in failure, in pluck, in fatigue,Continue reading “Self-acceptance”