Honey in the sunshine

The Effect of Music, Prayer & Words on Water by Dr. Masaru Emoto:

“It’s better to have nobody than someone who is half there, or who doesn’t want to be there.”

“You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families who don’t know how to love us properly. They do as much as they can but the rest is up to our friends. They can love you all the time, without judgement. At least the good ones can.”

“Go and love someone exactly as they are. then, watch how they transform into the greatest truest version of themselves. when one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.”

“She was a storm. Not the kind you run from. The kind you chase.”

“I would say instead that Hoodoo is Congo religion as reborn in the South, and Palo as it was reborn in the Carribean. They have he same roots, and similar origins. The bottle-spell of Hoodoo is an Nkisi, and it is brought to life with mambo (sung prayer) and mpemba (candle) the same as the makuto/cunanche of Palo. It’s a beautiful thing to discover, especially for we American Paleros who don’t speak Spanish. Much of the herb and root lore of Palo is in Spanish, and many of the plants aren’t native to North America, or aren’t available except by mail. As this is nature religion, we really should be using the plants and dirts that are available in the nature around us to build our makutos and prenda..our Hoodoo roots allow us to use the herbs and roots native to this land we are in for practical spiritual work in Palo as well. Because of the reality of the herbalism in both systems–congolese wisdom broadened by interaction with Native American priests who shared the wisdom of the native plant species–there is no dissonance whatsoever in the use of herbal lore from both systems in the creation of our medicines, be they tea or an Nkisi/Nganga. Add the lore of hoodoo to the treasure-trove available from our Tatas/Yayis and Nicholaj’s excellent herb treatise in the Garden of Blood and Bones, and the English-only speaker is blessed with a huge amount of wisdom for working Mayombe. Beautiful. The Congo came to the Americas with their own Christianity, having had Christianity (made thoroughly Congolese and interpreted through their existing spiritual wisdom) a part of their culture a century before large-scale Atlantic slavery had begun. The Christian elements of Hoodoo are themselves directly rooted in the Congo approach to the Christian mysteries, and we need look no further than Palo Kimbisa to see the equivalent of the practice in Palo.”

Love is the absence of judgment.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. LIES. I got sticks and stones that will take your home, but these psalms….these psalms will break you.

Intuition is real. Vibes are real. Energy doesn’t lie. Tune in.

To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.