Princess Sassy Pants & Co.™

I know it sometimes seems like this isn’t true, but just because something seems to be true doesn’t mean it is true. It looks like the sun disappears at night, some trees die in winter, and roads narrow and disappear in the distance.

We don’t panic when driving on a hilly country road because we fear we’ll fall over the edge. We’ve had so many experiences that tell us that these appearances aren’t true that we drive on without a second thought.

The same holds true with life in general: We need different experiences that teach us that no matter how it might seem, we are never alone, and there is a strength within that is greater than any storm.

But how do we have these new experiences? This (more…)

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We’re all destined to speak our true butterfly language, but some still need to go through the chrysalis of change before they understand butterfly. The caterpillar simply has no reference point for the language of the butterfly. However, our culture allows little room for not knowing; many think they know what they still need to learn.

After I began having direct spiritual experiences, I became (more…)

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I rarely quote others, but this is one of my favorite quotes. Macrina Weiderkher was a Benedictine monastic of St. Scholastica Monastery.

Most aren’t even aware of this, but we believe that if we look within, we will find the truth about ourselves, which will be too terrible to behold. Furthermore, we often believe that to think this of ourselves is humility and to believe in our beauty is arrogant.

On the contrary, what we actually find when we plunge into the inner depths is (more…)

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I often write about resting. The rest I’m referring to is more than naps and even more than not doing anything. It is an inner sense of trust in something bigger than ourselves. It’s an experience of being carried, enveloped in love, guided…the real sense that we are not alone.

It’s not that we don’t do anything when we are truly resting; actually, many times, a lot more seems to get done. When we are truly resting, the doing is done through us; we become the beholder of what is being done rather than the doer, which is glorious!

It’s more than this, though; it feels like a heavy weight is lifted from deep within…a weight of responsibility that was never yours to carry.

Giving ourselves permission to rest is far from self-indulgence or laziness; it allows a weary world to lay down burdens that we often aren’t even aware we are carrying. What we do for ourselves, we do in service to all.

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No matter the storm, a light is always shining within you. I know this doesn’t seem true sometimes, but it also looks like the trees die in the winter, the sun is swallowed by the ocean at night, and the world is flat.

Just because something seems true doesn’t necessarily mean it IS true. And the more we go within and learn to look past the noise, the more we begin to see the beautiful, eternal light that is now and always has been shining. Its light has never been dimmed by one single storm.

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The love we seek is seeking us; it’s always been inside, waiting for an invitation.

She searched here, there, and everywhere and discovered that all she had been seeking was within her all along.

All the failures weren’t failures at all; she had just been looking in the wrong place. In order to find something, anything, one must look to where it exists. Don’t look outside of yourself, and you’ll find everything you long for…and so much more.

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One of the most delicious mistakes I’ve ever made.

I think I might single-handedly keep the ice cream industry thriving. Hey, it’s a public service. My favorite flavors are, uh, who am I kidding? The flavors I don’t like would be a far shorter list. If I had to pick just one, it would be a banana split. Wink.

What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?

Can you find Prince Pup?

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Rest. Lay down your struggles and rest. If only for a moment. You are loved and cared for beyond comprehension. Right here. Right now. No matter what it might look like, this is still the only truth. Rest.

Your heart is always singing this song to you and wants only for you to hear its sweet melody. It will never stop singing to you. Nothing you can do or ever have done could change this.

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Resting is so much more than not doing anything or not moving; it’s a sense of trusting and stepping aside. It’s resting in the loving arms of the Infinite and trusting that we are safe and always cared for.

I must warn you: if you don’t want to have indescribably beautiful experiences, a sense of never being alone, and a deep sense of peace and joy, don’t practice doing nothing. Stay very, very, busy. Wink.

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