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Baby Steps my Friend….

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By Andrea Cullen

 

Baby Steps ….

 

Take gentle steps my Dear,
When the giant leaps
Surround your heart with fear.

 

The days it feels too much
And no one is there to hold your heart safe
Remember that you ARE love.
No Question; you are PURE love.

 

So thread softly, gently, sweetly, my Dear.

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Smile;
Share your smile.
Set out to find laughter in your day and
Feel intrigued at who the universe
Will connect you to today.
What animals will greet your path.
What trees will wind whisper gentle nudges of
encouragement and wisdom,
What corners will trap the warm sun’s rays.

 

Pay attention!

 

Do a good deed and watch them multiply.
Feel your heart; it’s huge right?!
What you give will return one-thousand-fold.

 

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Trust in this space;
The universe is plotting your love story.
Your Path of Greatness.
A trail that only you can mark out
With all that you are.

 

So trust my Dear
That you are held safe.
And one gentle footstep forward today
May be just the perfect distance for Your Journey.

 

Maybe tomorrow or next week is the Day for dramatic leaps….

 

Who knows?

 

Even super heroes take days off.

 

xx

Andrea

 

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My recommended Book and Movie list………

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Recommended books that may help you along the journey of self-discovery……..

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I have always been an avid reader; spending a whole day curled up on the sofa in between the franticnessof an active childhood was nothing strange to me. My mum was and is the very same; only she quite literally devours books at the speed of lightening, and she is my go to person for a perfect spelling and grammar check.

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My fabulous Mum Heather

Books are where you lose yourself as a child and live a double life. I travelled far and wide; Mary O’Hara transported me to the great plains of Wyoming in My Friend Flickaand other novels, I was transported into The Enchanted Woods by Enid Blyton and then became a member of The Famous 5; I travelled with Toad in The Wind in the Willows, fell in love with The Fox cub…

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No Greater Force than Love…

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What is this force that is driving our planets people towards change?
What is this feeling within that tastes like the first bite of freedom before the revolution?
When EVERYTHING will change in our world as we know it.

 

This inner force feels as fragile as a butterflies wings and as mighty as a dragons fire.
A gift that is precious in the heart of love and devastating in the grips of egomaniacal and power-hungry hands.
You can sense both sides within…..

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A reminder always of how human we are.

 

And then I remember the starving children
Women with no rights
Animals used as cosmetics testing disposables or killed alive to adorn a women in fur…

 

Abuse, rape and the suppression of human freedom
Children losing their childhood in a sweatshop
to clothe our incessant appetite for fashion….

 

I see the destruction of earth’s most precious resources
The rape of our rainforests, mountains, oceans, and lands.
We have forgotten how to live symbiotically with the land
and are blind to that destroyed for gain.

 

Towers belch toxins
Rivers flow poisoned
Lands are too toxic to support life
Wildlife washes up on our shores and life suffocates in our rivers.

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Cruelty, persecution, racism, and the painful divisions of religion fuel wars
GREED numbs conscience
Mankind turns a blind eye to truth.
And yet

 

There is a force within
And I KNOW this butterfly in my heart
holds a LIONS roar.

 

My voice is understood by every tongue as it speaks heart
My love is infinite and reaches everything truly alive
My desire for change so palpable it resuscitates sleeping hearts.

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Where there is love
Hope grows

Where hope grows
Faith is unshakeable

This feeling within
IS THE CHANGE

Love,

Andrea

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MAHATMA GANDHI ON LOVE
“Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.
When in despair I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won; there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.
Fear and love are contradictory terms. Love is reckless in giving away, oblivious as to what it gets in return. Love wrestles with the world as with the self and ultimately gains mastery over all other feelings.
My daily experience, as of those who are working with me, is that every problem lends itself to solution if we are determined to make the law of truth and non-violence the law of life. For truth and non-violence are, to me, faces of the same coin.
The law of love will work, just as the law of gravitation will work, whether we accept it or not.
Just as a scientist will work wonders out of various applications of the law of nature, even so a man who applies the law of love with scientific precision can work greater wonders….
Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
Nonviolence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Nonviolence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect nonviolence is the highest bravery. Nonviolent conduct is never demoralizing, cowardice always is.
Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.
Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.It is the law of love that rules mankind.
Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us we should have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilized men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works, whether we accept it or not.
The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.
“Through the Heart we may come to know the Love of God; through the Heart we may become the Love of God. “
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We ALL are the dawn…

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“Everyone wants to be seen.

Everyone wants to announce their enlightenment and be ‘special’.

However – now more than ever it is required that we come together, and shine our individual lights with determination.

To brighten everyone’s future in one giant beacon in this planet’s movement from night to dawn.

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That we all become ‘harmony’ constructed from many voices to create one song.

This is what is needed now.

For the strong ones to instil belief in those more doubtful of their light and voice…

…we hold the power together

and we ALL hold the power.”

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Believe

Andrea

xx

 

 

Tree magic

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Tree magic

Sit still under my branches;

You are safe.

 

Listen to the rustling leaves in the wind;

We tell the universe your dreams.

 

See the moon-light reflect on our bark and branches;

We show you the way.

 

Feel the light splinter through my leaves on a Summers day;

We warm your soul.

 

When your heart feels scared lean against our trunk a while;

And we will murmur messages of encouragement to your soul.

 

When the rain beats down take shelter;

We dissolve your worries.

 

Rest a while;

Your heart is held dear.

 

And if you sit very still,

You may, if you are lucky, feel our healing magic.

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Millennium tree by Josephine Wall

 

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Xx Andrea

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Summer in my Heart

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by Andrea Cullen

18th June 2014

Summer in my heart

Do you ever sit still in the evening sun

Just to feel the warm breeze on your skin

Or to engulf yourself in evening jasmine or honeysuckle?

Do you ever silence your mind with distant mumbles of lawnmowers

or children’s final moments of joy filled play?

While the golden-red hues gather to welcome the moon.

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The gentle breeze connects you to me

She moves with quiet determination between continents.

She carries the resonance of beating hearts

And the silent words of daydreams.

The gentle breeze that carries the sun sets warmth

whispers untold “I love you’s”

and parents proud thoughts.

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The birdsong of dusk gives thanks for the day

With a gentleness that differs to the dawn chorus.

It as though she knows our hearts need soothing.

 

In the silence the trees rustle;

They celebrate the joy of another day and whisper of tomorrow’s dreams.

 

Stop a while and listen

Feel every moment with your heart

This is love

 

 

Enjoy these wonderful captions of our beautiful country taken in the summer’s sun this June.

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I love this little country of mine

xx

Andrea

A Healing Prayer for Ireland

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A Healing Prayer for Ireland

Notes from a meditation on the full moon of Friday 13th June 2014 at the Shanballeyedmond Court Cairn (tomb), near Rearcross, Co. Tipperary. This court cairn predates Newgrange by 1000 years and dates back to approximately 3500 BC. I sat in the central chamber.

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Entrance into the central chambers

I pray for an awakening within the Irish people
A quiet internal revolution
A remembering, a knowing, a quiet determined resolution – of conflict and control

I place my energy on the third eye of humanity
Such that she sees the Path with clarity.

Let the old knowledge return
And the people reclaim the ancient inner wisdom of our beautiful isle and her people
To show the way to other nations.

Let the people return ‘home’ – the souls that left.
Know that the physical body may not be Irish – welcome these wise souls home
Welcome their return to the healing bosom of our breathtakingly beautiful emerald isle.

I pray the people release our ancestral pain, anger, blame, and victimhood.
And the belief that someone out there is going to be the revolution for us.
I pray we remember our strength
Our ability to self-heal, to forgive the trauma, release the pain, set free all victim thinking
And renew vows set to ourselves of freedom, truth, brotherhood, accountability, and love.

Let the Irish light shine so bright
Her star reaches our fathers afar.

Remember Dear ones.

Let the farmers remember old ways
Let our lands bear the fruits of sustainability.

Let the shepherd once more tend his herds
Let us remember the language of the wild beasts and birds
And in our actions nurture those animals reliant on us.

Healers wake up; heal our people.
Let us push out the pharmaceutical companies poisoning our soil; the life line of our food and bread of our people.
Let the streams flow with fresh water and provide healing in our cells.
There is no need for medication in our veins – let the healers remember their gifts.

Teachers awaken your voice and lead our future generations with ancient knowledge and modern sills.
Scholars teach the finances of true sustainability that pours from our lands.
Let us return to a knowing that sees no value on ‘money’ and a true value on exchange.

Philosophers, poets, and bards loosen your tongue – remember and speak of our history, write of our riches and pour love and empowerment into your poems.
Speak of times gone by to shake us alive – the times when we were a nation of knowledge and wealth; a time before we lost our self and with this our self-belief.
Pour this passion into a knowing that rekindles our hearts.

Astrologers and architects, stone masons and those gifted in physical creation and divine geometry inspiration
come forth and rebuild our country.
And restore our ability to tap solar conscience and nature vibrations into our daily lives.

Governments see clearly – embrace new ways and remove us from beliefs of dependency on the EU.
We must grow up and do it once more for ourselves.
Cut the ties of connection, dependence or disharmony with Great Britain and the USA.
Puppets no more. 

As I lay my hands on these ancient stones I pray:

For our people to wake from the slumber of self-suppression
For quiet minds to welcome a return to knowing
For peaceful certainty in the path and purpose
For forgiveness to unleash accountability and responsibility
For courage and wisdom to know right from wrong
And above all I pray for peace and love

Let our country be the change – our world not only seeks, but supports.

I pray and for your love I am eternally grateful.

To the fathers that speak from other realms, in gratitude I thank you for your patience, your love and your Divine presence in my life.

Here are some of my own shots taken around the time of the previous two full moons, September 8, 2014 and August 10th, 2014.

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Love

Andrea

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Andrea at the site; covered up to stop the midgets biting!

Heal the World…..

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“Heal The World”

 

There’s A Place In Your Heart
And I Know That It Is Love
And This Place Could Be Much
Brighter Than Tomorrow
And If You Really Try
You’ll Find There’s No Need To Cry
In This Place You’ll Feel
There’s No Hurt Or Sorrow
There Are Ways To Get There
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
Make A Better Place…Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

If You Want To Know Why
There’s A Love That Cannot Lie
Love Is Strong
It Only Cares For Joyful Giving
If We Try We Shall See
In This Bliss
We Cannot Feel
Fear Or Dread
We Stop Existing And Start Living

Then It Feels That Always
Love’s Enough For Us Growing
So Make A Better World
Make A Better World…

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

And The Dream We Were Conceived In
Will Reveal A Joyful Face
And The World We Once Believed In
Will Shine Again In Grace
Then Why Do We Keep Strangling Life
Wound This Earth
Crucify Its Soul
Though It’s Plain To See This World Is Heavenly
Be God’s Glow

We Could Fly So High
Let Our Spirits Never Die
In My Heart I Feel You Are All
My Brothers
Create A World With No Fear
Together We’ll Cry Happy Tears
See The Nations Turn Their Swords
Into Plowshares

We Could Really Get There
If You Cared Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
To Make A Better Place…

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

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Heal the world we live in, save it for our children
Heal the world we live in, save it for our children
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Heal the world we live in, save it for our children

It’s you my love; that has my heart

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Diamonds and dinners don’t captivate my soul,

or words and grand gestures,

As your desire to fly free does.

 

 

No it’s the silence of your soul speak,

The glimmer of heart in your eyes,

The passion of intent and warmth in your hands protecting mine,

That stops my breath and steals my moment.

 

 

5 star dinners and romantic breaks don’t hold my soul in awe

The way your knowing the birdsong and flower blooms does

and where the wind sounds the most like whispers through the trees

Or where the pine scents and honeysuckle perfume the breeze.

 

 

No, it’s the man who you are,

In every action and heartfelt embrace.

 

 

The vulnerable strength that you show in the face of my walls.

The pure love that cocoons my fears,

And the kiss on the breeze that supports my wings.

 

 

It’s you my love; my love that knows all IS love

…infinite, true, deep…

Ever present with each seasons change.

 

 

It’s you my love; that has my heart………

 

with love,

Andrea

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Love only sees perfection……..

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“You are beautiful and you are perfect”.

If you asked your soul, this is what she would say; that you are beautiful and perfect.

Remove the filter of society’s belief system – the external loudspeaker telling you that you are too fat, too skinny or too something-or-other; and that you must conform, control and manipulate your body and your food. For too long you have made this YOUR voice. A voice that punishes you for indulging, controls what you eat, when you eat, how you eat and that beats you up for not beating yourself physically up…. and when your own voice weakens what do you do? You pay someone to tell you all these things in the form of a therapist or trainer to shout at you even more; or you buy a book or magazine or a product that reminds you that you are so far from perfect.

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