Wide Awake & Always There

Juno

Love binds us, regardless of gender, status, religion, race, or territory. Love Love is the key to oneness. Love brings us together. Love is the answer.

There’s only so much habitual detachment and escaping from the shadows that we can do until we realize that they will only manifest themselves in our lives again — the energy that we choose to detach from will always find its way back to us in a different form. Until we deal with it and find strength in the hope of transforming it through transforming our very own perception of reality, alongside with pure intentions — we will keep seeing the same problem. We do not need to arm ourselves with ignorance, rather, with empathy…with unconditional love. For love is a faithful soldier, it will always let us see light where there is none, and so we will begin to find living with the shadows more bearable.. Love breaks the barrier between ignorance and acceptance… The ego is deceptive and it will always help to seek refuge in our soul sanctuary— The heart, the keeper of our light.

If you truly have faith in someone, if you believe in the love you both share, you will find yourself no longer needing confirmation, or approval, and you will no longer attempt to prove each other’s love. You will just know it exists, you will know it is there, you will know it is within reach, and you will know that it endures. You will simply know. ♥

There are no shortcuts to enlightenment. We need to walk the path and witness the light of our truth as it unravels before us. Even the sun will not shine so brightly in the break of dawn. We have to wait for high noon to see it rise in full splendor.

~ JC

Photo by Florent Courty (lavaspawn.deviantart.com)

Your love
Has turned my heart
Into a butterfly
A butterfly
That found its way
To your sky
And it dances
Fearlessly
In the song
Of the breeze
And it speaks
Freely
When the wind
Is there
For it knows
That there is nothing to do
But this
Send its love in the air
With a beautiful
And lonely kiss

(Photo by Titia Van Beugen)

It builds a bridge where there is none
The ray of light, the morning the sun
Love is our silver lining
Our happy everlasting

(Photo by Jana Delmar, www.the-silver-doe.deviantart.com)

I find no shame in my love for anyone.
Nor do I regret having loved someone.
It is the bravest thing I have ever done. 
The most fearless I have become.

~♥~
J.C.

Photo by Wen-Xi Chen (http://bit.ly/mQWtYL)

When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe…
Only then will you discover you cannot eat money 

~ Cree Prophecy

photo source: Frank Hong

Your inner child holds the key to your dreams.
Your inner child knows what you need.
Your inner child knows who you really are.
Your inner child knows why you are here.
Your inner child will always know…
Take a moment each day to nurture this child.
and let this child speak to you freely.
Listen…
Your youth is your truth.

I love you like the sky loves the sun and the moon,

allowing shadow and light to kiss in the sunset and the dawn. 

I love you like the leaf loves the earth on which it rises and falls, 

allowing it to sleep with the soil and awaken with the seedlings.

I love you like the ground loves the mist and the air that penetrates its being,

allowing precious morning dew to rise from its depths.

I love you like the tree loves its vines and the roots by which it stands, 

allowing us to dance in the coming of the storm.

~ JC

(photo source : blog.sina.com.cn/eggar919)

Juno Cristi

✿  Never be ashamed of your scars. Scars will tell us that the absence of pain does not always mean we are healed, but that we are capable of nursing our own wounds. 

✿  Never apologize for loving someone, love is strength. Never be ashamed of your strengths.

✿  Never regret knowing the people who once loved you, for they had been there  when you needed them most.

✿  Never resist the calling of your heart, you can fight it, deny it, or push it away, but in the end, the heart will always win.

✿  Never underestimate your power to heal yourself. We all have the power to draw peace from within.

✿ Never wish for death. Life is a miracle. 

✿ Never drown in your tears, instead let them wash away the pain of the moment. Soon, they will dry up with the warmth of your healing heart.

✿ Never be ashamed of your tears. Crying detoxifies the soul. 

✿ Never believe that life has ended. The miracle of life doesn’t end at birth.When we hit rock bottom, we are rewarded a new life. 

✿ Never weep for a lie, for you will laugh about it tomorrow.

✿ Never worry about a storm. Time will soon devour it. 

✿ Never fear loss, there will always be gain from mistakes. All mistakes are lessons learned. 

✿ Never be ashamed of your loneliness, sometimes loneliness is just happiness that is waiting to be shared.

✿ Never regret losing a good thing, sometimes we have to let go of something good to give way to something great.

✿ Never be afraid to let go, the ultimate reward for letting go, is immunity from the same kind of fear.

✿ Never fear the unknown and unfamiliar, more often than not, it is the familiar things that destroy us.

✿ Never lose hope, when you have nothing, hope becomes everything, and you haven’t lost anything until you lose hope. And lastly…

✿ Never be ashamed of breaking down. A butterfly needs to break for its wings to emerge, and when a rose breaks… it is still beautiful.

Photo by Schin Loong

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On early July of 2010, in my darkest and lowest hour, I paid a visit to the St. Pio Chapel in Manila, Philippines. I have failed in almost every aspect of my life, and with a heavy heart I prayed. I didn’t asked for anything, for I did not know what I wanted. I just prayed for a miracle.

On July 27,  I woke up with a strong desire to write about one thing: LOVE. I decided to open an account on Twitter as “The_LoveGoddess” and spoke to the unknown millions. That’s how random it was. I could have chosen some other user name. I couldn’t be bolder with my intentions. One by one, these quotes were read, and re-broadcasted to not only hundreds, but thousands of people all over the world.

On August 13, I was spending too much time on the internet, it became a bit draining on my part. I prayed to God once again to “please give me a sign that I need to continue this.”

On August 14, I got a private message from none other than Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist, telling me that he is “following” me. Out of more than almost a million followers, he only follows less than a hundred people, I was exhilirated to be part of his timeline. I caught the eye of my favorite author in the world. I took this is a strong sign. Coelho, the Warrior of Light has been a guide to millions of readers all over the world, including myself. The moment was truly humbling.

A month passed and I began to feel restless again. I needed another sign. I wanted to make certain that this was my true calling. For 11 years I worked in the I.T. industry and had worked my way up and became one of the youngest female senior executives in my division. And since we provided support for Western countries I had to work nights… for 11 years. On the side, I also worked as a feature writer for a local lifestyle and entertainment magazine, and as if I wasn’t crazy enough to handle two jobs I also did PR for club and radio events. It had taken its toll on me early May of 2010, my whole life went up in smoke. I left my job, my media circle, the money. I gave up my lovely house,  and my extravagant lifestyle.  I turned my back on everything that weakened my soul.

On September 23, in prayer, I asked for a stronger sign that I should keep writing, and maybe find work that would allow me to continue this passion. 

On September 25, while moving in to my new, smaller house in the city, I met a debilitating accident. I fell from the stairs while carrying a heavy load and tore a ligament. I was in extreme pain and paralyzed for almost a month. I only started to move my right leg mid October. I started to walk mid November but I still need to undergo therapy until such time it is safe to jog and run. The whole time I was bed-ridden, I did nothing else but write. I wrote twice more than what I used to write in a day. I just had to write for my wellness and sanity. 

One day in the hospital, it struck me that what had just happened was something I had asked for ~ A STRONG SIGN. Since then, I never doubted the signs that were given to me, and I learned to follow my intuition, for intuition really is the voice of my faith… the spiritual reflex of my heart.

I have close to two thousand verses all written in a span of 6 months… and I continue to write new ones and re-broadcast the old. My Twitter, an account I once thought wouldn’t grow more than 100, has now close to 12,000 followers, sharing the love and the words of Love and Light. My friends and followers continue to grow everyday. I am simply overwhelmed by the feedback, and by those who reach out to say how much my I have helped them. Some of my followers even took the liberty to translate my quotes to their own language. I have also crossed over the genres of prose and poetry, and novel writing. 

Today I have the full understanding of what God has in store for me, when I thought that He had forsaken me. All the trials, were blessings in disguise, for I would not be able to pull healing words from my heart unless I was given the chance to experience them.

I do not know what the future lies for me, all I know is that it is SPOTLESS BRIGHT. I am in my element when I write and at this point, nothing can stop me from chasing a dream. In my heart, what I had prayed for was there all along, and when I did not ask for anything, He gave me the gift of HEALING  through words… the best gift anyone has ever placed on my hands, for it does not only lift the grief of others, but it lifted my own grief too.

It is with great pride and joy that I share this Miracle with you.

http://twitter.com/the_lovegoddess 

(Photo by Justin M. Rand)