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      <image:caption>She descends from darkness into a lotus pond, but she herself is not a lotus - not someone who had to stay pure in muddy circumstances. Does it matter? Who is to say that the more worthy mother is the one who grew from muddy roots and stayed pure? She too has a darkness she has had to negotiate with all her life. Perhaps motherhood is the purity she needs.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>What have I done? Now I must take courage to nurture and grow the flowers that have begun in me, in my deepest place, that place most connected with the nature of this universe. You have birthed a warrior from within me.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>For you I am rock and I am light. I cover my eyes to keep me grounded and gentle, to be there for you so you have what you need to grow up and grow well. But my third eye sees what I fantasize and it sets me free to be what I cannot be. The fantasy is what helps me stay with you as I am, everything I cannot be.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The maze of a soul is the reality of two spirits connecting. In meeting each other we have created a soul. Yet, I do not know you daughter, and you do not know me mum. It is our duty also to locate our own souls, and to stand in the reality of them. Our souls make us strong, and our spirits set us free.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Shall I let you stay in this dream? There is no saviour coming. You are a lotus growing from muddied waters. You are a new pond. The ties that bind are the ones that lift you from the waters you have grown so familiar with, hoping you may finally show them you are your own.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Wholeness and health</image:title>
      <image:caption>I am a work of art - supreme art - and I must begin in order to know it for myself. Do you see what I see? And do you see me? Nature is not enough without me.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Wholeness and health</image:title>
      <image:caption>I aspire to surrender. Who will help me if I do not know what surrender is myself? But I cannot really know surrender without the other.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Wholeness and health</image:title>
      <image:caption>The gifts of my fortunate life are many and yet the gift I value most is the ones I can set free to fly over to you. My insistence towards you makes me whole.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68b2a59a728f33561bf83b3e/62c3b1a5-5151-4a76-a7e4-246a8420831d/Set+yourself+free.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>r0yal and real - Looking with restraint</image:title>
      <image:caption>Will you just hold my hand? If you do, I will know. There is no vision anywhere else. All is death and you have the key to transform me back to life again.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Looking with restraint</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sometimes, there must be boundaries set for our own feelings, especially if they tend to overflow and run wild. Aliveness is movement so never let what you perceive amputate your legs. If a vision has the ability to do so, it is better not to see.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Looking with restraint</image:title>
      <image:caption>Seen too much or seen too much that intersects? A kind of hyper-awareness can make you like medieval royalty, your corset tightened around your waist. It can get hard to breathe. So make sure what you have is focus and not someone else's "pigeonhole" for you.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Looking with restraint</image:title>
      <image:caption>"She is so beautiful, she is so free, she is all I wanna be." Really? Be honest - what would you be willing to sacrifice for such a being, such a life? What do you actually admire? Perhaps, it is her restraint, which looks different than yours, because she's been to more places and seen much more.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Looking with restraint</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ask me about passion but I may not answer. I'm not sure I'd like you to know. And in my silence, I worry that I will be pushing you to find out for yourself. I'd much rather, I think, have you know how I survived, in spite of my passion.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Looking with restraint</image:title>
      <image:caption>You wanted to see the real me, but hey - you have been seeing the real me all along. In fact, what you wished for is to see my roots. There they are, you can see them in my eyes and as my shoulders. But you should know, my roots are not me, though they can be quite beautiful, in a poignant sort of way.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Looking with restraint</image:title>
      <image:caption>My tears - and yours - bloom like royalty. They are the expressions of our souls, no not necessarily sad, just expressive of the love for you we contain in our eyes and our hearts, while exercising so much self-control.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Faith and Boundaries</image:title>
      <image:caption>Can I or can I not? How shall I say I yearn for you? What tells you I am open? I wish for the poison ivy to return to their vines. I don't need a garland for my chest. I am not Eve who listened to the snake. What I yearn for is to know you and in my knowing, learn to listen, to respect, to obey.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Faith and Boundaries</image:title>
      <image:caption>I leave a light on for me. I know it only takes a spark, to get the fire going. I am not the spark. I have a fire in me and still, I wait for the spark to get me going. Patience is a virtue.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Faith and Boundaries</image:title>
      <image:caption>What gives? Is it me? My love for you is specific, and so is my grief. I will no longer long for you. I will no longer long for you. I will no longer.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Faith and Boundaries</image:title>
      <image:caption>Are we high, are we setting new ground? I am present, I am applying myself, I am uncertain but sure. The paradox of freedom is that it is never free and yet, what is this unusual feeling of breath on my neck that doesn't imprison?</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Faith and Boundaries</image:title>
      <image:caption>The comfort of a rainbow, knowing me and loving me that way, giving hope though I am hope. Flesh and blood, a lofty cloud - fear is temporal, purpose is forever. I received my consolation in desolation.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Faith and Boundaries</image:title>
      <image:caption>The seed and the nectar are your prize and yet, blessed are those who have not seen and still believe. Every petal is a secret, and every thorn a warning. You see me, but do you really know me? Blessed are those who believe.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>r0yal and real - Faith and Boundaries</image:title>
      <image:caption>The chosen one has her path. Her trajectory, her downfall, her inescapable destiny has been set. She knows she is free but she doesn't get up from her knees. Instead, she caresses the strength of her hair and tidies it to get ready.</image:caption>
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