Maverick Peter
@maverickpeter.bsky.social
On a Journey into Inner Space …. looking for companions along the way ...... with a few photographs to amuse and inspire.
I post my meditations and contemplations in “Facets of the Diamond” on https://petermitchell.blog
I post my meditations and contemplations in “Facets of the Diamond” on https://petermitchell.blog
Our "Space Between Us" launch with Anne Sweet & Jeff Carreira explored the transformational potential of the living field that moves between us.
🎧 Recording: emergenceeducation.com/programs/the...
🌀 Groups: asweet.systeme.io/between-us
#TheSpaceBetweenUs #RelationalSpirituality #LivingField
🎧 Recording: emergenceeducation.com/programs/the...
🌀 Groups: asweet.systeme.io/between-us
#TheSpaceBetweenUs #RelationalSpirituality #LivingField
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Our "Space Between Us" launch with Anne Sweet & Jeff Carreira explored the transformational potential of the living field that moves between us.
🎧 Recording: emergenceeducation.com/programs/the...
🌀 Groups: asweet.systeme.io/between-us
#TheSpaceBetweenUs #RelationalSpirituality #LivingField
🎧 Recording: emergenceeducation.com/programs/the...
🌀 Groups: asweet.systeme.io/between-us
#TheSpaceBetweenUs #RelationalSpirituality #LivingField
INVITATION TO A BOOK LAUNCH
"The Space Between Us" was born from a small group exploring what becomes possible when we meet beyond self and story.
Join us for the free online book launch
🕊️ Saturday 1st November (Sunday 2nd in Aus/NZ)
🔗 emergenceeducation.com/programs/the...
"The Space Between Us" was born from a small group exploring what becomes possible when we meet beyond self and story.
Join us for the free online book launch
🕊️ Saturday 1st November (Sunday 2nd in Aus/NZ)
🔗 emergenceeducation.com/programs/the...
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
INVITATION TO A BOOK LAUNCH
"The Space Between Us" was born from a small group exploring what becomes possible when we meet beyond self and story.
Join us for the free online book launch
🕊️ Saturday 1st November (Sunday 2nd in Aus/NZ)
🔗 emergenceeducation.com/programs/the...
"The Space Between Us" was born from a small group exploring what becomes possible when we meet beyond self and story.
Join us for the free online book launch
🕊️ Saturday 1st November (Sunday 2nd in Aus/NZ)
🔗 emergenceeducation.com/programs/the...
I’m pointing back at you.
"...
I am a Signpost
pointing you back
to the self you have always been.
I want to meet you
standing in your own authority
..."
Full poem → petermitchell.life/signpost
#poetry #awakening #authenticity #headlessway
"...
I am a Signpost
pointing you back
to the self you have always been.
I want to meet you
standing in your own authority
..."
Full poem → petermitchell.life/signpost
#poetry #awakening #authenticity #headlessway
October 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I’m pointing back at you.
"...
I am a Signpost
pointing you back
to the self you have always been.
I want to meet you
standing in your own authority
..."
Full poem → petermitchell.life/signpost
#poetry #awakening #authenticity #headlessway
"...
I am a Signpost
pointing you back
to the self you have always been.
I want to meet you
standing in your own authority
..."
Full poem → petermitchell.life/signpost
#poetry #awakening #authenticity #headlessway
Watch this - it is crucial to our times
October 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Watch this - it is crucial to our times
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Surprised myself — I’ve written a book! 📖
“The Space Between Us: Awakening Together in a Fractured World” just came out via Emergence Education.
Available now on Amazon as kindle or paperback:
If you read it, a short review on Amazon or Goodreads would mean a lot 🙏
#TheSpaceBetweenUs #BookLaunch
Surprised myself — I’ve written a book! 📖
“The Space Between Us: Awakening Together in a Fractured World” just came out via Emergence Education.
Available now on Amazon as kindle or paperback:
If you read it, a short review on Amazon or Goodreads would mean a lot 🙏
#TheSpaceBetweenUs #BookLaunch
September 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Surprised myself — I’ve written a book! 📖
“The Space Between Us: Awakening Together in a Fractured World” just came out via Emergence Education.
Available now on Amazon as kindle or paperback:
If you read it, a short review on Amazon or Goodreads would mean a lot 🙏
#TheSpaceBetweenUs #BookLaunch
Surprised myself — I’ve written a book! 📖
“The Space Between Us: Awakening Together in a Fractured World” just came out via Emergence Education.
Available now on Amazon as kindle or paperback:
If you read it, a short review on Amazon or Goodreads would mean a lot 🙏
#TheSpaceBetweenUs #BookLaunch
September 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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"Once you recognise all reference points as illusory,
you rest—simply—
in this moment of creation."
—from my new poem Open to Infinity 🌋
(full poem here: www.petermitchell.life/open-to-infi... )
"Once you recognise all reference points as illusory,
you rest—simply—
in this moment of creation."
—from my new poem Open to Infinity 🌋
(full poem here: www.petermitchell.life/open-to-infi... )
September 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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"Once you recognise all reference points as illusory,
you rest—simply—
in this moment of creation."
—from my new poem Open to Infinity 🌋
(full poem here: www.petermitchell.life/open-to-infi... )
"Once you recognise all reference points as illusory,
you rest—simply—
in this moment of creation."
—from my new poem Open to Infinity 🌋
(full poem here: www.petermitchell.life/open-to-infi... )
Tom Hodgkinson at 'The Idler' joked that “living in the moment” just makes us flaky—late for dinner, losing keys.
But the present isn’t flimsy. It’s a boundless field where past & future are creatively woven into Now.
Poem here → www.petermitchell.life/boundless-pr...
#TheIdler #BoundlessPresent
But the present isn’t flimsy. It’s a boundless field where past & future are creatively woven into Now.
Poem here → www.petermitchell.life/boundless-pr...
#TheIdler #BoundlessPresent
September 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Tom Hodgkinson at 'The Idler' joked that “living in the moment” just makes us flaky—late for dinner, losing keys.
But the present isn’t flimsy. It’s a boundless field where past & future are creatively woven into Now.
Poem here → www.petermitchell.life/boundless-pr...
#TheIdler #BoundlessPresent
But the present isn’t flimsy. It’s a boundless field where past & future are creatively woven into Now.
Poem here → www.petermitchell.life/boundless-pr...
#TheIdler #BoundlessPresent
The Book - a new poem
Not the owner.
Not even the author.
Just the vessel, the guardian.
The Book.
www.petermitchell.life/book
Not the owner.
Not even the author.
Just the vessel, the guardian.
The Book.
www.petermitchell.life/book
September 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The Book - a new poem
Not the owner.
Not even the author.
Just the vessel, the guardian.
The Book.
www.petermitchell.life/book
Not the owner.
Not even the author.
Just the vessel, the guardian.
The Book.
www.petermitchell.life/book
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“Ganpati Bappa Morya! On this Ganesh Chaturthi, may the remover of obstacles bless us with clarity, courage, and peace. Today I immersed an ice Ganesha in my garden bird bath—a small ritual of returning form to the formless.”
“Ganpati Bappa Morya! On this Ganesh Chaturthi, may the remover of obstacles bless us with clarity, courage, and peace. Today I immersed an ice Ganesha in my garden bird bath—a small ritual of returning form to the formless.”
August 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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“Ganpati Bappa Morya! On this Ganesh Chaturthi, may the remover of obstacles bless us with clarity, courage, and peace. Today I immersed an ice Ganesha in my garden bird bath—a small ritual of returning form to the formless.”
“Ganpati Bappa Morya! On this Ganesh Chaturthi, may the remover of obstacles bless us with clarity, courage, and peace. Today I immersed an ice Ganesha in my garden bird bath—a small ritual of returning form to the formless.”
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...The fear of the droplet of water
losing itself in the ocean.
It is another metaphor
that misleads.
The droplet
is always
just the ocean.
Only the ocean is real...
Read the full poem 'Surrender' → www.petermitchell.life/surrender
#Poetry
#Contemplation
#Surrender
#Nonduality
#Awakening
...The fear of the droplet of water
losing itself in the ocean.
It is another metaphor
that misleads.
The droplet
is always
just the ocean.
Only the ocean is real...
Read the full poem 'Surrender' → www.petermitchell.life/surrender
#Poetry
#Contemplation
#Surrender
#Nonduality
#Awakening
August 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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...The fear of the droplet of water
losing itself in the ocean.
It is another metaphor
that misleads.
The droplet
is always
just the ocean.
Only the ocean is real...
Read the full poem 'Surrender' → www.petermitchell.life/surrender
#Poetry
#Contemplation
#Surrender
#Nonduality
#Awakening
...The fear of the droplet of water
losing itself in the ocean.
It is another metaphor
that misleads.
The droplet
is always
just the ocean.
Only the ocean is real...
Read the full poem 'Surrender' → www.petermitchell.life/surrender
#Poetry
#Contemplation
#Surrender
#Nonduality
#Awakening
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“To recognise uniqueness as the signature of the universal is to release the creative spark between the poles of paradox." Read the full poem "The Other" → www.petermitchell.life/the-other
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#TheOther
#SacredConnection
#UnityInDiversity
#SpiritualPoetry
“To recognise uniqueness as the signature of the universal is to release the creative spark between the poles of paradox." Read the full poem "The Other" → www.petermitchell.life/the-other
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#TheOther
#SacredConnection
#UnityInDiversity
#SpiritualPoetry
August 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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“To recognise uniqueness as the signature of the universal is to release the creative spark between the poles of paradox." Read the full poem "The Other" → www.petermitchell.life/the-other
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#TheOther
#SacredConnection
#UnityInDiversity
#SpiritualPoetry
“To recognise uniqueness as the signature of the universal is to release the creative spark between the poles of paradox." Read the full poem "The Other" → www.petermitchell.life/the-other
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#TheOther
#SacredConnection
#UnityInDiversity
#SpiritualPoetry
Once Upon an Awakening
The metaphors we inherit shape the way we seek—and what we miss.
This essay explores how pre-verbal thought frames our experience of waking up.
www.petermitchell.life/once-upon-an...
(Companion piece: Breathing the Mystery)
#WakingUp #SpiritualInquiry #MetaphorsMatter
The metaphors we inherit shape the way we seek—and what we miss.
This essay explores how pre-verbal thought frames our experience of waking up.
www.petermitchell.life/once-upon-an...
(Companion piece: Breathing the Mystery)
#WakingUp #SpiritualInquiry #MetaphorsMatter
July 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Once Upon an Awakening
The metaphors we inherit shape the way we seek—and what we miss.
This essay explores how pre-verbal thought frames our experience of waking up.
www.petermitchell.life/once-upon-an...
(Companion piece: Breathing the Mystery)
#WakingUp #SpiritualInquiry #MetaphorsMatter
The metaphors we inherit shape the way we seek—and what we miss.
This essay explores how pre-verbal thought frames our experience of waking up.
www.petermitchell.life/once-upon-an...
(Companion piece: Breathing the Mystery)
#WakingUp #SpiritualInquiry #MetaphorsMatter
Beyond Resting
Even “resting in being” can be a subtle holding on.
What happens when even that dissolves?
A new poem on the ungraspable heart of awareness:
www.petermitchell.life/beyond-resting
#PoetryOfAwareness
#Nonduality
#BeyondSelf
#LettingGo
#Refractions
#bhava
Even “resting in being” can be a subtle holding on.
What happens when even that dissolves?
A new poem on the ungraspable heart of awareness:
www.petermitchell.life/beyond-resting
#PoetryOfAwareness
#Nonduality
#BeyondSelf
#LettingGo
#Refractions
#bhava
July 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Beyond Resting
Even “resting in being” can be a subtle holding on.
What happens when even that dissolves?
A new poem on the ungraspable heart of awareness:
www.petermitchell.life/beyond-resting
#PoetryOfAwareness
#Nonduality
#BeyondSelf
#LettingGo
#Refractions
#bhava
Even “resting in being” can be a subtle holding on.
What happens when even that dissolves?
A new poem on the ungraspable heart of awareness:
www.petermitchell.life/beyond-resting
#PoetryOfAwareness
#Nonduality
#BeyondSelf
#LettingGo
#Refractions
#bhava
Gāthā
A gāthā is a short, poetic verse — part invocation, part reminder.
In Buddhist traditions, they’re used to return us to presence in the midst of life.
This one arrived as I sat down on my cushion, before the silence began.
www.petermitchell.life/gatha
A gāthā is a short, poetic verse — part invocation, part reminder.
In Buddhist traditions, they’re used to return us to presence in the midst of life.
This one arrived as I sat down on my cushion, before the silence began.
www.petermitchell.life/gatha
July 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Gāthā
A gāthā is a short, poetic verse — part invocation, part reminder.
In Buddhist traditions, they’re used to return us to presence in the midst of life.
This one arrived as I sat down on my cushion, before the silence began.
www.petermitchell.life/gatha
A gāthā is a short, poetic verse — part invocation, part reminder.
In Buddhist traditions, they’re used to return us to presence in the midst of life.
This one arrived as I sat down on my cushion, before the silence began.
www.petermitchell.life/gatha
“The system that is poisoning our river, is poisoning our minds”
⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“The system that is poisoning our river, is poisoning our minds”
✨ New website is live: petermitchell.life ✨
An evolution of my original blog, Facets of the Diamond offers poems, reflections, and essays shaped by silence and lived experience.
Not answers—just invitations to look again.
Come linger a while…
#FacetsOfTheDiamond #spiritualwriting #awakening #mystery
An evolution of my original blog, Facets of the Diamond offers poems, reflections, and essays shaped by silence and lived experience.
Not answers—just invitations to look again.
Come linger a while…
#FacetsOfTheDiamond #spiritualwriting #awakening #mystery
July 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
✨ New website is live: petermitchell.life ✨
An evolution of my original blog, Facets of the Diamond offers poems, reflections, and essays shaped by silence and lived experience.
Not answers—just invitations to look again.
Come linger a while…
#FacetsOfTheDiamond #spiritualwriting #awakening #mystery
An evolution of my original blog, Facets of the Diamond offers poems, reflections, and essays shaped by silence and lived experience.
Not answers—just invitations to look again.
Come linger a while…
#FacetsOfTheDiamond #spiritualwriting #awakening #mystery
RE-ENTRY
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🛰️ “.......
All that is—
extra,
added,
temporary,
phoney,
redundant,
personal—
burns away
as we
spiral back
into the sun
of our own
Being.”
Spiritual transformation as re-entry.
🪐 Read the full poem: 🔗https://www.petermitchell.blog/re-entry/
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#PoetryOfAwakening
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🛰️ “.......
All that is—
extra,
added,
temporary,
phoney,
redundant,
personal—
burns away
as we
spiral back
into the sun
of our own
Being.”
Spiritual transformation as re-entry.
🪐 Read the full poem: 🔗https://www.petermitchell.blog/re-entry/
.
#PoetryOfAwakening
June 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
RE-ENTRY
.
🛰️ “.......
All that is—
extra,
added,
temporary,
phoney,
redundant,
personal—
burns away
as we
spiral back
into the sun
of our own
Being.”
Spiritual transformation as re-entry.
🪐 Read the full poem: 🔗https://www.petermitchell.blog/re-entry/
.
#PoetryOfAwakening
.
🛰️ “.......
All that is—
extra,
added,
temporary,
phoney,
redundant,
personal—
burns away
as we
spiral back
into the sun
of our own
Being.”
Spiritual transformation as re-entry.
🪐 Read the full poem: 🔗https://www.petermitchell.blog/re-entry/
.
#PoetryOfAwakening
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
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When I stop
trying
to catch myself
in concepts,
a profound
understanding
of not-knowing
fills awareness.
.
The utter futility
of fixing essence
as substance
flares
in a radiant flash.
......
To read the complete piece, go to:
www.petermitchell.blog/catch-me-if-...
#Unknowing
.
When I stop
trying
to catch myself
in concepts,
a profound
understanding
of not-knowing
fills awareness.
.
The utter futility
of fixing essence
as substance
flares
in a radiant flash.
......
To read the complete piece, go to:
www.petermitchell.blog/catch-me-if-...
#Unknowing
June 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
.
When I stop
trying
to catch myself
in concepts,
a profound
understanding
of not-knowing
fills awareness.
.
The utter futility
of fixing essence
as substance
flares
in a radiant flash.
......
To read the complete piece, go to:
www.petermitchell.blog/catch-me-if-...
#Unknowing
.
When I stop
trying
to catch myself
in concepts,
a profound
understanding
of not-knowing
fills awareness.
.
The utter futility
of fixing essence
as substance
flares
in a radiant flash.
......
To read the complete piece, go to:
www.petermitchell.blog/catch-me-if-...
#Unknowing
METAMORPHOSIS
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I am becoming
a stranger
to myself.
.
My comfortable avatar,
my resting self,
my go-to default,
is dissolving—
fading into
transparency,
redundancy.
.
to read the complete post: www.petermitchell.blog/metamorphosis/
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#Metamorphosis
#SpiritualPoetry
#AwakeningInProgress
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I am becoming
a stranger
to myself.
.
My comfortable avatar,
my resting self,
my go-to default,
is dissolving—
fading into
transparency,
redundancy.
.
to read the complete post: www.petermitchell.blog/metamorphosis/
.
#Metamorphosis
#SpiritualPoetry
#AwakeningInProgress
May 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
METAMORPHOSIS
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I am becoming
a stranger
to myself.
.
My comfortable avatar,
my resting self,
my go-to default,
is dissolving—
fading into
transparency,
redundancy.
.
to read the complete post: www.petermitchell.blog/metamorphosis/
.
#Metamorphosis
#SpiritualPoetry
#AwakeningInProgress
.
I am becoming
a stranger
to myself.
.
My comfortable avatar,
my resting self,
my go-to default,
is dissolving—
fading into
transparency,
redundancy.
.
to read the complete post: www.petermitchell.blog/metamorphosis/
.
#Metamorphosis
#SpiritualPoetry
#AwakeningInProgress
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HANDLE WITH CARE
.
Be careful what you bring
to this moment.
.
In our compulsive
self-absorption
and care-less-ness,
we allow our casual moods
to colour—
....
To read the complete piece. go to: www.petermitchell.blog/handle-with-...
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#BeingPresent
#SacredOrdinary
#SacredPoetry
#BeingHuman
HANDLE WITH CARE
.
Be careful what you bring
to this moment.
.
In our compulsive
self-absorption
and care-less-ness,
we allow our casual moods
to colour—
....
To read the complete piece. go to: www.petermitchell.blog/handle-with-...
.
#BeingPresent
#SacredOrdinary
#SacredPoetry
#BeingHuman
May 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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HANDLE WITH CARE
.
Be careful what you bring
to this moment.
.
In our compulsive
self-absorption
and care-less-ness,
we allow our casual moods
to colour—
....
To read the complete piece. go to: www.petermitchell.blog/handle-with-...
.
#BeingPresent
#SacredOrdinary
#SacredPoetry
#BeingHuman
HANDLE WITH CARE
.
Be careful what you bring
to this moment.
.
In our compulsive
self-absorption
and care-less-ness,
we allow our casual moods
to colour—
....
To read the complete piece. go to: www.petermitchell.blog/handle-with-...
.
#BeingPresent
#SacredOrdinary
#SacredPoetry
#BeingHuman
RAW MATERIAL
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Is there anything God cannot bear?
Are there limits to the compassion Love can hold?
Does Wisdom turn away from what it cannot fathom?
.......
to read the complete piece go to: www.petermitchell.blog/raw-material/
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#spiritualpoetry #divinehuman #spiritualawakening #transformation
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Is there anything God cannot bear?
Are there limits to the compassion Love can hold?
Does Wisdom turn away from what it cannot fathom?
.......
to read the complete piece go to: www.petermitchell.blog/raw-material/
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#spiritualpoetry #divinehuman #spiritualawakening #transformation
May 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
RAW MATERIAL
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Is there anything God cannot bear?
Are there limits to the compassion Love can hold?
Does Wisdom turn away from what it cannot fathom?
.......
to read the complete piece go to: www.petermitchell.blog/raw-material/
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#spiritualpoetry #divinehuman #spiritualawakening #transformation
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Is there anything God cannot bear?
Are there limits to the compassion Love can hold?
Does Wisdom turn away from what it cannot fathom?
.......
to read the complete piece go to: www.petermitchell.blog/raw-material/
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#spiritualpoetry #divinehuman #spiritualawakening #transformation
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DON’T BE AFRAID
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Don’t be afraid
of being fully human,
of being utterly yourself—
and discovering
the churning whirlpool
that erupts, now and then,
into....
...
To read the rest go to: www.petermitchell.blog/dont-be-afra...
#spiritualawakening #emotionalhealing
#spiritualpoetry #consciousliving
DON’T BE AFRAID
.
Don’t be afraid
of being fully human,
of being utterly yourself—
and discovering
the churning whirlpool
that erupts, now and then,
into....
...
To read the rest go to: www.petermitchell.blog/dont-be-afra...
#spiritualawakening #emotionalhealing
#spiritualpoetry #consciousliving
May 25, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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DON’T BE AFRAID
.
Don’t be afraid
of being fully human,
of being utterly yourself—
and discovering
the churning whirlpool
that erupts, now and then,
into....
...
To read the rest go to: www.petermitchell.blog/dont-be-afra...
#spiritualawakening #emotionalhealing
#spiritualpoetry #consciousliving
DON’T BE AFRAID
.
Don’t be afraid
of being fully human,
of being utterly yourself—
and discovering
the churning whirlpool
that erupts, now and then,
into....
...
To read the rest go to: www.petermitchell.blog/dont-be-afra...
#spiritualawakening #emotionalhealing
#spiritualpoetry #consciousliving