Wiz, hard to find words for all the appreciation I have for what you explored in this week’s wrap-up 🤍. I want to spotlight this one paragraph (and the few after it) that touched something deep. I felt a rush of grief - and hope - in what you named here:
“In a world led by the heart, a tool like AI might not just pave a path to abundance, but also gift us something even more radical: time. Time we’ve never been allowed to have. Time to tend to the inner world we’ve kept on mute. Time to finally stop running.”
Matthew, as I type those words I have to admit I felt a real panic about putting them into the world, because I know so many people fear AI right now, I had sudden visions as being screamed down for daring to suggest AI might be a gift. And then, I stepped out of my mind and dropped into my heart and heard a little voice say that someone really needed to hear it. Thanks for being the someone - it makes conjuring the courage to write it feel all the more worth it! xx
I am a Minnesotan and images of the peaceful protests flashed through my mind as I read this. And deeper than that, images of people helping people also swirled...delivering groceries, doing laundry shuttles, picking up released detainees, taking other people's children to school and picking them up, people gathering in groups to witness ICE operations and recording them. There are hundreds of examples of people helping people and it's not for money or glory...its because people need our help. I feel this is a glimpse of what is possible in a heart-led world.
Yes, Linda, this is exactly how we get where we are going - through unspeakable pain that prompts us out of our mind and into our hearts. It’s like we’ve been sleep walking, living lives that we didn’t need our hearts to navigate, but now we need the guidance, and people everywhere are finding a strength, a courage and a love they didn’t know they had. This is the way. Painful but purposeful!
My husband and I listened to the audio of your essay this morning over coffee. I'm with Maryooch - so much wrapped into how we feel in this moment.... it has certainly been a lot to hold. As we reached the end of the recording, we also felt a sense of calm wash over us. We both offer our profound gratitude to you for breaking this all down... thank you. May we dot the snow-covered parts of the globe with a host of snow angels. <3 Even the birds here are helping with that task (Blue Jays making impressions in the snowy landscape like snow angels feels a bit like a magical wink from the Universe)! ;) Thank you, friend. xx
Oh Dani, I cannot tell you how deeply it moves me to hear the various ways people tend to these words - listening as audio over coffee with your husband is perfect, especially given just how much coffee I consume in order to write it. Keeping my local coffee shop afloat. And yes, snow angels everywhere I say. What a beautiful symbol of heart activations everywhere!
I visit my local library each week to write these, and it’s become a beautiful ritual. It’s a charming little library nestled in a leafy little spot, and almost every window in the place looks out onto nature. I take my giant vat of coffee and settle in a comfy seat by a giant floor to ceiling glass window that looks out on my favourite tree, and each week as I sit down, I feel both the chair and the tree greet me like an old friend, and I’ve started to realise that they have wisdom to share with me. Thoughts and ideas flow through me in the chair that I’m quite convinced I’m soaking up from the beautiful surrounds - the tree, the chair, the thousands of books. It’s become my very favourite time of the week, to settle down and see what rises. I’m so glad it’s meaningful to you all too. xx
No snow where I live, but my daily beach walks keep me so present to the wonder that is life. And every fear that rises reminds me this is why I was born.
“Trump, for his part, announced plans for a car race through the monuments of Washington, D.C. - because apparently that’s what the people really wanted when they voted for cheaper groceries”. What the what
Yeah, I know, I can hardly keep up with all the nonsense, but this is one of the mad ideas he sharted out last week, among many others. I also saw something about him building a wrestling stadium on the White House lawn. I mean, at this stage, grandpa’s totally off the reservation, goodness knows what comes next!
Thank you for your wisdom and sharing your words. This is a difficult time but your wisdom really helps to give me hope and peace. It takes me out of my head and my fear and back to my heart where I can experience this in a more positive way.
Your writing is always so informed, articulate, resonant, and thought provoking. Intuitively true, full of hope. Thank you for your insightful and intelligent commentary.
Even with an overactive anxiety gene 😁 today’s message provided me with a calm resolve and helped to lift some of the sadness that lives within me.
I always believed anything (one) that’s losing power holds on tighter and fights harder.
The gloom that remains within is part guilt and part sadness that I won’t be around to see this new age into fruition, but you reminded us in a previous post that we are the pillars and the guides ushering the youngest among us into the Age of the Heart. As a boomer granny, I take that job very seriously.
Sandy, you play such an important role. You remember where we've been. You know a more cohesive society is possible. For most people under the age of 30 right now, they simply don't know what that looks like. They don't know about reaching across the aisle, or even good governance. Our system has never been perfect, but it's certainly been better. You hold the memory of that, which is a blueprint for what is possible next. And not only that - you remember the 60's and 70's, where humanity was really starting to discover something about love. That something got trampled, but the seeds were planted, and they are ready to bloom, watered by those who remember the planting. You may not see what comes next with your human eyes, but the larger part of you that is spirit will be here for the full journey. You must play your part in this vessel for now....and then, in your spirit form, there will be more to come! Onwards!
Oh! This was so perfect. Wiz, it took me all day to read it. I’d take a break and come back. Take a break and start again, back and forth like that all day. It was the perfect way to read it. I had three friends call and tell me how heartening they found it. How much it helped them. Thank you, dear Wiz. Thank you for sharing a perspective of calm and expansiveness. Breathe deep. And carry on. With joy and anchored in our heart!♥️ I♥️💗❤️
I’m so happy this resonated with you, Elizabeth, and there’s something really nice about stretching the read out across the day. Feels like a conversation unfolding - lots of ideas to unpack and time to think. I felt all of this come in very strongly as I sat to write this week, and I also felt how prickly the topics were. It makes me so thankful to hear that it landed for you - that you caught the signal. And I must say - it completely blows my mind to hear that you had friends calling you to discuss this writing. If only you could see how solitary I am when I write - I really love my own company and squirrel myself away to write these, but there’s something so gratifying to know that it triggers conversation. It feels to me like a signal catching as it whizzes around the world. Just so honored to get to write and have others read….honored to be part of the signal as it spreads. xx
I completely agree, and nothing in this article was intended to suggest otherwise. What we are being asked in this moment is to navigate life in the grey spaces - where things are not cleanly black or white, where all things have nuance, where it's harder to cleanly say one person is all good or another person is all bad, and we have to look deeper and view all matters with the deepest part of ourselves in order to be able to hold the truth. Of course Alex Pretti did not deserve to die for kicking a tail light....but the larger conversation this really opens is under what circumstance does one human ever have the right to take the life of another human? Is breaking a law something that should be punished by death? Is there ever a time when harming another can be done without snuffing out our own light? If we dim our light to deal with the dark, do we make the world darker or lighter? It's a deep conversation that's being opened here by the newly surface video footage, so deep that many would prefer to just call it fake and blame AI. We are getting to the crux of things here....uncomfortable conversations and difficult moral dilemmas. May we face them all with our hearts open and our light shining as brightly as it can. xx
Wiz, hard to find words for all the appreciation I have for what you explored in this week’s wrap-up 🤍. I want to spotlight this one paragraph (and the few after it) that touched something deep. I felt a rush of grief - and hope - in what you named here:
“In a world led by the heart, a tool like AI might not just pave a path to abundance, but also gift us something even more radical: time. Time we’ve never been allowed to have. Time to tend to the inner world we’ve kept on mute. Time to finally stop running.”
Matthew, as I type those words I have to admit I felt a real panic about putting them into the world, because I know so many people fear AI right now, I had sudden visions as being screamed down for daring to suggest AI might be a gift. And then, I stepped out of my mind and dropped into my heart and heard a little voice say that someone really needed to hear it. Thanks for being the someone - it makes conjuring the courage to write it feel all the more worth it! xx
This was an amazing, gutting, terrifying, soothing wrap-up. Time to go out and make some snow-angels. Peace to you and to all.
Glad you made it to the end. Lots in there this week but it all felt necessary. Snow angels now essential! ♥️
I am a Minnesotan and images of the peaceful protests flashed through my mind as I read this. And deeper than that, images of people helping people also swirled...delivering groceries, doing laundry shuttles, picking up released detainees, taking other people's children to school and picking them up, people gathering in groups to witness ICE operations and recording them. There are hundreds of examples of people helping people and it's not for money or glory...its because people need our help. I feel this is a glimpse of what is possible in a heart-led world.
Yes, Linda, this is exactly how we get where we are going - through unspeakable pain that prompts us out of our mind and into our hearts. It’s like we’ve been sleep walking, living lives that we didn’t need our hearts to navigate, but now we need the guidance, and people everywhere are finding a strength, a courage and a love they didn’t know they had. This is the way. Painful but purposeful!
My husband and I listened to the audio of your essay this morning over coffee. I'm with Maryooch - so much wrapped into how we feel in this moment.... it has certainly been a lot to hold. As we reached the end of the recording, we also felt a sense of calm wash over us. We both offer our profound gratitude to you for breaking this all down... thank you. May we dot the snow-covered parts of the globe with a host of snow angels. <3 Even the birds here are helping with that task (Blue Jays making impressions in the snowy landscape like snow angels feels a bit like a magical wink from the Universe)! ;) Thank you, friend. xx
Oh Dani, I cannot tell you how deeply it moves me to hear the various ways people tend to these words - listening as audio over coffee with your husband is perfect, especially given just how much coffee I consume in order to write it. Keeping my local coffee shop afloat. And yes, snow angels everywhere I say. What a beautiful symbol of heart activations everywhere!
So many articles I think are the best yet, then you outdo yourself again and again. It leaves me excited about where we are headed! So grateful! 💖💖💖
I visit my local library each week to write these, and it’s become a beautiful ritual. It’s a charming little library nestled in a leafy little spot, and almost every window in the place looks out onto nature. I take my giant vat of coffee and settle in a comfy seat by a giant floor to ceiling glass window that looks out on my favourite tree, and each week as I sit down, I feel both the chair and the tree greet me like an old friend, and I’ve started to realise that they have wisdom to share with me. Thoughts and ideas flow through me in the chair that I’m quite convinced I’m soaking up from the beautiful surrounds - the tree, the chair, the thousands of books. It’s become my very favourite time of the week, to settle down and see what rises. I’m so glad it’s meaningful to you all too. xx
One heart wasn't enough!
💖💝💖💝💖💝💖💝💖
This is true isn’t it. They just keep spiraling wider and deeper!
I am going to read this each day, followed by opening my heart to the future. Thank you wise Wizard.
Let’s all open our hearts together! xx
Thank you. I’m looking forward to a heart-led future.
Me too! Let’s start the trend now by leading with our own hearts. Others can follow!
No snow where I live, but my daily beach walks keep me so present to the wonder that is life. And every fear that rises reminds me this is why I was born.
Yes! Beautiful! This is why we came! Thank-you for remembering. xx
“Trump, for his part, announced plans for a car race through the monuments of Washington, D.C. - because apparently that’s what the people really wanted when they voted for cheaper groceries”. What the what
Yeah, I know, I can hardly keep up with all the nonsense, but this is one of the mad ideas he sharted out last week, among many others. I also saw something about him building a wrestling stadium on the White House lawn. I mean, at this stage, grandpa’s totally off the reservation, goodness knows what comes next!
Damn! I wish I could sue the IRS!😡
Thank you for your wisdom and sharing your words. This is a difficult time but your wisdom really helps to give me hope and peace. It takes me out of my head and my fear and back to my heart where I can experience this in a more positive way.
I’m so glad it’s helpful - we are all learning to transcend fear as we pass through this difficult moment. Let’s do it together!
Your writing is always so informed, articulate, resonant, and thought provoking. Intuitively true, full of hope. Thank you for your insightful and intelligent commentary.
So many highlights, so much to think about.
You’re very welcome. I’m glad it’s provided food for thought!
Even with an overactive anxiety gene 😁 today’s message provided me with a calm resolve and helped to lift some of the sadness that lives within me.
I always believed anything (one) that’s losing power holds on tighter and fights harder.
The gloom that remains within is part guilt and part sadness that I won’t be around to see this new age into fruition, but you reminded us in a previous post that we are the pillars and the guides ushering the youngest among us into the Age of the Heart. As a boomer granny, I take that job very seriously.
Sandy, you play such an important role. You remember where we've been. You know a more cohesive society is possible. For most people under the age of 30 right now, they simply don't know what that looks like. They don't know about reaching across the aisle, or even good governance. Our system has never been perfect, but it's certainly been better. You hold the memory of that, which is a blueprint for what is possible next. And not only that - you remember the 60's and 70's, where humanity was really starting to discover something about love. That something got trampled, but the seeds were planted, and they are ready to bloom, watered by those who remember the planting. You may not see what comes next with your human eyes, but the larger part of you that is spirit will be here for the full journey. You must play your part in this vessel for now....and then, in your spirit form, there will be more to come! Onwards!
Oh! This was so perfect. Wiz, it took me all day to read it. I’d take a break and come back. Take a break and start again, back and forth like that all day. It was the perfect way to read it. I had three friends call and tell me how heartening they found it. How much it helped them. Thank you, dear Wiz. Thank you for sharing a perspective of calm and expansiveness. Breathe deep. And carry on. With joy and anchored in our heart!♥️ I♥️💗❤️
I’m so happy this resonated with you, Elizabeth, and there’s something really nice about stretching the read out across the day. Feels like a conversation unfolding - lots of ideas to unpack and time to think. I felt all of this come in very strongly as I sat to write this week, and I also felt how prickly the topics were. It makes me so thankful to hear that it landed for you - that you caught the signal. And I must say - it completely blows my mind to hear that you had friends calling you to discuss this writing. If only you could see how solitary I am when I write - I really love my own company and squirrel myself away to write these, but there’s something so gratifying to know that it triggers conversation. It feels to me like a signal catching as it whizzes around the world. Just so honored to get to write and have others read….honored to be part of the signal as it spreads. xx
Sending you much love and gratitude ❤️🤗
Very good, but I still say Pretti did not deserve the death penalty for expressing his justified anger at the killing and the violence.
I completely agree, and nothing in this article was intended to suggest otherwise. What we are being asked in this moment is to navigate life in the grey spaces - where things are not cleanly black or white, where all things have nuance, where it's harder to cleanly say one person is all good or another person is all bad, and we have to look deeper and view all matters with the deepest part of ourselves in order to be able to hold the truth. Of course Alex Pretti did not deserve to die for kicking a tail light....but the larger conversation this really opens is under what circumstance does one human ever have the right to take the life of another human? Is breaking a law something that should be punished by death? Is there ever a time when harming another can be done without snuffing out our own light? If we dim our light to deal with the dark, do we make the world darker or lighter? It's a deep conversation that's being opened here by the newly surface video footage, so deep that many would prefer to just call it fake and blame AI. We are getting to the crux of things here....uncomfortable conversations and difficult moral dilemmas. May we face them all with our hearts open and our light shining as brightly as it can. xx
Thank you Wizard!
A pleasure, as always! xx