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Kathryn Dale's avatar

I love this Maia ❤️

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Katie J's avatar

I loved this and needed it. I feel so poorly sometimes about my lack of routine, but your post granted me some grace today 💙

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Maia Toll's avatar

The idea that there’s a right way to do spirituality is one of my pet peeves! The right way is whatever makes you feel connected.

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Cherry Bayley's avatar

Thank you, dear, Maia. These words were balm to a heart that has trying to be something it wasn't meant to be, and I know / am aware but needed to hear your reminder tonight about being true to self: "I, on the other hand, wake up and think about what I want to eat, when I want to eat it, and if, perhaps, I really want brunch instead. So there’s no way I'm gonna recite those gratitudes or perform that meditation at the same time every day. Because, let's face it, I'd be setting myself up for an annihilating failure and all the guilt that comes with it... and that doesn't seem particularly beneficent." and then I started crying and also read, "Life is peppered with moments that align you with your heart, your breath, and the synchronicities of everyday life. Pause and notice when life hands you magic: it's that simple."

As you noted in your email, it's been a long week indeed, and also a life-long career of knowing that my magical moments can do the same thing or better than those corporate, structure-focused counterparts who make up so many people I work with. And it isn't even about better or not, it's about my own value and worth and knowing it. And the difference between knowing it and being constantly told I need to change my form to fit another mold, and the quiet, growing knowing that maybe just maybe I'm tired enough of it that it's time to walk a new path. This moment, this knowing here in this moment is part of the magic. And you're right. It's that simple.

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Maia Toll's avatar

It really is that simple. No one else gets a say in how you envision and connect with what you consider to be divine.

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Cherry Bayley's avatar

P.S. Yes, I'm also a Gemini. XO

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Patricia Richards's avatar

Thank you. Those sacred pauses add up.

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Maia Toll's avatar

They really do!

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Deb Johnston's avatar

i can so relate. the best thing I ever did for myself was to give myself permission to just be in the momment. sometimes that moment needs routine especially when i really need to feel grounded; other times I really need the frivolity of the whimsical... like imagining on a memorial bench that the person it is dedicated to is sitting beside me watching the ducks in the pond too. One time the angle of the sun was just right that the ripples in their wake took on the look of sparkles shooting from their little wiggling butts. We both laughed.

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Maia Toll's avatar

Laughter! I think that’s key: we get caught up in how serious all this spiritual stuff is.

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Angela Bigler, Goddess's avatar

Yes 🌸💜🌟

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Maia Toll's avatar

💕

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April W's avatar

This is so liberating. I always feel like I'm letting myself down because I don't get up early enough to do meditation, yoga, etc to start my day "right". Thank you for reminding me that's okay, I'm just doing things my way xx

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Maia Toll's avatar

I think some of those spiritual to-do lists simply came out of influencers needing something to talk about.🤣

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Melissa's avatar

Scheduling = routine = work. When we don’t plan and are present the connection feels heart driven / effortless.

Definitely a wonderful reminder. 💗

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Maia Toll's avatar

Heart driven & effortless 💗

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Sofie Siegers Johansson's avatar

I loved reading this. I don't do daily rituals, I often forget the sabbath and I don't do moonmagick. I've even pondered if I can call myself a witch when I don't do these things. But I DO talk to my birds, yes the birds on my lawn are mine since they're my friends. I do notice the small changes in my plant nursery, I greet the trees and birds when I go outside, I thank mother nature when I'm in the forest picking berries and I'm amazed by every butterfly and returning crane. To me this is magical and I'm the witchy protector of mother nature and all her gifts.

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Maia Toll's avatar

Yessssss! Being connected isn’t a performance… it’s taking the time to connect.

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