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R-E-S-P-E-C-T

R-E-S-P-E-C-T I have always believed and espoused that in order to love someone you had to respect them. That is a hypothesis that I have been questioning deep down in my being. I guess in the broadest sense it is still true. It is most certainly more nuanced than it has ever been before. Our current political climate has been the primary container from which I have begun to question the inseparable relationship between love and respect. Social media has been the screen upon which the evidence has presented. I have read numerous ideological statements from people I love for which I have no respect. These statements and positions have deeply challenged some of my most previously held values. I could barely believe that the name under

R-E-S-P-E-C-TTaylor Stevens2016-12-15T22:05:19-05:00

Enough

ENOUGH You are enough. Please take a breath. Let that it. Let it land. Feel it in your heart and in your gut. You are enough. You have always been enough. Yep. No matter what the culture, education, religion, society, others may tell you. You are already enough just as you are. When you finally know the truth that you are enough you will see that everyone is enough. And beyond that you will realize that there is enough. There is always enough to go around. Scarcity is a scary, mind-generated perception. It feels real and it is not. You are enough and there is enough. Enough said.

EnoughTaylor Stevens2016-12-15T22:05:52-05:00

Show Me: Me

Show Me: Me Though it is somewhat embarrassing to me at this point in my life I admit that I paid little to no attention to anything political until I was in my mid to late thirties. There are concrete reasons behind that fact that are beyond the scope of this essay. As I have grown older, and I trust more mature, I have experienced an evolutionary relationship to local, national, and world affairs. The level of engagement has fixed and waned, as has what I allow it all to mean about me and my own level of consciousness. I have never experienced as toxic or vitriolic a political climate as has been exuded the past sixteen to eighteen months. It truly has been incredible. I have

Show Me: MeTaylor Stevens2016-10-20T18:03:32-04:00

The Choice For Connection

The Choice For Connection We are hard-wired for both protection and connection. Reread that. Or allow me: we are hard-wired for both protection and connection. The relationship between those two hardwired systems is what could be termed awakening. I write these words as a category four hurricane is moving toward where I live here in south Florida. I am riding the waves between protecting myself and those I love from what could be catastrophic effects of an enormous storm, and the moment by moment choice to connect to what is true, authentic, and constant within me. The former feels contracting, and the latter expanding. There is a definite rhythm. There is a birthing happening within me. I have worked far too long at authenticity to claim

The Choice For ConnectionTaylor Stevens2018-10-12T07:47:38-04:00

Loving You Is What I AM

Loving You Is What I AM For all the religious and spiritual lip service paid to the notion that God is love there is much lovelessness on display, often in the very places that espouse this teaching. I am personally intent on that paradigm being my unequivocal felt-reality. I am committed to uncovering all lovelessness within me so that I may be a living breathing space of God-love. And that necessitates that I love you. If this Thing we call God truly is love and I am created and contained within It then love is what I am. Period. No compromise. No conditions. No excuses. I am the love that is God and my only God is love. To love God is literally to love love. In

Loving You Is What I AMTaylor Stevens2018-10-12T07:47:50-04:00