Category: Reflection

Does it matter what the purpose of life is?

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in healing, life challenges, Life Journey, Love and relationships, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual, Uncategorized

This life journey takes us through magnificent highways paved with laughter, chaos, love, joy, heartache, physical pain and elation.

We walk quiet trails of wonder and awe, experiencing incredible highs and soul crushing lows, always seeking purpose.

And still here I sit, as naked and confused as I was the day I was born, trying to figure it out.

The moral of this story is, we will never figure it out, so, surrender to what is.

Does it matter what the purpose of life is?

No it doesn’t. We’re here, period, so create your own purpose, pave your own path and blaze your own interesting trails. Find the lessons where you can, love the ones you’re with and enjoy the dance.

Unpack anything that does not bring you joy and let it go.

We all have an expiry date, so, be kind, be tolerant, be compassionate and be loving to all living things including our planet.

I do not have a clue where my journey will take me next, wherever it is, I’ve decided it’s going to be great. There’ll be forests, oceans, starry skies, chocolate, music, puppies, trails to wander and adventures waiting just for me and hopefully shared with many of you.

Take charge of your journey, then enjoy where it takes you.

Toni O’K~🌹❤️

The empty spaces inside of us.

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in healing, life challenges, Life Journey, Love and relationships, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual, Uncategorized

We’re all trying to fill the empty spaces inside of us. Maybe we need to stop trying so hard.

Those empty spaces, might be the breathing room we need to allow old attitudes, behaviours and beliefs not meant for us to leave.

We exhaust ourselves chasing happiness, chasing love, chasing a bigger this or a better that, trying to fill a false sense of “lacking” or emptiness in our lives. When maybe everything we already have, is perfectly enough?

If we’re constantly trying to fill up on something better, we’re NOT enjoying what and who is already present.

You don’t always have to be busy, frantically chasing, consuming and filling up on things, people, activities, substances or the doctrines of society, religion or politicians, to fill a sense of lacking in your life.

Every garden needs space so things can flourish. Like a garden, its the empty spaces within us that allows light to shine on new seeds of thought. Use those quiet spaces when you find them, to just BE and see what grows in you.

Give yourself permission to be still, to be quiet, to create space in your life for the things, the thoughts, the ideas and the souls that have been trying to reach you through the clutter, the noise and the chaos that has kept them out.

Not all empty spaces need to be filled. Sometimes the emptiness itself can fill us up.

Toni O’K~ 🌹 ❤️

Soul Music

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in healing, life challenges, Life Journey, Love and relationships, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual

I’ve often wondered why I’m drawn to certain people.

Is it love? Is it a Karmic connection? Are they a part of my long lost soul tribe?

Everything, including all of us, is energy and vibrate on certain frequencies.

Like the sounds that resonate from the strings on a violin or tunes created on the keys of a piano, we can create beautiful harmonies with some people or, create horrible noise with others that are out of tune with our vibrations.

You know the saying “I got a bad (or good) vibe from that person”. There’s something to that. People like certain pieces of music can lift us up or bring us down based on the vibrations they put out.

Maybe we’re drawn to certain souls because we’re part of the same universal symphony or choir, we’re melodies yet to be played or duets that have yet to be sung.

Whatever it is, I’m grateful for those that make beautiful music in my life orchestra.🎶 ❤️

Toni O’K~🌹❤️

“Have a beautiful day”

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in Life Journey, Love and relationships, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual, Uncategorized

“Have a beautiful day” a phrase I, and others use often.

But what does that mean ~ exactly?

I believe it means this

Whatever beauty is to you, BE that.

If beauty is kindness ~ be kind.

If you see beauty in a smile ~ give yours (smile) away.

If you find beauty in artistic talent ~ express yourself artistically.

If you find beauty in intimate moments ~ create some.

If you find beauty in culinary expression ~ go wild over the grill.

If you find beauty in nature ~ be in nature and be grateful for all that surrounds you.

If you appreciate the dance of beautiful words stung together to create inspirational poetry or a heart warming novel ~ get lost in a good book.

If beauty is your family, friends or pets ~ spend time with them.

Or, you might find beauty in fashion and makeup ~ so get gussied up and go out.

Beauty is the things that tickle our hearts and bring us to life. Beauty truly does live in the eye and the heart of the beholder. When we become the things we find beautiful, our inner beauty shines outward and that makes the world a “beautiful” place to be.

Be Beautiful 😊

Be Less

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in healing, Humour, life challenges, Life Journey, nature, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual

Be LESS THAN YOU CAN BE!

Most of our lives we’re told to be MORE, to want MORE to consume MORE.

Isn’t it time to be Less?

~ Less busy

~ Less stressed

~ Less critical of yourself

~ Less offended

~ Less judgemental

~ Less worried

~ Less impatient

~ Less of an impact on the environment.

~ Less violent

~ Less hurtful

~ Less deceitful

~ Less angry

~ Less prejudice

~ Less greedy

~ Less wasteful

~ Less concerned with what others think.

~ Less willing to tolerate the things and people that hurt you.

Maybe, just maybe if we were all a little less, the planet and all that dwell upon it would to heal just a little bit 🌏 😊❤️.

Toni O’K~🌹❤️

The Promise

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in life challenges, Life Journey, Reflection, self discovery, Uncategorized

Shine your light for those who can not shine their own.

From taking care of the planet to taking care of each other, we have to start acting like we’re in this together, because, WE ARE.

THE PROMISE~ by TO’K

“Quietly I will love you, standing back, allowing you to live your learning, ready to hold you up when the weight of your struggle becomes too much to bear. You will find your light again, I promise. Until then, I will light your path to illuminate the beauty I know lives in you.”

Sending light, love, hope and a promise, to whomever needs it.

Toni O’K~🌹❤️

Sometimes, wisdom just shows up.

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in grief, healing, life challenges, Life Journey, Love and relationships, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual

Sometimes, wisdom just shows up.

I don’t know how.

I don’t know why.

But I “know” that it’s arrived and it’s meant just for me.

It shows up for all of us.

You feel it in your gut, you hear it on the wind, and in rain drops as they tap against the window of your soul trying to get your attention.

It whispers to you in your dreams, appears in clouds as you gaze across the sky.

Sometimes this knowing arrives in the eyes of a complete stranger. It can feel as if this wisdom rode in on a lighten bolt to land at your front door. When actually, this deep sense of knowing surfaced from deep inside of you.

It often shows up during our greatest life storms or, when we’re completely still.

It’s an understanding, a deep sense of truth, an ah-ha moment when you just “know”.

This knowing is the sound of some”thing” calling you.

Listen to it.

Its a Soul thing.

Toni O’K ~🌹❤️

Stop feeding a beast that doesn’t exist.

by The Whimsey Angel, posted in healing, life challenges, Life Journey, Love and relationships, Reflection, self discovery, Spiritual

Once upon-a-time there was a girl.

She believed in herself.

She believed in everyone around her.

She believed in kindness, compassion, gratitude, magic and love.

She went into the world and came upon an angry, soulless beast.

He looked at her and ripped her beliefs from her soul.

He handed her a sack filled with FEAR;

~ Fear of judgment

~ Fear of punishment

~ Fear of alienation and rejection

~ Fear of pain

~ Fear of heartache

~ Fear of her own creativity

and demanded that she never put it down.

She saw others carrying similar sacks so she complied, she thought it was what she was supposed to do.

So she carried that sack for years. It was heavy and weighed her down.

Deep inside she ached for who she knew she was supposed to be. The memories of who she authentically was kept her soul always hopeful. But, too afraid to BE herself, she continued to carry the sack.

Years went by and she met the beast again. He was weak and haggard and she asked him, “Why did you ask me to carry these things?”

“Because,” he said, “I was afraid of what your beautiful soul might accomplish, I was jealous of the light that radiated from you. I wanted your light for myself. I wanted to shine and wanted you to always be heavy with fear. I wanted to control your light.”

“But you’re not shining, you are not radiating my light?” she replied.

“Yes I know,” said the beast. “You’re light belongs to you, it will only shine for you.”

“Who are you?” she boldly asked?”

“I am no thing. I am no person. I am no place.

I am the manifestation of collective human fear, greed, anger, jealousy and hatred.”

In that moment she realized he had no power over her. It was she that had given her power away to him.

She dropped the sack.

She stared into his eyes and without breaking his gaze, reached into his cold, dark heart and tore out what was hers and put it back where it belonged.

And she felt whole again.

She was not angry, she was not spiteful, she was grateful that she had taken back her power and her light.

She did not slay the beast, she didn’t have to, she kissed him on the forehead, stroked his cheek and left him there to die.

And she lived happily ever after.😊

Don’t give your power over to fear.

Stop feeding a beast that doesn’t exist.

Toni O’K~🌹❤️