Holy Dictionary – A Twelvemonth of Self Love

The Self Discipline of Desire

Eva Lisle — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 23:20:12 +0000

I was speaking to a friend recently who praised the self discipline of my having blogged daily for a year. I was a bit taken aback as it didn’t feel like self discipline at all. I write and extend love to my thoughts because I want to. Afterwards, this phrase floated into view: the self discipline of desire. I took it into my quiet time this morning to ask Holy Spirit more about this. Me: Holy...

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But Not Without Self Love

Eva Lisle — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 21:28:02 +0000

It is dawning on me now, that self love is the big leagues in the game of Life and Love. We can love our children, our neighbor, the flag, our country, our spouse, our house. We can love chocolate, green grass, cherry pie, clean sheets and of course our dogs and cats (and gerbils, elephants and the snake that kitty keeps bringing into the house). But without self love the circle is not yet...

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12. Day 25: A Crash Course In Feeling(s)

Eva Lisle — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:30:57 +0000

Feeling is another dimension. It is what is present underneath all that you are thinking, seeing, noticing. It is that animal of light that shines warmth on your belly and releases a thousand, thousand butterflies into your chest. This presence of “more” is a live currant running through every cell of your body, not just nerve endings in your fingertips and gut. Feeling can thrash you, uplift you...

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12. Day 21: Heaven On Earth

Eva Lisle — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 12:40:30 +0000

I notice that I use the words thoughts and feelings interchangeably. Are they the same thing in a different forms? HS: Dearest One, Feelings are often thoughts you can’t hear or don’t/wont notice. A feeling will alert you to awareness, the thought can then form more fully and translate into words of guidance, actions or stand-stillness. Feelings, then, are pre-thought. The more attuned you are to...

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11. Day 26: 100 Reasons Why Feedback Is Love Too

Eva Lisle — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:08:38 +0000

Yesterday I wrote about a recent experience with some negative feedback I had received. Getting negative feedback is as helpful as getting positive feedback but it often doesn’t feel like that at first. Sometimes feedback makes you crazy or angry or hurt. Sometimes it makes you want to run, flee or change your name. I needed a list to help me remember when I am stuck in the deafening place of not...

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11. Day 18: To Know Thyself In All Your Grace

Eva Lisle — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:14:52 +0000

I am about to take a totally new step for me. I have the opportunity to attend a spiritual writing conference in Chicago next month. It includes one of my favorite writers and is produced by a favorite publisher, Hay House. They are sweetening the deal with an amazing opportunity for writers aspiring to be published (I have just discovered this about myself in this month of looking at success. EEK!

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11. Day 14: The Deepest Depth

Eva Lisle — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:44:33 +0000

Dearest Ones, Love is invincible. Love cannot be broken. Love cannot be separated. Love cannot be made not Whole, only seen this way through closed eyes and tight heart. Love is all you need. Love is all you have. Love is the truth you seek. There are infinite ways to know and experience love. Join with the love that you are and you will take your invincibility everywhere you go.

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11. Day 5: The Wealth You Seek

Eva Lisle — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:06:42 +0000

Yesterday I was feeling rather stumped by this month of extending love to success. I feel it doing a work within me that I cannot actually see yet. I feel this will bubble up into some form of action or practice but right now I am content with just being in the presence of my thoughts about success without ignoring, organizing or fleeing. This morning this thought came to me: The fear that chose...

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10. Day 25: Sacrifice, A Primer

Eva Lisle — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 14:40:12 +0000

A few days ago, I woke with a start from a dream of being with a dear friend in her car. We were driving along just fine and then I asked a question that so flustered my friend she lost control of the car. When I woke my heart was pounding and I was breathless just as if I had been in this terrifying moment. I could feel death’s longing before it went; that clinging to life, all the while knowing...

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10. Day 10: Fear Is A Stoplight

Eva Lisle — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 14:23:36 +0000

I woke up today with a feeling of shadow passing over me. I didn’t feel grey exactly but there was definitely a presence of gray with a soupçon of lurking. Since I actually feel rested, happy and satisfied I could notice this “feeling presence” without alarm. I got up and decided to have a cup of tea with this gray feeling presence and see what happened. First I lit a candle, put the kettle on and...

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