"That little bit of light and love that I feel in myself and see in others - that gives me hope and keeps me going."

"It doesn't take much; or rather, what love is may not look like much but it is very potent."

Gnome

"I have an itch in my mind"

" This itch needs to be scratched, and I know that if I do it won't go away. It feels like if I keep on scratching, I will whittle away my entire mind. How would that be?"

Gnome

Actually, dear Gnome, the mind will remain - but you might take the lid off of it, and who knows what may enter then! Best of scratching!

"I am learning to be present with myself. It feels very solitary."

"Will I just be ever more alone when I settle into being with myself more? Its is a big world out there. I am up to it, but where does that universal feeling come in? Do I get to feel that too?"

Gnome

The mind seems to regularly have a fear that we will be all alone, and lonely, when we become "enlightened, awake, aware." This misunderstanding often triggers reactions in the mind to avoid insight and intuition, because they appear to bring us closer to that state of being we fear (and long for.) People, our friends, will no longer understand us, we will be shunned, isolated.

As we become more ourselves, as we express the fullness of Being, the perspective of the mind does change, it does leave behind its old views. And, others may not understand with their thinking, how we experience that Being. Yet, Being and Awareness are the true nature of all, and therefor a part of all of us. So, deep inside, we all know what that is. We seek it, long for it, and are inspired by those who express it. Like the Gnome, we discover it in ourselves.

"I am breaking the mold."

"If you look, the form that I look like is changing. The seams are cracking, stretching, opening. I may look the same to your usual vision, but I am expanding from the inside out. My body is not what it was, for the better. My energy is reaching out. My impact is greater than I imagined."

Gnome

"I am content by myself. I also have a discomforting longing to connect with another. What a disparity that is."

"Humans seem to think of each others as separate, as disconnected and needing to GET connected. That seems to be the source of the discomfort. What if...they felt connected all the time, and simply decided to share that?"

Gnome