This painting came to me to help me move some blocked emotional energy in my body. My husband and I were exhausted from a year long journey of looking for our third act home. We usually found homes very quickly with a lot of synchronicities. This time was totally different. We were looking for a home that would fit the type of lifestyle we wanted for our golden years. For the first time in our life, we could move anywhere, and we thought that would be a fun adventure to discover. But when you have no boundaries it actually becomes much more difficult to zone in to a particular area. So we looked everywhere.. At first, it was fun, and then if it became exhausting. and even though I know, home is within, wherever I am, I felt very ungrounded. I miss that feeling of being rooted to a certain place.

This painting represents the struggle and exhaustion I was feeling. I was almost ready to give up on the dream home feeling that existed within me and just choose whatever showed up. But then I heard my Higher Self say, “paint the emotions onto the canvas it will open the door to your dreams.”

My art has always come from a conversation with my Higher Self and Inner Child. Each painting is a healing journey that encourages me to listen more deeply so I can hear my inner child and discover my hidden dreams. This one was truly a gift.

****After I finished the painting I realized it looked like a horse that I know quite well, named Happy.. He was the first horse I rode on the beach. Happy is a spunky Welsh pony cross. I love and adore Happy because we are so much alike, a bit all over the place but open with a pure heart.

Riding horseback on the beach has been a lifelong dream for both my daughter and me. Finally, when I moved to Palm Coast, I was able to make that happen to celebrate both of our birthdays. I found Jennifer Milo’s company, Equestrian Adventures of Florida. She provides horseback riding at Cinnamon beach in Palm Coast, which was just down the road from where we are renting. After our ride we asked Jennifer if she needed volunteers and through her generosity and kindness she agreed. Through our days of volunteering, my daughter and I have learned so much more about these beautiful animals. I am forever grateful to Jennifer for these precious treasured experiences and for her special loving friendship.

“We can raise our hearts like the rising sun.”

The inspiration for this painting came through while I was moving through a deep spiritual and emotional transformational healing. While I was moving through some blockages that I needed to release from my body I heard my Higher Self say, “paint the feelings and allow those feelings to transform you.” The door opened and the emotions flowed onto the canvas.

For over a year, my husband and I have been working on creating our 3rd Act Chapter together. We have been looking for a new home for this new era of our lives. Nothing seemed to fit. We looked everywhere. There were so many “almost” houses but nothing was just right. Then our daughter asked us to move to Savannah and she helped us to find our new lovely home. Without her powerful intuition and love we would not be celebrating the finding of the perfect home.

This painting represents all of it… the alchemy of gold.  

When I finished the painting I knew I had found the lost parts I had suppressed long ago. By reclaiming these parts I found more power and strength to take me to a whole new level of self love and confidence. I felt empowered to own my dreams much more fully. Then the house came effortlessly.

I was rising like the sun.

(Also I want to add …my wonderful miracle worker realtor Mary Ann helped us find our dream home I knew when I met her she would create my Miracle on 34th Street. She was born on Christmas Day and her parents are named Mary and Joseph). Some kind of story huh? I do love me some stories and synchronicities .

Oh I have to add this part …

the horse was inspired by my sweet, powerful and beautiful friend Jennifer’s horse, Midas (even though I didn’t know when I painting this). Jennifer owns Equestrian Adventures of Florida (horseback riding on the beach) and Midas was a dear favorite of mine. What a wonderful blessing Jennifer has been throughout this adventure! She introduced me to Deb, a beautiful strong gorgeous lady who has taught me more than she’ll ever know. I will leave Palm Coast with a full heart. I have been fortunate to meet strong independent ladies!

*****You may notice the colors of the painting match Lapis Lazuli , which is a beautiful celestial dark blue stone with gold speckled pyrite, ie. Fool’s Gold. . Lapis Lazuli is considered to be a stone of protection from psychic attacks. It brings deep peace, harmony, reveals inner truth, honesty, compassion, self - awareness, and self - expression. Because of its healing powers, Lapis lazuli is celebrated as being The Wisdom Stone. It also balances the male and female aspects of your personality which vibrates with the energy of the inner king or queen, and are historically stones of royalty.

Lapis lazuli supports emotional healing however it is not just with the inner issues but it can also support your life by generating goals and adding more determination to achieve them. iI can wash out the negativity of your mind so you can think clearly.

Created for a dear friend who gave me my lifelong dream experience of being with the most beautiful creatures on earth... Horses.

“It’s not about fearing the night
Or running away in fright
It’s not about who’s winning the fight
Or who’s wrong or who’s right
It’s about shining your inner light.

You are a light that can ignite the world
So Shine!”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“On the wings of grace we soar
With our inner wisdom we roar.

So…Speak Your Truth And Soar
Set Your Voice Free

Roar!”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

‘In the delicate sweetness of the flower

Vibrates the sacred feminine power.”

(Your sweet nectar is found within your kindness.)

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“Am I meeting heart to heart

Or wound to wound? “

It’s a good question to ask ourselves.

“The strongest hearts might have the most scars but they have the most gentle and purest vibrations.”~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

Surrendering is not giving up but rather letting go of the old
And opening up to the new.

It can be giving up on what we think will happen
And accept what is now true.

Surrendering can help us release the need to understand
And become comfortable with not knowing

It can also shift our gripping obsessions and compulsions
Into a gentle free flowing.

‘Open up to the gift of Sweet Surrender
And watch the heart become stronger yet more tender”

By Charlotte Foley Phillips

A rose is eloquent, delicate,

Graceful and beautiful.

But never ever believe

Her to be weak, timid or fragile.

You Are The Light Of The World

Never doubt your courage within
For you have the power to transcend.

You are a brilliant spark of divine light
And you can shine into the darkest night.

Each time I drift 

into the mystical world

of my inner child,

I visit extraordinary places
Once thought
Too feral and wild. 


I discover many things

I once tried to hide

But now I see them
From an entirely new side. 

These magical places

Are where I dare to dream.

And they show me that life

Is much more than it may seem. 

For it is in these secret spaces
That I hear my soul’s call
As it whispers, I remember…
All is one and I am one with it all.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“You’ll Know When It’s Time
For Nothing Any Longer Will Rhyme.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“Scattered thoughts and feelings
Pulling on my presence
Before I’m even aware
Of their meaning or essence.

Intertwining worlds within worlds
Freeing me from the inside out.
And unwinding the fractured to the fractal
As it’s all cast about.

Sometimes I can softly but firmly
Command my honest voice
Yet other times its like I have no
Conscious power or choice.

Am I merely a prisoner of a mixed up world
Existing in polarizing extremes?
Or can I overcome the division
And create a peace that reigns supreme?

Deep down I know the answer
Is beyond my mind’s comprehension.
So I release its tight grip
And yield to the heart’s devotion.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“My Love Is The Gravity
That Holds My Polarity
In Balance.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“I found my real journey within
When I was ready to surrender and pull in.

No longer filling a hole from the outside
I was ready to face the parts I tried to hide.

Then I realized there were many within the one
Yet also there was one within the many.

For everything I projected into the world outside
Were really just parts I either denied, rejected
Or were untried.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“As for me…
“Everything begins and ends within
Again and again without end.”

“In the moments I let go
Of need to control
The polarity of shadow and light…

Are precisely the moments
I surrender to the Divine
Where the alchemy of love can unite.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“Although I feel I must add a couple of lines…
”Prying my fingers off of the reigns
Can sometimes take quite the strength to sustain.”

Again, I Remember…

“The Beast are the parts I forced to obey
What I judged, silenced, shamed
And cast away.

“Some days these shadowy parts set themselves free
And remind me there’s both a beauty & a beast
In what I think, feel and see.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“Deep Down…
I Have Always Known I’ve Been Free
To Truly And Authentically Be ME

The journey is in peeling back what isn’t
to find what is.”

I don’t need a crown to be queen
I don’t have to be adored to be seen

My Queendom Is found in the stillness within.
In this sanctuary I don’t have to fight or defend.

For in stillness there are no wars for my mind to overthrow
There’s just my heart guiding me to breathe in the flow.

It is here I listen to the Divine inner call
And I surrender to the One and the All.

Then I sit with faith, trust and acceptance

Breathing in the Divine love of omnipresence.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

Surrendering, Accepting, Flowing, Soaring

“The guidance and power
have always been within
I just had to let go
of what I thought
I believed in.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

”

Listen To Mother’s Nature’s Spirit
Hear Her Loving Call
She Speaks A Gentle Voice…

”We Are One With The All.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“The Purity Of My Heart
Creates The Purity Of My Mind.
When My Mind Is Pure
My Whole World’s More
Compassionate, Caring & Calm.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“We are life without end
We begin and end
Again and again.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

Be gentle with yourself
For there’s a child within
Who holds all the wonder
Of dreams without end.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

My inner child is where the Magic lives
I nurture her well & be sure she thrives.
I embrace her glow and brilliant shine
For her love is Sacred and Divine.

Do you let your inner child play?
For play is the magic of the day.

~ Charlotte Foley Philips

All exists In the present moment
In this illusionary veil of time,
Seemingly created frame by frame
With some mystical rhythm and rhyme.

But when I return to the stillness
Or through my dreams at night,
I experience it all simultaneously
Where I gain extraordinary insight.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

This piece of art came through
during a tender vulnerable time
when I heard my Higher Self
repeatedly whispering….
”Surrender. Surrender to your growth.
Allow an expanded presence of freedom to flow in.
.
Sometimes when I feel like I am stuck inside a tight box,
I hear a small voice inside crying out,
“break free! There are so many more dreams
and much more beauty
on the other side of your fear
just waiting for you.
Just surrender.
The peace you seek is within.

Sometimes as the Divine Vortex of change
Whips into my world
And twirls me around and around,

The best thing I can do is just let go,
So it can uproot me, unravel me
And lift me to higher ground.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“When a child is born
So is a Mother.
For she did not
Exist before.

But a mother is more
Than birthing a baby,
She is endless love,
And faith evermore.”

“My duty to my body, mind and soul
Is to let no outside force take control.

I know I am responsible for my own peace and liberty
For I am the protector of my freedom and sovereignty.

I am aware that my entire world is created first within
And I am responsible for what will be, what is and has been.“

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“In my heart I know I am not only the dreamer,

I am all the actors and the director

Living life in my own little theater.

But when I surrender to the stillness within

I realize my little life is much larger than

My mind can ever comprehend.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

As I reunite with the Mother Goddess Within
I surrender to the rebirth of my sacred feminine.

For she holds the keys of sacred mysteries of my soul
And she is the mother of my inner child who’s always been whole.

She is the protector, the nurturer and the most loving parts inside
With her there is no need to run away or hide.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“A Journey of the Soul”

“The door opens
When I surrender the fight.
Then I can climb back
Into the Divine love and light.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“High on the mountaintops

In the mist of the cloud

I feel my soul soaring free


Flying around
With the birds in the sky

I am one with what is and isn’t me.

As I travel within


I sense no disconnection


On this expedition with ‘no time’.



Breathing more deeply
With peace and tranquility

I find a new rhythm and rhyme.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

The inner battle between
Who I once was
And who I’m becoming

Often takes place between
My controlling mind
And my heart’s inner knowing.

For in my soul I know
I can never truly be free
From life’s battleground

Until I know when
To take my shield and sword up
And when to lay them down.

Because only the gentle
Are truly brave at heart.
And when the war is over
A new life can start.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

Remember…
Your Power

“These are the times to ride
The waves that are ‘a-changing
And let go of all the things
That are in need of rearranging.

But as we each join in the dance
Together with the wind
The easier it’ll be for all
To surrender and transcend.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

Just like the ticking wheels
Of an antique clock
Humanity spins its gears
To connect and interlock

Systematically rotating through
What feels like endless time
Incessantly spinning
With no rhythm or rhyme.

Until we balance our present
Within the future and past
This illusionary world will have
No inner peace that will ever truly last.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

I’m learning to share
The magic from inside
So it can attract others
To join in the ride.“

They’ll enjoy all the wonder
That’s been hidden within
Because it will remind them
They too can dream again.”

~ Charlotte Foley Philips

“Through our inner Stillness
We birth our outer strengths.
From whence our creativity flows
To such prolific lengths.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

Art Illuminates
The Mysterious Side
Of Our Light Within

We Came To Find Our Spark
So We Can Ignite
The World Again.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“When we blame each other
For our world’s pollution
We prevent ourselves
From finding the solution.

For we all experience
What we each create
And its time we come together
So we can integrate.

As we open our hearts
We’ll become aware
And then we’ll treat our home
With much more love and care.”

Remember…

“We are each the pollution
Yet we are also the solution.”

“…is seeing with my soul”

“Until I am ready
To open up and go within
I keep repeating cycles
Again and again.

Oh I can push things away
But they’ll just boomerang back
And keep me looping on
A never ending track.

I may choose to carry on
Without a thought to it all
Until the day my world feels
Too loud and too raw

Then I may be ready
To dive into stillness again
So I can surrender back
To my soul’s guidance within.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

To Read the story behind the painting click here. http://www.charlottefoleyphillips.com/blog/2019/1/9/intuition-is-seeing-with-the-soul

“Follow Goddess within
For she has the power
To transcend.

Like the ocean’s ebb and flow
When we’re ready,
We’ll just let go.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

Remember…
Every Beginning
Starts with an ending

“I drifted off with the stars,
the rainbows, and moonbeams
Imagining new adventures and
wondrous new dreams.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

”

To Read about the painting and inspiration behind it click here.

http://www.charlottefoleyphillips.com/blog/2019/2/1/my-soul-is-my-guide-rumi

When we’re strong
We fly alone.
When we’re authentic
We soar on our own.
When we are wise
We flock together.
No matter what
The weather.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“Crouched in the corner
Of my self created cage,
I hide.

Even though the key never lost
And the door opened,
Wide.

Unaware of the pain disguises,
Unconscious creations and the world’s illusions
I’d flown.

Yet in the stillness lost truths
Once mysterious shadows,
Now known.

Crying for help alone in my cage
Built of my unacknowledged anguish,
My despair.

Yet in an instant an answer of hope
Flies on wings of an Angel,
My Prayer.

Realizing my love and joy
Cannot be caged by forces
Outside.

For now I know I am creating it all

Consciously or Unconsciously,
Inside.

In an instant I realize 

Not only did I have the key to my cage

All Along…

I also have wings to lift myself free

So I can sing of life’s love and joy
My song.”

~Charlotte Foley Phillips

To Play And Be

Are we the gate keepers
Of our own unique dreams?
Do we hold the mystery key
Which unlocks the magic realms?

For nothing is ever simple
Or as complicated as it seems
When we learn to dance and play
In life’s mysterious streams.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

Talini is a sweet little Earth Angel
who represents the warm love of protection
found within.
She is shown wearing a warm white coat
symbolizing the spiritual healing power
of love that surrounds us, protects us and is within us.
Oftentimes we are much like the musk deer who is
constantly searching everywhere for the
beautiful fragrance of the musk,
never realizing that the lovely
scent has been within itself the whole time.

Bliss is not to be found outside of ourselves
For it exists within us all.

"An awakened heart
Is a feeling heart.
A feeling heart
Is free heart.”

I awaken my heart
To set myself free
So I can truly
And authentically be me.”
~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

Little blue bird
Sitting on my shoulder
Whistling happy tunes
Into the wind.

Please don’t fly away
Before we have to chance
To sing and play
My little blue feathered friend.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“The Song Of My Heart
May Only Be Heard
In The Silence…
Not The Word.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“Kindness is compassion with wings
It binds us together without strings.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

Kindness & Love
Are the best nourishments
For a world that’s hungry and lost.

They are the gifts
Everyone can afford
For they’re given and received without cost.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

Some days I just want to lay down and quit

Because nothing in that moment seems to fit.

But that’s exactly when I need to surrender

And take off the armor so I can become tender

For when a looping pattern no longer makes sense

I don’t have to wait until life becomes too intense

I just need to let go of what I can’t do or see

And have faith in what will actually be.

‘Cause whatever is trying to bring me down

Is already below me and the ground.

For I know everything I need is found within.

And life will continue to begin again. and again.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“The power of love is the strongest power
Yet it’s as gentle and sweet as a newly bloomed flower.

It is worth more than all the world’s riches and gold
But it cannot be possessed, manipulated or controlled.

It can manifest miracles without exceptions
For it flows much higher than lies and deceptions.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

.

The heart knows the way

“I Do Not Compete For Love Or Freedom
I’m Not Here To Try To Beat’em.

I’m Here To Remember Who I Truly Am Within
So I Can Release Old Patterns I Need To Transcend

I Am The Many But I Am Also One
There’s NO Battle Outside To Be Won.

When I Am Truly Ready To Know, I’ll Remember …
That Love Flows Freely When I Am Kind And Tender.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

Your Light
Lights Up The World

“Music Frees the Heart
From the Dangers of the Mind”

When The Heart Is Pure
There Are No Ghost To Find.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“Divine Love Is….

The overflowing, never ending,
unconditional, omnipresent,
peace inducing, inexhaustible,
heart opening, soul enriching,
world expanding, inner child peace
that lives within us all.

At least this is how I feel…
In each moment I am still.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“When you surrender into the stillness
You are able to observe life from a higher view.

Then you see that the thing you were most afraid of
is the very thing that will free you.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

I am grateful with what’s here today
For I know not what may come my way.

What was once right here
May soon be over there.

What is up above the ground
May very soon fall back down.

I know everything changes with each season
Even when I can find no rhyme or reason.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

I create the change I want
When I’m ready to fully feel
That which I think in the moment
Needs to be changed.

When I am willing to face my fear
That keeps me stuck in the future
And feel the parts of myself
That were suppressed in my past.

I will be ready to create
A strong foundation
In this present moment
That can finally grow and last.

Because deep down I now know
I Am…
Already free.
For I am finally here NOW
So I can let ‘what was, what will and what is’
Be!

~ Charlotte Foley Phllips

(“Be Here Now”)

“The secret to happiness is freedom
The secret to freedom is courage.
The secret to courage is staying grounded
No matter how you are surrounded .”

~ Charlotte Foley Philips

“Dance To The Rhythm Of Your Dreams
In The Light Of The Shimmering Moonbeams.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"You do your thing
And I'll do mine.
I think we’ll
Both be fine."

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“Through her eyes you could swim oceans
And never look for the shore.
Mysteriously transformed
From who you were before."  
 
~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"Make each precious moment count and believe,
 For it is the gift you came to receive." 
~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"If we listen to our heart’s whispering tone
We’ll remember what we’ve always known.
No matter how far we run or roam
We’ll always be welcomed back home.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“Beneath the moon beams
The sun’s light streams
For even in the dark of night
We still have the light.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"Dance with the waves of the ocean
And sing the songs of your soul.
Nothing is as scary
When you give up the need to control."

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"Just as every drop of the ocean
Contains the memory of the sea.
So does the Universe exists
Within the breath of you and me."
        ~Charlotte Foley Phillips

“The ocean is the orchestra
Of the angels’ songs
You can join in any time
To dance and sing along.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

Our Divine Spiritual Mother
Is Reflected In our Sacred Mother Earth
And both have been with us
Even before our earth birth.

They teach us to see our reflections
In all we think, feel and see
Reminding us that everything
Lives within you and me.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"Divine Mother hears the most quiet of whispers
From all of her children’s hearts.
She reminds us that there is nothing we can say or do
That can ever keep us apart. "
~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

  “The journey of self understanding
Is such an endless exploration. 

As soon as we learn one thing about ourselves
Enters a whole new creation.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"Embrace your femininity
While standing in your power.

Be as gentle as a morning dew
Yet mighty as a storm shower."

~Charlotte Foley Phillips

“True listening is not just hearing the words
We utter or others speak.
It is also listening to what
we feel, sense and see. 
One involves the mind and ears
And the other the heart and soul.  
"Listening is learning...
Can you hear?”
       ~Charlotte Foley Phillips

“On Wings Of Love
Two Lives Transform
From The Ordinary
Into The Extraordinary.”
~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"When you silence the mind, 
Still the body,
And listen to the whispers of your soul
You will remember...
You are what you seek
And you are already whole."
  ~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"Though you may not see my wings
My spirit lifts me and my soul sings."

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“When you longer desire to explore or roam
You can listen for the inner call to come home.”
~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"I don't make music for eyes.
I make music for ears." ~Adele

"Don't worry about the notes
Just play from your soul.
For music is the nurturer
That can soothe and console."
~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"Music is the flame…
That can ignite the passion of the heart.
It can build a bridge or tear it apart.

 ~Charlotte Foley Phillips

Inspired by "The Tudors "  Ann Boleyn

~ Woe is me, 
No longer can I sleep
WakIng up
And counting sheep.

Not giving up
But letting go
I leap into the abyss
And return to the flow.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"The heart speaks of wonders
For which the mind cannot even conceive.
Much less believe."
~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"Saddle up your courage 
And keep your eyes open
For truth can be known
Even when its not spoken.

So let the truth ring out
And let it set you free
For you are just the way
You were meant to be.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"When you can speak your truth…
With the gentle grace of an angel,
The innocence awareness of a child,
And the wisdom and understanding of a sage, 
You will shower the world
With Love and Compassion. "
           ~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

."

"Once the caterpillar
consumes
the world around.

She spins her cocoon
and transcends
to higher ground."

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"As the harmonic rhythmic dance
Between the masculine sacred forces of reason
And the feminine sacred energies of intuition
Move together and unite

The blessed child of the holy trinity is born,
And with this hallowed grace
The world miraculously receives
A new era
Of Divine love and light.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips
“Within us all is the mother, the father and the child.”

There’s a lot of symbolism and emotion in this piece.
I’ll leave it open ended.

I will offer that this was created after a trip to Hawaii that my husband and I took to celebrate my youngest daughter’s college graduation and it was a rite of passage for me too.)

“If You Can Dream It
And You Can Imagine It
Then You Can Believe It

For It Is Already Here
My Precious Dear.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“Emotional healing is to touch with love
What once was touched with pain.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"Sometimes you just need a hug."

This is dedicated to my best friend, T.
He means the world to me.

I LOVE YOU T

"Every heart should have a dog

to teach it how to love."

     ~Charlotte Foley Phillips

“Only gentle ones
Are truly the strong ones
And it begins within.

What we give out
To ourselves and others
Will circle back in.

So be kind
And kindness
You will find.”

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"Little children remember their wings
And they hear the songs their angel sings.

So don’t forget the child within
For this is where it all must begin."
           ~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

“Before I can wake up
Out of my shadowy nightmares
And become the dreamer of my dreams

I first have to stop focusing
All of my attention
On the external world’s polarity of extremes.

For l I know in my soul
What I truly believe
Is what I will conceive, achieve & receive”

(Are we not all the characters in our own dreams?)

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

~Charlotte Foley Phillips

“Gratitude is the doorway
To an abundant heart.

Appreciating where we are
Is a great place to start.”

(Some days it takes a lot of courage and strength
To find our grateful heart.)

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"A loving heart teaches us to rest, be still
And enjoy the tranquility of nature’s treasures.

For there are no greater gifts to be found
And certainly no better pleasures."
     ~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"Sadness is not just about letting go
It can also be about letting it be."

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips

"May you ride the changes of your life
With the confidence and courage

And may you find the love within
If ever you feel discouraged.

~ Charlotte Foley Phillips