Blog | Tara Hollander

Freedom rings true, even in, or most especially during, disorienting times. Remember that day when you first learned to ride a bike without the training wheels? When the grace of gliding and pedaling with just two wheels elevated your spirit to new heights of belief in yourself? Independence! Strength! Travel! Well of course, maybe when we were children the experience …

We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.

Any persons whom you have ever met, even if you have just exchanged a glance on a bus, have become a part of your being and consequently you are, in some sense, responsible for them. You carry them in your heart.

No one can grow if [she] does not accept [her] smallness.

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

"Hope" is the thing with feathers– That perches in the soul– And sings the tune without the words– And never stops–at all–

Getting Lost in Independence

A wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life, and sent adrift upon a doubtful world.

Hydra: a gem in the Saronic Gulf of Greece