Pearls from the Heart
By Sa Silvano
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"Pearls from the Heart" is a book that offers loving and compassionate guidance to living with greater consciousness. For times when life is difficult to manage, when anger, frustration, grief or fear overwhelm you to the point where you may find yourself powerless to act, this book offers shining pathways that will gently but firmly guide you out of confusion, reconnecting you with yourself and enabling you to embrace your life in a deeply accepting and loving way.
Sa Silvano offers insights and wisdom gained through the experiences and lessons of her own personal healing journey, as well as through her work of assisting many others. "Pearls from the Heart" is truly a guide to living consciously, and offers the reader many gifts of healing, transformation, inspiration and awakening.
"I can feel Sa's heart in every page. This book emphasizes how wonderful every bit of our life truly is, no matter how painful, messy or weird it can sometimes get. How we can turn a crisis or grief into an awakening and growth.
I see this book being used to set a positive frame of mind for the day and as beautiful reminders of inspiration to be in alignment with our own essence."
Enza Vita – Publisher and editor of "InnerSelf Newspaper", author of "Always Already Free".
"The underlying feeling of Sa's words is like a fragrance permeating the entire work. The power of this book is that delightful fragrance, that is Sa's essence, her spiritual connection. There is so much depth of wisdom in this work, yet delivered in such a simple and delightful way."
Azriel Re'Shel – Writer, co-author, journalist and producer
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Pearls from the Heart - Sa Silvano
Pearls from the Heart
The Art of Living Consciously
Sa Silvano
C:\Users\Sa Silvano\Dropbox\Claudio & Sa\Pearls from the Heart\Cover\ganeshaimprintlogo.jpgPearls from the Heart
Copyright © 2013 Sa Silvano
All rights reserved
The right of Sa Silvano to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First Published in Australia in 2013 by
Ganesha Imprints
PO Box 535 Armadale, Western Australia 6992
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Cover art and design by Nada Orlic
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ISBN: 978-0-9923393-0-2
I dedicate this book to the wonderful woman who inspired and ignited faith, kindness, generosity and love in me, my beautiful mother. Thank you, mum.
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I also dedicate this book to the kindest and most gentle man I have ever known, my beloved who has always accepted me as I am. There is nothing more encouraging than true and loving acceptance. Thank you Claudio.
I love you
Acknowledgements
I wish to thank all the wonderful souls who have been, are and continue to be the force that keeps me on this path of love.
You have touched my life in small or big ways, for brief moments or long years, in gentle or forceful ways. I embrace every one of you as a gift in my life. I thank you all.
Claudio, my love, thank you for your love, your unfailing kindness, encouragement, support, patience, and even though you were writing your own book, you made time to edit mine and share your hard earned writing knowhow to help me iron out the creases in my work.
Mum, thank you for persevering with the second editing, even if at times my writing flummoxed you, much in the same way as having me as your daughter must have done. I treasure what we have.
Enza Vita, Leo Drioli, Kiri Atawhai Dewes, Isabel Pease-Burge, Lynn Webber, Azriel Re’Shel, Jeremy Ball and Cathy Caitlin, you are my dear friends. A heartfelt gratitude for your support over the years. Thank you for your encouragement and for sharing your wisdom. Your presence in my life is precious. Enza, Azriel, Kiri, I respect you as writers of considerable talent and expertise and so I am all the more humbled, touched, and appreciative of your generous comments about this book.
Evalee, thank you for helping me with the editing. Nada Orlic, I love the cover you created for this book, thank you. Jessica Rosslee, I am grateful for the way you proofread this book, you have polished it up beautifully.
I also wish to acknowledge my beloved sons, Michael and Steven. My love for you influences the way I walk in the world and is woven into this book. Lily Rose, my darling granddaughter, your sweetness shines in my heart. Lucille, Joel, Leah, Rani, Mike, Sarah, Hannah, Jen and Pete, I love you my precious family. Thank you.
Thank you, dear reader, whose eyes are upon this page. Thank you for supporting my work in the world by picking up this book and being willing to journey with me awhile.
This grit of mind
steeped in love
becomes a pearl in my heart
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction & how to read this book
This Extraordinary Moment
Ego
Courage
Unfolding
Thoughts Not Real
Choices
No Rules, No Stories
Truth
Change your Mind
Conscious and Unconscious Choice
My Responsibility Is My Response Ability
Talking the Walk
Song of my Heart
I Am Not
The Time for Love is Now
Stepping into your Light
Aching to be Seen
Without Suffering
This Abandonment Pain
Editing Ourselves
Is This Love?
Alone or Lonely
Forgiveness
Aggression and Remorse
Shadow Gold
The Shadow
Power within the wound
Movement of Emotions
Eagle Blessing
Light
Emptying Out
The Purge
The Path we walk
The Turn Around
A New Life
Creating the Life you Live
The Journey & the Destination are One
Here! Now!
Today
Embracing Everything
Our true experience is only in the Present
Choosing to Be Present
Be Present
Treasure your Heart
Magical I Am
A Song of Love
My Love Makes a Difference
Sacred Heart
Look to See
Love is an energy that moves through us
Rise and Shine
Listening and Speaking
I Am Another You
Restoring Inner Relationship
Sacred and Holy
Family
Working Together
Connection
Only One
Evolution of Humanity
Symphony of Love
Dying Gracefully to What Was
Death’s Offering is Life
Life
Life is a Gift
Gratitude
Nature Nurture
The Mother
More Than One Kind of Shark
Living Naturally
Living Respectfully
Living Easy
Spirited Life
Knowing
Awakening
Soul Path
Numinous Dream
Celebrate Everything!
Song of Life
Blessing
I Am Radiant Life
No One Here
Unity Consciousness
Dance of Grace
God in Disguise
The Dance of Freedom
God is Right Here
Creator Creating Creation
Mandalas of Perfection
Silence
Stillness
Last Stop: Awake!
The State of Awake
Being
Silence and other Goodness
Taking Care of Yourself
Judgement and Anger
From Addiction to Liberation
That Drink I Don’t Want
Peace, Balance, Love
Chakra Radiance
Three Healing Tones
A Gift in Everything
Centred in Love
An Altar to Love
Spending Love
Smudging – Cleansing Our Energy
Creating Sacred Space
AFFIRMATIONS
Introduction & how to read this book
Pearls from the Heart
is an externalized expression of my inner self and my life’s journey. I offer this to you, dear reader, with my love and a heartfelt desire to serve you.
I consider this a book of healing because it is about my own journey of healing; it is about the lessons I have learned and about my moments of transcendence. I share with you the things that inspire me and touch my heart. I share also my medicine; the gifts I have received through overcoming my fears, accepting my challenges and allowing my growth.
I wake up some mornings remembering dreams in which I have been given knowledge through instruction. Some of these teaching dreams are a part of this book.
As you read, please allow yourself to feel the energy that is held here for you. Some of these pieces are a meditation. Let each piece take you on an experiential journey, as it did me. Feel it. Give it space, and give it time. Let the energy of the words penetrate deeply as a healing force.
If you do not understand something, allow that, and keep yourself open as you read, feeling the words as energy rather than something that is only connecting with your mind. Breathe in the healing intent of the words you read until you are full. Then stop and allow time to digest; integration is important. Give time and space for acceptance, healing, and balance.
Some of you have written to me seeking clarity or comfort or support. Some of my responses are in this book. You asked some important questions and you told me that the answers I gave you have helped you. I hope that in this sharing, others will also benefit.
I have removed your names and all details that might inadvertently identify you.
So thank you, if you are one of those who has – through your asking – facilitated the gift of Spirit to flow onto these pages.
You will find that I speak about certain subjects more than once and in different ways. Each time we read something, we are in a new moment, and quite possibly holding an alternate perspective. As a result that which we read, even if it is a repetition, may be perceived in a new way or absorbed by us at a deeper level.
Because of its nature, this book can be read in diverse ways.
You may wish to read it from beginning to end or by selecting from the titles in the index or perhaps from the table of affirmations at the back of this book.
Another way is to hold a specific intent in your heart or call for clarity and then open the book at random; trusting that what you set your eyes upon will be exactly what you need to know.
Beyond all time and space, and beyond all separation, we are One. At this level of deep connectedness, it means that even as you read these words, you and I are here together as One, sharing this timeless space of Now.
May these offerings fill you with light
and ease the sadness in your life
May they bring warmth to your heart
and clarity to any confusion
May the simplicity of life's true gifts
bring joy to your spirit
Sa Silvano - September 2013
This Extraordinary Moment
Here I sit
in this body
This sensual experience
of air upon skin
of breath warm and invisible
of feet upon cool wood
Heart pulsing the rhythm of life
All is quiet
The world become still
My thoughts no longer bleeding
into the pristine landscape
of this present moment
I open the door in the roof of my mind
and the light streams in
effervescent with bubbles of inspiration
I breathe deeply
and allow the flow
to translate into words
that tiptoe through my heart
and trickle into
fingertips dancing across the keyboard
bringing this song to you
Ego
Ego is a word that has been excessively used in psychological, spiritual and new age circles. Ego is like the poor fellow on the streets who gets blamed for everything bad that happens in the neighbourhood.
Ego makes us arrogant. Ego makes us aggressive. Ego makes us prideful. Ego makes us controlling. Ego makes us vain. Ego makes us judgemental. Ego makes us heartless. The ego seems to play the role of a scapegoat.
We go to extraordinary lengths in our efforts to be perceived as humble, non-judgemental and non-egoistic. So much so, that it can become uncomfortable to claim who we are and what we do because we are unclear whether that would be a form of self-aggrandisement. We lose the ability to simply be ourselves because we end up constantly judging every thought, word and action in avoidance of the dreaded ego.
This causes confusion and imbalance. On the one hand we want to be ourselves, on the other hand where does being ourselves and expressing who we are cross over into egoism?
This can create a pendulum behavioural effect whereby we swing from aggressively asserting ourselves and flaunting our accomplishments to hiding our achievements and subduing our presence just to appear humble and therefore more acceptable and desirable to be with.
If we develop an inner paranoia about ego, we will find life very confusing and painful. Not knowing how to be oneself with anyone could eventually lead to depression and withdrawal from everyone.
When I see someone touting themselves and can feel the underlying energy or charge, then I know that this thing many would term ego
is at its essence fear in expression. Fear that if they do not display themselves, then they would not be seen and perhaps would therefore not exist.
Sometimes the longing for acknowledgement and approval is unmistakeable and if we could respond without judgement and