Being Free
We are so afraid that we cannot be what we dream ourselves to be, that we stay hidden inside of a persona that we ourselves created for our survival. It is possible for us to see what has been obscured from our awareness. When what has been obscured is illuminated, we remember who we truly are.
Photo By: Rubén Bagüés
Clutter: Somewhere, Right Now, Someone is Playing Music
As the house begins to glow with warmth and invitation, a stack of neatly organized boxes sits in the center of the dining room, quietly blocking the view. What looks like “stuff” becomes a living metaphor: the lifelong habit of turning over every stone, searching for safety, searching for certainty.
Overcoming Overwhelm: Accessing Your Magnificence
Overwhelm can feel like a familiar default setting when life is full. Then comes the quiet insight: the promises we make to ourselves matter. Each time we break our word, a subtle loop of self-invalidating noise begins. Each time we keep it, something like freedom opens.
Photo By: Priscilla Du Preez
Photo By: Rubén Bagüés
What Is My “Truth?”
A reflection on discernment, integrity, and finding one’s way beneath borrowed beliefs.
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Freedom from the mind’s noise
Moving from anxiety, overwhelm, and incessant thinking into clarity and calm.
Photo By: Laura Basha 2020
From Anxiety to Peace of Mind
A doorway from mental static into steadiness.
Photo By: Gabriel Barletta
Peace of Mind
The inner landscape when nothing needs to be fixed.
Photo By: Mi Pham
The Wisdom of Not Knowing
Letting uncertainty become an ally, not an enemy.
Photo By: Aaron Burden
Breaking Free
A quiet meditation on liberation, where freedom emerges not through force, but through grace and release.
Photo By: Craig Whitehead
The Downside of Looking Good
A wry reflection on freedom, creativity, and the subtle ways comfort and approval can distract us from what matters.
Photo By: Timo Vijn
The Ballast of Tranquility
A reflection on steadiness and presence, offering grounding amid isolation, noise, and the pace of modern life.
Simplicity and presence
What remains when we stop performing, stop striving, and come home to the moment.
Photo By: Ludde Lorentz
Living Simply
Uncluttering life to hear what is true.
Photo By: Johan Desaeyere
Thoughts on Presence
Presence as a practice rather than a personality trait.
Photo By: Bill Williams
A Moment of Nothing
The spaciousness that arrives when we stop chasing.
Photo By: Nailia Schwarz
Simplicity
A reflection on clarity and intention, where simplifying life begins with remembering what truly matters.
Photo By:Bảo-Quân Nguyễn
Soul, Heart, and Body One Morning
A poetic meditation on presence, where stillness gathers the soul, heart, and body into quiet harmony.
Painting by: Laura Basha
Panda Peace
An artistic reflection on balance and gentleness, where wisdom and peace are expressed through form and image.
Inner awakening
Illumination, insight, and the gentle return to who we are beneath survival patterns.
Photo By: Dark Moon Pictures
Waking Up
A poetic reflection on awakening as quiet noticing, where freedom arrives not through struggle, but through simple presence.
Photo By: Nine Köpfer
How Clearly Do You See?
A reflection on perception in the healing relationship, where clarity comes from reading symbols, metaphors, and what is quietly being revealed.
Photo By: Jack Kaminski
Practice Forgetting
A compassionate reflection on healing that invites us to release identification with the past and remember the health that has always been present.
Photo By: Dark Moon Pictures
Behind Each Eye
A tender reflection on family, forgiveness, and the unspoken intelligence that emerges when trust is slowly restored.
Photo By: Nine Köpfer
The Water of Realization
A story of reunion and love’s quiet alchemy, where devotion and grace dissolve old separations and reveal shared strength.
Photo By: Jack Kaminski
An Unfillable Emptiness
A raw and compassionate meditation on loss, grief, and the profound space that opens when life irrevocably changes.
Love, loss, and the human heart
Tender reflections where grief, loneliness, and devotion become teachers.
Photo By: Jeremy Bishop
Accepting Loneliness
Meeting loneliness without making it a problem to solve.
Photo By: Laura Basha
Jake
1995 - 2012
The Deep Sweet Sorry of the Passing of a Pet
Grief as the shape love takes when form changes.
Photo By: Sweet Ice Cream Photography
We’re Always At Square One
A return to humility, again and again, without shame.
Freedom in the World
Inner freedom does not remain private. It expresses itself through compassion, cultural awareness, reverence for life, and how we meet one another across generations. These reflections explore how freedom lived inwardly becomes a quiet, transformative presence in the world we share.
Photo By: Arto Marttinen
Joy to the World!
A reflection on nature’s rhythms, winter stillness, and the freedom found in slowing down to renew what matters most.
Photo By: Nathan Dumlao
Seeing the Possible Best in Everyone
How choosing perception rooted in compassion quietly transforms relationships, leadership, and collective life.
Photo By: Spencer Watson
Illuminated Rumi – nations…
Rumi’s wisdom as a bridge beyond borders, inviting unity, reverence, and shared humanity across cultures.
Photo By: Peter Forster
Awakening to the Spirit of Our Earth
A contemplative invitation to listen to the living intelligence of the natural world and our place within it.
Photo By: Lotte Meijer
Aging Gracefully: The Value of the Elder
Honoring wisdom, presence, and contribution beyond productivity in a culture that forgets the sacred role of age.
Photo By: Laura Basha | Baffin, Unorganized, in Nunavut, Canada is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world.
Awareness Transcends
A contemplative reminder that awareness itself is untouched by experience, offering freedom through perspective rather than effort.
The ordinary mystic
Where daily life becomes the path, and freedom is practiced from the inside out.
Photo By: Jan Erik Waider
The Ordinary Grace of the Mystic
Grace as something lived, not performed.
Photo By: Scott Webb
Fearlessly Free From The Inside Out
Freedom as an interior posture that changes everything.
Photo By: Darrin Henein
Being Ordinary Allows One to Receive What Is
The relief of not needing to be exceptional to be true.
Photo By: Laura Basha
The Modern Mystic
A contemporary invitation to live with awareness, responsibility, and inner clarity while meeting the realities of the modern world.
Photo By: Zolton Tasi
We are Wondrous Made
A moving reflection on human resilience and innate goodness, revealed when crisis dissolves separation and calls forth our shared strength.
Photo By: Ray Hennessey
Reflection on Ten Points for Life Experience
A grounding meditation on presence, thought, and freedom, ten simple orienting principles for living awake in ordinary moments.
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A contemplative gallery of writings, paintings, and symbolic inquiry.
Books
Through poetry, reflection, and lived inquiry, Laura’s books invite a return to what has always been present, a quiet mind, an awakened awareness, and a deeper sense of purpose.
Art Prints
High-quality fine art prints of Laura Basha’s original paintings, created to preserve the depth, symbolism, and contemplative presence of the work.
Videos
Short, contemplative video reflections exploring what it means to be human, listening beyond thought, meeting life’s challenges with presence, and rediscovering peace beneath the noise.
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