“The Treasure of You” seeks to introduce the reader to the exquisite and profound notion that every child of life has a unique song to sing, and every adult has a unique life story, path, and calling to pursue.

Purpose gifts us with a feeling of mattering, significance, belonging and self-esteem.

Once we begin to experience and explore our identity beyond our formative years, we can embark upon a journey of discovery that never ends, providing us reward, enjoyment, and fulfillment.

Our existence is connected to a greater web of existence that is interwoven, and extends in all directions from our own center of existence into the vastness of the Unknown that remains a profound yet sacred mystery to us all, of which we all have our being in, and participate from and within.

This, to me, is a holographic mosaic of beauty, radiance and wonder, that we also belong to this Mystery, the very fabric of our being, known and unknown.

We want to value this life, to Treasure this existence, and to support our own essential goodness and that of others in this eternal Dance we are a part of.

Our inherent unity calls each and all of us to courageously forge futures of faith together, faith in the inner goodness that is present in our hearts, and the goodness of life, even amidst decay, ruin and incoherence, making way for renewal in our hearts, lives and communities. Viewed from a context of renewal and a call for co-creation, our vision invites and invokes a spirit of possibility, a commitment to serve from our highest capacities, a recognition we are collaborators in creation together.

The more beautiful life does exist, and we can have faith in our own story that it does not stop where we are today, and we can truly learn to lean in with wisdom, intention, faith, and the wholeness of all things, even as we allow the life-force guiding all existence to nourish our vision as we embody seeks of kindness, hope and empowered possibility emerge from a a profound conviction that we are all connected, that all things matter, and we have never been alone.

Far too many people throughout the history of the Earth have shown us a more considered way, to stretch our imagination, our courage, and our very inner souls towards this great becoming that is life, including our own lives in the great becoming, the Mystery of our Being, even as ourselves, and yet so vastly greater, a calling to know, that our hearts know, that we can let go, and learn to soar from a far greater awareness than the broken tools we’ve inherited, yet participating in a renewal that Nature knows, even when we fail to see the the future unfolding, even as we are becoming what we do not yet apprehend.

May we find hope, faith and beauty, in ourselves and in life, as we seek with a pure heart the love that life has and holds, even though challenging and difficult much of the time.

As we learn to live from an intentional heart space of faith in our own deeper capacities developing through intuitive participation and from our whole selves in emergence, we can know that our purpose is revealing Her humble majesty, one breath at a time, through our very existence, in this greater story binding all things together, even as we sometimes fight our own shadows, forgetting to turn towards the light of day dawning in our hearts forevermore, if only we allow it so.

I invite us to see ourselves as seeds of hope in the landscapes of time, with gifts to share — gifts of our own unique way of seeing in the world, being in the world, and participating uniquely as only the Song in our hearts reveals to each and all of us, the story of Creation, the Never-Ending Story of We, in humble Majesty, even here, even now, and so it is.

Until next time, my friend,

Be amazingly YOU with great passion, and pass it on!!”

Written by Major Tom the Massive Encourager!

Here is an encouraging message for every young person, and young at heart too, by Earl Nightingale.

What Every Young Person Should Know Earl Nightingale

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By Tom Clute, Written in 2014 
“You and I are not a statistic, judged, labeled, discarded;
We are Children of Earth, Strong, Courageous, Capable…
Will we allow our Brilliance, Beauty and Boldness Out??
Can we practice helping, healing, hugging instead of hurting, hating, hushing??
Just like piano lessons with a child, we need structure, support, stick-to-it-ness to build muscles of caring, compassion, collaboration.
It’s possible .
We make it so.
May it be so:)
Starting with Ourselves

…Triumphant Hearts …

Email: MatterinGgreatly@gmail.com

“Written by Thomas CluteForthcoming author of “The Treasure of You” email: matteringgreatly@gmail.com

By Tom Clute

Today I reflected on a shift on a movement level from recovery to RESILIENCE.

Resilience to me is an embodied state of wellness transcending models of coping or improving, or overcoming. Resilience connotes celebration, thriving, flourishing, fulfillment and realization of possibility unfolding in an atmosphere, a context, a framework of beauty, wholeness, artisanry, community and connectivity ever expanding.

Resilience is a freedom song.

By Tom Clute

 Thomas Michael Clute, MSW

“Towards an Ecology of We” tomcluteconsulting@gmail.com

People are more than willing to accept you as you are, imperfections and all, if you can allow them to. 
Test it out. 
If they don’t, they don’t accept themselves either. 
Self-acceptance eases and heals the burden of self-loathing and self-criticism. 
These are programs and viruses that have no place in your amazing, beautiful and awesome self. 
Accept that you truly are wonderful. 

Now look for it. 
Research on exquisite you. 
Learn about yourself!!
Get out of your comfort zone by extending a genuine interest in others. 
Let others love you. 
Allow others to listen to you, truly care, and help you blossom even more.  Reciprocate the favor!
Laugh, love, and give yourself away through acts of  generosity and you will find yourself in the process. 
Be strong in your own skin. Be firm in your  no so your yes is amazingly strong and awesome. 
Study Brene Brown on this. https://brenebrown.com/
Vulnerability is real strength.   
Let life in. Be a big giver. Give to YOU most of all, all the love Life has for you. 
You can do this! 
Breathe! 
Major Tom The Courage CoachThe Massive Encourager!tomcluteconsulting@gmail.com

Major Tom The Courage Coach

The Massive Encourager!

tomcluteconsulting@gmail.com

I still feel this terror, sometimes. It’s like an old character in my mind, that mostly takes the form of a deep, low, rumbling ache in my stomach. She’s like a woman, who has me by the throat, forbidding me to speak. It’s for my own safety, you see.

So I didn’t speak.

But I watched and listened to others speak about their experiences hearing voices, seeing visions and the like. And for a long time, I attended groups this way. Never saying a word. I think there’s a lot to be understood about things we’re not supposed to experience, not supposed to talk about and certainly not supposed to have in common with others. For me, it seem that these things that go unexpressed remain partially un-experienced. But if something is not fully experienced, how can it be adequately expressed?

The wonderful thing about this group, Portland Hearing Voices, was all of the space.

I’m not sure why it seems that so many people have such strong feelings and opinions about other peoples experiences. It also seems that there are certain topics that folks feel very strongly about, and often these opinions are not coming from personal experience. They also frequently conflict with each other. Feels like a war.  All of these strong feelings and conflict that didn’t belong to me, but were about me, pushed their way into my mind, filling the space that was meant to be mine, to process, to make meaning and to become a thriving part of myself.

At the heart of the Hearing Voices Movement is the respect for the diversity of views regarding our experiences and the humble wish to support, and empower others in theirs. This simplicity has always felt very good to me, like the shedding of unnecessary things. Like the silencing of warring characters.

But the war wasn’t in this group. There was space and even a little silence in this group.

Without all of the noise of the outside world I could finally start to express and process what I had experienced. As I expressed myself over time, I began to remember things. Things from my childhood and adolescence. These were very important memories. They were memories that I needed.

I also began to realize things and to identify with positive feelings, with strengths, with notions and with characters that balanced out the terror in my mind. This group gave me the space to experience what really was mine. My spirituality. My inner parts. My voice.

Thank you to everyone who works so hard to keep it going!