Odilia Carmen Chirica

I open the bottle with pure essence of my perfume, Adelina’s Dreams. A hit of something familiar and intimate runs through my body and I relax with a sigh. The fragrance wakes me up to who I am somewhere deep inside. A part of me that I never really met feels at home, as the perfume soothes needs that I do not remember. The open drawer I am looking at has many colorful bottles with all the scents I collected over the years. A couple of small artisanal bottles are empty, the ones with the thermal-printed label saying “Adelina’s Dreams”. They were holding the diluted eau de parfum created from the original essence. The Base It feels not so long ago. I am sitting at Odilia’s table, facing the window to her beautiful wild garden. Hundreds of small essential oil bottles organized on layered trays and categorized by rules known only by her. She expertly presents a selection of bottles. We are starting with the base notes. I am to smell first, no reading labels. Let it not be a creation of...

The Last and the First Key The last key (for the knower) and the first key (for the seeker) is Embodiment . Not more seeking, not more refining of vision — but living what is already known with the whole being. The gate we stand before does not open by thought or by word, but by the weight of presence carried into each act, each step, each breath. It is the shift from seeing to being . From holding the flame to being the flame itself . That is embodiment — the silent authority of Truth expressed through us. From Embodiment to Trust The key to embodiment is Trust — absolute, lived trust. Trust that Truth is not elsewhere, not ahead, not conditional — but already here, breathing us. Trust that we don’t need to control, adjust, or protect — only to let ourselves fall fully into what is. Trust that nothing real can be lost in that surrender. Embodiment is not an effort but a release, and the key that turns it is trust. From Trust to Innocence The key to trust is Innocence. Not naïveté, b...

🜂 Built Upon the Rock “Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell — and great was its fall.” (Matthew 7 : 24-27 ESV) In that passage, “these words of mine” refer to the entire teaching Jesus has just delivered in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5 – 7). It is his complete code for what he calls the Kingdom of Heaven — a life rooted in truth, mercy, and integrity rather than appearances . The essence of those words The Beatitudes – blessing the poor in spirit, the meek, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers. Inner purity over ...