Thought for the Day - 10/22
10/31/2022
Thought for the Day
Here is the plain and simple truth.
You cannot expect to see
the Divine in anyone
or anything else if the level
from which you are meeting them
is that of the ego, body,
mind or emotions.
Remember the phrase
we used as kids
when trading insults?
Takes one to know one.
Out of the mouths of babes...
If you want to meet someone
at the level of the soul,
the level of their being,
then this is where
you need to be
coming from yourself.
***
Prayer for the Day
Please help me as I strive
to meet my world today
from the one heart
which speaks for us all.
Amen
***
10/30/2022
Thought for the Day
It will be helpful for you
to remember that the soul is neither for
or against anything.
It has no opinions, no preferences,
no agendas, no judgments
and nothing to gain
or lose.
Therefore, whenever you
have skin in the game,
advice to give or a positionality
to share which you believe
is right, you know which voice
you are listening to, and it is not
the voice of soul
which speaks for God.
***
Prayer for the Day
Please bless my efforts
to stay in my own lane today
where the one living me
is already free.
Amen
***
10/29/2022
Thought for the Day
You cannot attain freedom
when you are working with
a fundamentally flawed
operating system.
The only way out
is to opt out of that system
entirely.
And no amount of changing
the outside, will free you
from the inevitable suffering
inherent in your chosen IOS.
Just like all 12-step
recovery programs,
admitting that you have
a problem, that you are working
with a flawed system (ego),
is the first step taken
in recovery.
The world has no need for
your opinions, your preferences,
your ideals, your judgments
or your beliefs.
But what it does need
is your loving presence.
After all, this is why
you are here.
***
Prayer for the Day
Dear world,
I am here for you.
Amen
***
10/28/2022
Thought for the Day
Never Never Never
allow anyone or anything
to influence your inner state
of being. Ever.
It does not matter who they are.
The world is as it is.
It was created by the ego,
for the ego.
And people are as they are.
You want to engage in something
that is truly as hopeless
as it is exhausting?
Try to change someone,
anyone.
How you are is entirely
up to you at all times
and under every conceivable
circumstance.
Why?
Because who you are and what you are
is beyond all of this,
and that, my dear, cannot change.
***
Prayer for the Day
Before everything, I Am.
Amen
***
10/27/2022
Thought for the Day
You are the light of the world,
dear child.
Do not look to the experiences
of the created self
to find the peace which inherently
is yours.
Look deeper.
Look to who you were
and who you are and ever yet shall be
before and beneath all experiences.
There you will find the Answer
which you seek.
***
Prayer for the Day
Before everything, I Am.
Amen
***
10/26/2022
Thought for the Day
Most spiritual seekers believe
there are two different ways of being
which are playing out
in this world.
But in truth, there is just one way
of experiencing everything
and this way has been with you
in every step you have ever taken
and always will be.
It is a decision to no longer relate
to yourself and the world
through your emotions.
It is a decision to no longer relate
to yourself and the world
through your mind.
It is a decision to no longer relate
to yourself and the world
through your body.
Thus it is a decision to no longer relate
to yourself and the world
through the created self or ego.
It is the decision to meet yourself
and the world from the soul,
the only part of you that is not fictional,
and live life from that awareness.
***
Prayer for the Day
What else could being
in the world but not of it
possibly mean?
And what else could
FREEDOM be but
the willingness to freely
let go of every connection
to either myself or my world
other than that of the soul
which I forever am?
Amen
***
10/25/2022
Thought for the Day
You will go far in this life, making
peace your constant awareness,
if you can remember that everyone,
no exceptions, is as enlightened
as everyone else is at all times,
and this can never change.
It is just that some folks
are in so much pain,
their suffering so great
that they do not real eyes it,
they cannot see the truth
within themselves, and so they act
it out on the world around them.
No one is anything, ever,
at the level of their being
other than an immaculate
self-extension of Source.
They deserve your loving-kindness
and compassion,
not your consternation
and critique.
***
Prayer for the Day
Just like me.
Let this be my mantra
for today.
Help me practice it
with Clear Seeing
and loving-kindness.
Amen
***
10/24/2022
Thought for the Day
In a world which is entirely enamored
with delusion, illusion and error,
that which keeps this fragile
house of cards from tumbling
to the ground, the one who chooses
to live in vulnerability, authenticity
and love is a precious lighthouse
which shines in the darkness
of humankind.
Silently, urgently,
poignantly we hear them
calling to us.
"Come. Take my hand.
We have a life of love
and boundless freedom
to see about. Together let us
redefine what it means
to be human."
And so it shall be.
***
Prayer for the Day
May this and only this
be my epitaph.
Amen
***
10/23/2022
Thought for the Day
You can hang onto being
a victim, choosing to be right
rather than happy because you
will not let your interpretation
of the past go, or you can
learn to unapologetically
love all of yourself
exactly as you are right now.
Even the self-pitying victim
who believes their suffering
is so much bigger than
every one else's is worthy
of your love.
When you truly learn to love all of you,
you dispel every spell
which was ever spoken over you
once and for all time.
Have it your way,
which you unavoidably
always do.
***
Prayer for the Day
Let me see....
Suffering or happiness....
Is it really a tough call?
Help me be brave enough
to consciously choose
to be happy, peaceful
and free.
Amen
***
10/22/2022
Thought for the Day
Who are you beyond your need
for relevancy and significance,
beyond your need to be recognized
for your contribution,
valued and seen?
Whose opinion do you really value
and feel you need,
that of others or your own?
***
Prayer for the Day
What but this could be called
sovereignty or freedom?
May this be my "soul"
state of being.
Amen
***
10/21/2022
Thought for the Day
Inner awareness, honesty
and transparency with oneself
activates an alchemical process
wherein fear, judgment
and resistance become
relics of a past which
one is ready to relinquish
as gentleness and love
become your changeless
state of being.
***
Prayer for the Day
Thank you for teaching me
how to love myself
again.
Amen
***
10/20/2022
Thought for the Day
It is vital for you to real eyes
that the only reason you cling to the ego
and will not surrender it,
why you fight tooth and nail
to protect and defend it, is because
deep down inside you believe
that you will not survive
without it and that you
will lose the world which
ego has built.
Yet you will not know
the magnitude of
who or what you are
until you do.
***
Prayer for the Day
I am beginning to fathom
what it really means to mean
above all else I want to see.
Clearly, it is a rare
human being
who wants the truth
this much.
May I be such a being.
Amen
***
10/19/2022
Thought for the Day
No matter what is happening
in your life, no matter what
is happening in the world,
no matter what is happening
in the lives of those
for whom you care deeply,
you could give yourself
permission to be happy,
to trust and accept
that everything is always
unfolding in Divine Order,
precisely as it is.
After all, we are all on
the same train
heading for the same
station.
Pretty simple, when
you think about it.
***
Prayer for the Day
Bless my heart.
I choose to trust
everything today
exactly as it is.
I will not question.
I will not doubt.
No more chasing
my tail---making
much ado out of nothing.
I will observe, accept
and trust.
And above all,
I will allow the results,
come what may,
to speak for themselves.
Amen
***
10/18/2022
Thought for the Day
There is no such thing as being lost
or in the weeds
if you can accept what is.
No one is behind
and no one is further ahead.
We are all
where we are supposed to be
and how we are supposed to be.
How deeply can you accept that?
Can you accept it and trust?
***
Prayer for the Day
May radical acceptance be
my practice for today.
Whatever rolls out,
let me accept that.
Help me be brave
and trust what is.
Amen
***
10/17/2022
Thought for the Day
Please please please just accept,
embrace and love
the beautiful version of
human being that you are
exactly as it is.
You don't need to change
a thing, just love
the one you're with.
***
Prayer for the Day
In all the moments of this day,
especially those in which
I am critical and unhappy
with myself, regardless the reason,
let me soften gently, turn within,
and love the precious being
I am in this instant
precisely as it is.
Amen
***
10/16/2022
Thought for the Day
Slow your roll.
Be alert.
Be alert and aware.
Open your eyes and your heart.
The Divine is presencing itself
in every single instant
of your life and you
are not separate
from it.
***
Prayer for the Day
Today I wait upon thee,
O Lord, that I might learn
through direct experience
that giving and receiving
are truly one.
Amen
***
10/15/2022
Thought for the Day
What you lack at the level
of the personal identity
you have at the level
of your soul.
Now that's an axiom
worth holding onto.
Has it ever occurred to you
when things get tough to close your eyes
and place your hands over
your heart center, resting deeply
in the breath, abiding
in the frequency of feeling
which oh so tenderly reminds you
of how loved, supported
and cherished you actually are?
In this thing we call life,
you are only ever as alone
as you choose to be.
The price you pay
for hanging onto your stories
is heart-wrenching.
***
Prayer for the Day
Thank you.
Amen
***
10/14/2022
Thought for the Day
Victim-consciousness depends upon
you not loving yourself.
Being a doormat depends upon
you not loving yourself.
Feeling not good enough
depends upon you not
loving yourself.
Separation depends upon
you not loving yourself.
Feeling abandoned depends upon
you not loving yourself.
Feeling judged, blamed
or criticized depends upon
you not loving yourself.
Feeling betrayed depends upon
you not loving yourself.
Feeling rejected depends upon
you not loving yourself.
Is there a picture which is
coming into focus here?
100% of all human suffering
can be alleviated simply
by loving yourself.
***
Prayer for the Day
Help me open my heart
to genuinely feeling the love
and support which is always there
for me from me.
Amen
***
10/13/2022
Thought for the Day
Loyalty to a fear-based,
survival based thought system,
comes at a tremendous price.
Is it worth it?
In a world where you can experience
true and lasting freedom,
where you can be free of
nothing short of everything,
is it worth that white-knuckled grip
you have on your suffering?
And why are you doing it?
So that you can fit in
and feel like you are a part
of the controllable herd
of humanity?
At what point do you become
aware of the fact
that you are the only saboteur
of your happiness and freedom?
How do you want to live?
***
Prayer for the Day
I choose autonomy,
agency and freedom
from here on out.
I am in the world
but not of it.
Amen
***
10/12/2022
Thought for the Day
Self-pity and blame
are very familiar, very old friends
and you keep them on stand-by,
waiting in the wings, so that
you always have a convenient excuse
to explain your misery.
But you know what?
LOVE is the only truly reliable friend
because that is what you are.
And the hallmark of spiritual maturity
is when you stop blaming others
for why you are the way you are
and why your life is as it is,
choosing, rather, to take
complete responsibility
for who you have voluntarily
allowed yourself to become.
You made it, it is your creation,
and only you can decide
to unmake it because you are
finally done with
feeling sorry for yourself.
***
Prayer for the Day
I am done, Lord,
completely done with
every habit, pattern or behavior
which no longer serves me.
Self-pity, blame
and victim-consciousness
topping that list.
I choose FREEDOM
instead.
I will step back
and let the light lead the way.
Amen
***
10/11/2022
Thought for the Day
Your experience at the level
of your humanity
means nothing about you
no matter what it is.
You are the soul
experiencing a human life
and the soul will always be
the soul; unchanged, unchanging,
unchangeable.
It is 100% neutral
and has no skin in any game.
So what you judge as a positive
experience means
absolutely nothing about you.
And what you judge as a negative
experience means
absolutely nothing about you.
Nor is it a commentary
on how well or how poorly
you happen to be doing.
It does not define a good day
from one you believe is bad.
So why are you even
having this human experience
in the first place?
So that you, through the awareness
and acceptance of your interior experiences,
might come to know yourself
through and through.
Thus, life may be summed up by
these two axioms:
Know Thyself.
And To Thine Own Self Be True.
***
Prayer for the Day
Can I accept that?
Let this be my mantra
for today and every day.
Amen
***
10/10/2022
Thought for the Day
When you are fully and completely aware,
what you are aware of you complete.
It is fully integrated.
Why?
How is this so?
Because awareness itself
is always complete.
Thus, when you are aware
that you are aware, that which you
are aware of becomes complete.
It is one with you.
It is the universal self which is,
doing the observing,
not the personal self.
(awareness = neutral observation)
(complete awareness = presence or being)
***
Prayer for the Day
This heart is overwhelmed
by the presence which is looking
through these eyes and living me.
Thank you for the GIFT.
Amen
***
10/09/2022
Thought for the Day
The power of one individual
who is fully and completely
Self-expressing, reflecting pure LOVE,
is literally limitless
and beyond human comprehension.
That's just how important you are
to these times in which we now live
and how great the potential
of your impact on our world.
***
Prayer for the Day
This heart is overwhelmed
by the love with which
you have filled this heart
to overflowing.
May it only ever be so.
Amen
***
10/08/2022
Thought for the Day
You know well the axioms
which entreat you to
"Know Thyself" and
"To Thine Own Self Be True."
But I have a question
for you and ask
that you reflect on it all day.
How can you actually love yourself,
when you do not even know yourself;
when you have gone no further
than to scratch the surface of
what it means to be you?
***
Prayer for the Day
This heart is overwhelmed
with the joy which it feels
for the bountiful blessings
that simply being human
has afforded me.
Thank you for the life which you
have given me, the life
which is mine to live.
Because I am grateful,
really and truly grateful
to be me and to have
experienced all of it .
Amen
***
10/07/2022
Thought for the Day
Trying to be more spiritual,
to live a more spiritual life,
will never create a more fulfilling life
no matter how hard you try.
It will not provide you the peace
you hope for.
Why?
Because you didn't come here
to be spiritual.
You already are spiritual.
That's a given.
You are as God created you.
You can never change that.
No one ever has
and no one ever will.
You came here to be
a human being.
And it is in embracing
the human experience,
not just yours but everyone else's,
exactly as it is, that the freedom
joy and fulfillment
you have always longed for
is experienced.
Here you recognize
that actually having your best life
has always been as close to you
as your own beating heart.
***
Prayer for the Day
This heart is overwhelmed
with the joy which it feels
for the bountiful blessings
that simply being human
has afforded me.
Thank you for the life which you
have given me, the life
which is mine
to live.
Amen
***
10/06/2022
Thought for the Day
The solution to permanent peace
is found in the complete acceptance
of the human being that you are
and the complete acceptance
of the human experience
which you are having.
The End.
***
Prayer for the Day
This heart is overwhelmed
with the joy which it feels
for the bountiful blessings
that simply being human
has afforded me.
Thank you for the life which you
have given me, the life
which is mine
to live.
Amen
***
10/05/2022
Thought for the Day
You have been perfectly created
to live the life which is yours to live
and no one else on this entire planet
can do you like you do you.
You are as breathtaking
as you are astonishing,
an exquisite expression of God.
So live your life.
Really and truly live it.
Play big or go home.
***
Prayer for the Day
This heart is overwhelmed
by the joy which it feels
for the bountiful blessings
this life has afforded me.
I trust the life which you
have given me, the life
which is mine
to live.
Thank you for the GIFT.
Amen
***
10/04/2022
Thought for the Day
Only your complete acceptance
eliminates suffering in its entirety,
revealing the presence
of boundless peace.
***
Prayer for the Day
This heart is overwhelmed
with gratitude
for the untold blessings
of this life.
I trust the life which you
have given me and is mine
to truly live.
Amen
***
10/03/2022
Thought for the Day
Dearest child...
Life is life, it never ends.
Do not be afraid
to really live it.
Do not be afraid to trust
that all is always well.
***
Prayer for the Day
This heart is overwhelmed
with gratitude
for the blessing
of this life.
Thank you for the life
which is mine to live.
Amen
***
10/02/2022
Thought for the Day
There is no such thing as suffering
unless you are telling yourself
a story, nor is there even
a story of happiness which is
truly existent.
There is no overwhelm, no desire,
no attachment or aversion,
no resistance, no acceptance,
no fear, doubt or uncertainty
unless you are functioning
as the character with dualistic
preferences and positionalities.
You might just want to inquire
within, "who is feeling these things?"
"Is the misery because of what
is happening, or is it because of
who is giving me its two cents
on everything, which I am
mistaking for the truth?"
***
Prayer for the Day
I am bound by nothing,
created in love,
by love and for love.
May I never forget that.
Amen
***
10/01/2022
Thought for the Day
If you do not get anything else
in this life, please get this:
You are a sovereign being
and no one and no thing
has any jurisdiction over you
unless you give it to them.
***
Prayer for the Day
I am bound by nothing,
created in love,
by love and for love.
May I never forget that.
Amen
***