Thought for the Day

​

Your experience is never wrong

no matter what it is.

 

Can you embrace that?

 

Can you embrace the one

who is experiencing it?

 

Can you embrace those

who are experiencing it 

along with you?

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Put in this way

it is very clear that

my acceptance is conditional

and performance based,

where I play the role of judge,

jury and quite often

that of mental assassin

or executioner.

 

The ego is a regular

gangster, is it not?

 

But can I be aware

of the gangster

when it presents itself

and love him or her?

 

Help me love the one I'm with.

 

For I recognize that

I am always with myself.

 

And may loving-kindness

be my only thought,

my only feeling, and

my only action today.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

You and you alone

possess the power to define

what anything means

to you.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

If I am the creator

of the meaning that anything

has for me, then let my only meaning

be that of love, nothing else

but that.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

To judge anyone or anything

is to have the audacity to believe

that you know better than God.

 

Your work is to fundamentally accept

the perfection of what is

and just get over yourself.

 

Got that?

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

No one is special,

especially me.

 

I get it.

 

And beyond this,

no one is behind or

further ahead

of anyone else.

 

We belong to each other.

 

Help me stay in my own lane

today, please....that I may learn trust.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Here is the difference between

true freedom and bondage.

 

Are you consciously aware

of your life, are you present

to the moments which fill your days,

or are you lost in it?

​

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

I thank you , Mother,

for the life

which you have birthed

in me.

 

Help me bring loving awareness,

kindness and presence

to the table of my life today.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Won't you let me in?

 

For I am thine and thou are Mine,

our Union irrefutable.

​

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Ravish this heart completely,

O God, for I am yours​.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Beautiful beautiful child.....

 

There is no power in the entire universe

that can stop you from being

what you changelessly are

nor limit you in any way

other than yourself.

 

And even this is an illusion.

 

The only question then is this:

 

Will you accept that truth is true

and only truth is true?

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

This heart is yours, O God.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Any area of your life where

you do not feel free

is revealing a part of you

which you have not taken the time

to learn to love and accept

unconditionally.

 

So be alert and aware today,

ever cognizant of where

you do not feel free

and apply the antidote.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me learn to love all of myself

with neither condition nor expectation

and with a heart

which is as vast as the universe.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

The greatest and most noble work

that anyone may accomplish

within the span of a human life

is to learn to love & accept

all of themselves completely.

 

Yet how can it be work at all

to simply be your Self,

the one thing you can

never not be?

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Here I am, Lord.

 

I offer all of myself completely; 

hair, guts, feathers and all.

 

I'm done with trying

to change me.

 

Into Thy hands I come home.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Never mistake the mind's interpretation

of anything for the truth

because it never is.

 

Keep your power.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

The buddha used

three different metaphors

to describe the mind:

 

monkeys swinging from trees,

 

stampeding elephants.

 

and wild mustangs.

 

This seems to be

a pretty fair description

for the committee meeting

that I have going on between my ears

more often than I care to admit.

 

Help me cease from

engaging with the mind today,

choosing not to pay heed to its spin

on events, in humble recognition

that its commentary

could hardly be described

as either accurate or wise.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Abide in the temple of God's love

and you will never know

a problem ever again.

 

Does this mean you will never

encounter or experience

things which are challenging

for you ever again?

 

Heavens no.

 

But it does mean that

you will never again struggle

unneccarily with what is,

trusting in the soul's perfect journey,

knowing that all is well

and unfolding in Divine Order.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

To recognize this abiding,

one must slow their lives, watch their breath

and bring the awareness of relationship

to the banquet table of life.

 

May this and only this

be this life's message and gift.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

How does one get to a place

where they develop

the necessary momentum

and tensile strength

to achieve escape velocity?

 

Commitment

Consistency

Repetition

 

(1)

 

By having the courage to face

yourself openly, honestly

and authentically

every moment

of every day.

 

(2)

 

By surrounding yourself

as often as you can

with people who are doing

the same work as you.

 

This is the only way

in which you achieve freedom.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

It's freedom or bust.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

It's okay to be okay.

 

Why do you feel you always

have to be striving,

to be working on/with something?

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me rest today

and trust in the perfect unfolding

of me and my life.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Allow your moving through life

to be so precise, so mindful,

that nothing is excluded

from your loving.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Can I accept this?

 

Can I love this?

 

May these questions

walk in the space before me

as I go about the business

of being me and living

my life today.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

In nearly seven decades on this planet,

I have never met a single lone ranger

who achieved the goal of

a precious human life

on their own.

 

Isn't separation, isolation

and independence the basic issue?

 

Just an F.Y.I. to take

into consideration.

 

A lot of people talk a good game

about how well they are doing,

but if the emotional timbre

and tonality of their words

is not one of profound love,

who are they kidding?

 

What you are hearing

is just a bunch of noisy gongs

and clashing cymbals.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Let me never forget

that pure presence speaks

what no word

could ever express.

 

I will not stop until presence

is the endless song of this heart

and the only language

spoken here.

 

This I promise my soul.

 

Less of me and more of Thee

until only soul remains.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

(1)

 

You have to accept the fact

that you are in the Matrix

in order to be freed of it.

 

(2)

 

You have to have fear

in order to be plugged

into the Matrix.

 

(3)

 

Your acceptance gives fear

no place to plug in.

 

(4)

 

The moment fear enters,

you become unconscious.

 

(5)

 

And the moment you become

unconscious, you enter

into the experience

of separation.

 

(6)

 

Only the ego can have

an opinion, a preference,

make a stand, take 

a position or judge.

 

(7)

 

The soul is 100% neutral,

embracing and accepting

everything as it is.

 

(8)

 

Thus acceptance is the key

to remaining fully conscious

all of the time.

 

(9)

 

Got it?

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

I got it.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Guess what?

 

You are meant to be the way

you are so just accept it.

 

Embrace the enigma of you

in all its complexity;

every twist and turn,

every dead end, every cul-de-sac 

as well as every curveball.

 

How you will experience

yourself and your life

from one instant to the next?

 

Well, you never disappoint.

 

You and your life...

are a real page turner.

 

Who could ever predict

the perfect unfolding of you?

 

So let's get on with the living of it,

shall we?

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

I love discovering, uncovering, 

and exploring

the mystery that is me.

 

Thank you for my life.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

When will you real eyes that

in spite of the fact that life

is often difficult, challenging,

plagued with uncertainty,

chaos and loss, it is a privilege

to be here, to be alive, to be having

a human experience in the first place.

 

Therefore, relish each moment

and hold it as if it were

your very last, because one day,

it will be.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

When was the last time

I actually seized the day?

 

When did I savor

the moment like it was

going to be my last?

 

When have I squeezed

and squeezed and squeezed

until I got all of the juice

out of it?

 

With deepest honesty.

let me reflect on 

these things.

 

I am grateful for my life.

 

And I thank you 

for rattling my cage a bit

so I would open these eyes

that I might see the GIFT.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

You did not come here

to be either a judge or a jailer.

 

You came here to love.

 

That is the purpose

of your precious human life.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Such a simple prescription

for a happy and fulfilling life.

 

Bless my practicing today.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Recognize that in the end,

it is only you who has been

holding yourself hostage

to ridiculously impossible standards.

 

Who ever said this ideal

had anything to do with enlightenment?

 

Ans when it comes to others,

if someone else wants you to be

someone other than yourself,

that is simply the sign

that they do not love themselves.

 

But if you waste your time and energy

trying to live up to those expectations,

well that's on you, Boo.

 

You are here to march to the beat

of your own drum,

and to hell with what anyone else thinks.

 

Do you and be you for you, Boo.

 

It's the love and respect

of the one you face in the mirror

each morning that you really want.

 

And as for God?

 

Well, here is a little tidbit

of truth for you.

 

It is in your uncensored

and unedited self-expression

that you are in perfect harmony with God,

offering your most valuable gift

to the world.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me be brave today

as I dare to be true blue me

with nothing artificially

added, and nothing

censored or subtracted.

 

Just beautiful, glorious me,

shining with the light of heaven itself.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

True surrender entails

the total acceptance of everything

that is unfolding exactly as it is

supposed to be happening,

knowing that everything, as it is,

is part of the soul's design,

and trusting that design

completely and wholeheartedly.

 

The feelings I am experiencing

are here because

I am supposed to be feeling them.

 

The thoughts I am experiencing

are here because

I am supposed to be having them.

 

This illness, this pain, this

bodily sensation is also a part of

what I am here to experience.

 

This ego is exactly the way

it is supposed to be.

 

Every experience, as it is, 

is also by flawless design.

 

And how I choose to move

through each of these

is my gift to the world.

 

It is not about playing the role of

victim of circumstances,

it is about total trust

in one's love for the Absolute

and the Absolute's love for them;

knowing that the intrinsic trajectory

of everything is always evolving

in the direction of greater

and greater good.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Today, I put my hand

in the hand of the One

who stills the waters

and calms all seas.

 

Today I choose to trust.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

The answer is never,

"If I let this go, then I will be free,

I can do this right," because that is how

you hang onto the feeling

and guarantee that you

will have to revisit it again

some time down the road

because it was never integrated.

 

It is as if you believe that letting it go

somehow makes you more spiritual

and not letting it go less.

 

You are not a flawed human being

because you have

uncomfortable feelings.

 

Welcome the feelings consciously.

 

Feel them without needing

to create a narrative

or project a cause.

 

They are here

because they need to be felt,

not avoided.

 

They are part of the soul's perfect

plan for your life.

 

You are here to have a human experience

and this means that you

are going to experience the entire spectrum

of feeling states that are humanly possible.

 

This will necessarily include

many that are uncomfortable.

 

Try not to judge them

or yourself for feeling them.

 

No feeling qualifies you

and no feeling disqualifies you

from being what you always

already are.

 

If God does not have a problem

with your feelings,

why do you?

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

I can clearly see that though I thought

I understood, clearly,

I did not.

 

Help me meet all of my feelings

today when they arise

with genuine openness,

welcoming them,

being kind to myself

and not make myself wrong

for having them.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

You, beloved, came here to love

and serve our world

at this particular time in human history.

 

Is the scope of your care

and involvement

limited to me, myself and I?

 

You cannot complain of feeling

loneliness and isolation

if you never ever make yourself

genuinely and authentically

available to anyone else,

least of all yourself.

 

If you do not open your heart

and remain vulnerable

open and loving to all at all times.

 

This is freedom.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

If I am going to be truly honest

with myself, I have not

been living a very full life.

 

I isolate whenever and wherever I can.

 

I have been preoccupied

with me, with my experience.

 

And the idea of serving others

has fallen off the radar.

 

Let today be my ah-ha moment

to turn the boat around

and head in a new direction---

setting my sails on a new horizon---

that of the infinite,

rather than the limited perspective

of the finite; of me, myself and I.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Can you accept

your non-acceptance

when you see it?

 

Can you be loving, kind, tender

and compassionate with yourself

when accepting the isness of your life

just isn't working for you?

 

Can you take a step back

and choose to love yourself even more

in your struggles to reconcile

being both profoundly human

as well as Divine?

 

You are not either or.

 

You are both and.

 

You, my precious, always have the ability

to take a step back and love yourself,

foibles and all.

 

For the total & unequivocal acceptance

of all of your humanity

is the doorway to Divinity. 

 

No longer afraid.

 

Realizing that you cannot give the world

complete access to who you are

if you are unwilling to allow

yourself access to all of you.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Today I will simply strive

to love the one I'm always with

and hold him/her

most tenderly no matter what.

 

I get it now.

 

He/she is my precious after all.

 

Today I will let the world in.

 

Realizing that my complete acceptance

of myself sets the world free

along with me.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

What could possibly happen today,

be it of mind, emotion,

body, identity or experience

that I could not accept

as part of the soul's

perfect journey for me?

 

What if I were to accept

that I cannot mess it up,

I cannot get it wrong,

and mistakes do not happen?

 

That even if I were to refuse

to accept what is as it is,

what would it possibly change,

and would that not too

be part of the soul's journey?

 

Am I here to fulfill

the mind's whims and dictates?

 

Am I here to kowtow

to my emotions?

 

Am I here to fulfill

the ego's journey?

 

Or how about that of

the spiritual ego?

 

Is it possible to success

your way out of suffering?

 

To find better living

through chemistry, distraction,

avoidance and excessive doing?

 

Or am I on

my Soul's perfect journey

and do all things work together

for good?

 

Let me reflect on these things.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me trust the life

which is mine to live

that I may greet the whole

of life, myself included, with arms

as wide as the world.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

You are only ever evolving upward,

beyond the jurisdiction

of emotions, mind, body,

ego and experience.

 

Emotions, mind, body,

ego and experience

only become a problem

when you believe that one

or more of them are the cause

of what is happening in your life.

 

Never ever let yourself forget

that you are on your soul's journey

and everything is unfolding

exactly as it should

at all times.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

More. More. Always more.

​

More Love.

​

More Light.

​

More Presence.

 

Spiraling higher...

higher and higher.

 

Less of me

and more of Thee.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

What is self-sovereignty?

 

The ability to live life

completely from one's inner jurisdiction,

sourcing your life in its entirety

from your own innermost being.

 

It is to be entirely uninfluenced

by the peanut gallery between your ears

or the opinions and influence of others

who attempt to control, to manipulate

and coerce in order to get you to comply

with what they want.

 

It is to be willing to risk everything

for the sake of knowing

that you are marching to the beat

of your own drum,

uninfluenced by the demands

and expectations of anyone,

save your own soul.

 

Knowing that nothing short of this

could ever be called freedom.

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Let me never forget

that I am not here to kowtow

to anyone else's demands,

regardless how insistent.

 

And help me ever listen and attend

to the messages which I receive

from my own beating heart,

counting them as most sacred

above all else.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Be willing to honestly contemplate

the following question today:

 

What does it mean to be able

to operate under

your own jurisdiction?

 

You are unequivocally controlled

by the whims and dictates

of your body, mind, emotions,

experiences and circumstances,

to say nothing of how you allow

what happens in the world

to tug at you like a dog on a choke collar.

 

This is flagrant victim consciousness

as well as life from the outside in.

 

But what would it mean to be able

to operate without such interference,

being guided purely by soul?

 

What would it be like

to flow from the causal point

of your existence,

entirely free of the subterfuge

of emotions, mind, body or world?

​

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Freedom isn't really freedom

unless it is really & truly free,

a by-product of self sovereignty

which is absolute.

 

Help me be ever watchful

and steer clear of the brain-washing,

programming and conditioning

that is happening all about me

and within in each and every

moment of my life.

 

For I would no longer fall prey

to the Matrix which is trying

to mesmerize and narcotize me

into being just another bleeting

brain dead sheep.

 

I want to know what

FREEDOM truly is.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Absolutely no one, embodied or not,

has the power to either create or control

your experience of your life but you.

 

Yes. You are always on your soul's journey.

 

But no one has the power

to make that journey an experience

of either heaven or hell, peace

or chaos but y0u.

 

This is what it means to have taken

all of your power back

and to no longer live

in a state of victim consciousness.

 

It is also the difference between

living from the outside in

and that of living

from the inside out.

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Father, I am done, once and for all,

with living in a mind created hell realm

of  limitation, lack, fear, drama,

inner instability and chaos.

 

Here is my line

in the sand.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

The felt need to participate

in anything is a choice

on your part.

 

Provide yourself enough space

so that you can clearly see

that you cannot ever be

roped into anything

against your will.

 

Isn't it high time

that you began to participate

in your life consciously,

living at the causal point

of your existence

rather than as the effect

of those around you?

 

Are you a sheep,

a mindless drone?

 

Or are you being boldly led

by the Divine Shepard

of us all?

***

Prayer for the Day

​

You lead and I follow.

 

Let us dance this dance

which we call life

in perfect harmony

with one another...

inseparably mixed

like water with water.

 

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Only great things come

from trusting God

and the soul's own

perfect journey.

***

Prayer for the Day

​

Today my practice

is that of trust.

 

Lean in.

 

Open.

 

Accept.

 

Embrace.

 

Trust.

 

Everything is unfolding

exactly as it should.

 

Amen

***