Thought for the Day

​

There is nothing better than

what you already have.

 

Open your eyes.

 

Open your eyes and your heart.

​

***

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Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for the life

which is mine

to experience and live.

 

I wouldn't change a thing,

even if I could.

 

I want the life I have,

I have the life I want.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

No one has ever saved anyone

from the experience of suffering

by keeping their pain to themselves,

choosing rather to suffer

inwardly in silence.

 

This is not noble.

 

This is how you miscreate

generational and familial suffering.

 

This is how you leave the world

with a legacy of pain

which all future generations

are forced to endure

until someone along the line

is brave enough to face themselves,

face the past, and love

everything back to light

for the sake of all of us.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

What is the opposite

of suffering?

 

Acceptance.

 

Help me lean into what is

with a loving and open heart,

trusting in the unfolding

of what is.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Working on something

inherently implies an underlying belief

that you are lacking the very thing

you are working on,

believing that your efforts

will somehow bring you

closer to the attainment

of that which you believe

you are missing.

 

Can you not see that working

on anything creates an impossible gulf

of separation between you

and the thing which you are working on,

a gulf which you cannot escape

because it does not exist

anywhere but between your ears?

 

You could just relax and trust,

leaning into the experience

of what you can never lose

and just watch what happens.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Today I choose to relax and trust.

 

I cannot be separated

from what I forever am,

nor can I miss out

on anything which is meant

for me.

 

So why sweat it?

 

Huh?

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Love has no

conditions or expectations.

 

If it's transactional,

it is not about love,

it's a business arrangement.

 

And anything which is based on need,

is also not about love,

it's about manipulation.

 

No situation or circumstance

requires anything from you

other than the love in your heart.

 

This is clean and complete

in itself, and there is complete

clarity in that sort of giving,

a clarity which asks

for absolutely nothing in return.

 

There is no freedom

without love. There is no love

without freedom.

 

People can feel the difference

when they know they are

truly loved and so can you.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me love for the sake

of loving, give for the sake

of giving, requiring absolutely nothing

in return.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Until you finally get that

you are the biggest distraction

of all distractions you experience,

you are not free.

 

Freedom is what is

when you are not.

 

Why do you think you are here?

 

Either you are abiding as

the emptiness through which

the Absolute makes itself known

in this world, or you are just

another part of the noise & chaos

which plagues this planet.

 

The greater the distraction,

the greater the suffering.

 

There are no other possibilities.

 

Clear?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Bless every effort

to withdraw attention

from anything

which is not peaceful

today.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Anytime you suffer or struggle,

wrestle with lack, scarcity, rejection,

abandonment or simply feel alone,

it is because you have forgotten

who you are, you have forgotten

your inestimable value and worth

and you do not trust it.

 

You have mistaken yourself

for the ego; the self you made

to be a replacement for

the abiding love, light,

peace and presence you

changelessly are.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Bless my efforts to watch

my breath with consistency today,

for I would abide consciously

in good company

with my innermost being.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

No one and no thing

is responsible

for your inner experience

of life but you.

 

Identify with ego, the personal self,

and the burden of 'you'

becomes your burden to bear.

 

Yes.

 

In a human life you will experience

emotions, you will experience thoughts

and you will have a body

which will undergo many changes

over the course of its brief sojourn.

 

You will experience an ego.

 

And life happens.

 

But you are the immortal soul;

unchanged, unchanging, unchangeable.

 

And the soul remains

forever untouched by all experiences

other than love because

love is what you are.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Why do we never question

who is suffering?

 

Let me not forget that enlightenment

does not seek to do away with suffering,

but to expose the sufferer.

 

Help me stop identifying

with the sufferer and by thus

withhold the experience

of the Divinity and sovereignty

of the soul from my awareness.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

You have never left the Infinite,

you have never left the Absolute.

 

It is just that you have spent

your entire life distracting yourself

from your awareness of IT.

 

Is the solution to try to fix

your distractions one by one

(the biggest of which is the illusion

of you, which is a HUGE distraction),

or to simply stop distracting yourself

and return to the immutable truth

of your own being, that which you

could never leave, that which

has never left you?

 

You decide.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I've spent my whole life

trying to reform the former,

consumed and distracted by it entirely,

so I think I'll go with the latter

from here on out.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Know thyself.

 

Once you know yourself,

you know everyone

and everything on this planet.

 

What is it that you have always wanted

above all else?

 

Get clear about what that is

and give only that.

 

Because when you do,

you become the light of the world.

 

And beyond this,

you experience fulfillment,

happiness and the unparalleled

beauty of life.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Only love.

 

Let me live

as only That.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

You do not need to keep

killing yourself on a daily basis

in order to deliver to the world

what you came here to give.

 

Because what you do

is actually secondary.

 

You came here to love

and what you do

is the vehicle through which

you usher this gift into the world.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am weary of a life

that is propelled by pain.

 

I came here to love,

and that is what we are all crying for

most of all.

 

May I always remember That.

 

And may LOVE be the only offering

I bring to this world.

 

Not love as the world knows it,

but a love which pours itself out

on everyone and everything

without condition

or qualification.

 

Mold me and fashion me

into the perfect instrument

for that gift, the perfect gift,

because it is your gift, O God.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Every need you think you have

and every effort you expend

in the pursuit of its fulfillment

is living proof, evidence if you will,

that you do not know

the truth of who or what you are.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

That is most certainly

clear as a bell.

 

Let me not forget

I rest in God,

in need of nothing.

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Make a heartfelt commitment

to yourself today that there is nothing

of this mind, nothing of this body

and there is nothing of this world

that is worth leaving the peace

and presence you forever are.

 

The breath is your point of anchor

to this abiding awareness.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Whenever I realize

I have lost awareness

of my breath, let me return

to it patiently and lovingly,

for I would know

the I am that I am.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

As a child, there was one thing

I longed for above all else

and that was freedom.

 

I did not have a clue

what this meant, I only knew

that I was not free,

nor was anyone else I knew.

 

I fretted over the feeling of bondage

I experienced every single day, my heart

was so distressed, it experienced so much

upheaval, for it knew not a peace

upon which it could depend.

 

And now after nearly 7 decades

on this planet, I can tell you

exactly what freedom is.

 

FREEDOM is being free

of the illusion of you.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Lead me on the path

of true freedom,

which is inner freedom.

 

For I would be free

of the bondage

of self.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Let's get real, shall we?

 

Which do you think adds more value

to the world?

 

The house you live in,

the car you drive, your bank account,

your job, the family you think of

as yours, your friends

or your loving presence, the being

you forever are?

 

Which do you spend the bulk

of your time and devotion

focusing on?

 

How will you be remembered

when you no longer

walk this earth?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me remain focused

on my breath today,

the being I forever am.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

I have a question

for you to reflect on today.

 

If you chose every single bit of it

before you were born,
the sum and substance
of that which you refer to
as your life, why do you need

to fear anything which happens

or seek to control or change it?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me trust that I am always

perfectly aligned with

my soul's journey.

 

I cannot go wrong.

 

I cannot take a misstep.

 

Everything is always unfolding

exactly as it should.

 

Therefore, I have every reason

to trust and no legitimate reason

to doubt or fear or seek

to avoid or change what is.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

What is the biggest illusion?

 

Not that this world

is maya, the Matrix or the stuff

of dreams.

 

The biggest illusion

is that there is a "you" that

it is happening to.

 

Darlin', who you are and what you are

is the One Life; the invisible substrate

which animates everything in existence,

the formless & eternal noumenon

who is both alpha and omega,

the Eternal One without a second.

 

Tat Tvam Asi

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

The problem with humans

is not that they think

too much of themselves,

but that they think too little.

 

Why settle for the petty

personal self when in truth

I am the whole enchilada?

 

Help me abide in grandeur

this day, for I ready

to remember everything.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Who you are on the level

of your humanity

is entirely inconsequential,

for truth remains true

and immutable regardless

of one's humanity.

 

Accept. Embrace. Love.

 

That is sum total of

why you are here.

 

But the way you accept,

the way you embrace and the way you love

is unlike anyone else has ever done

or ever could do because

of your own unique version

of being human.

 

And that, dear one,

is your GIFT to this world.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

This little light of mine,

I'm gonna let it shine.

 

Let it shine, let it shine,

all the time.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

There is no other outcome

for anything other than the one

which is happening now,

that which is meant to happen.

 

Your efforts to try to change things

is a monumental waste of life force.

 

You could choose to accept what is

and trust that all is well

and always will be.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me remember that

suffering is always optional.

 

I could choose freedom, peace

and trust, instead of fretting and tilting

at windmills of imagination;

the fevered dreams of worry

which tell me something's wrong.

 

For I would trust that all things

are always flowing in Divine Order

including me.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Your humanity isn't a problem.

 

Find the joy in every bit of it

because it's there to be claimed

in the midst of every experience.

 

Even the things which you try to deny

or for which you make

yourself wrong.

 

Without expectations,

you see that all of life is a gift.

 

You did not come here

to become perfect.

 

You came here to be human

and that, dear child, is enough.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for my life.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

The most difficult of all expectations

are those we place upon ourselves.

 

Allow your life to be simple

and good, without unnecessary complexity,

complication and flurry and fury

of nitpicking, blame,

the byproducts of expectations.

 

Be forever unwilling

to gaslight yourself or anyone else.

 

Your life, as it is, is perfect

for you as is everyone else's.

 

If you open your eyes and your heart

you will see that this is the truth.

 

Yet they are meaningless artifacts

if you do wish to see

your great good fortune.

 

Right now, exactly as it is,

you have a charmed life.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for my life.

 

It is the perfect life for me.

 

I let these words seep into my bones,

reminding me that

I have not and cannot

mess it up.

 

Just as I am, I am enough,

hair, guts, feathers and all.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

The way that you take care of yourself

is by authentically being yourself,

there is no other way.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

May every single instant of my life

be about quality and not quantity.

 

I choose a simple life.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

True freedom is a by-product

of no longer needing yourself,

your fellows or life

to be different in any way.

 

Can you imagine living your life

in such a manner that

you no longer champed at the bit

because you wanted to be different

than you are, because you wanted others

to be different, or for life to somehow change

according to your preferences?

 

Imagine trusting the Infinite

that much?

 

You are always supposed to be

the way you are.

 

Others are supposed to be

the way that they are

and life is as it is supposed to be.

 

Knowing this...

 

Accepting this...

 

Trusting this....

 

...is the path of changeless peace.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I choose all of the life

which is mine

to experience and live.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

When you love, everything

in your life takes care of itself.

 

How is this possible?

 

The fruits of living as love

are a stress-free life of tranquil abiding

and the certainty that you are not alone;

that you are entirely supported

by life in every possible way.

 

When this is the very essence

of your life, how is fear possible?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I choose to live as love.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

Work with yourself

exactly as you are.

 

Challenge the assumption

that you should be different or that

your life or the world

should be different

than it is.

 

You are supposed to be

where you are and how you are.

 

And so is everyone

and everything else,

for that matter.

 

Stop fighting it.

Stop fighting with yourself.

Stop fighting with your life.

 

Accept. Embrace. And love.

 

That is why you are here.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Teach me to love

with an open hand

and a heart as wide

as the world.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

It is okay for you

to deeply experience

whatever you are experiencing,

to allow it to be felt completely,

without feeling the need

to deny it, numb it away,

distract yourself or make

yourself wrong for it.

 

Your experience

does not mean anything

about you.

 

It's just an experience.

 

But no experience

should be ignored.

 

100% of all struggle is the result

of believing that something about you

or your life should not be this way.

 

Thus, total acceptance is the key

to freedom.

 

Dive into the experience

without feeling the need to project it

onto those around you.

 

It is never about what is happening

on the outside, but the willingness

to be brave and face

what the experience is bringing up

for you inside. It is here to be felt,

embraced and offered love as it is.

 

Be brave and put it to the test.

 

For the peace which passes

all understanding will come and find you,

it will make itself known.

 

Why?

 

Because on the deepest of levels,

it is what you truly are.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me love and accept

every experience today

without feeling the need

to make myself wrong for it.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for the Day

​

I've got a question for you

to reflect upon today...

 

When you know that you know

that you know that we live

in an infinite universe,

how can you continue

to insist that you are capable

of truly understanding anything

at the level of the mind?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I see clearly now that

the "I know" state of mind

is the most dangerous

belief anyone could ever entertain,

let alone fan the flames of.

 

This is this state of mind

which is behind the chaos

and disruption we are seeing

on our precious planet

at this time.

 

Today I see that

I do not really know anything,

and I'm down with that.

 

Keep me humble

and empty, Lord.

 

For I would step back

and let the light

lead the way.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

The only thing of any value

which you have to give

is your love.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

What else could authentic freedom

actually be other than to feel

so comfortable in your own skin

and so at peace with yourself

and your world that the only thing

you ever radiated was unconditional,

tender hearted, and open handed love?

 

May I be that ONE.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

How do you recognize

one who is not living from ego,

who is clearly not significance driven,

who is not being controlled

by their programming

and conditioning?

 

They are truly happy

in their own skin.

 

They speak little

and they smile a lot.

 

They radiate peace

and tranquility.

 

They love life.

 

They live simply, quietly,

wanting for nothing.

 

And most importantly.

this is not their life

some of the time,

this is their life

all of the time.

 

Here is one who is

clearly in this world,

yet not at all of it.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

May my life quietly bear

such witness, for here is how

I wish to leave my mark

in this world.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

It is in the systematic annihilation

of every single lie you are holding onto,

the biggest of which is the belief that

who you are is the personal self,

that truth is revealed

exactly as it is.

 

Never mistake the mask

for the one whose eyes

are looking through it.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Who is it that exists

behind all of the masks

I wear?

 

Help me look today

with curious eyes.

 

Amen

***

Thought for the Day

​

To view life from a singular platform

is to choose to see through a distorted lens,

like gazing through a tiny peephole,

which is a limited perspective

by definition.

 

It is a limitation, a rather

spurious perspective

because it obscures wholeness.

 

Trust is impossible

when you stand on a platform.

 

Why?

 

Because your interpretations

of your experience are limited

to that of either your emotions,

mind, body, ego, spiritual ego

or someone else's emotions,
mind, body, ego, spiritual ego.

 

Opinions, bias and positionalities

are not elements of truth

but distortions of truth.
 

Why would you actively choose

to do this to yourself?

 

Unless, of course, fear, control

and need to be right

were the driving forces

of your existence

because you did not love yourself

nor trust that the Source

of all wisdom lies within you.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Love, see though these eyes today

and love through this heart,

serve with these hands

and these feet,

that I might experience UNION

with the great I Am.

 

Amen

***