Thought for the Day

 

Repeating something often

makes it feel normal

but it does not make it

natural or authentic

to who you are.

 

A facade is a facade.

 

***

 

Prayer for the Day

 

Help me stop pretending

to be something/someone

that I am not.

 

I long for the freedom and peace

of genuine authenticity

which at this point is an experience

quite scattered at best.

 

I recognize that commitment,

consistency and repetition

are the wat to get there.

 

Bless my every effort

to learn to be just that.

 

Amen

 

***

Thought For The Day

​

Radical acceptance is not about

being a doormat for anyone.

 

It is not an invitation

to be taken advantage of.

 

Ever.

 

The simple truth is that

the more deeply you accept,

the less you are willing

to put up with bullshit

off of anyone every again.

 

Thus, true acceptance

is about stepping back into your power

and self-sovereignty.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me practice

radical acceptance today

that these eyes might truly SEE.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Breath awareness ---------> brings

the awareness of peace------------->

the presence of peace

liberates you from

the experience of you.

 

Simple enough, right?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me keep coming back

to the presence of peace

by returning returning returning

to the awareness of my breath.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You have a myriad of experiences

throughout the course

of every single day.

 

But did you know

that the only experience

which is either humanly

or divinely possible

in the present moment

is peace?

 

That the only experience

which is either humanly

or divinely possible

in the present moment

is love?

 

It is the presence of a wound

which propels you

out of the present moment.

 

And a wound is simply reality

which has been misunderstood.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me remain anchored

to my breath today, for the breath

and the present moment

are inseparably mixed.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

A Course In Miracles says that

and untrue cause

can have no effects which

are not equally untrue.

 

It further states that

there is only One True Cause

and that One True Cause

has One True Effect: YOU.

 

While A Course Of Love states that

you are already accomplished,

not trying to become accomplished.

 

And last but not least,

the phrase which I have asked

each of you to memorize

and use frequently

to point you back to truth in 2023

is that you cannot make the meaningless

meaningful to you and ever

transcend it.

 

All three of these ideas

are different ways of stating

the same thing.

 

So what is it that

they are really saying?

 

YOU ARE ALREADY FREE OF

EVERYTHING YOU ARE EXPERIENCING.

 

CAN YOU SIMPLY EXPERIENCE IT

WITHOUT IDENTIFYING WITH IT?

 

CAN YOU REST IN/AS THE TRUTH

YOU CHANGELESSLY ARE

WHILE EXPERIENCING LIFE

WITHOUT PERSONALIZING IT?

 

Why do you feel you need to make

the simple & obvious so complicated?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me remember

my breath today.

 

For it constantly brings me

back to the truth

that is always true

if I let it.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Dearest child...

you do not need to do a thing

in order to be loved.

 

There is no such thing as being

unworthy or not good enough.

 

Got that?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me receive

my own love today, Lord.

 

For I am the one

who has believed

there was something wrong

with me which made me

unworthy, chasing love

in all the wrong places

rather than see

that it is been with me

and in me all along.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

To wish to experience anything

other than what you are experiencing

in this very instant is to miss

the point entirely of why

you are here, why you are human

in the first place.

 

Be a scientist.

 

Be an observer.

 

Notice what happens

when you are genuinely present

to your experience with an open heart

and gratitude for the life

which is yours to live.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Thank you for my life.

​

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

for my life.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Why would you look for

anything else, why would you search

and yearn and strive to achieve

something more, something better

or something different if there was

a palpably felt direct experience

of wholeness and unshakeable peace

within which your experience

of being human was held

lovingly at all times?

 

And the answer is that

you would not.

 

Why?

 

Because complete means

complete.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I am complete unto myself

and for this I give thanks.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

For separation to be experienced

outside of you, between yourself

and others or between yourself

and your world, it must first be

experienced within you.

 

The axiom which says that

"projection makes perception"

cannot be emphasized too much.

 

When you have reconciled

all the parts of yourself

which you have judged wrong

and therefore unworthy of anything

other than your contempt, resistance,

denial & rejection, by bringing them

within the cave of the heart,

there will be no more separation

outside because there will be

no more separation

inside of you.

 

There will be nothing left

within you that has not been

welcomed back home into

the sweetness of your

unconditionally loving

embrace.

 

Thus, both problem and solution

are located in the same place---

within you, my dear.

 

Not in a book, not in a teaching,

not in a person, not in a creed,

and most certainly not by

following the prescribed path

of anyone other than

your own beating heart.

 

For it is the nakedness

of your experience, your experience,

not someone else's,

that either damns or liberates,

and that, my dear,

is entirely your choice.

 

All you must sincerely ask

yourself is this:

 

Do I really and truly

want to be free?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

The world is as I am.

 

Thus, what I see in the world

is a very good barometer

of my authentic inner state.

 

In the end, being in the world

but not of it means that

at all times I am riveted to

to the experience of

what is happening within me

as opposed to the world about me.

 

Help me keep things simple & clean

by staying in my own lane

and by thus, becoming

the very medicine

for which this heart yearns.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

The ego is very very fragile

and it feels wounded

whenever and wherever

it is in the presence of truth.

 

This is why I take no one's blame

or projections personally.

 

They are not telling me about me,

they are telling me about themselves.

 

And that is worthy of compassion,

rather than judgment or reaction.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

When I am clear, I am

untouchable.

 

May this be the living legacy

which I leave this world

when I am no longer

embodied here..

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Nowhere in the entire history

of history has anyone

either successed their way

out of suffering

or through some supposed

state of enlightenment or

some lofty spiritual pursuit,

managed to avoid their

pain and suffering altogether.

 

The only way out is through.

 

The one who has actually faced their pain

and suffering, embraced it and loved

the part of themselves which is hurting

feels no need for either success

or enlightenment.

 

Why?

 

Because they have ended

every last trace of separation

within themselves.

 

What could that which is WHOLE

possibly be in deed of?

 

How do you add or subtract

from that which is Infinite?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

May I know such wholeness

in this very lifetime.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

It is actually very revealing when

you distance yourself

from the people in your life.

 

The spiritual ego says, "It is an act

of self-love and self-respect

on my part to keep some distance

between myself and this person."

 

But if we are all one,

are you not then distancing yourself

from your own love by denyong them

the love you came here

to give them and them to you?

 

You cannot place conditions

on your willingness to be loving

and ever hope to know

or receive unconditional love.

​

For what is all-encompassing

can leave no one nor thing

out of its loving embrace.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

May there be no edges

to my loving

ever again, Lord.

 

For I would love only

as you love.

 

How else may I know my Self?

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

We are all the same.

 

We are all the same.

 

Each and every one of us

are all the same.

 

All equal.

 

All beautiful.

 

All profound.

 

All profane.

 

We are all the same.

 

But you know what?

 

The authentic core of each

and everyone of us

is LOVE.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Love through and through.

 

Let that be my mantra

today and every day

from here on out.

 

We are all the same.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

The most subversive of all acts

is to wake up each and every morning

and consciously choose

to live as love in this world.

 

This is how you shift the world.

 

There is no other way.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I choose to live every single instant

of my life as the effulgance

and tenderness of love.

 

I am at the mercy of no one

and no thing save

my own decision

of who I choose to be,

how I choose to be

in this world, and I will be

no other way because

it is no longer possible

for me to be anything else,

to be anyone else.

 

How profound the gratitude

for the miracle Thou hast wrought

in this life I formerly thought

was mine.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

It is important for you to clearly see

that your need to be right,

to separate yourself from

another person, is actually

disconnecting you from the love

you not only wish to receive

from them, but is your destiny.

 

How then is peace possible?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

When I am being triggered,

how I then choose to deal with

that trigger is very telling,

but it does not mean

that I am right.

 

Avoidance does not bring 

about integration.

 

Yes. Out of sight

does bring a certain sense of

out of mind, but can that

be said to be healing, or is it

called avoiding?

 

Have I faced anything about myself?

 

No, I have not.

 

In fact, it is the surest sign

that I am being shown something

I seriously need to look at,

which I am trying very hard

not to see.

 

Let me not forget,

that every upset is always about me.

 

Dear Higher Self, please show me

what I need to see today.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

Everyone blooms

in the presence of love.

 

Everything blooms

in the presence of love.

 

Why?

 

Because love, dear friends,

heals all.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Love, liveth thou me.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

You know what?

 

You don't have to believe

your thoughts.

 

Seriously.

 

You don't have to listen to

or believe a single thing

the peanut gallery between

your ears has to share.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

How happy and simple is life

when I do not listen to either

myself or the world about me.

 

It is like floating through life

slightly above the ground.

 

Here, the cacophony of chaos

is muted, almost invisible,

sound without sound

and noise without noise.

 

Infinite being sweeps in

to live the day.

 

Let me not forget that

listening to and believing thoughts

is highly over-rated.

 

And buying into the hype

of this world?

 

Absolutely not worth it.

 

Not worth it at all.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

You cannot see yourself

as different, in need of some

illusory sense of protection,

distancing yourself from

another person and receive

the love they have come here

to share with you.

 

You just can't.

 

The only thing that happens

when you choose to do this

is that you feel lonely and miserable.

 

Self-righteousness, even though

it may be called by another name

by you, does not change the fact

that it always comes at a great

personal cost and is entirely

self-inflicted.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am ready to see what I denied

because it was the truth, a truth

which was mine, one that

I did not wish to see because

I wanted to be right.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

You do not need

to be right, Beloved.

 

You have nothing to either

prove or defend.

 

A supposed boundary

is a wall of separation

you have mistakenly imposed.

 

Is it not time to come back home

where a loving embrace

awaits you?

 

Look at how much choosing to believe

that you are right is costing you?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Today I have realized

something very important,

important to me anyway.

 

There is no such thing

as right or wrong.

 

Everything is always right

based upon where a person

happens to be (consciousness wise)

at the time. From their perspective

what they do or do not do

makes perfect sense to them.

 

Help me understand this

in the moment today,

rather than use it

as my reason to judge them,

making myself right

and them wrong.

 

And help me remember

that being light-hearted and happy

is far superior to choosing

to be right and all alone.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

Nothing you have ever said,

nothing you have ever done

and nothing that was ever done to you

has ever made you anything

other than the immaculate presence

of love through and through.

 

This is who and what you are,

changelessly.

 

Let this thought walk

in the space before you today,

my friend.

 

And remember, if this is true

about you, it is the true about

everyone else as well.

 

This is an immutable law

of the universe, to this there can be

no exceptions.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I could be happy today,

and this decision is mine

and mine alone to make.

 

Today I consciously choose 

to let myself and my world

off the hook, loving indescriminately

and with an open hand

and a heart as wide as the world.

 

Let this be the the only gift I bring

to the banquet table of life.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

From time to time I write

a TFTD which is based on

an important paragraph from

A Course In Miracles

which I have provided below.

 

I urge you to take it in slowly,

reading it carefully several times

so that you may reflect upon

its meaning, seeing how it applies

to the circumstances abd conditions

of your particular life.

 

Why?

 

Because the instant that you get this,

you will save yourself decades of heartache

and everything you have previously

struggled with will suddenly make

perfect sense to you.

 

1. All who believe in separation

have a basic fear of retaliation and abandonment.

²They believe in attack and rejection,

so that is what they perceive and teach and learn.

³These insane ideas are clearly the result

of dissociation and projection.

⁴What you teach you are, but it is quite apparent

that you can teach wrongly, and can

therefore teach yourself wrong.

⁵Many thought I was attacking them,

even though it was apparent I was not.

⁶An insane learner learns strange lessons.

⁷What you must recognize is that

when you do not share a thought system,

you are weakening it.⁸Those who believe in it

therefore perceive this as an attack on them.

⁹This is because everyone identifies himself

with his thought system, and

every thought system centers on

what you believe you are.

¹⁰If the center of the thought system is true,

only truth extends from it.¹¹But if

a lie is at its center, only deception

proceeds from it.

ACIM. T-6.V-B.1

 

Now, after having taken that all in,

I have a question for you today:

 

Why is it that someone cannot

have an interaction with you

about something you have done,

probing as to whether or not

you will try to approach it differently

without you perceiving this

as an attack upon yourself,

without your judgment

that they are projecting

anger inappropriately onto you?

 

You are not your behavior.

 

I am not my behavior.

 

No one is.

 

Who and what you are, Beloved,

stands quite apart from what you do

or do not do; unchanged, unchanging,

unchangeable, shining in an everlasting

light which is not of this world.

 

But this does not mean that

if you are doing something

which is not taking into account

the time, effort and energy

of everyone involved,

that we are not going to have

a conversation about it.

 

Got it?

 

For here lies the difference

between the experience of

either heaven and hell.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Projection makes perception.

 

Of that there can be

no doubt.

 

Thank you for showing me

how I have been sabotaging myself.

 

And you know what?

 

I'm done with stabbing myself

in the foot and then screaming

because it hurts.

 

It's a lonely path I set my feet upon

when I choose to believe

that I am right, and here

I draw my line in the sand.

 

How is this either happy,

joyous or free?

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

Easter

​

May this be your day,

may it be your year.

 

May it be the time in which

you experience the kind of

interior revolution and rebirth

for which your heart yearns.

 

Kingdoms crumble, empires

fall to dust, and fame

is a fickle friend at best.

 

And riches?

 

They are gained and lost

each and every day

on this planet.

 

Life keeps on slipping through

your fingers despite your best efforts,

like trying to capture and hold onto

a handful of sand.

 

In the end, what can you 

truly count on in this life?

 

What do worldly

accomplishments, recognition

or success mean

if you cannot keep peace

with your soul?

​

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Please take all of me.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

Just because you quit,

tuck tail and run, give up,

create distance. change playmates,

play pens and play things

doesn't mean that you are

operating integrously, that you

are being true to you.

 

Geographical cures are

a mind game.

 

They may be the norm in our world,

but they most certainly

are not about living

true to one's soul.

 

It does not mean that you live

in self-sovereignty or authenticity.

 

Yes you are always on your soul's journey,

in that there can be no doubt.

 

But have you ever considered

that perhaps your soul is on to you?

 

That it knows you only learn

through the school of hard knocks,

dead ends & gut-wrenching regret?

 

The most difficult questions

we can ask ourselves

in this life are:

 

What is my being empowered

in myself worth to me?

 

How earnest is my desire

for complete freedom

and boundless peace?

 

Have I had enough of suffering

to be willing to go to any lengths?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

White flag waving.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

Until you heal

your emotional trauma (what

Eckhart Tolle refers to as the pain body)

through total loving acceptance,

you cannot help but regurgitate

your incompletions onto

the world around you,

believing it is all about them

when what you think you see

is but a mirror, showing you

an image of yourself.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Let me not forget that

when I point a finger

at a brother or sister

I actually have four which are

pointing at myself.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

Dearest child...precious child...

holy child...

 

I have a question for you today.

 

If free will is only possible

in an illusion, is there

really such a thing as free will?

 

Know this.

 

There is no will but God's

and you either trust that unfolding

or you do not.

 

Thus trust, or the lack thereof,

is the foundation upon which

the experience of either

heaven or hell is made.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I trust you, Lord.

 

Help me flow with the river of life

today instead of trying

to push it.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

Dearest child...precious child...

holy child...

 

Ask yourself, how do I want

to feel today?

 

The answer to that question is point.

 

Anything else is not-point.

 

What do you do

when you find yourself off point?

 

Return to point, of course!

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Life really is pretty simple

if I allow it to be.

 

Help me remain vigilant

to my commitment today.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

Dearest child...precious child...

holy child...

 

When you feel resistance,

please do not make yourself wrong,

please do not make what you 

think or feel wrong either.

 

It is here. It is what's happening.

 

Take a step back...soften...relax..

breathe...and accept this too...

 

The parts you are trying to get rid of

are actually the parts

which are in most need of

your love.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

My chosen mantra for today:

 

There is something important

for me to see here.

 

There is something important

for me to feel here.

 

Help me practice well.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

Dearest child...precious child...

holy child...

 

Complete and utter acceptance

is the highest form of love.

 

In truth, it is the foundational

platform for any life

which could actually be described

as truly living,

 

Existing, struggling and fighting with life

is not living.

 

My dear one, you were born to cooperate

with your life, not to

resist it every single step of the way.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I bow before the isness

of my experience of

my life.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought for The Day

​

Dearest child...precious child...

holy child...

 

Fear resists everything.

 

It is born of the belief that

life is something which is being

done to you, rather than

something which is actually

happening for you.

 

Every single instant of your life,

and everything that unfolds

in that selfsame instant,

is both an invitation and an initiation

to move more deeply than

you ever dreamed possible

into that precious heart of yours.

 

Got that?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for seeing in me

what I have not had

the courage to see

within myself.

 

Amen

​

***