Thought For The Day

​

What then is suffering?

 

Mistaking the personal self

for who you are.

 

Once you mistake yourself

for the persona or mask,

life become an endless game

of Russian roulette.

 

Sometimes you win

and sometimes you lose

but nothing nothing nothing

can ever be truly counted on

because nothing ever

stays the same for long.

 

Have you had enough fun yet?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I am done playing games.

 

And I am done with

suffering.

 

Today I return the dream

to the Dreamer of this madness.

 

I don't want to play games

anymore.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

The longest and most committed

relationship you will ever have

is the relationship

which you have with yourself.

 

This is the only relationship

which truly matters.

 

Why?

 

No one can see see anything

in this world

that is not within themselves.

 

Projection makes perception.

 

Thus, the world is as you are.

 

When your relationship

with yourself is unconditionally loving

and inclusive of everything,

without exception, so will your

relationship with the world be.

 

And the saddest thing?

 

To see someone who has lived

the full expanse of a human life,

only to be a complete and utter

stranger to himself.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me as I take precious time

today and every day

to get to know the ins and outs of me,

for I would know myself

as I am fully known, and I would

love the self I am completely.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

No one has the power

to define you, label you

or put you in a box

unless you let them.

 

Unless, dear child,

you give your power away.

 

Don't let anyone tell you

that you are somehow wrong

or not good enough

and then believe that it is true!

 

Why take anyone else's opinion

of you and adopt it

as your own?

 

Screw that. You are no one

else's hand puppet.

 

You are not here to twist yourself

into a pretzel so that others

may feel comfortable

in their own skin.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

An opinion is simply an opinion.

 

It is not a fact.

 

I get to decide what is true

for me and from now on,

it is love and nothing else.

 

Here is my line in the sand.

 

And so it is.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Every single breath is a rare opportunity

of inestimable value

to transmute unconsciousness

and contraction into the state of presence;

conscious, luminous, loving-kindness

transmitted from a fearless

and open heart which welcomes everything

as an expression of the sacred

no matter how it happens

to be showing up.

 

How else does one transmit

the love of God?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

May I be naught but that.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

It is impossible to evolve and move

beyond something which

you are unwilling to

stop perpetuating.

 

Be that an addiction,

a dysfunctional or toxic relationship,

a repetitive and oppressive

emotional pattern, a particular habit,

pattern or behavior.

 

What are you still doing

to keep this situation

which you claim to find so troubling

actively under the microscope?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Like a snake shedding its skin,

today I step of the old and walk free

into the forever unknown

and ever new.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

LOVE is complete and utter

receptivity to the Divine.

 

It is vital that we all remember

in our search for meaning

that the only authentic power

one can wield in this world

is the power of LOVE,

not the love of power.

 

If your efforts flow from LOVE,

it does not matter what you do

in terms of purpose or livelihood.

for you will have fulfilled

the meaning of life

and everyone's

raison d'être.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

May the energy of the Divine

flow ever outward without ceasing

from my innermost being,

spilling everywhere, saturating everything,

until it completely encapsulates

our world.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

What will it take for you to be convinced

that you are entirely worthy

exactly as you are right now?

 

What will it take for you

to finally let your guard

all the way down, to open that

precious heart of yours, so long

closed off, guarded and protected

from everyone and everything

out of fear?

 

You have felt so very lonely

and alone for so long,

so very very long.

 

Come close.

 

Come into these arms

which wish only to embrace

all of you without judgment,

exception or reservation.

 

You are enough, dear child.

 

You are enough.

 

You are enough for me.

 

You are enough for God.

 

And you are exactly what I have

been waiting for and praying for

all of my life.

 

Won't you come Home?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Oh, how this heart weeps, Father,

weeps and weeps and weeps

to love this world with all her heart

in humble recognition

that only love has the capacity

to make the crooked straight

and that which feels so very broken

whole again.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Suffering is 100% optional.

 

And beyond this, it is 100%

inauthentic to who you inherently are.

 

The universe does not want

you to be unhappy

and miserable, Beloved.

 

The universe leans toward you,

blessing you and your life

in every way imaginable

with every precious breath

you take.

 

But you cannot receive

its beneficience if you do not feel

you are entirely worthy of it.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

May I never forget that

there is always a softer and gentler way

to live in this world, despite the fact that

the world would have me

believe that this is not gospel

being spoken straight from

God's heart into mine.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

A mantra is given you

to use liberally today.

 

Let it be the first spiritual tool

that you reach for whenever you

experience suffering

or a disturbance in the force.

 

Love is the foundation,

the very heart of

every human experience.

 

But you will never know this is true

unless you actually use it

and put it to the test.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me look for the presence

of love in all my experiences

today and every day.

 

If it's really there, then let me see it.

 

Let me feel it, let me experience it

and let me share it

generously and without

reservations with all of my world.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Fixing the ego, becoming

a better version of you,

will never transform the created self

into the soul, my friend.

 

For the you that you think you are

is not real.

 

You have an ego, a personal self,

but that is not you.

 

So fixing it, changing it, healing it,

improving it, avoiding it,

denying it or appeasing it

does not work.

 

Only the willingness to let the ego

or created self die

will reveal the soul, uncovering the glory

of that which you forever are.

 

What ego actively wishes

to pursue this?

 

What ego willingly cooperates

in its own demise?

 

So, then, what is it in you that

drives you to keep on keeping on,

to press ever onward, throwing

caution to the wind?

 

Some call it Christ, others

Buddha nature or Self, but it is the light

of the soul, which, like

a tractor beam, pulls you steadily

into the embrace of the Beloved,

where you find HOME,

your One True North,

and Source.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I am Thine

and Thou art mine,

inseparably mixed,

forever ONE.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

There is a star on the crown

of your head that is

a reminder of the love

which is guiding your journey.

 

Listen for it and follow

its guidance.

 

It is your One True North.

 

It is the North star which guides you

unfailingly in all times.

 

Do not abandon it.

 

For to abandon it

is to abandon yourself.

 

Reach out to it continuously,

especially when all seems

dark and uncertain.

 

All things, sweetest child,

all things...are impermanent

but this.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Thank you, Father.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You have less time than you think.

 

You always have less time

than you think.

 

We all do.

 

So play full out

and swing for the fences.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

The certainty of how much time

any of us actually has

is the great unknown.

 

Help me remember just how precious

a human life actually is.

 

All of it.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You could do so much to be

of loving service

to yourself and your world,

if you wanted to.

 

Oh, my precious child,

how the love in your heart

aches to pour itself out so tenderly

without limit or obscuration

to embrace your world

if you would but let it.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Use me.

 

Use me completely.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

What right do you have

to complain about the state

of the world, to complain about

anything really, when you are afraid

to be all that you are?

 

Why would you hold onto

limitation, lack and suffering

when it is totally unnecessary?

 

And why would you choose

friends who relate

only through complaining,

aka suffering?

 

The world is as you are, my friend.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me keep my feet

firmly planted on my side

of the street today

with the mind minding

its own bee's wax,

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

The urban dictionary says that

"a 'pink elephant in the room'

is a phrase used to say that

there is something very obvious,

one can't miss it, yet no one

wants to be the person to point it out

or talk about it. It's assumed that

everyone has noticed it. "

 

But have you ever stopped

to reflect that the pink elephant

in every room of your life

may be you?

 

You are the one whose ability

to see clearly is askew.

 

It is your mind which is

assigning meaning, you are the one

who is pompously providing

the narrative and interpretation,

you are the one who bites

the hook of belief and you are the one 

who picks up the ball and runs with it

based on this highly spurious content..

 

And you know what?

 

That is seriously messed up.

 

But I have a question for you.

 

Who is the one who is making it?

 

Isn't that the real issue?

 

Yep. The pink elephant alright.

 

Not the meaning-maker,

but the one who believes it.

 

I see what I am not 

from what I am, but I cannot see

what I am from what I am not.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Let me never forget that

if it isn't peace,

is isn't me.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Why do you think that Isaiah 54:17

tells us that "No weapon

formed against you

shall proper"?

 

Because no person, no power

or authority stands as the gatekeeper

between you and God.

 

God is within you, my dear,

and always has been.

 

But that makes little difference

if you keep telling yourself

that you are looking for the Divine

but every indication points to

the fact that you are running away from

and avoiding the Absolute

at all costs.

 

Clever little thing, the spiritual ego

is, is it not?

 

It sets you on a course

of seek but never find

so you can keep telling yourself

that you are a sincere seeker,

whilst avoiding the only place

the truth is found.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I am here, Lord,

I am here.

 

Reveal Thyself to me.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

100% of all suffering is inauthentic

to who you truly are.

 

What if it were really true,

that you can be right,

or you can be happy

but you do not get both?

 

Do you want to be

happy, joyous and free enough

to let go of blame and unforgiveness,

to let go of who you are not?

 

For while you choose to entertain

the beast of suffering,

you cannot know

the peace that you are.

 

And if suffering is the price

which is demanded of you

for someone's love and approval,

why are you still hanging on

to the belief that one day

you'll earn it?

 

What about your own love

and self-respect?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I got one answer to all suffering:

 

No way José, I'm done.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

(Mother's Day)

 

There is no such thing

as a single person who has not

personally encountered

the genuine love of a mother.

 

If our own experience

of the one who gave us birth

was less than nurturing,

God lovingly placed someone

in your life who could play that role

for you in a way that made

a radical difference

in the trajectory of your life.

 

Although she is worthy

of your gratitude,

appreciation and honor

this day and every day,

it is God for whom

you owe the real debt of gratitude.

 

For it is God who gave her

to you in the first place.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

May this heart be filled

to overflowing with loving gratitude,

spilling over, touching all that is

for the gift of loving kindness

I received from the one

who so gently and patiently

took me under her wing.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Who have you been relating to

through suffering?

 

Who have you been suffering for

because that is the price that

you have to pay in order to be

in relationship with them

because suffering

is the only thing which

you have in common

in the first place?

 

Such important questions

to ask oneself, vital really,

if we are committed to

rebirth, regeneration

and making all things new

within ourselves.

 

Is it worth it, this game

you have been playing

with yourself and life?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me see clearly today

that any relationship

which depends upon suffering

in order to exist

is not really a relationship

worth participating in at all.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

No more apologizing for being you,

which you have been doing

all of your life.

 

If your are good enough for God,

why are you not good enough for you?

 

And who cares what

anyone else thinks?

 

Are you here for the approval

and affection of the world,

or are you here as an expression

of the love of God?

 

Other people's opinions of you

are confessions of how they really feel

about themselves, anyway.

 

Projection makes perception.

 

In other words, every opinion

is a demonstration of self-deception,

a revelation of the emperor

in his new clothes.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Let me never forget

that I am here as a mirror

which shows people who they are,

and just as important,

what they are not.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

(For Ginny)

 

From time to time, I publish

the Love Chapter from the New Testament

and do so again today in honor of

the birthday of my biological mother

who would have been 93 today.

 

The Way of Love

 

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

 

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

 

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

 

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

 

I Corinthians 13 ESV

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I thank you, Father, for the one

who gave birth to me,

making possible this precious

human life and ask that

she be blessed wherever she is

in her journey into light.

 

May all mothers everywhere

be so blessed.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You have to get this through

your noggin once and for all,

because there is no true moving forward

in your life until you do.

 

If it isn't peace, if it isn't joy,

if it isn't love, if it isn't tender

and gentle and kind,

then it's some form of suffering

which you are choosing

to entertain and identify with.

 

You cannot hold onto

any version of suffering

and know the truth!

 

For the presence of one

cancels out the possibility

of experiencing the presence

of the other entirely.

 

This is a case of either/or,

not both/and, it is

an all or nothing deal.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I choose peace.

 

From this day forward, I live

from the inside out,

not the outside in.

 

Here is my line in the sand.

 

I choose to live this life

as soul.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Many of you are experiencing

some pretty tough things in your life

right now. Your suffering

is immense and cannot be denied

because it's in your face.

 

But you know what?

 

You don't have to do anything

in order to be peaceful

in the midst of whatever

is happening.

 

You don't have to do anything

in order to be happy

in the midst of whatever

is happening.

 

You don't have to do anything

in order to feel light-hearted

in the midst of whatever

is happening.

 

You don't have to do anything

in order to feel deeply held

and cherished by love

in the midst of whatever

is happening.

 

But you do have to allow it.

 

And you are not allowing

it to unfold in your experience

so long as the focus

of your attention remains

on the experience of your suffering.

 

This is what identification means.

 

You are stuck like chuck

because your suffering

is the only possibility

you will allow yourself to see.

 

Who but you is in charge

of your inner experience of life

anyway?

 

Huh?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I am ready to be loved

and held through this

and every experience

from here on out.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

The stronger your reaction

to something someone else

says or does, particularly when

it is directed toward you,

the more clearly it is that life

is trying to show you that

there is something here

which you are being invited

to look at with humble honesty

rather than with indignant

outrage and denial.

 

Because if there honestly was

absolutely no truth at all

in the words which were spoken

over you, your tail feathers

would not have gotten ruffled at all.

 

There would have been

no perceivable disturbance

in your emotions, mind or energy.

 

Remember the acronym for DENIAL:

 

Don't Even Notice I Am Lying.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Grant me the courage to LOOK

and SEE with great self-honesty

the things which I'd rather not

see about myself.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Every time you find yourself

getting tripped up by the mind,

hit your pause button.

 

Return to the heart.

 

Return to the breath.

 

Peace is never any further away

than this, my friend.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

How simple is life

when I allow it to be.

 

Help me keep things

just this simple today, Lord.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You believe that your decisions

and your choices have affected

no one on this planet other than you.

 

But I tell you that is simply not true,

they have oft times been

hurtful and unwise.

 

And beyond this, you have forgotten

that your choices can have

a crushing significance

to the direction of your life.

 

Why would you take

such a profound opportunity

to be free and make a difference

in this world and choose, rather,

to throw it all away?

 

Each of us knows in our heart of hearts

that what has been left unsaid,

unspoken and undone by you

has nonetheless been heard

by all beings everywhere.

 

Not by human ears

but by hearts left shattered,

confused and in pieces by your actions

which have been hurtful

and harmful to all of us.

 

You are unchangeably and irrevocably

a part of this beloved eco system

we have on planet earth

and what you do

and what you do not do

impacts all of us.

 

Your silence and your withdrawal

has proclaimed a deafening message

and it has not been a loving one.

 

They have been your actions,

your choices, and no one

is responsible for what you do 

but you.

 

Are you really that certain that

you have done the right thing?

 

Can you honestly say

that it feels better living in your skin,

that you are all the better,

wiser, kinder and gentler

for your choices?

 

Is peace in your awareness?

 

Can you not see that

you are bereft and lost without us

and we are fractured

without you?

 

Time to be humble and brave

and come home.

 

Our open arms and open hearts

with no questions asked

are awaiting you.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I miss my soul family.

 

And I am not happy.

 

Not really.

 

Time to rethink my life choices.

 

I am actually more confused

than I ever have been.

 

Grant me the courage

to come back home

and do the right thing by all of us.

 

Help me real eyes

how much I matter!

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Any connection which has been

forged through the fires of hell

is not real.

 

There is no such thing as

connection through suffering.

 

There is just more suffering.

 

Connecting with/through suffering

is the path of hell.

 

And yet LOOK at how many

of your relationships

have suffering as their common thread?

 

Mind = suffering.

 

Emotions = suffering.

 

Body = suffering.

 

Family = suffering.

 

Friends = suffering.

 

Job = suffering.

 

Finances = suffering.

 

World = suffering.

 

Commiserating through misery

is not love, and yet how often

have you believed that this is so?

 

Connection through LOVE

is LOVE.

 

Why?

 

Because only LOVE is real.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

As of today, I choose

to connect with myself,

others and my world

through my heart,

through love.

 

May it thus be so.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

I will never forget the day

I heard George W. Bush say

that freedom wasn't free.

 

That was the day that

he invaded Iraq in 2003.

 

But the truth is that freedom

is not something that one has to earn,

nor is it something that

one has to fight for.

 

Freedom is free, beloved.

 

And it is yours the instant that

you allow yourself to experience it

because pure boundless freedom

happens to be what you truly are.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Thank you for rescuing me

from myself.

 

I recognize quite clearly

that this personal identity

is the only bondage

which I have ever known.

 

And I am grateful beyond measure

for the alleviation of suffering

which organically arises

when we no longer identify ourselves

either with or as it.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Do you recognize that if you

could be as gracious, kind

and open-hearted with yourself

when you have acted unconsciously,

when you are experiencing

the tougher side of being human,

as you are with yourself

during your conscious moments,

you would already be fully liberated?

 

Judgment, self-loathing

self-recrimination and defeat

are not among the characteristics

of love the last time I checked.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

What if, just for today,

I could respond lovingly

and openheartedly to myself

no matter how I happened

to show up?

 

Let today be the day.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

 

That which is real, that which is true

can never be lost

or taken away from you.

 

Period.

 

So why stress, why worry?

 

***

 

Prayer for the Day

 

It is nothing short of heart-wrenching

to contemplate the stress

I have put my body through

over the course of this lifetime

making so much ado

about nothing on a daily basis.

 

Today I walk in trust.

 

Amen

 

***

Thought for the Day

 

Peace is the most radically dynamic

of every possible human state

because it has no subterfuge,

nothing to be gained or lost,

no ulterior motive other than

that of abiding tranquilly

and changelessly as what it is

within a world which knows it not.

 

In one who is truly peaceful,

the silence in which they rest

is as compelling as it is deafening.

 

For here walks one who is the light

which gives light to everyone,

reminding each and every heart

of who they truly are.

 

***

 

Prayer for the Day

 

May I be such a being

in this very lifetime.

 

Amen

 

***