Thought For The Day

​

When you identify with

anything other than the light

there is always something

which is against you,

and life becomes a battle waged

between winners and losers,

success and failure

and relationship is tenuous

and fleeting at best because

nothing is based upon

anything more substantial

than a furtive game of

musical chairs.

 

But to identify with/as light,

is to identify with truth,

the one thing which never

changes.

 

Where will you look

to find peace, happiness

and deep fulfillment today?

 

Beloved, look to light.

 

Feel It's Prersence within you

and all around you.

 

It is always there.

 

Identify with light.

 

For you are in this world

but you most certainly

are not of it.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Let me place my trust

in light today,

recognizing all else

is but sinking sand.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

I have had the opportunity

to observe many of you

for several years now.

 

And I watch you use

charismatic deflection

to keep people at bay...

to keep them from

getting too close to you

where, God forbid,

they might actually

get the opportunity

to see into the very heart

of you, where they would

real eyes that to see you

was to see themselves.

 

What would it cost you today

to let the world in?

 

To drop your armor,

to bring down your defenses,

to soften and open,

to yield to the moment

and allow yourself to know fully

as you are fully known?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Why do we chase love

and intimacy, actually yearn for it,

yet avoid it as if it were

the plague?

 

Why do we fear vulnerability

and transparency so?

 

Well, not today world.

 

Here I am and here

is my heart.

 

You are welcome here.

 

Come home.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You tell me,

which is more helpful?

 

Embracing your freedom now,

or chasing it

under the misguided belief

that it lies somewhere

other than where

you feet happen to be planted

right now?

 

At some point, dear one,

you have to real eyes

that you are already free

and you always have been.

 

What has the power

to place you in shackles

other than a thought

which has been believed?

 

Thoughts are not facts,

they're fiction, imaginary woes

laced in separation

and thinly veiled acrimony

which is nothing but

an invitation to distress,

victum consciousness

and misery.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me see clearly today

that suffering is 100%

self-induced.

 

When I suffer it is a choice

that I make when

I am always offered

the opportunity

to consciously embrace

the ever present gift of freedom

which is present in the midst of

every happening.

 

Let me live with this

question today:

 

Can anything really affect me

if I do not give it

the power to do so?

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You tell me,

which is more helpful?

 

Embracing your freedom now,

or chasing it

under the misguided belief

that it lies somewhere

other than where

you feet happen to be planted

right now?

 

At some point, dear one,

you have to real eyes

that you are already free

and you always have been.

 

What has the power

to place you in shackles

other than a thought

which has been believed?

 

Thoughts are not facts,

they're fiction, imaginary woes

laced in separation

and thinly veiled acrimony

which is nothing but

an invitation to distress,

victum consciousness

and misery.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me see clearly today

that suffering is 100%

self-induced.

 

When I suffer it is a choice

that I make when

I am always offered

the opportunity

to consciously embrace

the ever present gift of freedom

which is present in the midst of

every happening.

 

Let me live with this

question today:

 

Can anything really affect me

if I do not give it

the power to do so?

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You came here to be light

in the midst of it all.

 

You came here to be love

in the midst of it all.

 

You came here to be presence

in the midst of it all.

 

You came here to be free

in the midst of it all.

 

This dream can be messy

and that is why it's called maya,

but you came here to be peace

in the midst of it all.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

And so it is.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Beloved child, you are

so deeply loved and cherished,

not for who you will one day become,

for who you are right now

and how you are.

 

Who you are and how you are

is enough. It is enough.

 

So put your weapons down,

the battle is over.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Teach me to love

myself as I am

that much.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Freedom is not what exists

in the absence of what is,

it is found in the presence

of what is or not at all.

 

Peace is not what exists

in the absence of what is,

it is found in the presence

of what is or not at all.

 

Happiness is not what exists

in the absence of what is,

it is found in the presence

of what is or not at all.

 

So lean in.

 

Open your heart.

 

And soften gently

around what is.

 

This is about you taking

your power back, Beloved,

and consciously choosing

to trust your soul's journey,

to be with what is as it is.

 

Life is a journey of inclusion,

not one of exclusion.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Today I choose to trust.

 

I will step back

and let the light reveal

the way.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Know this, Beloved.

 

You did not come here

to be afraid; to live a life

of limitation, lack or survival.

 

So when you notice the presence

of these things, know that

it is not because of something

which is actually happening,

it is because you have

accepted the mind's interpretation

and are playing a game

of self-deception.

 

There is no such thing

as a single instant in which

you are alone, nor is there

a single moment when

you are not dearly loved.

 

Life may not be unfolding

the way that the mind

wants it to, but it is nonetheless

unfolding in Divine order.

 

Rather than continue

to relive your past in the present,

why not consider letting go

of the mind's meaning,

be brave and trust

that life is actually

on your side?

 

That is, if being happy

is a priority to you.

 

Because being right

(believing the mind)

never brought anyone

a happiness they could

count on, the state of liberty

or that of boundless peace.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me keep

the mind a blank slate today

and be brave, trusting

that all is always unfolding

exactly as it should.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Enlightenment is everywhere,

Beloved.

 

It is impossible to be

separated from the light.

 

Those thoughts you have been

perseverating on and wish

would go away?

 

The light is there too.

 

Those feelings which are

so very painful and afflictive?

 

The light is there too.

 

The pain in the body?

 

Well guess what.

 

The light is there too.

 

The diagnosis that is so difficult

to not be terrified over?

 

The light is there too, Beloved.

 

That painful childhood

you experienced?

 

You guessed it.

 

The light was there too.

 

You have never been

alone a single instant.

 

You are always on

your soul's perfect journey

and you cannot mess it up.

 

You are just not that powerful.

 

Face it. Your life has always been

rigged in your favor

no matter how it is

or has been.

 

The light is always with you,

Beloved, and love embraces

you so carefully and tenderly

as does a mother hold

her newborn child.

 

You are precious and beautiful

exactly as you are

and light and love and God

dwell within you

without change or obscuration.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me receive LOVE's embrace

today in recognition

that I am always

enough.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

It is so important that each of us

slows down enough

and gets honest enough

with ourselves that we see

the degree to which

we have been suffering

and trying to avoid that suffering

our entire lives.

 

You don't transcend something

by avoiding it

or by pretending that it

is not there.

 

You turn and face it.

 

You open your heart to it,

you feel yourself lean in

and soften in its presence.

 

And the interesting thing

we begin to discover

when we face ourselves honestly

is not more suffering,

but the presence of peace.

 

Here we find that our misery

was not caused by what was happening

or what was not happening,

it was not caused by what we are

or by what we are not,

it was caused by our very resistance

to the isness of our experience.

 

We have spent our whole lives

being afraid to be afraid.

 

But no more.

 

Because when we face our fear,

when we embrace our pain,

we inevitably find that we are okay

and our burdens

are transmuted into light.

 

For light you are, dear one,

and to light all must be returned.

 

You are so worthy

and so beautiful

right now.

 

Why wait a moment longer

when boundless peace

and limitless freedom

are your birthright,

not in some distant far off future,

but yours for the embracing

right now?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Today I welcome all of me

back into my heart---

hair, guts, feathers

and all.

 

I am not broken

and I do not need fixing.

 

I am the creation

of an Infinite Intelligence

which loves me as I am,

and whispers to me unceasingly,

"My precious darling...

you are enough.

You are my child

in whom and with whom

I am always well pleased."

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Let's face the music and call

an ace an ace

and a spade a spade.

 

If you do not feel an all-pervading

sense of happiness, if you do not abide

in a changeless state of peace,

if you do not experience

the state of boundless freedom

and if you do not absolutely love

being you, this is the extent

to which you are actively suffering.

 

And you busy yourself,

distract yourself, numb, resist

and avoid so you do not have

to register the length, the breadth

and endless depth of your misery.

 

So I have a couple of

questions for you.

 

What do you plan to do

about it, do you even have

a plan?

 

Or are you content to live

out what remains

of your precious human life

in such a limited and miserable way,

going through the motions,

hoping for a better and brighter

tomorrow which never comes?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

It takes great courage

to turn and face oneself,

to dive deep and ask yourself

the big questions.

 

Help me be brave, Lord,

help me be brave.

 

Help me be brave

and honest with myself.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Absolutely every message

that this world throws at you,

from how you were parented,

how you were educated,

your nation, kith and kin,

the constant onslaught of propaganda

by the media (social and otherwise),

by religion, by nothing

short of everything, is designed

to make you feel that

you are not good enough

so that you will push and strive

for more, better and different.

 

Don't bother trying to deny it

because I have listened

to how you berate yourself,

having bought the message

hook, line and sinker.

 

Happiness...

 

Peace...

 

Fulfillment...

 

...are the carrots you chase

which you hope will one day

be yours after you have done

what you have been brainwashed

into believing you need to do

in order to find them.

 

But what if you have been lied to

all of your life?

 

What if all you have believed

to be true about this life

are the results of having been

programmed and conditioned

through fear so that this world

could exert control over you?

 

And what if happiness, peace

and fulfillment are byproducts

of simple being, rather than doing

more, doing better, so that you

can somehow be different?

 

Even better, what if you

are already beloved,

already enough, already

the way you were meant to be

and doing precisely what

you were born to do

the very way in which

you were designed to do it?

 

If you could accept this

for one precious instant,

beloved, you would know something

of the meaning of all

you have ever chased or dreamed

would one day be yours.

 

For here are happiness,

peace and deep fulfillment,

the prodigal child of a most loving God

having at last come home

to itself.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

May I lay my road weary

and brow beaten head

upon thy breast this moment,

that I might find rest

upon thy shores

forevermore.

 

Uncle.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

There is only one reason

that you see things

in this world other than

love, one reason that you

see things which you cannot stand,

things which upset you and break your heart,

and that is because you see things

in yourself other than love.

 

Projection makes perception,

darlin', thus the world is

as you are.

 

When will you get this?

 

And better yet,

when will you let yourself

off the hook?

 

You came here with one job

to do. To learn to love all of you

exactly as you are.

 

And the funny thing is,

when you stop trying to change

yourself and simply accept

yourself exactly as you are,

all things change naturally

as they return to the love

which they forever are.

 

If happiness and freedom

are where we set the bar,

this is the singular way

in which we live

this mystery

we call life.

 

Why?

 

Because it is the only way

that actually works.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me love all of me,

no exceptions, exactly as I am,

for I would learn to see myself

through my Father's eyes

and boundless heart.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

There is no such thing

as an experience that is

a limitation.

 

There is no one and nothing

which is holding you back,

and there is nothing

in opposition to you.

 

You are the light in the midst

of every experience

and nothing can or ever has

changed that, and nothing

ever will.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I am that, I am.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

I was exchanging texts

with an old friend yesterday

whom I had not had

a vulnerable conversation with

in a few years

and what they shared with me

revealed so much.

 

The first notable thing

was that it was obvious

that they were not truly happy.

 

Sure. They were doing

a lot of things that they believed

would one day ripen into happiness,

if the force was with them,

if they worked hard,

and lady luck was on

their side.

 

They verbalized

a litany of suppositions which

they had placed upon themselves

in terms of self-expectations

which included things they felt

the universe demanded of them.

 

You could feel the defeat,

the struggle, the suffering...

 

The air was thick with it.

 

I felt especially sad 

because not so very long ago

this used to be

me too.

 

Since a child, I wanted to be free,

I wanted to feel free.

 

And I wanted to find

an inner stability and peace

which did not change

no matter what unfolded 

in my life.

 

But what my heart cried,

what I wanted to shout

to this beloved friend

was simply this:

 

Freedom which is incumbent

on anything at all

isn't really free, now is it?

​

That kind of freedom is just

another form of bondage,

trading one jail cell for a new one

that you hope has a better view.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Truth has always been true

and always will be.

​

It is not something we attain,

it is what we are.

 

And freedom is absolutely

100% free.

 

Thank you for that.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Nothing is missing in you

or your life, Beloved.

 

Nothing ever has been.

 

What you have been looking for

is what you have been

looking from.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Utterly and completely free,

recognizing I always have been.

 

Thank you for eyes that see.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

When did the truth

cease being true?

 

Huh?

 

Can you lock onto the idea

of you being infinite & eternal

right now, in the very midst of

every experience (whether inner

or outer) rather than insisting

on the notion of changing

your experience so that

you can finally be who and what

you already are and have always been?

 

Are you a dot or point

moving along a horizontal axis

called time and space where change

is the only constant, or are you

boundless, immovable

and changeless in the midst

of the flotsam and jetsam of life?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

This is a heavy one.

 

It is as mind blowing

as it is liberating.

 

I am already and always free.

 

Thank you for the changeless

nature of truth.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

We are here and then gone

in the blink of an eye.

 

What a profound gift.

 

What a profound gift

and privilege

our life is.

 

Don't miss it.

 

Don't miss any of it.

 

For nothing but this day,

this moment, really matters

in the grand scheme of things.

 

Seize it.

 

Hold it.

 

Caress it.

 

Cherish it.

 

Give yourself to it completely

and drown in its beauty.

 

Live.

 

Truly live.

 

Share your love with each moment

and with everything

each moment holds.

 

Notice and smell

each and every rose along the way.

 

Because you know what?

 

It will all be over before

you know it.

 

This is the humble

and honest truth.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Thank you for the life

which is mine to live

and the countless blessings

which I receive

each and every day.

 

I have been given a life.

 

Now let me truly live it

and love it in a measure

at least as great as the gift.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You have spent your entire life

playing a game with yourself.

 

If I stay busy enough,

if I continue to numb and anesthetize,

to distract and overcommit

every single day with no end in sight,

can I continue to successfully hide

from myself, to hide from my own being,

can I remain safe from

having a direct encounter

with the real me, with my soul?

 

Can I get people to love me,

to tell me I am good enough,

can I prove that I have accomplished

more than I expected from myself,

have is risen to the pinnacle

of how the world defines success,

while never allowing myself to become

the direct beneficiary of

why I am here in the first place?

 

And then, my lost and forlorn friend,

you actually have the audacity

to wonder why sleep so often

evades you in the secret moments

of your life, and you feel

as barren and empty,

as hapless and hopeless

as a hollow chocolate

Easter bunny.

 

Had enough fun yet?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me watch my breath today

and actually take time

to stop and smell the roses.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Make a vow to yourself today:

 

From this day forward,

I will no longer refuse

to give anything

direct and complete

access to my heart.

 

I will receive it with love

and allow myself 

to feel it all the way

to my bones.

 

I will give it a home within me,

a soft place to land,

where it knows it is loved

and accepted unconditionally

in its entirety by me.

 

This is neutrality.

 

This is equanimity.

 

Consciously choose to do so

in humble recognition

that absolutely everything,

no exceptions, longs

to return to its essential nature

which is love.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

And so it is.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Radical love is

a choice.

 

Living a heart-centered life

is a choice.

 

So is living a fear-based life,

neck deep in the weeds.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I consciously choose

to live as love.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You are the only one

who defines your experiences.

 

You are the meaning-maker,

the interpreter of everything

you experience whether

inside or out.

 

You tilt at windmills

trying to fix or change what

is happening, failing to realize that

if it was meant to be different,

it would be.

 

Instead of trying to change

the experience, simply

change your interpretation.

 

All it takes is realizing

you are always radically loved,

so lean in, let go and trust.

 

You are always on your soul's

perfect journey.

 

It can be no other way.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Let me not forget

that all is always well

no matter what.

 

I have every reason

to trust.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Why does it take an asteroid

hurtling toward earth and the threat of

a potential global mass extinction

event to finally convince you of

the total ineptitude of ego

when it comes to the successful

resolution of anything

in your life?

 

Have you not had the rug

pulled out from beneath

you enough yet?

 

Has life not convinced you

that relying upon ego

for anything is not a solution,

but an invitation to more misery?

 

Surrender and trust

just not your thing?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me remember that

there is always

an easier and gentler way

available to me if I choose

to let go and let God

in humble trust.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You came here to facilitate

the dis-illusion

of the illusion of you.

 

Pray, then, for your own undoing.

 

This is the most important prayer.

 

Because if it is prayed with sincerity,

with great earnestness,

it will begin the deconstruction

of you; your story, & your identification

with/as the personal self.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Each and every day,

may there be less and less

of the one I formerly

mistook for me.

 

For I would experience myself

as the real "I," the I

of soul.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Inescapably, you are the first

beneficiary of what you share

with the world, for there is

no such thing as a single instant

in which you are not sharing

your inner world, lock stock and barrel,

with all you perceive to be

outside of you.

 

In truth, you are the creator of it

because projection makes

perception.

 

You experience the world

as you experience yourself.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I am really beginning to grasp

that my only work in this life

is my relationship

with myself.

 

Resolve that mystery

and all is complete.

 

Please show me the way.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

There is always light

where it seems most dark.

 

There is always peace

in the midst of chaos.

 

Grace is always present

where it seems most absent.

 

And there is always love

flowing with wild ecstatic abandon

in every space and place

we find ourselves.

 

There is no such thing

as either time or place

where you are not offered

the opportunity to be

of loving service simply

by being you.

 

And why is this?

 

Because you came into this world

to be the counterbalance

to all that ails it.

 

At a time in human history

when people have seemingly

lost both their minds and way,

your beingness, your presence

is the clarion call reminding all

of what changes not.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I thank you, Father,

for the way showers

that light the path

for all of us.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

If you do not hold onto

anything else which is shared

through this vehicle

then I beg you to both hear

and believe this:

 

You, dear one, my dear dear child,

you are always enough

exactly as you are no matter what.

 

Let these words sink into your bones

and recall them in every instant

when you doubt yourself,

and fear and unworthiness

haunt the landscape

of your inner world.

 

You are always enough

exactly as you are no matter what.

 

And if someone tries to convince you

that who you are and how you are

is not enough, don't give their words

a place to land within you.

 

They are just revealing how

they really feel about themselves.

 

Move on.

 

They have nothing you want

or need and truth be told,

they have more need of you

than you could ever need

anything they have to offer,

although they will never

ever really real eyes it

during their lifetime.

 

This is what Jesus meant

when he instructed us to not cast

your pearls before swine.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Thou hast taught me that

I am complete within myself

and for this I give boundless thanks,

pressed down and rolling over.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

An assignment is given

you today.

 

Whatever you do, no matter

what it happens to be, do it

consciously and mindfully

as if you are enough.

 

When you wash dishes

or prepare a meal,

consciously do so with the feeling

that you are enough.

 

When you take a walk,

consciously walk with the feeling

that you are enough.

 

Brush your teeth,

comb your hair, no matter,

do it as if you are enough.

 

Whatever feelings arise

or thought processes

pass through the mind,

consciously experience

all of them with the feeling

that you are enough.

 

In every interaction or encounter,

consciously experience it

with the feeling

that you are enough.

 

You get my drift.

 

Whatever happens,

you are always enough.

 

You were born to live

the life that is yours to live.

 

And no one on this planet

possesses the capacity

to be you like you can be you,

so genuinely care for who you are,

what you experience,

the things that make you soar

as well as the things which

break your heart.

 

No matter, whatever it is,

love yourself and see your worth

no matter what.

 

Notice at day's end

what kind of day

you experienced.

 

Perhaps you have discovered

something which is

powerful and worth repeating

every day.

 

What do you think?

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Prayer For The Day

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I am enough.

 

Blessed be.

 

Amen

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Thought For The Day

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Beloved, you can only get so far

in life without a tribe,

a heartfelt bond with folks

who are consciously pursuing

what you are pursuing in life,

and thus one's personal family

does not count for most.

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Prayer For The Day

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Help me realize with great clarity

and simple honesty

that being a Lone Ranger in life

has not been working out

that well for me.

 

Help me be willing to confront

my fear of the intimacy

and vulnerability which are

the precursors of a deeply open

and compassionate heart.

 

Amen

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Thought For The Day

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Can truth have exceptions?

 

This is an important question

to be willing to honestly ask yourself.

 

Can - truth - have - exceptions?

 

Or is it the only thing

which one can honestly rely

upon in this world?

 

Is it true that truth is true

and only truth is true

100% of the time, that there are

no exceptions to it ever?

 

Must not truth be all-inclusive

if it be the truth at all?

 

Answer this within yourself,

and the gig is up, my dear.

 

Answer this question

and you are free.

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Prayer For The Day

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Help me to see clearly today

that yes, life can be this simple

and clearcut if I want it to be

and I do.

 

Amen

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Thought For The Day

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You are the one who gives

your power away to the mind,

to your emotions, to what

is happening in the body,

to your experiences in this life

and to what is happening

in the world.

 

What else could this be

other than straight up

victim consciousness?

 

Who says you have to bite

the hook of any of it?

 

Who wrote that rule?

 

Until you become unified

within yourself,

there will be no real unity

in the world.

 

The world is as you are, beloved.

 

It can be no other way.

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Prayer For The Day

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Today I choose to walk in trust,

knowing that all things

are unfolding exactly

as they should.

 

Amen

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