Thought For The Day

​

I need do nothing means

to allow your experience

to be as it is.

 

And if you cannot accept,

if you cannot allow, can you

accept that as a valid expression

of life too?

 

It's about ending the violence

and self-abandonment

that you have parcticed

and directed toward yourself

all of your life because you

did not like or approve of

what is.

 

It means to stop

making your experience wrong

and constantly trying

to change it.

 

It is to say with your whole being,

everything is deeply welcome

here.

 

***

​

Prayer For The Day

 

Thank you for the absurdity

and sanctity that is my life.

 

Grace, rain upon me,

that I may receive it all

​with an open heart.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

It is because you have never ever

truly honored yourself that

you have never truly honored

or respected anyone or anything

else in your life.

 

You have always had

a personal agenda operating

behind the scenes.

 

What's in it for me?

 

What about me?

 

Narcissistic & self-absorbed.

Most certainly.

 

But honoring, respectful,

loving and kind?

 

Not really.

 

Not for a single instant.

 

These are difficult facts

to swallow.

 

Are you willing to look at this?

 

Are you ready to be honest

with yourself?

 

Perhaps today could be Day #1

in turning this around?

 

What do you think?

 

Better, yet, what do you feel?

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Light streaming though this character

no matter what.

 

But one way of living always ends up

in pain and disappointment.

 

While the other is blessed

with freedom and kindness.

 

I know which one I choose.

 

Show me the simpler gentler way.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Wisdom is not knowing,

and knowing that you

do not know, and being

perfectly okay with that.

​

Prayer For The Day

​

It is overwhelming, frightening

and painful living under the burden

of stress and strain which one

unavoidably feels when

one is arrogant enough to believe

that so much in this life

depends upon 'me.'

 

It is a blessed relief knowing

that in the end, absolutely nothing

depends on me.

 

I am responsible for myself

and that is where the line is drawn.

 

The End.

 

Today I place total faith

in the One Life

which is lovingly living

each and every one of us.

 

Thank you for setting me free

of the delusion of 'me.'.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

There is no difference between

the version of your life

that you are now living

and the life that God

has chosen for you.

 

Thus, to oppose

what is happening

is futile.

 

And this is why

the state of peace

eludes you.

 

But the complete acceptance

of this truth hallmarks

not just the end of resistance,

the battle that you wage

with yourself and life, 

it actually opens the door

to the awarness of

the state of boundless

changeless infinite peace

which is your natural state.

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I choose every bit

of my life

exactly as it is.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

If there isn't freedom in it,

if there isn't joy in it,

if you do not experience

an unchallenged acceptance

of what is, then you

can be certain that

you have personalized

something and listened

to the meaning-making

machine between your ears.

 

But this need not be.

 

It's a choice which

you have made, my dear.

 

Be free or be a slave

for the rest of your life.

 

It really is up to you.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Again and again and again

I see that I am the cause

of my own suffering.

 

Help me learn to love myself

enough to just knock it off.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

No mistakes have ever

been made in God.

 

No mistakes could

or ever will.

 

So disregard any voice

which seeks to tell you

differently, including

your own.

 

Because I see you,

I really and truly see you,

once more, I know you

and you are beautiful

exactly as you are.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me lay down

the weapon of judgment

today.

 

It is so unfair and cruel.

 

And help me see the beauty

in myself and my world

today.

 

Help me look with

kind eyes which are capable

of touching every point

of despair and bring

the gentle balm

of love to every one

who hurts.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

 

If you are the parent

of an infant and you hear

it crying in its crib

in obvious distress

do you:

 

(a) Pretend that you do

not hear it.

 

(b) Distract and busy yourself

so the annoyance will no longer

disturb you.

 

(c) Grab a drink, take a pill,

turn the volume up

on the television, grab

the potato chips,

medicating your unhappiness

so the disturbance goes away.

 

(d) Go and pick the baby up,

sooth him and comfort him,

reassuring this precious

little being that it is adored,

it is safe and it is loved by you.

 

Question #2.

 

If you are a mature adult

and suddenly you find yourself

in the position of having

to care for an elderly parent

or relative whose mind and body

no longer work like they

once did, and you see them

wandering aimlessly about,

confused, upset and

obviously lost, alone

and afraid, do you:

 

(a) Ignore them.

 

(b) Distract yourself by

doing something else

that is 'more important'

to soothe your own furry---

because you are sick

and tired of being bothered,

feeling that your life is being

unfairly impinged upon.

 

(c) Leave them to their

own demise.

 

(d) Go to them, speak lovingly

to them, reassure them

that they are going to be okay,

that you are here for them

and will stay with them

until their world feels

safe again.

 

Bonus round questions:

 

Then why can you not

be there for you?

 

Why can't your embrace

your emotions and feelings?

 

Why are you unable to comfort

the mind when it is disturbed?

 

When pain or illness

rises in the body, why can

you not provide it with some

tender loving care?

 

Why is it so difficult

for you to see that

it is the peace within you,

your natural state,

that is the only constant.

 

That it is this peace

which is upholding

each of your human

experiences?

 

That peace sustains

our precious human life?

 

And that maybe...just maybe...

in the end... this

is the very reason

that we are here

in the first place.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Thank you for my life

and for helping me see

that every experience

is a doorway---an opportunity

to love myself even more

because I get it.

 

How I treat myself

is how I will inevitably

treat my world.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Nothing means anything about you.

 

This cannot be repeated 

often enough.

 

When upset, off the beam

and in the weeds,

hit your pause button.

 

Close your eyes.

 

Shake it off.

 

Return to your breath.

 

Feel the return of flow

even in the midst of

what you are experiencing.

 

Is it really about feeling

what is there to feel,

or are the feelings merely

an effect?

 

Is not the cause the simple fact

that you have made this

mean something about you

when clearly it does not

and can not affect the truth

of you in any way whatsoever?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

This mind is a meaning-making

machine, a saboteur of happiness,

of peace, of freedom and of

a life which isl hallmarked

by the state of grace & ease.

 

Help me as I strive

to wear my life

like a loose garment

today.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

It is inclusivity that liberates,

not your exclusion of

any part of what is.

 

What would happen today

if just for once, you were

to accept and embrace

everything as it unfolds

exactly as it is, trusting

that if this is what is happening,

this is what is supposed

to be happening?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I can see clearly now

that judgment is the favored tool

of misery.

 

How can I honestly believe

that I know better than God?

 

Help me see the amazing

freedom that is born

of loving acceptance,

and that this freedom

is actually the doorway

to the peace which passes

all human comprehension.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

This is what you must get through

your head, and the sooner you

can accept it, the sooner you will

experience a peace which never

changes.

 

Nothing in your mind is wrong,

nor does it need to change.

 

Nothing which you feel is wrong,

nor does it need to change.

 

Nothing that is happening

in your body, its size, appearance

pain or discomfort, illness or disease

is wrong, nor does it need to change.

 

Nothing that is happening in your life

is wrong, nor does it need to change.

 

And if this is true for you,

and indeed it is, then it is true

for everyone.

 

So nothing that is happening

in the world is wrong,

nor does it need to change.

 

What would happen today

if, each time you were placed

in a position where you

had to make a decision,

you were to accept that you

could not mess it up

no matter what?

 

There is One Will and that is

God's Will; unchanged,

unchanging, unchangeable.

 

That does not mean you have to

like it, it does not need your

personal seal of approval,

nor does it mean that

this is how you think

things should be, but it does

mean that you have to accept it,

get over yourself, trust that

tthis is what you signed up for

and move on.

 

And you know what?

 

Eventually, every single person

on this planet will eventually arrive

at this place which is summed

up best by the abbreviation

of the first three steps

in Alcoholics Anonymous:

 

I can't.

He can.

So I think I will let him.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

When I trust

in the perfect unfolding

of my life and that of

everyone else's,

my efforts die.

 

And when my efforts die,

no life but HIS continues

in this frame He made.

 

Thank you for teaching me

what true freedom is

really all about.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

There is absolutely

no correlation between

anything that is happening

at the level of your humanity

and that of your soul,

or divinity.

 

So if there is no correlation

between these, what is the

purpose of a human life?

 

Your humanity is simply

the vehicle through which

the Creator of all life

may uniquely express itself;

making Itself both known

and accessible in this world.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Thank you for living me.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Nothing is ever personal

and nothing ever means

anything about you,

even when it is

directed toward you

personally.

 

The person who accuses

another of anything

is really revealing

volumes about

their own relationship

with themselves.

 

They are proclaiming,

"This is what I struggle

most with but cannot

be honest enough

with myself to allow

myself to see it."

 

A truly great being

is known to have said,

"Projection makes perception."

 

And egos find it much easier

to blame someone else

rather than to be honest

with themselves about

their own inner experience

of life.

 

This is why our world

is so polarized right now.

 

It is so much easier to blame

and accuse than it is

to stay in your own lane

and inquire within.

 

Who are they trying

so hard to protect?

 

What needs protection?

 

Certainly not the soul!

 

So have compassion

for those who are in pain

and who carry

the burden of blindness.

 

They are very sick

and just don't realize it.

 

They deserve our kindness

and our patience, not

our judgment of them

or our ire.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

That same wise man

who said "Projection

makes perception" was

also known to have said,

"Father forgive them,

for they know not

what they do."

 

May I too live

so humbly & lovingly.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Never mistake a peak experience

for your natural state,

they are not the same.

 

You have been waiting for

some mind blowing

transcendent experience

to happen to you which

would be so powerful

that it is capable of

tilting the earth

on its axis.

 

However much something

like that is sought,

is not sustainable,

nor is it even remotely

realistic.

 

Your natural state

has always been here,

closer than your breath,

nearer to you than the beat

of your own precious heart.

 

What you have been

looking for is what

you have been looking from.

 

The natural state is one of peace,

an inner calm which withstands

the vicissitudes of life.

 

Like a still forest pool,

your peace is a tranquil presence

which has never left you.

 

Thoughts still happen.

Feelings still arise.

The body still goes

through things, and life

still kepps on happening 

as well.

 

But what happens 

no longer matters.

 

There is trust in the perfection

of your life.

 

For you understand that

this peace is sustaining

all things, ever reassuring

you that all is always well

no matter what.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Human beings are so addicted

to excitement and drama

that they look for it 

in their spiritual lives as well.

 

But why not experience

a life which is a non-event?

 

Why does it take more

than unshakable peace,

an inner tranquility

to be happy and fulfilled?

 

Calm is sustainable.

 

Thank you for helping me

see that today and treasuring

the value of an undisturbed

inner world.

 

For I would be

a humble candle

that does not flicker

in the wind.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Your life, be what it may,

has absolutely nothing

to do with you.

 

You are the Infinite, Eternal,

Immortal Self

and it is always present

and accessible to you

in the midst of your humanity.

 

It has never been influenced

or impacted by your

human experience

at any time in any way

whatsoever.

 

You are sovereign

and you are free now.​

 

You always have been.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Thank you

for the boundless clarity

of Clear Seeing.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

What does it actually feel like

to truly accept something?

 

It means to align yourself

so completely with the isness

of what is, be it something

which is arising inside of you

or something which is

happening outside---

that we actually allow

the experience to merge

with our hearts.

 

This is the solution

we have the opportunity

to bring to the world

instead of just being

another cog in the wheel;

a part of the clammer,

the hustle and bustle

the cacophony of chaos

and endless noise

that is our present day

world.

 

God did not make a mistake

when He made you the way

that you are, and He did not

make a mistake when He made

everyone and everything

else the way that they are,

the way that it is, either.

 

This is the gentle and loving

path of least resistance.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Support me today

in making every precious

moment of my life

a complete acceptance

of what is.

 

Instead of trying

to change things,

I choose to accept

everything as it unfolds,

trusting the hand

which lovingly holds

us all.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Immaculate freedom

is a changeless state

which naturally arises

when you finally recognize

that you are beyond

both praise and blame

and you need absolutely

nothing from anyone else

and that no one actually

needs anything from you

in return either.

 

This is to be an true instrument,

a hollow flute which consciously

plays the Lord's Song in

scintillating clarity asking for

and expecting nothing

in return.

 

Here is one who is

a unmistakable & profound

GIFT to this world.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

May this life be

such a GIFT.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Do you realize what

a profound miracle

every instant of your life

actually is, regardless

the experience

you are having?

 

I'll bet there are thousands

of souls who were alive

last night when they

went to bed who did not

get to awaken as did you

this morning.

 

Further, I would venture

to guess that each

and every one of them

would jump at the chance

to trade places with you,

regardless what you life

happens to look like,

if given the chance

which you have been

so generously given.

 

Each moment today

is a never to be repeated

GIFT.

 

See it as such, and then

when you lay your head down

on your pillow tonight,

you evaluate the experience

which was yours to live

this glorious gift of a day.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I am alive.

 

I have been given

this day in which to live.

 

Let me treat each instant

as sacred, apprecieating

the miracle for what it is.

 

I thank you

for this GIFT.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Let everything you feel,

everything you think,

everything you say

and everything you do

be a reflection of the peace

that is your natural state

and you will experience

a happy, conflict-free life.

 

Will stuff still happen in your life

and in the lives of those

whom you love?

 

Of course!

 

Life is life.

 

But you will have

an ever deepening trust

that all things are always

unfolding according to plan

and whatever happens,

you have what it takes

to get through it

and you know that

you are not alone.

 

You feel the communion

of the Absolute

lovingly carrying you

and supporting you

in all things.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I am done with living

a stress filled life.

 

I choose to live in

complete harmony

with my innermost

being.

 

Dearest Universe,

please support my

decision and help

me live in soul-full

Union with the Cosmic

Heartbeat, the music

of the spheres.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You do not actually need to know

or understand anything.

 

The part of you that wants to know,

to understand, never will.

 

And the part of you that is real

actually already knows

and understands everything.

 

So the only thing that is helpful,

though most surely not required,

is trust in the inherent perfection

of the unfolding of all things.

 

For there is an Intelligence

in charge that is infinitely

more wise and loving

than the personal you or I.

 

It makes all the difference

in the world between 

whether or not

your experience is one

of suffering or of peace.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Today I lay all effort down

and choose to rest in God.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Insecurity, uncertainty, as well as

thoughts and emotions 

that are highly charged are 

a symptom, a signpost,

which are telling you that

you are no longer aligned.

 

You have become identified

with the character you have been

playing in this life and have

forgotten that you are the light.

 

Realign yourself with the light

within and you will feel

your discomfort begin to dissolve

in the light of your awareness.

 

Persona....

Light...

Persona...

Light...

 

Can the decision be difficult

when peace is your natural state?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me remember

that there is no such thing

as a state which is not free,

but to feel the freedom

I forever am, I must

remain aligned within.

 

Light, light and only light!!!

 

Help me with my practice

today.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Is it not a peaceful thought,

a loving thought, a comforting

thought that the same power

that makes the sun shine,

the rain fall, the flowers bloom

and the trees grow is quietly,

gently and lovingly living you

each and every day?

 

I remind each of you

of a teaching from

the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra

which says:

 

If there is something you can do

about it, why worry?

 

If there is nothing you can do

about it, why worry?

 

And the saying from the Upanishads

which says:

 

Whatever is the will of God

is destined to happen.

 

And whatever is not the will of God

is destined to never happen.

 

Between these two opposites,

we are the architects

of our own destiny.

 

But what lies between

the will of God and what is

not the will of God?

 

Absolutely nothing, my dear.

 

So you might as well lean back

and enjoy the ride.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I am weary, Lord.

 

It feels as though

I have lived most of this life

like a deer caught in headlights.

 

Humbly I offer this heart

to you in the certain knowledge

that it has been you

who has been living me

all along.

 

Today I consciously choose

to let go and let God.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Whenever you are attached

to any particular outcome,

you are asserting that

you believe that your way

is superior to God's.

 

Thus your way is a condition

you have place on LOVE

when LOVE has none.

 

You are proclaiming that

LOVE is unable to demonstrate

itself fully unless things flow

in the way that

you think they should.

 

This is a rather arrogant assumption

on your part would you not think?

 

Who died and left you

boss of everyone

and everything?

 

Huh?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Every time I feel myself

trying to control life today,

help me step back, relax,

breathe and trust that

everything is unfolding

exactly as it should.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

No part of your life, no part

of your experience

is a limitation of any kind.

 

Do you see a problem?

 

Or do you see an opportunity?

 

It really is up to you.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me remember today

that I could just trust

that life is on my side.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You would do well to remember

that people will always treat you

the way that they treat themselves.

 

And because people are so rarely

kind, gentle or loving

with themselves, is it really

a surprise to you

when others behave in ways

unseemly and disrespectful?

 

If they do not respect themselves,

how do you expect them

to be able to respect you?

 

An unconscious inner world

is the causative agent

in an unconscious

and conflicted life.

 

It's never personal.

 

And you are never obliged

to put up with anything

which is neither loving

or respectful.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me practice the Golden Rule

in all my relationships today,

especially the relationship

I am cultivating with myself.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

You would do well to remember

that people will always treat you

the way that they treat themselves.

 

And because people are so rarely

kind, gentle or loving

with themselves, is it really

a surprise to you

when others behave in ways

unseemly and disrespectful?

 

If they do not respect themselves,

how do you expect them

to be able to respect you?

 

An unconscious inner world

is the causative agent

in an unconscious

and conflicted life.

 

It's never personal.

 

And you are never obliged

to put up with anything

which is neither loving

or respectful.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me practice the Golden Rule

in all my relationships today,

especially the relationship

I am cultivating with myself.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Sunday is practice day.

 

Every opportunity

you get today

to hit your pause button,

close your eyes

for a few moments

and watch your breath,

jump on it and repeat

the following:

 

There is nothing wrong

with me.

 

There is nothing wrong

with my life.

 

I am on my soul's journey

and everything is unfolding

according to plan

even if I do not understand it.

 

I am not asked to like it

but I am asked to accept it

and trust.

 

Then feel yourself

as you sink deeply

into the isness

​of what is unfolding.

 

Soften.

 

Lean in.

 

Open more. Trust.

 

And embrace yourself.

 

You are so worthy

of your own gentleness

and loving-kindness.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me open my arms,

my heart, my innermost being

and the details of my life

as it unfolds

to the ever present

flow of grace.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Suffering is not

a shared experience.

 

As much as you believe that

suffering can be shared,

it cannot be.

 

You cannot share an illusion.

 

Only truth is a shared

experience.

 

And what is the truth?

 

Only love is real.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

May I never forget

the truth of love.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Here is the plain, simple

and unvarnished truth.

 

Anything that you believe

needs to be different, no

exceptions...whether it is

something about you,

something you perceive

in another or something

which is happening or

not happening in the world,

is a condition which you

have placed upon LOVE.

 

But my dear,

LOVE has no conditions.

 

And this is how you create

suffering for yourself.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Expectations most certainly are

premeditated resentments.

 

What is an upset?

 

I-set-myself-up.

 

No one and no thing

can do this to me but me.

 

Help me remember today

that love has no conditions

and when I feel myself

exhibiting skin in the game

to step back, breathe,

and let love lead my way.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

No part of your life

is personal.

 

You are simply being

moved around

on the game board

of life.

 

And your purpose

in this world?

 

It is to be useful,

my dear.

 

Your life, exactly as it is,

is a light delivery

mechanism.

 

And everything about you

and your life is helpful,

as you remain Conscious

throughout the flotsam

and jetsam that is your life.

 

There is no need

to make something

this simple and straight

forward complicated.

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Prayer For The Day

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Truth is hallmarked

by simplicity

and gentleness.

 

May I never forget that.

 

Amen

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Thought For The Day

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The perennial question

which life keeps asking us

in each and every moment

of our lives is but this:

 

Are you going to allow this

to stop you?

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Prayer For The Day

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Father, I feel such gratitude

for my earthly father today.

 

Will you please shower him with

an extra sprinkle of fairy dust

today, aka grace?

 

For it was him who taught me

that if you fall down, you get

right back up and begin again,

our inner eye always pointing

to True North.

 

Amen

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Thought For The Day

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Needing the approval of others

is one of the biggest hurdles

we can ever hope to transcend

in this life.

 

To show the world

who you truly are

and not what you think

they want to see from you

is not only brave,

it is proof positive

that you are not

just another sheep.

 

And it is a sign

that you live your life

from the heart.

 

Remember, when people

resist the message,

when they resist you,

it has nothing to do with you.​

 

They are actually 

demonstrating how

they treat themselves!

 

And this is what I have

learned in this life:

 

When you love and accept

yourself, it gives you

full immunity to the judgments

and criticism of others.

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Prayer For The Day

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Help me see clearly today

that how people treat me

is a demonstration of how

they treat themselves

and not personalize it.

 

Help me remember

it is my own approval

and no one else's

I seek.

 

And if I manage to do that

today, I am free.

 

Amen

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