Thought For The Day

​

Q: If you are not actually confined

to a body, nor the mind or emotions,

if none of these are representative

of who or what you are, then what

does it matter what this vehicle

which you have oddly mistaken

to be you experiences from

this moment going forward?

 

Your human life is not a problem

for you to figure out or resolve.

 

You are not here to fix or change it

in any way whatsoever.

 

You are not broken or

somehow lacking

 

The vehicle is here for you

to experience, so that the light

may be made manifest in this world

through those very experiences.

​

***

 

Prayer for the Day

​

Let me consciously flow

with the movement

which is this human experience

in synchronous harmony,.

 

May I merge

with each experience

through love.

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

For over 40 years now

I have been teaching folks

about shenpa.

 

Shenpa is a Tibetan word

which means to "bite the hook."

 

Just like a fish bites the hook

when he gets distracted

by the presence of a big, fat,

juicy worm, what is it that

entices you to bite the hook

and leave the awareness of

the peace which you forever are

in the rearview mirror?

 

Is it emotions/feelings?

 

Is it your thoughts?

 

Is it the idea of wrong

or blame?

 

Perhaps something

which is happening

in the body?

 

Is it your relationships?

 

Or is it something which is

happening in the world?

 

What is so tempting to you

that you are willing to sacrifice

your awareness of peace

in order to pursue the belief

that you are right?

 

A Course In Miracles asks us

this precise question.

 

Do you want to be right,

or do you want to be happy?

 

You do not get both.

 

To get on the horse,

to hop on that elevator,

you have to make the decision

to leave your peace.

 

And you know what?

 

After awhile, you begin

to ask yourself, "What is worth

the price of my peace?

 

And when you real eyes

that absolutely nothing is,

the gig is up and you

are undeniably

and irrevocably free.

​

***

 

Prayer for the Day

​

Nothing of this mind,

nothing of this body

and nothing of this world

is worth the price

of peace.

 

May this be the North Star

which I follow.

 

Not by might, nor by fright,

but because PEACE

is all I truly want.

 

This and only this

from here on out.

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

Every expectation..

 

Every projection

of wrong or blame...

 

Is about something

which you have not

given yourself permission

to find within yourself.

 

In other words, only what you

have failed to give yourself

can be said to be wrong

or lacking in any encounter

or situation.

​

***

 

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me remain

on my side of the street

today, holding space

for myself in humble

recognition that I have

to be at peace within me

to be able to offer peace

to the world.

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

(Dedicated to Amma

in honor of her 70th birthday

today.)

 

Everything, without exception,

in all of Creation loves you.

 

Everything, without exception,

in all of Creation exists

to support you.

 

Everything that constitutes life

is on your side.

 

And the light which you seek

already abides within you,

and it does so for each

and every one of us.

 

This light has always has been

within you and nothing

can ever snuff it out.

 

No one has or ever could be

disconnected from the light.

 

You do not need to earn it,

you do not need to deserve it,

you do not need to fight for it,

and you do not need to believe

in it for it to be there.

 

You do, however, have to

be willing to open your heart

to it if you wish to

experience it

directly.

 

What do you think

would happen

in the world today

if each and every one of us

were to open our hearts

for just one instant

to the presence of this

inner light?

​

***

 

Prayer for the Day

​

Namaste, dear earth,

namaste.

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

Who do you believe

is working against you?

 

Who is holding you back?

 

Who is not on your side,

not supporting you?

 

Who is a constant roadblock

to the flow you wish

to see happen?

 

Who or what is to blame

for what is happening

or not happening

in your world?

 

This is the extent to which

you are still playing

the victim card

and do not believe that

you are always on your soul's

perfect journey for you.

​

***

 

Prayer for the Day

​

Today I take 100% responsibility

and accountability

for my experience

of my life.

 

This is my life, my design,

the life that I, and I alone,

can live as only I

can live it.

 

This is the practice,

simple, though not

necessarily easy.

 

So I pray for GRACE

to help me be consistent

today and practice

with true inclusion,

acceptance and devotion.

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

Do you realize that

there is no one

on this entire planet

who is either capable

or equipped to live

your life but you?

 

You are uniquely qualified

to fully be you and do you

as no one else can.

 

Therefore, run toward

the life that is yours

to live today

with arms outstretched

and a heart as wide

as the world.

 

You've got this.

​

***

 

Prayer for the Day

​

I give thanks

for the life

which is mine

to live today.

 

All is welcome here.

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

Open to what is alive in you

in this moment.

 

Are there thoughts, feelings,

sensations?

 

What do you hear?

 

Can you feel your heart beat,

the gentle rise and fall

of the breath?

 

In moving into the depths

of our experience,

we slow down.

 

We come HOME ro ourselves.

 

We bring our attention back

to what is happening

now.

 

We become childlike;

diving into our experience

with a sense of awe

and wonder.

 

This moment is precious.

 

This moment is life

and we are alive.

 

This moment is

a never to be repeated

GIFT.

​

***

 

Prayer for the Day

​

I give thanks for the gift

of life.

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

You do not listen to these thoughts

each and every day, year after year

because you are somehow deficient,

because there is something which is

missing or lacking in you.

 

You listen each day and do so

lovingly because in the hearing

of this daily message, you are

becoming increasingly

more empowered in yourself;

you are becoming deeply

heart-centered & spacious

in the astonishing recognition

that in the end, you are the only

authority in what it means

to be you--- in a world that has

entirely forgotten how it feels

to be unequivocally free.

​

***

 

Prayer for the Day

​

Today I march to the beat

of my own inner drummer.

 

I'm doin' it my way.

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

Aren't you sick and tired

of not being able to trust

either yourself or God,

knowing that everything

that happens in your life

today and every day

is of your own design

and therefore, you

are living the exact life

that you were born to live

as only you can do?

 

It is a profoundly exhausting,

unsettling & unrewarding life

to spend the entirety of it

tilting at windmills.

 

***

 

Prayer for the Day

​

Father, I thank you

that my heart now rests

in the certain knowledge

that I am fully equipped

and capable of living

my life, no matter

what happens....

 

I am no longer afraid

or concerned about

any of it.

 

I am on my soul's journey.

 

And that makes it 100%

A-okay with me.

 

I trust myself.

and I trust you,

knowing that it is

all the same thing.

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

Recently I found myself

swept up in the whirlwind

of trying to live in harmony

with someone else's life.

 

I had a noble enough intent

for trying to do so,

wanting to help two folks

I love more than words

could ever express.

 

And I found myself so overwhelmed,

fatigued and stressed out.

 

My life slid out of my awareness

as I tried to merge myself

into theirs.

 

Upon quiet introspection

I was finally able to articulate

what was happening

in my inner world.

 

And you know what?

 

I have discovered after nearly

70 years on this planet

that stress and overwhelm

depend upon one or more

of three things:

 

(1)

 

You believe that things

could be different, what is

happening could be different,

you could be different.

 

(2)

 

You believe that things should be

different, that you should be different

and so you live in a state of resistance

to what is, trying to manipulate

and control things that are not yours

to try to change.

 

They are yours to experience.

 

(3)

 

Finally, you do not believe

that you were perfectly created

to live your life and that there

is no one on this planet

more suited to do so than you.

 

You were not created to perfectly

to live someone else's life

either for them or with them,

no matter how much you may

wish that you could provide

help in this way.

 

So what was my final

ahha moment in all of this?

 

I have learned that when

one becomes fully empowered

in themselves, fully empowered

to live all of their life 

as only they can live it,

they are undeniably

and irrevocably free.

 

For it is only here

that fear, in its entirety, becomes

a thing of the past.

 

***

 

Prayer for the Day

​

I trust myself

and I trust the life

which is mine to live.

 

My hoola hoop, baby,

my hoola hoop today

and every day from here

on out.

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

You are beautiful.

 

Your humanity is in no way

getting in the way of

or limiting the love, light

and presence that

you came here to be.

 

Love and accept yourself

and your human experience,

because until you accept

the reality of it, you are

not free of it.

 

The only meaningful question

which then remains is, "Am I

allowing this to unfold

consciously or unconsciously

as I live the life which is

mine to experience?"

 

Never ever forget, my child,

that what is happening

is going to happen,

no matter what,

 

This is about your journey,

what we refer to as destiny.

 

***

 

Prayer for the Day

​

Let me not forget

that radical acceptance

is the key to freedom.

 

I claim it now.

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

You are beautiful.

 

You are precious.

 

You are cherished.

 

You are worthy.

 

You have value.

 

You are loved.

 

You are smart.

 

You have everything

going for you.

 

So put your weapons down,

the battle's over.

 

Let your beautiful golden heart

come home and rest.

 

***

 

Prayer for the Day

​

Like water mixed with water,

inseparably mixed,

where do you end, O God,

and I begin?

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

Only you can decide

to get off of that hamster wheel

you have been living on.

 

Wake up.

 

Go through the motions.

 

Go to bed.

 

Repeat.

 

Day after tedious day

ad nauseum.

 

If you are feeling restless,

irritable and discontent,

perhaps the universe

has been trying to get

your attention.

 

And following the

very sage wisdom of

Kenny Rogers in The Gambler,

 

"You've got to know when to hold 'em

Know when to fold 'em

Know when to walk away

And know when to run."

 

***

 

Prayer for the Day

​

I may not know

where this path may lead me,

but I do know that

it is getting very real

very fast.

Help me be brave today
and every day
from here on out.

 

I choose a conscious life.
 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

In the end,

the only thing that remains

is the love you have shared.

 

All else is impermanent

and will one day come to an end,

slipping through your fingers

likes grains of sand.

 

***

 

Prayer for the Day

 

Thank you for planting

so much love in this heart

that it completely embraces

and fills the world.

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

To what are you

really and truly committed?

 

Are you committed

to being a perpetual victim?

 

Or are you committed

to your freedom?

 

You cannot be committed

to both.

 

Freedom is a choice.

 

It is a moment-by-moment

choice.

 

It is the choice to no longer be

governed by the past, to no longer be

governed by your story, to no longer be

governed by your current experience,

to no longer fan the flame

of victim consciousness,

realizing that whenever I resist

anything, I am playing

the victim card.

 

I will resist no person, no experience,

or myself ever again.

 

I take responsibility

and accountability for the life

which is mine to live.

 

Today I accept the totality

of all of my life, all of my experience,

realizing that this is the life which

I chose to experience.

 

It is my creation.

 

It is my design, my dream,

which I dreamed before

time began.

 

So I accept it all. I embrace it fully

and I lay the weapons down

which I have used to wage war

against myself and life

once and for all.

 

And by consciously opening myself

to receiving all of it, as it is,

I open that possibility up for

all living beings everywhere

and throughout all time

to do likewise.

 

***

 

Prayer for the Day

 

Today I accept that I am

the medicine for which

the world waits.

 

And that medicine comes

to all beings everywhere

through the form

of my acceptance

of all of my life.

 

Help me complete

this great work in this lifetime

by accepting all of my life,

exactly as it is, realizing

that I am inextricably joined

with all.

 

This is what I choose to do

for the sake of all of us.

 

And so it is.

 

Amen

​

***

​

Thought For The Day

​

Where there is a need of any kind,

regardless the size of that need,

there is pain which has not

been addressed with loving

inclusivity.

 

Where there is complete alignment

with what is playing out in your life

in recognition that you are always

on the soul's perfect journey for you,

there is trust and unshakable peace.

 

For here is true power unleashed,

the power which is contained within

the statement which says,

"I need do nothing."​

 

Could truth be expressed

any more clearly than this?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Open arms.

 

Open heart.

 

Embracing and trusting

what is as it is.

 

Knowing I need do nothing.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Nothing that you feel,

nothing that you think,

nothing that happens

at the level of the mind,

nothing that happens

on the level of the body,

nor anything that happens

in your life itself is capable

of altering or interfering

with the soul's perfect

destiny for you.

 

What is meant to happen

is going to happen.

 

What does not happen

was never meant to.

 

You are meant to experience it,

​my dear, not try to change it.​

 

Thus total radical acceptance

is the deepest form

of liberation one can realize

in the course of a human

lifetime.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

With heartfelt humility

I bow before this life

which is mine to live.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Beloved child....

 

You are not a problem.

 

You are the Answer.

 

You are the medicine

for which this world cries.

 

It is time to take a step back,

take back your power

and trust yourself.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me take frequent

breaks to pause today.

 

Let me close my eyes,

if only for a few moments,

breathe and connect

to the light within.

 

And above all, let

me not forget to trust.

 

Everything is unfolding

exactly as it should

and all is always well....

no matter what...

...even when doubts arise

and fear rises, telling me,

"I've got to fix this,

I've got to change this,

I've got to try something

different."

 

And let me step back,

breathe and remind myself

lovingly, "Even still,

I choose to trust."

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Recently I had someone

share that they were experiencing

an urge to go do something new,

try something different, that

they were feeling an itch

to try something else.

 

Maybe another path, another teacher,

another teaching would do it.

 

They were experiencing

a internal sense of lack,

something was missing,

and consequently they felt

that one more thing

might just do the trick

and fill the gaping whole

they felt inside.

 

But I tell you this:

 

Wherever there is a need,

there is a pain that you are

trying to run away from.

 

And the so-called answer

which you find will never

come from outside.

 

And why is this?

 

Because whatever fleeting sense

of relief, whatever answer comes,

will be built on a foundation

of unresolved, un-looked-at,

unaddressed, unfelt and un-owned

pain which you are actively

trying to conceal from

yourself.

 

How could that ever be

sustainable when it is

a house of cards

built on a foundation of lies?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Time to stop running away

from me.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

In this world, value is best defined

for each and every one of us

by time.

 

It's not how much money you have,

where you live or work, nor

the circles in which you travel.

 

Time is the one thing which

we may never get back, the one thing

we each have in equal measure

every single day that we are here.

 

It is thus a most precious

commodity.

 

It passes so quickly,

and before you know it,

a human life is done

and over with.

 

Because of this, the use

of your time truly matters/

 

Each moment is

an unrepeatable gift.

 

There are no refunds, no

do-overs or bogo offers.

 

You get today, if you are

fortunate enough to be

reading this, just today,

no promises or garuntees

offered you beyond

the scope of that.

 

What will you spend

your time on today

and who will you

spend your time with?

 

Make it mean something

to you.

 

This day deserves all the passion,

the joy, luminescence

and tenderness that you have

to consciously offer it.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

May today be

my love offering

from God to God.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Freedom, peace and joy

are the natural effects of having

an inclusive relationship with life,

of no longer participating in

a codependent relationship

with yourself.

 

While misery, unhappiness,

bondage and drama

are the effects of trying to fix,

change, heal or improve

your experience.

 

This is the rather weighty

difference between a life of

acceptance or that of resistance.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Grant me courage

to stop running away

from me.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Which are you invested in?

 

Creating the happy dream

or liberation from the dream?

 

Be completely honest

with yourself.

 

Remember that the ism

in any addiction

stand for "I sponsor myself."

 

Don't get to the end of

your precious human life

only to find that

a significance driven life

has not, will not and can not

bring you peace,

nor can it free you

from the bondage of self.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

The singular thing

that all my struggles

have in common

is 'me.'

 

Free me

from the bondage

of identification with

the personal identity.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

In the end you will inevitably see

that resistance is the only thing

which keeps the ego,

or separated self intact.

 

 

It keeps the created self

in control of your human

experience.

 

Resistance, then, represents

the difference between living

a conscious and an unconscious

life, for a conscious life

has no resistance.

 

The very instant you are able

to step back and see it,

that you recognize clearly

what is happening, and you

are able to soften around what is,

you are bringing the lamp

of awareness or Consciousness

to the unconscious things

which do not meet your approval

and therefore do not accept

or trust.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Every instant of my life

is a opportunity

to practice trust.

 

Help me relax into

the isness of my life today

in recognition that

everything is always

in divine order.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

We begin with an assignment.

 

It will challenge everything

you have ever believed,

every way in which

you have ever sought

to live your life

thus far.

 

Today we accept that 100%

of life, as it has moved through you,

has been 100% neutral

and has not nor could it

ever have an opposite,

an alternative.

 

Any other meaning

and any other experience,

has been entirely of

your own making.

 

Consciously see this today

and see how many times

you can catch the thread

of the meaning-making machine

between your own ears,

registering the mind's

perturbantions & discontent

with what is.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

I spy with my little "i"

that I am the source

of my own suffering.

 

Thank God,

I am finally done

with that.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

So you don't know God

or your soul or Self.

 

So a lot of the time

you feel like a deer

in headlights and know that

you don't know the right thing

to think, say or do.

 

So you don't believe

that you are on your soul's journey

and that you cannot mess it up.

 

So you don't believe that

life has got your six

and is always in all ways

on your side.

 

The question, is,

would you like to?

 

Would you like to feel

the truth of this

all the way in your bones

each and every day

for the rest of your life?

 

If the answer is 'yes,'

and you take a teeny tiny

leap of faith, I can show you

the way.

 

Just follow the bread crumbs.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

White flag waving.

 

Show me the way.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

If you cannot accept life as it is,

then the following three things

are true about you:

 

(1) You live your life

from a fear-based thought system.

 

(2) You do not know yourself,

which means you do not know

God.

 

(3) You do not believe that

you are always on

your soul's journey, that you

cannot mess it up. and that life

is always on your side.

 

The egoic mind does not wish

to hear this, let alone accept

it as the truth, but to that which

is the truth in you, it is

​more than welcome news.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Above all else I want to see.

 

Show me the way.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Has it finally dawned upon you

how absolutely fruitless it is

to want something other than

what is?

 

Have your recognized

what a colossal waste

of your time, effort

and life force?

 

Relax.

 

You are a passenger

on the journey we call life,

not the Captain---no matter

how much you wish

that it were otherwise.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Kicking, flailing and screaming

or riding with the tide

and going with the flow.

 

One way spells misery,

while the other peace.

 

I think i'll take door

#2.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

Conscience is the heart's reflection.

 

It follows you like your shadow,

informing you constantly

whether you are in alignment

with your experience, offering

what is your loving acceptance,

or if you are in resistance

to the very isness of the life

which is yours to live.

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Today I embrace myself.

 

Today I embrace my life.

 

Not just some of it,

but all of it.

 

Today I stay in my own hoola hoop

and recognize that what others do

or do not do is their business,

and none of mine.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

How deeply do you actually

inhabit the moments of your life?

​

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

Help me as I strive to open myself

in complete acceptance

to every single instant

of my life today.

 

Amen

​

***

Thought For The Day

​

The seeking mind...

 

The addictive mind...

 

(Which is every ego btw...)

 

These parts of the mind

are not wrong.

 

They are only trying

to protect you,

to keep me safe. 

 

But empowering them

is a constant source

of distraction, a detour

into misery.

 

What you really want

(because I know you),

is just to experience

this unique moment...

and everything it containes..

to be lovingly held by life. 

 

Never fight

with your experience. 

 

Open those sweet arms

of yours to all of it,

even when it is uncomfortable.

 

I promise you that

in doing so, you

will give birth

to yourself.

 

 

***

​

Prayer For The Day

​

With humbleness of heart

I give welcome to all

of my life.

 

Help me as I dare to receive

each and every moment

of it this day.

 

Amen

​

***