Thought for the Day

​​

Today I awakened with one

thought streaming through the

mind repeatedly, like a ticker

tape, and it was this...

 

No one, under any circumstances,

is ever special.

​

Nothing increases your value or

worth and nothing can ever

decrease it.

 

Remind yourself of this often

today, for the idea of specialness

creeps into your life in countless

ways each day.

 

All the while, you let it go by

unnoticed and unquestioned.

​

This is how you create the illusion

of separation, by labeling people

according to a hierarchy of worth,

the scale of which was created by

none other that you, I might add.

​

Who died and made you potentate

of the world?

​

I can hear some of you already.

​

"I used to do that, but I don't 

anymore. I don't believe that it

is true."

​

You are deceiving yourself.

 

But today, you will not.

 

Today you will notice how you

reinforce separation through

the belief in specialness.

​

And you do it both ways.

​

Especially good as well as especially

bad.

 

Truth is, we are all equal, worthy

of love and respect, dignity

and autonomy.

 

Give everyone this.

 

Give yourself this.

 

See if you cannot feel the statement's

truthfulness as you look each person

squarely in the eye today with each

and every encounter.

 

Never allow yourself to forget this

as you brush up against life today.

 

Either no one is special or we

all are.

 

And it is this essential equality,

or sameness, which makes us ONE.

 

We are all in the selfsame boat

and we are all trying to do our best,

even though it is unnecessary to do

so, as we walk each other home.

 

This is the world you will witness

and experience today if this

is the world that you wish to see.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​​

There Is Only God.

 

This is God. That is God.

 

Everyone and everything

is God, and therefore part

of me.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

It is your ability to step out of

the loop of time, and everything

that has occurred in time, for

a single instant, which makes

all things possible.

 

Here is the door to freedom

plain and clear.

 

A couple of decades ago, I had

the opportunity to meet a very

famous woman.

 

She was the author of several

books which had been described

as "seminal."

 

Owner of a famous healing center

that attracted very sick individuals

from all over the world who were

willing to part with their entire

life savings, based on the furtive

hope that they would be healed.

​

And enough people actually were

healed each year to establish the

center as a place which we all need

to visit one day.

 

She also had an ashram where people

came to learn the path in detail which

she taught. Here they could follow it,

silently, doing everything she prescribed,

as well as receive the added boon

of learning to read and write Sanskrit.

 

Yet she had made a rather secretive

appointment to come and spend

an entire day with me.

 

And she had flown thousands of

miles (in her private plane) in order

to do so.

 

And why?

 

People came to her in search of

peace, looking for truth.

 

Yet she shared she knew no peace

herself.

 

Oh, she could prop it up and make

it look enticing on the outside to

those who were suffering and looking

for answers.

 

Why, several of her books had been

on the New York Times top 10

reading list for over a year!

​

She was also the founder of one

of the largest and most well known

'green organizations' on the planet,

believing deeply in the path of

good works.

 

Yet on the inside, she spoke of 

feeling like a train wreck.

 

And she had no one in her life with

which she could share all of this,

having invested decades of her life

creating an empire that attracted

thousands and made millions each

year.

 

I explained that she was welcome

to come and spend the day with me.

 

We could chat as I went about my

day and I would be happy to share

with her, but I had no path to teach

her, no specific set of practices that

she could follow. And, heaven forbid,

absolutely no rules!

 

As she followed me around like

a little puppy dog asking me

questions, I turned to her and

looked her squarely in the eye

as I shared the oh-so-inconvenient

truth that all that she had created

was a total farce.

 

In no uncertain terms I shared that

shilling people out of their life savings

by charging exorbitant fees which only

served to make them doubt themselves

and judge themselves as failures was

something I just could not do when

I knew that none of that would ever

bring anyone any closer to the truth

nor give them peace.

 

For the truth is that you need do

nothing and loving yourself the way

that you are is the key to the kingdom.

 

There was no way to create an empire

by stringing people along, offering

them false promises if they followed

her way and her teachings to the letter

of the law, that would actually let her

sleep peacefully at night and feel joy

while doing so.

 

You cannot live the truth yourself,

yet share a lie that sends people down

another dead end, thinking they can

change themselves, by learning and

earning their way to liberation.

 

In the afternoon, she had a break-

through.

 

She got it. And the beatific smile

upon her face shared silently

what could never be spoken in

words.

 

In that instant she had gained

the universe.

 

And it had cost her nothing.

​

But sadly, she knew that to actually

live it would cost her everything

she had built her life upon.

 

There was no way she could

continue promoting all she

taught and shared.

 

Her world would need to change.

 

And you know what happened

next?

 

It left me dumbstruck and still

does to this day whenever I recall

what happened next.

 

She looked me dead in the eye

and told me she had to go

back home right now, this very

instant, back to her old life,

because there was no way

she would ever give up what

she had invested a lifetime in

building, there was no way she

would shut it all down and

turn people away.

​

She had to get back to her life

of stress, fixing, changing and

improving the ego, and teaching

others to do likewise, back to her

life of unhappiness and overwhelm.

​

About a month later, she actually had

a five foot Buddha statue shipped 

to me from India with a thank you

note.

 

I have an Indian friend who has

said to me several times throughout

the course of our relationship with

one another, "Amma, don't you feel

terrible that you wasted so much

time doing all those things that took

decades of your life away from you,

only to find in the end that none of it

was required, none of it contained

the answers that you heart had yearned

for and therefore would not work?"

 

And I always tell her the very same

thing.

 

"All those things are what made me

who I am today and they are what

has made me relatable to others

who are searching for answers to

their misery. I have no regrets. I am

grateful for every step I ever took.

They led me here. They led me to

you did they not?"

 

But it is true.

 

I did walk away from it all. Every

damn bit of it.

 

And happily I would do it again

and again to know what I know

today.

 

I look at the face which stares

back at me in the mirror each day

and I happen to like her. I respect

her. She has so much integrity and

she has complete autonomy and

agency over her life.

 

She doesn't give a shit what

other people think.

 

She follows the call of peace

in her own heart with every breath.

 

Her life, not her words, are her

message. Her life shouts peace

in silence unto a world which

knows it not.

​

This always makes me think

of a line in A Course In Miracles

which says, "never was so much

given for so little."

 

And I will leave you all with this...

 

if you want freedom and

the peace which passes all

understanding, happily I will

show you how to find it from

within.

 

I cannot give it to you.

 

I cannot give you anything.

 

But I can show you that you are

your own answer, and the path

to freedom is found nowhere

other than within the tabernacle

of your own heart.

 

It is your own love for which you

have been searching all along.

 

You are the mosque, the temple,

the sanctuary, the church.

 

Let us stand together, shoulder

to shoulder, for together, we have

the glorious opportunity to usher

in A New Earth.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Yes. I will be that one.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

How about a very simple thought

for today and an easy means

by which it may be seen and

practiced throughout your day?

 

Everything related to time is

impermanent.

 

Both time and eternity cannot

coexist.

 

The most salient feature of the Eternal

is that there is no where that it is not.

​

There is no room in Eternity for time.

 

Therefore, one is real and one has

been made as an attempt to fool you,

make you compliant and by thus,

imprison you.

 

Because of this, the only illusion one

needs to dispel is the belief in

time itself.

 

It takes the belief in time to believe

in the reality of the personal self.

 

For the personal self owes it entire

seeming existence to time.

 

No time, no personal self.

 

If there is no personal self, who is

there who can personalize anything?

 

Time is a massive delusion which has

been perpetrated against all humanity

and it has imprisoned your entire

planet in its web.

 

What happens to all things born of

time if you dispel the illusion of

time itself?

 

Does not everything which has occurred

in time disappear along with it?

 

So here is the exercise for today.

 

With every feeling, every thought,

every deed, every encounter, every

circumstance or life situation, hit

your pause button and ask yourself

the following question:

 

Is this of time or is it of Eternity?

 

If it occurs in time, you need not

concern yourself or dance with it.

You know it is impermanent and

therefore it depends upon the

Matrix for its seeming existence

or reality.

 

That is how the following acronym

for fear came about: false events 

appearing real.

 

If the answer to your question is

that this is temporal, simply bring

your awareness back to your breath

and your heart, and do not hesitate

a single instant to drop it like a hot

potato.

 

Some thoughts of which you might

remind yourself are as follows:

 

I will not swallow the blue pill today.

 

This is born of time. I need not make

mountains out of mole hills over this.

 

I determine how I wish to feel. I will

not allow this to disturb my peace.

 

If it is ruinous to peace, I know it

is time related.

 

I will not bite the hook. I choose to

remain sovereign and free.

 

Never ever let yourself forget that in

the moment where you can no longer

be disturbed by yourself or anyone

else, you are permanently established

in Eternity.

 

For beloved, you are Eternity itself.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I cannot be enslaved by anything

unless I have identified with the

personal self and thereby given

the power of Eternity Itself away.

 

There is no spoon.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

XO0pcWxcROI

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

It is such a remarkable thing

in this world to feel so

deeply peaceful and happy.

 

I cannot help but feel a certain

sadness as I walk through life,

experiencing what is mine to

experience, yet witnessing so

many people living their lives

in palpable despair because

they are so distanced from

themselves.

 

They do not feel their connection

with their own humanity and

through that connection, their

connection with all that is.

 

They look so sad, empty, forlorn...

 

Yet I am comforted by the knowledge

that they too are on the soul's

journey. They cannot consciously

feel their agony, being so distanced

from their own innermost being.

 

The only way to restore that

connection to one's humanity

is through knowing oneself as

soul.

 

Connection to soul means

connection to the realm of

the infinite.

 

Infinite Everything...

 

Infinite possibility...

 

Infinite potential...

 

The boundless domain of the

miraculous...

 

And connecting to one's identity

as soul rests on two factors:

 

(1) Connection to the breath.

 

(2) Connection to one's own

heart.

 

Today, let us make the focus

of our awareness be that

of three things.

 

The heart, the breath and the

conscious receiving of love

being returned to us from all

creation.

 

What you are actually receiving

is your own love being returned

to you.

 

Today you will have glimpses

of how giving and receiving

are one.

 

How is this possible?

 

Because you are creating a

continuous feedback loop

which has no beginning or

end.

​

Yesterday, you experienced

the first half of this loop

in sharing your love with your

world.

​

Today you complete it.

 

See if you cannot feel yourself

blooming like a beautiful rose

in this exchange.

 

How fortunate you are!

 

To be alive at this particular

time in human history, to be

aware of all that you are now

aware of, to be experiencing

yourself as you come alive.

 

For so long you also walked

this earth as one of the living

dead.

 

But no more.

 

Do you realize how blessed

you are?

 

The Matrix tells us, "I am the

only person I can count on."

 

The Matrix tells us, "I must

always be on guard. I must

protect myself. I may need

to defend myself, to fight or

flee in any instant. I must

always be prepared."

 

But it is never too late for

anyone.

​

You see it in the eyes of

infants and small children.

​

Why, I have even witnessed it

in the eyes of one on her 

deathbed!

 

At any instant, LOVE can get

you and there is no escaping

her.

 

And the secret is that the love

which gets you is your own.

 

Happy receiving.

​

Oh...

 

You actually thought it was

someone else's love and

approval you were searching

for all along?

 

Listen beloved.

 

You have been waiting for

yourself.

 

It is the receiving of your own

love being returned to you

from all that is that not only

restores, but redeems.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

The love I send out and share

with the world is the very

love that life sends back to me.

 

In the presence of this LOVE

I am healed. I am whole. I am

transformed. I am restored.

I am renewed.

 

I am alive again.

 

Thank you for this life.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

You were created to be a love

delivery mechanism.

 

Not to some people, but to all

people.

 

And not just some of the time,

but all of the time.

 

So your assignment today is

to consciously extend your love

to every person, place or thing

which you encounter.

 

Everyone and everything deserves

your love, for each is another

version of yourself in disguise.

 

Differing in form only, but exactly

the same on the level of content.

 

Thus, your willingness as well as

your reluctance, your judgments

and your desire to pick and choose

based on your definition of worth

are a reflection of the deepest

feelings you have for yourself.

 

Can you not see that if everyone is

just another version of you, then

how you treat them is revealing

a whole lot more than you think?

 

For you are being shown how you

feel about yourself, not just in the

easy moments but the difficult ones

as well.

 

It is revealing how you treat yourself

when you feel most in need of being

heard and understood, when you

need unconditional kindness,

acceptance and love demonstrated

for you because you feel entirely

unworthy of it?

 

Are you only willing to share your

love with others and your world

when they meet your expectations?

 

Is your love selective?

 

Today's exercise is a necessary

and elementary practice to the

palpable experience of ONENESS.

 

Remember to ask for help.

 

You are never alone.

 

And you will get what you ask for.

​

You have not because you ask not.

 

What do you think you get when

you ask for nothing?

 

Ever think about that?

 

If LOVE is real, it is always

unconditional and it is always

pouring itself out unto all,

from the tiniest to the mightiest,

regardless the nature of their

contribution to the whole.

 

And speaking of contributions,

are you aware of what yours

has been?

 

If LOVE be love, it's expression

is both maximal and unconditional

across all times, in all spaces,

and unto all things.

 

LOVE cannot help but share itself

with all that is.

 

It cannot help but feel worth and

value from every living thing.

 

Today will be a very illuminating

day for you.

 

Let it be.

 

You will learn much about yourself.

 

You will learn much about love.

 

For in the end, both you and LOVE

are one and the same.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Please teach me of the grandness

and magnitude of unconditional

LOVE.

 

For my most fervent prayer is

that the LOVE I share with my

world be as limitless as space.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

There is one very simple guideline

that never fails to work when

it comes to navigating life.

 

Not just the quiet and effortless

moments, but the sticky ones too.

​

It is this...

 

I know what to do because I know

how I want to feel.

 

Isn't that clean and simple?

​

I KNOW how I want to feel because

how I feel is my most precious

and valuable possession and the

only thing I truly own.

​

I WANT TO FEEL PEACEFUL.

 

If you know that you are always

on the soul's journey and you

cannot mess it up, and you

are always operating under the

sweet and simple guideline of

how you want to feel, then where

is there a problem?

 

How can there be a dilemma?

 

Where is uncertainty and doubt?

 

Is not the way for you abundantly

clear?

 

I cannot begin to tell you how

many things I have walked

away from because I choose

to feel peaceful.

 

And I do not know about you,

but I would rather be happy

and feel at home in my own

skin than I feel the need to be

right.

​

Screw it.

​

Is anything worth the price of

peace?

 

And have I ever lost anything

important?

 

Not once.

 

You cannot ever lose anything

that has any true value.

 

Every step I take in life...and

I do mean every single one...

makes me feel a little more

free than the step which I

took before it.

 

That's exhilarating my dear,

never discouraging, depressing

or frightening.

 

Because in the end, isn't that

what we all want?

 

Freedom from the tyranny of

inner turmoil and distress,

unequivocal liberty from

the dominion of inner states

which control you, rather than

you exercising your agency

and autonomy over them?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for showing

me the path to true and

lasting freedom.

 

No self, no problem.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

An exercise is given you to work

with today which you, no doubt,

will find illuminating.

 

Make everything you do today

be a reflection of your love

for yourself.

 

Every feeling...

 

Every emotion...

 

Every thought...

 

Every action...

 

To do this, you will have to slow

your life down so completely,

that you are aware of what you

are up to in the little moments

and actions which fill your day,

regardless how small or seemingly

insignificant the act may seem.

 

The first thing you will notice is

how unkind and unloving you

actually are, not just with yourself,

but your world in its entirety.

 

Either you are harsh and critical,

judging yourself and others unfairly,

or you  ignore yourself and your

world entirely, skimming your way

through your life like a mindless

automaton or drone.

​

Disregard is a silent means

of abject cruelty.

​

Silent, yet deadly in its effects.

 

This assignment is not about

changing what you feel, changing

what you think, changing what

you do.

 

It's about being able to bring

enough of a pause into your life

that you can consciously bring

comfort to yourself in the midst

of chaos.

 

You see, you think you are very

loving toward yourself, and kind

more often than not.

 

Poppycock.

​

It's not about being loving in the

moments which stand out in some

way to you, it's about how loving

can I be in all the moments which

compose a human life?

 

More conscious awareness means

that you are taking the time to

bring tenderness to yourself and

your life.

​

Are you not worth it?

 

It means that you are connecting

with your heart and your breath,

bringing your light to those parts

of you that have gone unnoticed

and unloved for far too long.

 

This is about you saying, "I deserve

to be peaceful, happy and loving."

 

"I deserve to be the conscious

architect of my own inner experience

of life."

 

"I choose to bring the state of presence

to all the moments which compose

my day."

 

Because every instant matters, beloved,

every single instant matters.

​

Each instant is a miracle of biblical

proportions, a one of one. It will never

again be seen or repeated.

​

So cherish them.

​

And cherish the one who is experiencing

them.

 

Nothing is insignificant.

 

You matter.

 

Your life matters.

 

You came to touch the heart of all

form and phenomena. But how can

you do that when you cannot even be

kind and gentle with yourself?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Dear God:

 

Let's ravish our world today,

shall we?

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

I was a very young child when

first I realized that other people

were not my problem, I was

my only problem.

 

The emotions and thoughts I

experienced on a daily basis

were like a never ending

roller coaster ride.

 

I hated that about myself.

 

That is where the phrase I use

so often came from. For indeed

I did want to be like a candle

that did not flicker in the wind.

 

Who I was and how I was kept

me up at night, haunting me

like my shadow, which was never

not there.

 

I could not get away from the

experience of being me.

 

And I despised myself.

 

Surely there must be some

way to find a changeless peace

which is unaffected by the

chaos and unpredictability

of life and my inner world!

 

This is where the quest for

freedom found its origin

within me.

 

And it would take another

half century of life before

the answers to my misery

came to me and they did so

in the form of a pandemic.

 

For though I had experienced

a ka-gillion beatific mountaintop

experiences over the course of

my life, some of which lasted

for months at a time, none were

sustainable. My inner world was

all the evidence I needed to

prove to myself that I had not

found what this heart had been

yearning for, for so very long.

​

What would a life experience 

actually look like and feel like

if one were able to live peacefully

and lovingly in their own skin?

 

Little did I know how simple

the solution I had been

searching for actually was and

is.

 

I had to learn to love myself.

 

Not just the warm and fuzzy

parts which were easy to love,

but the messy shit too.

 

You know...all those things

which made me cringe and

loath myself, feeling I was

hopeless and beyond

redemption of any kind.

 

I had to make peace with all

of myself if I would know

the freedom I sought first

hand.

 

I had to know I was not wrong,

that I was not broken and I did

not need fixing.

 

There was nothing missing or

defective in me.

 

But at this point in my life,

I was entirely unable to begin

with acceptance.

 

I had to start with something

bite size. So in my case, this

began with non-resistance.

 

Inwardly I would feel myself

bowing and opening in a very

neutral way before the things

I did not like about myself,

the myriad of grievances to

which I clung, and the many,

many ways in which I found

myself and my world so deeply

flawed that there could be no

answers for anything.

​

This willingness to stop fighting

with myself and life proved itself

to be a great friend and ally.

 

As I began to accumulate data

in the form of evidence that

this was and is a path which

works, I began to trust myself.

I knew that this was to be my

journey for what remained

of this life.

 

If I were on a busy street

and I came across a child who

was lost, could I abandon

them?

 

Heavens no!

 

Would it matter to me what

this child had done before?

 

Would I refuse my assistance

if I did not approve?

 

No. It would not.

 

I would stop whatever I was

doing and provide this child

with comfort and a sense of

safety, giving him my heartfelt

support and steadfast assurance

that I would not leave him under

any circumstances,and I would

help him find his way back home

and would not rest until I did.

 

And this is how I began to treat

my inner world.

 

When I found that I could not, I

would take another inner step

back and offer reassurances and

empathy to the part of me that

struggled with accepting certain

aspects of myself.

 

Little by little I began to teach

myself that I was worthy and

entirely loveable.

 

And as I did, things began to

shift and change in my inner

world.

 

I had more peace.

 

When faced with a decision, I

would always ask myself, what

is the next most peaceful thing

for me to do?

 

And non-resistance became

acceptance.

 

And acceptance became

neutrality.

 

And neutrality became kindness.

 

And kindness became genuine

love, affection and tenderness.

 

Throughout all of this great

journey of being human I have

come to know one thing, and

this one thing has become the

foundation upon which I have

built my life.

 

What is that thing?

 

When I stopped trying to transcend

the ego or personal self, when I

stopped trying to fix or change me,

and just accept myself as I am, fully

and completely, I began to actually

embody the state of transcendence.

 

I became my own scripture, and

my life was my only message.

 

For when you make peace with all

that you are and all you are not,

the presence which you are and

have always been begins to pour

itself out, and from here, it begins

to radiate to all creation!

 

This is the Good News I share with

my world each and every day,

simply by being me, for I am that

word which was made flesh, and

darlin', so are you.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Popeye said it best...

 

"I yam what I yam, and

that's all what I yam!"

 

I have received the blessing

of my own seal of approval.

 

Whose approval could mean

more to me than that?

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

Yesterday was the kind of day

the former me would have

called straight out of hell's

playbook.

 

For starters, yesterday they

began the big plumbing project

where I live.

 

I knew that this was coming

for the past six months.

 

But it takes a bit to raise the

$80,000.00 that it was going

to take to redo 100% of the

duplex's plumbing.

 

Cast iron pipes, which were

decaying and crumbling,

had to be replaced with PVC.

 

So beginning at 8:00 AM, you

could not hear yourself think.

Three different jackhammers

and seven men began their

excavation beneath the

foundation of both sides of the

duplex to get to all the old

plumbing which had become

problematic.

 

And then at precisely 9:30 AM,

the electricity and internet went

out on my side.

 

They jackhammered their way

through an electrical power line.

 

Now I understand nothing about

electrical lines, but apparently

whoever did the electrical originally

didn’t trench the service conduit

to code, they just laid it on the

ground and poured concrete

over it.

 

So naturally, they jackhammered

their way right through the line!

 

Thus the day was spent without

electricity or internet, but they

were able to continue with the

excavation because they ran

extension cords from the other

half of the duplex, which still

had electricity.

 

Now...jump ahead to 5:15 PM

and the electrician arrives.

 

After sleuthing around for the

better part of an hour, he said

that 100% of all the electrical

work had to be redone because

none of it was up to code and

they also had to replace the

fuse boxes as well because they

were not code either.

 

The cost?

 

A whopping $14,000.00.

 

So Violet and I fumbled our

way through the dark yesterday

evening and then sweat bullets

when we went to bed because it

was very sticky and humid,

having had an hour of rain

between 3:00 & 4:00 PM.

 

I tell you all this because all of

the commitment, consistency

and repetition paid off in

dividends which were out of

this world.

 

I quote it all the time, but it

bears repeating now.

 

My favorite verse from the

Bodhicharyavatara by

Shantideva:

 

If there is something you can

do about it, why worry?

 

If there is nothing you can

do about it, why worry?

 

I remained 100% calm and

peaceful throughout all of it,

happy even...without a single

instant of worry or concern.

 

Life....

 

It still happens, enlightened or

not.

 

But how you navigate the churning

and entirely unpredictable waters

of life makes all the difference

in the world.

 

And you know what?

 

I wouldn't trade my life for anyone

else's on this planet.

 

I have become the candle which

does not flicker in the wind.

 

So how was your day?

 

If you happen to run across a money

tree today, will you please throw

a little my way?

​

Oh, and btw... If you find yourself near

the Starbucks at Preston and Royal,

I am over here using the free

internet.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for the life which

is mine to live.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

NOTHING HAS THE POWER TO

AFFECT YOU DIRECTLY.

 

BUT YOU CAN ALLOW YOURSELF

TO GET SUCKED INTO DRAMA

AND CHAOS THROUGH

DISTRACTION.

 

All caps so you will hopefully commit

it to memory as a reminder.

 

Steps To Recovery

 

(1) Keep coming back to your breath.

 

(2) Soften. Lean into. And open your

heart to yourself and all parties

involved.

 

Remember, every upset is an initiation

and a doorway into the truth if

you allow it to be.

 

Thus, the solution is as simple

or difficult as you make it.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me remember to keep it simple

today, for nothing is ever as difficult

as I try to make it.

 

Stories upon stories upon stories.

 

Am I reacting to what is happening,

or am I reacting to the story I am

telling myself about what is happening?

​

Because there's a difference, you know....

 

Let me notice what I am up to and

reflect on these things.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

You know and I know that you

have been and can be

a real holdout when it comes

to your commitment, consistency

and repetition.

 

Yet it still remains forever true

that commitment, consistency

and repetition will deliver

liberation as promised if,

and that's a big if, you make

them #1 in your life.

 

How willing are you to put it to

the test and let the results

speak for themselves?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

There is a beautiful passage in

ACIM which states that it is

not that you are to no longer

have any negative thoughts or

feelings. It is that there should

be none of them which are

willing to keep.

​

We hold onto the egoic identity

through grudges and the need 

to be right.

 

I fall off the horse. And I do it

a million times a day.

 

So what do I do?

 

Get up and get back on.

 

Just keep coming back to my

breath with love, devotion and

sincerity.

 

I am worth that consistent

effort.

​

For commitment, consistency

and repetition are a demonstration

of my love for myself.

 

And my breath is the doorway

through which I enter into

the peace of God.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

Simple but not easy....

 

Have you ever heard a phrase

repeated so many times

that you felt if you heard it

one more time you would

completely lose it?

 

That is how I feel about this

one.

 

This path is both simple and

easy.

​

Every single breath you take is

an initiation into what is forever

true.

​

What could be easier or simpler

than that?

 

You tell me...

 

If everyone is always on their

soul's journey, then there is

no reason to squawk about

anyone or anything.

 

If God loves you and wants you

to be happy, then why worry that

pretty little head of yours about

anything?

 

If there is absolutely nothing

you have done or ever could do

to mess anything up, nor could

anyone else for that matter,

then why all the second guessing

and beating up on yourself, to

say nothing of all the character

assassination you engage in?

 

If your worth is not established

by you but by God and that is

forever immutable, how can

you feel anything but love for

yourself? How could you treat

yourself or your world with

anything other than kindness?

 

And if there is nothing you value

more than your peace, and you

are entirely unwilling to allow

anything to ever compromise

that, how could anything about

your life seem difficult to you

ever again?

 

Take the time to write down

these 5 points and carry them

with you in your pocket where

they are always there to remind

you of what is true whenever

you forget or have a few idle

moments.

 

Don't just repeat them, feel

them dissolve inside of you,

replacing old worn out beliefs

and ideas which you have held

onto and used as evidence that

you could not possibly be

perfect the way you are and

that you need do nothing

other than learn to truly love

yourself; hair, guts, feathers

and all.

 

When you are waiting in the

check out lane at the grocery

store, filling the tank up with gas,

why, even when using the bath-

room, take a few moments to

hit your pause button, close

your eyes, return to your breath

and remind yourself of what

you know....

 

Anytime is a good time to

repeat what is forever true

about yourself and your life.

 

Repeating these simple

statements will also aid you

in easing up on your world.

 

You are a beautiful treasure.

 

You matter.

 

You are loved.

​

And you are seen, beloved, seen

and held in the most sacred and

loving embrace by your Creator.

 

I wish you a lovely Memorial Day

weekend as we all reflect and

remember those whom we have

known and loved who are no longer

with us physically.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for the GIFT of this

day and all that it will bring.

​

May all beings; past, present 

and future, be happy and rest

in abiding and transcendent

peace.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

Day before yesterday it was suggested

that you have a codependent

relationship with life.

 

Codependency is a word that has

been tossed around quite a bit

in the world's conversation since

the eighties, yet few truly under-

stand it, and even fewer are willing

to admit that many if not most of

their relationships are based in

codependency.

 

Let us begin by establishing a

working definition for codependency.

 

A relationship can be said to be

codependent when your involvement

is based in the belief that the other

person has something which you

do not have.

​

It is therefore based in need.

​

But let me ask you a question, does

the soul need anything?

 

So there is a basic inequality in

the relationship. And the relationship

itself is built on a foundation of

confusion and illusion.

 

Both parties are using each other.

​

The relationship is more of a contractual

agreement based on expectations

than it is one of intimacy based on

wholeness and mutual completion.

​

Thus, it inevitably leads to resentment

and passive-aggressive behavior.

​

It is a decision made by both parties

is halt all genuine growth and

expansion in favor of seeking, but

never finding.

​

There is an essential tension which

is always there unless both parties

fill their lives with addiction and

distraction.

 

One participant is looking for

safety and security, while the other

maintains the illusion of generosity

and control over the other.

 

Perhaps it is even believed that you

too have what the other has, but you

have been unable to access it on

your own, so you believe that If you

enter into relationship with them,

your chances of attaining what you

believe they have for yourself are

much more probable because of

your participation and involvement.

 

One who is in a codependent

relationship can never truly know

if they sincerely love the other

when the very basis of the relationship

is rooted in using one another.

​

If we are always on the soul's journey,

one will inevitably ask oneself,

what does it matter if all my relationships

are codependent?

​

And in the end, it does not matter 

a hill of beans.

​

But when one is truly living their lives

from soul, every aspect of one's life

comes into alignment with the soul

or heart.

​

Here, one cannot tolerate the discrepancy

between knowing the truth and livng

one's truth.

 

The ultimate codependent relationship

is that of the guru/disciple or teacher/

student relationship.

 

It is one of the most difficult and

painful lessons one can master.

 

Whether teacher or student, neither

participant is in the relationship for

honest reasons.

 

Beloved, no one has any power

that you do not have.

 

So look carefully and lovingly at

all your relationships today.

 

And do not confuse security

for love.

 

See if it does not become clear to

you that if you live from the outside

in, every relationship you have

is codependent by nature.

 

To be truly integrous may well

mean that you have to walk away

from many of the so-called

relationships in which you have

been participating.

 

To be truly integrous may well

mean that you have to learn how

to live with less.

 

To be truly integrous may well

mean that you have to learn

to trust yourself and trust the

universe.

 

To be truly integrous may well

mean that you have to discover

love from within rather than

trying to get it from other people,

places and things.

 

But you know what?

​

The stakes are too high to bullshit

yourself or another.

 

And I would rather die than live a

lie.

 

Wouldn't you?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me begin to have some

very important conversations

with myself that have been

long overdue.

 

For I do not wish to leave this

earth without having mastered

the art of loving myself and being

my own source.

​

Can a relationship be said to be

a relationship if it is based on

anything else?

 

May the relationship I have with

me be true to my very last breath.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

It is quite vital that you understand

that no one here wants you to

feel badly about anything.

 

Ever watch a child who is learning

to walk?

 

When they fall, they get back up,

undaunted, and begin again.

 

Before you know it, your hands

are full because they are into

everything.

 

All of this is but to say that what

we do want to accomplish is to

empower you.

 

We want to place your firmly in charge

of your own inner experience of life.

 

For so very long you have given

your power away to so many

people, places and things.

 

And this is just not right.

 

No one deserves to have any power

over you but you, my dear.

 

You are a sovereign and autonomous

being and no one on this planet

deserves to have any agency over you

but you.

 

In every single instant of life, peace

is being delivered to you on a

silver platter.

 

It does not matter what the life

circumstances are that you are

going through.

​

There are no exceptions to this.

 

Here, in this moment, is peace.

 

Will you choose your peace over

everything?

 

The way you say yes to the universe,

the way that you connect with that

peace, is through the breath.

 

Like water mixed with water,

the breath and peace are inseparably

mixed.

 

Every conscious breath which you

take not only unlocks the door to

peace, it is a portal of initiation into

the realm of possibility, into the

domain of the miraculous.

 

It is an invitation which says, "I'm

done with playing small. I am ready

for the big leagues. I choose a totally

miraculous and awesome life."

​

And who can give you that life

but you?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

What could be more valuable

than peace?

 

I get it.

 

Connecting with peace in a world

gone mad is like choosing to

walk on water.

​

I deserve this. I deserve my peace.

​

And so it is.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

Perhaps the most difficult thing

for any human being to face,

let alone accept, is that no one

can fuck with your peace unless

you give them permission to

do so.

​

While you may well feel that you

are upset with others, who you

are really mad at, who you are

really disappointed with, is

yourself.

 

When you allow anything to disturb

your peace, be it within or without,

what you are essentially saying is,

"I am a victim. You can mess with

me all you want. I live my life from

the outside in. I am not worthy of

my peace and it really isn't some-

thing I value, nor is it anything I

am willing to protect at all costs."

​

You have a codependent relationship

with your world.

 

Beloved, you deserve your peace.

 

I know this because peace is your

natural state.

 

Confused, off-kilter, running around

like a chicken with yout head

chopped off, worried about the state

of the world, your finances, your

job, your kids, your dog, robbing

Peter to pay Paul while you live

paycheck to paycheck, may be normal 

to you but it most certainly is not

natural.

 

Peace will be yours the instant that

you love yourself too much to ever

let anything disturb it again.

 

And not a moment sooner.

 

Remember, it is the ego that craves

complexity while the soul abides

undisturbed in perfect changeless

peace.

 

Peace is the ultimate demonstration

of one who abides as soul.

​

The cord that has kept you tethered

to misery and insanity has been

severed once and for all.

 

Where have you drawn your line

in the sand?

​

What do you deserve today?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Nothing the world has to offer me

is worth my peace.

 

Hear me world?

 

From now on, can't touch this.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

Today is a really great day to take

a clear look at your relationship

with yourself.

 

Specifically, let us all look (myself

included), at every area in which

we still tell ourselves or feel that

we are incomplete, we are not

whole, not what we really should

be, as well as everything we do not

like about ourselves.

 

Beloved, you are the unborn,

uncreated, eternal and immortal

soul, the very God particle, God's

self-extension of Itself!

 

This cannot and does not change,

beloved.

​

Nor can it ever.

 

Yet you look upon yourself

every single day and find fault

with so many things.

 

You encounter experiences every day

which you feel should be different

as well as ones in which you feel

that you are unequal to the task.

 

All of this is poppycock and faulty

programming.

 

It is time to let go of every single

illusion you still have about yourself.

​

It does not matter how many you

have already relinquished.

​

If there is one still there, it is one

too many.

 

Instead of constantly working on

yourself, how about simply allowing

all of these false beliefs you have

held onto for so long to complete

themselves?

 

Despite your best thinking, you

have never ever for a single

instant actually been working on

yourself.

 

What you have been working on

is the illusions you have held about

yourself or the illusions that others

have had about themselves and

then have projected onto you and

you have willingly assimilated.

 

Let your inner delete button

become your new best friend.

 

The entire notion of incompletion

is an utter impossibility, not

just for you, for everyone.

 

It is time to update the contract

that you have with everyone else.

 

And it is time to update the contract

which you made with yourself.

 

A good mantra for today is thus:

 

I no longer need to hold onto

anything for anyone including

myself. I will accept no more

distortions about myself or

anyone else.

 

Feel yourself letting go of every

distorted and self-created image

of yourself which you have willingly

taken on, mistaking it for who

you are.

 

One by one, feel yourself hitting

your delete key every single

time a new ideation arises.

 

You do not need to analyze,

understand, figure out, forgive

or heal anything.

 

But you do have to be willing

to let it go of all the nonsense

you have been holding onto,

and this is something that

no one else can do for you.

 

Even you must be entirely

incapable of disturbing your

peace.

 

There is nothing to overcome.

 

But it is high time you cleared

all the rubble and debris that

you have been clinging to and

trying to fix, rather than kindly

sweeping it all away, revealing

what lies beneath.

 

For it is your destiny to behold

the face of God!

 

And it is for this you were born.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Today I wll listen to myself

carefully and lovingly,

relinquishing every illusion

I still maintain about

myself.

 

May the freedom I find

today be shared with

every living being.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

Let's be willing to take an honest

look this week at all the relationships

in which you are still participating

that you know not only are no longer

reflections of who you are, but if

anything, they keep you both locked

into patterns of relating which not only

are not peaceful, they bring sorrow,

discomfort, distress and dis-ease

in their wake.

 

I don't care who they are.

 

They can be a spouse, a partner,

a child, a neighbor, a co-worker,

a boss or a so-called friend.

 

You know and I know that the time

to end it was clear to you long ago.

 

Any relationship which vexes you

so completely has seen its day.

 

Remind yourself often today that

loving yourself means giving

yourself the gift of your peace.

 

And when anything has the ability

to disturb your peace, what you are

really saying is that "there are still

parts of me that do not deserve

my peace."

 

That's not a commentary on the

relationship my dear, that is

a rather profound statement

about you.

 

No one and no thing is capable of

disturbing your peace unless you

give them permission to do so.

 

So guard your peace today.

 

Don't you believe that your

amygdala is worthy of your peace?

 

How about your mind and your

heart or your poor little body?

 

Are they not worthy too?

 

When you give yourself the gift

of your peace, what you are really

giving yourself is the gift of your

completion.

 

It is a proclamation of emancipation

in which you are silently shouting

from the rooftops, "I am a sovereign

being and irrevocably free. Harmony

and peace are my constant. This is

who I am and nothing can ever again

disturb that."

 

Anyone who has been around me

at all since 1999 knows that my

favorite movie of all time is

The Matrix.

 

It is such an amazing representation

of life in this decade.

 

And one of the most powerful

things about that movie was that

anyone who was still plugged into

the Matrix could still be used by

the Matrix.

 

In other words, they could be turned

into an agent and anyone who watched

the movie observed that whenever it

happened.

 

Because those who were still plugged

into the Matrix were often turned into

agents in an attempt to capture those

who had already been freed from the

Matrix.

 

And who could be captured by an agent?

 

Anyone who did not trust themselves

and was still so wishy washy and all

over the map that the agents saw their

freedom as something which was

not only not firmly established, it was

still very much up for grabs.

 

How susceptible are you to being

hooked by others?

 

By the world?

 

By yourself?

 

Either you are worthy of your peace

or you are not.

 

Today is the day to answer that

question for yourself once and for all,

don't you think?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

May I never forget this day and every

day that my breath is the path back

to peace whenever I have again lost

myself in the Matrix of life.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

The creation of a personal self

begins when one learns to answer

to the name it has been given

and is encouraged to refer to others

by name as well.

 

That sense of a separate and personal

sense of me, myself and I in a world of

other separate and personal people,

places and things is further reinforced

through history, conditioning, programming,

habits, behaviors, beliefs, meanings

and interpretations.

 

It is through the repetition of all of

these things that one becomes the center

of their own universe and everyone

else is thus a planet or other celestial

body which orbits oneself.

​

You, the barycenter, while others are

held in place through attachment

and aversion.

 

But here's the deal...

 

No personal self, no personalizing.

 

And no personalizing, no suffering.

 

There is no such thing as a truly

existent personal self, thus no

experience which can be claimed

to be personal.

 

So today we are going to try to feel

what life would be like without

a center, without this sense of me,

myself and I.

 

Even a single instant experienced

without an experiencer is enough

to provide a deeply compelling taste

of true authentic freedom.

 

What if experiences were just allowed

to be experiences?

 

Happening to no one, each having

a beginning, middle and an end?

 

And what if you were just to observe

what is palpably felt in response

to each experience and were to leave

it at that?

 

No need to name anything, just a

simple catch and release.

 

A series of experiences whose most

salient feature is their impermanence.

 

When you dig even deeper, you inevitably

find that all the personal self is, is whatever

has been repeated so many times that

one makes an individual entity out of it to

whom it all happens or happened.

 

And day by day and hour by hour this

sense of "i" is reinforced by you,

the reporter and experiencer.

 

Your assignment for today is to

observe every experience scrupulously,

yet let nothing land.

 

You are air through which everything

passes on through but never sticks.

 

What are the habits, patterns, behaviors,

lines of thinking, emotions, feelings

and storylines which you reinforce

through repetition?

 

When you notice something which

has been previously repeated again

and again, try shaking it up a bit.

 

Try something entirely different.

 

Be mindful of what you reinforce

through repetition.

 

You will inevitably find that the end

of personalization hallmarks the end

of all suffering.

 

Life still happens. That is never going

to change.

 

So it is not that suffering disappears,

it is the sufferer or personalizer

which disappears!

 

And you are always given the opportunity

to repeat new things such as peace,

contentment, gratitude, joy, happiness

and love.

 

And when these are reinforced through

repetition, they are found to be a point

of initiation.

 

For here there is a doorway through

which you gain access to the Infinite

and Changeless.

 

Here you encounter the Soul.

 

Here is the true "I," unchanged,

unchanging, unchangeable.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Today may I be as translucent

and gossamer as clear light.

 

And may I walk this world wihout

leaving any footprints behind.

 

No reporter, nothing to report.

 

Only peace.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

If your potential is something

which exists beyond the experience

that you have of yourself, namely

that of your humanity, then there is

a whole lot more that is not only

available to you, but that you have

seriously not been tapping into.

 

Wouldn't you agree?

 

Another way of verbalizing this

is that you cannot transcend

the mind with the mind, you

cannot transcend emotions with

emotion, and you cannot

transcend your humanity with

your humanity.

 

So your assignment today is a

rather simple one.

 

It is both simple and easy, and

all it takes is a little willingness

on your part.

 

First, remember to watch your

breath.

 

Next, hit your pause button

frequently.

 

Lastly, feel your whole being opening,

wherein you feel as though you

have become a living invitation, like

a sunflower which turns, freely opening

itself before the sun.

 

You may feel warmth, energy or

a tingling sensation.

 

Be sensitive and open to your

experience whatever it is.

 

And if you feel nothing, that does

not mean that you are doing it all

wrong.

 

It means that your experience is

that of nothingness.

 

Your instruction is simply to open

your heart and your entire being

to that 'something more" which

you have been withholding from

yourself.

 

Here we are talking about the vast

and infinite unknown territory of

the Soul.

 

This is what you really are.

 

The body and all its accoutrements;

feelings, emotions, thoughts,

beliefs, habits, patterns, behaviors

and addictions are merely

distractions and delay mechanisms

which you use to keep yourself

separate and distanced from your

original face and your eternal good.

 

And why?

 

You have your reasons, and they are

aplenty, but when you catch your hand

in that cookie jar, just stop it.

 

You are not being asked to resist your

natural inclinations.

 

You are being asked to recognize what

is happening for what it is and to choose,

rather, to love yourself enough to stop

being so mean and chicken shit toward

yourself.

​

You deserve better than that from

yourself and you know it.

 

Love yourself enough to say,'no more.'

 

And do be open to the miraculous.

 

For this is what living as Soul is really

all about, living from miracle to

unfolding miracle, moment by moment.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Talk about living a meaningful

and fulfilling life...

​

May today be a day of playing full out

and swinging for the fences, for I am

that, I am.

​

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

One of the key premises from ACIM

is that you need do nothing.

 

I like that.

 

In fact, I like it a lot.

 

Take a few moments to reflect back

on your life, taking the time to

truly appreciate all the experiences

which you have had, both monumental

and small, as well as all the milestones

that you’ve experienced along the way.

 

How you go through each of these

is by living your life exactly as

you did and are.

 

You are never alone.

 

Harmony is your birthright.

 

Know yourself.

Love yourself.

Love other people.

 

It’s really pretty simple when you

think about it.

 

You came here to take your time

and go through what is yours to

experience as only you can every

single day, one day at a time.

 

Cherish the moments.

 

You are always living your potential

in every single moment, even when

you believe that you are not.

 

This is your design, and your design

never leaves you.

​

However you are, however you react,

however you happen to feel, take

the time to pause and bow before

your unique perfection.

 

You are living out your destiny as

only you can.

​

You have always been your cruelist

taskmaster. Let that part of you go.

 

In spite of how improbable it may

seem at times, I’ve seen how it all

ends and you are going to make it.

 

And the deepest  truth is this.

 

if anyone on this planet were to

intervene in your life in any way, it

would be an entirely unacceptable 

act of interference in your personal 

agency and autonomy, your inalienable

right to live your life the way which

feels best to you.

​

You possess unconditional autonomy

and that is sacred.

​

You cannot fuck anything up.

​

Ever.

 

Have a wonderful weekend.

 

And no pole vaulting over mouse

turds!

 

Got it?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​​

Thank you for all the particulars

which have composed my

life this time around.

 

It’s been a masterpiece. And it

has been my masterpiece to live,

love and enjoy.

 

What a playground.

 

Gratitude feels woefully inadequate

a sentiment for so great a GIFT.

 

It may be a simple life, but it is my

life...every bit of it...and it is the

only life for me.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

We are going to make your message

for today as short and succinct as

we possibly can.

 

Although we have danced around

coming right out and saying this

in clear and unmistakable language

for the past two weeks, you are now

more than familiar with parts of it

and more than ready at this point

to hear the pure and unfiltered truth.

 

You have never been confined or

imprisoned by your humanity.

 

Only you were powerful enough a being

to take yourself out of your eternal abode

as the Infinite, placing yourself by choice

into a dualistic human experience, and you

are the only being who is powerful enough

to end this game once and for all, returning

to your natural state.

 

As we have said several times now,

it all ends when you finally love yourself

enough to end it.

 

Not a moment sooner, nor a moment

later.

 

So it is time to be done and over with

the endless self pity and and victim

consciousness.

 

No more undermining, self-sabotage,

whining and complaining.

 

It’s phony bologna and entirely

unseemly for one who formed 

every photon, atom, subatomic

particle and molecule from Itself,

for goodness sakes!

​

Only you can give yourself permission

to reclaim the very freedom which

has always been yours.

 

The ball is in your court and it always

has been.

 

You have what it takes to be free,

so set yourself free and be free.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​​

Thank you for the sense of freedom,

connection and peace which are

always mine.

 

For I am that Force which animates

everything living thing, It a part of

me, and me a part of It.

 

Amen

 

​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

Perhaps it would help all of us

today to slow our roll each time

we noticed we were moving 

too fast, that we were lost in

doing and drowning in time,

and take a mindful moment to

hit our pause button, returning

our awareness to our breath,

reverently recalling one simple

thought.

 

We are all in the same boat.

​

Take notice of those around you.

​

We tend to forget each other

hundreds of times a day, and the

pandemic made anonymity mistakenly

seem more desirable than actual

communion.

​

We have become a world where

our primary mode of contact is

that of social media. Gone are

the days of interacting one on one

and taking the time to look into

each other's eyes and hearts.

​

Truth has become an ever moving

target in our world, and being an

online bully and asshole is the new

norm.

​

There seems to be no limits to our

ability to be mean, uncaring and

uninvolved, forgetting about simple

things like unconditional positive

regard.

 

But this being human thing is a team

sport, not a solo one.

​

Whatever happened to living a life

we love and helping others do so

as well?

 

Can we not see that the foundational

essence or energy of everything is

exactly the same?

​

We are ONE but most would not

know it.

 

Life works in miraculous ways

when we remember harmony

and flow, rather than when we are

behaving like rocks in a tumbler.

 

All that bumping up against each

other, clashing, abrasiveness and

chaos is still going to produce a

beautiful and shiny stone in the

end, but cooperation and kindness

freely given to one another gets us

there quicker and makes for a much

more interesting and comfortable

ride.​

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Meaning and fulfillment are a now or

never kind of thing.

​

Help me to remember to stop

and smell the roses along the way

today.

​

For I would be one with the moment,

not simply passing through it, settling

for mere existence, rather than truly

living.

​

For quantity will never be a legitimate

substitute for quality.
 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

So I went about the business of

living my life day by day.

 

And I began to notice how everything

about our world, everything about

how we were parented and taught

along the way was brainwashing us

into believing that we are not enough

so we would get out there and search

for more, better and different as we

painstakingly tried to fix what we felt

was broken about ourselves.

 

Entire industries were created in order

to try to magnify our emptiness and

sense of lack as they promised to satiate

our thirst for good, better and best...

 

We formed alliances, cliques, groups,

parties and sanghas in order to find other

like minded individuals such as our-

selves to align with, hoping that

support and comradery would somehow

make us feel better about ourselves.

​

Misery does love company, does it not?

 

But even these begin to disintegrate,

deteriorate and unwind as cliques

formed within them too. For where there

was once the appearance of unity, there

were now hurt feelings, more judgment,

disappointment and separation from

those from whom you least expected it.

​

 

We see it on every billboard we pass,

every song on the radio, the guy

who honks at you and flips you the bird

for going to slow as he passes you,

only to arrive at the same red traffic

light as you a few moments later.

 

And I began to feel pissed off.

 

Cheated.

 

And the more pissed I felt, the more

I saw and experienced it everywhere.

 

I felt duped, victimized and taken

for granted.

 

I walked around life for almost 4

full years with an angry chip on my

shoulder and did not hesitate to

lay someone's race out for them

when I caught them at it red handed.

 

But the day it all disappeared was

so amazing.

 

I realized that I had never ever

really been angry at anyone or

anything else.

 

They were just doing what they were

supposed to do.

 

We come here to temporarily forget

so we can undergo the legion of

experiences one has as they remember

again what can never be lost, changed

or destroyed.

 

Simply forgotten for a time, that we

might experience the incredible rapture

of remembering once again.

 

And I realized that I was the only

one I had really been mad at.

 

I hated that I was was so naive and

gullible.

 

That I did not think for myself, that I

was always second-guessing everything

I thought or did because I did not

trust myself.

 

And because I did not trust myself,

I placed more value on what other

people thought than how I thought

and felt.

 

In time, I began to feel a great love,

compassion and tenderness for the

character I had only thought that

I had become.

 

And the very instant that I did, things

began to shift and I felt peace, as

well as a tensile strength that had

heretofore been unfamiliar to me

in my experience of myself.

 

I have always said that if a single

thing about my human experience

could save another a single instant

of suffering, confusion and misery,

then I would count my life well

lived.

 

So thank you for listening to me

ramble on and on day after day.

 

Can you believe it?

 

January 1, 2027 marks 29 years

of the thought and prayer offerings!

 

So have a beautiful day today,

beloved.

 

This old woman's heart purrs like a

kitten whenever she thinks of

you as we travel this journey together

arm in arm, walking each other back

to the HOME we never left, nor could

we ever leave in truth.

 

You are a treasure....

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

How could anything be more

beautiful or more fulfilling than

to be a humble human being on

planet earth who has been given

the opportunity to share this

incredible experience we are

each having in our own unique

way with each of you?

 

Thanks for the company.

 

You make one helluva travel

companion.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

Let's begin with a quick reminder

of the verse we have been unpacking

from A Course In Miracles:

 

“The secret of salvation is but this:

that I am doing this unto myself.”

 

T-27.VIII.10

 

To truly understand this verse, there

is yet one more puzzle piece for us

to look at and understand.

 

From the day you were born, the

world has brainwashed you and

meticulusly trained you to believe

that in order to get something,

you have to be willing to give

something of either equal or

great value in return.

 

This is how religions, spiritual teachings

and teachers, the self help industry,

our educational system, healthcare

system, social media and capitalism

all began.

​

It is the tangled and gnarly root

behind every expectation.

 

Take a few moments to think about

it.

 

What have you ever really gotten that

was truly free?

​

Has this world ever made you feel 

equal to everyone else on this planet

and that you were perfect as you are

right now?

 

This is the how, when and where that

God became something or someone

outside of ourselves.

 

And that bar for reaching this so-called

Source of all things, this Creator of the

Universe, was an impossibly high goal

to achieve and few would ever be found

distinguished enough to attain It, let

alone deserve It, and 'It' was usually

addressed as a 'Him' because being

male is somehow the best thing to be.

 

Right?

 

It is how we all became unworthy or

not good enough.

​

And it is why we have all been searching

for good, better and best and trying

to beat the next guy in order to hold

onto it.

​

Happy moments, content moments,

are fleeting at best because we are

always waiting for the other shoe 

to drop and it always does, doesn't

it?

 

Can you imagine a world of duality

or victim consciousness if we were

all equally worthy and already had

everything we needed, that all we

had to do was ask and the solution

or opportunity would always present

itself?

​

What's not to trust in a world that

is already and always perfect and

you rest securely because every-

thing unfolds in ways more fulfilling

than the mind could ever imagine?

 

Can you imagine growing up and

believing that you were not loved,

that you were not love itself, and

then spending your whole life

either looking for it, or trying to

hold onto it because you had been

hoodwinked into believing that

no matter what you did, no matter

how hard you tried, you would

never measure up, never be worthy,

that you had to work your ass off

to the bone every single day and

every minute of every day because

there would always be something

about you or your life which would

always be lacking, someway to make

it better, if only you hold on tighter,

try harder and never stop trying to

achieve some mythical idea of

perfection that was not only

unattainable, but would never, could

never be the version of you that you

are right now, in this very moment?

 

Beloved...

 

You are beautiful.

 

And right now, exactly as you are,

you are as God created you.

 

There is nothing for you to do,

nothing to become, no goal to achieve,

no pinnacle of success to search for

other than that you be happy, that you

go ahead and live you life as your heart

dictates and have experiences while

being the perfect you character that you

already are, never forgetting that you

are soul, experiencing a human life,

so get on out there and live it as only

you can because a human life is a

precious gift and even what is considered

a long and happy life is done and over

with in the blink of an eye.

 

Know that you are a treasure because

you are treasured by yourself.

 

You are complete.

 

You are whole.

​

And baby?

 

You are resplendent.

 

And nothing...

 

nothing...

 

...stands between you and the

Source of everything because

darlin', believe it or not, you

hung the stars!

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

How could anything be more

perfect than what I already

am and have?

 

Thank you for every bit of it!

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

Let's begin with a quick reminder

of the verse we are unpacking

from A Course In Miracles which

we began yesterday:

 

“The secret of salvation is but this:

that I am doing this unto myself.”

 

T-27.VIII.10

 

Let's dive deeper into what the verse

is telling us today.

 

First, let me remind you of an idea

which we have already covered on

two different occasions.

 

The experience of survival, separation

and suffering ends when we love

ourselves enough to end it.

 

This is a very important idea which

flew over most people's heads when

it was first shared, in spite of the fact

that it is probably the most profoundly

liberating statement which has ever

been uttered here.

 

It is important because it puts you

squarely back into the driver's

seat.

 

This means that it places the burden of

responsibility onto you, beloved,

which is precisely where it belongs.

 

Because if your emancipation depended

on anyone or anything outside of you,

you could rightfully claim victim

consciousness.

 

For how could anyone ever exercise any

consistent control over another

that actually works?

 

That's like playing a game of Russian

roulette with your life where your

happiness is in the hands of others

every single instant.

 

But because your freedom is your

responsibility, you can end it whenever

you decide you are worthy of your

freedom and release from all that

you only think you have made.

 

This is all about us recognizing that

we are the only one capable of creating

the illusion of separation, in our minds, 

and we are the only one that is strong

enough and powerful enough to end it.

 

And that, dear one, hinges on your

taking your power back and deciding

that you are worthy of your own love

and respect.

 

And that begins by recognizing that

your worth is established by God

and is forever immutable.

 

And that is all about you allowing this

to be true for you.

 

LOVE must be free of expectations,

demands or requirements to be love.

 

For that is what unconditional actually

means.

 

God's LOVE is yours and it always has

been and always will be yours.

 

There is nothing you can do to lose it.

 

There is nothing that you can do to

earn it.

 

That is why grace means unmerited

favor.

 

It is not unmerited in the sense that

its yours, but you do not really

deserve it.

 

It means it is yours and you cannot earn

it because you do not need to.

 

NO REQUIREMENTS EVER!!!

 

So I will end today's thought this beautiful

Mother's Day with this...

 

Why not today?

 

Is not today a beautiful day for a prison

break?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

How could I break out of prison

when it is clear to me today

that I cannot be imprisoned?

​

That I never have been, nor could

I ever be.

​

My so-called capture was by

my own design.

​

Talented, eh?

​

Well it ends as of this moment.

​

The gig is up.

 

Today I accept that truth is true

and nothing else exists.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

There is a beautiful statement which

is made in A Course Of Miracles

that says the following:

 

“The secret of salvation is but this:

that I am doing this unto myself.”

 

T-27.VIII.10

 

This one sentence is saying so much

in so few words.

 

Shall we explore it together this

Mother's Day weekend?

 

Let us start with this.

 

On the most rudimentary level

it is telling us:

 

What we hold onto, the body

holds onto.

 

To this there are no exceptions.

 

You tell me, is it worth it?

 

I don't know about you, but

I would rather have a body that

works and serves me well

until my very last breath than

one that is broken down,

disease-ridden and in pain

all the time.

​

The relative well-being of the body

does not depend on pills, potions,

fasts, diets, or any other external

remedy or gimic the mind comes

up with.

 

It relies soul-fully on your own

inner experience of yourself and

your life.

​

Loving, open, receptive and empty

will always be the only thing which 

opens the door to infinite possibility

and infinite potential.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Inwardly I bow before every

experience with an open and

loving heart.

 

I cling to nothing, so nothing

clings to me.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

One day you will look upon all of this,

yourself, the Soul and the world

as one seamless whole of continuity

and perfection without flinching,

without contraction or judgment. 

 

There will be no more compartmental-

ization, no either/or, just flawless flow.

 

This is the pinnacle of the embodied

realized state and thus the true meaning

of resurrection. 

 

For resurrection is not the raising

of the dead, but bringing the vision of

wholeness to the once blind, & new life

to those walking the procession of

the living dead. 

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

 

No more judging anything.

 

May I behold naught but the face

of God in all I see and experience.

​

And may this vision be the only

thing I bear witness to within me.

​

And so it is.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

The last of our thoughts for review

are as follows:

 

"Being who I am and how I am

isn't getting in the way of

anything.

 

Ever.

 

(So I entirely lost the plot over

Donald Trump and his most recent

antics yesterday...)

 

When I recognize what I am doing,

the question I then ask myself is,

how quickly can I pick myself up

and climb back into the saddle?

Can I do so without lapsing into

self-abnegating inner chatter and

recrimination?

​

And can I do so with a quick 'bless

my heart,' loving and accepting

the oh-so-human part of the mind

that is quick to judge and be self-

righteous and extremely vocal

about it?

​

Can I also do so with the part

of the created self who is quick to

follow the negative partyline?

 

I do not have to make such a BFD

out of everything that I do not

approve of and wish were

different.

​

Can I be equally loving and accepting

of the judgy-preachy-things which

the mind goes on and on about as I am 

of the shiny loving and gentle ones?

​

Can I see that everyone, no exceptions,

is a reflection of myself?

 

Because here is the honest-to-God

truth...

 

I walk this world in perfect Oneness

no matter how I happen to show up,

completely connected to God in

every possible way.

 

And so does everyone else."

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

 

No more the unclaimed treasure, I

claim all of me right now!

 

Instead of "Can I embrace that?", my

new mantra is "Can I love this long

forgotten and abandoned part of

me that I find fault with because I

believed she should be different?"

 

If God approves of all of me as I am,

me being an extension of God Itself,

why can't I?

​

And is this not the truth for all of us?

​

We are all in the same boat.

​

Sometimes the water is choppy, and

sometimes it is smooth sails all the

way.

​

No matter.

 

Let this then be the awareness I

walk the world with today.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Our next thoughts for review:

 

"Each day that I awaken is a gift that

the Universe has seen fit to grant me.

​

It was never and will never be a given

that I can take for granted.

 

As we discovered yesterday, I experience 

tabula rasa, a blank slate, every new day

that I am given.

 

I get a Cosmic reset. A redo, if you will.

 

The past no longer applies to anything.

​

The slate is entirely wiped clean of all

imprints, unless I chose to keep them

so that I can cling to the attachment

I have to everything which would 

strengthen and maintain my belief

that I am an individual, this separate

sense of self that I must keep alive

and real to me at all costs in my mind.

 

When the truth is, the only thing that

matters is today, this day that I have

been granted.

 

I am no longer available for other

people's bullshit. Nor can I hoodwink

myself into believing any narrative

or particular interpretation my mind

offers.

 

I am teflon, not velcro.

 

The world passes through me, but never

sticks to me.

​

Emotions, feelings, thoughts, beliefs,

judgments and experiences pass through

me but nothing clings.

​

No more holding onto anything.

 

I am in the world, but I am no longer of it.

​

Harmony, peace and equipoise are

my new norm."

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

 

I am endlessly grateful for today.

 

I recognize that it is a gift, no matter what

it holds, a gift that I was never promised.

 

Let me remain lovingly aware, ever kind

to myself, ever kind and accepting of

my world.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Our next thoughts for review:

 

"I am tabula rasa, a blank slate.

 

Rehashing the past is how I

keep the personal alive

in my mind.

 

Where else could the personal

actually live other than between

my two ears?

 

The world is my oyster.

 

Everything is available to me.

 

Everything is possible.

 

Right now. For me. In this very

moment.

 

My life is a living invitation which

says:

 

Miracles welcome here.

 

Why settle for the finite when

I was born from Magnitude

and made for the Infinite?

​

***

​

I challenge you to make a recording

of these words and listen to them

all day long.

 

Feel them as they are absorbed into

your cells, your heart, the very core

of your innermost being.

​

They were written for you, my dear.

 

I am not asking you to play your

recording out loud for all the world

to hear.

 

That's why we have these things

which we call earbuds and

headphones, silly.

 

At day's end report back to me,

sharing what kind of day you

experienced and the miracle 

for which you were most fond.

 

May grace fill your cup to over-

flowing with hope and unity today,

this beautiful Cinco de Mayo.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

 

Thank you for all the GIFTS this

day will hold for all the earth

to bear witness to and receive.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Our next point of review:

 

"I give myself permission to be

Infinite and free."

 

"Only I am clever enough to

design a foolproof plan to

leave Oneness and lose all

sense of reality to the Matrix."

​

"And only I am wise enough

and loving enough to give

myself permission to return

to that state which I never

left, which could never ever

leave me, being what I

changelessly am."

 

"Do I love myself enough to

give myself permission to be

free now?"

 

Allow it to flow wordlessly as

a soft and inviting invitation

in the background of the mind,

ever reminding you to relax,

accept, watch the breath and

lean into your experience with

an open and loving heart which

trusts that you are always

experiencing what you were

meant to experience and you

cannot mess it up.

 

Life is pretty simple as long as

we allow it to be.

 

horizontal axis = Matrix, lost in the

experience of humaning.

 

vertical axis = True North, the eternal

abode and home of the soul.

 

Have an elegantly simple and loving

day, for that too is by our design.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

 

Thank you for the sweet and simple

day that I am about to experience.

 

For I realize that all days are sweet

and simple unless I lose sight of

truth and complicate them.

 

May miracles of kindness fall like

healing rain on each and everyone

of us, as I give the whole of humanity

permission to be free and Infinite.

 

May all beings directly experience

their inherent freedom and know

peace.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Our next point of review:

 

Life is all about....

*accepting...

*embracing....

*allowing...

 

Nothing more and nothing less.

 

Life is about being unequivocally freed

of the need to try to change anything.

​

Efforting over anything is a relic of

the past, a one and done.

​

So is struggle and suffering.

 

You are beautiful and perfect the way

you are right now, beloved, because

you are as God created you.

 

Unchanged. Unchanging. Unchangeable.

 

And so is everyone and everything

else.

 

This is and always has been all about

you giving yourself permission to be

free.

 

The nightmare phase of being human

ends when you finally love yourself

enough to end it.

 

The age of tenderness and completion

is upon us.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

 

Thank you for helping these eyes

and this heart to see clearly.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Yesterday in the midst of our prayer,

we made one of the most sobering

statements that can ever be made

and it went in one ear and out the

other for most who read it.

​

And it is a statement that nearly

no one on this planet actually

believes is true.

 

So let's take a look at it again.

 

"I am already as free as I ever will

be. I always have been and so is

everyone else."

 

Let's try to make it an even bolder

statement than this, one you

can memorize and keep in your

invisible pocket, ever available

to you whenever you feel upset,

angry, uncertain or lost in a state

of overwhelm and fear.

 

Right now, in the very midst of this

____________ (thought, this feeling,

this sensation, this experience), I

am as enlightened as I am ever going

to be.

 

There will be no other instant where

it can be said that I am more free

than this.

 

So why not slow my roll, take a breath

and lean into what is, knowing that

I am not here to try to change this.

 

I am here to feel it and experience this

fully, as it is. 

 

So let me soften and bring my awareness

to my heart as I ask myself the following

question:

 

Can I embrace this?

 

And if that is just too big of an ask

at this point in time, can I at least

accept it and be kind and gentle with

myself and those who are experiencing

this along with me?

Obviously I have lost the plot again.

​

No matter.

​

Let me use this experience as a reminder

to return to True North.

​

There you have it.

 

Use it liberally.

 

Remember, you are in the world, but

you are not of it.

 

And nothing is nearly as big a deal

as your mind would like to make of it.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

 

Thank you for the FREEDOM which

I share with every living thing.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

From time to time I find it helpful

to hit my pause button, relax

and breathe, as I review what has

become powerfully clear to me.

 

Doing so will also provide a huge

paradigm shift for anyone who

takes it to heart if they let it.

 

And what I like best about this kind

of a review is that it illuminates just

how far I've come.

 

For although I am the same basic

person that I have always been,

the difference in the quality of my

life is like the difference between

night and day.

 

Remember the spiritual paradox

that we covered in recent weeks?

 

Although our emphasis, from day one,

has always been on radical acceptance,

ever reminding us that we do not need

to fix or change anything because we

are not broken, we have each seen

through our own direct experience

that the more you can accept yourself

as you are, the more you can accept

what you have done and what has

been done to you, with open arms

and a loving and gentle heart, the

more we find our lives changing, and

always for the better.

 

We are happier.

 

We walk around with a smile on

our face more often than not.

 

We trust more.

 

And a genuine lightheartedness

begins to fill our days.

 

We know that we are always on

the soul's journey and that we

cannot mess it up.

 

We know that what happens as

well as how we experience what

happens was meant to happen

precisely as it did.

​

And if it is true about us, it is

equally true for every single one

of us.

 

God doesn't make mistakes,

which means that you do not

make mistakes either.

 

Ever.

​

You are as God created you, are

you not?

 

So our first point of review can be

simply stated as follows:

 

There is no determining factor

for anyone.

 

Everything is available equally to

all of us in every moment of our

lives.

​

This translates into this simple fact:

 

Everything is available to you and

everyone else right now, in this

very instant.

 

Nothing is or ever can get in the way

of anything.

 

Isn't that such magnificent news?

 

Remind yourself of this often today.

 

Especially when you are about to

judge and find fault with someone,

something or yourself.

 

Apply it generously to any situation

that happens to get under your skin

or ruffle your feathers.

 

See if you can open your heart and

your arms to what happens in your mind,

your emotions, your body and every

situation or circumstance you find

yourself in today with a smile rather than

a reproach, softness rather than spite,

and openness rather than contraction.

 

Whether you choose to participate in

this little experiment or not will not

change a single thing, so why bother?

 

How about this for a guarantee?

 

I promise you that your participation

in the experiment will not change

what is destined to happen, but it

will change the quality of your inner

experience if you do elect to participate

because that, beloved, always makes

for a much sweeter ride.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

 

What is there to get upset

and forlorn about when you

accept that there is no

determining factor for any-

thing?

 

I am already as free as I ever

will be. I always have been

and so is everyone else.

 

How about I lay aside all effort

and striving today and just

enjoy the life which is mine

to live?

 

Thank you ahead of time for

the miracles which will unfold

for each and every one of us

today.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Now that you have a couple of

days under your belt of working

with the metaphor of repelling

magnets, we are going to talk

about them again in reverse.

 

I spoke with several people and

they told me that they recognized

what I was trying to explain when

it occurred within themselves

rather quickly.

 

It became a felt experience which

was recognizable for the most part.

 

We are talking about simple ways

to notice how quickly one shifts

from enlightened to humaning

unless they find ways to remain

consciously aware in the moments

of their days.

 

They also reported that it was a

reminder to slow their lives

down. For always this world

seeks to get you to join the herd

of ballistic human doing.

 

But today, I just want you to

notice when the now quite

familiar feeling of repelling

magnets rises within you.

​

See it, recognize it and feel it

 

You see, there are so many times

that I do not realize that I am

resisting rather than relaxing

until I acknowledge the discomfort

that I am feeling.

 

This is often the case when

resistance is more subtle, and

therefore passes by unrecognized

in the moment.

 

I then hit my pause button and

the first question that arises is

the question we have repeatedly

offered here over the years.

 

Is peace in my awareness?

 

Obviously, it is not, so then the

second question arises.

 

What am I resisting?

 

That's where our inner inquiry

begins.

 

As I said, so often I do not recognize

the subtlety of resistance, the

undercurrent of avoidance and

discontent (wishing things were

different and trying to change

them).

 

When we are humaning, the ego

can be very clever in its ability

to mask what we are up to so

that it can remain in charge.

 

And what is the overarching

purpose of such inquiry?

 

To show us that we are again

embroiled in the mechanics

of humaning, up to our eyeballs

in the finite, the personal, and

we have entirely lost sight of

our Infinite and Eternal Reality

or soul.

​

So the purpose of our inquiry

is to show us what we have

resisted, what we have not 

accepted and embraced, not

to try to fix or change either

ourselves or our experience.

​

So normalize your experience.

​

Now relax into it with your

heart open and the proclivity 

to judge and avoid gently laid

aside, thus returning you

to soul.

 

Work with this today and do share

what you discover.

 

As our thought yesterday

reminded us, being human

is not a solo act.

 

And there is so much comfort

in the recognition and realization

that we are not alone.

 

Consciously choosing to connect

with other friends who are also

choosing conscious lives, actively

extracting themselves from the

Matrix as are we, can be a huge

source of strength and support

to us if we let it be.

 

How amazing is it to recognize

someone from the same branch

of the Tree of Life as ourselves?

 

One who chose to incarnate at this

particular time in human history

along with us to help usher in

the next chapter in human evolution?

 

And we do this each and every day

by allowing ourselves to become

the science experiment, the petri

dish, so that our lives are living

demonstrations of what is possible

in the span of one precious human

life.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Liveth Thou Me, dear

soul.

 

Liveth Thou Me.

 

May I never lose sight of

you in the quagmire of

this Matrix in which we

find ourselves.

 

For I would be a lighthouse;

ever reminding all within the

purview of its luminescence

of their own True North.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

How about a really great

go-to statement?

 

One you can pull out of

your pocket when things

are tough and you feel

uncertain, overwhelmed,

frustrated, perturbed and

in over your head?

 

I am never a soloist.

 

I am not a person, I am

a Presence.

 

Empowerment is not about

personal power, personal

understanding, its about

remembering to give it to God

and leave it there.

 

And if you do no happen to like

my use of the word "God,"

how about tweaking it a bit

and saying the following...

 

To be empowered is not to seek

personal power, personal solutions,

but to leave all power in its Universal

form where answers come from an

intelligence which is entirely beyond

my paygrade when they are needed

and where they are needed.

​

Nothing ever depends upon me.

 

Because the truth is that none

of the human stuff is about

you.

 

And none of the human stuff

depends upon you.

 

Nor does any of it mean anything

about you.

 

So memorize it and use it whenever

and wherever you feel outside of your

capacity to know what to do.

 

I am sure your mind as well as your

life will give you plenty of experiences

which are perfect for a reminder such

as this.

 

Let the results speak for themselves

and let me leave you today with

the following...

 

There is a beautiful sloka in the

Bodhicharyavatara which means

The Way of the Bodhisattva that

says the following:

 

If there is something you can do

about it, why worry?

 

If there is nothing you can do

about it, why worry?

 

I know I am powerless as a human

being and yet I rest in a sublime

state of peace and trust.

​

I worry about absolutely nothing

these days...

​

Do I have serious health challenges

right now?

​

Yes.

​

Am I swimming in medical debt?

​

Yes.

​

Have I recently lost a major source

of income upon which I depended?

​

Yes.

​

But am I worried?

​

No.

​

Do I feel afraid?

​

No.

​

Do I wrestle with sleeplessness?

​

Heaven's no!

​

I feel comforted and supported

by the Universe, I do not feel

overwhelmed, nor do I feel

abandoned by it.

​

I know I am loved and will be

cared for.

​

God is my Daily Bread, not this

world.

​

I draw from an Eternal Source

beyond this world's capacity

to remotely fathom.

 

I really think that is my greatest

super power.

 

Because being human is a unending

reminder to remember to take a step

back and allow the LIGHT to lead

the way.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I can't.

God can.

So I think I'll turn loose of

the steering wheel, hop in

the backseat, and let the Universe

do all the driving.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

When I was a child, I loved magnets.

 

They were such a strange and oddly

compelling mystery to me.

 

I loved how they were attracted to

one another, how quickly they

would become attached when you

put them in proximity to one another.

 

But I think it was the magnets which

repelled one another than I liked

best and found most interesting to

play with.

 

I would toy with them until I found

that perfect sweet spot of tension

between the two where I could

feel the pull that existed between

them because it was coursing

through my body as well.

 

Close enough and yet not so distant

that they were able to push apart

completely, thus breaking the point

of any palpable tension.

 

They were interesting to observe.

 

You could not endure feeling that

energy indefinitely, because there

was a point where it began to feel

too uncomfortable to continue.

 

Strangely enough however, I loved

making myself feel that discomfort

for as long as I could stand it.

 

But inevitably, you were driven

to distance the two from each other

to a place of safety where the tension

could no longer be felt.

 

This is the nature of resistance.

 

Whenever you do not like something,

for whatever reason, and you feel

the knee-jerk urge to avoid, I would like

you to quietly observe your experience.

 

Treat your experience like a science

experiment.

 

Do not try to change it immediately

and do not judge yourself or make

yourself wrong in any way.

 

Just notice what you feel and observe.

 

For what I have found in observing

myself is that it is not the particular

story or meaning which I have given

to the experience that I am trying to

avoid which is the cause of my

suffering.

 

It is the palpable tension that I am

feeling which is indistinguishable

to that of repelling magnets.

 

I will continue to feel that so long

as I continue to avoid what I am

trying hard not to look at, or

enough time passes where I can

successfully suppress and repress

which usually takes a few days to

accomplish.

​

You know what I am talking about.

​

Out of sight and out of mind.

 

However, I have met people who

have been stuck in this position

for decades.

 

People in this position are very

attached to playing the role of

victim and blaming their misery

on someone or something else.

 

What I have noticed with myself,

however, as I continued to explore

my experience, is that when I

consciously choose to stop resisting

and just remain very still and open,

without telling any stories or

assigning any meanings to my

experience, just absolutely still

and open, that I no longer feel

that repelling quality of energy.

 

All I notice are nameless sensations

in various parts of the body.

 

Here, they can be felt, described,

observed and integrated.

 

A very simple process.

 

Observe this with yourself today.

 

But take it a step further.

 

After allowing the experience to

fully integrate, repeat the following

statement to yourself:

 

I am identified with the ego. Only

the ego is capable of experiencing

resistance. Only the ego can suffer.

 

Then turn your attention to the

universal experience of the Soul,

which is peaceful and loving

acceptance.

 

This entire event which you have

now experienced has been truly

miraculous.

 

On a planet with nearly 9 billion

people, how many do you suppose

are experiencing the incredible

luminosity of Clear Seeing as

are you?

 

Have a beautiful and profoundly

miraculous day today.

 

And may you remain consciously

aware of the force that is ever

with you, for indeed it always is.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

It's good to be alive.

 

Thank you for the gift.

 

Bless these eyes.

 

Bless these eyes and this heart,

for I will to see clearly.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

As entirely liberating as a thought

may be, as our thought from

yesterday was, your experience

after having your eyes and heart

opening wider than they ever have

before,can seem confusing because

you may start experiencing things

that feel far more unsettling or

difficult than they do peaceful.

 

This is to be expected.

 

I cannot emphasize enough the

necessity of normalizing our

experience, whatever it happens

to be.

​

Normalizing is often an act of

profound kindness that you are

not used to affording yourself.

 

But here is the thing...

 

Each instant that you grasp a

little more clearly that there is

no such thing as a personal self,

and each instant that you identify

more clearly with the Universal,

Eternal and Changeless nature

of who and what you truly are,

the more the body has to shed

all the things which were

byproducts and acquisitions

of the personal identity you

have been operating as

through incessant repetition.

 

You see, when we say you are

on the soul's journey, that you

have always been on the soul's

journey, things like time, destiny

and karma apply only to the

individual or personal self.

 

But when you embark on the

journey As Soul, meaning your

identification is with our

collective identity, rather than

the personal identity, all things

which are the result of one's

identification as the personal

begin to purge themselves from

the body's cells, organs, tissues,

glands, DNA, atoms and molecules.
 

This is a good thing.

 

This is a very good thing.

​

This is even a boon for your entire

lineage, both backward and forward.

 

But it may well feel as challenging

and disturbing as it is wonderful.

 

Would you not be free of all of

this?

 

Trust now must become your new

best friend.

 

So do not be at all surprised

if you face things you thought

were long gone.

 

And do not count it strange if

you experience bouts of extreme

cold, heat or nausea, joint

pain, mild fevers or achiness.

 

Remember that the instruction

is to first normalize the experience.

 

Next, support the body in whatever

way your intuition suggests.

 

And never forget to ask yourself

sincerely, "How can I love and

support you best through this?"

 

This is the time of tenderness.

 

And your breath is the key to

everything.

 

Be attentive and gentle with yourself,

feeling deeply everything that is

presenting itself.

 

THIS IS ONLY COMING UP SO THAT

IT CAN LEAVE.

 

ALLOW IT TO LEAVE BY TRULY

BEING THERE FOR YOURSELF.

 

Presence is the fire which lovingly

burns to ashes all things which are

no longer necessary.

 

No stories. No meanings. No

interpretations nor any need to

understand anything.

​

These are mere delay mechanisms.

 

Just feeling, loving and supporting.

 

That is the instruction.

 

Nothing is ever as complicated

or as serious as you have made it

out to be.

 

How very fortunate you are

to be where you are, experiencing

what it is yours to experience.

 

A little gratitude will go farther

than you could possibly know.

 

A good mantra I have found

useful over the years is this:

 

This is a GIFT. Why not stick

around and truly be here to

see how it all unfolds?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am a limitless being of love

and light, ONE with all things

manifest and unmanifest.

 

Thank you for the countless

gifts and miracles which will

unfold in my life today, all

because I know that I am that,

I am.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

I would like to begin today's thought

with the final statement that I made

in yesterday's prayer:

 

"For the sake of all of us..."

 

It is one thing to believe that we are

all one, that what we do affects each

and every single thing that lives and

to have accepted this as gospel, and

it is quite another thing to have had

a direct experience of Oneness, to

feel our unity with each other and

all of life, knowing that we are one

being who is wearing countless forms

and faces.

 

And we all know how tragically

Christianity screwed things up by

making Jesus special, so special in

fact that he was the one and only

son of God, while the rest of us were

hopeless sinners who were entirely

beyond redemption without his

sacrifice.

 

This is the idea that God had to

allow his one and only son to be

sacrificed in a perfectly heinous

manner for the sake of all the rest

of us, so that all of creation would

not be forever lost to themselves,

to each other, and to God, and

by thus condemned to hell.

 

But even Jesus was known to have

uttered these words before his

ascension:

 

"Very truly I tell you, whoever believes

in me will do the works I have been

doing, and they will do even greater

things than these because I am going

to the Father."

 

John 14:12

 

What did he mean? What was he

really saying?

 

To one who has a direct experience

of oneness it is self evident.

 

First, he was trying to get through

to us that there is no such thing as

the personal self.

 

There is the Christ Consciousness,

the very spark of God which lives

in all things created equally, for it

is a part of an infinite ocean or

field we know as God.

 

Christ was not Jesus' name.

​

It was the part of God inside of

him which had saturated every

atom and molecule of his being

and with which he had become

entirely identified.

 

Secondly, he was trying to tell us

throughout his brief public

ministry that we are all the

Christ.

 

This is our changeless identity.

 

Next, he was trying to tell us that

all the ego or personal self really

is, is the portion of the collective

consciousness we each have been

channeling from those around

us and the etheric element of that

unified field of energy.

 

When you repeat something often

enough, you believe that it is the

truth.

 

There is a beautiful sentence in

the AA Preamble which says:

 

"Repetition strengthens and

confirms, and faith comes naturally."

​

We have each been functioning

from a mistaken sense of identity.

 

So we took all these repeated 1's

and 0's from this matrix of energy,

this amalgamation of data points,

and we formulated a sense of

identity from them, as if molding

them from clay.

​

This became our adopted sense

of self, the sense of I, me, mine.

 

But again, there is no such thing

as a personal self which is real.

 

So what is all the collective

consciousness? What does it

contain?

 

Remember the discussion we had

on our own trinity?

 

a) The personal self and every quality

possible to the experience of being

human.

b) The experience of love, light and

presence which we all are.

c) The Void or Emptiness; a primordial

nothingness which contains every

single possibility and potential in

a formless state.

 

So what Jesus was trying to get each

of us to see was that we do not need

to channel those things which keep

us believing in the pseudo self that

we made.

 

If that Collective Consciousness, which

is the truth of all of us, contains every

possibility and potential, if it is quite

literally Infinite, meaning that there is

no beginning nor end to what is

equally available to all of us, then

that, dear friends, is what the living

presence of Christ or God is.

 

So surely what is possible for each of us

is beyond anything which the mind can

conceive.

 

Every great achievement, every record

set, every work of art, every beautiful

sunset, every baby's smile, where do

you think all of this stuff comes from?

 

Our Consciousness, the Infinite

Unified Field we call God.

 

So today I want you to give yourself

permission to quietly reflect on all

of this.

 

Every breath that you take, every beat

of your heart, every thought that

you think, every feeling that you feel

is coming from that vast and infinite

field of information.

​

Aren't you magnificent?

 

So welcome the miraculous.

 

And remember..

 

"All things are possible to the one

who believes."

 

Mark 9:23

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am all this...

 

Can you believe it?

 

Me a part of it and it a part

of me...

 

Everything is a miracle!

 

Every single thing is a miracle!

 

Every moment is a miracle.

​

I am a miracle!

 

The opportunity to be here,

to be alive, to experience all of

this, what an incredible gift!

 

Thank you for all of it!

 

I'm going back for more!

 

Why settle for crumbs?

 

I'll take the whole enchilada!

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

When you can meet the more

difficult aspects of your

humanity, I mean really turn

and face them, accepting these

parts of yourself without

trying to change them or make

them wrong, welcoming them

fully into your heart with

gentleness, compassion and

kindness exactly as they are,

this hallmarks the beginning of

union with the Divine.

 

What more could be shared

today than this?

 

You have your marching orders.

 

There are legions of things

that will happen today.

​

And you will either turn and

face each one of them or you

will try to find some way to run

away from them in order to

avoid them.

 

And the myriad of reactions

to these experiences that you

will have will quite literally

be all over the map.

 

You will see parts of yourself

which are easy to love and

embrace.

 

There will be other parts for

which you feel rather cool or

neutral.

 

But there will be other things....

 

Things that you would rather

deny, ignore, distract, numb or

self medicate into oblivion in

whatever way which works best

for you when you are trying to

avoid facing and acknowledging

the uncomfortable and perhaps

even more painful aspects of your

humanity to look at and own.

 

Do you have the courage to

be still, to turn and face them?

 

Because the courage to stay is

a big one for all of us.

 

And from here, can you accept

and embrace the darker aspects

of your humanity and normalize

them?

 

They are nothing to feel shame

about.

 

But they are aspects of the collective

which you have repeated again

and again until you have chosen

to believe they are who you are.

​

They are not, but you have made

them yours through repetition

and identification.

 

You are a human being humaning.

 

You are having a human experience.

 

Truth be told, if anyone else on

this planet had to go through what

you have gone through in this life?

 

Well they would feel, say and

act this way too when they had

had enough.

 

You see, the ability to do this

genuinely on behalf of all of us

is the only so called price to

knowing the unknowable.

 

And each time that you do,

beloved, we each can breathe

a little more free as we experience

a huge sigh of relief and embrace

our newfound emancipation and

peace.

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am ready to embrace all that

I have denied because it was

my truth.

 

For the sake of all of us........

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

A simple thought is again given

you to work with today.

 

The instruction remains the

same.

 

Allow the thought to walk in the

space before you today, ever

informing your feelings, your

thoughts and your actions, for it

is a very good reminder to stop

taking yourself and life so seriously.

 

Allow the words to fill you with

peace each time you repeat them

to yourself, ever reminding you

to relax and remember to actually

give yourself permission to enjoy

your breath.

 

Deep breaths.....

 

Remember how that feels?

 

Try taking a deep breath now with

your head tilted slightly back while

your face is tilted a bit upward.

​

Now close your eyes and put

a smile on that face of yours

with your arms stretched wide.

 

Isn't that delicious?

 

Here is you statement.

 

Nothing in this whole wide world

depends on me.

 

Isn't that wonderful to hear and

such good news?

 

This being human thing has

never been a 'me' type of

experience, it is a 'we'

experience.

 

And that air you are breathing?

 

It is the Universal Life Force

that you are breathing there, pal.

 

It isn't about your breath, it is our

breath that you are breathing.

 

With each and every breath, you

are connecting with the very spirit

which abides in all of us equally.

 

Remember....

 

Nothing in this whole wide world

depends on me.

 

You are not nearly as important

as you believe that you are.

​

You have been operating under

a false sense of self importance.

​

You have been pole-vaulting over

mouse turds your whole life.

​

It is a burden, stressful and completely

overwhelming to believe you are so

bloody important, because it has always

been and always will be about “our”

presence, "our" influence....

 

We are each a satellite dish that

receives and expresses the energy

that is all of us united as we were

created.

​

We aren't the doer of shit.

 

Lifting the overwhelm off of you,

the energy that you made all

about you.

​

Your efforts...

​

Your contributions...

​

Your being irreplaceable...

​

You have been victimized by life....

​

Giving all your power away...

 

When it is all about you and your

efforts, your contribution, it is

severely limiting and it is a burden.

​

The cards have not been stacked

against you.

 

Allowing the illusion and trap

of personal doership to be

lifted off of you.

 

Pivoting out the individual into the

Infinite, out of the personal into

the Universal.

 

Noticing the absolute sense of

liberation and expansion of the

energy you are experiencing.

 

And also noticing the FREEDOM.

 

It is our Presence you are feeling.

 

It is our Presence which you are

experiencing.

 

And your world will not collapse

without your efforts, in spite of how

deeply you believe you are the one

who keeps it all propped up and

flowing on a daily basis.

​

From a bird's eye view, you look like

Don Quixote tilting at windmills 

all day.

​

Isn't that exhausting and utterly

burdensome?

 

So let yourself off the hook today.

 

And give yourself the ingredients

required for fun and amazement.

​

It could be one helluva Friday if

you allowed yourself to take a step

back and enjoy the gift you have

been given.

 

Lay the adult aside and see how

wonderful it feels to be childlike

and unencumbered by worries,

concerns, pressures to perform

and unrealistic goals.

​

Have you ever witnessed anything

in nature ever worry about anything?

 

Allow your world to flow without

your aid.

​

It has been all along in spite of your

gymnastics and theatrics.

 

Oh.. You thought that was your

efforts that were making all this

happen?

 

Will the earth stop spinning on

its axis today without your help?

 

Every day is a good day to be

still and know with a child's heart

ever reminding you that you were

born to bear witness, not to lose

yourself in the false notion of

personal doership and the activity

of adulting.

 

For you are only ever as free as you

allow yourself to be.

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Today, I will give myself

permission to live free of

everything.

 

I'm gonna play full out

and swing for the fences

with a heart as wide as 

the world!

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Yesterday was a day that the former

'me' would have described as

"straight out of hell."

 

First let me clarify something that

is very important.

 

The singular message which I

have consistently given voice to

for as long as I can remember is

that you do not need to change.

 

You are not broken.

 

And there is absolutely nothing

for you to work on.

 

Yet I have just spoken of myself

as though I was two different

people: current me and former

me.

 

And this is because one of the

more hilarious paradoxes of

the spiritual path to me is that

the more you stop working on

yourself, the more you change

and the more things change

in your life.

 

So while I say there is nothing

wrong, that there is nothing for

you to do and nothing to work

on, the more I have been able

to love and accept myself and

my life as it is in recognition

that I am already and always

the perfect 'me,' the more my

life has changed, the more

I have changed...

​

And for the better, IMHO.

 

All my rough edges were made

smooth. And I am kind and

gentle, spacious and infinitely

patient, loving and peaceful.

​

Hey...and I have a whole lot of

the wisdom thing going on!

 

Not just some of the time, but

all of the time!

 

And I dare to say these things

about myself because even

when I am having a rough day

like yesterday, I can always

take another step back and

be the most loving and tender

friend to the part of me that

feels such overwhelm, confusion,

ever questioning the universe,

about "Where in the h-e-double

toothpicks is my miracle?"

when no apparent miracle

is showing up to save the day.

 

I even noticed while in the check

out lane at Trader Joe's, when 

the kind young man who

was loading up my groceries and

hit his pause button long enough

to look me dead in the eye

and ask,"How's your day going

today?" that I replied with a steady

return gaze, "You know...it's been

a day that  6 months ago I might

have had a royal meltdown over.

 

But you know what?

​

Today I am honestly just trying

to breathe, relax, trust that all is well,

and remember to smile as I do.

​

Because the real kicker is that

I could no longer be here to be

experiencing it. And that makes

it all a GIFT."

 

He said, "That's really great. I

hope it gets better for you now

that it seems you are ready to

head for home and call it a day."

 

A moment of connection, heart

to heart. And compassion and

kindness from a stranger who

would be brother and friend.

 

Does it get any better than that?

 

I'm telling you....

 

So that's the daily challenge

for all of us today.

 

No one can normalize your

experience but you.

 

Life is going to do what life is

going to do.

 

And humans are going to do

the one thing that you can

always count on them doing,

humaning.

 

And you will be reminded again

and again that you do not have

any control over any of it.

 

You do not even have control

over whether or not you are

even going to be given your

next breath.

 

That is mighty humbling, mighty

humbling...

 

Sometimes it will be exhilarating.

 

Sometimes you will want to pat

yourself on the shoulder because

you are doing so well.

 

(Which is seriously a joke if ever

I heard one because none of us

has any control over anything

other than whether or not we

will love and support ourselves

as we live the life which is ours

to live...)

 

Sometimes our day will go all

pear shaped and we will want

to go home, pull the covers

over our head and alternate

between spitting nails and

sucking our thumb.

 

But it will be our day.

 

It will be our life.

 

And we will live it as only we

can live it.

 

Now can you just do you, stay

in your lane and notice when

you are getting too close to either

the yellow line or the shoulder

and feel a bit of gratitude that

you are still here, still giving it

your all, still seeing how precious

you are and life is?

 

Because the deepest truth I have

discovered in the living of my life

is that when you can normalize

something, it is no longer such a

big deal.

 

Did you hear that?

 

Because it is very, very important.

 

This is normal.

 

My reaction is normal.

 

And life is just doing life.

 

The sky isn't falling and

I am doing me.

 

Normal. Every damn bit of it.

 

Hey self...could you use a hug?

 

Have a beautiful day my loves,

and know that I am in this

thing with you, right up to my

eyeballs, embracing the life

which is mine to live and sending

you all the love, encouragement

and support this heart has to

offer as you live the life which

is yours to live and experience

today too.

 

The key word for the day today

is normalize.

 

Remember that every moment

is a good moment to be thankful

and normalize the life which

is yours to live.

 

pelkyong

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Whatever the day is that is

going to be mine to experience

and live today, let me remember

to normalize my experience,

smile and breathe, and never

forget to dance as I love my

way through it!

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

I moved into the home in which

I presently live the day the Trade

Towers went down.

 

Good thing I don't believe in

bad omens or that could have

been a real bummer.

​

Few can imagine living in the same

place for as long as I have, but

there you have it.

​

I call that GRACE.

 

I mention this because I have

used my address as an example

to explain what we are all trying

to accomplish here because it

does so quite clearly.

​

It is an example which has served

me well since the day I moved in.

 

Let's say that someone knocks

on my door because they are

lost and are asking me for

directions to get back home.

 

I ask them where they are trying

to get to and they inform me

that their destination is Plano, TX.

 

Plano is a mere hop, skip and a

jump from my home in North Dallas. 

 

My residence is less than a quarter

of a mile from a freeway which is

named North Central Expressway.

 

Here in Texas, this freeway is

commonly referred to as

'N. C.  Expwy'.

 

And Plano is 5 miles north of me

off of that Expwy. which runs both

north and south.

 

What if I were to give that individual

directions to the freeway and then

I instructed them to get on the

southbound Expwy because all that

they have to do is go 12,954,001

miles and they will find themselves

safely in Plano.

​

This is the path of working on your-

self.

 

And it is what religion, the New

Age movement, all self help

groups, books, seminars, work-

shops, etc. try to sell you.

 

It is also what traditional therapy

has to offer.

​

Time, effort, energy and resources

all going nowhere which only com-

pound your sense of failure.

 

But what if I gave that same person

directions to the freeway and told

them to stay in the far left lane

because what they want to do is

get on the northbound freeway

and they will see exit signs in

approximately 5 miles which say

that you are now in Plano?

 

Which route would you rather take?

 

Both will eventually get you there,

for that is their intention.

 

However, one way will more than

likely take you decades if not lifetimes

to arrive at your destination.

​

And the journey will be fraught with

disappointment, discouragement,

uncertainty, calamity and chaos.

 

While the other will be a straight shot.

 

Now it really is up to you.

 

But long and tedious is just not my

bailiwick.

 

Can you accept the blessed truth that

you do not have to be different in

any way?

 

That you are only as encumbered or

unencumbered as you are preoccupied

with trying to fix yourself?

 

And you cannot seek salvation when

you have never needed salvaging

because you cannot find what was

never lost in the first place.

 

You can only give yourself permission

to be who and how you always have

been and ever yet shall be.

​

Because it is one thing to say these

words because you believe them to

be true. Here they can remain safely

in the mind as mere concept.

 

And it is quite another thing to open 

your beautiful and fragile heart in

complete and utter transparency,

allowing the LOVE which you forever

are to engulf and consume you

irrevocably.

​

This is about alchemy, and it is about

living a great mystery.

 

Liberation is not an acquired state,

it is about you allowing yourself to

receive the LOVE which you

changelessly are.

 

And that, dear one, is a matter of you

opening your heart to the truth which

abides in all its immaculate clarity,

wonder and awe within you.

 

It was and is as available to a serial

killer as it is to a saint.

 

Thus your humanity does not

and cannot get in the way of it.

 

Will you allow yourself to be free?

 

Because that is what it all boils

down to is your permission, or do

you need more time to work on

yourself, to seek but never find?

 

You do not need a guru, a teacher,

a special book, workshop or

seminar.

 

You do not need to waste money

and travel somewhere other than

where you presently are in this

very instant.

 

Freedom really is free, in spite of

the bill of goods you have been

sold which has you brainwashed 

into believing you are broken so

you cannot be free in your present

state and need time to work on

yourself.

 

You do not need to believe any of

the negative bullshit that has been

spoken over you which you have

mistakenly taken to heart.

 

The state of transcendence is freely

offered you in every single breath

you take.

 

Remember when the starship

Enterprise would find itself in

a tractor beam?

 

Well, that tractor beam is your

breath, ever pulling you into

the secret depths of your inner-

most kingdom.

 

So consciously follow the breath

today, and give yourself permission

to receive what no one else can

give you, because it is already yours

and it always has been.

​

Isn't it high time you allowed what

you are to tell you of itself?

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I give myself permission to experience

the freedom which is forever mine.

​

Oh God, reveal Thyself to me!

 

And in each and every moment,

I silently give this same permission

to all my world.

​

May all beings give themselves

permission to embrace FREEDOM

NOW with no further delays or

hesitation.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

There is a profound and highly

palpable harmonic resonance

which is felt when you live

your life in alignment with

the inner Trinity within you.

 

We haven't spoken of this

Trinity in a while, so we will

offer a quick review.

 

(1) A profound state of Emptiness

which is also referred to as the

Void.

 

There is nothing here.

 

There is no you, no reporter.

 

Free of any content, yet pregnant

with Infinite Potential and

Possibility.

 

It is mentioned in the Bible in

Genesis 1:2 where it says,

 

"And the earth was without form,

and void, and darkness was upon

the face of the deep."

 

(2) The first creation was that of

light, spoken of in Genesis 1:3.

 

"And God said, 'Let there be light,

and there was light."

 

The manifest form of this Infinite

Potential and Possibility is light.

 

And the feeling which is associated

with that light is love.

 

You are that presence, that love,

that light.

 

(3) While the third portion of your

Trinity is the human manifestation.

 

There is no difference between these

three. They are one.

 

Life also has two axes.

 

A vertical axis and a horizontal one,

forming the shape of a cross within

the human being.

 

The point where these axes cross

one another is found within each

of the 7 chakras.

 

The difference between the two

axes is one who lives from the

outside in and one who lives their

life from the inside out.

 

One who lives from the outside in

lives their whole life trying to tinker

with their humanity while trying

to control and manipulate their

life experience, feeling that their

inner experience is dictated by

their out one.

 

While one who lives from the inside

out is aligned with the Trinity

within. This one is not controlled

by outside experiences. Nor are they

bothered by their human one.

 

Their life is an authentic expression

of the Trinity within them, ever

remaining in alignment with all three

aspects of identity.

 

You are experiencing the body, yet

you are also experiencing being

transcendent.

 

This is to be in the world but not

of it.

 

The means given you to remain

anchored to the Trinity within you

is that of the breath.

 

Breath awareness is a living practice.

 

The will to live your life free of

suffering, free of survival, free of

uncertainty, chaos and doom

begins with commitment and

consistency on your part.

 

How attuned to my breath can

I be today?

​

That is the question that walks in

the space before you, ever

reminding you of your first priority.

 

When I forget, can I return without

beating up on myself, and just keep

threading my internal needle by

returning to the breath again and

again and by thus, realigning to

the source of truth within me?

 

This is your challenge for today.

 

"I am no longer allergic to being

human."

 

"No part of my humanity is ever

in conflict with the Trinity within

me."

 

"Breath awareness ever reminds

me of the truth. The breath is

my anchor to all three."

 

"There is no conflict between all

three states and I can live my life

in alignment with all three all of

the time."

 

"My only struggle has ever been

with my humanity. Now I can

normalize the human experience

rather than pathologize it while

constantly trying to work on it."

 

"My human experience is part

of the Infinite being that I am."

 

You are the one who stigmatized

your particular experience of

being human and you are the

only one who needs to normalize

it.

 

This happens when you no longer

make yourself wrong and allow

a thing so simple as the breath

to keep you tethered to all three.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me keep life profoundly

simple today by anchoring

mind, emotions, body and

experience upon the breath.

 

And help me remain light

hearted about it, returning

again and again when I forget

and lose myself once again

on the horizontal.

 

I am in the world, but

not of it and my only wish

is for my human experience

to be a reflection of the 

Trinity within me.

 

Amen

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***

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