Thought For The Today​​​​​

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Let's try to get down to the real

nitty gritty of things today.

 

Every time you get upset...

 

Every time you try to fix, change,

heal or improve anything...

 

Every time you try to give yourself

an upgrade or try to do so for

someone else...

 

Every time you believe that you

need to understand because

your understanding is somehow

a prerequisite to your liberation...

 

You are demonstrating your

unwillingness to accept God's

Will for you.

 

You are lost on the hamster wheel

playing the game of the Matrix.

 

And this is not a passive decision

on your part.

 

Not only is it a blatant statement

that you believe that you know better

than God, it is also a demonstration

that you do not trust the Divine Plan

which has been established for all

of us.

 

How arrogant is that?

 

Is it clear to you?

 

This is why acceptance liberates

you.

 

So when you cannot move into

acceptance, what you are covertly

saying to all the world is that "I

do not trust life and I do not trust

the plan for my life or their lives."

 

Yet your life, as it is, is a contract

which you signed prior to your birth!

 

This is true for every single one of us.

 

How crazy is that?

 

And how futile is it to resist anything?

 

So that's your assignment for today,

should you choose to accept it.

 

Divorce yourself from the need to

struggle, to resist, to fight against, or to

use the mind to bitch, complain and

try to solve problems.

 

Even though the world has brain

washed every one of us into believing

that we can identify problems and solve

them with the mind, we cannot.

 

The choice to engage with the mind

is a choice to spiritually bypass and

waste time.

​

It is a willful choice to play the game.

 

So the first thing we accept is this:

 

"This is not a problem."

 

Next we soften.

 

Lean in.

 

And then we open our hearts and

inwardly bow to what is as it is.

 

You are not asked to like it, beloved.

 

But you are asked to surrender to it,

trusting that this is the plan for your

life.

 

Form here the only question to ask

ourselves is "How can I best love and

support myself while experiencing this?"

 

This is a real game changer.

 

It is your ticket out of the hell which you

created and in which you have willfully

imprisoned yourself.

 

Why would anyone choose to trap them-

selves so?

 

Because you believe that you are right.

 

And being right is far more important

to you than is your desire to be happy.

 

Are you seriously going to let yourself

get away with that?

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***

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Prayer For The Today

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Help me go easy on myself and all of

life today.

 

One question walks in the space before

me...

 

Can I embrace this?

 

And the answer is "yes," because today

I choose to trust.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

We have devoted our time for the past

couple of days to looking with honesty

at the fact that no one can really hide

who they are.

 

We are all exposing what is true for us

to our world in each and every moment

of life.

 

We are either lost in our efforts to win

the game (or at the very least, to survive

it), or we have extricated ourselves from

life on the hamster wheel.

 

And for decades most of us have had it

pounded into us that we are either a part

of the problem, or we are part of the

solution.

 

To be a part of the solution does not mean

that we no longer experience melt downs

or lose our grip when it comes to what we

are experiencing.

 

To the contrary.

 

Life still happens and we are having a

human experience just as much as the

next person.

 

So what's the difference between losing

oneself in the Matrix and that of walking

between the worlds?

 

The one who has committed themselves

to the hamster wheel is trying their best

to success their way through life.

​

That's like trying to have a conversation

with someone who has a huge pimple

on their nose and not stare at it.

 

They are in it to win it.

 

But the one who marches to the beat of

a different drummer is fully committed

to living a different sort of life.

 

They have cultivated enough compassion

for themselves and their world to no

longer react.

 

Their one aim is to genuinely and authen-

tically have their human experience, as it is,

without judging, censoring or editing

themselves.

 

But they have cultivated so much com-

passion, kindness and TLC for themselves

that the support they offer themselves in

the midst of their experiences is palpable.

 

Throughout the entirety of their experience.

they often reflect on how many people, at

any given moment, struggle with this too.

​

A truly genuine and altruistic thought

arises...

 

May I love and support myself enough for 

all of us. For I would experience a world

where we are all genuinely free.

 

Their hearts have become as wide as

the world.

 

This one has not only grown in their

capacity to love and support themselves,

but has become the light of the world.

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Prayer For The Today

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That's who and how I want to be

when I grow up.

 

Those are the shoes I wish to fill.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

People do not hide who they

are.

 

They cannot.

 

Even though they try.

 

And I've got news for you...

 

Neither do you.

 

 

If you have to behave and per-

form as someone whom you are

not, please, please, please, for the

love of God, recognize that you

do not belong there.

 

When the way has been made

clear to you that you need to

let go and move on, for the sake

of your own precious and beautiful

heart, please do.

 

They were making it on their

own before you came along, and

they will make it without you

when you are long gone.

 

What is it that makes you feel

that you are responsible for

anyone on this planet other

than yourself?

 

Codependence is not a

characteristic of the soul, it

is an inherent attribute of ego.

 

And that is none other than the

pseudo-self you made because

it was who you believed that

you needed to be in order to

feel safe, in order to make

others feel that they are safe.

 

Be brave.

 

Have the courage to choose

yourself, beloved.

​

Time to embrace the trust

lesson.

 

Your next chapter is waiting

for you.

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***

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Prayer For The Today

​​​

When I can no longer face myself

in the mirror because I know

I am living a life which is not in

alignment with the soul, let

me not waste another instant.

 

Life is short.

 

For the first time in my entire

life, help me love myself so much

that I cannot help but put myself

first.

 

I am tired of living this impostor life

which is all about forsaking what

is true for me.

 

And for what?

 

What, pray tell, is more important

than the reason I'm here?

 

Schmoozing is losing and hustling

is ego/Matrix bullshit.

 

What is a gain if it is only the ego

that is gaining?

 

Others will choose according to

their destiny.

 

What business is that of mine?

 

From here on out, I choose me

and let the chips fall where

they may.

 

So be it.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

The most fundamental law of

life and living on planet earth

is this...

 

The Matrix is an unwinnable

game.

​

Don't you get it?

 

You are supposed to fail at it, and

fail BIG.

​

I have always failed epically at being

anything other than this great big

squishy heart of love, which is none

other than me, myself and I.

​

Without being able to live up tp any-

one's expectations including your

own, you would mistake planet earth

for home, and never get off of the

hamster wheel of becoming, ever hoping

to arrive, ardently and valiantly trying

to success your way through this life.

​

You can tell instantly where some-

one is living their life from the instant

you encounter them.

 

How invested are they in still playing

the game?

 

Do they actually believe that the

Matrix is a game they can win?

 

Or is this person aligned with the

soul?

 

Do they live their lives attuned with

their hearts?

 

Do they have a certain slowness and

simplicity about them, which clearly

reveals that they are in the world but

they are most certainly not of it

because they march to the beat of

a different drum?

​

And when they make eye contact....

​

It's as if they see clear through you,

into the secret depths of your soul.

 

Is peace obviously in their awareness,

and do they exude a certain light about

them which is as palpable as it is

undeniable?

 

Do you feel a mysterious sense of

connection with them, as if here is one

whom you have known long before

time began?

 

Here is one from your real tribe.

 

For your lives bespeak of a different

kind of message. One which is

transmitted through an all-pervading

silence.

 

A message which whispers that you

are just visitors here, while your hearts

soar in the high heavens of your true

HOME, that which was before the

beginning and which still abides, from

everlasting to everlasting.

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***

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Prayer For The Today

​​​

How can one say thanks for the gift

of knowing oneself, when no words

could ever suffice?

 

To abide unceasingly as this and only

this?

 

May I live this life like a leaf which is

gently carried on the wind, leaving

the scent of our true HOME every-

where I go.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

A very simple exercise is offered

you today...one that is as effortless

as it is rewarding.

 

Try to live each moment of your life

today like a fly on the wall, invisible

to the world you encounter and

inconspicuous.

 

In every instant, in every encounter,

from unfolding to unfolding, you get

to observe the relationship which

each one has with themselves.

 

Not just with others, but you get

to quietly observe the relationship

that you have with yourself as well.

 

What do you suspect that your

relationship with yourself will be

a demonstration of?

​

Will it be that of peace?

​

Or will it be one of preoccupation

and distraction?

 

After a day of contemplative obser-

vation, it will be clear to you why our

world is exactly as it is. And most

importantly, why your life is as it is.

 

It could be no other way.

 

So whenever you begin to doubt your-

self, remember just how far you have

come.

 

You used to struggle with self-

acceptance.

 

And loving yourself was out of the

question.

 

Just look at yourself now!

 

Life still happens all around you,

and you, for the most part, beloved,

have learned to love and support

yourself in the midst of it all.

 

Bravo! Bravissimo!

 

Now that's worth a pat or two on the

back, don't you think?

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***

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Prayer For The Today

​​​

As I go about my day today, may I

never forget that I am never not that.

 

Regardless how I happen to be showing

up as a human being, one question

walks in the space before me...

 

Is not LOVE BIG ENOUGH to hold this

too?

 

After all, does not the Infinite, by

definition, include everything?

 

May this reminder be ever so clear

to me, especially when I observe

others struggling to genuinely care

for themselves.

 

And may I never forget that a genuine

smile and a twinkle in one's eye can

go a very long way for anyone who is

having a tough time of it.  

​

Mercy all around me.

​

Mercy genuinely emanating from within

me.

​

Every instant is holy when I allow com-

passion and kindness to rule the day!

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

Today is not a day for thinking

long and hard about anything. No

more engaging in the loops and

eddies of mental masturbation.

 

It is a day for consciously feeling.

 

Many experiences and encounters

will come your way, none of which

will require that you engage with

them on the level of the mind.

 

Notice how you feel when you are

with each particular person.

 

How do you feel at your job?

 

Is this client someone you enjoy

being around, or is it one whom you

dread?

 

Evaluate how you feel with great

honesty and clarity when you are

in the presence of each person,

place or thing.

 

And today we decide to divorce

ourselves from any relationship

that requires that you suffer in

order for you to be in it.

​

We end the contract we formerly

had with each of them. They played

their designated rolls, and in the

process, we have deepened our

relationship with ourselves.

 

We came here to have a happy

human experience, not one which

has misery as a prerequisite.

 

For far too long we have tolerated

certain people and situations that

we know are not right for us.

 

Is it not clear that if I have to suffer

in order to be there, then maybe

I do not need to be there?

 

No person, no institution, no job,

no habit or addiction has power

or dominion over you unless you

give it to them.

 

Do you trust yourself enough to

give yourself permission to be happy

because you recognize that happiness

and peace will elude you so long

as you keep them in your life so that

your ego can feel safe?

​

Use is abuse. And more than this, it

is self betrayal.

 

You are the source of your safety,

your freedom and your survival.

 

Today we are completely honest

with ourselves about where we

are still living our lives from the 

outside in because we are afraid

that we cannot make it without this, 

we cannot make it without them.

 

We are ready.

 

We are ready to live self-sovereign

and integrous lives.

 

To know that we can not only survive,

but we can flourish without their so-

called 'help,' which comes at such a

steep cost because we have to perform,

to bend over backwards, we have to

jump through hoops, to 'suck up' and

'act' like their behavior is acceptable

so that we can feel safe when we know

it is not.

 

You have so many people in your

life that you know you have outgrown.

 

Yet you keep them in your life because

you are afraid.

 

What is it that you are so afraid of?

 

Today, instead of keeping this in the

periphery of your awareness, you are

going to allow it to come up front

and center.

 

There is nothing and no one you need

in your life if the relationship is not

based in freedom and does not bring

you joy.

 

Your present peace and joy, beloved,

are the only criteria you require for

any relationship.

 

Be forever unwilling to sell yourself

short if that is the price that you have to

pay in order to keep anyone or anything

in your life.

 

And do remember this...

 

Only you can remove them from your

life because you are the one that put

them there in the first place.

​

Suffering and struggle are a choice.

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***

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Prayer For The Today

​​​

Help me focus today on cleaning up

my life, for I would prioritize integrity

and self sovereignty above all else.

 

Are not these the defining elements to

a life which is well lived?

 

That I live all the moments of my life

in total alignment with my heart,

a life which is forever true to me?

​

I choose an honorable and noble

life.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

Today we live with and work with

another question with the same

instructions we used yesterday.

 

The question?

 

Are you content to have a beef

with anything and everything

today, including your relationship

with your emotions, your mind

and your body?

 

Who says that you have to get your

bowels in an uproar over so much

petty little shit day after day until

you die?

 

As Shakespeare said, "making much

ado about nothing."

 

You could just remember that you

are on the soul's journey and that

if it is happening, it is supposed to

be.

 

If I am experiencing a feeling, then

I am supposed to be experiencing

this feeling.

​

If I am having these thoughts, then

I am supposed to be having these

thoughts. Let me accept them.

​

If the body is experiencing something,

then it is supposed to be experiencing

this. I will inwardly bow to it as well.

 

We add one more element to our

practice for today.

 

Each time you begin to feel untoward

feelings and thoughts arise and you

feel a case of the cold prickly's coming

on, hit your pause button and slow

your roll.

 

Bring you awareness back to the breath

and with the faculty of imagination,

feel it all rolling, rushing and gushing

off of you like water on a duck's back.

 

Remember...

 

You are the only person on God's

green earth who gets to determine

how you will allow anything to

affect you in any given moment.

 

If peace is truly your priority you

cannot afford to forget that you

did not come here to be a human

being, you came here to have a

human experience.

 

Big difference.

 

Big, big difference.

​

I know it is subtle, but it has the

power to entirely reverse your world.

 

You are always Infinite, Eternal

and Immortal, beloved.

 

And that, you cannot change.

​

You're good, but you are not that

good. Don't get ahead of your skis.

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***

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Prayer For The Today

​​​

Bring it on....

 

Let me not confuse experiences

for identity today.

 

Amen

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***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

It's the weekend, and we all know

what this means.

 

We do not hit the ground running

like maniacs, moving at mach 12

with our hair on fire, trying to tackle

everything on our to-do list in a

feverish attempt to complete all

that we did not have time to do

during the work week.

​

Oh no siree, that was life before...

 

We use the weekend for rest and

renewal.

 

We recognize that we are consciously

filling the coffers of our spiritual bank

account as we do.

 

We slow down, we watch the breath,

and we do so with more tenderness,

more kindness and more care for the

precious beings we know that we are.

 

We practice presence with the intention

of receiving all that life gives us with

heart's which are entirely open and

accepting.

 

One thought walks in the space

before us, informing our feelings,

our thoughts, our actions as well

as our interactions.

 

And our thought for today is this...

 

Life is much too precious a gift

to waste.

 

Isn't that lovely?

 

How consciously can you receive

the gift which is your life today?

​

Can you live today as if it were your

last?

 

Can you open your heart as wide

as the world and love yourself

and your world even more?

 

No judgments, no lists, no agendas,

no plans.

 

The day simply unfolds naturally

and organically.

 

We ask ourselves humbly and lovingly,

"What is the next most peaceful thing

for me to do?"

 

We practice the felt experience of

union with all that life presents us

with.

 

We live without expectations or

demands, with less doing and more

being.

 

How sweet and how simple will you

allow your life to be today?

 

For we know full well that no one

has the power to determine what

your day will feel like but you.

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***

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Prayer For The Today

​​​

Thus may I live each day of

my life so long as I am a guest

here.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

​

There are only two points that I

have gleaned from all the madness

that I have experienced in this

life, 99.9% of which was created

by my own mind.

 

I was far too busy fucking myself

over with self-sabotage, self-

abnegation, self- sacrifice and

derogatory and shaming self-

talk to worry about what some-

one else was doing in an effort

to harm me.

 

I was obsessed with one thing; me,

myself and I and not in a good way.

 

Distilled into their most salient forms

they are this...

 

(1)

 

What's the point of holding on to

anything?

 

(2)

 

Live for yourself and for no one

else, which means live for the soul.

 

You are in the grandest movie ever

made and you won the leading

role.

 

What have you gleaned from your

one wild and exceedingly precious

life?

 

Do tell me....because this particular

inquiring mind would sincerely like

to know.

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***

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Prayer For The Today

​​​

Here I am, Lord.

​

I'm heading HOME; hair, guts,

feathers and all.

 

May I be that blade that Manjushri's

hand wields forevermore.

​

Stainless precision, succinct and true

to the very last breath.

 

Amen

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***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​

Today we will reflect in the quiet

moments as well as when we

are in a tight spot on the nature

of commitment.

 

To what are we committed?

 

That's a big big question.

 

A Course In Miracles teaches that

everyone, in every moment, is

searching for peace.

 

Now we may call the peace for

which we search by many different

names.

 

Names such as happiness, success,

fulfillment, "likes" on our social

media feed, the perfect relationship,

beauty, health and wellbeing, the

money and opportunity to travel and

explore this planet, the perfect job

or perhaps enough money so that

we never ever have to work or worry

about anything ever again.

 

But beneath it all, we know that we

cannot take any of these things

with us when we die, and if we are

brutally honest with ourselves,

we know that if per chance we find

these things that they never last

because they are fleeting at best.

 

Yet still we chase....

 

It's a madness we cannot escape.

 

For this is the hamster wheel of

the Matrix.

 

So back to our original question...

 

To what are you committed?

 

It was at a very young age, five

years old to be precise, I knew,

in my heart of hearts, that is was

not to be found in the things of

this world.

 

So I sought for them elsewhere.

 

In religion, in gurus, in special

relationships...

 

I searched for answers from books,

retreats, workshops and seminars.

 

I prayed in churches, synagogues,

mosques and temples.

 

I chanted, I danced, I swirled and

I twirled and I knew that it most

certainly was not this and not that...

 

I sought it from food, from spending

more than I had on things I did

not need.

 

I founded a 501c3 and dedicated

my life to trying to fix the wrongs

which were so evident to me on

this planet.

 

Why, I even traveled this entire

globe in search of answers to

the despair that I could not escape,

try as I must.

 

It finally dawned upon me that I was

the problem.

 

Yet how could I have not seen and

also known that every solution is

always found in the precise spot

where the problem has been

identified?

 

I loathed this world and was searching

for a better one, a kinder one, one

more gentle and forgiving...anything that

could help me transcend the agonizing

and excruciating experience of being

me.

​

I hated myself more than words could

ever share, yet my self-destructive

habits and behaviors screamed of it.

 

For surely if I was something more,

something better, something different,

I would know the freedom, the love

and the peace for which my heart

ached and yearned.

 

With all honesty, I can also tell you that

from the age of five, I was also asking

myself repeatedly, "What is love?"

​

I have very clear images of me from that

young age pacing around the house

whilst wringing my hands, crying

"something's wrong."

 

I did not know what love was.

 

And if love was what I saw demonstrated

in my home, I wanted no part of it.

 

I did not want to know what human

love was, for that I knew that it was fickle,

unpredictable, unstable and dis-

appointing in its entirety.

​

I got to see that demonstrated on

a daily basis.

 

I sought for a love which could fill

the hole I felt inside which nothing

seemed to fill.

 

I felt broken, not good enough and

bankrupt on the inside.

 

And I knew there had to be something

which never changes, something on

which we could depend 100% of the

time, in spite of the flotsam and jetsam

of human existence.

 

My heart whispered to me so poignantly

that it was love for which I searched...

 

And like the old country western song,

l had spent a lifetime looking for it

in all the wrong places as does every

other human being on this planet.

 

And it took losing everything to bring

me to my knees in a despair and

hopelessness, a loneliness and aloneness

to find the "me" that was before all the

confusion, searching, seeking, games

and posturing.

 

So I can tell you, beyond all shadow of

doubt, that the one thing I am

committed to is love.

 

Having found it, I wish only to embody

it in all its ravishing glory.

 

A love which makes no demands, is

entirely without conditions or expectations

and which asks for nothing in return.

 

I want my presence to be a lighthouse

of hope which inspires others to get off

the hamster wheel they are on and see

that they are worthy, that they have always

been and always will be.

 

I want to live in a world of self-sovereign

and autonomous human beings, who

trust their lives and themselves because

they are already complete in every way.

​

They know it because it is the felt

experience of their own innermost being

whom they live in conscious union with....

 

I want to see the end of every hierarchy

on this planet.

 

You do not need me and you do not

need anyone else for that matter.

 

And I do not want to preach, to

pontificate or to proselytize in order to

unleash love upon this world.

 

What do you want more than anything

else?

 

Think about it.

 

Reflect on it and jot me a line...

 

Because I would love to hear about what

your heart wants to share and when

you do share with me, I feel so honored

and blessed, and I hold your sharing as

most sacred.

​

Take the time today to listen deeply to

your heart sharing with you what it holds

most dear.

​

And if you do choose to share it with me,

I promise to wrap it and you in the wings

of love.

​

pelkyong

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***

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Prayer For The Today

​​​

I feel so much love...a love that wills

to be unleashed and set free to

engulf this planet and her inhabitants

without restrictions, limitations or

demands.

 

So be it and may it be so.

 

Ravish me...and ravish this world,

O God.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

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How about a mantra for today?

 

Something so concise yet so

formidable, that you can never

forget it, no matter what, regard-

less the circumstances you

experience because it anchors

you in your true authority, self-

sovereignty and agency as the

Word made flesh?

 

One that will work 100% of the

time if you use it?

 

Here it is in all its glory and here

is how you use it.

 

(1)

 

Hit your pause button.

 

(2)

 

Take three long, slow and deep

breaths while mounting awareness

completely on the flow of each

breath cycle, from the beginning

of the inhalation to the conclusion

of the exhalation.

 

(3)

 

Rest your awareness in your heart

center. Notice that from here, you

can also maintain awareness on the

breath at the same time.

 

(4)

 

Slowly repeat the following words:

 

I am fully capable of meeting every

experience, no matter what it is,

with a grace and ease which is

absolute.

 

This is all.

​

I have found that it is so powerful, that

its silent recitation, spoken with the force

which created all that is by speaking it

into being, a single time, is all I need to 

set my sails straight once again.

​

Manjushri was a great buddha, known

to be the bodhisattva of Tibet.

 

It was said that his wisdom was so

stainless that it penetrated like a sword

which went in quickly and deeply,

yet never shed a single drop of blood.

 

So is the wisdom in the mantra which

has been given you.

 

Use it for your good pleasure.

 

And when you use it, and you finally

come to believe that this is the honest-

to-God truth about you, my dear, you

will never again experience overwhelm

or self-doubt, nor fail to trust the life

which is yours to live.

 

Because your life, as it is, was agreed to

by you prior to your birth and therefore

has your seal of approval upon all of it

and is unfolding perfectly according to 

your destiny.

 

And this, beloved, is what it means to be

in the world, yet not of it.

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Prayer For The Today

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I am powerful and formidable; wise

as a serpent, yet gentle as a dove.

 

May I never ever lose sight of that,

for it is the truth which is always

true.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

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It was in the early months of the

pandemic that I made a conscious

choice to sever all ties with my

family of origin.

 

My parents had died decades ago

and all that remained was my siblings

and their families.

 

I made this decision after yet another

painful encounter with one of them

and I found myself in a heap on the

ground, weeping, because it became

painfully clear to me that I was never

going to get them to love or accept

me, to really see me and to appreciate

the person I have become.

 

I had tried and tried and tried, only

to be disappointed and heartbroken

again and again.

 

And I made a promise to myself.

 

After seeing with blinding clarity that

not once, in my entire life, had a

single one of them ever advocated on

behalf of me, that I would spend what-

ever time was left of my human life

advocating on behalf of myself.

 

I knew that, gut wrenching as the

decision was for me to make, I could not

afford to have any contact with any of

them ever again if peace was truly

my priority and I valued my sanity.

 

How many times do you have to put

your hand in a cobra's cage before you

realize that if you do, you are going to

get bit 100% of the time?

 

An orange is never going to stop being

an orange.

 

And you can want with all your heart

for that orange to be an apple, but

that is never going to happen, regardless

how hard you try to make it one.

 

Look at the word upset.

 

It is an interesting play on words

to see the word this way...

 

Every time I get upset, it is because

I am the one who set myself up.

 

There was a two year grieving process

that I went through.

 

But my final realization was that you

cannot get someone to love you and

advocate on your behalf who does not

love themselves and has never advo-

cated on their own behalf.

 

Every day, a thousand times ten

thousand times, you get the opportunity

to advocate on your own behalf, but do

you?

 

That would be my greatest wish for any-

one who takes the time to read these

words today, that you seize every single

opportunity to advocate on your own

behalf.

 

It is no one's job to love you, to accept

you, to appreciate you, to value your

contribution to their lives, but your

own.

 

A time of reckoning is unfolding on

this planet in this decade of decades.

 

And it has become heart wrenchingly

clear to me over the course of this

decade that the one who had most let

me down was me.

 

How seriously devoted I am to myself

now!

 

One question walks in the space before

me in every moment...

 

What is the most loving, kind and

supportive thing that I can do for myself

right now in this very moment?

 

And sometimes, that means walk away.

This is no longer for you. You have

outgrown the need to expose your heart

to things like this.

 

But most of the time it is to simply listen,

to hold space for myself, to offer myself

comfort and embrace myself with loving

kindness.

 

There will be legions of opportunities

presented to you today to advocate on

behalf of yourself.

 

But will you?

 

Will you choose to be your own person?

 

Will you be the one who never misses

an opportunity to listen to yourself

and love yourself even more?

 

I bring this subject up with you because

you will encounter all manner of upsets

today and you are the one who will be

given one more opportunity to advocate

on your own behalf.

 

What do you deserve?

 

I cannot speak for you, but as for me,

I deserve to treat myself in every single

moment like Mother Mary must have

treated her child, Jesus.

 

Long ago I decided I was either no

religion or all religions, depending upon

how you looked at it.

 

But one thing that I know for sure,

is that that woman loved and adored

her child and considered herself blessed

to be his mother.

 

That is my fondest wish for each of you,

that you love yourselves and care for

yourselves that much...

 

I am the person I want to have in my

corner, to have my six, to be there for

me every single instant of my life.

​

And that is what I want for you.

 

For it is you, beloved, that determines

your worth and each and every moment

of life, you are teaching the world how

to treat you by how you treat yourself.

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Prayer For The Today

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And the epitaph read:

 

My, how she learned to love herself,

and that was the gift she gave to

everyone she touched.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

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Only one question asked today.

 

Ask it of yourself each and every

time you begin to feel something

start to rattle your cage, and

reflect on it wholeheartedly in the

quiet moments and down times

you encounter throughout your day.

 

Name me one situation which was

actually improved by you getting

upset, losing your cool or by

you willingly sacrificing your

awareness of peace?

 

If getting upset actually worked,

if it helped anybody or improved

any situation or the quality of your

life experience or that of anyone

elses, I would be the first one in

line to actively recommend it.

 

But it doesn't.

 

73 years of life and living have

proved that to me.

 

Answer this one question for your-

self satisfactorily, and you will

never ever react to anything ever

again.

 

Simply remind yourself of this one

thing...

 

This is the soul's journey and not

that of the created self. Let me bow

to what this is showing me in my-

self and embrace it fully.

​

The greatest thing about

impermanence is that nothing is

eternal in this world except the

state of peace and I would guard

mine.

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Prayer For The Today

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May I never lose sight of the quiet

fact that nothing is worth the

price of peace.

​

Absolutely nothing.

 

No more picking up the ball and

running with it ever again.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

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Today we are going to observe for

the presence of anger.

 

Anger takes many forms, virtually

all of which you deny.

 

Several decades ago I was told

an acronym for the word denial:

 

Don't Even Notice I Am Lying

 

So with denial, we are always lying

to ourselves.

 

And the only reason we experience

anger is because there is something

about our present experience which

we have not accepted.

 

If you are being really honest with

yourself, you cannot help but see

that there is no one that you do not

feel anger towards, including your-

self.

 

So the first thing that is very difficult

to see, let alone admit, it that you

feel angry most of the time.

 

Anger wears many faces and this is

one of the primary reasons you

do not see the anger which is lurking

beneath so many other feeling

states.

 

Let's cite a few examples:

 

impatience

annoyance

perturbation

frustration

distraction

bluntness

 

The point is that behind and beneath

every single disturbance in the force,

there is always some form of anger

which you are hiding from yourself

because you feel some emotions are

somehow more acceptable than that

of anger or rage.

 

And frequently that reason is because

you have decided that anger is a sign

of outrageous immaturity and therefore,

not spiritual.

 

So the jumping off point for us today

is to begin to recognize that you

are angry and own it.

 

This simply means that you are

reacting as ego, the conditioned and

programmed sense of self which you

created when you felt that your safety

and survival where in question, the

domain of the lower three chakras

or energy centers.

 

Okay.

 

So now I am seeing it. I can admit

it without being unkind and judge-

mental toward myself.

 

What next?

 

Well it must be clear that if I can see it,

if I can bear witness to it, then I am

obviously not it.

 

Am I two different identities or am I

one?

 

Because you see, there is a clear

difference between the following two

statements:

 

I am pissed off.

 

I am witnessing the experience of anger.

 

Can you see the difference?

 

Better yet, can you feel it?

 

One sentence feels highly charged, while

the other is felt experientially, yet lacks

any personalization to it.

​

So how we language things can either be

a finger pointing to the moon, or they can

be a nose dive into the weeds.

 

Next, we acknowledge that the following

is happening...

 

I am disrespecting my own brain and

nervous system.

 

Is this really how you want to be treating

yourself?

 

I would much rather feel what I am

experiencing and be kind and gentle

with the part of me that feels this way

followed by a clear reminder which

says, "What does this have to do with

the truth of who I am?  This is just an

experience."

 

Last but not least, a mantra is given you

to use generously and wisely today:

 

This is just God being God.

 

How silly is it to get mad at yourself

or another when they are simply doing

what they came here to do and being

who and how they came here to be?

 

Be consistent and devoted with your

practice of living consciously.

 

Not only will you be restoring peace

to your awareness, the benefits happen

to be out of this world.

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Prayer For The Today

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The acronym for the word "how"

from 12 Steps keeps coming

to mind:

 

Honesty

Open-mindedness

Willingness

 

I choose a conscious, loving and

peaceful life.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

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A very simple exercise is offered

you today.

​

I urge you to embrace it fully, for

you will be the greatest recipient

should you choose to accept it.

 

When moments of ego arise, and

we both know they most surely will,

rather than getting upset with yourself,

upset with others, the situation or

the world, hit your pause button

and take a few moments to connect

with your breath and be grateful.

 

Rejoice!

 

The ego is doing its job.

 

It is showing you all the areas of

your humanity that you have not

yet returned to light or loved back

to life.

 

This is a gift, beloved.

 

Never forget that, for when you do,

you lose sight of peace, your

natural state.

 

For in the end, there are only two

questions which really matter.

 

Have I lived my life soul-full-y?

 

Have I left my world a legacy of

love which will endure forever?

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Prayer For The Today

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I have just the briefest of spaces

to touch your life today, to

connect with you soul-to-soul.

 

May this be my greatest accomp-

lishment. For in the end, I

recognize that what you will

experience today through me

is up to me.

 

This is why I am here.

 

May I connect with you through

the eyes of kindness and a heart

which has been fully tenderized

by love.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

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Almost every day I get to observe

at least one person who is losing

their shit in public.

​

People behaving like 10 year olds

on the playground who want their

way is not uncommon anymore.

 

Yet folks act like this is such a rarity.

 

I don't know where you happen

to live, but in my world, this is

normative and not unusual.

 

I also hear people comment on

how much we have all been through

in this decade, how quickly time

is unfolding and that in spite of

A.I. and the onset of other great

advances in every arena of life and

living, we seem to be more dis-

connected from one another than

we have ever been.

 

People do not search for ways to

connect with one another. They seem

content to be no closer than ships

which pass each other in the night.

 

The good thing about all this, at least

as I see it, is that people are not

trying to hide their feelings or their

behavior behind closed doors anymore.

 

No one can get away with shit and

for the most part, they are not actively

trying to do so.

 

In front of God and everyone for the

whole world to bear witness to

seems the way of the world these days.

 

So in addition to watching people

lose their cool and struggle to keep

it together, it is also common for me

to hear at least one person in every

crowd reply with a smart-assed quip

of something like, "They are totally

out of control and in their egos."

 

If that is all you get from such an en-

counter, then you have sadly missed

the entire point of it, nor used the

outburst to your benefit.

 

For we are being shown by such eruptions

and by all of our inner commentary in

response to what we have been made privy

to is our judgments, our mean-spiritedness

and our insensitivity.

 

In other words, we are being shown where

we are all still stuck in survival based

consciousness.

 

We all have a lot of stuff lurking in the

darkness which we have not even begun

to unpack and embrace.

 

So how would we ever know what it is that

we are hiding behind if we did not have

our fellow humans actively behave in

ways that bring it all up for us to see?

 

All the things which we would never

have admitted, let alone owned, had they

not behaved this way for our benefit

publicly?

 

This is all for you, my dear.

​

How wonderful!

 

They are due our gratitude, not our

insults.

 

That is what LOVE does for us.

 

LOVE shows us what we would not ever

have had the courage to show ourselves

on our own.

​

How would I ever know just how crazy

I can be if someone did not behave in

such a way that it brought up all my

unresolved and unintegrated ones and

zeros where they have been hiding

in the darkness of the inner archives

of cellular memory, just waiting for the

right time and circumstances for me

to see what I have been in denial of 

so that I would look at and accept

all these hidden aspects of myself?

 

Everything has to come up and out,

experienced and felt deeply in order to

be integrated.

​

That's an immutable law about the

experience of being human.

 

So I would not be looking for things to

be getting a whole lot easier any time

soon.

 

This is an important time in human

history.

 

Recognize what is happening and use it

to your benefit.

 

Understanding is such a fine thing...

 

We have the emancipation of an entire

planet to see about and you, my dear,

are on the cutting edge of all of it.

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***

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Prayer For The Today

​​​

Sometimes I forget to take a breather

and see just how fortunate I am

to be here for all of this madness,

right in the thick of it with a front

row seat.

 

Thank you for the gift of life, for

my life, and thank you for the gift

of being me.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

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Only the role you are playing tries.

 

Because only the role you have been

playing perceives deficiencies, and you

have none, beloved.

 

None whatsoever.

 

And as soon as you accept and embrace

yourself, as you are, the sooner you will

realize that you are, and always have been,

that which you seek.

 

Who are you, what are you, beyond

the role you have been playing?

 

Are you character driven or soul driven?

 

That is the only question worth asking

yourself today.

 

It does not matter what anyone else

thinks.

 

But if it still matters to you, you are

still very much character driven

and you are fooling yourself if you

believe that you actually need that

person in your life.

​

Do. you think the soul is in need of

anything?

 

Your captivity is thus self imposed,

and it is not really freedom for which

your heart yearns.

 

Popularity, approval, belonging and

affluence mean far more to you than

living as soul.

 

But what comfort will these things be

to you, the things you have valued

and chased, when you leave this body

and this world behind?

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***

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Prayer For The Today

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Help me see myself clearly today

as I observe myself whilst living

the dream.

 

Do I have the capacity to be honest

with myself?

 

For it is not what I should value, nor

what I tell myself that I value that

matters most.

 

It is how I actually live that tells

the world what truly matters to me.

​

And no one has the capacity to lie

about that and get away with it.

​

Because I am the one who has to

live and experience inside of this

form.

​

And I have lived long enough now

to know that self betrayal is the most

bitter of all pills to swallow.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

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Last week I suggested imagining

you were from a different planet

and did not know what anything

means.

 

This was offered as an exercise in

which you could maximize the

potential of living your life cleanly,

in a very Zen-like way, without

your meanings and interpretations

imputed upon it, nor the Whac-A-

Mole-wack-a-doodle brainwashing

of groupthink where you walk in

line with all the other living dead.

 

The suggestion came from the fact

that there has not been a single

day of my life where I did not feel

like I was an alien from a planet

far far away.

 

I'm going to fast forward a bit and

talk about a commercial which is

getting a lot of air time on the

television these days that uses the

song, Hustlin', by Rick Ross as its

back drop.

 

This human life is and always has

been, very surreal to me.

 

I have never been able to suspend

reality so completely that I took what

I was doing or experiencing here

so seriously that I actually believed

I was ever in anything but The Matrix.

 

And more than what is happening,

what brings these feelings up for me

is the degree to which I watch the

whole world that I encounter day

after day taking what they do so

seriously that they live lives which

are deeply stressful and exhausting

in the pursuit of good, better, best.

 

They always seem to be on the run,

hustlin', hustlin', hustlin' to make

it to the top and then remain there.

 

From Hollywood to the Little league

playing field, you see the world busy

hustlin' every day.

​

And it is not enough to watch all of

the adults doing it. We are brainwashing

and indoctrinating children in this

madness.

 

Our lives cannot be worn proudly

as signs of a life fully lived, our faces

need fillers and facelifts, plastic

surgery for our tummies, our boobs

and our bums, the right make up,

the right hair, the right clothing and

jobs, the right cars, the right homes,

relationships and friends, all to create

the right public image, where every dollar

you make and every moment of your

time is invested in keeping all of those

plates spinning and up in the air in

support of the image which you have

made of yourself.

 

It is all so incredibly sad to me.

 

And I see it most clearly in the spiritual

marketplace.

 

The lengths that teachers, authors

and those in the personal development

industry go to in order to stay

relevant, bring in the money, string

people along because they are suffering

from FOMO which they caused in

their sycophants on purpose because

the buck was more important to them

than returning agency, autonomy and

freedom to all people everywhere.

 

So I have at least one "beam me up

Scotty" moment each and every day.

 

I am in competition with no one.

 

I will not participate in anything that

keeps the "Dream Machine" alive

and kickin'.

 

The one thing that I do work at every

single day of my life is staying true

to myself, honoring my autonomy,

self advocacy and personal agency

as well as that of every other living

being on this planet.

 

I do not have to believe as anyone

else believes on this planet, nor do

I expect the world to believe as me.

 

But I would fight to the death for

your right to live your life your way

and I happen to know that you do

not need my help or anyone else's

to do so.

 

I write these thoughts for myself each

day. I have gained so much from them.

 

If someone else gets something from

them as well, great.

 

If you don't, toss it in the circular file.

 

I have learned dedication, devotion,

commitment, consistency, self discipline

and inner stability in the past 36 years

that I have been doing it each and

every day.

​

I suit up and show up for myself because

that is what matters most to me.

​

It is my appointment with my Self.

​

It is my appointment with God.

 

One question motivates all action,

"What is the next most loving thing for

me to do, what is the next most peaceful

thing for me to do?"

 

Jesus was reported to have said the

following words:

 

"For what does it profit a man to gain

the whole world and forfeit his soul?"

Mark 8:37

 

One cannot lose their soul, but they

most certainly can lose their awareness

of it.

 

And although it is always true that what

we do on a human level has no impact

on our identity as soul, are we not

here to consciously and thoughtfully

embody soul as completely and whole-

heartedly as we can while we are still

here?

 

So I prefer a simple life, a clean life.

 

It has no frills, no thrills, no bells or

whistles.

 

Why waste time, effort, energy or

resources on shit which has no eternal

significance and you cannot take with

you when you leave your body and

this world behind?

 

I get to sleep like a baby each and every

night and I get to wake up each day

respecting the face that I see gazing back

at me in the mirror and feel the pride of

a life fully lived.

​

I really despise the entire notion of

deluding myself about what I am up to.

 

What have you been up to?

 

What matters most to you?

 

What's your life all about?

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***

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Prayer For The Today

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I would rather be me than any other

person on this planet and I offer

thanks for that.

 

Thank you for the GIFT of simply

being me.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

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Here is what I would like to

understand, but try as I might,

I cannot comprehend why

you persist in repeating some-

thing over and over again that

has proven itself to not work.

 

Let's look at an example, shall

we?

 

If you kept hitting your thumb

repeatedly with a hammer,

would you go around crying and

pleading for help, would you keep

trying to pound the square peg

into the round whole, certain if

only you try hard enough, it will

work, crying "It hurts! It hurts!

It hurts!"

 

Or would you simply stop using

the hammer to pound on your

thumb, realizing you were the

only own causing your distress?

 

Some things seem so patently

simple as to be obvious.

 

Here is one such thing which will

stop you instantly in your tracks,

should you choose to see its

usefulness and truthfulness.

 

You cannot find either safety

or security with the mind.

 

Your mind is a very limited tool

and never right about anything,

although it believes that it is

never wrong.

 

The mind gets you into all manner

of trouble, suffering and inescapable

webs of self doubt.

 

So why is it that you never question

what has proven itself time and

again to not work, that will not stand

the test of light, but you will question

and patently ignore what actually does

work and has proven its efficacy 100%

of the time?

 

73 years of life and living on planet

earth has taught me that the only

thing that does work is radical

acceptance.

 

And another word for complete

and radical acceptance is surrender.

 

Surrender is accomplished by the

heart and can never be accomplished

with the use of mind.

 

We said it yesterday and we will

repeat it today.

 

You cannot transcend the mind

with the mind.

 

And what else could be a definition

for radical acceptance other than

unconditional love?

 

So practice complete and unequivocal

acceptance today.

 

And observe yourself carefully while

doing so with kindness.

 

Is that acceptance coming from the

mind, or is it coming from your

heart?

 

For if just one time you are able

to completely accept one thing,

would you have not then dis-

covered love?

 

A love which makes no demands,

has no conditions, is entirely without

expectation, has no requirements,

and asks for absolutely nothing in

return?

 

Show me this level of acceptance

just one time, and you will have

shown me the light of the world

and a life which is fully lived.

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***

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Prayer For The Today

​​​

Please bend and reshape

the cave of this heart, leaving

it oh-so-spacious and tender.

 

For I am done relying upon my

mind for anything.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

A week ago today, I had a conver-

sation with a friend who is very

dear to me and I felt a HUGE

disturbance in the force while she

spoke to me in defense of herself

and a comment which had been

made by another mutual friend

moments before.

 

And what did I do?

 

I did what most of us do in similar

situations. I assumed that I was

the one who did not understand,

and that she was right. I was the

one who needed to accommodate

and validate her experience.

 

And although I still believe to this

very day that I am to accommodate

everyone's feelings as valid for

them, something about what she

said did not feel right to me.

 

I have sat with her commentary

and explanation all week, letting

it sift slowly inside of me to the

silent depths of my being where

all things are tested for accuracy

or truthfulness.

 

Here, what does not stand the test

of light is exposed for the fallacy

that it represents.

 

What was it she had said to me?

 

I cannot give you her exact words,

but the gist of it was this...

 

Just because you have never felt

trapped in your mind on a daily

basis doesn't mean that anyone

else necessarily can separate them-

selves from the mind like you do.

Not everyone can see instantly like

that. I needed to experience seeing

clearly in steps and stages. Steps

and stages which were doable.

And I was grateful to be able to

introduce a way of seeing that

was directionally correct, a step

that I could take right now. The

steps offer me a way to extract

myself from the mental pattern

and trap that I keep repeating.

 

But you know what?

​

In the end, aren't steps and stages

just another mind fuck? Isn't that

mind still large and in charge?

 

So what my friend said to me

never would fit into my truth

box.

 

Yet I could not see why.

 

Am I really that goddamn different

from everyone else?

 

And here is what came to me, plain

and simple.

 

Human beings never really see how

blessed they are.

 

We are the only species on this planet

that has a choice as to how they

will relate to their interpretation of their

reality.

 

You cannot always stop yourself from

interpreting things the way that you 

interpret them. But you have 100%

control over how you will relate, react

or respond to that interpretation.

 

Here is the vital step where you take

your power back.

 

I happen to operate on the wavelength

which recognizes an interpretation

for an interpretation and not a fact.

 

What I immediately go to is a particular

knowingness which tells me that an

interpretation is 100% balderdash

and therefore, twice removed from

reality.

 

In that tiny nanosecond of clear seeing

I introduce a new possibility. I recognize

that I have a choice.

 

Now do I choose to create a ladder of

steps and stages to get out of the pit

that I believe is real and I find myself in?

 

Or do I skip the pit and get on with

the truth where I choose to abide?

 

And here is how I choose to keep it

simple.

 

I am a human being who deserves to

be happy and free NOW.

 

I do not need time or steps or stages

to be what I already and always am.

 

I deserve to be peaceful, to offer myself

kindness and gentleness and my world

deserves this just as much as I do.

I deserve to remain undisturbed by

the perturbations and machinations

of the mind which require steps and

stages in order to see clearly.

 

How can it take time to see clearly when

I have never left the Mind of God?

 

My friend highly values her mind and

she feels she is trapped by it.

 

But is this not victim consciousness?

 

I made the mind, the mind did not

make me. Why should I allow it to

dictate anything?

 

You cannot use the mind to transcend

the mind.

 

And the only thing that transcends the

mind is the heart.

 

And you know what I have discovered

about the heart?

 

When you open yourself up to experience

life with your heart, you no longer

have to interpret anything. There are

no steps or stages to Clear Seeing.

 

LOVE is your singular response to

everything.

 

My heart and my breath are the only

validation that I need.

 

So I may well be a mango in a blue-

berry world. But I know that while

they are off pretending to be blue-

berries, they too are really mangos.

 

I thank the world for all the crazy

ways it tries to trip me up on a daily

basis and confuse me. 

 

Because that is just one more chance,

one more opportunity, to test and

affirm the truth which is always true.

 

Commit.

Be consistent.

And repeat, repeat, repeat and

peace comes naturally.

So does Clear Seeing.

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***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​​

Can't mess with this.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

Our fifth and final axiom, or

postulate, depending on our own

particular degree of skepticism,

tells us the following...

 

(5) My thoughts do not mean

anything. They merely show me

a meaningless world, and a

meaningless world engenders

fear.

 

A Course In Miracles teaches that

there are only two emotions: LOVE

and fear.

 

Beneath every emotion, regardless

what you happen to be calling it,

you will inevitably find some fear

lurking beneath.

 

Further, it states that everything

that happens in the world of form

and phenomena is either an

expression of LOVE or a cry for it.

 

So what are we to glean from our

fifth and final postulate?

 

Any world, other than the real world

is going to be meaningless by its

very nature and it will naturally

engender fear within us because it

will foster suffering and uncertainty

because of its illusory foundation.

 

A meaningless world is a world which

is experienced from the outside in.

 

And because a world which is perceived

from the outside in is colored by a dis-

torted lens, it will be composed of all

the things which trigger us.

 

In other words, our unresolved and

unintegrated baggage from the past.

​

It will be colored by a past which

never happened.

​

A past which is not composed of what

happened, but rather, the meaning 

and interpretation, the story which we

tell others as well as ourselves about

our history.

​

Did you ever notice that the word

history, contained the word story within

it?

 

The question arises. "What then is the

real world?" 

 

The real world is the world that a heart

which is at peace with itself perceives

and experiences.

 

Because projection makes perception,

and because the world is 'just like me,'

if the heart is at peace, I will experience

a neutral world, a world without the

elements of chaos and catastrophe

imprinted on it.

 

I will experience a world of peace, a

world unmarred by separation and survival

issues there to pollute it.

 

The question then arises, "Where do the

ideas of inside out versus outside in fit in

with the basic truism that tells us projection

makes perception?"

 

If we begin with the solid bedrock of

projection makes perception, that this

statement is a fact and not fiction, the

knowledge that it is true 100% of the

time, we see that whatever kind of world

we experience will be based upon our

particular state of being.

 

This means that the world that we

experience cannot help but reflect

what is the truth which we experience

as me, myself and I, our basic, most

essential self reflected back to us.

 

Not the self which we want to be true

about us, but the actual nitty gritty truth-

ful experience we have of ourselves.

 

But when we do not know peace,

when we do not abide in peace,

the nature of the mind is to project

its unhappiness onto the world

and blame it as the causative agent

of our misery.

 

Hence, we experience life from

the outside in in action.

 

While a heart at peace with itself,

sees a world exactly like itself.

 

It lives life nakedly and unafraid.

 

What is there not to trust?

 

I trust the world because I trust

myself is its most basic fundamental

tenet.

 

As we have so often said, the mind

is an unruly tyrant if it is in charge

of your life.

 

For the mind is the home of the ego.

 

But you, my dear, made the ego. It

did not make you. The only way that

it can be in control of you is if you

give it your power.

 

The mind makes a wonderful tool

when it is in service to the heart,

which is your natural abode, beloved.

 

So there you have it. ACIM in 5

nuggets, courtesy of the first 10

workbook lessons.

 

Think about them as you go about

your day today.

 

Can you see them in action?

 

Is it clear that they are always

running silently in the background

of each of our lives and are providing

the foundation upon which we have

built our world?

 

I do not know about you, but before

ACIM, I felt tormented by my mind.

 

Certainly not all of the time, but

more often than I would like it to

for sure.

 

I found it quite helpful to understand

what the mind is and why, how to

train it, and most importantly, to never

allow it to be in charge of anything,

​

This put me back where I belonged,

in the driver's seat, where I was no longer 

plagued by victim consciousness.

 

To make the mind responsible for your

peace is an exercise in stupidity and a

foolhardy decision at best.

 

But a heart which is running over with

tenderness, with kindness & compassion

will bring the high and mighty low and

set the captives free.

 

Which world would you prefer to see?

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***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​​

I choose the path of peace.

 

Peace, liveth thou me.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

Our fourth postulate is stated

as follows:

 

(4) I see nothing as it is now.

 

It makes perfect sense that if I see

only the past repeating itself again

and again, ad nauseum, then I am

not seeing the present clearly, as it is.

 

And if I can see that everything I

think I see has been tainted by the

interpretations and meanings that I

have given it, then surely what I

think of as seeing is not Clear Seeing

at all.

 

In addition, if I am reacting to the

particular spin or meaning which I

have given what is, then I most definitely

am sitting in that movie theater, all

by myself, eating my popcorn and

drinking my soda alone.

​

Can you imagine eight and a half

billion people doing this every single

moment every day?

 

Try to be like a fly on the wall today,

meticulously scrutinizing yourself

and your world.

​

Scary...

​

But it most certainly reveals why our

world is as it is.

​

And as long as this is how human beings

operate, the world is without the hope

of a better way.

 

Can you see this process as it is un-

folding in real time in yourself and

others?

 

You can tell a lot about yourself and

your world by bringing awareness

and a tenderized heart to your obser-

vations.

 

Twice today, you are asked to pretend

as though you are an alien who crashed

here from another planet. You do not

know what anything is or means, so the

only option you have available to you

is that of witnessing.

 

What does the world look like with

a fresh new pair of eyes, eyes which

have no past, no history, no pre-

conceived notions from which to

decipher meaning?

 

Could you even know what a cup is?

 

Would it be clear to you that a cup is

something from which you drink?

 

Be relaxed, playful and gentle with

yourself as your day unfolds.

 

Tomorrow we will conclude with our

axioms which form the conceptual

framework for pristine, Zen-like

seeing, courtesy of A Course In

Miracles.

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***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​​

Wow...

 

Even the potential of seeing myself

and my world with neutrality

introduces a whole new realm of

possibility, possibilities that were

formerly not available to me,

 

And it seems rather obvious that

neutrality is the reflection of a peaceful

and loving heart being mirrored

back to oneself.

​

If I am neutral, my world is neutral too.

 

This is the day I would like to experience.

 

Grace lead my way.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​

Our third postulate:

 

(3) I see only my past.

 

It is a difficult idea to take in

which informs us that all of

our lives we have had it all

wrong.

 

We have been living our lives

from the outside in, believing

that the world is cause, while

we live out the role of effect.

 

Only to learn that we were designed

to live from the inside out, that

this is our natural state.

 

Further, to realize that our way is

unadulterated victim consciousness

through and through is a bitter pill

to swallow.

 

Yet this is the seed from which

a life of integrity, personal autonomy,

self-sovereignty and agency grows.

 

We compound things further when

we begin to recognize that we are

each sitting in our own personal

movie theater, watching what appears

on the screen, believing falsely that

what we see is real, yet never realizing

that what we are reacting to is our

interpretation of what is happening,

the meaning which we have inputed

on ourselves and our world.

 

So now we are to believe that we

see only the past?

 

Yes, dear child....

 

This is precisely the case.

 

We have spent a lifetime trying

to heal our past, to forgive and

forget, to fix what feels broken

within us, to become better, to do

better, to put our pasts behind us

or even to forget about them

altogether if we can.

 

We invest small fortunes in therapy,

pills and potions, workshops,

spirituality and religion, we pray,

we meditate, we attend retreats,

adopt teachers and gurus, yet

nothing really significant ever

changes.

 

Airplane flights, Ubers, hotels and

food expenses doled out so that

we can attend weekend seminars

and get-togethers, all to receive

hope for a future which never really

pans out, filled with promises that

do not deliver but do keep us

biting that hook.

​

More, better and different never 

really is more, better or different,

now is it?

 

We become sycophants of mimicry

that one day we too, if we work hard

enough at it, can become just like that

and our lives will also be great.

 

Unfortunately, it is the honest-to-god

truth that we experience ourselves

and our world through the lens of

our pain bodies.

 

We drag our histories, our story,

our suffering along with us.

​

This is the lesn which we look

through.

 

And our lives in their entirety be-

come reflections of the same issues,

the same disappointments, the same

misery and suffering, albeit wearing

different faces, perhaps even unfolding

in different cities, states, countries,

and in some cases, even different

continents.

 

On the level of form, of course it is

all different.

 

But on the level of content, it is like a

never-ending game of musical chairs

and wheel of fortune.

 

Only this game ain't so fun, now is

it?

 

Survival and suffering fills our days,

while despair inhabits our being

at night.

​

Get we achieve what we want and

manage to hold onto it?

 

It all begins to feel rather hopeless,

while day after day we repeat the

same cycle over and over again.

 

Life is filled with uncertainty,

instability and fear.

 

Settle for the devil we know, while

try to avoid the devil we do not.

 

Is this all there is, the heart yearns?

 

So we keep on pedaling as fast

as we can, chasing that carrot, the

promise that if we just keep trying,

eventually we will get our carrot,

we will be enlightened and then

we can live happily ever after, a card

carrying member of the 'in crowd.'

 

But are we really happy?

 

Do we know peace?

 

Are we candles that do not flicker

in the wind?

 

We hate ourselves, we hate our lives,

and we hate everyone else if we

are being really honest.

 

And we have taken micromanaging

ourselves, those for whom we claim

to care and have attachments to,

as well as our worlds to a whole new

level.

 

Control freaks in a dog-eat-dog

world.

 

And all of this says nothing about

the incredible decade in which we

are all now living where shock and

awe keeps us amped up in adrenal

overdrive.

 

Is this life, or is it merely existing?

 

Is true happiness and joy even

possible?

 

We will keep our hearts open

as we continue with our journey

tomorrow...

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***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​​

Lord, if there even is a Lord...

 

I am tired of this never ending movie

of Nightmare on Elm Street.

 

Life has beaten me into a state of

reasonableness.

 

I am ready for your way...

 

I am ready for the truth.

 

Reveal Thyself to me.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​

Our second fundamental truth

is as follows:

 

(2) I have given everything I see

all the meaning that it has for me.

 

This is such a vital point that

each of us must get, because it is

pivotal to the onset of Clear

Seeing.

 

We begin with a central premise

which is pivotal...

 

Everything is inherently neutral

in the world of form and phenomena

until we name, describe, judge and

interpret it.

 

Watch this today and practice

Clear Seeing by trying to look upon

yourself and your world without

judgment or interpretations of

any kind.

 

Can you see the inherent neutrality

of everything until human beings

put their spin on it?

 

Given the task, can you actually

describe what you are observing

with neutral language which is

lacking any emotional charge

whatsoever?

 

This is the difference between

objective and subjective.

 

Let us look at a couple of examples.

 

A. The grass is turning brown and

crackles underfoot when walked

upon.

 

B. Their grass looks really terrible. It

sure has taken one helluva a beating

from the heat this summer. They

really should be watering their lawn

more.

 

Can you tell me which is objective

and which is subjective?

 

Ready for another example?

 

A. She's way too old to be wearing

something like that out in public.

What does she think? That she is

still 30? Perhaps she could have

pulled that off then, but not now,

for heaven's sake! She's making

a spectacle of herself.

 

B. She appears so calm, confident

and put together. A great example

of caring about appearances

at any age and living your own

version of your best life.

 

Which statement actually feels more

neutral?

 

Did you feel any emotional charge

with either statement?

 

Were you champing at the bit to

add your own two cents with either?

 

This is how to practice with yourself

today and observe whether you

feel a bit judgy and reactive to the

way in which you language things.

 

You are given a mission of fact finding,

not fault finding.

 

This is not an exercise in censoring

yourself either, but one in which you

are trying to see yourself and your

world with greater clarity.

 

There is a final and more vital piece

of information we are to gleen from

this second principle of truth and it

is this...

 

We are never reacting or responding

to what is, we are reacting and re-

sponding to the meaning we have

given to what is.

 

Remember the game telephone from

when we were kids?

 

We would all sit in a line and the first

person in the line would whisper some-

thing in his neighbor's ear.

 

That person would then whisper the

same message in the ear of the person

sitting next to him.

 

So on and so forth the game would

proceed until we got to the final person

who, upon hearing the message, would

state what he heard outloud.

 

We would all have a good laugh,

hooting and guffawing because what

this person said had absolutely

nothing to do with the original

message!

 

Words are symbols of symbols,

twice removed from reality. But

when you add a third layer of self-

deception to them with meanings,

interpretations and judgments,

the question is no longer, "Why is

the world as it is," but more along

the lines of "It's amazing that the

world in which we live isn't any

crazier than it already is when you

think about how we are all experiencing

a different world, and one which we

firmly believe is 100% true."

 

We believe that what we believe is true

so thoroughly that more than just a few

of us would be willing to fight to the

death in order to defend what we believe

is right.

 

Our particular way of seeing things is

one which is based on many factors, not

the least of which is history, programming

and conditioning, biases, beliefs, religion,

emotional and mental health, culture,

sexual orientation and age!

 

Enjoy working with our second

principle today and we will

continue tomorrow with principle

number three.

​

And if you feel up to it, jot me a line

and tell me what you learned about

yourself and your world.

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***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​​

Help me see myself and my

world with clarity, honesty and

kindness today.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​

It is no secret to those who know

me well that I began my journey

with A Course In Miracles on 9/11,

the day the Trade Towers went

down.

 

And anyone who makes a decision

to study The Course, as it is so

fondly referred to by those who

have found peace through it, is

that the entire curriculum can be

summed up in the first 10 lessons

of the workbook.

 

That message can be easily distilled

into the following 5 ideas...

 

(1) Nothing I see means anything.

 

(2) I have given everything I see

all the meaning that it has for me.

 

(3) I see only my past.

 

(4) I see nothing as it is now.

 

(5) My thoughts do not mean

anything. They merely show me

a meaningless world, and a

meaningless world engenders

fear.

 

A question arises.

 

What are these five statements

trying to tell me?

 

Let's examine each of them, one

by one, over the course of the next

five days.

 

Shall we give it a whirl?

 

Today we start with the first.

 

(1) Nothing I see means anything.

 

The mind is a meaning making

machine. Twenty four hours a day,

sun up to sun down and even in

our sleep, we are interpreting and

assigning meaning to everything

we experience through the five

sense organs: sight, hearing, taste,

smell and touch or sensation.

 

Further, the Course teaches that in

the beginning, God caused a great

sleep to fall upon Adam. Yet nowhere

in the Bible does it say that Adam

ever woke up from that sleep.

 

Therefore, a primary tenet of The

Course is that we are all sleep walking,

and what keeps us in this somnambu-

listic state is the delusional need that

that human beings have to interpret,

codify and assign meaning to all of

their experiences.

 

First we interpret and then we act

on that interpretation.

 

All day long, life happens.

 

And we react or respond, depending

on our experience.

 

There are two problems which arise

with this model for living.

 

The first is that we are not reacting

or responding to what is. We are

reacting or responding to our

interpretation of what is. And

these are not the same thing.

 

Secondly, are we not riding the

donkey backwards here?

 

Is the world cause and my reactions

to this cause the effect, or could it

be the other way around?

 

Thus, The Course is trying to tell

us that we mistakenly live our lives

from the outside in.

 

But what if we were never meant

to live this way?

 

What if we were designed to live

life from the inside out?

 

Observe this process within you

today as your day unfolds.

 

First comes the experience.

 

Next comes the meaning I give

to that experience.

 

From my interpretation, a

narrative arises.

 

You then react to the narrative

which you have supplied to that

experience.

 

So your mission is simple.

 

See if you can catch the thread

of the particular narrative or

storyline which unwinds in your

mind that is based upon your

interpretation (the meaning

which you have given the exper-

ience), which is then followed by

a reaction or response on your

part.

 

Then you, my dear, pick up the

ball and run with it.

 

This is all.

 

The world we see doesn't mean

anything because the world we

see and react to is the one

we experience in our heads which

is an interpretation of the original

experience.

​

We assume that interpretation is

true, but is it?

​

What if all of the eight and a half

billion people on this planet were

in their own inner movie theatre,

watching their own movie?

​

A movie which was unique to that

of every other human being?

​

Would that not explain all the

conflict, misunderstandings, con-

fusion and chaos we see?

 

We have spent our entire lifetimes

riding the donkey backwards.

 

What might we experience, were we

to get on the donkey facing forward,

and allowed our lives to unfold in a

very Zen, very organic way, a way in

which we all forgo any need to

editorialize or define our experience

in any way?

 

A worthy question worth sincere

exploration today, don't you think?

 

To simplify, The Course is all about

training the mind to see clearly.

 

The mind was never meant to be

in charge of your life.

 

When it is left in charge and

unchecked, it is like trying to

wrestle with a fire hose.

 

A unruly tyrant and a bully more

often than not.

 

But it makes a very good and useful

tool when in service to the heart.

 

What might we experience over

the next five days if we made

a commitment to take this journey

together?

 

Enquiring minds want to know...

 

Are you up for it?

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***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​​

Let me observe the mind carefully

and lovingly today and see just

what unfolds...

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​

Let's keep it really simple today

and dial it back....yet all the while

build on our thought from yester-

day.

 

When intense and powerful

feelings present themselves

in reaction to having been

triggered, here is how we will

respond to everything, using

the same singular emotional

filter...

 

(1)

 

Hit your pause button.

 

(2)

 

Bring your awareness to

your breath.

 

(3)

 

Consciously relax the body,

feeling yourself soften and open

simultaneously.

 

(4)

 

Allow yourself to experience

the feelings which are arising

without judging, commentary,

editing or bypassing in any way.

 

(5)

 

When you feel that you have fully

welcomed your experience and

provided yourself support while

doing so, respond with the following:

 

I am soul incarnated, having an

experience of being human.

 

What does this experience have

to do with the truth that I am?

 

You cannot compare apples to

oranges. Each is unique in color,

appearance, as well as in taste,

texture and individual health

benefits.

 

You cannot blame an apple for not

being an orange, anymore than you

can say one is somehow better while

the other is less.

 

You can have a preference for one

over the other, but what does

that have to do with who you are?

​

A preference is a preference, not

a fact.

​

Remember the old adage which 

says, different strokes for different

folks?

 

You are a changeless being of love

and light who came here to experience

being human.

​

So have that human experience.

​

Really have it.

​

Don't try to bypass it.

 

In spite of the legions of experiences

and encounters you will have here,

there is one thing you can never do...

Stop being Soul.

 

Perfect. Immutable. The singular

constant in all creation.

 

In a world where the only constant

is the fact that everything here is

impermanent and subject to change,

you are the needle on the compass

we call LIFE; ever pointing to true

north, ever reminding yourself and

your world of the HOME you never

left, the HOME which could never

leave you.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​​

I am soul having a human

experience.

 

In a world where everything

can change on a dime and when

you least expect it, this is my

anchor, my refuge in every storm.

 

May I never lose sight of that.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​

At least once a day, someone

responds to me with the following:

 

"I'm trying...."

 

Immediately, but usually silently,

my mind answers with an un-

equivocal retort of "Bullshit.

Trying is lying."

 

Why is that?

 

Because time, self-examination,

observation of both myself and

my world, as well as 73 years of life

experience has taught me this...

 

100% of all trying is based on

one's own self perceived

deficiency.

 

In other words, you believe that

who you are and how you are

does not measure up in some way

and because of this, you are not

good enough.

 

Listen.

 

No one deserves to know the truth,

no one has ever earned the right to

either know it or embody it, because

you are the TRUTH which never

changes. You always have been and

you always will be.

 

So is everyone and everything else.

 

Right now, as you are, lock, stock

and barrel.

 

In other words, you are the one

who believes there are things you

must change, stuff you must heal,

limitations you must overcome and

transcend, things which you must

understand, whatever.... before you

can accept the simple fact that truth

is true and only truth is true.

 

Truth is 100% immutable.

 

In fact, it is the only thing that is

immutable.

​

Anything which is subject to change

is 100% fleeting and therefore

phantasmagorical, like waves that

rise and return to the sea from whence

they came...

 

Look the word immutable up in the

dictionary and write its meaning

down.

 

What does one's story have to do

with the truth?

 

What do one's arguments have to do

with the truth?

 

What does one's perceived limitations,

lack and deficiencies have to do

with the truth?

 

The words which were spoken over

you when you were a child...what do

they have to do with the truth?

 

Thus today's thought will require

huge amounts of self honesty,

quiet reflection, open-heartedness,

and kindness.

 

In what ways do you still feel you are

somehow lacking?

 

What are you still waiting to change

about yourself before you will allow

truth to be true for you?

 

What is this core of unworthiness

that you are still holding onto?

 

When will you be willing to see that

even this is not a limitation unless

you make it one?

 

There is no you + truth, there is only

truth.

 

Shall I dumb it down a bit for you?

 

You are a part of TRUTH and TRUTH

is forever and forever a part of you.

 

TRUTH is the fundamental substrate

of everything, my dear.

 

Everything in existence is a part of

TRUTH. Always has been and always

will be.

 

This truth is what makes us ONE.

 

So it is not a matter of "When I

change this or that about myself."

 

And it is not a matter of "When I

finish this or that..."

 

It's about "When will I allow the truth

to be true about me?"

 

From the most heinous criminal to

the most beloved saint, truth is true

and only truth is true.

 

What is it that you are still hanging

onto that you are using as an excuse

to withhold the truth from yourself?

 

This is what you must love so tenderly

about yourself until you see, beyond

all shadow of doubt, that this too is

a part of truth as are you.​​​​​

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​​

Hair, guts, feathers and all,

I am the truth which includes

everything.

​

How do you go about setting one

free when they have never been

in bondage, nor could they ever?

​

Huh...?

 

I always have been and I always

will be the forever Changeless.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​​

Here is a simple enough practice

that we all may begin today.

 

It is hoped you will wish to continue

with it for the remainder of your

life.

 

This is how you begin...

 

Just for today...

 

I will not engage with anyone's

suffering, yours or mine.

 

I am no longer willing to listen

to anyone's monologues highlighting

and focusing on what you think is

wrong or not fair.

 

I am beginning to see the wholesale

arrogance in participating in the

role of either judge or jury.

 

I will not listen to or commiserate

with you or myself if you are

pontificating on anything.

 

No more gossip, character

assassinations or judgement of

anyone or anything.

 

And no more complaining!

 

I'm done with the bitch fests!

​

If it is happening, it is supposed

to be.

 

The End.

 

Beloved...

 

Do you want to be a part of the

problem or the solution?

 

Are you not here to be the

medicine?

 

Are we not here to end the dream

of suffering, rather than

exacerbate it?

 

To complete the Matrix so we no

longer have need of it?

 

It is not enough to sit idly by

and quietly listen, yet remain silent.

 

Remaining silent is you offering

your tacit agreement with what is

being shared.

 

If you do not feel it is a situation

where you can speak freely with

loving honesty from your heart,

then stand up and walk away.

 

Why do you think you have these

things we call legs in the first

place?

 

Huh?

 

For today we begin to see all the

many ways in which we have still

been keeping suffering alive within

ourselves and our world, and end

this insidious codependent relation-

ship we have with suffering once

and for all.

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***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​​

May I not forget that I came to be

a bridge, a boat, a safe harbor in

this storm we call life.

 

I came to be the very medicine

which sets us all free.

 

So let's stop with the shenanigans

and get on with it!

 

May the healing begin.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​​

No matter what age you happen

to be, unless you were actually

born during the course of this

decade or are too young to re-

member differently, you no doubt

feel as though this decade keeps

shoving us all off the edge of a

cliff in one way or another every

single day.

 

Just when we thought we had

seen or heard everything, life

comes at us like a tidal wave

and shows us that it can indeed

get harder and more shocking

for each of us.

 

Life continues to present all of us

with things which are so far beyond

our personal bandwidth of what

we believed humanly possible, as

well as doggedly attempts to pull

the rug out from beneath our feet,

often on a daily basis, that we feel

like jelly on the inside!

 

So today our assignment will be

as easy or difficult as we make it

for ourselves.

 

Our work is that of accepting this

new world in which we live as it is.

​

As my best friend's mother used to

say, hair, guts, feathers and all.

 

Notice I did not ask you to love

this world as it is if you cannot.

 

Genuine acceptance does not

require either your liking it or

your approval.

 

But here's the deal...

 

Unless you come to a place of

peace with our world, as it is,

happiness will forever elude you,

no matter what you do or try.

 

This decade is not going to get

any easier for anyone.

 

Surely you can attest to that,

based on what you have already

experienced.

 

Now you can keep on going

around bitching and moaning,

finding others with whom

you can commiserate (misery

does love company, does it

not?), or you can live, really

and truly live, your particular

experience of being a human

being on this planet at this

present time in human history

and be grateful for the life

which is yours to live.

​

Here's a hint:

​

Complainers are never happy

and they lose....but only 100%

of the time.

 

Each of us only have so much

energy and time left on our

biological clocks.

 

And we came here to unwind

everything for every single one

of us; something which no other

generation in human history has

ever been able to accomplish

before us.

 

How do you think that happens,

unless life presents all of us with

what we have not lovingly owned

and made peace with about our-

selves, both individually and

collectively?

 

So remember this...

 

Life is not happening to you

or to anyone else.

 

Life is happening for the sake

of all of us.

 

Is it not easier to flow with the

river than to try to push it?

 

You came here to have empathy

and compassion for our world,

not to try to help the world out of

the quagmire in which they

find themselves.

 

No one has ever and no one will

ever will be able to help anyone

more than they are willing to

help themselves.

 

After all, that is what unconditional

positive regard actually means.

​

It's not about my way or the highway,

it's about you do it your way and

I'll do it mine.

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***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​​

Help me move through this

day with so much ease and

grace, peace and genuine

acceptance that it feels like

gliding across the surface

of ice.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

Lest you be surprised and caught

off guard, ego thinks, "The more

loving I become, the more attractive

I will become. I will attract others

to me like bees to honey."

 

I have news for you.

 

The more loving you become, the

more your very presence brings up

all the unfinished business in

others.

 

For that is the nature of LOVE.

 

LOVE shatters everything which

is unlike itself.

​

Because of this, the effects that

she has on those whom you

encounter can be highly catalytic

in nature.

 

For we live in the age of God

realization.

​

How else do you set an entire planet

free, if you do not keep the world

untethered and unmoored, forcing

them to look upon what they did not

wish to see so that they might learn

to love, respect and prioritize them-

selves?

 

There are only two kinds of people

in this world.

 

Peace driven people and conflict

driven people.

 

So the more peaceful you become,

the more loving you become,

the more your presence does

precisely what you came here to do.

 

Why pretend to be surprised by

that?

 

Keep interactions to a minimal

and allow LOVE to do what she

does best.

 

And never ever forget, they too,

just as yourself, are on their soul's

journey and you are not responsible

for anyone other than yourself.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​

Thank you, dear LOVE, for always

showing me what I have yet

to love within myself, for being such

a clear mirror for others to see

themselves in, and for ever being my

Comforter, my wellspring of hope

and my Source.

 

I am Thine and Thou art mine,

inseparably mixed, like water with

water.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

No one knows the day or hour

of their death, nor even the

manner in which they are

destined to die.

 

That remains an unknown

until it actually happens.

 

But if you never get anything

else in this life other than this,

may this be the one thought

you carry in every single

particle of your being through-

out what remains of your

precious human life...

​

I am beholdin' to no one and

no thing on this planet other

than myself.

 

Not my children, not my spouse,

not my parents or siblings, no

institution, no government, nor

one single human being has any

power over me.

 

I am responsible for one person

and one person only, myself.

 

My self sovereignty, my autonomy

and agency is sacrosanct.

 

Not even my emotions and feelings,

not my thoughts and opinions, nor

my preferences or judgments, not

even what is happening in this body

or my life situation or circumstances

has any power over me unless I give

it to them.

 

I am here to redeem the only

person that I can redeem, myself.

 

And it all begins by taking back

every scrap of power that I have

ever given to anyone or anything

because I was brainwashed and

hoodwinked into believing they

did have power over me and I

never paused long enough to

question it.

 

I am free.

 

And the only one who has the

power to strip me of that freedom

is me, and I vow never to do so

ever again, so help me God.

 

The buck starts and stops here.

 

The End.

 

Do this and do it faithfully because

you are worth it, and the rest will

come naturally in and of itself.

 

For this is the ticket to your

unequivocal emancipation.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​

I feel so deeply and profoundly

empowered today that I feel like

I could quite literally move

mountains or walk on water.

 

Thank you for my precious

human life.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

I have a very dear friend whom I

love with all my heart.

 

There is the fiercest and most

intense feeling of tenderness and

love that pours from my heart

center whenever she comes to

mind.

 

But she is so afraid of how other

people will feel, so afraid of being

a disruptive presence in her world,

that she cannot see how much

she has compromised the truth

by being unwilling to embrace the

very job she came here to do.

 

She has two particular modes of

being which she favors: that of

being incognito or hiding in her

house from the world.

 

Often she can be heard asking the

question, "Why do I feel stuck

between two experiences? I know

my life has changed so much, even

though I did not actively try to change

anything. But what good is knowing

you are already free if never feel

free and still experience suffering?"

 

Today, allow the following question

to walk in the space before you,

providing you the contextual frame-

work with which to live your day...

 

Do I want to fit in, or do I want to be

free?

 

Because the truth is, you do not get

both.

 

Here is where you have compromised

your own truth and betrayed your

own heart for the sake of a pseudo-

peace, all because you were too afraid

to embrace the very reason that you

incarnated at this particular time in

human history in the first place.

 

Friend, you came here to be a

disrupter.

 

You came to flip the tables outside

the temple doors.

 

You came to be a wrecking ball

which was hidden inside a human

being.

 

And the only way you can successfully

change a system which does not

work is by being willing to be that

disruptive presence who is working

with that system from the inside out.

 

You cannot cry because you have never

seen the Ocean, let alone swam in it,

when it has always been there waiting

for you outside your front door.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Prayer For The Today

​

Today, I embrace my purpose and

consciously choose to get out there

and be a vital part of this life,

shining brightly in a world which is

trapped in a web of perpetual sleep,

a web of their own making.

 

I am committed to setting the captives

free by consciously choosing from here

on out to be me with my brights on.

​

No more purposefully trying to fly

beneath radar detection.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

So here is a very good question

for you to ponder today.

 

Why would the Absolute, that for

which there is no second, nor one

that could ever be possible be-

cause there is nothing else, give

us the illusion of free will in the

first place?

 

So that after years turning into

decades of human experience,

trying and failing, trying again

and failing yet again, we would

come to terms with what it means

to be powerless, what it means to

have absolutely no control over

anything, all so that one day we

would consciously choose to give

the illusion of free will back to

the Creator of all this. 

 

The map of this human journey

is laid out for us in the human

chakra system.

 

Starting at the crown of the head,

the ONE became many.

 

Now proceeding down the neck

and spine to the root chakra.

 

This is our journey through the

Matrix; the world where we try

to create our definition of what 

it means to be successful and

have a fulfilling life.

 

Next, ascending from the root

back to the crown, so the many

could become ONE again in

their conscious experience.

 

Surrendering that so-called

free will back to the Absolute

in humble recognition that

there is only God.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Prayer For The Today

​

Here God.

 

Here is my so-called free will.

 

Take it back.

 

I don't want to be in charge of

anything, least of all myself.

 

All these human experiences

have ever shown me is that I

couldn't even find my butt in

the dark if I was searching for

it with both hands.

 

This little hula hoop I've been

working at staying in, sticking

to my side of the street?

 

Here is the deed to this little

piece of real estate I call 'me.'

​

Please take her back; lock, stock

and barrel.

 

Don't put me in charge of any-

thing.

 

I don't even want to be a bean

counter.

 

I am soooooooo done with all

this.

 

You are pretty darn funny and

clever when I think about it.

 

All of this Matrix happening just

for me...all so I would one day

point the camera lens back at

myself, rather than at the world...

no longer blaming it for my

troubles...growing to love the

self I am and seeing how precious

and earnest it is... yet in the end,

realizing she was only a figment

of a very over active imagination.

 

Direct experience has, at long last

revealed there is only you.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

A number of people have been

sharing lately that words no

longer matter to them.

 

In fact, they not only feel

unnecessary, at times they feel

burdensome to them, too

heavy to bother with using them.

​

So listen carefully and with an

open heart.

 

Your words are the vehicle

through which you offer your-

self and your world the subtle

vibrations and frequencies of

either the soul or the ego.

 

How do you know which is which?

 

To which I immediately respond

with the following...

 

If you have to ask, then you already

have the answer to your question.

 

But here is an answer which will

be most helpful to anyone in any

given moment.

 

Every single time you feel yourself

surrender in genuine acceptance

of what is, trusting that what is is

the will of the Divine, you are,

in effect, giving the illusion of free

will back to the soul and allowing it

to be in charge of your peace, your

liberty and your life itself.

 

Practice with heartfelt devotion and

you will never again have to ask

who is in charge of anything.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Prayer For The Today

​

This day I give to you, dear

soul.

 

Be you in charge of everything.

​

I get it....

​

I was plagued with a sincere case

of insanity when I actually believed

that I had control over anything.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

Today's thought piggybacks

on yesterday's.

 

We work with one central

idea:

 

There is no such thing as free

will.

 

Look at all the effort you have

spent trying to change what

was never yours to change, trying

to fix what was never broken,

and control things over which

you were powerless.

 

When ACIM talks about the

Authority problem, this is

precisely what it is referring.

 

The desire to usurp Divine Will

in favor of your own whims, wishes,

preferences and desires.

 

And is that not what suffering is?

 

The unwillingness to accept what

is happening, as it is?

 

See if you cannot tap into how

liberating and exhilarating it feels

to hop into the back seat and let

the Divine do the driving.

 

Nothing changes except the fact

that you get to relax a whole lot

more and perhaps even, dare I say

it, enjoy the ride.

 

It's not like you ever actually had

control over anything.

 

So it's not really control that you

are giving up.

 

You are giving up the illusion that

you ever had control over anything 

in the first place.

 

Here is an important nugget which

will speed you along your merry way

today...

 

In the absence of what is happening,

would I have ever been able

to get in touch with what is mine

to feel and has heretofore been 

ignored?

 

The instruction is simple.

 

1.

 

This is what is happening.

 

2.

 

This is how I am feeling about it.

 

3.

 

I can work with this. Let me accept

what is and trust in the Divine

unfolding of life.

 

THE END.

 

It feels truly amazing to take your

power back.

 

Look at all the time, effort, energy

and resources you have squandered

trying to make life bend to your

will when you could have just cut

to the chase and decided to trust.

 

For peace is the fruit of acceptance.

 

And suffering is the fruit of resistance.

 

Could surrender, aka acceptance,

be stated any clearer than that?

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***

​

Prayer For The Today

​

God's Plan.

 

God's way.

 

I can work with that.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

Yesterday I had a brief interaction

with a friend via text in which

she prayed for stillness big enough

to wash away every trace of concern.

​

Sounds like a noble enough prayer,

but is it really?

 

I told her that it's okay to feel concern.

There is nothing wrong with it. It is

important to honor that feeling if that

is what you are feeling because LOVE

doesn't care. It changes nothing. No

feeling has the power to change any-

thing because LOVE never leaves you,

no matter what.

 

You see, I do not believe for a

single second that people grasp

the degree to which they censor

and edit themselves in an attempt

to either avoid one kind of experience,

or to get rid of one ASAP.

 

Today I would like us all to work

on getting one message through

to ourselves.

 

Nothing we feel is a problem for

LOVE because LOVE never leaves

us.

 

Nothing we think is a problem for

LOVE because LOVE never leaves

us.

 

What is happening in our body

or to us healthwise does not matter

either because LOVE never leaves

us.

 

Our life experiences do not matter

either. Because regardless what

we have going on in our lives,

LOVE never leaves us.

 

It's a subtle thing that trips you

up each day, this trying not to be

one way and feeling it is somehow

better for you to feel another way.

 

But it is entirely radical to give

ourselves permission to have our

experience, recognizing that

the experience does not affect

LOVE'S consistency or constancy.

 

Here is the format with which to

work with yourself today.

 

________ is happening.

 

I feel _________ about it.

 

But that cannot and does not

change anything because LOVE

never leaves me.

 

It is time take the steam and the

storyline out of the nuts and bolts

mechanics of how you relate to

yourself.

 

Look carefully at the degree to which

you have been brainwashed and

programmed into trying to change

any experience you do not like or

have judged as somehow lacking.

 

Today we allow every experience

and respond to it in the same

way. We do so without guilt,

without drama, without reprisals

and without censorship.

 

What do you think the admonition

To Thine Own Self Be True

actually means?

 

Let me offer a few examples...

 

I think he is guilty as hell. And I

feel smug and self-righteous about

it. Further, I feel fully justified in it

but so what? That changes nothing

because LOVE never leaves me.

 

I just really hate the POTUS, I

cannot stand the man, but that

changes nothing because LOVE

never leaves me.

 

I am afraid of dying because I have

cancer and that scares the shit out of

me. But that changes nothing

because love never leaves me.

 

Question....

 

What does one have to do?

 

Hit you upside the head with a 2x4

to get your attention and make you

see what you are doing to yourself?

 

Today is all about having the guts

to at least be honest with yourself

if you are not going to be with any-

one else.

 

Honor what you are feeling, yet at

the same time, recognize that

your honest-to-god experience

changes nothing because LOVE

never leaves you.

 

This is the end of all drama, the

constant preoccupation and

obsession with yourself, and

your marked tendency toward

self-abnegation.

 

And do share how it goes.

​

I would love to hear from you.

 

This is about your FREEDOM.

 

Do you even want to be free?

 

Freedom is not a byproduct of

bypassing your human experience,

bur rather the result of facing

and embracing it in the most

humble of recognitions, that LOVE

never leaves us.

​

Nothing about your human experience

has any impact on your Divinity

whatsoever.

​

But being honest with yourself about

your human experience is the difference

between feeling lost and feeling

found.

​

Face it.

​

It's okay. You won't die if you admit

it to yourself.

​

You cannot afford to live another day

on this planet as a stranger to yourself.

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***

​

Prayer For The Today

​

Endless gratitude pours from

the fountain of my heart

today.

 

I give thanks that genuinely

being myself and honoring

the truth of my experience

is all that's required.

​

LOVE handles the rest.

 

Amen

​

***

​​

Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

Today is the 25th anniversary

of me living in my present

home.

​

And what a sweet, loving and

peaceful place to call home

while in the Matrix, the Maya,

the simulation....

 

A fact that I do not, for a single

second, take for granted.

 

It is also the 25th anniversary

of that fateful day when the

Trade Towers came down in

NYC. A day which no one in

America will ever forget and

I sense that most of the world

feels the same about it.

 

So let today be a day in which

we all reflect on the things for

which we are grateful.

 

And I will leave you with the

singular most inconvenient

truth of all.

 

No matter what you are thinking...

 

No matter what you are feeling...

 

No matter what is going on with

your health...

 

No matter what is happening in

the body....

 

No matter what you have going

on in your life situation or

circumstances...

 

No matter what is going on in

the world.....

 

LOVE NEVER LEAVES YOU.

 

Which means that GOD never

leaves you....

 

Oh, sure... You choose a thousand

times ten thousand times a day

to leave love, but LOVE NEVER

LEAVES YOU.

 

You have not actually ever left

LOVE, for that is something no

one is capable of pulling off.

 

Ever.

 

But you most certainly have lost

the plot a million times over,

picked up the thread of any number

of storylines and got lost in rip

tides of self-righteousness, self-pity

and the need to be right.

 

In this way you have quite effectively

lost your awareness of LOVE'S

presence. As a result, you have become

ensnared in the very web which you

wove from threads of your own narrative.

 

But does any of that matter?

 

Not a damn bit.

 

Unless of course, you let it.

 

And why?

 

Because LOVE never leaves you,

my dear....

 

You might want to use that as a

tagline today, your own declaration

of truth that takes the fizzle out

of your sizzle and plants a smile

right back on your face.

 

And it will do so 100% of the time

if you let it.

 

Unless you prefer your suffering

over FREEDOM.

 

But does that matter?

​

Not to LOVE.

 

The question is, will you allow it

to matter to you?

 

Only if you choose to believe your

own horse shit.

 

As we have said a zillion times

before....

 

You are only ever as FREE as you

allow yourself to be.

 

So thank yourself and give yourself

a little pat on the back for the day

which you gift yourself with today.

 

As for me, I'm rollin' all sevens!

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***

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Prayer For The Today

​

Thank you for the most profound

gift that this life has been for

me.

 

Every damn bit of it.

 

And today, I give myself permission

to be happy, joyous and FREE....

 

Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I'm squealing like a little piggy

today!!!!!!

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

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This is what so few seem to get.

 

You do not have to try to do or

become anything other than who

and how you are right now.

 

Nothing whatsoever.

 

Heck. You do not even have to

understand anything.

 

You do not need to try to avoid

holes nor do you have to try to

prevent yourself from falling

into them.

 

Clear?

 

Think about it.

 

Can you not see that any effort

on your part is a form of

spiritual bypassing?

 

What do you think the following

statement means?

​

Nothing about your human experience

limits your ability to experience

the truth of yourself right now.

 

You are the only one who is

imposing limitations on yourself.

​

And why?

​

Because you cannot fathom being

able to experience the truth as you

presently are.

 

But beloved, that is just how HUGE

and unconditional LOVE is.

 

If this is true, which it is, then your

acceptance of all of you, as you are,

not as you want to be, nor how you

believe that you are supposed to be,

is the only limitation on your capacity 

to receive and embody the truth.

​

This is why A Course In Miracles says,

"The secret of salvation is that I am

doing this unto myself."

​

Self inquiry asks, "Love has already

embraced this. Why then can't I?"

 

Complete peace and acceptance of

all that you humanly are is the only

key which opens the door to LOVE,

your Infinite and Unchangeable Self.

 

Today is thus an opportunity to

see with clarity how you are still

resisting you being you and using

spiritual bypassing by trying to

change how you are or to under-

stand.

 

Each time you feel a twinge of

unsatisfactoriness or the urge to

do yet another google search,

hit your pause button.

 

Come back to your breath.

 

Relax. Soften. Open. And gently

lean in.

 

Can I accept this about myself

right now?

​

Can I be soft and squishy with

this part of me?

​

For LOVE includes this.

 

Can I use this as an opportunity

to love and support myself more

deeply than I have, as I am, even

more?

 

Give it a whirl.

 

Practice radically accepting all

of yourself as you are.

 

No efforting allowed.

 

Do you really want to experience

being free, or is that just a bunch

of malarky you tell yourself be-

cause you believe that LOVE could

not possibly accept you exactly as

you are because you cannot accept

yourself as you are?

​

Nor can you accept others and life

as they are, but LOVE can and does.

 

Q: Why do you think LOVE made

you the way you are?

 

A. So that you could see that

however you are being in any given

moment is not a sign of failure, but

an opportunity to see that LOVE

does not hide nor does she withhold

or impose conditions, so neither

should you.

 

There is nothing that LOVE does

not include.

 

LOVE does not judge.

 

You do.

 

How about cutting yourself and

your world so much slack today

that you see and experience first-

hand that there is nothing that lies

outside the circle of what you can

genuinely and open heartedly

accept and embrace?

​

Now that is some honest-to-God

generosity.

 

For how can love show you what

She is if you keep bypassing Her

efforts to reveal Herself by trying

to be better or different or by

trying to help or understand?

​

God LOVES you

as you are

and there is not a damn thing

you can do about that.

​

LOVE sees no problem, no

obstacle or difficulty that it has

to oversome.

​

You do.

 

Time for a system wide reboot.

​

Because it is when you finally get

this that the revelation of LOVE

and the experience of FREEDOM

is finally and irrevocably yours.

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***

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Prayer For The Today

​

No matter the form it takes,

my helping is spiritual bypassing.

​​​

Gentleness is not gentle and kindness

is not really kind if the heart is not

genuinely open to all of me as I am.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

Cultivate a lighthearted and

playful approach to yourself

and your life....

 

This life is a simulation, the Matrix

or Maya.

 

But who ever said that your active

participation was a requirement?

 

Are you here to try to express the

Infinite through a finite form,

or are you here to simply observe it?

 

Why play the game when you are

the One who is dreaming it?

 

For in this sense you are the game,

the player, and most importantly,

that which is holding all of it---

abiding in the changeless state

of love and peace within it,

interpenetrating it and beyond it.

 

You are so much more....

​

You are far more than any human

mind could ever comprehend.

​

Why lose yourself in the finite

experience, when you are forever

the Infinite itself?

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***

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Prayer For The Today

​​

I can be as serious as a heart attack.

 

That's the hole I rather inconveniently

fall into time and again.

 

I like the idea of lighthearted and

playful, wearing life like a loose

garment all the way.

​

Can I be a little fly on the wall,

and simply observe life's unfolding

today?

​

I think so, and so it is...

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

Conundrum:

 

Q: How does one actually give them-

selves so utterly and so completely

to LOVE as was suggested in

yesterday's thought when LOVE is

what you already and always are

and everything else is as well?

 

LOVE has no qualifiers to be what

it always infinitely is.

 

Q: Is it not love who designed you to

be the very you that you already are?

 

Q: And is it not love who unconditionally

loves you with such an open hand,

that she gives you complete permission

to do you and be you exactly the way

that only you can?

 

For in the end, that is what grace

actually is, don't you think?

​

When those fundamentally inclined say

that grace is unmerited favor, they do

not ever see the impact of what they are

actually saying.

​

The reason that grace is unmerited is

because there is nothing any of us could

ever do to earn it because it is already

and always ours by birthright. 

​

We cannot merit, earn or deserve it,

because we do not have to in order

to always have full access to it.

​

Again, how does one gain access to

something we are already accessing?

 

In this way, grace could also be said

to be the definition of FREEDOM.

​

Q: Did these ideas occur to you as well

throughout your contemplations

yesterday?

​

You see, here is the biggest mystery 

as far as I am concerned about the

short path upon which we are

traveling.

​

You do not need to fix or change

anything.

​

In fact, you cannot change the

humanity with which you were

born.

​

In spite of this foundational truth,

I have changed so much because

of its simplicity, tenderness and

unending outpouring of loving

kindness.

​

LOVE mended all that had felt

broken within me for so long

simply by loving me exactly as

I am, ever proclaiming my worth

and value to her.

​

I am an infinite asset.

​

So are you, beloved.

​

Unconditionally, unswervingly and

without expectation.

​

So why is it so important to me to

integrate love as fully & completely

as I possibly can with my humanity

during the course of my lifetime?

​

After giving it a lot of thought

yesterday, I came to the following

conclusion.

​

Although an illusion, I love this world.

​

And after three quarters of my life

trying, in one way or another,  to leave

or get rid of the human experience,

I love my humanity.

 

It is a GIFT.

 

And I would like to cast a light so

bright that it can touch every single

living thing, reminding all creation

that this is who or what we forever

are.

​

LOVE is not limited by my humanity

or anyone else's.

​

But LOVE cannot be overlooked,

ignored or denied by anyone or

any thing when one's life has

become such an overwhelmingly

effulgent demonstration.

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***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​

May I never forget that I am never

not That, no matter how I may seem

to be to myself or anyone else.

 

Is not LOVE big enough and Infinite

enough to hold everything?

 

I thank God, no one nor thing can

impose a limitation on LOVE.

​

But let my light so shine that it

leaves a lasting impact everywhere

I go today and through everything

I do.

 

Amen

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***

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

Over the weekend, I watched

the Mary Oliver documentary

and was deeply touched by it.

 

I have the following thoughts

that arose as a result of it that

I would like share today and

humbly ask for us to hold them

closely in our hearts and reflect

on them deeply.

 

Love,

 

pelkyong

 

***

 

Mary Oliver was once asked

in her later years by Maria Shriver,

“What have you done with

your one wild and precious life?”

which was actually a quote

from her famous book,

“This Wild and Precious Life:

A Journal.”

 

She paused for a few moments

and replied, “I have learned

to love and to allow myself

to be loved. And that did not

come easy.” 

 

Two questions for today.

 

Has that ever come easy

for any of us?

 

Could there be any other

purpose to our being here? 

 

For my heart tells me that

this is the only measure of one

whose Divinity has become

fully integrated with their

humanity.

 

Another quote from the

documentary:

 

“Attention is the beginning

of devotion.”

 

Mary Oliver, from 

Teach The Children

 

And my last two questions for

all of us today are as follows....

 

In the end, we are all children,

are we not?

​

What do you feel is the meaning

of life?

 

***

 

Have a safe and uneventful Labor Day

if you live in America or are American.

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Prayer For The Today

​​

My heart can almost touch the idea

of what it might look like and feel

like to give oneself so totally to LOVE.

 

For this is my one-and-only raison d'etre.

 

Amen

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Thought For The Today​​​​​

​​

Last week we said that the best

that 5,000 years of religion

and spirituality had to offer us

was a reductionist model wihich

left us drowning in guilt & shame

with nothing to show for it other

than more desperation, more

hopelessness and more despair.

 

One thing which all religions

can agree on is the promise

that LOVE is the ultimate Reality.

 

It is not considered to really be

ours because it is what we are, it

is a gift bestown upon us when

we have sacrificed and surrendered

enough to be worthy of God's

mercy.

 

But when all our various and

asundry religious and spiritual

practices couldn't move us so

much as a hair directionally to

that of an egoless state, it left

us in even more self hatred

than before, overwheming

states of unworthiness,

unresolved trauma and victim

consciousness.

 

The old adage is true.

 

The only way out is through.

 

What religion and spiritual

practices could not do for us,

learning to genuinely love our-

selves and being told we are

not broken, did.

 

We began to find peace.

 

And the better and better we got

at loving and accepting ourselves

as we are, we began to access

something deeply transcendent

that had been waiting there

patiently for us all along.

 

Our humanity became increasingly

less of a distraction to us because

we realized that none of it was

actually getting in the way of

anything.

 

Now we were anchored in peace.

 

Here we realized that LOVE made

us who and how we are.

 

Today, allow yourself to receive

this message deeper than you

ever have before.

 

Reflect on its poignancy, majesty,

immediacy and transparency. 

 

Your humanity, my beloved, has

never been a problem.

 

It isn't to me. It isn't to God.

 

Why let it be a problem for you?

 

No matter what flavor of human

being you are demonstrating

from one moment to the next,

LOVE remains unchallenged and

unchanged.

 

LOVE is the only constant there

is.

 

And if any part of you could ever

be a problem or somehow not

enough, how could LOVE be said

to be unconditional?

 

Let me leave you with a couple of

questions...

 

If LOVE loves you the way you are,

how come you cannot love yourself

the way that you are?

 

Isn't it high time you swept your

precious self up into your arms

and welcomed all of you HOME?

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***

​

Prayer For The Today

​​

The heart is spilling over with

gratitude today.

 

I am done with the war I have had

with myself and with life.

 

I am transfigured in the LIGHT

of I am, transformed by the power

of LOVE.

 

I rejoice and give thanks.

 

Freedom really is free. And it is

ours for the asking.

 

Amen

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***

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