Thought for the Day

​​​

Now that you have a couple of

days under your belt of working

with the metaphor of repelling

magnets, we are going to talk

about them again in reverse.

 

I spoke with several people and

they told me that they recognized

what I was trying to explain when

it occurred within themselves

rather quickly.

 

It became a felt experience which

was recognizable for the most part.

 

We are talking about simple ways

to notice how quickly one shifts

from enlightened to humaning

unless they find ways to remain

consciously aware in the moments

of their days.

 

They also reported that it was a

reminder to slow their lives

down. For always this world

seeks to get you to join the herd

of ballistic human doing.

 

But today, I just want you to

notice when the now quite

familiar feeling of repelling

magnets rises within you.

​

See it, recognize it and feel it

 

You see, there are so many times

that I do not realize that I am

resisting rather than relaxing

until I acknowledge the discomfort

that I am feeling.

 

This is often the case when

resistance is more subtle, and

therefore passes by unrecognized

in the moment.

 

I then hit my pause button and

the first question that arises is

the question we have repeatedly

offered here over the years.

 

Is peace in my awareness?

 

Obviously, it is not, so then the

second question arises.

 

What am I resisting?

 

That's where our inner inquiry

begins.

 

As I said, so often I do not recognize

the subtlety of resistance, the

undercurrent of avoidance and

discontent (wishing things were

different and trying to change

them).

 

When we are humaning, the ego

can be very clever in its ability

to mask what we are up to so

that it can remain in charge.

 

And what is the overarching

purpose of such inquiry?

 

To show us that we are again

embroiled in the mechanics

of humaning, up to our eyeballs

in the finite, the personal, and

we have entirely lost sight of

our Infinite and Eternal Reality

or soul.

​

So the purpose of our inquiry

is to show us what we have

resisted, what we have not 

accepted and embraced, not

to try to fix or change either

ourselves or our experience.

​

So normalize your experience.

​

Now relax into it with your

heart open and the proclivity 

to judge and avoid gently laid

aside, thus returning you

to soul.

 

Work with this today and do share

what you discover.

 

As our thought yesterday

reminded us, being human

is not a solo act.

 

And there is so much comfort

in the recognition and realization

that we are not alone.

 

Consciously choosing to connect

with other friends who are also

choosing conscious lives, actively

extracting themselves from the

Matrix as are we, can be a huge

source of strength and support

to us if we let it be.

 

How amazing is it to recognize

someone from the same branch

of the Tree of Life as ourselves?

 

One who chose to incarnate at this

particular time in human history

along with us to help usher in

the next chapter in human evolution?

 

And we do this each and every day

by allowing ourselves to become

the science experiment, the petri

dish, so that our lives are living

demonstrations of what is possible

in the span of one precious human

life.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Liveth Thou Me, dear

soul.

 

Liveth Thou Me.

 

May I never lose sight of

you in the quagmire of

this Matrix in which we

find ourselves.

 

For I would be a lighthouse;

ever reminding all within the

purview of its luminescence

of their own True North.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

How about a really great

go-to statement?

 

One you can pull out of

your pocket when things

are tough and you feel

uncertain, overwhelmed,

frustrated, perturbed and

in over your head?

 

I am never a soloist.

 

I am not a person, I am

a Presence.

 

Empowerment is not about

personal power, personal

understanding, its about

remembering to give it to God

and leave it there.

 

And if you do no happen to like

my use of the word "God,"

how about tweaking it a bit

and saying the following...

 

To be empowered is not to seek

personal power, personal solutions,

but to leave all power in its Universal

form where answers come from an

intelligence which is entirely beyond

my paygrade when they are needed

and where they are needed.

​

Nothing ever depends upon me.

 

Because the truth is that none

of the human stuff is about

you.

 

And none of the human stuff

depends upon you.

 

Nor does any of it mean anything

about you.

 

So memorize it and use it whenever

and wherever you feel outside of your

capacity to know what to do.

 

I am sure your mind as well as your

life will give you plenty of experiences

which are perfect for a reminder such

as this.

 

Let the results speak for themselves

and let me leave you today with

the following...

 

There is a beautiful sloka in the

Bodhicharyavatara which means

The Way of the Bodhisattva that

says the following:

 

If there is something you can do

about it, why worry?

 

If there is nothing you can do

about it, why worry?

 

I know I am powerless as a human

being and yet I rest in a sublime

state of peace and trust.

​

I worry about absolutely nothing

these days...

​

Do I have serious health challenges

right now?

​

Yes.

​

Am I swimming in medical debt?

​

Yes.

​

Have I recently lost a major source

of income upon which I depended?

​

Yes.

​

But am I worried?

​

No.

​

Do I feel afraid?

​

No.

​

Do I wrestle with sleeplessness?

​

Heaven's no!

​

I feel comforted and supported

by the Universe, I do not feel

overwhelmed, nor do I feel

abandoned by it.

​

I know I am loved and will be

cared for.

​

God is my Daily Bread, not this

world.

​

I draw from an Eternal Source

beyond this world's capacity

to remotely fathom.

 

I really think that is my greatest

super power.

 

Because being human is a unending

reminder to remember to take a step

back and allow the LIGHT to lead

the way.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I can't.

God can.

So I think I'll turn loose of

the steering wheel, hop in

the backseat, and let the Universe

do all the driving.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

When I was a child, I loved magnets.

 

They were such a strange and oddly

compelling mystery to me.

 

I loved how they were attracted to

one another, how quickly they

would become attached when you

put them in proximity to one another.

 

But I think it was the magnets which

repelled one another than I liked

best and found most interesting to

play with.

 

I would toy with them until I found

that perfect sweet spot of tension

between the two where I could

feel the pull that existed between

them because it was coursing

through my body as well.

 

Close enough and yet not so distant

that they were able to push apart

completely, thus breaking the point

of any palpable tension.

 

They were interesting to observe.

 

You could not endure feeling that

energy indefinitely, because there

was a point where it began to feel

too uncomfortable to continue.

 

Strangely enough however, I loved

making myself feel that discomfort

for as long as I could stand it.

 

But inevitably, you were driven

to distance the two from each other

to a place of safety where the tension

could no longer be felt.

 

This is the nature of resistance.

 

Whenever you do not like something,

for whatever reason, and you feel

the knee-jerk urge to avoid, I would like

you to quietly observe your experience.

 

Treat your experience like a science

experiment.

 

Do not try to change it immediately

and do not judge yourself or make

yourself wrong in any way.

 

Just notice what you feel and observe.

 

For what I have found in observing

myself is that it is not the particular

story or meaning which I have given

to the experience that I am trying to

avoid which is the cause of my

suffering.

 

It is the palpable tension that I am

feeling which is indistinguishable

to that of repelling magnets.

 

I will continue to feel that so long

as I continue to avoid what I am

trying hard not to look at, or

enough time passes where I can

successfully suppress and repress

which usually takes a few days to

accomplish.

​

You know what I am talking about.

​

Out of sight and out of mind.

 

However, I have met people who

have been stuck in this position

for decades.

 

People in this position are very

attached to playing the role of

victim and blaming their misery

on someone or something else.

 

What I have noticed with myself,

however, as I continued to explore

my experience, is that when I

consciously choose to stop resisting

and just remain very still and open,

without telling any stories or

assigning any meanings to my

experience, just absolutely still

and open, that I no longer feel

that repelling quality of energy.

 

All I notice are nameless sensations

in various parts of the body.

 

Here, they can be felt, described,

observed and integrated.

 

A very simple process.

 

Observe this with yourself today.

 

But take it a step further.

 

After allowing the experience to

fully integrate, repeat the following

statement to yourself:

 

I am identified with the ego. Only

the ego is capable of experiencing

resistance. Only the ego can suffer.

 

Then turn your attention to the

universal experience of the Soul,

which is peaceful and loving

acceptance.

 

This entire event which you have

now experienced has been truly

miraculous.

 

On a planet with nearly 9 billion

people, how many do you suppose

are experiencing the incredible

luminosity of Clear Seeing as

are you?

 

Have a beautiful and profoundly

miraculous day today.

 

And may you remain consciously

aware of the force that is ever

with you, for indeed it always is.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

It's good to be alive.

 

Thank you for the gift.

 

Bless these eyes.

 

Bless these eyes and this heart,

for I will to see clearly.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

As entirely liberating as a thought

may be, as our thought from

yesterday was, your experience

after having your eyes and heart

opening wider than they ever have

before,can seem confusing because

you may start experiencing things

that feel far more unsettling or

difficult than they do peaceful.

 

This is to be expected.

 

I cannot emphasize enough the

necessity of normalizing our

experience, whatever it happens

to be.

​

Normalizing is often an act of

profound kindness that you are

not used to affording yourself.

 

But here is the thing...

 

Each instant that you grasp a

little more clearly that there is

no such thing as a personal self,

and each instant that you identify

more clearly with the Universal,

Eternal and Changeless nature

of who and what you truly are,

the more the body has to shed

all the things which were

byproducts and acquisitions

of the personal identity you

have been operating as

through incessant repetition.

 

You see, when we say you are

on the soul's journey, that you

have always been on the soul's

journey, things like time, destiny

and karma apply only to the

individual or personal self.

 

But when you embark on the

journey As Soul, meaning your

identification is with our

collective identity, rather than

the personal identity, all things

which are the result of one's

identification as the personal

begin to purge themselves from

the body's cells, organs, tissues,

glands, DNA, atoms and molecules.
 

This is a good thing.

 

This is a very good thing.

​

This is even a boon for your entire

lineage, both backward and forward.

 

But it may well feel as challenging

and disturbing as it is wonderful.

 

Would you not be free of all of

this?

 

Trust now must become your new

best friend.

 

So do not be at all surprised

if you face things you thought

were long gone.

 

And do not count it strange if

you experience bouts of extreme

cold, heat or nausea, joint

pain, mild fevers or achiness.

 

Remember that the instruction

is to first normalize the experience.

 

Next, support the body in whatever

way your intuition suggests.

 

And never forget to ask yourself

sincerely, "How can I love and

support you best through this?"

 

This is the time of tenderness.

 

And your breath is the key to

everything.

 

Be attentive and gentle with yourself,

feeling deeply everything that is

presenting itself.

 

THIS IS ONLY COMING UP SO THAT

IT CAN LEAVE.

 

ALLOW IT TO LEAVE BY TRULY

BEING THERE FOR YOURSELF.

 

Presence is the fire which lovingly

burns to ashes all things which are

no longer necessary.

 

No stories. No meanings. No

interpretations nor any need to

understand anything.

​

These are mere delay mechanisms.

 

Just feeling, loving and supporting.

 

That is the instruction.

 

Nothing is ever as complicated

or as serious as you have made it

out to be.

 

How very fortunate you are

to be where you are, experiencing

what it is yours to experience.

 

A little gratitude will go farther

than you could possibly know.

 

A good mantra I have found

useful over the years is this:

 

This is a GIFT. Why not stick

around and truly be here to

see how it all unfolds?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am a limitless being of love

and light, ONE with all things

manifest and unmanifest.

 

Thank you for the countless

gifts and miracles which will

unfold in my life today, all

because I know that I am that,

I am.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

I would like to begin today's thought

with the final statement that I made

in yesterday's prayer:

 

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

 

It is one thing to believe that we are

all one, that what we do affects each

and every single thing that lives and

to have accepted this as gospel, and

it is quite another thing to have had

a direct experience of Oneness, to

feel our unity with each other and

all of life, knowing that we are one

being who is wearing countless forms

and faces.

 

And we all know how tragically

Christianity screwed things up by

making Jesus special, so special in

fact that he was the one and only

son of God, while the rest of us were

hopeless sinners who were entirely

beyond redemption without his

sacrifice.

 

This is the idea that God had to

allow his one and only son to be

sacrificed in a perfectly heinous

manner for the sake of all the rest

of us, so that all of creation would

not be forever lost to themselves,

to each other, and to God, and

by thus condemned to hell.

 

But even Jesus was known to have

uttered these words before his

ascension:

 

"Very truly I tell you, whoever believes

in me will do the works I have been

doing, and they will do even greater

things than these because I am going

to the Father."

 

John 14:12

 

What did he mean? What was he

really saying?

 

To one who has a direct experience

of oneness it is self evident.

 

First, he was trying to get through

to us that there is no such thing as

the personal self.

 

There is the Christ Consciousness,

the very spark of God which lives

in all things created equally, for it

is a part of an infinite ocean or

field we know as God.

 

Christ was not Jesus' name.

​

It was the part of God inside of

him which had saturated every

atom and molecule of his being

and with which he had become

entirely identified.

 

Secondly, he was trying to tell us

throughout his brief public

ministry that we are all the

Christ.

 

This is our changeless identity.

 

Next, he was trying to tell us that

all the ego or personal self really

is, is the portion of the collective

consciousness we each have been

channeling from those around

us and the etheric element of that

unified field of energy.

 

When you repeat something often

enough, you believe that it is the

truth.

 

There is a beautiful sentence in

the AA Preamble which says:

 

"Repetition strengthens and

confirms, and faith comes naturally."

​

We have each been functioning

from a mistaken sense of identity.

 

So we took all these repeated 1's

and 0's from this matrix of energy,

this amalgamation of data points,

and we formulated a sense of

identity from them, as if molding

them from clay.

​

This became our adopted sense

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

 

But again, there is no such thing

as a personal self which is real.

 

So what is all the collective

consciousness? What does it

contain?

 

Remember the discussion we had

on our own trinity?

 

a) The personal self and every quality

possible to the experience of being

human.

b) The experience of love, light and

presence which we all are.

c) The Void or Emptiness; a primordial

nothingness which contains every

single possibility and potential in

a formless state.

 

So what Jesus was trying to get each

of us to see was that we do not need

to channel those things which keep

us believing in the pseudo self that

we made.

 

If that Collective Consciousness, which

is the truth of all of us, contains every

possibility and potential, if it is quite

literally Infinite, meaning that there is

no beginning nor end to what is

equally available to all of us, then

that, dear friends, is what the living

presence of Christ or God is.

 

So surely what is possible for each of us

is beyond anything which the mind can

conceive.

 

Every great achievement, every record

set, every work of art, every beautiful

sunset, every baby's smile, where do

you think all of this stuff comes from?

 

Our Consciousness, the Infinite

Unified Field we call God.

 

So today I want you to give yourself

permission to quietly reflect on all

of this.

 

Every breath that you take, every beat

of your heart, every thought that

you think, every feeling that you feel

is coming from that vast and infinite

field of information.

​

Aren't you magnificent?

 

So welcome the miraculous.

 

And remember..

 

"All things are possible to the one

who believes."

 

Mark 9:23

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am all this...

 

Can you believe it?

 

Me a part of it and it a part

of me...

 

Everything is a miracle!

 

Every single thing is a miracle!

 

Every moment is a miracle.

​

I am a miracle!

 

The opportunity to be here,

to be alive, to experience all of

this, what an incredible gift!

 

Thank you for all of it!

 

I'm going back for more!

 

Why settle for crumbs?

 

I'll take the whole enchilada!

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

When you can meet the more

difficult aspects of your

humanity, I mean really turn

and face them, accepting these

parts of yourself without

trying to change them or make

them wrong, welcoming them

fully into your heart with

gentleness, compassion and

kindness exactly as they are,

this hallmarks the beginning of

union with the Divine.

 

What more could be shared

today than this?

 

You have your marching orders.

 

There are legions of things

that will happen today.

​

And you will either turn and

face each one of them or you

will try to find some way to run

away from them in order to

avoid them.

 

And the myriad of reactions

to these experiences that you

will have will quite literally

be all over the map.

 

You will see parts of yourself

which are easy to love and

embrace.

 

There will be other parts for

which you feel rather cool or

neutral.

 

But there will be other things....

 

Things that you would rather

deny, ignore, distract, numb or

self medicate into oblivion in

whatever way which works best

for you when you are trying to

avoid facing and acknowledging

the uncomfortable and perhaps

even more painful aspects of your

humanity to look at and own.

 

Do you have the courage to

be still, to turn and face them?

 

Because the courage to stay is

a big one for all of us.

 

And from here, can you accept

and embrace the darker aspects

of your humanity and normalize

them?

 

They are nothing to feel shame

about.

 

But they are aspects of the collective

which you have repeated again

and again until you have chosen

to believe they are who you are.

​

They are not, but you have made

them yours through repetition

and identification.

 

You are a human being humaning.

 

You are having a human experience.

 

Truth be told, if anyone else on

this planet had to go through what

you have gone through in this life?

 

Well they would feel, say and

act this way too when they had

had enough.

 

You see, the ability to do this

genuinely on behalf of all of us

is the only so called price to

knowing the unknowable.

 

And each time that you do,

beloved, we each can breathe

a little more free as we experience

a huge sigh of relief and embrace

our newfound emancipation and

peace.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I am ready to embrace all that

I have denied because it was

my truth.

 

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

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

A simple thought is again given

you to work with today.

 

The instruction remains the

same.

 

Allow the thought to walk in the

space before you today, ever

informing your feelings, your

thoughts and your actions, for it

is a very good reminder to stop

taking yourself and life so seriously.

 

Allow the words to fill you with

peace each time you repeat them

to yourself, ever reminding you

to relax and remember to actually

give yourself permission to enjoy

your breath.

 

Deep breaths.....

 

Remember how that feels?

 

Try taking a deep breath now with

your head tilted slightly back while

your face is tilted a bit upward.

​

Now close your eyes and put

a smile on that face of yours

with your arms stretched wide.

 

Isn't that delicious?

 

Here is you statement.

 

Nothing in this whole wide world

depends on me.

 

Isn't that wonderful to hear and

such good news?

 

This being human thing has

never been a 'me' type of

experience, it is a 'we'

experience.

 

And that air you are breathing?

 

It is the Universal Life Force

that you are breathing there, pal.

 

It isn't about your breath, it is our

breath that you are breathing.

 

With each and every breath, you

are connecting with the very spirit

which abides in all of us equally.

 

Remember....

 

Nothing in this whole wide world

depends on me.

 

You are not nearly as important

as you believe that you are.

​

You have been operating under

a false sense of self importance.

​

You have been pole-vaulting over

mouse turds your whole life.

​

It is a burden, stressful and completely

overwhelming to believe you are so

bloody important, because it has always

been and always will be about “our”

presence, "our" influence....

 

We are each a satellite dish that

receives and expresses the energy

that is all of us united as we were

created.

​

We aren't the doer of shit.

 

Lifting the overwhelm off of you,

the energy that you made all

about you.

​

Your efforts...

​

Your contributions...

​

Your being irreplaceable...

​

You have been victimized by life....

​

Giving all your power away...

 

When it is all about you and your

efforts, your contribution, it is

severely limiting and it is a burden.

​

The cards have not been stacked

against you.

 

Allowing the illusion and trap

of personal doership to be

lifted off of you.

 

Pivoting out the individual into the

Infinite, out of the personal into

the Universal.

 

Noticing the absolute sense of

liberation and expansion of the

energy you are experiencing.

 

And also noticing the FREEDOM.

 

It is our Presence you are feeling.

 

It is our Presence which you are

experiencing.

 

And your world will not collapse

without your efforts, in spite of how

deeply you believe you are the one

who keeps it all propped up and

flowing on a daily basis.

​

From a bird's eye view, you look like

Don Quixote tilting at windmills 

all day.

​

Isn't that exhausting and utterly

burdensome?

 

So let yourself off the hook today.

 

And give yourself the ingredients

required for fun and amazement.

​

It could be one helluva Friday if

you allowed yourself to take a step

back and enjoy the gift you have

been given.

 

Lay the adult aside and see how

wonderful it feels to be childlike

and unencumbered by worries,

concerns, pressures to perform

and unrealistic goals.

​

Have you ever witnessed anything

in nature ever worry about anything?

 

Allow your world to flow without

your aid.

​

It has been all along in spite of your

gymnastics and theatrics.

 

Oh.. You thought that was your

efforts that were making all this

happen?

 

Will the earth stop spinning on

its axis today without your help?

 

Every day is a good day to be

still and know with a child's heart

ever reminding you that you were

born to bear witness, not to lose

yourself in the false notion of

personal doership and the activity

of adulting.

 

For you are only ever as free as you

allow yourself to be.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Today, I will give myself

permission to live free of

everything.

 

I'm gonna play full out

and swing for the fences

with a heart as wide as 

the world!

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Yesterday was a day that the former

'me' would have described as

"straight out of hell."

 

First let me clarify something that

is very important.

 

The singular message which I

have consistently given voice to

for as long as I can remember is

that you do not need to change.

 

You are not broken.

 

And there is absolutely nothing

for you to work on.

 

Yet I have just spoken of myself

as though I was two different

people: current me and former

me.

 

And this is because one of the

more hilarious paradoxes of

the spiritual path to me is that

the more you stop working on

yourself, the more you change

and the more things change

in your life.

 

So while I say there is nothing

wrong, that there is nothing for

you to do and nothing to work

on, the more I have been able

to love and accept myself and

my life as it is in recognition

that I am already and always

the perfect 'me,' the more my

life has changed, the more

I have changed...

​

And for the better, IMHO.

 

All my rough edges were made

smooth. And I am kind and

gentle, spacious and infinitely

patient, loving and peaceful.

​

Hey...and I have a whole lot of

the wisdom thing going on!

 

Not just some of the time, but

all of the time!

 

And I dare to say these things

about myself because even

when I am having a rough day

like yesterday, I can always

take another step back and

be the most loving and tender

friend to the part of me that

feels such overwhelm, confusion,

ever questioning the universe,

about "Where in the h-e-double

toothpicks is my miracle?"

when no apparent miracle

is showing up to save the day.

 

I even noticed while in the check

out lane at Trader Joe's, when 

the kind young man who

was loading up my groceries and

hit his pause button long enough

to look me dead in the eye

and ask,"How's your day going

today?" that I replied with a steady

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

a day that  6 months ago I might

have had a royal meltdown over.

 

But you know what?

​

Today I am honestly just trying

to breathe, relax, trust that all is well,

and remember to smile as I do.

​

Because the real kicker is that

I could no longer be here to be

experiencing it. And that makes

it all a GIFT."

 

He said, "That's really great. I

hope it gets better for you now

that it seems you are ready to

head for home and call it a day."

 

A moment of connection, heart

to heart. And compassion and

kindness from a stranger who

would be brother and friend.

 

Does it get any better than that?

 

I'm telling you....

 

So that's the daily challenge

for all of us today.

 

No one can normalize your

experience but you.

 

Life is going to do what life is

going to do.

 

And humans are going to do

the one thing that you can

always count on them doing,

humaning.

 

And you will be reminded again

and again that you do not have

any control over any of it.

 

You do not even have control

over whether or not you are

even going to be given your

next breath.

 

That is mighty humbling, mighty

humbling...

 

Sometimes it will be exhilarating.

 

Sometimes you will want to pat

yourself on the shoulder because

you are doing so well.

 

(Which is seriously a joke if ever

I heard one because none of us

has any control over anything

other than whether or not we

will love and support ourselves

as we live the life which is ours

to live...)

 

Sometimes our day will go all

pear shaped and we will want

to go home, pull the covers

over our head and alternate

between spitting nails and

sucking our thumb.

 

But it will be our day.

 

It will be our life.

 

And we will live it as only we

can live it.

 

Now can you just do you, stay

in your lane and notice when

you are getting too close to either

the yellow line or the shoulder

and feel a bit of gratitude that

you are still here, still giving it

your all, still seeing how precious

you are and life is?

 

Because the deepest truth I have

discovered in the living of my life

is that when you can normalize

something, it is no longer such a

big deal.

 

Did you hear that?

 

Because it is very, very important.

 

This is normal.

 

My reaction is normal.

 

And life is just doing life.

 

The sky isn't falling and

I am doing me.

 

Normal. Every damn bit of it.

 

Hey self...could you use a hug?

 

Have a beautiful day my loves,

and know that I am in this

thing with you, right up to my

eyeballs, embracing the life

which is mine to live and sending

you all the love, encouragement

and support this heart has to

offer as you live the life which

is yours to live and experience

today too.

 

The key word for the day today

is normalize.

 

Remember that every moment

is a good moment to be thankful

and normalize the life which

is yours to live.

 

pelkyong

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Whatever the day is that is

going to be mine to experience

and live today, let me remember

to normalize my experience,

smile and breathe, and never

forget to dance as I love my

way through it!

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

I moved into the home in which

I presently live the day the Trade

Towers went down.

 

Good thing I don't believe in

bad omens or that could have

been a real bummer.

​

Few can imagine living in the same

place for as long as I have, but

there you have it.

​

I call that GRACE.

 

I mention this because I have

used my address as an example

to explain what we are all trying

to accomplish here because it

does so quite clearly.

​

It is an example which has served

me well since the day I moved in.

 

Let's say that someone knocks

on my door because they are

lost and are asking me for

directions to get back home.

 

I ask them where they are trying

to get to and they inform me

that their destination is Plano, TX.

 

Plano is a mere hop, skip and a

jump from my home in North Dallas. 

 

My residence is less than a quarter

of a mile from a freeway which is

named North Central Expressway.

 

Here in Texas, this freeway is

commonly referred to as

'N. C.  Expwy'.

 

And Plano is 5 miles north of me

off of that Expwy. which runs both

north and south.

 

What if I were to give that individual

directions to the freeway and then

I instructed them to get on the

southbound Expwy because all that

they have to do is go 12,954,001

miles and they will find themselves

safely in Plano.

​

This is the path of working on your-

self.

 

And it is what religion, the New

Age movement, all self help

groups, books, seminars, work-

shops, etc. try to sell you.

 

It is also what traditional therapy

has to offer.

​

Time, effort, energy and resources

all going nowhere which only com-

pound your sense of failure.

 

But what if I gave that same person

directions to the freeway and told

them to stay in the far left lane

because what they want to do is

get on the northbound freeway

and they will see exit signs in

approximately 5 miles which say

that you are now in Plano?

 

Which route would you rather take?

 

Both will eventually get you there,

for that is their intention.

 

However, one way will more than

likely take you decades if not lifetimes

to arrive at your destination.

​

And the journey will be fraught with

disappointment, discouragement,

uncertainty, calamity and chaos.

 

While the other will be a straight shot.

 

Now it really is up to you.

 

But long and tedious is just not my

bailiwick.

 

Can you accept the blessed truth that

you do not have to be different in

any way?

 

That you are only as encumbered or

unencumbered as you are preoccupied

with trying to fix yourself?

 

And you cannot seek salvation when

you have never needed salvaging

because you cannot find what was

never lost in the first place.

 

You can only give yourself permission

to be who and how you always have

been and ever yet shall be.

​

Because it is one thing to say these

words because you believe them to

be true. Here they can remain safely

in the mind as mere concept.

 

And it is quite another thing to open 

your beautiful and fragile heart in

complete and utter transparency,

allowing the LOVE which you forever

are to engulf and consume you

irrevocably.

​

This is about alchemy, and it is about

living a great mystery.

 

Liberation is not an acquired state,

it is about you allowing yourself to

receive the LOVE which you

changelessly are.

 

And that, dear one, is a matter of you

opening your heart to the truth which

abides in all its immaculate clarity,

wonder and awe within you.

 

It was and is as available to a serial

killer as it is to a saint.

 

Thus your humanity does not

and cannot get in the way of it.

 

Will you allow yourself to be free?

 

Because that is what it all boils

down to is your permission, or do

you need more time to work on

yourself, to seek but never find?

 

You do not need a guru, a teacher,

a special book, workshop or

seminar.

 

You do not need to waste money

and travel somewhere other than

where you presently are in this

very instant.

 

Freedom really is free, in spite of

the bill of goods you have been

sold which has you brainwashed 

into believing you are broken so

you cannot be free in your present

state and need time to work on

yourself.

 

You do not need to believe any of

the negative bullshit that has been

spoken over you which you have

mistakenly taken to heart.

 

The state of transcendence is freely

offered you in every single breath

you take.

 

Remember when the starship

Enterprise would find itself in

a tractor beam?

 

Well, that tractor beam is your

breath, ever pulling you into

the secret depths of your inner-

most kingdom.

 

So consciously follow the breath

today, and give yourself permission

to receive what no one else can

give you, because it is already yours

and it always has been.

​

Isn't it high time you allowed what

you are to tell you of itself?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I give myself permission to experience

the freedom which is forever mine.

​

Oh God, reveal Thyself to me!

 

And in each and every moment,

I silently give this same permission

to all my world.

​

May all beings give themselves

permission to embrace FREEDOM

NOW with no further delays or

hesitation.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

There is a profound and highly

palpable harmonic resonance

which is felt when you live

your life in alignment with

the inner Trinity within you.

 

We haven't spoken of this

Trinity in a while, so we will

offer a quick review.

 

(1) A profound state of Emptiness

which is also referred to as the

Void.

 

There is nothing here.

 

There is no you, no reporter.

 

Free of any content, yet pregnant

with Infinite Potential and

Possibility.

 

It is mentioned in the Bible in

Genesis 1:2 where it says,

 

"And the earth was without form,

and void, and darkness was upon

the face of the deep."

 

(2) The first creation was that of

light, spoken of in Genesis 1:3.

 

"And God said, 'Let there be light,

and there was light."

 

The manifest form of this Infinite

Potential and Possibility is light.

 

And the feeling which is associated

with that light is love.

 

You are that presence, that love,

that light.

 

(3) While the third portion of your

Trinity is the human manifestation.

 

There is no difference between these

three. They are one.

 

Life also has two axes.

 

A vertical axis and a horizontal one,

forming the shape of a cross within

the human being.

 

The point where these axes cross

one another is found within each

of the 7 chakras.

 

The difference between the two

axes is one who lives from the

outside in and one who lives their

life from the inside out.

 

One who lives from the outside in

lives their whole life trying to tinker

with their humanity while trying

to control and manipulate their

life experience, feeling that their

inner experience is dictated by

their out one.

 

While one who lives from the inside

out is aligned with the Trinity

within. This one is not controlled

by outside experiences. Nor are they

bothered by their human one.

 

Their life is an authentic expression

of the Trinity within them, ever

remaining in alignment with all three

aspects of identity.

 

You are experiencing the body, yet

you are also experiencing being

transcendent.

 

This is to be in the world but not

of it.

 

The means given you to remain

anchored to the Trinity within you

is that of the breath.

 

Breath awareness is a living practice.

 

The will to live your life free of

suffering, free of survival, free of

uncertainty, chaos and doom

begins with commitment and

consistency on your part.

 

How attuned to my breath can

I be today?

​

That is the question that walks in

the space before you, ever

reminding you of your first priority.

 

When I forget, can I return without

beating up on myself, and just keep

threading my internal needle by

returning to the breath again and

again and by thus, realigning to

the source of truth within me?

 

This is your challenge for today.

 

"I am no longer allergic to being

human."

 

"No part of my humanity is ever

in conflict with the Trinity within

me."

 

"Breath awareness ever reminds

me of the truth. The breath is

my anchor to all three."

 

"There is no conflict between all

three states and I can live my life

in alignment with all three all of

the time."

 

"My only struggle has ever been

with my humanity. Now I can

normalize the human experience

rather than pathologize it while

constantly trying to work on it."

 

"My human experience is part

of the Infinite being that I am."

 

You are the one who stigmatized

your particular experience of

being human and you are the

only one who needs to normalize

it.

 

This happens when you no longer

make yourself wrong and allow

a thing so simple as the breath

to keep you tethered to all three.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me keep life profoundly

simple today by anchoring

mind, emotions, body and

experience upon the breath.

 

And help me remain light

hearted about it, returning

again and again when I forget

and lose myself once again

on the horizontal.

 

I am in the world, but

not of it and my only wish

is for my human experience

to be a reflection of the 

Trinity within me.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

A simple assignment is offered

today in lieu of a particular

thought.

 

The practice is that of wearing

yourself and your life today

like a loose garment.

 

Hold the highest and best for

yourself.

 

Hold the highest and best for

everyone and everything you

will encounter in your day

today.

 

Hold the highest and best for

our world.

 

But do not expect that anyone

is ever going to get it, that

anyone is ever going to get you.

 

Perhaps the most difficult thing

for any of us to face is that

there is no endgame to all this,

certainly not the one that you

have been trying to make happen.

 

We are all experiencing what

we have not yet had the courage

to face, living our lives as we

feel guided to do so.

 

You did not come here to make

a difference in anyone else's life.

 

You came here to experience

being you, and that you do, each

and every day.

 

Remain clear, trusting and humble.

 

Simply live your truth and do it

for yourself, in constant remem-

brance that you are not here to

have some kind of impact on

anyone.

 

You are here to be you, as only

you can.

 

Cease wishing for another world

other than the one you are

experiencing right now.

 

You have nothing to offer anyone

other than your example.

 

LOVE is about knowing everyone's

potential, knowing the world's

potential, without expectations

or attachments to a particular

outcome.

 

LOVE is always offered with an

open hand and a boundless

heart.

 

How could LOVE be called love

if it did not give total radical

freedom to everyone to be

exactly as they are, without

expectations, judgment or

demand?

 

Can you dare to wear your life

this loosely?

 

And when you notice that you

are taking yourself or your

world a little too seriously,

wearing it tightly once again,

remember your exercise for

today.

 

Take a psychological step back,

return to the breath, relax and

soften as you inwardly hold

space for our world, offering a

mother's tender and endlessly

compassionate and patient heart

to all that is.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Whatever is God's will is

destined to happen.

 

Whatever is not God's will

is destined never to happen.

 

And between these two

opposites, we are the architects

of our own destiny.

 

Amen

 

Prayer from the Upanishads

 

***

 

Dear God...

 

I cannot do anything other than

be me and strive to love myself

and my world with all my heart,

ever holding all of us in golden

light.

 

A light that holds the highest and

best for all of us, while knowing

the world is going to do what it is

going to do and I cannot change

that.

​

Grace fall upon me, that I might

live my life so aligned with truth

that there is no difference between

us.

​

For I recognize that to know this

and to live this is to know peace.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Another short but sweet

practice is offered you

today.

 

Every moment can be

an invitation for miracles

if you (a) want it to be and

(b) allow it to be.

 

Most people do not pay

attention to their lives.

 

They live with their IOS set

on remote control, with the

ego large and in charge,

but at the same time, this is

a very robotic and reflexive

way to live.

 

I feel that the one thing that

all human beings are most

afraid of is love.

 

They do not want to believe

that they are incapable, as

the personal self, of meeting

love.

​

What ego is capable of genuinely

living their lives in a state of absolute

vulnerability and transparency?

 

Virtually all people leave

relationships, encounters and

experiences long before

they are actually over with.

​

That is a powerful statement

I have just made.

​

Don't just let it pass you by 

without carefully and kindly

examining how you conduct

yourself in relationship.

​

See if you do not notice your

attention drift off, the walls

go up to varying degrees 

(depending on the experience

or who you happen to be with

at the time) and the mind start

planning its exit strategy.

 

The sad reality is that no

ego is capable of meeting

love.

 

That would require being able

to consciously recognize that

every moment is a holy moment,

every encounter or experience

is also holy, every instant an

exploration of life lived from

the vestiges of the final frontier;

that of the totally raw, naked and

vulnerable human heart.

​

What makes every instant holy is

the fact that your choosing to

remain both conscious and irrevocably

vulnerable opens the floodgates

of heaven.

​

What else could an invitation 

to the miraculous be?

 

It is one thing to know this.

 

It is another thing to believe

that it is true.

 

And it is an altogether new

kind of experience to actually

try to live one's life this way.

 

Can you not see that if the ego

were capable of doing this, it

would no longer be the ego?

 

So that is the assignment for

today.

 

To have some respect and awe

for the potential which is available

to each and every one of us in every

moment of our lives.

 

What could happen in your world

today if you were to remain conscious,

tender, naked and vulnerable?

 

There is no limit to the possibility

of every moment for one that

consciously chooses to live life

so bravely.

 

How miraculous can your world

be today?

 

Challenge yourself.

 

What have you got to lose other

than your sense of separation,

isolation and aloneness, as well

as the misery and suffering that

mistaking the pseudo self for

who you are actually entails?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Naked.

 

Oh so vulnerable.

 

Curious.

 

May my very being be an

open invitation to

the soul.

 

Live Thou me.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Let's look again today at expectations

and attachments.

​

This is to be a day of simple noticing,

followed by a conscious choosing to

fall back, relax and accept the most

sobering of truths that you have no

control over the people in your life

and withdraw all the energy you have

put into trying to help or fix them.

​

This is especially difficult to do with

life partners, children and relatives.

​

You are not failing.

​

You simply have expectations, and

things are not going the way you

wish or according to your timeline.

​

When you have expectations of any

kind, you will suffer, but only 100%

of the time.

​

Remember, they are on the soul's

journey and cannot do it wrong or

mess things up. Give them the gift

of their own dysfunction and the

freedom to do things as they are

destined to do.

​

If freedom is what you cherish, do

they not deserve the same measure

of freedom from you?

​

Even if that means they do not use

it the way that you would use it?

​

Remember...their soul's journey, not your

journey...

​

This is going to require you to deepen

your understanding and practice of

trust.

​

You cannot be attached to any outcome.

​

It will require a level of truthfulness with

yourself that you are currently unfamiliar

with.

​

It is the razor's edge you walk: on one

side of the blade lies attachment and

expectations, while on the other side

is acceptance and trust.

​

What if....

​

What if they agreed to play this role in

your life while they were yet in the bardo

between life and death, that this was

and is the plan?

​

All so that you could deepen your

capacity to accept and trust?

​

For peace is what arises to fill every cell,

every atom, molecule and photon of

your being when you let yourself and

your world be as it is and trust.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I bow before the isness of life

today and every day.

​

Radical acceptance and trust

are my only practices from here

on out.

​

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Two mantras are given you

to work with today.

 

First, commit them to

memory.

 

Secondly, allow them each to

walk in the space before you,

ever informing and reminding

you that you are okay, that every-

thing is okay and you have every

reason to stop engaging with the

peanut gallery between yours

ears, drop it like a hot potato,

return to the breath and trust.

 

I DO NOT NEED TO BE

DIFFERENT.

 

I DO NOT NEED FOR THIS

TO BE DIFFERENT.

 

And do share how your

day goes if you would like to

chat.

 

livingonlylove@yahoo.com

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

 

The 4 things which my

personal self is best at

are opinions, thinking it

knows best, free advice

and complicating the shit

out of everything.

​

I cannot think of a better

way to keep me confused,

off balance and chasing

my tail.

 

Sweet and simple are the

marching orders for the day

as I remind myself often of

the following:

 

I DO NOT NEED TO BE

DIFFERENT.

 

I DO NOT NEED FOR THIS

TO BE DIFFERENT.

​

It is a beautiful and perfect

world when I remember that.

 

Thank you for the gift of life.

​

Thank you for the gift of

my life.

​

I wasn't promised a today,

yet here it is.

​

Let me live it consciously

with care.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Repeat after me:

 

What happens to my identity

does not happen to the soul.

 

My identity is only soul.

 

A human costume is not an

entity, it is a suit. It is the means

by which universal consciousness

can experience individually.

 

This is an experience.

 

This is only an experience.

 

I am experiencing it the way

that I am supposed to be

experiencing it.

 

Let me therefore breathe,

relax and trust.

 

A simple enough practice,

but one that will accomplish

two things:

 

(1) You will see how much the

mind balks, resists and offers

commentary which is not helpful

on everything.

 

(2) It will introduce the idea of

conscious awareness into your day.

 

We have no control over our

humanity, but by introducing

awareness into the mix of

our day, we are given the

opportunity to choose peace

rather than disruption, calm

and tranquility rather than

friction and unsatisfactoriness.

 

Do you control the mind, or does

the mind control you?

 

If you believe for a single second

that the mind controls you, then

you are assuming the role of victim

and are gaslighting yourself.

​

And that is a choice, my friend.

​

Perhaps one you do not really

want to be making?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

 

The biggest obstacle I have

every faced in this life is myself.

 

I'm done with the whole

saboteur thing.

 

From here on out I am gonna

ride with the tide and go with

the flow.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Good people shine their brightest

in dark times.

​

That's a bold statement.

 

But I think our present times qualify

for that descriptor, don't you?

 

And guess what?

 

We are all good people because

we share the same soul.

​

It is the soul which makes us

beautiful to behold, not our

humanity.

​

Never hold anyone's humanity 

against them.

​

We are all doing the only thing

we can, that which is our

destiny to do and experience.

​

If you are experiencing it and 

someone else is doing it, does

it not stand to reason that this

is part of the destiny the soul

has chosen for you to experience

as well?

 

It is the meaning of the statement

which says, "Oneness is."

 

The soul is perfect, changeless,

and has never experienced

a single instant of suffering.

​

It has no troubled past to deal

with, no baggage or burden

to carry.

 

It never judges or is unkind.

 

The soul loves us without conditions,

demands, disappointments

or expectations.

 

The soul is one and it is 100%

indivisible.

 

This means that we do not each

have a part of the same soul.

 

100% of all the soul is, is contained

within each of us!

 

We are fractals of the same formless

being expressing itself uniquely

through each lens of humanity.

​

Does it not also stand to reason

that everyone is then, none other than

an expression of yourself?

 

Our humanity has nothing to do

with our Divinity.

 

Nothing the human being thinks,

feels, says or does can harm the

soul, nor can anyone's humanity

change, alter, influence or direct

the destiny which the soul has

planned for each of us, nor fail

to meet the soul's expectations.

 

The soul has no expectations!

​

If you are experiencing it, it is

your destiny to do so.

​

This is as true for you as it is for

everyone and everything else.

​

Everyone is perfectly on time, both

who and how they are supposed

to be.

​

It can be no other way.

 

How about, just for today, looking

past everyone's humanity,

including your own, choosing

rather to see the part of them

that is real, eternal, infinite and

changeless?

 

There is a fundamental law to

all seeing which says:

 

You see what you want to see

and you experience what you want

to experience.

 

Why expect the worse from

others when it is given you to

bring the truth to light, simply

by wanting to see what is true

and only what is true?

 

Feed the truth your attention

and the truth is what the world

will bear witness to along with

you.

 

One person, seeing clearly,

can save the world from

themselves.

 

In fact, this is how it is done.

 

One beating heart at a time

which earnestly cries out,

"Above all else I want to see."

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

 

Bless all my seeing today

as I commit the day

to Clear Seeing.

 

I want others to see the

soul in me.

 

For why would I not give to

my world what I most

long to experience within

myself?

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Freedom is nothing more

and nothing less than being

able to live your life in

touch with the Soul, re-

cognizing that it is Soul

which is your true Identity.

 

For thou art that, yesterday,

today and forever.

 

When this is that which

you are most aware of in

all the moments of your

life, what is left to realize

or embody?

 

In January of 2000, in the

early morning hours before

daylight, the day before I

was preparing to leave for

a trip to Egypt, I awakened

to the sound of a dove cooing.

 

And I felt this giant pair of

wings embracing me from

head to toe.

 

And there was a vibration

or frequency that was too

palpable to ignore.

​

Exquisite...

​

Comforting...

​

Light filled...

​

These are words which do not

begin to do it justice.

 

I knew I was deeply loved,

treasured even, swathed

and held in the most tender

and loving embrace.

 

All I have to do is close my

eyes for a nanosecond,

remembering that beautiful

day, and I am so aware of

this presence, that I cannot

tell where it ends and I

begin.

 

Or are we more like water

mixed with water, inseparably

mixed?

 

Does it even matter?

 

All I know is I am not the same

and nothing has ever been

the same since.

 

It is a formless something 

which deepens and widens

moment by moment until

there are no more edges

to my loving.

 

And you know what?

 

If I am silent and I listen

to you deeply enough, it is

what I hear in you as well.

 

It is the thread that makes

us, this planet and all

that is a seamless and

single fabric of texture,

vibrancy and diversity

which is so exquisitely

beautiful that it makes me

weep tears of gratitude

and endless joy.

​

But do not mistake form

for content.

​

Truth is formless.

​

It is a profound Emptiness

of infinite possibility and

potential.

​

It can take on any form.

​

I am certain it took the form

it did for me because of where

I was preparing to travel to

and because I was studying

ACIM at the time.

​

Look!!!

​

It has even taken on the form

of you!

​

But it is not the form.

​

It is what animates the form!

​

And here, it is posing as you,

hiding in plain sight!

​

Today is a day to rejoice,

for you are never not this.

​

And today, you will allow yourself

to be all that you are; that light

which illuminates the entire

universe.
​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

 

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you

for the GIFT.

 

For I realize one does not

need to be special or

somehow noteworthy

to receive such a blessing,

they need only open

their hearts to the Infinite

and give it welcome,

disappearing forever

into the very heart of God.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

I think that the most difficult thing

for any of us to accept is the truly

humbling knowledge that no

matter what we do, no matter

how hard we try, no matter how

fervent and heartfelt our prayers, no

matter how much pressure others

put on us to do so, OUR HUMANITY

IS NEVER GOING TO CHANGE.

 

We are who we are who we are.

​

And guess what?

​

If this is true about you, it is true

about every other human being

on this planet, as well as our

world and the world at large.

 

Until we can accept this changeless

fact, we will be miserable.

​

Misery will be our constant bed

fellow and the frequency we will

broadcast to the world.

​

Is it any wonder why the world is

as it is given this?

​

The world will always be a reflection

of our inner state of being.

​

It can be no other way.

​

And until we can accept this, and

I mean really and truly accept this,

we will keep trying to rearrange

the deckchairs on the Titanic,

keep trying to redecorate our hotel

rooms, in spite of the fact that

we are only overnight guests.

 

There is no amount of trying to

change your humanity that will

suddenly make it the soul.

 

And there is no amount of trying

to change your humanity that will

suddenly make you worthy of

experiencing yourself as soul.

 

Therefore, leave the humanity

alone.

 

A vehicle is not an identity.

 

People actually believe that if they

can only experience the truth of

who they are, their humanity and

their lives will somehow miraculously

change.

 

They will no longer experience

trials and tribulations, calamity

and chaos, upheaval and uncertainty,

crisis and predicaments.

 

This is a lie.

 

You are not here to change your

humanity or your life experience.

 

You are here to learn to love your

humanity, as it is, and to have

experiences, as only your humanity

experiences them, to love and

support yourself while remaining

compassionately detached to

the very world you are here to

witness.

 

I've got news for you honey,

awakening changes absolutely

nothing about you or your lived

experience.

​

But maybe...

​

Just maybe...

​

Accepting and embracing all

of this, truly accepting and

embracing it, as it is, is what

LOVE is really all about.

​

Total, radical, unqualified

acceptance, without demand

or expectations of any kind.

​

Ever.

​

And maybe that is what God is

after all.

​​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Today I bow before the

isness of what is.

 

Every moment, a quiet

letting go and letting

God.

 

I am as I am.

 

My life is as it is.

​

Others are as they

are and the world is

as it is.

 

May I accept all of that.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

Yesterday, at a good friend's

recommendation, I went to see

the movie, "Project Hail Mary."

​

You have to understand just what

a big deal that is.

​

I have gone to less than ten movies

in my entire lifetime and I will be

73 years old this year!

 

I had read the book over a year

ago, so I already knew what the 

movie would be about.

 

It was so beautiful and the heart

has been in a constant state of

reverie and inner reflection since

going, which is almost 24 hours

now.

 

Without revealing too much

about it, let me share that

the overarching theme of the

movie is that of a reluctant ego

that does not want to do

something that will no doubt

be scary, completely out of

his wheelhouse, and will require

the utmost bravery and heroism

on his part.

 

Not only is he the right man

for the job, he is the only man

with his particular skillset to

do it.

 

So the powers that be tackle

him and put him in a coma

against his will, and his journey

begins.

 

He is the ultimate reluctant

traveler.

 

Like all journey's go, this one

was chock full of surprises,

challenges and opportunities.

 

By the time the movie ends, not

only does he prove himself to be

a hero, he is not even certain

that he wants to return to earth.

 

It is a beautiful journey of the heart.

 

So filled with love and unity

it will break even the most

stubborn and stoney heart.

 

It is pouring down rain here in

Dallas, TX, but the sunshine

that this particular heart is

producing and giving off is

enough to light the entire

planet!

 

What a great day.

 

Today will be a day of rest

for me.

 

One of the most important

things I received from the movie

was how much life force we expend

and direct toward thinking we know

best for ourselves and therefore,

how much energy we waste trying

to plan, control and direct our

human journey, rather than be

open to the idea that there is a life

which has been planned for you

that is far greater than your wildest

imagination and we have every

reason to surrender and trust in

that unfolding.

 

So today, how about hopping

into that back seat and letting

the Universe be in charge?

 

How about living the Mystery,

entering the flow and just

choosing to trust?

 

Sound like a plan?

 

Well it does to me.

 

So I leave you this rainy morning

with the famous Irish blessing...

 

"May the road rise up to meet you.

May the wind be always at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face,

the rains fall soft upon your fields and,

until we meet again, may God hold you

in the hollow of His hand".

 

Boundless Love,

 

pelkyong

​​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for my life.

 

I never know what's next,

but I always know how

the story ends because

I am, afterall, on the hero's

journey.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

I woke up this morning feeling

so much gratitude and joy

because it dawned on me that

it is the weekend and I have

absolutely nothing 'major'

on the horizon, which is a

rarity.

 

I plan to take a longer walk

with Violet. I place her in

the kitty backpack and off

we go. She seems to love it

but because she is an indoor

only kitty, we practice being

in nature from behind a plastic

shell with plenty of air holes

to breathe and take it all in.

 

I also plan to play more with her,

perhaps take a nap and maybe

a movie.

 

Any recommendations?

 

Thus a simple little practice is

offered for today.

 

And let me be clear.

 

When I use the word practice,

I am always using the word in

the context of some form of

inner inquiry or observation.

 

Statement:

 

The part of you that is authentic

cannot be found by trying to

change your human experience.

​

From where are you looking?

 

Begin by observing yourself with

kindness and curiosity today.

 

Notice when you are trying to

change, redirect or 'help' your

human experience in some way.

 

Then repeat your statement/

question for today.

 

Take an inner step back.

 

Return to the breath.

 

Relax.

 

Soften.

 

Feel yourself opening like a

flower as you feel the breath

moving in and out of the heart.

 

You do not need to change

or do anything.

 

Just remember...

 

You are in this world but you

are definitely not of it, which

means no fiddle-fucking with

either your humanity or your

human experience.

​​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Thank you for the simple and

sweet little life which is mine.

 

Help me wear my life like a

loose garment today as I

observe it whilst it is happening.

​

I love this fully immersive

human experience.

 

It's always a Mystery.

 

Always a GIFT.

​

I am fortunate to be here.

​

I am fortunate to be experiencing

this.

​

I could be long gone and six feet

under.

​

May I never lose sight of that.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​​

No matter what…

 

NEVER LET THIS WORLD

DOMESTICATE YOU.

 

Throughout the years, I have

experienced hundreds of people

say to me something like the

following.

 

”I had it and then I lost it. I

get these glimpses a lot but I

keep going back to letting the

ego be the one in control.”

 

Listen.

 

That is crazy talk.

 

Bologna.

Horse hooey.

Conformity bullshit you inherited

from the Matrix.

 

What happens...and you have

to catch yourself in the act a

few times to see it in action,

is you take the Universal Energy

to which you have joined and

try to make it personal.

 

You grasp.

 

You cling.

 

You want to make it yours forever.

​

Your achievement.

​

The sign you've arrived.

​

You ticked the right box. Now 

you can lean back, bask in the

light so everyone can see, and

enjoy what is left of your life.

 

What is inherently our energy

becomes your energy and that

is the precise moment in which

you lose the thread.

 

Honey, there is no such thing as

personal anything in this cosmos.

 

What happened is that you had

an instant in which you finally

got out of your own way and

experienced what is ours.

​

What is never not here when

you stop identifying with me,

myself and I.

 

But you tried to make it all about

you.

 

You tried to own it, to claim it, 

and to hold onto it, and that is

when you stopped experiencing

directly what is always there and

never not ours.

​

Our shared identity...

 

I have the sweetest friend in

the entire universe and she has

changed so much in the past

few years. It truly is remarkable

to see.

 

More calm.

 

More peace.

 

Very little self pity and victim

consciousness which are huge

shifts in awareness.

 

She always says, "by your grace..."

​

Bull shit.

​

By her grace she decided to learn

what it means to love herself

and get out of her own damn way.

 

This is all.

 

And she is sticking that landing

because she is not taking credit

for it or claiming ownership.

 

But she is making it special be-

cause she is making it about me.

 

Very humble about it all, but

entirely inaccurate and

unneccessary.

 

This is about no one.

 

It is the only thing which is truly

existent.

 

It is the changeless substrate of

every living thing.

 

It is always there.

 

It is always ours.

 

And there are no prerequisites

other than the desire to

experience it.

 

In fact, that friend I just spoke

of?

 

She doesn't even need to stop

making it all about me and my

influence over her life.

 

She just has to keep wanting

this and only this, giving

it her allegiance and devotion,

knowing it does not really

have anything to do with me

or her.

​

Willingness and acceptance

are the keys to everything.

 

It will always be there.

 

Rain or shine.

 

Listen.

​

My internal dial is tuned into the

true blue signal of station

G-O-D.

 

I am broadcasting Infinity

live.

​

We all are.

​

The question is, are you doing

so consciously or unconsciously

because that is the difference

between peace and suffering.

 

And because I know it is not

mine, I never experience it not

there. Thus, I am it's conscious

conduit.

 

So play a little game with

yourself today.

 

Notice when you are personalizing

anything, then try the following:

 

(1) Feel yourself relax as you

take a step back in recognition

that you are doing it again.

You are making the Universal

a personal thing.

 

(2) Return to your breath, calming

the brain and nervous system.

 

(3) Remind yourself, "This is not

personal. What is happening is

supposed to be happening

because this is what is happening.

Let me surrender to what is and

enter the flow of it and trust. God

doesn't need a backseat driver."

 

And when you do have those moments

where you feel the flow, and your

heart is so light and you are in the

zone, remember, this is not personal.

 

This is the Universal Energy.

 

It is our energy. It is not mine.

It belongs to each and every

one of us.

 

There are no requirements, no

conditions, no religion, no teacher,

no book, no practices, nor anything

else to follow.

 

The desire to be consciously aware

of the ONE thing which always is,

is what allows all of us to see and

live humbly as its representative

on this earth, allowing it to flow

uniquely through our humanity

to all that is.

 

The truth may flow through you

but it will never be personal,

never be yours.

​

It will never ever be about you.

 

Isn't that grand?

​​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Spigot on.

 

I enter the flow.

 

And it's miracle time.

 

Oh goody, goody gum

drops.

 

I can't wait to see what

happens next because I

love surprises.

​

I got nothing better to do

than to step back and let

the light lead the way.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

People do not know this about

me, but I have always harbored

a secret love for old fashioned

true blue rock and roll music.

 

None of the newer stuff.

 

And especially not rap.

​

Gone are the days in which

lyrics actually meant something

beyond sex, grievances and

taking advantage of others,

or just plain doing away with 

anyone who disturbs you or

your life in any way.

 

In 1982, my favorite album

was by Prince.

 

It was the “1999” album.

 

The song which I was over

the moon with was entitled,

“Let’s Pretend We’re Married."

 

The song ended with the following

words.

 

You think I’m crazy?

You’re probably right.

But I’m gonna have fun

every mother f _ _ ckin’

night.

 

You like to fight?

You’re a double drag fool.

I’m goin' to another life.

How about you?

 

And although these words

seem eerily appropriate because

of how he left this earth so soon,

and the manner in which he did

so has always seemed suspicious

to me, I changed the words to

those closing lyrics to ”I’m gonna

live a happier life, how about you?”

 

Listen, beloved.

 

It is fundamentally okay for you

to not live your life like everyone

else is. In fact, I have been doing

just that every single day I have

been here on planet earth.

 

Live your truth.

 

Have your experience.

 

No one seeks enlightenment so that

they can doom scroll like everyone

else on this planet as they play the

unsettling and nerve-racking game

of “Chicken Little And The Sky Is

Falling” with themselves, each other

and this planet.

 

Who the hell cares what other people

think when they see you dancing

your way through your life?

​

Whose life do you really want?

​

Yours or theirs?

 

How about no more pretending

to be a grown up today?

 

Huh?

​

What have you got to lose other

than all of your doom, gloom

and excessive misery?

 

After all, I have never ever seen

a single grown up who actually

looks like they are having a good

time here anyway.

​

They look serious as a heart attack

and run around like chickens with

their head's chopped off; all restless,

irritable and discontent.

​

Do they look like they are having

fun?

​

I don't think so...

 

So screw that.

 

I’m gonna march to the beat of

my own drum and I’m gonna

go where there is no path

and leave a trail of fairy dust

in my wake for others to find.

​

All rainbow glittery and glowy

as all get out.

​

I'm gonna LIVE, baby, making up

for all the time I lost when I forgot

that Fun was actually my middle

name!

 

What are you going to do with

your one precious human life?

​​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I’m gonna C-E-L-E-B-R-A-T-E !!!

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

Yesterday in the blog entry that

I posted, I asked the following

question:

 

Why do we so easily see the needs

in others but are entirely oblivious

to our own?

 

I feel this is one of the most vital

questions we could ask of ourselves.

 

I remember when Baba was still

alive and I was trying to help him

remember a particular disciple

who had given him a ring to bless.

 

I said to him, “You know, Jitesh.

Jitesh, Baba. His mind is very

disturbed.”

 

(It just so happened that Jitesh had

recently been diagnosed with a form

of mental illness which is extremely

difficult to treat.)

 

Without missing a beat, Baba

then said to me, “Oh yes,

Pelkyong-ma. Your mind is very

very disturbed.”

 

I was quietly insulted.

 

It seemed that I had a much higher

opinion of my mind and myself

at the time.

 

Over the decades, this has remained

a very funny inside joke to me, even

though it was anything but funny

to me at the time.

 

Baba has been dead for almost 30

years now but some of the lessons

that he taught me, without even 

trying to do so, were so memorable

that they never cease to humble

me and remind me of what is true

upon each and every recollection.

 

Some people actually think they

know what it means to know that

you know nothing.

​

In fact, I know quite a few who

believe that this is true with

all of their hearts.

​

But it's not true.

​

It's not true at all.

 

For they have barely scratched

the surface of what one is actually

saying when they heartfully say

that they know nothing.

 

You see, it is one thing to know

that you know nothing, and quite

another thing to realize how deeply

in need you actually are.

​

This is one who really and truly knows

that they know nothing. They are naked

and humble and open and yielding

to the Divine.

​

They are a living breathing invitation.

​

They have been made ready for truth

to enter in and reveal Itself.

 

Priding yourself in the belief that you

have no needs, yet merrily going about

the business of living your life, waiting

for something to happen, daily adulting,

which is the one thing you do best,

is a blatant demonstration of an I know

state of mind.

 

One of the things which I heard Baba

say every single day in the years

that I was with him, was that he was

a tiny, helpless, little baby and he

didn’t know anything.

​

Oh, how his heart yearned for God!

​

Many times I caught him kneeling

beside his bed, praying when he

thought no one saw him, ever

crying out to the Lord, "Oh, God...

Oh, God... Reveal Thyself to me!"

 

He would often tell me that the

more he realized and understood,

the more he recognized that he

knew nothing.

​

For Infinity is so big...

​

He knew that without God, he

was nothing, absolutely nothing!

 

And this was coming from a man

who had attained the state of

Nirvikulpa Samadhi!

 

Listen to your heart today.

 

You do have needs.

 

And they are legion.

 

Be loving, kind and gentle

with yourself.

 

Take the time to care for

your innermost being in a way

it will never forget.

 

For how you treat yourself, is

how you treat your world.

 

And how you treat yourself is how

you handle the rest of your life.

​​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I see so clearly that there is

no deceit which is greater

than self deceit.

​

I saw a beautiful photo today

of Mother Mary kissing the

cheek of baby Jesus as she

cradled him in her arms.

​

I cried. It touched me that

much, to see how deeply

she loved her child.

​​

Help me care for myself today

just like that.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

The way that everyone

processes life is the way that

it was modeled to them.

 

That is a matter of history,

programming, conditioning,

beliefs, preferences, biases

and judgments, cultural,

religious, local, national and

world brainwashing.

 

Rare is the human being that

can experience themselves

as anything other than this.

 

For as long as there has been

such a thing as human history,

it has been believed that the

only way to find God or truth

is through a reductionist model,

which is all about getting rid of

one's humanity or changing it.

 

This is not the way.

 

This is not your way.

 

What is necessary is to recognize

that when your humanity is in play,

your experience will always be finite

and unpleasantly unstable.

 

In other words, not this.

 

This is neither Zen seeing or

experiencing.

 

It is the manifestation of your

particular flavor of survival.

 

This content is not who you

are.

 

It is what was modeled to you.

 

You are the very emptiness

which existed and exists

before all of that.

 

It is still there, covered up by

layer upon layer of jumbled

up primitive stalagtites and

stalagmites which are concealing

the inherent radiance of indivisible

pure potential.

 

In every moment, it is given

you to either engage with

your humanity or engage with

the blank slate which you

inherently are.

 

However, you will never ever

source the truth by searching

for it through your human

experience.

 

Give yourself the GIFT of

allowing yourself to get to

know the you which existed

prior to the world sinking its

talons into you.

 

The only way to begin this is by

consciously choosing to not

get lost in the human experience;

to no longer give it your time,

attention, energy or resources.

 

Again, you are not try to change

it or get rid of it, you are

choosing not to engage with it.

 

Notice today when you are

about to lose yourself in the

experience of humaning, and

hit your pause button.

 

Do not try to change the human

experience to one you feel

is better, one the mind believes

is reflective of clear seeing.

 

For this is not clear seeing.

 

This is the choice to human

as the spiritual ego.

 

Simply drop it.

 

Drop it altogether like a hot

potato.

 

Return to your breath and

be empty of everything.

 

Bring your attention to your

heart center and notice

what you experience.

 

Do you not feel lighter,

brighter and more expansive?

 

And do you not notice

something which is entirely

beyond the human experience

which begins to reveal Itself?

 

You did not incarnate in these

times in order to go to war with

your human experience.

 

Nor did you come here to

get lost in role play.

 

You came to share the part of

you which you did not inherit

from this world.

 

Do not lose sight of that.

 

For only the soul is authentic.

 

Two options stand before you

in every moment of life.

 

To be the part of you that you

inherited from the world, your

humanity.

 

Or to be the part of you that

you brought to this world with

you, the soul.

 

Which would be more helpful

to you right now?

 

Which would be more helpful

for the world to witness being

modeled to them?

​​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​​

Support my efforts to remain

empty today and no longer

pick my humanity up and

run with it.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

I hear so many folks complaining

on a daily basis about all the gut-

wrenching things which are

happening in our world.

​

Just when it is felt that things

cannot get any worse, life

turns around and shows you

that indeed they can.

 

There is so much upheaval,

chaos and uncertainty

in these times.

 

How can it not feel overwhelming

and challenging if the only laws

you live by are the laws which

govern this world?

 

Just a little reminder today...

 

If you are experiencing the world

as the ego, you are experiencing

the world inauthentically, and it is

to the very laws that keep this

house of cards afloat to which you

adhere and have given your faith.

 

But if you are witnessing the world

as the love, light and presence which

you forever are, you are experiencing

the world authentically; for it is the

laws of God to which you have

consecrated your heart in the blessed

assurance that it is here and only

here that you receive your daily bread.

 

Safety is born of truth, not of lies.

 

Never forget that you incarnated at

this particular time in human history 

so that you might be a keeper of the

flame.

 

Never that presence more deeply

shared or felt than when you

experience your life as only you can---

authentically.

 

A few months ago I wrote a thought

which asked you to see, feel or experience,

through the faculty of imagination,

yourself unzipping a zipper which begins

at the crown of your head and extends

all the way to your feet.

 

When you notice that you are again lost

in the experience of your humanity,

feel yourself unzipping the humanity

suit and stepping out of it.

​

Notice how light you feel without

the heaviness and density of the

burden of wearing it, rather than

the activity of simply observing it.

 

You came here to usher in a new way

of being human.

 

That way of experiencing yourself is

the way of genuine authenticity;

experiencing yourself as soul whilst

seeing the humanity you are wearing

in this lifetime as a humble vehicle

through which you can consciously

touch the lives of others.

 

Not because there is anything wrong

with experiencing life as a human,

but why settle for the finite, which is

fraught with challenges and limitations;

ups and downs and constant curve balls

when you least expect them, when you

were born to experience your life as a

keeper of the flame and consciously

live your life as the light of the world?

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Prayer for the Day

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May I never forget my

purpose in this life; to

live as a witness of the

truth which never

changes.

 

Not through words,

but as a living and

undeniable presence

or demonstration of

the truth which is

always true.

 

Amen

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Thought for the Day

​

May this Easter be entirely

unlike any other Easter

that you have ever experienced.

 

May this be the day in which

you wax bold and embrace

the risen Christ within you.

 

Recognizing that not a single

blade of grass, nor flower,

no face you look upon, nor a

single thing in all creation

which does not share this

same Identity.

 

Long have you searched for

truth, for peace, for a love

without demand.

 

And today you find it.

 

The search is over.

 

Recognizing that it was and

always has been your own self

for which you searched,

yearned, ached and prayed.

 

Today you come home to

your very self.

 

The Door is open.

 

Long have you hoped to

find a way in, longing to be

welcomed home by your

most holy Self.

 

Long has your most holy Self

waited for your return, to

welcome you home.

 

Here you recognize that the

only price of admission has

always been the willingness

to acknowledge that you are

the risen Christ, the beloved

child of the Most High.

 

Welcome home, dear one,

welcome home.

 

Allow the light of the risen

Christ to thoroughly saturate

all of your atoms, molecules

and particles.

 

For you are that LIGHT which

illuminates the entire Universe.

​

Here you are!

​

Here you have always been!

​

A part of this as much as this

has always been and ever yet

shall be a part of you.

​

For you are the complete and

completed fully risen Christ..

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Prayer for the Day

​​

Thank you that my time of

dreaming I am lost and

separated are now over.

​

For I am That for which I have

search.....yesterday, today

and forever.

 

Amen​​

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***

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Thought for the Day

​

Several people sent emails or

texted this week, complaining

of feeling extremely hot and/or

sweaty, for no particular reason

which was obvious to them

upon investigation, while also

experiencing a burning sensation

in the center of their chest.

 

Some thought they should

go to the doctor for medication

to treat heartburn, while

others thought for sure that

they were experiencing early

signs of an impending heart

attack.

 

Calm down.

 

Relax...

 

And rejoice!

​

Not everything you experience

is a commentary on the state

of the body's health!

 

The inner flame is awakening

within you!

 

Lord Krishna said the following

to Arjuna in the Mahabharata

as they were preparing to cross

the battlefield:

 

"We are about to enter an era of

darkness together, and all we

have with us is the small light

which you are carrying.

 

If your heart breaks, or becomes

bitter or numb, that light will be-

come lost to you.

 

What will you do?"

 

I have two questions for you:

 

(1) Is not the night of which

Krisha speaks a fair description

of the decade in which we now

find ourselves living?

 

(2) Is it not a beautiful thing to

know that you have been chosen

to be a keeper of the flame in this

particular decade for the sake of

all humanity?

 

What a GIFT!!!

 

What a GIFT....

 

Your assignment is quite easy

today.

 

Simply notice what increases

your awareness of this flame

and what decreases your

awareness of it.

 

In addition, what do you notice

when you make watching the flame

a high priority in the midst of living

your life?

 

This is all.

 

May the force be with you,

for indeed it always is.

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***

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Prayer for the Day

​

Burn me to ashes, Lord,

that my awareness might be

raised to Infinity and there

abide in Thee unceasingly.

​

For I would know that I am

GIFT.

 

Amen

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Thought for the Day

​

So the day-to-day practice of

how I consciously choose to

live my life is what I refer to

as threading the needle.

 

Back and forth, with the ease

and grace of a artistic or

synchronized swimmer in a

water ballet, I flow in this

state of inner alignment

with the soul and that of being

the loving and always available

presence who attends to the

human being and her experience

as it arises in the midst of whatever

is happening there.

 

This is my living amends to

myself for having ignored

my own experience for so long,

mistaking love for something

you find from others rather

than from yourself.

 

I am not, for a single instant,

saying I ever did anything

wrong.

 

I did what I thought I had to

do in order to survive, mistaking

who and what I was for the mis-

created self.

 

That, too, was the soul's journey.

 

But I love being given both

the time and the opportunity

to make it up to myself.

 

Decades of lonliness and aloneness,

suffering and chaos, gaslighting

and self-abnegation are at last

seeing the light of day and feeling

the warmth of the sunlight of

the spirit.

 

It is no simple thing to consciously

choose to stay with yourself

when things are difficult, providing

yourself safety and attention which

is steadfast yet gentle.

 

I trust myself.

 

For I have proven myself to be

committed, consistent, loyal and

100% unconditional in my

devotion to myself.

 

My life is thus profoundly slow

and reflective. awareness is aware

of itself.

 

You cannot do this work if you

are constantly on the move,

living your life at Mach 12 with

your hair on fire.

 

Every day I watch people talking on

the cell phone while driving,

in the check out line, in the parking

lot, ever racing from here to there.

 

Frantic, overwhelmed, looking like

tweakers in Wally World at 2:00 AM,

is it any wonder you do not know the

sweetness of soul?

​

The activity of the body is reflective

of the frenetic nature of the mind.

​

Rarely do they experience quiet

moments where the nervous system

is given the opportunity to unwind.

 

Simplicity, sweetness, gentleness,

and profound care are the new

name of the game.

​

You cannot catch that thread on

the run.

 

Nothing more is required.

 

But nothing less will do.

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Reveal to me in the day-to-day

of life what it means to be

my own true blue bestie.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day

​

Yesterday I left you to look at

the following questions:

 

Do I have an ‘I know’ state

of mind?

 

Do I try to bring truth to a mind

which thinks it already knows?

​

Am I trying to bring the truth to

the illusion of myself, or am I

bringing the illusion of myself

to the truth?

 

This line of questioning is not about

whether or not you deceive and

limit yourself in this way, because

the truth is that we all do it or

have done it.

 

The question that we all need to be

willing to ask ourselves is, “How

do I do this?”

 

Keep in mind we are not asked

to fix or change anything at

all.

 

I received the most diverse responses

and reactions to yesterday's thought

which ranged from gratitude to

anger, and some folks actually went

down the rabbit hole to be swallowed

up by guilt and despair.

 

So let me repeat something which

I have often said.

 

I am not capable of making you

feel anything.

 

Your feelings are your feelings.

 

They are your responsibility, not

mine.

 

Each message is thus a gift.

 

We are simply asked to see

ourselves with a bit more clarity

and honesty with each new day.

 

For we cannot experience a

peace which is stable if we are

constantly pulling the wool over

our own eyes.

 

Remember the old saying?

 

Denial ain't a river in Egypt.

 

If our eyes and our heart's are

not open, rather than experiencing

peace in the midst of all situations

and times, we inevitably find our-

selves still riding the proverbial

emotional roller coaster.

​

Peace is not something you try to

be when things are tough, peace

is your natural state.

​

Thus suffering in the presence of

other feelings reflect identification

with what you are not.

 

So what is the razor's edge we

are looking for in our day-to-day

lives?

 

The conscious willingness to see

ourselves with increasingly more

clarity and charity.

 

Instead of making ourselves

wrong, or trying to make

someone else wrong, we are

deeply present to all of our

experiences, realizing that

nothing can replace awareness +

gentleness + compassion +

respect + kindness.

 

You are here to be the human

being that you are and to

experience your life as only

you can and do.

 

But whether that life is a peaceful

one, a loving one and a kind one,

or one which is fraught with

restlessness, uncertainty and chaos

depends on the constant willingness

to remain aligned, empty, humble

and open.

 

When we can be with ourselves

and our experience lovingly with

increasing commitment and

consistency, the rewards will

speak volumes all by themselves.

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​

Prayer for the Day

​

No matter what life holds,

I know my experience will

always be great because

I am the one who can choose

to be constantly and

consistently consciously aware

in the midst of every what is.

​

No one gets to determine

that but me.

 

Amen

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​

Thought for the Day

​

Recently I have written on the

subject of what the Bhagavad

Gita says are the two greatest

impediments to the path of a

true seeker:

 

(1) Attachment to the effort.

 

(2) Attachment to the fruits

of the effort.

 

But I feel that there is an 

impediment which is far more

pivotal.

 

The 'I know' state of mind.

 

I'm with the Tibetan lamas

on this one. Sorry Krishna.

 

You cannot share anything with

anyone who thinks they already

know or understand.

​

And because they think they know,

they already feel they stand head's

above the crowd of other seekers.

 

I have several people in my life

right now who are just like that.

​

Sometimes it is tiresome to be

around them.

 

I find the saddest thing of all

is that they do not see it.

 

Thankfully, I know it is not my

job to help them see it.

​

Look, listen and smile....

​

That's about as far as I take it

these days.

​

They, too, are on the soul's

perfect journey, it's just not

the one they think they are

on, unfortunately.

 

Because they think they already

know, that they have had enough

direct contact under their belt

that proves that they now see

clearly, they cannot see how

what they think they know is

actually getting in their way.

 

And they most certainly do not

see the arrogance of that.

 

They cannot see that day after day,

they try to bring whatever nugget

of truth that comes their way to

the spiritual ego, thus they are

adding to the ego's spiritual identity.

​

This is why I love meeting people

who were not raised with any

particular spiritual religion or

tradition, people who never had

a guru, no experience as a disciple

and are happily without dogma,

rituals and spiritual bias.

​

Those belief systems are not there

to get in the way of their freedom.

​

Sure, they have the same old

angst and suffering from their

conditioning and programming

just like everyone else, but they

lack the belief systems that make

them continuously try to bring

truth to their illusions because

they cannot part with tired and

worn out beliefs and practices

which are no longer helpful, they

have outlived their usefulness,

their heyday, their time in the sun.

 

They cannot see that every single

so-called realization is filtered

through the spiritual ego and is

therefore, biased, and not that.

 

They are entirely oblivious to

the fact that they are trying to

bring the truth to the illusion

of themselves and what the

persona thinks it knows and

has accepted as truth.

 

The spiritual identity, which replaced

the former identity, now thinks and

deeply believes that it already knows.

 

However, they have simply written

another chapter in the book entitled,

"More About Myself."

 

My dear, it is what you think you

know that limits you!

 

We have to approach this journey

without distance to a goal which

we never left each day with a Zen

mind, a beginners mind, and an

open and empty heart which knows

that it knows nothing, knows that

it understands nothing.

 

Here is one who is both teachable

and reachable.

 

Anything short of this is pissing in

the wind.

 

How ready are you to see that

all your spiritual seeking thus far

has ever really gotten you is to

deliver you to this very moment.

​

That was its intended purpose.

 

Now it is time to drop every bit

of it, to drop everything and

be entirely empty and humble.

​

A blank slate.

​

Here is a canvas upon which 

something truly liberating may

be written.

 

And with a entirely teachable,

vacant and hollowed out heart

say, "I am ready Lord. Show me

the way."

 

Your Forever Friend,

 

pelkyong

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​

Prayer for the Day

​

Asato ma sadgamaya

tamaso ma jyotirgamaya

mrityuma amritam gamaya

om shanti, shanti, shantihi.

 

Lead me from the unreal

to the real.

 

Lead me from darkness to

light.

 

Lead me from death to

Immortality.

 

Om... May peace be, may

peace be, may peace be.

 

Amen

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