Thought for the Day​

 

Our daily conversations for the past

couple of weeks have explored

the necessity of genuine empathy.

 

It is a remarkable gift to give to the

world. But it is an even more

remarkable gift to give to oneself.

​

And although we have included

you in your work with empathy,

the practice, for the most part,

has placed the focus of your

attention more on having great

empathy and compassion for others,

recognizing each is showing you

something priceless which you

have need to see about yourself.

 

Throughout all of this exploration,

you have not recognized, for the

most part, how much of your daily

experience of being you is a never

ending stream of reactions to your

reactions, how quick you are to nit

pick with yourself, make yourself

wrong, take a strident tone with

yourself as you judge your failure

and unworthiness, being rude and

cruel, impatient, tactless, or other-

wise mean spirited toward yourself.

 

Is it any wonder that you do not

trust yourself?

 

I had two different people tell me

yesterday that they do not trust

themselves.

 

I would not trust myself either,

given how absolutely ugly and

unpredictable they can be with

themselves!

 

So today, you are asked to turn

the lens of your perception directly

on yourself.

 

Be very slow today.

 

See if you can be so attuned with

your inner experience of life

that the world ceases to exist.

 

Feel yourself totally honed in

upon you and your experience of

life.

 

And for every single subtlety of

emotion or feeling you experience,

providing a safe and spacious

place for you to land.

 

Can you provide yourself a space

where you can feel entirely seen,

heard and loved, cherished and

supported through every experience

without a single instant of judgment,

condemnation, attack, disregard,

impatience or frustration?

 

You see, beloved, when you were

busy living your life at ninety to

nothing, you did not have time to

navigate your experiences with

kindness or to integrate the feelings

when they arose for you so the body

had no choice but to stuff them all

back down, saved for some time

later.

 

And then you acted surprised when

the volcano erupted, which it would

inevitably do when too much became

way too much, wondering to yourself

where in the hell did that come

from?

 

And all those aches and pains and

bone jarring fatigue you have been

feeling lately?

 

Beloved, there is a lifetime of unfelt

feelings within you which await

your embrace.

 

Experiencing lots of difficult and

challenging stuff does not mean

that you are doing something

wrong.

 

It means that you are doing some-

thing right.

 

For the first time in your life, you are

learning how to be there for you.

 

You are being the loved one, the friend,

the soothsayer that you wish you had

had when you were small.

 

You are giving yourself the time and the

place to be the most extraordinary

person that you have in your life.

 

You are learning what it feels like to be

your own treasure and to crave alone

time with yourself more than you do with

any other human being on this planet.

 

If you keep with this practice, you will

inevitably get to the place where it no

longer matters to you what happens

next in your life because you know you

will navigate every experience in exactly

the same way, as the one who loves

and supports you like no other person

in this world ever could.

 

You are destined to become your own

hero.

 

Have fun practicing today.

 

And as always, lets the results speak

for themselves.

 

Trust no one and nothing beyond

your own direct experience and you

will never again feel the rug being

pulled out from beneath your feet.

 

May your day be as beautiful as you

are, my dear, and may you discover

the treasure you have searched for

all of your life has been none other

than your own beating heart.

​

***

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Prayer for the Day​

 

I am the one and only upon whom

I await.

 

Look no further, beloved of my

heart of hearts...

 

I am here for you.

 

And I vow that from this moment

forward, I will always be.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day​

 

Let's stay with yesterday's practice

and take it a step deeper.

 

Even you would have to admit that

one day is hardly sufficient to work

with judgment.

 

Can we, myself included, notice

the difference between trying to

transcend the human experience

and that of allowing yourself to

embody the state of transcendence 

within your humanity, no personal

doership required?

 

Do you feel the difference between

the two?

 

Most lack the subtlety of awareness

or the level of self honesty (both of

which are required) to be able to

distinguish the difference between

them.

 

One is about escaping your humanity

while the other is about you giving

yourself complete and irrevocable

permission to genuinely be you.

 

And only you, my dear, can be

honest enough with yourself to see

through the chicanery the created

self uses in a not-so-subtle ploy

to pull the wool over your eyes.

 

Practice feeling all of your humanity;

mind, emotions and body as if it were

an open door.

 

Can you consciously choose to open

that door wider and wider with each

new experience and keep it open?

 

Challenge yourself.

 

We are actually talking about two

different things.

 

(1)

 

Can you accept all of your humanity,

as it is, without reservation?

 

(2)

 

Can you give yourself complete and

irrevocable permission to be genuinely

and authentically you at all times?

 

Because the truth is that nothing short

of this can be said to be the actualized

state.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

This is me, world.

 

Hair, guts, feathers and all.

 

I am not here for your approval.

 

I am here for God.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day​

 

That LIGHT, which many refer to

as GOD, is so scintillating, so

effulgent, so immaculate, that it

does not cast any shadow.

 

Can you imagine looking at

freshly fallen snow on a cloudless

day at 12 Noon without sunglasses?

​

This is the light which illuminates

the entire universe and from which

the Unmanifest begot all form.

 

Utterly blinding and entirely

absorbing that light of lights is

to gaze upon for even a fraction

of a second.

 

No one is capable of imagining

such brilliance, for the only way

to truly know of it is to experience

it directly.

 

This is the light of lights, the

foundation of all things, including

yourself, beloved...

 

Here, in this light of lights, let us

speak of humility.

 

Humility is the ability to look upon

all of oneself with complete and

utter transparency and to accept

what is seen and felt without flinching

or diverting one's gaze.

 

This, beloved, is how precious you are,

how completely and deeply you

are loved, accepted and adored.

 

In that light which casts no shadow,

can you look upon yourself without

turning away, without contracting,

without distracting yourself, can you

look upon ALL there is to see of you,

returning only radical, unconditional

acceptance, gentleness and love?

 

No one knows anything of FREEDOM

until they can.

 

Nor can one say they truly know them-

selves until they can.

 

For only this can be said to heal.

 

Not in the sense that it changes

anything, for how could love be love

if it were not entirely unconditional,

if it held a single expectation or

judgment of any kind for anything?

 

LOVE returns nothing short of

everything to that Light from

whence it came.

 

This is love. This is healing.

 

What of this earth could ever matter

to you again after that?

 

What of this earth could ever disturb

the peace in which you reside?

 

For you has unraveled the greatest

mystery in the entire Universe.

 

There is no more searching for God

ever again after that.

 

For you have disappeared entirely

within that Being beyond which

there is nothing else.

​

Nothing to say and no one to say it.

​

For here, even to speak of one is

too much...

 

Assignment:

 

Practice seeing, accepting and loving

yourself in this light.

 

Are you brave enough to rest here

for a while?

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***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

This heart is finally beginning to

grasp what loving oneself actually

means.

 

May I hold myself and all things

manifest in this light.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day​

 

Throughout the years we have

had several thoughts that circled

around two rather specific

Sanskrit words: dukha and

sukha.

 

Dukha means suffering and

sukha refers to the end of

suffering.

 

But the interesting thing about

these two words is that the

word dukha refers to a wagon wheel

that has become stuck in a rut.

 

While sukha means to un-stick

the wheel.

 

There is no such thing as a fixed

sense of self.

 

Yet isn't that what the personal

self is, a fixed sense of self which

owes its seeming life to our belief

in it?

​

Kept alive, in our minds, through

the repetition of habits, patterns

and behaviors born of our

conditioning?

 

Like the wagon wheel stuck in the

rut, this fixed sense of identity

is the sufferer who seeks validation

through victim consciousness or

by seeking false forms of external

power, success and dominion.

 

This false sense of self that is the

experiencer of our lives, it believes

that it is the doer that is living us.

 

Yet at all times this fixed sense of

self, this personal identity, is also

a doorway or portal into a different

kind of experience of self.

 

And that experience is that of the

self as soul.

 

Here we find a living presence of

the most beatific and effulgent

golden light.

 

Once encountered, we discover

the real Doer of our lives and

nothing is ever the same for us

again.

​

Oh, the actors which populate our

lives and our circumstances

remain much the same.

​

But our lives are now founded on

the bedrock of everlasting peace

and trust is our ever present friend.

 

For one moves from finite and limited

to Infinite and Unlimited.

 

What is it that allows one to walk

through that door?

 

One thing...

 

When you can, with great tender-

ness and empathy, accept the

perfection of everyone's journey,

including your own, laying down

the weapon of judgment once and

for all, you are ushered right on

through that door and here is

where your real life begins.

 

So that is what you are asked to

work with today, the suspension

of judgment.

 

The greatest thing about this

human experience, is that you

are not asked to do this consistently

for 8.4 billion people.

 

You are asked to do this for one

person: yourself.

​

And since you actually are the doer

of nothing, you realize that the

most you can bring to the table

is sincerity and permission.

 

Once experienced, the realization

extends beyond you to all living

things and to this world itself.

 

For once you have become truly

willing to embrace all of your

humanity, exactly as it is, forgoing

the need for any part of it to be

different, you are free.

 

Happy practicing.

 

And may every sincere effort

to embody FREEDOM be blessed.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

I am tired of fighting.

 

I am so weary of leading with my

dukes up, ever ready to lay

someone's race out for them,

judging the shit out of everyone

and everything, especially

myself.

 

transparency

open acceptance

tenderness

genuine empathy

gentleness

kindness

eyes which truly see

and a spacious heart.

 

May these qualities live me

today.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day​

 

I have a truly dear and precious

friend who has a sister who

has been battling cancer for at

least the past 20 years, and

it has probably been longer than

that.

 

This sister recently learned from

those conducting the most recent

study that that she has been

participating in that the treatment

she was receiving was not working,

and so her doctors were going to

search for studies closer to home.

 

I have watched the desperation and

the agony that this family has

faced together during this journey,

and the sheer determination to

overcome every obstacle along

the way. This they have done 

together in unity and solidarity.

 

Many times I have felt them as they

hovered in a state of limbo while

they waited for yet another study

that might buy them a little more

time.

 

This incredible ordeal has left me

scratching my head more often

than not.

​

I truly want to understand people,

what motivates them, why they do

what they do.

​

I love how Ram Dass used to say

that we were all "God in drag."

 

And my questions are not because

I lack compassion or empathy, I

would just like to understand why.

 

Who has the power to change the

destiny of these body's?

 

Why cling so desperately to these

fragile vehicles?

​

Do we actually believe that this is

what we are supposed to do, that

this is what God expects from us?

 

Why continually battle for more

and more time?

 

I am not trying to be insensitive

or obtuse.

 

I assure you that I am quite sincere,

but I am having so much difficulty

understanding why people are driven

to do what they do.

 

We all know and have accepted the

truth that we are always on the

soul's journey and that we cannot

mess it up, but as I see it, I would

rather live well than live long.

 

I want to make the most of every

single instant of this human journey

which has been mine to live, but

when quantity outweighs quality,

what is the point?

 

Isn't it more important to know that

you have lived your life in a constant

state of surrender?

 

That "Thy will be done" has become

a way of life. It is the North Star which

you joyfully follow and you wouldn't

have it any other way?

 

Where does acceptance and trust

fit into the equation?

 

Sometimes we fixate so desperately

on how we think our lives should be,

that we forget the miracle that we

are living right now.

 

As for me, I could pretty much care

less about what happens in the

future or even if there is a future.

 

Because the truth is, I know that

I am a living miracle, and every

single moment of my life has been

and is a gift.

 

And I realized a long time ago that

what I had been so fervently and

desperately searching for all along

was myself, not more time.

 

And here I was.

 

I had been here all along, waiting

in the wings for me to slow down

long enough to open my eyes and

my heart so that I could receive.

 

And isn't that the measuring stick

we should all be living by every

single day and every moment of

each day as long as we are here?

 

And when it is time for me to exit

stage left, God grant me the courage

to say "I am ready, Lord. Thank

you. Thy will be done."

 

"I place this moment and all moments

in the hands of God and I give my

whole heart to whatever comes next."

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***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

Thank you for my life.

​

It truly has been a remarkable

gift and I recognize that my

gratitude will never be enough

to communicate the immensity

of what this heart feels for having

been given such a extraordinary

opportunity.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day​

 

I am on vacation this week.

 

I do not take a vacation from

life when I take a week off.

 

Nor do I stop sharing the

thoughts for each day.

 

And generally speaking, I do

not travel anywhere either.

 

But I do stop the usual day-to-

day activities, and I take the

time to seriously focus on

self care, rest and relaxation.

 

Tuesday afternoon I took myself

to see the new Steven Spielberg

movie, "Disclosure Day."

 

I was curious to see what all the

hype and controversy was all

about.

 

And you know what?

 

I absolutely loved the movie.

 

I highly reccoment that you see

it. Not because of the presence

of aliens on earth, for which our

government has lied to us for

over 75 years, but because of the

most profound demonstration

of empathy that I have ever

experienced.

 

That, my dears, quite literally took

my breath away and stopped

time itself.

 

I thought they were going to

have to defibrillate my heart

in order to get it to start

beating again!

 

Because of this truly remarkable

experience, I am giving you two

assignments for today.

 

(1) Go see this movie if you have

not done so already. I promise

you that it will be the best money

that you will ever spend on a

movie.

 

(2) Treat yourself and everyone

you encounter today as if they

truly matter.

 

Because they do matter, more

than you (more than likely) will

ever comprehend in this lifetime.

 

See if you can pause and listen

and care so deeply that you too

can see into the depths of your

own heart or that of another's

and connect with them so

intentionally, so deliberately

and so completely that you

quite literally inhabit them.

​

For this is the definition and

experience of the holy instant,

in the truest sense of the word.

 

A Course in Miracles teaches that

every moment is a holy moment

and every encounter is a holy

encounter.

 

I thought I had understood the

meaning of that, but Tuesday,

I really and truly got it, for the

first time ever.

 

Treat everyone, regardless of who

they are or what they are doing,

as if no one one on this planet

matters more to you in this moment

than do they.

 

And can you treat yourself this

way too?

 

I promise you, you have not even

begun to tap into what true empathy

looks like and feels like, but if you

go to this movie, you will have a

undeniably palpable felt experience

of genuine empathy that will leave

you a profoundly changed person.

 

Not changed in terms of your

personal identity.

 

But changed in the sense of minus

a personal identity!

 

Please take me up on this challenge.

 

I promise, you won't regret it.

 

And if you care to share your experience

with me, I would be deLIGHTed to

go deeper into my experience with

you as well.

 

Call, text or email.

 

It is certainly guaranteed to be an

evolving experience for you, as mine

has most certainly been.

 

And this is one movie I will actually

purchase when it becomes available.

 

I have slowed down even more

because of this movie and plan

to keep with the practice.

 

Why?

 

Because I have an entirely different

experience of the state of presence.

 

You came here to be the light of the

world.

 

Don't you think it is high time you

began to explore just what that

means?

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***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

Love is the answer to every

question, the secret longing

of every beating heart.

 

Love, how may I best serve

you today?

 

Please show me the way.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day​

 

Here is where you became confused

and everything was a slippery slope

after that...

 

Don't ever question the validity of

your expression.

 

Don't ever buy into someone else's

judgment of you when they question

your expression.

 

Don't ever question the validity of

someone else's expression.

​

What makes truth true is the fact that

it cannot change. It is the same yesterday,

today and forever.

 

And the validity of all expression is

a fundamental truth that is not

up for debate nor is it subject to either

change or question.

 

We are each reacting and responding

to ourselves as well as to life itself

according to our design.

 

Your emotions are perfect. They are

the very ones you are meant to be

experiencing.

 

Your feelings are perfect. They also

are according to design.

 

Your thoughts are perfect. They are

the very ones you are meant to be

experiencing.

 

Your body is perfect. It is the precise

vehicle that you are meant to have

in order to experience your life.

 

The life situations and experiences

which you have had and will continue

to experience during the course of this

life were not mistakes either.
 

They were the ones that you were

supposed to have, and the way in

which you experienced them was

also according to your design.

​

If anything were meant to be different,

it would be.

 

The confusion happened when you

begin to question all of that, when

other people made you question

that.

 

You were trained to question the

validity of every expression, to be

critical of yours as well as everyone

else's.

 

From this arose judgment, guilt,

shame and every other manner

of suffering.

 

So this is your practice for today.

 

Can you inwardly bow before

every experience and every

expression, whether yours

or someone else's, knowing that

it is perfect as it is?

 

If you feel irritated, you were

supposed to feel irritated.

 

If someone judges you, they were

meant too. Can you smile at

their criticism and accept the

validity of your expression as

well as theirs?

 

The peace which passes all under-

standing is the fruit of such

radical acceptance.

 

When you can stop questioning the

validity of any expression, trusting

that an Intelligence far greater

than yours designed you and everyone

else for that matter, that It created

all that is, and that this Intelligence

never questions the validity of

the expression of any of it's creation,

then you will have made PEACE

your own and changeless FREEDOM

will be yours.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

I bow before the Isness of what is

as it is.

​

I yam what I yam.

​

You are what you are supposed to be

and how you are supposed to be.

​

And life is good when I don't make

myself or anyone else wrong.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day​

 

There is no shortage of angry, bitter

and frustrated people on this

planet, living their lives at mach 12

with their hair on fire.

 

Self absorbed, for sure...

 

But truly caring for anyone?

 

The answer is no one, not even

themselves...

 

Nor is there a shortage of one's

living in victim consciousness,

absorbed in their stories of trauma,

blame and self pity.

 

Oh, and how about the megalomaniacs,

one's absorbed with power, wealth and

cruelty, who never bother to think

beyond their own petty little lives?

​

And there most certainly is no shortage

on selfish and self-centered assholes.

​

We each encounter our fair share of

them each day and this may well be 

a fair description for you, my dear,

if you are being truly honest with

yourself.

 

What do you want your legacy to be?

 

Do you ever pause to reflect on

your answer to that question?

 

Because the truth is, you are living

it right now.

 

If you were to die today, what would

people have to say about you and

the life which you have lived?

 

Is the world a better place, a kinder

place, a more loving place because

you were here?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

Today is a good day for more solitude

and quiet introspection.

 

What do I want my legacy to be,

and is that what I am living now?

 

Let me remain heart and breath

focused today as I create space

in my life to reflect on these things.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day​

 

Today we practice.

 

How would we know any suggestion's

worth to us if it has never been

field tested?

 

If it has not been thoroughly practiced

in the day to day of life and by thus,

demonstrated its usefulness, value

and dependability?

 

We trust ourselves now.

 

And we let all results speak for them-

selves.   

 

If something does not work,

and by work I mean provide

measurable effects, why hang

onto it?

 

If something causes palpable distress

and is a clear disturbance in the force

for us while engaging with it, that is

the only sign we need to know that

it belongs in the circular file, along

with all the other things which we have

tried and which failed, for it has proven

itself to be a delay mechanism which

generates anxiety and is therefore

ruinous to peace.

 

Life is not a test which we may pass

or fail based on how long we can

endure states of pain and suffering.

 

If it does not bring you joy, why

waste any further time with it?

 

It is simply demonstrating to us

what is worthy of our time and

energy and what is not.

 

Here is the suggested practice:

 

Treat your emotions, mind and

especially your body with reverence,

kindness, love and respect.

 

Your vehicle is very, very important.

 

For without it, a human life is

impossible.

 

You are not used to treating every

aspect of your humanity with

such mindful kindness and

tenderness, but it is necessary to

remember how valuable the body

truly is to you.

 

Love the emotions and feelings you

experience.

 

Love the thoughts and beliefs, the

judgments and opinions that the

mind offers.

 

And treat the body you have with

the reverence, gratitude and tenderness

it is due.

 

Your body is not something to merely

tolerate, to treat with either contempt,

disdain or disrespect.

 

It is a treasure which affords you every

moment of every day a plethora of

experiences.

 

The world cannot and does not offer

you freedom. agency and autonomy,

but this the body can.

 

The world does not offer you freely

the experience of joy, a sense of

wonder, awe or peace but the body

offers you the perfect means whereby

you can experience all of these things

while in this world, yet not of it.

 

The highest and grandest of all human

experiences is to be able to fully

embody truth.

​

Love the body you have, not the one

you wish you had, and let the results

speak for themselves.

​

What happens when I treat the body

with love and respect?

 

This is the opportunity which only

the body that you have offers you.

 

And it is only your embodied demonstration

which the world hears. For your life

is your message, never the words which

you speak.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

Feeling such reverence, awe and

gratitude for this body and

every experience which has

happened while in this body,

even all the struggle, the trauma

and the pain.

 

For without it, I would not be

who I am and where I am today.

 

Hear then my solemn vow...

 

With whatever time I have left

in this life, I will treat ALL of

this vehicle with the kindness

and respect which are its due.

 

With great joy I give it thanks

and may every act directed toward

it bear the markings of loving-

kindness, reverence and gratitude

it so richly deserves.

 

Dearest body, I take refuge in the

beautiful golden heart in which

I can so readily abide in this life

because of you and for this I give

you thanks.

 

For without you, there would be no

way to embody anything in this

world.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day​

 

Whether you happen to believe that

any day is anymore significant

than any other matters not.

 

Nonetheless, today is auspicious.

 

It is both Father's Day and the

Summer Solstice.

 

So let us take advantage of the

wonderful insights you have

gathered during the last few

days, riding the wave of energy

that this day is revealing, just

seeing where it takes us, while

at the same time, making today

a day of rest, relaxation and

watchfulness.

 

See if you can be like a fly on

the wall. Quietly observe the

world and it's contents as they

move around you in their own

particular rhythm and cadence.

 

Make a quick mental note of all

the many ways you observe people

caught up in the activity of

hustle and game.

 

Look about you at the level of

energy and life force one has to

expend to keep all the plates

they have got spinning in the air,

which they must keep spinning

no matter what, in order to secure

the interest, approval and financial

gain they and their loved ones

need in order to feel safe and

secure in a world which cares not

and can turn on you for no reason

at all in any given moment.

​

The level of high alert, paranoia and

defensiveness one has to maintain

in order to feel safe and in control

makes my heart bleed.

 

No one is real with anyone.

 

Everyone is playing the game.

​

You must work this many hours and

produce this many fixes in order

to prove your worth to us and earn

your paycheck.

​

You have to have this many things

going on the side in order to make

this additional amount of cash.

​

You have to look like this, have this

shape of body, wear this particular

item of clothing, dye your hair this

particular color, drive this particular

car, and you must be someone that

everyone looks up to and wants

to be...

 

Remember our Tibetan word,

shenpa, which means to bite

the hook?

 

Can you see how they, all those

crazy people who have bitten the

hook, actually believe that it all

depends on them?

 

You see it e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e...

 

Don't you feel a measure of gratitude

that this isn't you anymore?

 

You used to be just another cog

in that wheel and thank god, you

got the hell off of that hamster

wheel.

​

And it was hell, wasn't it?

 

Remember when you used to believe

that having game and hustle were

the most admirable qualities one could

possess in this world?

​

You actually believed all that hype

and malarky.

 

It is exhausting to watch it all as it

is unfolding all around you, whether

it is from the preacher in the pulpit

or observing what one has to do in

order to secure their particular

position within their own family unit.

​

Can you not see the hustle and game

that lies beneath every single "you

need to use this particular product,"

"take this magic potion," "go to

this restaurant," "see this particular

movie," "take this particular form

of fungus," and "be sure to have

at least this many followers on your

particular social media feed?"

 

Aren't you sick and tired of it all?

 

The only person on this planet with

whom you can have an utterly

transparent and vulnerable relation-

ship is with yourself, beloved.

 

Where else can you feel both love

and genuine acceptance?

 

With whom else can you let your hair

down and just be you, knowing

you will not be judged, but rather,

met with unconditional positive

regard, gentleness and kindness?

 

So today, cherish the fact that, as we

said yesterday, you got you babe.

 

And that makes you one fortunate

human being on a planet of 8 billion,

each of whom are doing their own

thing on this tiny blue dot in the midst

of a Cosmos which is quite literally

beyond measure.

 

May your day be beautiful and may

the FORCE be with you...

 

For you are the unsung hero of your

own unfolding.

 

So get out there and sing it, and bump

it with a trumpet while you are at it,

will you?

 

And if no one else on this planet sees

it or gets it, I see it.

 

I see it and I get it.

 

I see you.

 

And you are so beautiful that this heart

weeps crocodile tears of thankfulness

and joy because you are you.

 

You, beloved, shine like a star

in the universe, and I happen to love

how that looks on you.

​

What's not to love and adore?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

Today I see.

 

I see it and I get it.

 

Today I pause and breathe

and LOOK with clear eyes.
 

I'm gonna be authentically me

and I'm done with games.

​

I am so fortunate to be me

and I give thanks.

​

And I wouldn't trade my life for

anyone else's for all the tea

in China.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day​

 

Peace Part II

(conclusion)

 

Yesterday we began by asserting

the premise that everyone on

this planet is looking for peace,

happiness and a sense of fulfill-

ment.

 

We all have different ideas about

what will bring this to us, so

in that sense there are elements

which are quite specific to each

of our particular searches.

 

Why, even over the course of

our particular lifetime, that

search has been ever evolving!

 

We each could see and were

able to admit that we have tried

so many things over the course

of our lives in search of peace.

 

Regardless of how we went about

it, each of our searches have had

one commonality; and that is

codependency.

 

And from our previous thoughts,

you know that codependency

is all about chasing a feeling and

the misbelief that someone or

something has something which

you do not.

 

I do not care what it is that you

believe will fulfill that essential

lack that you feel inside.

 

The point is that you have set

your eyes and your heart on

the acquisition of something.....

 

Some one or some thing which

we believe will fill that hole,

be it the perfect relationship,

a drug or alcohol, or a brand

new whatever...

​

What is the promise you will

chase today?

​

What will narcotize you sufficently

and provide that feeling whereby

you can roll over, hit the snooze

button and go back to sleep?

 

Because now we are talking about

the cycle of addiction which is

fueling the codependency.

 

We are like demigods; wanting,

craving, needing, chasing,

desiring...

 

We are talking about the will to

conquer and possess.

 

That is why more, better and

different never work. We have all

been chasing a feeling state out-

side of us our entire lives.

 

Look at the biggest lie this world

sells you and you chase that carrot

to your very last breath...

 

Buy this, attain that, accomplish

this, and we promise that you will

feel ________ .

 

And you do feel it for a short while

and then the newness wears off and

you begin your next search for what

you believe will do it for you based on

that promised feeling state.

 

Now the loop you are caught in just

keeps repeating itself ad nauseum.

 

You are trapped in the devil's snare,

trading the pig you have for the

elephant you don't.

 

Again and again and yet again you

jump out of the frying pan into the

fire.

 

One person is convinced that a job

will provide them the feeling that

they believe they are missing.

 

The next person believes it is a

financial windfall they have long

been hoping for.

 

Another, the soul mate of their heart

of hearts....

 

Whether it is this new face cream,

this vitamin, this drink, this designer,

that new car, this plastic surgery,

that new diet, this drug, that exercise

program, this whatever.

 

You get the picture...

 

We are trying to fill that hole and

the world is promising us the

road to fulfillment.

​

"And all it will cost you is _____ ."

 

This religion...

 

That church...

 

This new teacher...

 

That book...

 

The list of promised options

is legion.

 

But honey, you are forgetting one

important thing which you must

never ever forget...

 

The only person on this planet

that can be the source of your love,

peace and happiness is you.

 

You are the custodian and caretaker

of your own inner state of being.

 

And anything you acquire which

is based on someone or something

outside of you is doomed from

the start.

 

It cannot give you that feeling

state you are searching for because

that feeling state exists nowhere

on this planet but inside of

your very own heart.

 

And all the crazy, whack-a-doodle

all-over-the-map skittishness

disappears in a heart beat the

very instant that you choose you.

 

And the day that you get that

you are the Source of Everything

and therefore begin to prioritize

yourself, the world will no longer

be able to manipulate and entice

you into biting the hook ever again.

 

If you are reading this, you should

be having your own light bulb

moment right about now.

 

So I will end this thought today

with a blessing...

 

May today be the day that you

earnestly choose yourself

for the first time in your entire

life.

 

May YOU be the place where you

draw your line in the sand and

proudly tell the world to take a

hike.

​

You are gonna go out there and

live your best life and you do not

need anyone or anything in order

to do it.

​

And why?

​

Because you got you babe....

 

I love you.

 

And I know I love you because

I love myself and you are a part of

me, just as I am part of you.

 

Have a beautiful weekend.

 

Pelkyong

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

I complete myself.

 

Knowing this cuts out a lot of

needless spending, seeking,

searching, acquiring and looking.

​

All of that having less and wanting

more, better or different bullshit.

 

There is so much peace right now,

and for this my heart is filled

with gratitude.

 

Thank you for the gift of Clear

Seeing.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

If I had to try and narrow it all

down to the singular most significant

message of ACIM it would be this...

 

Everyone wants to know peace

and everyone is searching for it

in every single instant of their

lives.

 

One person may call it a partner,

someone special to spend their lives

with.

 

Another may call it a new luxury car,

the perfect home equipped with

all the latest and greatest.

 

Someone else is certain that it

may be found through unparalleled

personal wealth and financial

security.

 

While the next guy is sure it is

found through fame; having

the world adore them, verified

by the number of likes one gets

to their social media feed.

 

What does peace look like to you?

 

Where and how have you searched

for it over the course of this life?

​

Take a trip down memory lane

and reflect on all the many ways

that you have tried to find it, only

to be profoundly disappointed

in the end.

​

But you are so fortunate...

 

We live in the most astounding

time in human history.

 

The world is sick and tired of the

chaos, calamity and uncertainty.

​

No one trusts anyone anymore

because truth has become a

constantly moving target, fed by

AI and anything anyone happens 

to say is true.

​

People are sticking to their own

lane, not because it happens to be

the only honest way to live one's

life, but because no one and

nothing feels safe or trustworthy 

anymore.

 

The world is so ready for peace.

 

People everywhere are starting

to ask the big questions.

 

Why am I here?

 

What is the meaning of life?

 

And everyone; rich man, poor

man, beggar man and thief are

searching for some sense of

fulfillment in life in the midst

of all the insanity.

 

You, dear one, have a unique

opportunity.

 

People are deeply attracted to one

who is connected to their own

heart, who lives as soul, and who

abides in a state of unmistakable

peace.

 

You have learned that in any given

instant, you can come back to your

breath, and quickly find complete

harmony with the soul; the very

power which animates us all and is

the Source of everything.

 

The world has great need of you

as surely as your great need for

peace.

 

Will you say "Yes. I will answer

that call. I will be one of the many

who will dedicate their lives to

living soul-fully, I will dedicate

my life to peace."

​

Because in case you did not

recognize it, I am speaking to

you, beloved.

​

I am speaking to you.

​

What is your heart telling you?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

Here is my heart.

 

Take all of me.

 

No more agendas, no more lists

and no more plans.

 

From here on out it is,

Thy will be done through

me.

​

For this I was born.

​

I came to bring heaven to

earth.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

This week we began exploring

some of the ways in which

we deflect in order to avoid

the possibility of developing

a profound and  intimate

relationship with ourselves.

 

This we all do or have done

whenever the ego has felt a loss

of control and threatened.

 

Human beings are not nearly

as unique as they would like to

believe.

 

For we are far more alike in our

egos than we would care to admit.

 

A defense is a fence which you

build around yourself so you do

not have to see.

 

Deflection being the most common.

 

After identifying some of our

personal favorites, the most

common ways in which we deflect,

we then worked with the intention

of seeing what we are doing to

ourselves while actively doing it.

 

Not that we might stop it, but so 

we might try something new.

 

Can we soften, open and lean into

these parts of ourselves which have

never been consciously loved and

accepted by us?

 

And then can we bring so much

tenderness to this part of our being

which has become so contracted

and shut down, that it might

consciously open itself to the light?

 

Today we will look specifically at

at three of the most common ways

in which human beings deflect.

 

The most common of which is that

of talking over.

 

Here one raises their voice a bit

louder than the one he or she happens

to be engaging with and forcibly

takes full control of the conversation

in self defense in order to redirect

and make their point.

 

Next we have mindless chatter.

 

By bringing a level of superficiality

into the conversation, one can quite

easily prevent conversations from

taking on a more serious tone or

vulnerability, and by thus prevent

them from going deeper.

 

The third most common means of

deflection is crying.

 

This is a big one for many, for they

have convinced themselves that

their tears are a sign of their

sensitivity, earnestness and sincerity.

 

They are not.

 

They are, however, a means of ending

the conversation and getting everyone

to rally around you in support.

 

Tears rather effectively introduce

a log jam into any conversation

which is getting a little to close to

truth for comfort and immediately

stopping all flow.

 

Here one diverts all attention

toward themselves and by thus,

bring the conversation to an

immediate standstill.

 

Have you ever taken the time to

seriously look at what you are

doing and reflect upon the real

reason that you are doing it?

 

Today we will.

 

The bottom line about all defenses

is that you are afraid.

 

So today we make a fresh commitment

to ourselves.

 

And again, we are doing so in

order to bring clarity to what we are

doing, so we might bring love and

light to that particular part of our-

selves.

 

To know oneself one must first

learn to be objectively honest with

themselves.

​

And humility is the ability to be honest

with yourself about yourself.

​

Humility is tender, kind and

gentle at all times.

​

It never uses clear seeing as evidence

to disqualify yourself.

 

For if you have the capacity to be

honest with yourself, you will

inevitably see yourself in one or

more of these modes of deflection.

​

This does not and cannot affect one's

worth, but it does make it safe

to be you without walls.

 

What do you do to deflect rather

than pause and receive?

 

Then consider the following

question...

 

Can I just shut up, open up and

receive this moment?

 

Because your truth, the truth in you,

is present and available to you in

every moment.

 

But you, my dear, have simply never

allowed yourself to receive that GIFT.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

Today I inwardly bow before

the isness of each moment of

my life and deeply accept.

​

Above all else I want to see.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

Somewhere around two decades

ago, Pam and I went to a well

known Sikh healer.

 

At the time, neither of us had

anything in particular going on

with us physically, so this predates

her Lyme disease and Parkinson's.

 

We were both very curious about

being able to experience her

method of healing firsthand.

 

And we did have an agenda,

for we hoped that she would

be willing to teach us about

what it was that she did.

 

She didn't use tables or any-

thing.

 

We simply laid on the floor

while she sat on the floor

next to us.

 

Never actually touching our

physical body, she worked from

approximately 12-18 inches

above us.

 

Here hands worked busily in

the energetic field which

emanates from the physical

body itself.

 

As she began working with Pam,

she looked up and, gazing into my

eyes, said the following to me.

 

"She is very very deep."

 

I remember feeling both

happy and sad at the time.

 

For while I was happy for my

best friend, I felt both sad

and jealous, because I knew

that no one would ever say

that about me.

 

I wasn't deep, though I had

met a few who I knew had

discovered a boundless

depth within themselves.

 

Everytime I used to gaze into

Baba's eyes while he was yet

alive, I could not remain there

for long because I would

inevitably feel myself falling

into the endless abyss of his

being. 

 

I would begin to experience

a boundless nose dive into

Eternity.

 

And I needed to put the skid

on things real fast, lest I too

fall into that place where he

lived out all the exceedingly

precious moments of his life.

 

That was just how it was with

Baba.

 

When you made eye contact

with him, you would get sucked

right on in there along with him.

 

And if you did not start back

peddling fast, you ran the risk of

being pulled into an Infinity from

which there could be no return.

 

No one ever told me this. I just

knew it.

 

I knew that I knew that I knew

that nothing truer could ever be

spoken.

 

He knew such a profound

intimacy with himself which

seemed so vast and endless.

​

He always seemed so utterly

lost in his own beautiful

depths.

​

And the look upon his face?

​

The light which emanated from

him and the beatific gaze

of his countenance silently

shared an unspeakable peace.

 

It had a palpable magnetism

about it which drew you in

right along with him.

 

So why am I telling you all

this?

 

Because my one so-called

accomplishment in 73 years

of life in this particular body

is that I can say with all

sincerity that I too have

found this relationship with

myself.

 

But in order to begin this

incredible journey without

end, you have to be profoundly

honest with yourself and look

at all the many ways in which

you deflect throughout your

day in order to avoid such

intimacy.

 

And after you have gotten

honest with yourself about all

your particular habits, patterns

and behaviors, your m.o. so

to speak, then you have to

embark on the journey of

catching yourself red handed

in the act of actively avoiding

your own beautiful heart

and the boundless depths

within you.

 

For here is the only meaning

that a human life has and is,

to discover your own magnificent

self.

 

I loved Chogyam Trungpa

Rinpoche. He was such a wild

man and had such an outrageously

untamed spirit.

 

He used to say, "I've got good

news and I've got bad news. Which

do you want first?"

 

And depending upon what the

individual said, he would then

give it to them straight.

 

"You are falling and you have got

no parachute. But the good news

is that there is no bottom."

 

What do you do thousands of times

a day to prevent yourself from

beginning your exploration of

your own infinite depths?

 

I can promise you that what you will

find cannot be found with any other

person in this planet.

 

And when you find it, you will want

for nothing else in this lifetime.

 

It will become the most important

thing in the entire Cosmos to you.

 

You could lock me in a dungeon

for the rest of my life or give me a

billion dollars which were tax free

and it would not light a candle to

the love affair upon which I have

embarked with my own boundless

and beautiful heart.

 

This is my one and only accomp-

lishment in this life and the one

gift I have to offer this world: To

never ever stop this love affair

that I am having with myself and

to share the light of this love with

all the world.

 

So that is your assignment for

today.

 

Work with seeing the myriad of

ways in which you deflect

because you feel that the skillet

is getting a little too hot for your

tastes.

 

And then see if, rather than

deflect, you can hit your pause

button and relax deeply, while

watching your breath.

 

Then let yourself begin to free fall

into your own boundless depths.

 

Beloved, you can do it.

 

You were born for this.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

Let it be today, this day,

that I commence upon

my own beautiful and

boundless journey into

the tabernacle of my own

inner most being.

 

For I wish above all things,

to know myself.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

You are not a product of your past.

 

You are not a product of your history.

 

You are not a product of your story.

 

You are not a product of your ancestors

or your gene pool.

 

You are not a product of your trauma.

​

None of it was ever personal.

 

Unless, of course, you choose to believe

that it was.

 

Forget everything you have been brain-

washed into believing is true.

 

From here on out, it's your life, on your

terms, lived your way, each and every

day.

​

Fly high where those wings of yours

take you.

 

You are the only one who gets to

decide how that will look and feel.

​

And trust turns it all into an magic

carpet ride.

 

Who can choose happiness over

misery but you?

 

Who can choose peace over turmoil

and suffering?

 

Who can choose FREEDOM over the

endless monotony of the known?

​

Aren't you weary of the same o'

same o' recycled, repetitive and

regurgitated way of living which

is a byproduct of the belief in

personal personhood?

 

Who but you, my dear, has the

courage and the kahunas to do

and to be all that is possible

and more?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

Grant me courage to walk right up

to the edge of that cliff and fly....

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

Short and sweet goes the thought

which is offered you today, but

filled to overflowing with unparalleled

promise as well as infinite potential.

 

In every moment, the Infinite is

sweeping over you, washing through

you, overcoming the illusion of

the exiled and separated self.

 

It is above you. It is below you.

It is in front of you and in back.

It is to the side of you and inside

of you, ever tugging at your heart

strings.

 

Will this be the moment when you

will allow yourself to connect

with your own unassailable truth?

 

A light so bright and scintillating

that it is entirely beyond all human

comprehension.

 

And the sixty-four thousand dollar

question?

 

Will today be the day that you

hit your pause button and be

still long enough to take a

breather and consciously open

your entire being to it, allowing

it to utterly ravish you?

 

Would you offer it yourself,

your story and the little kingdom

which you have built?

 

Only to have it all returned to

you, minus the pathos, drama

and fictional elements which

could not withstand the light of

truth?

 

Or will you continue to insist

on playing the silly little game

of you, the personal self?

 

Because the truth is, once you

connect with the soul, it will be

impossible for you to ever again

feel bereft of hope.

 

Perhaps that is the real reason

you have been avoiding the

request all along?

 

What are you so afraid of?

 

That, my dear, is a question

worthy of heartfelt exploration

on your own behalf today.

​

That is, if you are the least bit

curious about what your own

best interests happen to be.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

As the Klingons profess,

today is a very good day to die.

 

And so it is.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

Do you realize that 99.99%

of this planet deeply believes

with all their heart's that they

have to become something

different from what they are?

 

They should be something more.

 

They should be somehow better.

 

They need to change somehow.

​

Who they are and how they are

is not good enough, in need of

fixing, and they must work hard

in order to become something

more because to give oneself

permission to simply be is entirely

out of the question.

 

But you are part of that elite group

of people on this planet, the 0.01%

who are beginning to grasp that you

do not need to be different than you

already are.

​

In fact, dare I say it?

​

Some of you are peaceful more often

than not and are beginning to truly

love and accept yourselves.

 

Oh sure, sometimes you forget

and get mad at yourself for some-

thing...

 

I shouldn't have said that...

 

I should have done that differently...

 

And sometimes you judge the shit

out of someone else...it's almost

knee jerk and so intense...

 

But most of the time....

 

And more often than not...

 

It's hands off the merchandise.

 

Live and let live is a philosophy

which you can get behind and

peacefully live your life.

 

So that's the assignment for day.

 

A wide berth for everyone, especially

yourself.

 

Because you know and I know that

it is has always been you who were

your harshest critic.

 

But today...everyone get's a smile

and permission to be exactly the

way they are.

 

No second guessing allowed,

especially of yourself.

 

No judge, jury or prosecutor...

 

And have a wonderful Sunday as

you allow miracles to abound.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

May miracles abound today

as I give all of us permission

to be exactly as we are, to do

precisely what we do, knowing

that each of us is a perfect

version of both who and how

we came here to be.

 

Unconditional means without

conditions or expectations of

any kind.

 

An open hand is a hand which

is open.

 

The instruction to stay in my own

lane means precisely that.

 

And hands off means no judging,

tinkering or feeling better than or

less than allowed.

 

Today we each get a T-shirt 

to wear proudly which says,

"Designed perfectly by God."

 

Let me wear mine proudly and

remember to smile... (a lot)

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

Today we experiment.

 

Afterall, life is supposed to be fun,

isn't it?

 

We operate at all times under the

same basic premise:

 

There is so much more to this

life than what being a human

being has shown me, so much

more than I have been allowing.

 

The world has preached at you

your entire life, sometimes silently

and sometimes not so silently,

that the way you are is a limitation.

 

So you have come to believe that

your humanity is a problem.

 

You have grown up with shame

and guilt, and your entire life

you have felt like you were not

good enough.

​

No matter how hard you tried, no

matter what you tried, you knew

you did not measure up and more

than likely never would no matter

what.

 

Consequently, you have spent your

entire life loathing, despising and

disdaining who and what you are.

 

As a result, you became your own

pet project. You have spent your

entire life thus far trying to fix or

change yourself.

 

You heard it from your family.

 

It was preached at you from the

pulpit, and if you are not good

enough for God, then you are

seriously fucked.

​

So the whole notion of God be-

came something you feared or

just quit believing in at all, to 

maintain some sense of sanity

in a world over which you felt

in over your head.

 

As if that were not enough, you

got it at school, and as you

continued to grow, you got it from

bosses, coworkers, your spouse

or partner, your neighbors, social

media, it was plastered on billboards

and shouting at you from the

television and even from the big

screen!

 

The subliminal messages were

everywhere, trying to sell you

promises which never delivered.

​

So much time, effort, energy and

resources devoted to things which

never panned out.

​

Mountains of money only to find

another dead end.

 

Hustling to stay relevant, schmoozing

and kissing ass to fit in and belong,

always spinning those wheels of yours

as fast as you can so you do not

have to feel how much pain you're in.

 

Is it any wonder you turned to

addiction?

 

Drugs, alcohol, online shopping,

excessive exercising, dieting, sex,

gambling, food...

 

You name it and you've tried it.

 

Everything works until it doesn't any

longer. It's not sustainable and it

doesn't really fill the hole you feel

in your heart. That ache that never

goes anywhere, no matter what

you do.

 

But today, we are going to try some-

thing different.

 

Today our motto is, "I don't have to

waste my time resisting anything."

 

"If everything in this world has the

same foundation, a foundation

composed of the Infinite Itself,

then the something more that we

have been talking about all week

is always here."

 

"I have become far too preoccupied

with form and the cost has been

that I have lived a limited life. The

Infinite potential of which everything

is composed has been entirely un-

available to me."

 

"Non-resistance is a doorway.

Let me open my heart to that

possibility."

 

So your steps are as follows:

 

(1) Stop resisting. You know when you

are feeling yourself start to contract.

You would recognize that inner cringe

anywhere.

 

(2) Come back to your breath. This is

not optional.

 

(3) Soften and open like a sunflower

does before the sun.

 

(4) Offer a little prayer of sorts in

your own words. Something which

says essentially, "I am ready to be

shown what is possible here."

 

(5) Be curious. Are you consciously

open to the miraculous?

 

This is all.

 

You cannot bitch and moan about

something not working if you have

never seriously given it a try.

​

So today is all about field testing.

 

Today we experiment and let the

results speak for themselves.

 

Isn't it about time that you got on

with why you came here to experience

a human life in the first place?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day​

 

I am open to be shown all that

I have not allowed because

I was too afraid to live BIG.

 

I am sick and tired of marching

to the the world's drum.

​

I live on a planet of unhappy

people and I don't plan to

be one of them any longer.

​

Please show me the way.

 

Amen

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***

​

Thought for the Day

​

TGIF, right?

 

It's been some kind of week,

has it not?

 

A simple practice is offered for today

with which we begin our weekend.

 

Each time you feel tempted to feel

irked by someone, upset, judgmental,

or dismissive, I want you to hit

your pause button and ask yourself

the following question:

 

How could anything be missing in

any of us on a spiritual level?

 

Only the spiritual level is real, for

only the spiritual level remains

steadfast and changeless.

 

It is the same yesterday, today and

forever.

 

Nothing is ever born.

 

Nothing ever dies.

 

And truth is that there is so much

more to each of us than the repeated

base code from which the habitual

self or ego is formed, only to become

the framework of that particular 

individual's human experience.

​

They have no more control over

the particulars of their habitual

self than you have over yours.

 

Besides, remember...

 

Mirror universe.

 

This person is just showing me what

I have not yet made peace with

within myself.

 

Let me bring peace, kindness and

acceptance to this part of me and

by thus, set us both free.

 

For the ultimate truth is that each time

you elect to return to your breath

and forgo the urge to once again

make a big deal out of something

which has absolutely no eternal

significance, the shackles which

have kept you bound fall away

and you are delivered to the door

of the miraculous where anything

and everything is possible.

 

Have a great weekend.

 

And remember, what makes any day

great in no way depends upon what

happens or does not happen.

 

What makes a day great is who you

consciously choose to bring to

the party.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Help me bring FREEDOM and

miracles with me wherever I go

today and whatever I do.

 

Today is a good day to be free

and share that freedom with

all whom I encounter.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

Today we will attempt to take

yesterday's thought deeper.

 

This will be very difficult to wrap

words around, but let's take a stab

at it, shall we?

 

Hopefully we can shed some light

in the form of clarity around

the subject matter.

 

I had two different friends over

the weekend who were experiencing

stress and strain.

 

The particulars do not matter.

​

For wasn't it Einstein who said

that you cannot solve a problem

from the same level of conscious-

ness which created it?

​

And that is what we are talking

about here, a mind trying to fix

what does not need to be fixed

and which cannot be fixed by

the mind.

​

A new order of being which proffers

an open hearted perspective

is called for.

 

What does matter is that my friends

were experiencing their life situations

from the level of form rather

than content.

 

And that always leads to separation,

suffering and reactivity.

​

In other words, defenses....

 

You see, nothing about our lives

actually changes when we have

actualized the enlightened state

and embody it fully.

 

The things which pissed you off

yesterday are still going to be

there today.

 

And the anxiety, the frustration

and the desire to blame, to defend

and justify will still be there for you

to pick back up should you choose

to do so.

 

But this is you still very much

living your life from the outside

in.

 

Here, your experience of life can

get out of hand in a New York

minute and you feel like you are

trying to remain peaceful while

wrangling a fire hose.

 

In other words, the fact that

something more is coming

doesn't mean that suddenly,

you are going to get what

you have been dreaming for

and your life will be all hunky

dory from here on out.

 

What it does mean is that the

more you remain in your heart,

the more you remain peaceful,

the universe will show you

through the mundane aspects

of your life that something

greater is here.

​

Will you be open to it?

​

Because here's the deal...

 

When you think you need some-

thing, it is never going to happen.

 

But when you no longer need it

is when the universe gives it to

you, and through no effort of

your own.

 

In the heart, in peace, you find

that you resonate and are in

harmony with everything.

 

And when you are in harmony

with everything, everything

becomes available to you.

​

The miraculous becomes

available to you.

​

Take this energy into the moments

of your life and life will respond

in kind.

​

It always does.

 

This is how we find freedom.

 

The habitual self, or ego, experiences

life from the outside in.

​

It cannot do otherwise.

 

While the soul lives from the inside

out, and brings that presence,

that light and that love to every

life experience and that is the

when, where and how that miracles

happen.

 

For this happens to be the most

salient feature of life as soul,

the total absence of need.

 

In the absence of need, everything

in the entire cosmos begins to send

that same frequency, the frequency

of love back to you.

 

Beloved, at the level of your innermost

being, only generosity and abundance

are available to you and the universe

is so kind and benevolent.

 

Now it really is up to you how you

choose to live your life, but as for

me, I choose peace any day and

every day over the static of what life

delivers when you are coming from

the habitual self.

​

For the inner is the genesis of the

outer.

​

But only 100% of the time.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

I do not wish to live my life in

the hell of the remembered

and habitual self.

​

I have had my fill of that.

​​

Why is it so difficult to remember

to live a heart centered life, a

life of peace and gentleness,

kindness and spaciousness?

 

Let me not forget today that

breath awareness is the key

that opens the floodgates of

the Infinite, for I would live

my life from the state of

heaven on earth.
 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

A short messge today...

 

A simple message today...

 

More is on its way...

 

How do we remain open and

receptive to this something more?

 

Through our conscious willingness

to align ourselves with our practice

from yesterday.

 

So keep on coming back to your

breath...

 

Keep coming back to your heart...

 

Keep on being you and loving 

yourself the way that you are.

​

You need not change anything.

​

You need do nothing!

 

Be both a living invitation and an

example of one who has said yes!

 

I will be myself as I am and I will

stop tinkering with myself and my

experience.

 

And know this....

 

Each instant of peace that you

experience brings us all that much

closer to the ending of both time and

dreaming.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​​

Yes!

 

Yes!

 

I know why I am here.

 

For this I took birth.

 

Forever and forever only yes...

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​

So let's conclude our exploration

of what it means to live a truly

miraculous life.

 

Another way of describing it

would be to refer to it as the

embodied state of liberation.

 

And to think, it is easy as pie.

 

Simply close your eyes and

relax while bringing awareness

to your breath.

 

You will begin to feel the sweetest

calm begin to move through

you.

 

This is the natural state; a state

freed of the habitual self or ego.

 

This state is highly restorative.

​

Drink it in.

 

Here, you feel an entire shift in

your state of being.

 

It is okay for you to live your life

from your natural state. You can

still do you and your life from here.

 

To think, you are never further

away from this field than a

single breath which is taken

with rapt attention or awareness.

 

The first thing you notice when

here is peace, followed by an

awareness of how complete

you feel.

 

Why would anyone wish to leave

this place in favor of a life of

survival, suffering and uncertainty?

 

Freedom from the habitual self

is the gift of breath awareness.

 

And the natural state is your

golden ticket into infinite

possibility and potential, which

is just another way of describing

the miraculous.

 

Here you feel so much love for

yourself.

 

And here you realize that it is

only through loving yourself

so utterly and so completely

that you can share the wealth

with others.

 

This...this is the purpose of a

human life fulfilled...to be

so completely connected with

yourself and to live your life this

way.

 

Take rest here today.

 

And take this blessing with you.

 

"Eye hath not seen nor ear hath

heard what God has prepared

for you."

I Corinthians 2:9

 

Let's find out, shall we?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​​

To think that when I felt

so much angst as a child

and told my Father in

answer to his question of

"What do you want?" that

what I was asking for was

to be freed of me.

 

Freed of the habitual self.

 

The self which suffers,

feels hopelessly lost and

alone, the self which knows

not peace.

 

I give thanks today for the

sanctity of the breath.

 

For this is the true wealth of

a human life.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

Now that you have had the past

two days to work with what

it feels like to live a truly

remarkable and mysteriously

miraculous life which is filled

to overflowing with surprises,

possibilities and synchronicities,

we will add a final dimension or

facet to our practice.

 

Last week we spoke of this world

being a mirror universe.

 

This is not a new idea to anyone,

for psychologists have been telling

us for the past 50 years that

what we see in others or our world

is what we are most in denial of

about ourselves.

 

Although a good beginning, this

is not a clear enough understanding

of what a mirror dimension actually

is.

 

Simply stated, a mirror dimension

is a feeling based world.

 

Everything, down to the last nano-

particle, about what happens in

your world, both inner and outer,

is showing you how you really

and truly feel about yourself

beneath all the things in which

you try to hide behind.

 

Simply stated, if your life sucks

and nothing seems to be going

right for you, what do you think

your life is trying to tell you

about how you feel about yourself?

 

I hate myself = I hate my life.

 

The question is not whether or

not you are committed and

consistent, the question is, what

emotional and psychological

states am I committed to and

consistent with?

 

For it is impossible to be alive

and not be committed to and

consistent with something.

 

Be it self-pity, victim conscious-

ness, the need to be right all

the time, angry, insulant, being

a bully, cruelty, you name it.

 

You get the picture.

 

So the final facet to our practice

is to be consciously aware of

what you are actually committed

to and being willing to be honest

with yourself about whether or not

these particular feeling states

are going to bring you the kind

of life you really want to experience.

 

If they are not, then what kind

of life do you wish to experience?

 

As for me, I choose a peaceful and

harmonious life which is filled

with love, laughter and deLIGHTful

surprises.

 

And I know this is and always will

be the nature of my life because

I have learned to love myself so

tenderly and so completely, to

have profound compassion for

myself, acceptance, gentleness,

patience and kindness for me.

 

I cherish peace above all else.

 

Can it really be a surprise that

my life is a reflection of this?

 

There is a very beautiful idea which

is postulated in ACIM which tells

us that in the beginning, God put

Adam in a very deep sleep, but no-

where in the Bible does it say that

Adam ever woke up.

 

If this world really is the Matrix

and you are still dreaming, what

kind of world will you dream for

yourself today?

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​​

I choose a miraculous life.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

A simple enough practice is offered

you today. Repeat it every time the

thought to do so crosses your mind,

reminding you to repeat the exercise.

 

It is a practical guide for practicing

what it means to live your life in

an abiding state of the miraculous.

 

Here are the steps:

 

(1) Close your eyes as you hit your

pause button.

 

(2) Bring your awareness to your

breath.

 

Noticing the entire inhalation.

 

Noticing the entire exhalation.

​

Feel yourself down shifting into

neutral as you do so.

 

Noticing that as you do, you become

aware of a more universal energetic state

which is no longer simply yours, it is ours.

 

Here you are aware of our light,

our love, our presence...

​

Here, you know that we are One.

​

One Life...

​

One Love...

​

One Heartbeat...

 

(3) See, sense or imagine a door which

is standing before you.

 

(4) Feel yourself reach for the door's

handle. Gently turn the knob and

open the door.

 

(5) Behind this door there is effulgent

golden light.

 

This is the door to the Everywhere.

 

This is the door to Everything.

 

Perhaps you will see the light.

 

That is not what is important.

 

What is vital, however, is to take

a moment to bask in its warmth,

to feel its peace.

 

(6) Feel yourself gliding through

that door.

 

You are one with this light. It is

a part of you, and you are a part

of it.

 

(7) After you relax here for as long

as feels natural for you to do so,

gently open your eyes.

​

Now go about your day as it unfolds.

 

(8) Can you take the feeling tonality

you experienced behind the door

with you as you go about your day

today?

 

Can you be in this world, yet not

of this world at all?

 

You deserve your commitment

to this practice.

 

You deserve your own consistency.

 

The only question is, how worthy do

you feel you are of both your

commitment and your consistency?

​

But know this...

 

How frequently you practice today

will be an irrefutable demonstration

of your answer to this question.

 

For your life is always a demonstration

of what is true for you.

 

Your life is your message.

 

It cannot be otherwise.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​​

Please bless my practicing

today.

 

Blessed soul, please stoke the fire

of my commitment to you,

my commitment to myself,

for you are that light

which illuminates the entire

universe.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

There are four qualities

one needs to possess in each

moment in order to be truly

miracle minded; to be a living

invitation for the miraculous.

 

They are as follows:

 

(1) One must be peaceful.

 

(2) One must be curious.

 

(3) One must be entirely open,

as was discussed yesterday.

​

One must know that literally

everything is possible in every

single moment of their life.

 

(4) One must surrender their

tendency to create their own

agendas, plans and lists.

 

It takes great courage to live

in a perpetual state of the

unknown.

 

And one cannot begin to do

this if they do not trust.

 

This life will never amount to much

for anyone on this planet

if they do not learn to trust in

the unknown.

​

For trust is implicit to any life

which is well lived.

 

Trust is the fruit of relationship

in which you know you are loved, 

cherished and never alone.

​

A relationship such as this can

only be found with the soul

or God.

​

And there you have it.

​

These are the preliminaries for

one who wishes to live a life

which is entirely miracle minded.

 

Shall we give it a whirl today?

 

Please jot me an email and share

your favorite miracle which

transpires today.

 

I wish you a sweet and effervescent

Saturday,

 

May your day be filled to over-

flowing with the miraculous.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​​

May my entire being be

like a cascading waterfall;

ever flowing with love

and receptivity, entirely

open to the miraculous in

every moment.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

What do you think might happen

today if, just for one tiny instant,

you were to open your entire being

so completely that you were utterly

transparent?

 

As transparent, in fact, as water?

 

And you did this because you knew

that literally everything was infinitely

possible and open to you in each

moment?

 

And what if you knew that the

only limitation to your receiving

depended solely upon how much

or how little you were open

to receiving?

 

It is not the universe which has

been holding back on you,

my dear.

 

It's you who are open to so little.

 

Because the truth is that you are

radically loved and supported

by a universe which wants every-

thing for you.

 

What will be the possibilities

that you are open to receiving

today?

​

How much or how little are you

willing to open your heart to?

 

Let's find out.

​

***

​

Prayer for the Day

​​

I'll take one of everything

today with a cherry on top

pretty please.

 

Amen

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

***

​

Thought for the Day

​​

Today's thought builds upon

yesterday's.

 

At first you will not see the

connection but bear with me,

it will become abundantly

clear and in most cases,

provide you with a necessary

epiphany that will leave

you at an important cross-

road.

 

Either I continue doing what

I have always done and getting

the same results, or I decide

to take a giant leap of faith

in the trusting yourself depart-

ment.

 

Afterall, it is high time I put

liberation back into my own

hands where it belonged in

the first place.

 

It's all fine and good for me

to tell you every day that there

is nothing wrong with you,

that you are not broken and

you do not need fixing.

 

You are perfect as you are

and that it is the strangest

paradox yet oh-so-true that

loving your humanity, as it

is, is the key that unlocks

the door to freedom.

 

And many of you have gotten

quite good at parroting these

exact words back to me.

 

And yes, you have brought more

acceptance and more love

into your life and have genuine

glimpses of ecstatic freedom

and you know more peace than

you ever have.

 

Yet you are addicted to your

practices.

 

You will not part with these

daily rituals under any

circumstances, nor will you

question why you are still

doing them.

 

And I get it.

 

Take for example, meditation.

 

In some cases, you even

learned to meditate from me

decades ago.

 

But as I am most fond of repeating

to you from the 13th chapter

of I Corinthians, "When I was

a child I spoke as a child, I

thought as a child, I reasoned

as a child. But when I became

an adult, I put away childish

things," you must start to

question why you were asked

to do something long ago

and then look clearly at why

you are choosing to continue

them now when they no longer

serve who you are today.

 

Was I purposefully teaching

you a lie to keep you barking

up the wrong tree?

 

Certain practices are great

when one begins because they

help you learn to stop running

away from yourself.

 

They help still the mind and

relax the body, something which

you did not know how to do

when we first met.

 

But you are no longer in

kindergarten.

 

The price of moving forward

is the same for everyone

on this planet.

 

You have to let go of the old

to create a space for the new.

 

For it is at this point that

you are now ready to leave the

practice behind.

 

This you must be willing to do

if you wish to go further.

 

Now I am going to make a very

bold statement here so listen

with the utmost care and an

open heart.

 

Practices are a place where

you can safely hide from

yourself while convincing

yourself that you are working

on yourself and hopefully,

making progress.

 

It is time to stop bullshitting

yourself about why you

do what you do. For that is

far more important for you

to see than the actual ritual

in which you are engaging.

 

No more hiding.

 

Get it?

 

Hiding is something that you

have gotten quite skillful at.

 

Here you never ever have to

look at what you are doing

and acknowledge why

you are doing it.

 

I would rather see you look

into a mirror and love the

human being that you see

gazing back at you for 5 solid

minutes than spend another

useless moment on practices

that helped you get to where

you are today, but can take

you no further.

 

You may have convinced

most of the world about the

nobility and necessity of what

you are doing, but if you

are willing to be totally honest

with yourself, they are a means

to hold onto fear.

 

Fear has kept many beautiful

people stuck on the hamster

wheel of old and outdated

religious and spiritual practices,

where you can secretly keep

working on yourself so others

will admire your dedication and

devotion, but you know and

I know that you are using the

practice as a means to seek but

do not find.

 

Name me one practice that

has ever yielded a result which

was sustainable and could be

lived in daily life 24/7/365?

 

Yet I can tell you that I truly

meditate 24 hours a day.

 

I am always meditating.

 

But I never have to sit on

a cushion in order to do so.

 

My life is my meditation

and my guru.

​

Each day life faithfully delivers

me the experiences I need

to go through in order to fully,

completely and radically be me,

loving the self I am while

doing so.

 

I am always looking at why I am

doing whatever I am doing and

consciously doing it with great

tenderness, mindfulness,

love and care.

 

I am my own advocate.

 

And this way of living is

sustainable. Not just some

of the time, but all of the

time.

 

Please do not waste another

instant trying to change the

mirror.

 

And please do not waste another

instant trying to change your-

self.

 

Look for what is hiding behind

your unwillingness to part

with your practices.

 

Either you are good enough

the way you are and loving your-

self is the path of freedom,

or what I share here every day

is a pile of horse shit and you

can go back to doing what you

are doing, tell me to take a hike

off of a very short pier, and

live out what remains of your

precious human life circling

the drain in your own private

hellscape.

 

Please hear me...

 

It is okay for you to be exactly

the way that you are.

 

In fact, I kinda love it.

 

And as for me?

 

I'll keep saying it until the

cows come home...

 

I would rather really and truly live

and die for what my heart knows

is true, even though it flies in the

face of what the world and religion

has brainwashed you into believing

is true, than to continue to live a lie.

 

Because I happen to believe

that underneath all these things

that you keep doing which are

relics and rituals of a time

gone by is that I think you

are allergic to being happy.

 

And above all, you are terrified

of being free and living your life

in that freedom.

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Prayer for the Day

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Support me in my decision

to stop running away from

myself.

 

Amen

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Thought for the Day

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Today I awakened with one

thought streaming through the

mind repeatedly, like a ticker

tape, and it was this...

 

No one, under any circumstances,

is ever special.

​

Nothing increases your value or

worth and nothing can ever

decrease it.

 

Remind yourself of this often

today, for the idea of specialness

creeps into your life in countless

ways each day.

 

All the while, you let it go by

unnoticed and unquestioned.

​

This is how you create the illusion

of separation, by labeling people

according to a hierarchy of worth,

the scale of which was created by

none other that you, I might add.

​

Who died and made you potentate

of the world?

​

I can hear some of you already.

​

"I used to do that, but I don't 

anymore. I don't believe that it

is true."

​

You are deceiving yourself.

 

But today, you will not.

 

Today you will notice how you

reinforce separation through

the belief in specialness.

​

And you do it both ways.

​

Especially good as well as especially

bad.

 

Truth is, we are all equal, worthy

of love and respect, dignity

and autonomy.

 

Give everyone this.

 

Give yourself this.

 

See if you cannot feel the statement's

truthfulness as you look each person

squarely in the eye today with each

and every encounter.

 

Never allow yourself to forget this

as you brush up against life today.

 

Either no one is special or we

all are.

 

And it is this essential equality,

or sameness, which makes us ONE.

 

We are all in the selfsame boat

and we are all trying to do our best,

even though it is unnecessary to do

so, as we walk each other home.

 

This is the world you will witness

and experience today if this

is the world that you wish to see.

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Prayer for the Day

​​

There Is Only God.

 

This is God. That is God.

 

Everyone and everything

is God, and therefore part

of me.

 

Amen

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Thought for the Day

​​

It is your ability to step out of

the loop of time, and everything

that has occurred in time, for

a single instant, which makes

all things possible.

 

Here is the door to freedom

plain and clear.

 

A couple of decades ago, I had

the opportunity to meet a very

famous woman.

 

She was the author of several

books which had been described

as "seminal."

 

Owner of a famous healing center

that attracted very sick individuals

from all over the world who were

willing to part with their entire

life savings, based on the furtive

hope that they would be healed.

​

And enough people actually were

healed each year to establish the

center as a place which we all need

to visit one day.

 

She also had an ashram where people

came to learn the path in detail which

she taught. Here they could follow it,

silently, doing everything she prescribed,

as well as receive the added boon

of learning to read and write Sanskrit.

 

Yet she had made a rather secretive

appointment to come and spend

an entire day with me.

 

And she had flown thousands of

miles (in her private plane) in order

to do so.

 

And why?

 

People came to her in search of

peace, looking for truth.

 

Yet she shared she knew no peace

herself.

 

Oh, she could prop it up and make

it look enticing on the outside to

those who were suffering and looking

for answers.

 

Why, several of her books had been

on the New York Times top 10

reading list for over a year!

​

She was also the founder of one

of the largest and most well known

'green organizations' on the planet,

believing deeply in the path of

good works.

 

Yet on the inside, she spoke of 

feeling like a train wreck.

 

And she had no one in her life with

which she could share all of this,

having invested decades of her life

creating an empire that attracted

thousands and made millions each

year.

 

I explained that she was welcome

to come and spend the day with me.

 

We could chat as I went about my

day and I would be happy to share

with her, but I had no path to teach

her, no specific set of practices that

she could follow. And, heaven forbid,

absolutely no rules!

 

As she followed me around like

a little puppy dog asking me

questions, I turned to her and

looked her squarely in the eye

as I shared the oh-so-inconvenient

truth that all that she had created

was a total farce.

 

In no uncertain terms I shared that

shilling people out of their life savings

by charging exorbitant fees which only

served to make them doubt themselves

and judge themselves as failures was

something I just could not do when

I knew that none of that would ever

bring anyone any closer to the truth

nor give them peace.

 

For the truth is that you need do

nothing and loving yourself the way

that you are is the key to the kingdom.

 

There was no way to create an empire

by stringing people along, offering

them false promises if they followed

her way and her teachings to the letter

of the law, that would actually let her

sleep peacefully at night and feel joy

while doing so.

 

You cannot live the truth yourself,

yet share a lie that sends people down

another dead end, thinking they can

change themselves, by learning and

earning their way to liberation.

 

In the afternoon, she had a break-

through.

 

She got it. And the beatific smile

upon her face shared silently

what could never be spoken in

words.

 

In that instant she had gained

the universe.

 

And it had cost her nothing.

​

But sadly, she knew that to actually

live it would cost her everything

she had built her life upon.

 

There was no way she could

continue promoting all she

taught and shared.

 

Her world would need to change.

 

And you know what happened

next?

 

It left me dumbstruck and still

does to this day whenever I recall

what happened next.

 

She looked me dead in the eye

and told me she had to go

back home right now, this very

instant, back to her old life,

because there was no way

she would ever give up what

she had invested a lifetime in

building, there was no way she

would shut it all down and

turn people away.

​

She had to get back to her life

of stress, fixing, changing and

improving the ego, and teaching

others to do likewise, back to her

life of unhappiness and overwhelm.

​

About a month later, she actually had

a five foot Buddha statue shipped 

to me from India with a thank you

note.

 

I have an Indian friend who has

said to me several times throughout

the course of our relationship with

one another, "Amma, don't you feel

terrible that you wasted so much

time doing all those things that took

decades of your life away from you,

only to find in the end that none of it

was required, none of it contained

the answers that you heart had yearned

for and therefore would not work?"

 

And I always tell her the very same

thing.

 

"All those things are what made me

who I am today and they are what

has made me relatable to others

who are searching for answers to

their misery. I have no regrets. I am

grateful for every step I ever took.

They led me here. They led me to

you did they not?"

 

But it is true.

 

I did walk away from it all. Every

damn bit of it.

 

And happily I would do it again

and again to know what I know

today.

 

I look at the face which stares

back at me in the mirror each day

and I happen to like her. I respect

her. She has so much integrity and

she has complete autonomy and

agency over her life.

 

She doesn't give a shit what

other people think.

 

She follows the call of peace

in her own heart with every breath.

 

Her life, not her words, are her

message. Her life shouts peace

in silence unto a world which

knows it not.

​

This always makes me think

of a line in A Course In Miracles

which says, "never was so much

given for so little."

 

And I will leave you all with this...

 

if you want freedom and

the peace which passes all

understanding, happily I will

show you how to find it from

within.

 

I cannot give it to you.

 

I cannot give you anything.

 

But I can show you that you are

your own answer, and the path

to freedom is found nowhere

other than within the tabernacle

of your own heart.

 

It is your own love for which you

have been searching all along.

 

You are the mosque, the temple,

the sanctuary, the church.

 

Let us stand together, shoulder

to shoulder, for together, we have

the glorious opportunity to usher

in A New Earth.

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***

​

Prayer for the Day

​

Yes. I will be that one.

 

Amen

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Thought for the Day

​​

How about a very simple thought

for today and an easy means

by which it may be seen and

practiced throughout your day?

 

Everything related to time is

impermanent.

 

Both time and eternity cannot

coexist.

 

The most salient feature of the Eternal

is that there is no where that it is not.

​

There is no room in Eternity for time.

 

Therefore, one is real and one has

been made as an attempt to fool you,

make you compliant and by thus,

imprison you.

 

Because of this, the only illusion one

needs to dispel is the belief in

time itself.

 

It takes the belief in time to believe

in the reality of the personal self.

 

For the personal self owes it entire

seeming existence to time.

 

No time, no personal self.

 

If there is no personal self, who is

there who can personalize anything?

 

Time is a massive delusion which has

been perpetrated against all humanity

and it has imprisoned your entire

planet in its web.

 

What happens to all things born of

time if you dispel the illusion of

time itself?

 

Does not everything which has occurred

in time disappear along with it?

 

So here is the exercise for today.

 

With every feeling, every thought,

every deed, every encounter, every

circumstance or life situation, hit

your pause button and ask yourself

the following question:

 

Is this of time or is it of Eternity?

 

If it occurs in time, you need not

concern yourself or dance with it.

You know it is impermanent and

therefore it depends upon the

Matrix for its seeming existence

or reality.

 

That is how the following acronym

for fear came about: false events 

appearing real.

 

If the answer to your question is

that this is temporal, simply bring

your awareness back to your breath

and your heart, and do not hesitate

a single instant to drop it like a hot

potato.

 

Some thoughts of which you might

remind yourself are as follows:

 

I will not swallow the blue pill today.

 

This is born of time. I need not make

mountains out of mole hills over this.

 

I determine how I wish to feel. I will

not allow this to disturb my peace.

 

If it is ruinous to peace, I know it

is time related.

 

I will not bite the hook. I choose to

remain sovereign and free.

 

Never ever let yourself forget that in

the moment where you can no longer

be disturbed by yourself or anyone

else, you are permanently established

in Eternity.

 

For beloved, you are Eternity itself.

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***

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Prayer for the Day

​

I cannot be enslaved by anything

unless I have identified with the

personal self and thereby given

the power of Eternity Itself away.

 

There is no spoon.

 

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

XO0pcWxcROI

 

Amen

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