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A fragrant stew cooks on the stove. Its aroma wafts throughout the house so that all know what meal awaits. It is a reliable signal. Do you know that you send out signals as well? No, we are not talking about scent or sight, but vibration. All is energy. Those [...]

You wear a cast on a limb to fix a broken bone. But does the cast do the work? Of course not. The cast is merely a tool that allows healing to take place. Your body is a similar tool. It allows Spirit to work. The body can take no [...]

How will you be remembered? We speak not of what loved ones will say when you depart from this world to enter the next. How will you be remembered when you depart from one room to the next? From one house to the next? From the presence of one person [...]

Zero tolerance—a term you use for when there are no exceptions to your rules. “There will be none of that, or you will have to pay the consequences.” A zero sum game. All or nothing. One or the other. Is this not a bit rigid? Is not life about experience [...]

“There is something more. There is something more. There is more, more, more …” A voice inside you repeats itself in an ongoing litany, pushing you, making you a seeker. But what is it you seek? Is it more riches, more friends, more accumulation of things? If so, then you [...]

Be indiscriminate in your loving. Love everyone. Do not stop and look first. When you do that, your judgments get in the way. “Oh, that one has long hair and a beard. He is not one I would associate with.” “Oh, that one is overweight or too thin.” “Oh, that [...]

A trumpet sounds, announcing a momentous event. "Pay attention," its clarion call says. It is the birth of a king. All kneel down in reverence.A voice speaks inside your head. It is not nearly so loud as the blare of a trumpet. In fact, it whispers. "I am here. Will [...]

Ego so often gets in your way. He stands firmly in place, taking a hard stance, and says, “I am in charge here. Trust me. I will tell you what to do.” Quite a bossy fellow, Ego is. And what exactly is it that Ego gets in the way of? [...]

Music soothes the savage beast, but also enrages it. Each of your musical notes corresponds to an energy center within the body. Picture your subtle body like a keyboard with the energy centers as the vibrating strings attached to each key. As a note is played in the physical world, [...]

After the storm comes the calm. This is a law of nature … something upon which you can rely when the winds swirl about you. You know that you need only bide your time, and peace will once again prevail. The same is true of this situation in which you [...]

Stigmata: points on the palms that bleed spontaneously … symbols of the pain Christ suffered on the cross. You suffer as well for the ignorance of others to the truth of who they are: children of God, created in the image of the Creator. You bleed as well, but your [...]

One of your greatest challenges is to sit back and observe whilst one you love suffers through their own challenges. Why do you wish to help? Because you have suffered yourself and you wish to save them from pain. You have learned. You have gained wisdom and can see a [...]

A Happy Meal – a special meal you purchase for your children to make them smile. It contains a toy—a tiny treasure to bring joy. Why are your adult meals often so joyless? You eat without mindfulness. Do you pay attention as your nourishment enters the body? Do you feel [...]

Fortitude. Strength. Determination. All of these signify a lack of weakness and the ability to stand firm in a storm. To many, strength is preferable over its opposite, but are there not benefits to both? Does not the twig break when it bends not? In this world of duality, you [...]

Suicide. Not an uplifting thought. Some call it “a permanent solution to a temporary problem.” We call it “death by ego.” It is only when the self believes itself to be separate and alone and the source of its own power that it gives itself permission to transition early and [...]

Barbaric were the pirates of long ago, looting and pillaging … creating havoc. And in this day and age you still have piracy. From the dark ages to your era of high technology, much has changed, yet still there remains darkness. Darkness is absolute. There is not a lot of [...]

What is a hallucination? It is when one perceives something with the physical eyes that others say is not real. What is real? What the mass consciousness has agreed upon. And so, when one person has an apparition that others have not, then the one is suffering from delusion. You [...]

Through the din of ordinary noise, a voice is heard: “Come to me.” Who is it that calls you, but your very Self. You have been running away from that Voice for far too long. What are you afraid of? Meeting the true You? If you are afraid, then your [...]

Broken hearts mend slowly.It takes time to heal a wound.When what was had you now have lost,By grief you are consumed.See not the shell that's left behindWhen one you lost has now departed.Focus on the love you sharedThe high vibrations that you started.This energy stays with youEven though the person [...]

Pickpockets—thieves who reach into your purse or pockets and steal your belongings without you even realizing it. So clever are they. So quick and nimble that you do not even know that you have been robbed until you discover that your valuables are gone. Do you not realize that you [...]

So many of you enter a church one day a week to commune with God and with each other. The true church lies inside--a place, a space, a feeling where you can rest and commune with that part of you that is much greater than all of the parts put [...]

You need not sing your praises to another, merely model your best behavior and let others decide what to think. Others are far more concerned with what you think of them. All need to boast and worry of what others think stems from insecurity. Look at the root of this [...]

Serendipity. Coincidence. Chance encounters. To you they are magical; to us, mundane. When you watch a movie, can you not oft see the outcome coming? You, as the observer, see the actions of one character. The scene shifts and you see those of another. “Ah, yes, their paths are going [...]

Music consists of tones of varying frequencies sounded one after another. A song results from the differences of one in relation to the other, be it in pitch or tempo. If there were no difference in either, you would have no song, simply one sound. Sound is good, but not [...]