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They say it is better to give than to receive.  Is it?  Both are gifts when the giver and receiver are aware of the emotions which arise in so doing.  May you see the gift in every moment.  May you give and receive love freely.  May you come to know [...]

You do not need to say yes to everything.  This may seem contrary to some teachings.  Saying yes when saying so will require you to stretch and grow is a most excellent choice.  Saying no when saying so will honor the self is also a most excellent choice.  It comes [...]

A journey begins with a single step.  You may have heard this, and it is true.  What are you waiting for?  Take that step and test the waters.  Does fear arise?  What have you or others been telling you?  Does your heart know better?  Why this pull to step forward [...]

One with whom you interact regularly may never change.  Can you live with that?  What does this mean for you?  You face a choice.  You can become frustrated, angry, flee, fight, or face one other option:  change the way you perceive this.  Unless you are endangered, this discomfort in you [...]

How often do you notice the signs around you from the greater reality?  They are not “stand-alone.”  They come with timing … coincident with thoughts of a loved one.  What does coincidence mean?  The coming together of timing:  co-incidents.  You have given this word the connotation that somehow this co-incident [...]

Grief comes in waves, and often when you least expect it.  Allow it to wash over you.  Perhaps it will even knock you off your feet.  And after it passes, you will pick yourself up and brush off the sand, soothing those spots where you may have been rubbed a [...]

The difference between duality consciousness and unity consciousness is profound.  In the former, you appear to be separate from all others, and clashing is nigh unto inevitable.  In the latter, you experience total connection. You do not think about the connection, for then you are still in duality.  Nay, you [...]

Weather comes and goes in patterns.  You predict certain changes based upon these changes, but there is always a bit of randomness built in.  Predictability and randomness.  The sun will shine again, but when?  This keeps life interesting, does it not?  It keeps you on your toes:  Do I take [...]

Boundaries.  They are not always solid like a fence around a yard.  Yet, when you are told to have boundaries as a person, there is the tendency in the human to erect an energetic wall around the self.  One can have boundaries without walling off one’s love for others.  Let [...]

You may think you conquered a challenge long ago, and then it rears its ugly head.  Same old same old.  What is going on here?  Could it be that you have changed, and it is time to change the way you handle things?  You are a work in progress.  You [...]

Ease into life.  Are you efforting?  It need not be so hard.  There is a grand difference between trying and flowing.  Flowing does not mean you do not take action.  Yes, there is “work” to do to experience life, but when you allow your team of unseen helpers to assist [...]

You place your hands on a keyboard, be it a piano or a computer, and you pause.  In that moment there is a buzz.  This is potential!  You can, in this moment, create anything!  You can play or type what has been created before, or produce something completely novel.  You [...]

Do not give so much credence to conspiracies.  Do you know what they are?  Collective fear.  Entire mythologies have been created around such collected thoughts to the point where these take on a power of their own.  Humans love a good story.  There is nothing that makes for better drama [...]

Anticipation.  You know the feeling ... you are on the cusp of opening a present with a gift inside, an email with a message, or an envelope with a check ... you do not know what will be inside.  It is a delicious feeling if you know the contents are [...]

So, someone does not “like” you.  That is their choice, and it may not have anything at all to do with you.  Or it may have everything to do with you, if, in feeling upset in any way by their thoughts, you are able to up-level your own thoughts.  Can [...]

You cannot control others.  Trying to do so brings frustration and resentment.  Can you allow yourself, instead, to be controlled from within ... from the heart?  Do not close yourself off to others or to Spirit by denying what is happening around you.  Accept and change course as guided.  Life [...]

Set a place at the table for those who’ve passed. ... A most wonderful way to make the memories last.Know that to do so is not just folly. ‘Tis not wishful thinking or meant to cause melancholy. The truth is that they live on still. So you set a place at your table untilYou [...]

You only think there are two worlds. You speak of walking in two worlds at once.  How can this be?  There is One Mind thinking up endless worlds, projecting them into awareness and playing, experimenting, expanding.  Bang!  A new world!  A new world orders itself around the thoughts that engendered [...]

Distractions abound.  Things are constantly arising that pull you in this direction and that.  And that is the challenge.  The external world with all of its bright lights and distractions can keep you mesmerized.  You must be strong enough to overcome the magnetic attraction ... to break the bonds and [...]

Safety.  This is what you crave.  “But I have a roof over my head.”  Yes, but what about inside?  You know you cannot protect yourself from death.  You have seen how it comes, and in the human distortions of death, thinking that it means the end of you, you create [...]

The world has not gone crazy.  Many people are simply out of alignment with the world.  Look around you.  What do you see, literally, with your eyes in this moment?  Where do your eyes fall?  Are you attracted to the beauty of nature or to the faults you perceive to [...]

Remain on task.  And what is that, you ask?  To be an emissary, an ambassador.  What is this role?  One who carries a great message and represents another place or state.  Your true Home, your true nature, your “country of origin” is not this earthly realm. You are all beings of [...]

Waves break upon the shore.  One after another they come, and you sit, mesmerized by the sound, the feel, and the sight.  Why the attraction?  It speaks to the soul.  It says, “This is life!  This is you:  arising from one body of stillness to express yourself, then settling back [...]

Life is not something you “get through.”  Do you have a tendency, when given a task, to focus on the end goal, perhaps to rush through the steps to get to the end without as much attention given to the means?  Perhaps you are doing that with this life you [...]

When you pick up a remote control and change the channel, you trust that this will happen.  You instantly see the results on the screen before you.  In the case of connecting across the veil, it is also done wirelessly.  The remote control is your attention.  Where attention goes, consciousness [...]

The lessons are ongoing.  Never stop learning.  Never stop growing.  Lessons need not be painful, but at times life does get bumpy.  How else do you appreciate the smooth roads?  What goes up does come down.  It is an ongoing cycle.  When you can accept the bumps along with the [...]

How often do you follow the nudges from within?  Learning to trust and act is part of the process.  How many times do you regret not listening?  Do you see how failure leads to change?  Failure to listen, trust, and act leads you to get to know what these subtle [...]

Yes, we teach in analogies.  The teaching you love the most is that which assures you that those who have passed are as close as your breath.  This is Truth.  This, however, is the icing and the cake.  What is more fundamental, the meat and potatoes, is the reason why [...]

So you have practiced a certain process for years.  So you have baked a cake the same way forever.  Is that a reason to do it the same way now?  Do you realize you came here to create, to evolve, to flow?  Where is the flow when you do it [...]