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Awareness is the key to peace.  We can repeat this daily, but only you can practice awareness of your thoughts until you put into practice the active choices that result from paying attention.  Are you feeling frustrated, judgmental, fearful and the like?  These arise quite normally in the human drama.  [...]

Surfers choose the waves they ride.  They don’t hop on their board for the little ones.  They go for the thriller, the big one that they know will bring them the most joy.  Thoughts are like waves.  They arise all around you from the Sea of Love.  Notice your thoughts.  [...]

Do you not awake some mornings more groggy than others?  Do you not have to work a bit hard to shake off the cobwebs?  Yet, other mornings you open your eyes and are ready to take on the world with vigor and alertness.  This is analogous to the spiritual path.  [...]

An elevator takes you to the higher floors with no more effort than pushing a button.  In your heart you know it is better for your heart if you take the stairs, but so often the human chooses the easy route, if only for a short flight or two.  The [...]

See the world through others’ eyes.  If you were to do this with each one you encounter, to pause for a moment and become one with them, each of your interactions would change drastically.  You are so accustomed to having a fixed point of view that many become stuck.  You [...]

Pick and choose.  You stand before a produce stand and go through the apples.  Some have blemishes.  A few are perfect on the surface.  Which do you choose?  It is obvious.  This is the way you are built:  to seek the one without damage.  Seeking perfection is part of your [...]

Life is like a dance.  You choose many partners at various levels and you move about the floor.  At times you move in perfect step, at others you step on each others’ toes.  Why dance at all?  For the connection, the enjoyment, and yes, at times for the challenge.  You [...]

Ghosts are those in the spirit world who wish to hang around the earthly plane a while.  Some make noises.  Some move objects.  It is the fear of the unknown that causes humans to fear ghosts.  What if you knew that ghost was grandpa?  If not your grandpa, then someone [...]

When you put a fishing line in the water, you do so with the anticipation that there are fish there.  Why else would you choose that location to go fishing?  When you ask a question of higher consciousness, it is the same thing.  Like fishing, sometimes you will receive an [...]

When you don’t know what to say, put yourself in the other’s situation.  What would you want someone to say to you?  Even if you have never been in such a situation, the soul knows how it feels to be loved and appreciated.  What would you say?  Flexibility of awareness [...]

What would you do if you had no thing called time to limit you … if your opportunity to gain what you wished was not hemmed in by a clock or a calendar?  Would you keep plugging away, moving forward inexorably toward your heart’s desire?  Well, dear friend, that is [...]

When you create a work of art, do you focus on the beauty or the flaws?  When you do work for another, a project, a challenging communication, do you focus on the treasures that result or on what to you seemed incorrect?  What does this tell you?  You choose how [...]

Are you willing to try new ways of doing things?  Even if the current way is working well, there is always a new wrinkle, a new development, something that may surprise you with its creativity and resultant improvements if you are willing to recognize that you have not changed things [...]

Whirr, whirr, whirr ... you know the sound of an engine revving up.  It may cough and sputter at first.  This is you at times when you are tired or cranky.  This is you at times when you are feeling disconnected.  You need to rev things up a bit.  How [...]

Do you crave more and more peace, love, and joy as you discover it within?  This is only natural.  You are like a chick emerging from its shell.  At first a little light creeps in through the tiny hole, but as you chip away at more of the barrier between [...]

You have come into physical form for a purpose:  to express divinity in your unique way.  What is your passion?  When you cannot help but express yourself through that which brings you joy, you have found your purpose.  It need not be anything “great” in terms of human endeavors.  The [...]

Training wheels are necessary for some who are a bit off balance, for those who have never ridden a two-wheeled bicycle.  Others are quite comfortable taking risks and even falling a time or two without the need of fail-safes.  Connecting with spirit can be that way.  You can use systems [...]

You had a game as a child … little monkeys in a barrel which you emptied onto the floor.  One by one you could pick up another monkey by using only the hooked hand until you had an entire chain of monkeys.  Such a simple game.  So much fun in [...]

What happens when you have an idea?  It builds up within you at first like a bit of pressure that you notice, and then the pressure builds.  Like a gas that must escape, finally it bursts forth in a geyser of creativity and something new is born.  This is the [...]

Are you bored or restless?  Shake things up, starting with your arms and legs.  Movement gets the life force moving.  You do not have to go and run around the block.  Some simple stretches are helpful.  Add more movement as you are able.  While you’re at it, ask the Universe [...]

On this holy day, celebrate rebirth.  It matters not what story you subscribe to, what beliefs you hold, this moment now is the moment you can rise and assume the role you have always dreamed of.  It is as simple as shedding old beliefs that have been holding you back [...]

You’ve seen the walking meditators.  They walk so slowly.  Step.  Step.  Step.  So very slowly.  “How boring!  How slow!  There are places to go!  Things to do!” you think.  Not today!  Nowhere to go.  Nothing to do.  Isn’t that interesting!  What if you step outside your door and take a [...]

It is easy to get caught in the game of life.  When you play in the waves you get tossed around.  At first it is fun to tumble and roll, but after rubbing against the sand a time or two, abrasion sets in.  Life does not have to be rough [...]

Neediness.  It comes from a sense of not having or being enough within yourself, and nothing could be farther from the truth.  We are speaking of emotional neediness today, the feeling of angst, fear, unrest, and jitteriness that simmers under the surface, causing you to be anything but peaceful, yet [...]

When things don’t go as you wish, can you trust there is a reason?  Can you take a breath, release your disappointment and frustration, and perhaps engender a bit of wonder?  “I wonder what greater purpose is at hand here?”  Know that if your frustration involves another, the growth and [...]

How often do you get stuck in a fixed position?  We are not speaking of being sequestered in your homes.  We are speaking of thought-forms that you are so conditioned to thinking that it does not even occur to you to think otherwise.  “I could not imagine what it must [...]

Gifts come in many guises.  What may seem a challenge turns out to be a blessing.  Be not so quick to judge.  Let it unfold and watch ... observe with a wait and see outlook filled with trust in a greater plan.  Is your Universe still not here?  It has [...]

As above so below.  Your universe is on a grand cyclical trajectory, expanding as it goes.  Why do you speak of expanding your knowledge?  For that is what happens as you go through life.  That is what happens to all extensions of Consciousness as they travel the cyclical journeys of [...]

Fascination. Can you feel the sense of wonder in this word? What if you watched events unfold with fascination instead of fear? How your experience would change. Fascination does not judge. It observes. Peace is present in awareness when one observes instead of judges. You could use a little peace [...]

If you’re feeling down and lonely, smile.  Why do songwriters write about it, singers sing about it?  For a smile can change your outlook in an instant.  The body is designed so that a smile instantly creates a flush of contentment.  It does, indeed take more muscles to smile than [...]