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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 [...]

If you insist on pointing out the bad and the good, of immersing yourself in the duality instead of transcending it, then at the very least you might take an observer’s neutral viewpoint long enough to notice the so-called good that comes from the so-called bad.  “Everything happens for a [...]

Picture a wheel.  Which part of it spins the fastest in relation to the center?  The circumference, of course.  When do you suffer?  When you are not centered.  Are you suffering now?  You have allowed your focus to move outward, outward, outward, forgetting that there is a still point within [...]

What does it mean to fixate on something?  To focus on it to the exclusion of all else.  When you fixate upon a thing you lose sight of the bigger picture.  Thoughts filled with fear or anger or judgment or any of the lesser human traits are then attracted like [...]

Just when you think you have regained your balance, something happens and you get knocked off balance again.  What happened?  You ran into a cross-current.  Until you are so strongly flowing in the main current of Love-Life-Joy, it is quite easy to veer off as you encounter strong eddies.  Do [...]

Worry is wasted effort.  You could spend the energy your mind burns in fearing the future and fretting about the past in far more productive ways.  How, you ask?  Take the focus off the chatter and move it down into the heart center.  Now focus on the breath as it [...]

You are given infinite opportunities to BE that which you are:  Love.  We are not speaking of unconditional love, nor are we speaking of conditional love.  Both of those are two poles of one spectrum within your world of opposites.  Rise above the duality and there you find myriad transcendent [...]

Blink, why don’t you, and in that instant of blinking, see the one before you and the sights around you as if nothing had been before you before you blinked.  What if, while blinking, you landed in a foreign land?  You open your eyes from the blink and all you [...]

Can you stop and take a breath with deliberate intent from time to time?  If the intent when you pause to breathe deeply is to reconnect in awareness with Awareness, you will no longer need a tranquilizer, a cigarette, a sugary sweet, or a drink of alcohol.  The latter are [...]

You are so very loved.  Why do these words feel so very delicious?  For they are like chocolate—a food you call a treat … something you eat only on occasion, not for an entire meal.  What if you were to feast on love at all times?  Unlike doing so with [...]

Fluid.  The word implies flow.  It implies seeping into every space where normally one would not go, the nooks and crannies one would miss if one held fast to a single point of view.  Can you release that one-pointed mind-set and vision and be fluid, instead?  You may discover new [...]