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What happens when you have a nightmare?  You tell others about it.  You dramatize the story, sharing how awful it felt to experience the images and sensations.  What you are doing is extending the nightmare, lengthening the time you feel bad.  And yet, it was a dream.  By focusing on [...]

Your guides cannot tell you everything.  They are simply that:  guides, not the answer to every challenge.  Challenges arise at times for the lessons you can learn from them.  If you were given every solution, where would be the learning and growth?  Ask for guidance, tune in to guidance, but [...]

What is the place you call home?  What is the place you long to return to?  It is the one where you feel “at home,” peaceful, safe, protected, and loved.  Even if you have never known such a place in this lifetime, you long for it, for the heart knows [...]

What is a hiccup?  A small bump along the way ... a spasm of the diaphragm that you cannot control.  You may laugh when the body causes you to make a funny noise with that hiccup.  Can you do the same when you experience a hiccup in your plans?  You [...]

If you keep your focus on the external world and pay no attention to your internal world, suffering will ensue.  It can be no other way, for in the physical world, what goes up also goes down.  And if things do not go down, then you cling to the ups [...]

You have heard the phrase, “Change your thoughts and change your life.”  Now try, “Change your words and change your awareness.”  Instead of using the word “God,” knowing it is impossible to name The Nameless, put a name on this limitless boundless Source anyway.  Change the word to “Love” or [...]

You want the best outcome?  Dissolve.  Turn from ice to water, from rigid to flowing.  Go from “my way” to “Thy way.”  This is not a position of weakness, but meekness that comes with great insights.  Have you not heard, “Blessed are the meek?”  In your human world power is [...]

How many have felt the sting of words?  At a vulnerable time in your life, others have slung phrases at you that you took as truth.  Why?  Have you not heard that “Just because something is in print it isn’t necessarily true?”  The same holds true for the spoken word.  [...]

Spirit will speak to you in many ways.  Yes, at times the messages you need to hear come in a still, small Voice from within.  At others they come through external gifts.  Just the right person carries the perfect message.  A card reveals the answer you seek.  A sign along [...]

Forged by fire.  This is how you make the strongest of metal.  Does this mean you must suffer?  Only if you believe there is only one reality will you suffer.  You will have your trials and tribulations.  In a world of ups and downs they are inevitable.  The viewpoint you [...]

“But that dream seemed so real.”  Of course it was!  You experienced it.  But who is this you?  At times in your dreams are you not both in the dream and watching it?  And what of this life?  Will it not seem like a dream when you step back to [...]

There is a reason you have standards.  There is something within you that nudges you towards greatness.  Your Source is perfection.  As a human, you will never reach this, for by its very existence yours is a world of opposites, yet the pull towards the light versus the darkness is [...]

When you catch yourself praying beseechingly, almost begging for favors from God, notice this is but one viewpoint.  This is the “bottom-up” view of you as a separate, powerless being in need of help.  It is a valid viewpoint and every bit as real as any other, but it is [...]

“I am here for You.”  Saying this is equivalent to, “Thy will be done.”  Say it and feel the peace.  You don’t have to work so hard.  You don’t have to do it all.  Once you make this declaration, be willing to listen.  Notice how Spirit shows up in your [...]

You cannot always know what comes next.  For most humans, this causes fear, this fear of the unknown.  And then, you come to discover that you are the expression of a Source far greater than this limited human story.  The Source from which you arise is G(o)od.  If you trust [...]

When your loved one is far away, at times they can make a phone call, and you satisfy yourself with that brief contact.  When you are no longer in communication, does that make them any less present in your life?  What if they have no phone at all?  Does that [...]

Your whole life you have called this body “mine.”  You have done the same with “your” mind.  What if you knew what you knew as a newborn babe:  that the body and mind belonged to no one.  They they are simply expressions of pure Being, as are all body-minds?  Why, [...]

You are here for the experiences.  This does not mean only the ones you label pleasant.  Roll around in life.  Discover how it feels to be human.  “So, this is how it feels to be uncomfortable.” If you do not like it, take note.  It does not change your true [...]

You are whole.  You cannot be anything but whole.  You may experience emotions that cause you to feel less than whole, such as when a loved one is no longer physically present, but that is one of many possible viewpoints.  If you knew your loved one lives on, albeit at [...]

Do not compare yourself to any other.  Each one’s path is unique.  This is because Source wishes to experience life in as many ways as possible, and one of those ways is through your experiences.  You cannot let Source down.  You do not have to achieve anything.  Just experience.  En-JOY [...]

At the time of your birth, you were given a name.  At this time, you experienced your first limitation of Mind.  You are an extension of a sea of potential and intelligence so vast that it could not possibly be limited.  You arose from that and have taken on form [...]

You speak of feeling overwhelmed.  This is because you have allowed your thoughts and your to-do list to overtake your true nature.  Go back to when you were a baby.  You had no thoughts.  You merely observed without giving meaning and therefore importance to all things.  What if you were [...]

So subtle.  That is how the still, small Voice can be at times.  Still and small.  Are you listening or do you provide no space for it?  Quite often God is speaking to you in the only way the Source can:  through your thoughts, but you do not hear it, [...]

Why does gossip feel so good?  It is one of ego’s greatest ploys.  Talking in scintillating terms about another takes the attention off of your own faults.  Ego wishes you to think you never do anything gossip-worthy.  Ego wishes you to feel separate from others.  If you were to keep [...]

Are you dissatisfied with your life? Try a new way of being.  Being is the opposite of doing.  When doing, most people act in habitual ways, seemingly on automatic.  In being, there is space.  There is attunement.  There is knowing.  There is room for newness.  It is a fresh approach [...]

Why do you revere celebrities?  You think they live the ideal life.  They receive attention and accolades.  They live lives of comfort and opulence.  They have active social lives and receive much attention.  Many of these are actors.  You do not know if what you see is an act or [...]

“You find your way home through the heart.”  What does this mean?  Your True Nature is Love, which is a state of indivisible connection ... of simply being.  This is why connection is a natural urge with humans, an innate calling to know your true nature.  How do you connect [...]

You often find your way home without looking at a map.  You know your way, for you have reference points.  Turn at the gas station and then go past three streets until you come to the big oak tree.  There you turn left until you come to the white mailbox.  [...]

Drama, drama, drama.  You go to your movie theaters on purpose to experience the excitement of the ups and downs.  You get thoroughly sucked into the drama.  You pay for this, and you enjoy it.  But what of real life?  When the drama gets to be too much, you suffer, [...]