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Fortitude … it means strength and will and determination.  When does a person have fortitude?  When they know they have “back-up.”  If you thought you were completely alone, you might feel a bit of trepidation, but fortitude gives you confidence.  Merely feeling the energy of the word, you may sit [...]

When you hear one expressing an opinion that differs from your own, try not to think in terms of better or worse.  That is growth happening.  That is Life unfolding and expressing itself.  Do you look at the stalk of a flower and berate or belittle it because it has [...]

If you find yourself making excuses when faced with what you perceive is an important task, then you are not present. Excuses and apologies take you into the past when you might not have met expectations. Expectations take you into the future. When you feel yourself making excuses and justifications [...]

Duel all you want with each other.  It will get you nowhere.  Sooner or later one may win, the other may lose, and you know how both of those endings feel.  What if instead, you agree to disagree?  What if you see that you are not meant to think alike, [...]

When you look at another, you see what you think you see, what you believe you see—a story you have created based on what you have experienced or been told.  That other looks upon you the same way.  And when your stories interact, you dance and play your learned parts [...]

Do you savor life or rush through it?  Your eating habits may prove quite illuminating in this regard.  Do you savor every bite, noticing the flavors and the textures, feeling gratitude for the source, the provider, and the preparer of it, or do you rush through it without being aware [...]

Words are an impediment to knowing.  When you feel a presence in your meditations or when sitting or walking in the silence, tune in to what you know.  You are in the habit of putting knowingness into words, and as often happens in the process of translating languages, important nuances [...]

Love your anxieties.  Love them to pieces.  Literally.  As you become aware of that anxious, prickly feeling in the body—the one that comes with a voice that says, “I must, I have to , what if I do, what if I don’t …” –grasp it gently like an object, that [...]

You live in a world gone crazy. It is insanity to fight each other, to take sides and defend them at the cost of hatred and lives. The real insanity began when you believed the illusion of separation. It is not life that is illusory. It is your perception that [...]

When you assume a role in a drama, you play it to the utmost of your ability, so well that at times you go to sleep still playing your role.  Some actors wake up in the morning believing they are that role.  They continue play-acting so well, so absorbed are [...]

Diversionary tactics.  This is what ego uses to keep you from discovering your magnificence.  If you truly remembered who and what you are, you would claim your royal lineage and ego would be banished to servant status.  To keep himself from this outcome, he takes your mind and fills it [...]

You put an umbrella over your head when it rains.  This allows you to stay dry.  But what happens when you find yourself without it?  You panic.  "Oh, no!  I might get wet!"  This is a wonderful opportunity--this moment of thinking you lack what you need.  Now, instead of taking [...]

Look around you.  What do you see?  Exactly and only what your belief system wants you to see.  The brain is like that.  It turns your life into a sort of jigsaw puzzle and it will seek out only the pieces that fit just right.  You expect certain “kinds” of [...]

You are so accustomed to feeling human, with all that entails, that you forget how easily you can shift  identity.  You are far more than human.  You are a beautiful light—a soul—and beyond that you are the Light.  There are certain attributes associated with the light.  To identify more readily [...]

You go to a gym to exercise your muscles, or perhaps you go for a walk.  However you exercise your body, you do so because if you do not, the muscles dwindle from lack of use.  You have heard the heart is a muscle.  Shift your awareness now to the [...]

You can relax now. Spirit has things well in hand. Worry and fear cause constriction. How can inspiration flow when you are tied up in knots? “But how can I relax?” you think, and that is the problem. Cease thinking. Be present and breathe. Focus on one word: Trust. When [...]

When your heart is not in it, as you are wont to say, there is a reason. Listen to the heart. Follow the heart. There is a reason things do not turn out as well as you would prefer if you do a thing when your heart’s not in it. [...]

A happy reunion--that is what you can expect when you cross the veil.  Those who have passed before you will greet you and show you that they have been with you all along.  They will congratulate you for completing your curriculum, if in fact you have done so.  They will [...]

Regret, regret, regret.  Do you feel how the mere mention of the word brings you down?  Instantly the brain finds a match and creates the feeling.  It is quite easy for you to do.  Are you a slave to the brain?  Become aware.  Awaken to your power.  Regret lies in [...]

Just show up.  That is all you ever need do.  In fact, you cannot help but show up, but once you become aware of this very basic truth, I AM, the desire awakens to do something with this awareness.  The paradox is that you need not do anything.  By being [...]

When you have a history with a person, you get in a dangerous rut.  Not dangerous in terms of your safety, but in terms of your soul’s growth.  The his-story and her-story between you keeps you focused on what came before and what you think will come in the future [...]

By not speaking of an issue that you or another are going through, are you sweeping it under a rug or denying its presence like a big pink elephant that stands in the space between you?  Possibly, if you are approaching the situation from your human awareness.  But if you [...]

Does a star in the sky compete with another?  Does it judge another, compare its size and brightness?  Then why do humans?  For you forget who you are.  In that forgetfulness, you become desperate for love and good feelings, when nothing could feel better than the realization of the Truth [...]

When you receive new teaching and recognize it as truth, do not eschew the old.  It served a purpose for you.  It got you to the point where you were ready to receive the new teaching.  Do not feel that all around you need to be where you are in [...]

What if none of you had a name? It would be quite cumbersome for those who rely upon worded descriptions. Why, then you would have to say something like, “Please contact the woman with the brown hair who always smiles and speaks with a French accent, and, and, and …” [...]

You are enough.  That is all.  You need no window dressing, no improvements.  Stop comparing yourself to others, please, and feel your heart.  “Not good enough,” you say?  Look again.  Do not look into the past.  In this moment now, right now, feel the love that you are.  Sit with [...]

Give yourself a break.  Is there a habit you are in that truly makes no sense?  A demand you are making upon yourself?  Will it harm another if you really do not do it every day, every time, every whatever?  Will it harm yourself?  Does doing it feed some self-imposed [...]

We caution you to not take ownership of illnesses.  Your language does you a disservice.  You speak of “my” this and that, and in doing so you give it power and allow it to strengthen.  What if you see it as a temporary visitor in the house?  The body is [...]