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“I can’t stop crying,” you cry, and you are stuck.  Why is it that others around you are not crying over the same story?  Because they have a different perspective.  It is not their story.  Then, could it be the story that is keeping you stuck in your crying?  What [...]

Imagine a world with no words.  What if you walked up to another and without words you knew what the other was saying and vice-versa.  How would you be communicating?  No, do not use your hands and arms except to embrace.  Use the eyes in conjunction with the heart.  “But [...]

How many times have you felt the urge to jump in and fix or change something or someone, to control a situation?  Do you feel the instant increase in physical and emotional tension as you recreate such a scene?  That feeling is one you would be wise to catch as [...]

Can you imagine a world in which everyone took a short break each day to sit silently, breathe deeply, and go within?  Why, life as you know it would change, for belief systems would come crumbling down.  People all around you would discover a place to find peace, comfort, and [...]

What do you know with certainty?  Whatever came to your mind just now, can you truly know it is true?  Would others know it as true?  Is the sky really blue?  Is it blue always?  Is it possible that your perceptions may be skewed?  Be careful when you believe something [...]

Be cautious with what you allow to be fed into your awareness.  When you watch a movie or your television and when you read a book you are allowing yourself to be drawn into another consensual reality.  True or not, the subconscious mind does not know the difference.  Does not [...]

You are told as a child and even as an adult, “Don’t make waves.”  This comes with an unspoken understanding that you are not to cause trouble and thus not to stand out.  This is understandable, but we ask you to follow your heart and indeed make waves.  Dig deep [...]

To walk a balance beam takes practice.  Lean too far to one side and then you must lean the same bit to the other side.  There is fear that you may fall off, as in learning to ride a bike, but soon you learn how to come back to center.  [...]

It is clinging that causes suffering.  It is that simple.  Reality is what is before you, not in the past, not in the future.  Deal with what is in front of you right now, and we are not speaking of predictions.  Are you breathing right here, right now?  What is [...]

Yours is such a hierarchical society that you easily forget that all is love.  You are all beings of light playing out human stories.  In your human world, it is often necessary to have “rank,” as you would understand it.  There are leaders and followers, and this is fine.  It [...]

“Devastation!” you cry, and with horror you look upon scenes where once something stood and now it is reduced to rubble, pieces, fragments.  Is this a bad thing or is this the cycle of creation?  The ongoing cycle of life is one of creation, sustainment, and destruction.  Change is [...]

When a storm of any kind is coming, you make preparations.  You do all that you humanly can to ensure that people and property are as safe as can be, and after that you have a choice:  Sit and wring your hands until the storm has passed or sit and [...]

When you are disappointed in yourself, bring love in.  When you are angry at yourself, bring love in.  When you think you could have done better … need we go on?  Love yourself to pieces.  Love this piece that may not seem perfect to you, and love that piece that [...]

Who are you when you are with friends and family?  And who are you when you are alone?  Are you different or the same what-you-see-is-what-you-get being?  If you put on a happy face always, when inside you are feeling quite the opposite, examine that.  Your feelings and behaviors are all [...]

“Clinging” is an interesting word.  It comes laden with the emotion of its twin feeling:  fear. You would not cling to a thing if you did not fear losing something.  Think of a person lost at sea clinging to a raft.  They fear losing their life.  That is ultimately the [...]

You see cans on a shelf in a grocery store and immediately you know what is inside.  You pick it up and look even closer at the fine print and now you have an even better idea.  What if when you opened the can instead of dog food it contained [...]

What if everything you thought to be true turned out to be wrong? What if it all was a dream? “Oh, not talk of illusion again!” ego cries at reading these words. No, we will not do that to you. We know how much you value your world, how much [...]

The bond between child and mother is one of the strongest.  You know each other at a cellular level.  Love or hate each other for your human ways, it matters not—you are connected by that cord that at one time fed you and once cut continues to connect you energetically. [...]

Without your story you would have no anger.  Why is that?  For stories tell you what to think.  They come with their inherent shoulds and musts.  When others do not meet your should and musts, you feel anger (or disappointment, or, however you may fill in the blank).  Then why [...]

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 [...]