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“Dead,” “Gone,” “Lost,” Words that bring despair, And to you they feel so truthful For you no longer see them there. Can you feel them in your heart? The ones you cannot see? Can this be enough for now-- To know that now they’re free? Free from pain and suffering, [...]

Suspicion.  It is a by-product of the reptilian brain that all of you have.  This first and oldest part of the brain that arose in your cavemen was designed for safety and survival.  All newcomers were suspect until proven not a threat to the group.  You still have these suspicions [...]

“But I have an image to protect!” you say.  “It goes with being a lawyer, or a doctor, or a teacher, or a mother, or a …”  You get the picture.  What picture do you see when you look in the mirror?  That is an image that conjures up great [...]

When your belief system shifts and you come to know of the greater reality and all of the miracles that go along with that awareness, you want to share it with the world.  Some very close to you may not listen and may even put up a wall.  Will you [...]

Be not in a hurry for your spiritual awakening.  Are you not awake right now?  It can happen in an instant or be a gradual dawning.  Yes.  There are varying degrees of sleepiness and alert awareness.  You will at times find yourself more in remembrance than at other times.  Remembrance [...]

Can you laugh at yourself?  Try it, why don’t you especially when others are doing the same.  There are various reasons why the back goes up and the jaw becomes set when others laugh and you do not, but the basic reason is “should,” which always goes back to belief [...]

Self-centered. Is it wrong? There is no right or wrong; there are only learning opportunities. What if you were to seek balance between self-centered and selfless service? What if you were to put your “self” in others’ shoes as often as you walk in your own? This takes focused effort, [...]

You make assumptions about what another is thinking, and if they are less than positive, then you allow those thoughts to “make” you miserable.  And what if that other did not have those thoughts at all?  Can you ever be certain of what goes on in another’s mind?  They may [...]

You must have your opposites.  It is why opposites attract, for they offer you the greatest opportunities.  For what?  To bring in Love, the third and balancing, neutralizing aspect of the holy trinity.  In a world of duality, you tend to think in polarities:  good and bad, love and hate, [...]

It is you who may rest in peace when a loved one passes.  After your long vigil or your sudden shock you can rest in the knowing that they do not suffer and are free of all earthly bonds, save the bond of love, which will always unite you.  The [...]

You see someone “wasting away” as you call it, so physically depleted that they are unable to do anything, and you wonder why they “hang on,” why they are still here.  Is this your measure of living:  being able to “do”?  Yes, of course you have human standards, and in [...]

Shame can be debilitating.  A thing happens to you or you do something that in your human mind is cause for embarrassment and judgment by others.  You or others label yourself “less than” or unworthy.  And from that moment on you heap shame upon yourself.  Many of you can physically [...]

Monkeys imitate each other as if looking in a mirror.  Do humans not do the same?  It is an extension of trial and error, the way humans learn.  You watch what works for one, and if it results in something you think you need, then you imitate it.  But is [...]

Peter Piper picked a peck of what?  Pickled peppers.  You remember this phrase you learned how many decades ago as if it were this morning.  Why is that?  For the arrangement of the letters.  "Alliteration" you call it.  And so, we give you a bit of alliteration to play with [...]

You have a button you push and it replies, “That was easy.”  The human is always looking for the easy way out, but life on earth in human form is not like that.  Were it easy, every soul would be clamoring to come here.  Of course, we jest.  Souls make [...]

You are the director of your life.  Each choice you make determines the next act.  But did you know you have a production Team?  Like any good stage show, they remain off to the side, hidden behind the curtain, but the show could not go on without them.  Do you [...]

A vessel can get off course from time to time, tossed about by waves and wind.  This is why it is valuable to have a star to guide you and a course laid out.  Minutely detailed tracks on a vast ocean are not necessary.  When your star cannot be seen, [...]

Is it your imagination that your loved one visited you in a dream or at your bedside?  What is imagination, but a type of dream state where consciousness creates experiences.  All you see before you in the physical world, in a sense, is your imagination, created by Consciousness.  All that [...]

Why do you care what others think?  Because you are human.  Humans judge and humans form opinions, and humans compare, for the human lives in a world or relativity.  But thanks to that dance of opposites, through trial and error you slowly awaken.  Bit by bit you remember, “Ah, yes, [...]

When a pattern repeats itself, you call this a fractal.  You see it in your lightning bolts, and your cabbages, and your river deltas.  The existence of fractals is a representation of the principle “as above, so below.”  In this manner, you are a fractal—an extension … a perfect representation [...]

So many “shoulds” and “musts” and “have tos.”  Relax and be.  No needs, no worries.  “But I must eat!  I must put shelter over my head and my family.”  Yes, you are correct.  And beyond that come the shoulds and needs and have tos, do they not?  This is excess, [...]

Yours is the story of all other human beings:  You are born into a body and you pass from that body. In between those two book ends you experience pain and laughter, sorrows and joys.  There is not a one of you who is not fully human and at the [...]