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Just when you think you are doing fine and all is well, something comes along to knock you off balance.  Trust us that all is in perfect order always, but the peace you felt is forgotten for a moment.  But wait … it is still there.  This is just a [...]

Why do you feel the need to justify things, to explain yourself?  Could it be, yet again, so that people approve of you?  Could it be so that others do not judge you?  What if you do not explain your actions or words?  What was your motive in doing or [...]

What does it mean to be a team player?  It means you care more about the whole than any one individual, most especially the self.  Does this mean you must be self-sacrificing to be a team player?  There are no musts or shoulds, merely the question, “what will best serve [...]

Salmon swim upstream, going against the flow, which appears to be the opposite of what we are always advising.  Yes, in most cases, it behooves you to flow and allow others to flow.  But what are the salmon doing?  They are following their deepest inner guidance.  They are exerting effort, [...]

When a beloved pet crosses the veil, you grieve as much as for human members of the family.  And why would you not?  They are souls with whom you have a heart connection.  More than most humans, pets are experts at being present and showing unconditional love.  They do not [...]

When you feel frustrated with another, when you feel anger and judgement, you are causing toxic blockages within yourself.  Why do these blockages occur?  For you are not allowing Life to flow as it will.  You are saying, in effect, “What I am witnessing is not right.  It should not [...]

So you think you have no time to meditate.  We know your human lives are quite full, which is exactly why just a few minutes of emptying the mind and focusing on the heart is in order.  Do you often feel overwhelmed?  Give yourself a time-out … five minutes to [...]

Why are you so hard on yourself?  Who told you that you had to work so hard?  “Life is hard,” you say.  Go inside, my friend.  Now.  Just stop for a moment, breathe slowly, and sink within.  Keep going.  Keep going.  You are almost there.  Sink a bit deeper.  Now.  [...]

When you make yourself available as spirit’s servant, miracles happen.  Do not offer yourself only for this reason, if doing so would be self-serving.  When you wish only to serve the greater good, then all benefit, including the self.  A miracle is when the two worlds—the human and spirit worlds—come [...]

What is a conscious life?  What is a life well lived?  They are one and the same.  When you live consciously, you do not simply respond to people and events automatically from human programming.  You pause just long enough to remember you are spirit—a soul, intimately connected to all that [...]

“Do no harm.”  May this be your mantra.  “Oh, but I would never hurt another!” you say, but we speak not just of hurting another.  Your anger towards and judgment of another does harm, indeed, but your self-criticism does so as well.  Your thoughts of shame and guilt do far [...]

You behold a wax figure in a museum and you say, “That looks just like them!  It is amazing!”  That one figure—a moment captured in time—holds memories and history and meaning.  Before your eye flashes a lifetime of what that figure meant to you in your lifetime.  It is not [...]

“Who won?” you ask after a debate.  Who did the better job?  And then you judge.  You do so by comparing many attributes:  language, restraint, demeanor, appearance, wisdom, and all of these add up to one opinion.  But do you know that you could skip all of those details and [...]

Note from Suzanne: Excellent advice on the day of a major political debate. Thank you, Sanaya. Once a human sees the dark side of a person it is quite easy to continue seeing those aspects. You form an opinion, and the brain is programmed such that it will seek matching [...]

When you shift your awareness from the level of separation, which you would understand as the human world, to the level of unity, which you would understand as the spirit world, it is a change of perspective.  You can still feel the physical body, but the two worlds are merged [...]

When you love to do something and you do it well, could this be your purpose in life? There is a third aspect to determining one’s path, and that is motive. Does doing this thing that brings you pleasure serve only the self, or in some way does it help [...]

In the past we have advised you to look upon another and see the Source within them.   As you do so, we have advised you to mentally say with delight, “There You are!” as you behold the Beloved, no matter how far the human upon whom you gaze feels to [...]

Why do you allow yourself to be pushed into something you have no desire to do?  Could it be the need to please?  The need to be loved?  You are so very loved in every moment.  If you felt that from the inside out, truly felt it, could you say [...]

You would be quite amazed at what you can accomplish when you can get the ego out of the way.  We are speaking now not just of the prideful aspects of you, but any qualities that are part and parcel of the human vs. the eternal aspects of you, the [...]

“The promise of another day” is a phrase you know.  Why does a new day hold promise?  For each time the sun comes up you view it as a cycle, and the new day represents a fresh start.  If things have not been going as you would like, the rising [...]

When you become aware quite suddenly of a change in your life, do you not stop and say, “How did that happen?” Because it appears sudden, you are shocked, but we ask you to look at patterns. In many cases, such as what appears to be a sudden change in [...]

A synapse is the space between the axon and the dendrite, if you remember your school lessons … that chasm that a nerve impulse must cross to send its signal from neuron to neuron.  Yes, we have brought you a scientist today to help you become aware of just how [...]

Why do you wish to change another, to “bring them around” to your way of thinking?  Why, because from your viewpoint the sky is clear.  But have you sat inside the other’s mind?  “Yes, and it’s a bit cloudy,” you say.  “I wish to clear things up for them.”  Do [...]

“Did that really happen?  Did I see that light at the foot of my bed?  Did that penny appear out of nowhere?  Did I hear that voice?  Feel that presence?” Release!  Release your clinging to your humanity.  It is only part of your being.  The difficulty is that your humanity [...]

A gentle reminder.  That is all that is necessary.  Yes, a loud alarm clock does the job it is designed for, but is it not preferable to awaken to a soft hand on the shoulder or the quietest of chimes?  Do you live with someone with whom you have gotten [...]