You agreed to this … not to the pain, but to the relationships which would bring your soul the most growth. It is a fact of life as a human that some of the greatest growth results from pain, but principally when you recognize the pain as growth opportunities. The [...]
The question has been asked, "Is there a place after passing from the body of great horrors and gnashing of teeth that you would know of as hell?" There is no such place, geographically, but there exists the possibility of experiencing such a state of mind. Understand that there is [...]
Many people have no trouble believing in angels. For this retired Navy Commander, it took a lot of convincing, but those angels I used to not believe in know how to get through to us. I have shared in my workshops some of the irrefutable evidence that angels at the [...]
Others come in and out of your life for a purpose. Loyalty is an admirable trait, but it does not require remaining available for another beyond the useful service of the friendship. When another ceases growing in spite of your interactions and your combined energies reach a state of dissonance, [...]
Are you feeling frustration with a friend or partner? Why is that? It is because you perceive something relative to your own thoughts or actions which are different and you judge them as lesser or wrong. And what happens next? You perceive a better way and you entertain thoughts of [...]
To do something out of desperation reveals a lack of remembrance of your true nature. Desperation contains angst, worry, fear … none of which are characteristic of your basic nature, which is love. You are spirit, a beautiful soul who is loved immensely at all times and beyond time. May [...]
Fear is a funny thing. You do anything you can to avoid it because you fear being afraid. You worry about things that might or might not happen, creating as assortment of frightening scenarios in your mind. These become contagious. You always have a choice—to be afraid or at peace, [...]
Why do you become defensive? For you believe there is something to protect. This implies a separation between a perceived individual self and another. When you can shed all thoughts and belief systems of the ego, which knows only separation, then there is nothing to defend, no reason to become [...]
Imagine a world with no competition, only cooperation. It is an impossible vision for most, but there are worlds where only cooperation exists, where it makes no sense to compete against another. This would be tantamount to cutting off one’s own hand. It is unthinkable … laughable. In those realities [...]
Battles have been fought over trivial issues. Man has not yet learned that he owns nothing. Power and greed have led to much bloodshed. These are the natural outcomes of having free will. Do you not see what great learning tools these are—these attributes of the ego? Without them, school [...]
You never act alone. Ever. There is a greater part of you doing the driving. It is only when you forget this that you can easily veer off course. You grab the wheel and think you must do everything yourself. It does not work that way. If spirit were not [...]
May each day be like Christmas morning to a child who celebrates this holiday. May you awaken with a sense of excited anticipation and think, “Today’s the day! It will be filled with gifts and wonder! I am so grateful.” How your days would change if you changed your thoughts [...]
“I just can’t understand him!” you cry, and that is because you have chosen to remain fixed in your viewpoint behind your physical eyes. When you remain stuck in your perspective, the view rarely changes. Did you know you have another eye? It is the eye of the soul, and [...]
There is no death. It is the most basic and yet the most important of messages. How your interactions with each other would change if all understood this … if all knew that there is a greater aspect of the self than the physical body that is eternal. If you [...]
Music: the sound of creation. When there is harmony, there is growth; when there is dissonance, stagnation or decay. It is that simple. All arises from sound, from the Word, the one note, the Om. You have your unique note which has developed as you have played in this lifetime. [...]
It is all about the experience—this thing called Life. It is neither good nor bad, but life unfolding for the opportunity to evolve. You are faced with choices with every experience. Each allows your soul to grow, stretch, expand, or shrink, decay, nullify. How do you optimize each experience, each [...]
It is the Light that formed you. Like a tube of sand formed by a strike of lightning, you have physical form. The full power of the Light that formed you continues to flow inside of you, or you would not have the most powerful awareness that exists: I AM. [...]
Plans change … even the best laid of them. Is this cause for disappointment or gratitude? How far better off you are when you can remain flexible and follow the prompting of the soul. Once you say you are going to do a thing, if you feel you must now [...]
You search for answers far and wide, when all the answers lie inside. One who does not yet understand the nature of the soul would question such a statement. “I have limited knowledge,” they would protest. “I have not yet learned all there is to learn.” The latter is true [...]
When you are in the presence of one who is displaying less than optimal behavior, how do you react? Do you withdraw and seethe or squirm, or do you go on the attack, responding with aggression? Within the body, cells do not see good or bad, they simply seek balance—homeostasis. [...]