Do your best not to catastrophize when unexpected news comes your way. When things seem to be going to Hell, you are in it in your thoughts. Pull yourself upward with a few deep breaths during which you are well advised to shift your attention to the heart. The head [...]
Love is the connective tissue that binds you all. Do not think of it as an emotion. The feeling you experience is the byproduct of the total connection. This is love. Could you see beneath the surface, so to speak, you would see that all of you exist in a [...]
Touch is very sensitive. You can tell the difference between smooth, rough, and finer gradations of each. Smell, taste, and seeing are the same. The sense you use to notice these gradations is discernment. You may not notice those in spirit who are around you because to do so requires [...]
You are all off-spring of one Mother-Father. You are imbued with the same qualities, which include intelligence, creativity, and awareness. You are out-here for the experiences, whatever they may be. Where do you find your Source? In-here. Love and compassion are in-herent. Kindness and service are in-herent. Doing the right [...]
When you are at a loss as to what to do, go within. The answers you seek are not “out there” as in the objective world you see with your eyes. Nor are they resident inside of you. As you shut out the outer world, a far greater world becomes [...]
“What is your spiritual practice?” Perhaps you have been asked this. And perhaps you have answered that you meditate or do some other such activity that helps you feel closer to your Source. This is all well and good, but how about an idea? What if Life itself is a [...]
So many distractions. So many “others.” Or so it seems. It is the distractions that keep you in a state of other-dom. You choose your point of view from one moment to the next. Therefore, the next time you are feeling angry, frustrated, sad, bereft, or unfulfilled, choose to shift [...]
There comes a time when all that glitters loses its luster. You may still enjoy your comforts and pleasures, but life, itself, and its deeper meaning becomes the focus. Perhaps something has happened that has dropped you to your knees. Perhaps one you love has departed the physical and the [...]
If you think this world is all there is, you will suffer more than you might if you expand your perspective. “Expand it where?” you might ask. Beyond the physical to the realm of the mind. And yet, if you think that the mind exists in some closed-in sphere around [...]
There are times when you do not recognize yourself or your thoughts, so different are they from your accustomed state of being, What has happened? You have become caught up in a bit of a maelstrom—an electrical storm of thought-energy. Ride it out with the help of your unseen friends. [...]
When things don’t go as planned, what is your reaction? Perhaps you grow easily frustrated. This is conditioning. There are certain emotions that are destructive and others that are constructive. You can feel the difference. Destructive of what? Peace and Joy. Constructive of what? Freedom from robotic reactions. What is [...]
What is it you fear? Look at it closely. Envision a rattlesnake in an aquarium. With the threat of harm taken out of the equation, you can gaze upon the snake with curiosity and perhaps learn a thing or two. You might find out that the rattlesnake is not aggressive [...]
With full awareness may you journey through life. So many are not even aware of being unaware. What a shame, when there is so much Joy to behold. You will notice the capitalization, for Joy in this case is the underlying Source of all that you experience in this shared [...]
What if you have always seen another with whom you interact in a certain light? What if you then expect them to always show up that way? You are holding them in a box as much as yourself. Each of you has the potential to appear and act in any [...]
Why does it feel so good to stand under cascading water? The answer may well surprise you. Your thoughts so often run amok. They run to the past, where you focus on painful memories. They flit to the future where you fear the unknown. So seldom do they rest in [...]
Memories. They can toss you about like waves on the sea. You label them good or bad and react in kind. Be kind to yourself, won’t you, as you go back in time to review your memories. Do so with awareness that you are making a conscious journey outside of [...]
It is easy to become overwhelmed at the scale of suffering in your world. It is hard enough when you deal with your own challenges, but to see how humans around the globe face these and more, you cannot help but wonder, “Is there really a God?” And now we [...]
