Pick and choose. You stand before a produce stand and go through the apples. Some have blemishes. A few are perfect on the surface. Which do you choose? It is obvious. This is the way you are built: to seek the one without damage. Seeking perfection is part of your [...]
Ghosts are those in the spirit world who wish to hang around the earthly plane a while. Some make noises. Some move objects. It is the fear of the unknown that causes humans to fear ghosts. What if you knew that ghost was grandpa? If not your grandpa, then someone [...]
When you put a fishing line in the water, you do so with the anticipation that there are fish there. Why else would you choose that location to go fishing? When you ask a question of higher consciousness, it is the same thing. Like fishing, sometimes you will receive an [...]
When you don’t know what to say, put yourself in the other’s situation. What would you want someone to say to you? Even if you have never been in such a situation, the soul knows how it feels to be loved and appreciated. What would you say? Flexibility of awareness [...]
When you create a work of art, do you focus on the beauty or the flaws? When you do work for another, a project, a challenging communication, do you focus on the treasures that result or on what to you seemed incorrect? What does this tell you? You choose how [...]
You have come into physical form for a purpose: to express divinity in your unique way. What is your passion? When you cannot help but express yourself through that which brings you joy, you have found your purpose. It need not be anything “great” in terms of human endeavors. The [...]
Training wheels are necessary for some who are a bit off balance, for those who have never ridden a two-wheeled bicycle. Others are quite comfortable taking risks and even falling a time or two without the need of fail-safes. Connecting with spirit can be that way. You can use systems [...]
You had a game as a child … little monkeys in a barrel which you emptied onto the floor. One by one you could pick up another monkey by using only the hooked hand until you had an entire chain of monkeys. Such a simple game. So much fun in [...]
What happens when you have an idea? It builds up within you at first like a bit of pressure that you notice, and then the pressure builds. Like a gas that must escape, finally it bursts forth in a geyser of creativity and something new is born. This is the [...]
You’ve seen the walking meditators. They walk so slowly. Step. Step. Step. So very slowly. “How boring! How slow! There are places to go! Things to do!” you think. Not today! Nowhere to go. Nothing to do. Isn’t that interesting! What if you step outside your door and take a [...]
It is easy to get caught in the game of life. When you play in the waves you get tossed around. At first it is fun to tumble and roll, but after rubbing against the sand a time or two, abrasion sets in. Life does not have to be rough [...]
Neediness. It comes from a sense of not having or being enough within yourself, and nothing could be farther from the truth. We are speaking of emotional neediness today, the feeling of angst, fear, unrest, and jitteriness that simmers under the surface, causing you to be anything but peaceful, yet [...]
When things don’t go as you wish, can you trust there is a reason? Can you take a breath, release your disappointment and frustration, and perhaps engender a bit of wonder? “I wonder what greater purpose is at hand here?” Know that if your frustration involves another, the growth and [...]
Fascination. Can you feel the sense of wonder in this word? What if you watched events unfold with fascination instead of fear? How your experience would change. Fascination does not judge. It observes. Peace is present in awareness when one observes instead of judges. You could use a little peace [...]
If you’re feeling down and lonely, smile. Why do songwriters write about it, singers sing about it? For a smile can change your outlook in an instant. The body is designed so that a smile instantly creates a flush of contentment. It does, indeed take more muscles to smile than [...]
If you insist on pointing out the bad and the good, of immersing yourself in the duality instead of transcending it, then at the very least you might take an observer’s neutral viewpoint long enough to notice the so-called good that comes from the so-called bad. “Everything happens for a [...]
Picture a wheel. Which part of it spins the fastest in relation to the center? The circumference, of course. When do you suffer? When you are not centered. Are you suffering now? You have allowed your focus to move outward, outward, outward, forgetting that there is a still point within [...]
What does it mean to fixate on something? To focus on it to the exclusion of all else. When you fixate upon a thing you lose sight of the bigger picture. Thoughts filled with fear or anger or judgment or any of the lesser human traits are then attracted like [...]
Just when you think you have regained your balance, something happens and you get knocked off balance again. What happened? You ran into a cross-current. Until you are so strongly flowing in the main current of Love-Life-Joy, it is quite easy to veer off as you encounter strong eddies. Do [...]
Worry is wasted effort. You could spend the energy your mind burns in fearing the future and fretting about the past in far more productive ways. How, you ask? Take the focus off the chatter and move it down into the heart center. Now focus on the breath as it [...]
