The Daily Way

To walk a balance beam takes practice.  Lean too far to one side and then you must lean the same bit to the other side.  There is fear that you may fall off, as in learning to ride a bike, but soon you learn how to come back to center.  [...]

It is clinging that causes suffering.  It is that simple.  Reality is what is before you, not in the past, not in the future.  Deal with what is in front of you right now, and we are not speaking of predictions.  Are you breathing right here, right now?  What is [...]

Yours is such a hierarchical society that you easily forget that all is love.  You are all beings of light playing out human stories.  In your human world, it is often necessary to have “rank,” as you would understand it.  There are leaders and followers, and this is fine.  It [...]

“Devastation!” you cry, and with horror you look upon scenes where once something stood and now it is reduced to rubble, pieces, fragments.  Is this a bad thing or is this the cycle of creation?  The ongoing cycle of life is one of creation, sustainment, and destruction.  Change is [...]

When a storm of any kind is coming, you make preparations.  You do all that you humanly can to ensure that people and property are as safe as can be, and after that you have a choice:  Sit and wring your hands until the storm has passed or sit and [...]

When you are disappointed in yourself, bring love in.  When you are angry at yourself, bring love in.  When you think you could have done better … need we go on?  Love yourself to pieces.  Love this piece that may not seem perfect to you, and love that piece that [...]

Who are you when you are with friends and family?  And who are you when you are alone?  Are you different or the same what-you-see-is-what-you-get being?  If you put on a happy face always, when inside you are feeling quite the opposite, examine that.  Your feelings and behaviors are all [...]

“Clinging” is an interesting word.  It comes laden with the emotion of its twin feeling:  fear. You would not cling to a thing if you did not fear losing something.  Think of a person lost at sea clinging to a raft.  They fear losing their life.  That is ultimately the [...]

You see cans on a shelf in a grocery store and immediately you know what is inside.  You pick it up and look even closer at the fine print and now you have an even better idea.  What if when you opened the can instead of dog food it contained [...]

What if everything you thought to be true turned out to be wrong? What if it all was a dream? “Oh, not talk of illusion again!” ego cries at reading these words. No, we will not do that to you. We know how much you value your world, how much [...]

The bond between child and mother is one of the strongest.  You know each other at a cellular level.  Love or hate each other for your human ways, it matters not—you are connected by that cord that at one time fed you and once cut continues to connect you energetically. [...]

Without your story you would have no anger.  Why is that?  For stories tell you what to think.  They come with their inherent shoulds and musts.  When others do not meet your should and musts, you feel anger (or disappointment, or, however you may fill in the blank).  Then why [...]

Fortitude … it means strength and will and determination.  When does a person have fortitude?  When they know they have “back-up.”  If you thought you were completely alone, you might feel a bit of trepidation, but fortitude gives you confidence.  Merely feeling the energy of the word, you may sit [...]

When you hear one expressing an opinion that differs from your own, try not to think in terms of better or worse.  That is growth happening.  That is Life unfolding and expressing itself.  Do you look at the stalk of a flower and berate or belittle it because it has [...]

If you find yourself making excuses when faced with what you perceive is an important task, then you are not present. Excuses and apologies take you into the past when you might not have met expectations. Expectations take you into the future. When you feel yourself making excuses and justifications [...]

Duel all you want with each other.  It will get you nowhere.  Sooner or later one may win, the other may lose, and you know how both of those endings feel.  What if instead, you agree to disagree?  What if you see that you are not meant to think alike, [...]

When you look at another, you see what you think you see, what you believe you see—a story you have created based on what you have experienced or been told.  That other looks upon you the same way.  And when your stories interact, you dance and play your learned parts [...]

Do you savor life or rush through it?  Your eating habits may prove quite illuminating in this regard.  Do you savor every bite, noticing the flavors and the textures, feeling gratitude for the source, the provider, and the preparer of it, or do you rush through it without being aware [...]

Words are an impediment to knowing.  When you feel a presence in your meditations or when sitting or walking in the silence, tune in to what you know.  You are in the habit of putting knowingness into words, and as often happens in the process of translating languages, important nuances [...]

Love your anxieties.  Love them to pieces.  Literally.  As you become aware of that anxious, prickly feeling in the body—the one that comes with a voice that says, “I must, I have to , what if I do, what if I don’t …” –grasp it gently like an object, that [...]

You live in a world gone crazy. It is insanity to fight each other, to take sides and defend them at the cost of hatred and lives. The real insanity began when you believed the illusion of separation. It is not life that is illusory. It is your perception that [...]

When you assume a role in a drama, you play it to the utmost of your ability, so well that at times you go to sleep still playing your role.  Some actors wake up in the morning believing they are that role.  They continue play-acting so well, so absorbed are [...]

Diversionary tactics.  This is what ego uses to keep you from discovering your magnificence.  If you truly remembered who and what you are, you would claim your royal lineage and ego would be banished to servant status.  To keep himself from this outcome, he takes your mind and fills it [...]

You put an umbrella over your head when it rains.  This allows you to stay dry.  But what happens when you find yourself without it?  You panic.  "Oh, no!  I might get wet!"  This is a wonderful opportunity--this moment of thinking you lack what you need.  Now, instead of taking [...]

Look around you.  What do you see?  Exactly and only what your belief system wants you to see.  The brain is like that.  It turns your life into a sort of jigsaw puzzle and it will seek out only the pieces that fit just right.  You expect certain “kinds” of [...]

You are so accustomed to feeling human, with all that entails, that you forget how easily you can shift  identity.  You are far more than human.  You are a beautiful light—a soul—and beyond that you are the Light.  There are certain attributes associated with the light.  To identify more readily [...]

You go to a gym to exercise your muscles, or perhaps you go for a walk.  However you exercise your body, you do so because if you do not, the muscles dwindle from lack of use.  You have heard the heart is a muscle.  Shift your awareness now to the [...]

You can relax now. Spirit has things well in hand. Worry and fear cause constriction. How can inspiration flow when you are tied up in knots? “But how can I relax?” you think, and that is the problem. Cease thinking. Be present and breathe. Focus on one word: Trust. When [...]

When your heart is not in it, as you are wont to say, there is a reason. Listen to the heart. Follow the heart. There is a reason things do not turn out as well as you would prefer if you do a thing when your heart’s not in it. [...]