Pepper and salt … condiments … additives you put upon your food to increase the enjoyment. Without them, to you there is less flavor, less enjoyable taste. What are the other condiments in your life? The greatest of these is love. Is your life a bit bland? A bit tasteless? [...]
Tumbling tumbleweeds. They go where the wind blows. Do you? So light are they, with no roots to hold them in place. They change directions frequently. Do you? If you are going to allow yourself to be blown around, then at the very least ask that you may be guided [...]
How do you find peace in the midst of a storm? You go to the eye—the center—which is always there. When caught in the worst of the winds it may be a struggle to find your way to the center, but trust that it is there. Relax the body. Take [...]
You can run, but you cannot hide from your deepest fears, your anger, your demons. There is no real devil. There are only the lower, slower vibrations which exist as possibility, as does all Source energy. It is your own consciousness which raises and lowers the vibrations. Some of the [...]
Survival … getting through a situation alive. It is a silly word, for there is no death. What you mean when you laugh and say, “I survived it,” is that you are still here … a bit wounded, perhaps, but also a bit changed. Yes, you will survive. You will [...]
Hold onto your thoughts if they bring you peace. Discard them if they do not. It is that simple. You cannot instantly change the physical situation around you, but you can change your feelings, your moods, your mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being in an instant. You do this. No other [...]
When you do something in earnest, you throw all of your efforts and emotions into it. You fully believe in the cause and in yourself. If something is not working out as you had planned, are you doing it in earnest? First look at your motivations. Why are you doing [...]
Adversity … those times when you struggle to maintain equanimity, balance. You are thrown off balance by a challenge. The natural inclination is to return to standing tall instead of falling. It is the law of balance. You make every effort to right yourself, but sometimes you need a little [...]
From whence cometh envy? From the false belief that you do not have enough. The desire for material things comes from a need to fill a void. The void is merely the lack of awareness that you are essentially love. When you awaken fully to the presence of Love as [...]
The ever-present Presence. Do you know it? Yes, you do. You know it as Love. It is there, calling your attention, or you would not seek love in all that you do. But do not seek outside of yourself, for although Love is in all things, it is most reliably [...]
With certainty look upon the face of another and know that you are seeing the face of God. With certainty, look into a mirror and see the same. Ah, but there enters the doubt. “How can this be God,” you say, and this is where you lack in understanding. Allow [...]
Is there not always an alternate way of looking at a situation? It is quite easy to bemoan your current circumstance. “Woe is me. Look how awful this is.” And then, are your eyes not pointed toward one in a situation you would judge as far worse? And suddenly you [...]
Happy New Year from Suzanne. Check out the new video on www.PutLoveFirst.org - What does it mean to put love first? May we all be beacons of light ...
Sorrow seems to last forever, but it does not. It is a process. What is a process, but a series of steps one experiences to reach a goal. In the case of sorrow, what could possibly be the goal? Growth, understanding, surrender, greater love … all of these are outcomes [...]