Monthly Archives: August 2021

Struggling.  Does it get you anywhere?  Not when you are caught in a rip tide.  Struggling only exhausts you.  It may feel counter -intuitive, but when caught up in a maelstrom, relax.  You are not giving up, you are giving over to the underlying flow that exists beneath all of Life [...]

Gracious.  Here is a word with great meaning.  To be gracious, there is no righteousness.  There is no lording power over another.  Look at the root of the word:  Grace.  What do you feel when you contemplate grace?  A connection to a Power greater than the human self and greater [...]

Have fun with life.  Yes, there are appropriate times to be serious, but how about a little silliness?  If you balk at this, you have drunk the adult Kool Aid.  Children play.  They laugh, they giggle, they draw and squiggle.  Can you draw outside the lines, or have you become [...]

How easily you get caught up in the drama when you watch a well-crafted movie.  It is easy to forget there is anything around you.  And do you realize it is just how easily you get caught up in the drama of what you call your life?  “But it is [...]

It’s all relative. What you think is too much is not enough for another. What you think is truly awful is not so bad for another. Why is this? For you all have had your unique experiences throughout your time in a body. Experiences from within the limited viewpoint of [...]

When another asks you to do a favor and to do so goes against your best judgment, what do you do?  Why is it challenging to say no?  First, examine why you are not saying yes.  You wish to be helpful, loving, and kind, yet “yes” is not always the [...]

How many of your thoughts are recycled?  Round and round they go, so familiar.  Even when they are not loving and kind to yourself or others, you cling to them, for they are comfortable.  Reach beyond your comfort zone and listen for fresh thoughts moment by moment.  Like a floral [...]

You are safe and you are loved.  What more could you ask for?  Oh, we know you could come up with a list, but let’s stick to the basics.  In the back of most human minds is fear … fear of so many things that again we are sure you [...]

Do you ever stop and think of how you may wall yourself off from others simply by focusing on “I”?  There is one letter in this oh-so-isolating pronoun.  And “We”?  How many letters?  And “Us”?    I and that other make up one field of flowing experiences.  All it takes to [...]

We have not gone far, your loved ones no longer in a body.  Our world is full, as is yours.  We can occupy ourselves with adventures, with tasks, with interactions with others, yet by simply shifting our attention, here we are with you!  What a joy it is to think [...]

This is it.  What you came here for.  You are disappointed?  Please don’t be.  Look around you.  You have a choice:  See the beauty or see something else.  This is it.  You come here to make choices.  In golf you hit the ball and chase after it.  Hit the ball [...]

Could it be you think too much?  Time spent analyzing can turn into time spent agonizing.  Ah, yes, you know this state well.  It can definitely be a kind of hell to fall under the logical mind’s spell.  Know this:  There is a part of you that does not need [...]

You see a group approaching.  Two of them are wearing costumes.  Oh my!  A surprise!  Who is beneath those costumes, you wonder.  And there is the question of a lifetime.  Who is beneath all of the costumes you see around you?  If you were to peel back layer after layer, [...]

For the joy of it.  That is why to do anything.  “But I must go to work,” you say, and where can you find the joy in that?  Can you find a way to connect with another in doing your work?  Can you find a way to make another’s life [...]

What lies beyond your story?  We are not speaking of a time in the future after the passing of the body.  We are speaking of here.  Now.  Do you know?  Have you taken the time to truly get to know your true nature without a story?  For some this is [...]

I chose to have this experience in this particular body-mind.  It is like a dream, but real as long as I am in the experience.  I limit my awareness of who I AM whilst in this body-mind, and I do so knowing it is temporary.  At times it feels like [...]

Feelings come in layers.  At the surface may be one feeling, yet if you truly examine it, beneath it you will find others that are related yet may seem very different.  It is easy to throw blame at another for a surface feeling you are experiencing, but what lies beneath [...]

Should you choose to listen to music, know that in doing so, you may be tossed about by the waves of emotion the notes may engender.  Certain notes and chords can bring about melancholy or soaring joy, or any number of states in between.  Skillful composers write songs with this [...]

Think of your family in spirit like a constellation.  When you study constellations in school, you don’t just see groupings of stars, you see drawings of specific stars within the sky connected by lines.  Yes, the lines are drawn to show you the connections, but these lines are as real [...]

At the very first note, you recognize a favorite song, so familiar are you with how it sounds.  And so it is with a loved one who has passed.  You know their tone so well that at the very first sense of their presence you know it is them, here [...]

What is balance?  It is that point at which, when standing on one foot, you do not fall to one side or another.  In life, your emotions have a balance point.  So does your body.  How do you know when the emotions or the body are out of balance?  You [...]

What are you afraid of?  Embarrassing yourself?  This fear arises from “What will others think?” Which arises from “I am not enough,” which arises from “I am not appreciated,” which arises from “I am not loved.”  Such fears arise from the misconception that you are separate from the womb of [...]

What is a kaleidoscope, but a tube in which tiny stones and bits of glass are rolled past a prism of sorts.  As light comes in one end and you peer through another, you witness a magical array of beautiful designs. Why are kaleidoscopes so fascinating?  For you never know what [...]

Babies crawl before they can walk.  They drag the body across the floor until it gets a bit old scraping the knees and hands.  Looking about, they see others standing on two feet.  This looks a bit easier, and so they pull themselves up.  “Oh, so precarious it is to [...]