*** Feast on Love

So many of you hunger … You hunger for friendship. You hunger for peace. You hunger for love. You walk around as if a starving person, picking up crumbs of what you hunger for wherever you find them, ever grateful to those who drop them.

Open your eyes! The crumbs are infinitesimally small compared to the banquet … the veritable feast of peace, joy, and love which is set and awaiting your enjoyment. The key to this dining room lies within the mind. With your thoughts you create the platters. With your thoughts you create the steaming dishes. With your thoughts you create the knives and forks, and with your thoughts you unlock the doors.

Do you understand the analogy? The mind is the key! Nothing outside of you is real. You create the feast, just as you create the famine. Do you wish to have more love, joy, and peace? Create it, radiate it, and then feast upon it. Do not search and scrounge for crumbs outside of yourself. Be that which you seek, and never again go hungry.

Every Day a Birthday

It matters not how many birthdays you have. What matters is how you fill those days. Do you use your time in this body to love? Do you use this time to grow? If you see a new wrinkle, do you bemoan the fact that the body is changing, or do you celebrate how much you are learning?

The body is naught but a tool. Use it to indicate when you are out of alignment in your thoughts. It will clench, tighten, and sicken if your thoughts are not pure and loving. Relax. Thank the body for telling you so clearly that the spirit is being suppressed. Set your spirit free by releasing fear and worry, by releasing judgment and anger. First and foremost, do not judge the body, but thank it for its lessons—for being the perfect outward mirror of what is happening inside.

Celebrate your birthday each morning that you open your eyes. “Thank you, Spirit, for giving birth to this day, and for giving me the opportunity to learn and love.”

A Perfect Fit

Zippers … two sides of hard metal with teeth, that when joined together bring closure and firmly hold two pieces of cloth as one. The teeth fit together as a puzzle, perfectly joined one after another, yet if not aligned properly at the start, there is no closure. There is malfunction.

You have two sides to your being: an ego side which is quite necessary to operate in the physical world, and a spirit side, which is your eternal self—that which you have come here to uncover and express. It is quite possible for the two sides of yourself to fit together beautifully whilst in this physical experience. It is simply a matter of finding the proper alignment.

When your life seems out of sorts, there is a gap between the two sides—the zipper cannot knit together. Seek the proper balance between operating from the ego, which is useful when performing certain tasks, and from the spirit-self, which knows no separation, only love. When you have found the balance, the zipper slides freely, the cogs fit together quite well, and you experience harmony.

Do not mistake the message—the spirit is your true Self. It is not a 50-50 proposition between spirit and ego. We merely wish you to acknowledge and honor the two sides of yourself you now experience and seek balance between the two—a perfect fit.

Poem #397 - Fan the Flames

Alight you shine
With a fire so bright
That all can feel it
Even had they no sight.

This is what happens
When God’s love you know.
And through your actions
His Light you do show.

Hide not this Light,
But let it shine
And all will then sense
That this Light is Divine.

All have this Light,
But in some it is dim.
They first need to discover
That Light there within.

It burns there just waiting
To be thus discovered.
For a Light such as this
Shall not remain covered.

What to do if your light
Feels like only an ember?
Simply love all you can
And then you’ll remember

That this Light’s who you are.
It has always been you.
When love you do show
You’ll discover it’s true.

Love all who you see.
Hold them all in your heart
Then this ember inside
Will awake with a start.

Any longing you had
Will no longer remain.
When with love you do act
You do fan your own flame.

Perception and Reality

There are vibrations all around you. Many of them you perceive through the physical senses, but many go unperceived. Think of one whose senses are a bit dulled. He hears not a certain pitch, and for him, this sound does not exist. It is not part of his reality, but to others it is quite evident. There are those in your world whose sensory perceptions are more heightened than others. “Is there truly a spirit world?” They are asked. “Do you really believe this?” and the question comes as a surprise. “You may not see or hear what I do,” says the one whose instrument is more finely tuned, “but they are there. Trust me.”

Trust us when we tell you that the spirit world is quite real. What is reality, but your current focus of consciousness and perception. Reality exists on many levels, in different dimensions, for consciousness is unlimited. You are experiencing one aspect of Reality now, but by expanding your consciousness through intention, you begin to perceive how truly unlimited you are.

How far can you expand your perception? Learning to do so is part of the great adventure you call Life.

Image Into Reality

What is imagination, but the creative use of the mind. What is the world in which you exist, but the creative use of the Mind of God—of Spirit. You were born of the imagination of the Divine Mind—a thought which became an image, which took form and then became matter. You are not separate from God. You are part of that Divine Mind. As such, you are divine.

Use your divinity to create beauty and love. Use your divine imagination to give image to your thoughts. Image into reality that which you wish to see and achieve, and if you need help, call upon your guides, your angels, and your Highest Self … God. The voice you hear in response may sound like your own, but listen closely. You may think, “This is only my imagination!” But how else could your guides, your angels, and your God speak to you?

Give Credit Where It's Due

Remove “mine” and “yours” and what is left, but One. All is One, but it is the fact that you perceive differentiation when you look about you that that causes misunderstanding. Does one finger of the hand say, “That finger is yours, and this finger is mine”? Perhaps, but are not all fingers joined? Are not they all part of the same Hand? Do they not function individually, but serve the greater good? What good does it do to say “mine” and “yours” when there is only one Hand?

Focus not on YOUR self today, but on THE Self, and know that all that you see is of It. There is the appearance and the mass consciousness acceptance of “mine,” but all is merely borrowed from the Source. Give credit where credit is due, and serve your purpose well. It is fine to be SELF-ish, when you finally realize what is the true SELF, and serve it well.

The Focus of Love

The heart is the focus of love. The heart in the physical body is naught but a mechanical pump, but without this pump, the vital nutrients and oxygen which the physical body requires would not circulate via the bloodstream and feed the hungry body. You could not exist without this organ.

On a spiritual level, you could not exist without the heart as the seat of love. This energy center gathers and circulates the energy of love. Love is the highest vibration, and were it not for the heart center which collects and sends outward the vibration of love, all would wither and cease to exist, for Love truly does make the world go ‘round.

There is naught but Love. You have heard it said that God is Love, and this is true, for there is naught but God. God is all that is. All that you see is a manifestation of God-Love. Focus today on the heart. Pump love freely into your world and throughout your body, and see if you don’t create beauty in this way.

Cycles

Night turns into day, and day into night. The cycles of life are everywhere. You have your four seasons, your tides, your monthly changes, your birth and death. Yes, this, too, is a cycle. Have you found anything in life which does not experience rebirth … recycling? Even your scientists know that energy is recycled, and have we not told you that you are pure energy … pure consciousness? Then why would you not experience recycling as well?

The part of you that you know as “you” will always be accessible, for energy cannot be destroyed, merely transformed. And so, while your physical body may be recycled into dust to form some other form someday, your consciousness as well will be recycled. But those who know you as you will always recognize that aspect of you when you meet again on the other side. Fear not that your loved ones will not be waiting for you when you have passed through this current cycle you call life. Those aspects of the Great Soul you come to know and love will be there and are there now.

But where is “there?” It is here, now, as all energy cycles around you. You merely need attune to the vibration, which cycles, does it not? How do your scientists measure energy? As a frequency. And how do they measure frequency? In cycles. All of life consists of energy and cycles, and you are That.

Power in Meekness

Note from Suzanne: Sanaya has spoken about the theme of this post in the past, but we can always use a reminder of this message again.

Blessed are the meek. Why do you think this is so? Meekness is not weakness. To be meek means in your language timidity mixed with a bit of reticence, but this is not the meaning the Master you call Jesus meant with this phrase. When you can learn to sit back and allow those you consider powerful to bellow, there is great power in this so-called meekness. When you can say nothing in response to verbal attacks upon yourself, there is great power in such so-called meekness.

Meekness, enacted without ego—-without the inner chest-thumping of thinking yourself superior for not reacting in kind to assaults, but merely not reacting because you know that the true spirit need never show force or anger—-then you have discovered the ego-less power in meekness. A “meek” person can sit back and observe all sorts of turmoil and feel no turmoil at all on the inside. Truly, blessed are the meek.

Mind Your Thoughts

Hansel and Gretel—two fairy tale figures who lived in the woods. Brother and sister in a gingerbread house. Is this fantasy? No more fantasy than buying into the illusion that you are powerless to create your environment. If you wished to live in a house of gingerbread you could do so, such is your creative power. “But it would not last!” you cry. And this is so, were you to cease creating, but understand that creation never ceases—ever. Should the rains come, you would erect a tarp or barrier atop your special house. Should animals come to feed on the walls, you would build a fence, or better yet, disassemble the house and let the animals feed.

“Such a silly story today,” you say, but is it? Is not your life one constant act of creation? You have a thought … a crazy idea. You turn this thought into an image in your mind, and then you do go forth and create a physical manifestation of this thought-image. Do you not see that all that surrounds you, including your very body, did arise from the very same process? You are as your Creator. What will you create today? Mind your thoughts carefully, for they have more power than most of your brothers and sisters are aware.

A New Opening Window

What is time, but a construct of your environment to aid you in identifying experiences in a linear fashion. You can look upon experiences which you have already had and call that your past. You can imagine experiences yet to come and call that your future, but all you truly have is this moment here and now. How will you use it?

Yes, this a theme to which we return quite often, but the whole point of your existence is to learn to use the moment now to express your divinity. For this reason, what you did in the past matters not. What you think of doing in the future matters not. All that matters is, are you thinking loving thoughts right now? The next time you open your mouth, in that now-moment, will you produce loving words? If not, then you have missed an opportunity, but because you always find yourself in a new now-moment, you are free to try again. The more you succeed in thinking, speaking, and being only love, the greater is this experience you call Life, and the more Love flows into it. What is “now”? A New Opening Window to let in and out more love and light into your world.

In the Eye of the Storm

Peace is a gift—a glittering treasure like a golden coin you find buried in the sand. You pick it up and think, “Oh, look what I have found! I am so lucky!” But this gift of peace lies hidden within you always. It is part of the game of life that you do search for it and find it. The grains of sand of your life blow back and forth, oft times burying your peace in giant drifts, but always it lies waiting to be uncovered. You find it, then the wind blows again and covers it up.

When will you learn to not let the winds affect you? This is a learned skill, and again, it is the reason you have come here: to learn not to be buffeted by every breeze, but to stand firmly and hold onto your treasure—your inner peace … to stand in the calm eye in any storm, looking outward and knowing that you are not part of the storm, but merely an observer of it.

Funny thing about peace … the more of it you experience, the stronger it grows as you come to realize that no storm, no wind, can truly hurt you, for you ARE the peace you seek.

You Have to Work At It

You hear the sounds of trucks on the road. This is the sound of busy people doing their work so early in the morning. You need these workers with their discipline to keep your society operating. Do you not realize that you require the same discipline to maintain your awareness of yourself as spirit? This is part of the dream of life in which you are immersed—the constant falling back into the illusion that what you see is reality. The dream will always try to pull you in, and the ego loves this, for only when you buy into the illusion of separation does the ego thrive.

Work hard to remember the truths of the spirit. Find a mantra each day that you can repeat to yourself as you walk about and drive your trucks and do your work. In this way, as you repeat your “phrase of the day” you can be in the world but not of it. “What kind of phrase?” you ask. Any words or sentences that remind you that you are spirit, that you exist only to express your spirit-nature as pure love, and that love is all there is. What more do you need?

Get on with it

Memories of bygone days … you focus on these, remembering better times … happier times when you were younger in years, more youthful in your thoughts, with a body that moved more gracefully. What is the matter with now? Nothing at all. You have created this “now.” It is all part of the great adventure of your life. You are playing a role for now. In this role you inhabit a body that ages. It has no choice but to do so. But within that body, you are pure consciousness, creating new experiences in every moment. Are they worse than those you had in the past or better? What difference? All you have is this very moment. What will you do with it? That, my friend, is what makes this an adventure—not what you did in the past, not what you will do at some unforeseen time, but how you live right here and now, for here you are, and isn’t that grand?

You exist. You are. You think. You create, and you go on creating. So go on. Get on with it. What will you create today? Love and peace? Jolly good. Then, you are beginning to understand.

Poem #396 - Your Personal Team

Bananas hanging in a bunch …
This is what you have for lunch.
A good thing that you did not eat
Something fattening and sweet.

What goes inside your body stays
To affect your mood and mind for days.
For what they say is really true:
What you eat, it becomes you.

All is energy, you see
Vibrating thoughts that once set free
Do become matter, which then does serve
To give you exactly what you deserve.

For you create this world you know
From the thoughts which freely flow
And so it’s you, in how you choose
Who does decide to gain or lose.

Not quite a spiritual thought today
But quite a lesson anyway--
That how you look you did create
With every little bite you ate!

So feed your body and your mind
And to your Self be extra kind.
Treat it with the utmost care
By breathing only healthy air.

This vessel that you wear for now
If with love you it endow
Will reflect this care both in and out
Of this fact, please have no doubt.

So treat yourself with great respect
Your body you should well protect.
It’s far more holy than it may seem,
For with the spirit it forms a team.

The Greatest Lesson You Can Learn

You never stop learning. The doors of the School of Life are always open. So many lessons are you sent, but the curriculum is always the same. The subject is how to be the loving soul that you are at all times. Think of every situation in which you could possibly find yourself. If you were to choose a loving response to every one, your soul would grow. Those around you might not reap the benefits of your love if they are too closed off to the knowledge of who and what they are, but you would most certainly advance in your own soul’s evolution, which is why you exist in the first place.

You are God expressing Itself. Put another way, you are Love expressing Itself. Each time you fail to do this, you make no progress and find no peace, for only when you align your self with your Self do you finally feel at home … at One. It is quite easy to do, yet so many of you make it harder than you must. Love. Simply love and be Love—not to gain anything from others, but to gain the World inside yourself. This is the greatest lesson you can learn.

Conscious Transmitting

The human body serves as an antenna for the waves of energy and information in which you at all times are swimming. This is why you want to keep the spine straight while in meditation. But understand that you are not just a receiver of energetic information, but a transmitter as well. Every thought you think goes out from you, radiating into the universe and having an effect on all that wave of energy touches. Think how you can affect your world by consciously creating your thoughts and deliberately focusing them when you wish to see a desired result.

Be a conscious creator, not an unfocused transceiver. If you are not happy with the circumstances in your life, this is an indicator that your thoughts are out of alignment with your desires. Stand tall, ask for and receive guidance through your internal antenna, then send out to the universe thoughts and visions of that which you wish to see in your life. It is not magic. Things do not happen by themselves. You are a co-creator of the universe. Do so responsibly and always with love.

Lock Away Your Troubles

Confine your troubles to a box. Put them there for safekeeping. Put a lock on it and peer inside from time to time when you need a reminder of why you came to this life on earth. Place a label on the box: “My life lessons”, then sit back and stare at the box. Ponder its contents from afar. How have you chosen to deal with them? How have you allowed them to change the course of your life, to affect your emotions, your health, and your relationships? Sitting back like this, pondering your box of troubles from afar, you are safe. They are safely tucked away and cannot affect you. In this state you can be peaceful, allowing your troubles to simply sit there locked away, harmless and neutral.

Now, will you open that box again? Of course you will. Your life lessons are in there. But know that at any time you are completely free to shut the lid again, click the lock, sit back, and observe that harmless box from that place of peace that is always there for you to sit in. Go there often—at will—and you will be far more peaceful for it.

You Are Special

Humility is a virtue. Treasure it. There is nothing to be gained by thinking you are more special than any other. You are unique, indeed, for all are endowed with unique abilities and talents, but all are equally special. Judge not another based upon appearances, actions, or lack of actions. Judge only yourself. Are you expressing your true nature at every opportunity? Careful now. What is your true nature? It is that part of you that is truly special. It is that part of every human being that is truly special. It is the spirit. The spirit is Love. To express your special-ness, be loving. Speak only loving words. Have only loving thoughts. Take only loving actions. Now wouldn’t that be special? Wouldn’t that be unique? You wish to feel special … to be thought of as special? Be your Self.