IGNORANCE

Ignorance is at the root of all discord.  The greatest of all misunderstandings arise from ignorance of the true nature of things.  Man, animal, nature … none are distinct from God.  All are ways of expressing Spirit, which in reality has no form.  If all were aware of this fact instead of ignorant of it, there would be no discord, no crimes, no anger, no fear, merely cooperation, support, respect, and love.

We know it is easy for you to grow discouraged at the expressions of ignorance around you.  When you understand that this is merely a covering of the underlying state of Pure Spirit - patience, tolerance, and   compassion ensue.  

Seek understanding.  See ignorance for what is, and find peace.

TEAM WORK

So many light workers.  In a company you have many levels.  You have the worker bees, without whom nothing would get done.  You have the managers and clerical personnel who take care of the day to day operations.  You have the public relations people and the sales people who take messages out to others.  Are they any better or any more important than the worker bees?  Not at all … they merely have a different skill set being put to best use.  Any time that any member sees itself as better or lesser than another, the organization is not optimized.  All are necessary.  All play a role.  It is all one team.

Just Imagine

Prepare to be surprised. All manner of blessings come to those who surrender and allow themselves to be God-guided.  When you find the trust to let go of the thought that things must go exactly as you had planned, then they often go far better than you had imagined.  Yes, envision wondrous possibilities, but then allow for even greater things than you can envision.  From your limited perspective your life is one way, but you are part of a greater whole.  Until you can see fully from that vantage point, prepare for greater delights than you have even imagined.  Now, begin to imagine, and half the job is done, but leave the rest to Us.

Thou Art That

Can you look back upon your life and see how those who raised you implanted certain beliefs in you about yourself?  Do this exercise with caution.  Dip into the past only briefly for the learning and realizations, and then step back quickly into the now with your eyes opened a bit wider.  While back there in your history book, did you hear some of the labels those of importance in your life imposed upon you?  Do you still carry them now?  What labels do you currently use to describe yourself?  You are most likely unaware of many of these, but your subconscious mind is quit conscious of them and is doing its best to enact them. 

Every one of these labels begins with two words:  “I AM.”  You are an adult now.  You control your thoughts.  Do not let the subconscious mind run your life for you.  Flush out its programming and feed it new and empowering labels to follow those two words.  Why “empowering”?  For the two most powerful words in your vocabulary are “I AM.”  They stand alone as All That Is.  Any label that comes after these is for the pure joy of experience.  If you are not experiencing joy from the labels that come after “I AM,” then change your labels.

Staying Grounded

When you let adrenaline and emotion take over, you cease being guided and you cease listening.  It is then that you can easily be thrown over the handlebars.  Yes, all of life is a lesson when you pay attention.  This is what we are asking you to do now and every moment.  Pay attention.  Guidance is all around you.  Signs of connection with a greater reality abound.  Yes, it is exciting and even thrilling at times as you realize your true essence, but we get back to the lesson at hand.  Do not let the excitement so overtake you that you lose your equanimity and fly over the handlebars.  Enjoy the ride fully with its ups, downs, and thrilling turns, but stay grounded.  Listen and you will always be guided.

In Answer ...

When one you love is in denial
Look upon them with a smile
They are as a child in need
So now our message please do heed


Sit back and watch their role unfold
The little child do not scold
They hurt enough--it's why they do
The things that most do bother you.


Send them love, support them fully
Do not be an adult bully
Kindness is the balm that heals
Your partner's inner welts and wheals


Does this mean that you say naught
When the other's stories you have bought
Not at all.  You have a voice
But when to use it is your choice


Do not speak when anger flares
Or when the action hurts or scares
Wait until all peace prevails
To speak of what your loved one ails


Have a chat.  Express your fear
Tell the one you hold most dear
There comes a time when all must choose
To change their ways before you lose


When said in love that's truly there
And showing that you truly care
You've done your part
You've used your heart


We cannot tell you how this ends
On choices all of life depends
But when your words from love do come
Then you can trust your part you've done

We will not advise you to stay or leave, but our words in rhyme are clear enough.  Your relationships are your greatest teachers.  You have chosen them for a reason.  They offer you endless opportunities to practice mastery of your emotions and choosing peace and love from one moment to the next.  Choice is the operative word.  You can choose to stay or leave an untenable situation, but when you have made what your heart knows is enough of an effort from that heart, then the soul will guide you to the highest choice that comes next.  Stop from moment to moment.  Remember to breathe.  Remember who you are (the essence of love in human form).  See who the one with the challenges is inside as well and muster all the love and compassion you can as you make the best choice for yourself--always yourself.  You control no other.  Their choices are theirs to make.  We send you love.

Conformity

When you are aware that you are in this world but not of it, you have greater freedom.  You become aware of your ability to choose what role you will assume from moment to moment, for that is what you are doing, you know:  playing a role.  And so, you choose to be upset when others around you are upset, for that is the human role.  Inside you know that all is temporary and this too shall pass.  Perhaps there will come a time when you tire of the feeling of being upset.  You decide to change the script.  Ah, how liberating!

Do you see how you can apply this concept to every experience that is less than positive and loving to the self and others?  Examine the many roles you play and just how often you go along with the other actors out of habit or ignorance, which is synonymous with “un-awareness.” Become aware and choose.  Will you conform or not?

A Pinch More ...

A baker’s dozen … this is when you receive more than you asked or paid for.  It is a special treat given out of kindness and generosity.  You receive that extra something and feel as if you have won a lottery of sorts.  How easy it was for the baker to throw in that little extra, and how big your smile!  It was not expected, and the baker did not have to do that.  In so doing, however, he strengthened the bond between you.  He received nothing in return but your happiness, which is quite something.

Give a baker’s dozen today.  Whatever you give to another, give a pinch more.  When you are about to move on, turn back and say or do just a bit extra to strengthen the bond of love, to brighten another’s day, and to remind yourself that in giving, all receive.

An Easy Choice

You have a long lineage.  Your ancestors were quite primitive.  They followed their instincts.  The fight or flight syndrome, linked to the limbic system of the brain, ensured greater survival.  That part of your human brain still exists and operates in you, but it need not rule you.  When the alarm goes off in your head and says, “Run or fight!” you now have a part of the brain that can reason.  In that brief moment before you act, shift gears and reason with that neo-cortex—the newer, more advanced part of the brain.  And then, if you have reasoned that there is no immediate threat to your physical existence, shift gears again.  This time, use the part of you that is far more advanced than the brain—the part that existed before the brain and will exist long after the brain no longer functions:  the spirit.  If there is truly no reason to fight or flee, then the choice is quite easy:  love.

With Compassion (A continuation of the yesterday's message, "Clashing")

When you do not resonate with someone, the tendency is to run away, to move in the opposite direction.  The energy physically repels you.  To run away is the human reaction—that, or to fight.  Both are protective measures of the ego.  There is another way.  Recognize ego at work.  Recognize that you are not the ego.  Rise above the clashing vibrations.  Stepping thus back into your true state of consciousness as spirit, now see the one with whom you clash with compassion.  Compassion immediately brings you into alignment with your highest self which resonates with all beings, for all beings are aspects of the highest self.  From this expanded state of awareness, you can remain quite comfortably in the presence of any clashing vibrations, for compassion is a mighty armor.

Clashing

When you place certain colors next to each other there is discomfort.  You call this “clashing.”  If you could hear these colors, you would cover your ears and complain.  All is vibration.  Whether you see that which exists as colors, hear it as sound, or simply feel it is merely a matter of perception.  Why do you clash with another person?  Your energy fields are not in resonance.  It is as if you are one color and the other person is another, and the two side by side repel one another.  There is a reason for this.  If there is discomfort, you can change your color, the other can change theirs, or you can separate the colors.  Alternatively, both can rise above and vibrate to the basic essence containing all colors, which is the white light of love.  In this state there is only resonance.

Hands off the Wheel

You are used to doing everything by yourself—to being in charge of your life.  Has that always gotten you where you wanted to be?  If so, then continue what you have been doing.  Are you thoroughly satisfied?  If not, could there be a better way?  There is always a better way when you look only from the lower perspective of the human side.  You may think you know all there is to know, but there is a side of you connected to a dimension with a far greater perspective.  Step off of the dance floor onto the balcony and suddenly you see things you were not aware of.  Just a bit of height gives you new perspective. 

What if you were to surrender your striving to the level of a greater perspective?  Why, then you would discover success and ease far greater than you are used to.  You could take your hands off the wheel and find that the car keeps going—perhaps not in the direction you envisioned, but when you get to the destination, you discover it is an even greater one than you had in mind and there were fewer bumps along the way.

Take your hands off the wheel.  Turn over the keys, even, and let Spirit do the driving.  And don’t forget that in doing so, you can even look around a bit and enjoy the ride.

Look Closely

Always examine your motives.  Why do you wish to take a certain action?  What is your driving force?  Is it spirit-driven or ego-driven?  Is spreading love the cause or is it self-aggrandizement?  When the anger and indignation that compel you to lash out die down and you can see straight again, can you respond in a manner that brings more love into the world, or are your proposed actions merely a way to make the smaller self feel better? If more love is the cause, then go ahead with your plans.  If not, then have yet another chat with that pesky ego.  Do you really need to teach another a lesson, or is the lesson yours to learn?  As you release your desires, feel the lines in the face relax and feel the grip around your heart release.

Humming

Entanglement.  Yes, it is all one giant web, one mass of connections, a matrix in which you live and have your being.  Of course this makes no sense from the level of the physical world where you bump into each other.  Take your focus off of the body and allow your consciousness to drift down to the level where the body is nothing more than vibrating energy.  Now define your borders.  Now tell us where “you” end and your neighbor begins.  Now pick out your vibration as it spreads outward and blends with all others’.  Now do you see the connections?  Now do you feel the hum?  Now do you understand how what you do, say, and think affects the whole?  Now do you see how your love and positive thoughts make a difference?

You are all tangled up with each other, even when a world away.  At the level of the web, time and distance make no difference.  See the world differently today.  Feel the buzz of the hive of which you are a part.  A worker bee are you.  Now go ahead and make some honey, and may your life be all the more sweet for your efforts. 

Pointing

Pointing fingers is easy.  Taking responsibility is far more difficult.  Why?  Because ego gets in the way.  You live in a society where it is far too common to point fingers away from the self.  What if you were to say, “Because I am aware of this situation, I am part of it.  How can I help?”  On the day that you discover there is only One Mind and that there has only ever been one of You acting out the drama, then you will see the pointlessness of pointing fingers.  Until then, watch where you are pointing.  Withdraw the finger and insert your heart.

Walking a Mile in Another's Shoes

“Oh, look at that behavior,” you say.  “I would never do that!”  In this way you judge and ego is satisfied.  He feels superior and separate once again.  And then what happens?  One day you find yourself doing exactly what you once derided in another.  How does this happen?  All of you are here to experience human life.  All of you are capable of anything in the spectrum of human thought and behavior when you forget who you are and why you are here.*  This is why judgment is such a silly thing.  The tables can turn in an instant, for it takes diligence to keep the focus on Spirit.  Be not so quick to judge.  “There but for the grace of God go I” is a useful phrase to remember.  May you be graced today with remembrance and acceptance of the humanness of your brothers and of yourself.

*You are spirit-beings temporarily in human form, here to learn to love fully.

Nurturing

You are surrounded by others who do not think as you do.  And what happens?  Little by little you begin to sink down, for it is far easier to go along with the crowd.  And before you know it, you are judging others and feeling separate instead of knowing that in spite of your differences all is well.  It is quite fine that others do not see the glass as overflowing.  It is quite fine that others do not feel the oneness or understand that Love rules.  Your worries are not about those others.  Care about the spirit.  Nurture the soul.  Look inside and lift up your heart, and all else will fall into place.  You do not have to change the world, but it is quite beneficial to change for the better how you see the world.

Grateful

No man is an island.  Nothing happens in isolation.  You could not survive alone.  Dependency is not a bad thing.  It helps to reveal the interconnectedness of all things.  Give gratitude always for those who have gotten you to where you are now.  Some of them you would not think to thank, but when you pause to reflect, you will see that it is precisely those who you feel deserve no thanks who deserve it the most.  All is connected.  All those in your path lead you to grow.  Be grateful, and let it show.

At Peace

Peace begins at home.  Your true home, of course, is in the heart.  Wherever you go you can take peace with you in spite of whatever chaos reigns around you.  If there was little peace in the physical home in the formative years, this set a pattern which you may still follow, searching for peace in odd ways.  You can reprogram the pattern at any time.  The past is past.  Help yourself and others to find peace by being an example of the same.  Show others that it is possible to be at peace by simply rising above the human nature and remembering Who you are.  This human stage will pass, but true peace reigns forever.