That Glow

She was such a bright light, and so was he.  And now it seems that light has gone out.  Certainly it is gone from your presence, but what remains?  A glow in your heart.  That is the part of your loved one that can never be extinguished.  While you remain in human form you may no longer see their eyes or touch their skin with yours, but you can feel that glow any time you bring them to mind.  Yes, there is an ache there in the heart, for the glow was so strong.  It remains so.  Know that they live on, not just in your memories, but as close as your breath. 

The light never goes out.  There can be no death of light, only perceived darkness.  Light is Light.  Open your heart and dive in until both of your lights are fully aware that there is naught but Light, naught but Love, which can never be separated.

All in All

This little blue marble upon which you find yourself is but a speck among billions.  You are a speck among billions of others living upon that speck.  Within you are billions of cells.  Are any of them vying for importance, or simply fulfilling their purpose?  Why is it so different with humans?  For you are far more sentient, far more conscious of your consciousness.  What will you do with the awareness that you are, and that cells are, and that planets are, and that in the grand scheme of things the All is in the small, and the small is in the All? 

If you truly understand the importance of this last statement, the profundity of it, you would drop to your knees and bless every flower, every twig, every mountain and every molehill.  Instead, so many go to great lengths to make the self feel better.  That is simply ego at work.  It comes with the higher consciousness package as a sort of self-regulating system.  It is programmed to make you believe that you are running the show, and you can run the show … for a little while … until you realize that something is missing.  What is it?

It is the connection with all of the other cells, without which you would not exist.  You are part of the All.  An integral part, for sure, but no more or less important than any other aspect of creation.  You are gifted with sentience—with the conscious awareness of I AM.  Such a gift.  What will you do with that awareness?

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Gone Native

You all walk in two worlds at once—the physical and non-physical—as human and spirit, but most do not realize it.  This is by design.  If you all remembered that at birth you entered here fully divine and fully human, where would be the learning and the soul growth?  And so, gradually you forgot.  Within a few years after your birth, by imitation and by being told how to think and act, you had “gone native.”  This is what happens at times to prisoners in a foreign land, Can you appreciate the analogy?  The language, actions, and ultimately the thoughts transfer to those of the new surroundings, but always, somewhere back in the memories, is the remembrance of home.

The soul has not forgotten.  Your true Home is more than a memory.  It still lies within, but many of you have gone native.  Balancing Home and spirit is as easy as acknowledging the stirring in your heart.

Noticed

No act of kindness goes unnoticed, nor does any act of cruelty.  All actions, just as all thoughts, are registered in your soul’s signature.  Who are you?  You are not your labels, your possessions, or your position.  You are spirit—a soul whose underlying essence is love.  Every thought you have, every action you take either adds to or detracts from the quality of your consciousness.  The sum total of these pluses and minuses is the quality of consciousness the soul carries now and at the time of your passing through the veil.  This is why you are here—to take back a higher quality of consciousness than that with which you arrived into form as a babe.  This is why no acts go unnoticed. 

This is not meant to add pressure to you.  The soul already knows this.  It is why you are so pulled toward love and why there is an uncomfortable feeling when your thoughts and actions are out of alignment with your true Self.  It is a self-regulating system.  Merely tune in to your heart and you will stay on track to fulfill your soul’s purpose.

Only One Answer

And so you have had an argument with one you love.  Angry words were shared.  You have turned your back, and now your teeth are gritting, your jaw clenched.  If this is how your physical body reacts, what of the heart?  In a metaphysical way it is clenched as well.  Oh, so unhealthy on multiple levels.  You have dug in now with ego intent on holding its position at all costs.  And what is the cost?  The love is not flowing freely.  This is a most unnatural state, most unhealthy, unbalanced, and uncomfortable. 

You can blame the other all you like.  Ego likes that.  Or you can ask yourself, “What do I have to learn from this?  How can I get the love flowing again?”  The answer to the latter is always the same:  by transcending the “me vs. you” mentality and seeing from the single “I” of Spirit that all that matters is love.  We repeat:  All that matters is love. 

Right or wrong, blame, and judgment are irrelevant at the level of Oneness.  Here or there, there is only one answer.  You find peace through Love.

The Single Eye

Judgment.  You look upon another’s words, actions, appearance, and other attributes and put them on a relative scale in comparison to your own.  And then you give that other a thumbs up or a thumbs down, and in so doing, you feel better or worse.  It is all about comparison to evoke a sense of separation in yourself.  Can you see how insidious ego is?  This comparison happens so easily, so automatically, that you barely notice.

Do you really need to feel separate and superior?  If you answer to ego you do.  If you answer to Spirit you do not.  Most everything you judge in another you have either thought or done yourself or may secretly like to do.  Why?  Because all are human.  We do not judge you for judging.  We merely nudge you every so often in the direction of awakening to ego’s tricks and how he is at work in you. 

There is quite a difference between observing and judging.  Open your eyes a bit more today … your spirit eyes … and when they becomes single, you will no longer judge.

Put Out

“Oh, must I do that again?” you moan inside, feeling a bit put out by your responsibilities.  A part of you would like nothing better than to sit in a chair and be pampered.  That is ego, grouchy fellow that he can be.  You are here in physical form not to stagnate, but to grow—to help the soul evolve.  Every experience and every interaction with another soul becomes a growth opportunity.  Yes, it is good to rest.  Balance is critical, but when your responsibilities bring out less than loving thoughts and feelings within you, all it takes to improve your attitude is a simple shift in perspective.   Instead of, “Must I do that again?” you think to yourself, “I am so grateful for this opportunity to practice being Love.” 

What does an enlightened being do after becoming enlightened?  Chop wood, carry out the trash, and be the very presence of Love.

Selfless

Self-less acts:  when you do something with no regard for personal gain.  Did you know this is impossible?  It is impossible to do something from the heart for another or a group of others and not gain in your own heart.  In serving others you are raising the consciousness, the spirit, the quality of the Whole of which you are a part.  You are “coming from the heart,” and what flows out from you must flow back.  It is the Law.  So, yes, think of it as self-less if you will, but only in terms of the individual self with a small s.  All acts of the heart come from the greater Self, which is Love.

Soul Nutrition

What are you feeding your mind?  What kind of mental diet do you digest daily?  What you read and watch is as important to the soul as food to the body.  Regular ingestion of lower vibrations maintains your over-all state of consciousness in a state of indigestion.  Heartburn is the result of imbibing in foods that you call “rich.”  Burned out is the feeling in the soul when you are poor in spirit … when the heart longs for richer thoughts and concepts than watching the cruelty and pain that those who slumber inflict upon others.  Perhaps it is time for a change. 

Small vs. Big

Why do you do what you do?  What is your motive?  Ultimately, all actions come down to a desire for love.  It is that simple.  When it becomes complicated is when the love you seek is self-love, a false sense of needing to feel separate from your fellow souls, instead of Self-love, which is the recognition that all souls are one in Spirit. 

When your thoughts are aligned with that greater Self, your actions will result in far greater peace, joy, and satisfaction.  Why is this?  It is a self-regulating system, nudging you every moment to move your focus from that more limited, smaller “s” to the big “S.”  Love is always there, for you are that Self.  Once the soul fully remembers this, there is no longer a need to seek love in ways that are less than beneficial to the Whole, but to simply be that which you are:  Love.

Integration

Long distance travelers grow weary.  All need rest at some point.  Along the path you cannot be in a constant state of doing without suffering imbalance.  Periods of merely being allow for integration of what is learned during the doing.  On and off, work and play, doing and being.  Seek balance, and even in the rest there is growth.

Beneath the Surface

How do you find peace?  By going within.  Certainly, it can be found outside of you, but not for long, for that is not the nature of the external world.  There you may get shaken up a bit, tossed about by the waves, and that is as it should be.  But when you grow weary of the learning experiences offered to you there on the surface, sink, sink, sink to the quiet waters within.  You cannot stay there forever, either, nor does your soul want to, for it longs to stretch and grow.  This is the nature of life:  ongoing cycles of stretching, growth, rest, and regeneration.  You see it in nature all around you.  When you can see it and recognize it within yourself, you can find peace even within the duality.

The Straightest Path

Cheating … when one arrives at a prize by not following established rules … when one earns position, authority, success, or gain of any kind by a crooked path.  The thought brings a concept of unfairness to mind.  The hair bristles.  It is human nature to desire the prize and to obtain it by the easiest methods.  You can understand this.  “Where is the fairness?”  Right or wrong, fair or unfair … these are human concepts.  Cheating is a human thing.  You all arrive at the state of mind you call Heaven—the grand prize—by following the path of the heart.  Yes, all will arrive on the other side by hook or crook, but the state of Consciousness with which you arrive will differ based upon how you thought and acted whilst in human form.  You cannot cheat death and you cannot trick the soul, which knows only honesty and love.  Be pure love and go directly Home, to Heaven, which resides in your heart, not some far off place.

In a World of Duality

To focus on the positive does not mean to put your head in the sand.  Sooner or later, as a human, you must come up for air.  You look around you and you see what you call evil.  You know it, for it is in such dissonance with the heart and soul of you.  Denying it does not make it go away, but you need not condone it nor accept it.  There is a difference between allowing and accepting.  Accepting says, “I live in a world of duality, but perhaps by helping to spread ripples of love I can make a difference.  And so, I allow these things to unfold as they will, but I do not accept them as my path.  I give no power to any-thing but Love.  I see it, I recognize it, but I do not accept this as my Truth.  I AM Love.”  With this mindset, and allowing others to accept or reject their own truth, you find peace within the duality.

When the Impossible Becomes Possible

To dream the impossible dream … Yes, songs and movies have been written from this phrase.  Lives have been rewritten as a result of it.  So many fail to dream, and those who do, dream only of possible things.  How your world would expand if you knew that anything is possible.  You are a creative being born in the image and likeness of the Creator.  Does this mean your Creator has two eyes, legs, and hands?  Or does it mean the Creator is Consciousness from which all that is—including you—has arisen?

Think of the impossibility that of the billions of beings who could have arisen from the union of billions of beings and cells YOU are here. 

Anything is possible when you dream big enough, but does it serve the greater good?  Is there a greater purpose in it?  Ah, yes, there’s the rub.  Put the two together—impossible dreams and greater purpose—and you have the keys to creation.

Fearless

Fear is an integral part of the human experience—a great learning tool as well as a survival mechanism.  It is hard-wired into your system in the fight or flight response.  Do not disdain fear, but appreciate it.  But when there is no need or ability to flee, examine which of your fears are truly necessary.  Your survival, when you see with the eyes of the soul, is assured.

There is no death.  From this perspective, there is no need to fear anything.  It is only those who remain fixed in human-ego consciousness who live with fear as a partner.  Those who know the truths of the spirit may still respond with fight or flight in the moment of human “beingness,” but upon remembering who they are eternally, make the simplest shift of awareness, and move beyond the fear to the heart.  Here peace prevails in the eternal awareness that there is only one Power, and that Power is Love. 

You are That.  You come from That and live to express That.  Fear is a beautiful reminder that you live for a while now in two worlds and can choose where you place your focus:  on human or spirit, fear or love.

Ever Onward

Allow yourself to make what you call mistakes.  We call them learning opportunities.  You will have these opportunities repeatedly for the rest of your life.  A decision made or an action taken which leads to a less than optimal outcome is not a mistake if it leads to soul growth.  Get used to making mistakes, but instead of feeling regret, as you awaken more and more to who you are and why you are here, feel gratitude instead that you always have choices and always will.  Set the intention of making the optimal choices with the awareness that even those choices will change as you grow.

Bonds

When one you have known passes from your life it is a shock.  You are so very used to having their physical presence with you.  You see, feel, and hear the effects of a physical body and equate this with the one you know and love.  “I can’t believe they no longer exist!” you think in this state of shock.  “How can they be here one minute and gone the next?”  We wish you to know they are not gone, and they most certainly exist.  What is gone is the physical presence.  Yes, this is a great loss, but we wish you to realize that the spirit of that one is as near as your thoughts.

It is the human way to focus on the physical to the exclusion of the spirit.  Where was and is your greatest connection?  At the heart.  Were it not for that bond, all else would lose its importance.  The body may be gone, but the bond remains.  That bond was always of the spirit, soul-to-soul, and that soul is still with you. 

Heaven is not a far off place.  It is as near as your heart.  You need only lessen your insistence and focus on the physical aspects and learn to shift your awareness to the spirit.  You are That now.  Go to the heart and connect.  Have a conversation soul-to-soul.  The one who has passed will rejoice.  “Finally, she knows!  Finally, he knows!  I am here, and I love you.”

The soul is eternal.  The body is not.  Miss the physical presence as you will, but realize the truth:  Love lasts forever.

The Bridge

Build a bridge from your heart to the world, and then you can go anywhere with confidence.  When connected to your Source at the center, you are aligned with and guided by Love.  Yes, you may stumble a bit when walking amongst humans who have not yet discovered this sacred place, but you will never fall.

Be honest with yourself.  When you have fallen in the past, were you in alignment?  Where was ego?  At your side or tucked away where he belongs? 

Remain in the center—not always the easiest thing to do, but most certainly the most rewarding—and you will always arrive safely Home.  You never really left, you know.  With this realization, you come to understand that the bridge from the heart is a bridge that takes you right back where you started.