Opening the Connection

Life can seem cold and hard at times.  This is what happens when the heart is shut off.  Do you know that you control this connection?  That is what the heart is – a connection point between you and all else.  You open and shut this connection with the mind, oft times unconsciously.  Are you feeling cut off, alone, cold, separate?  Sit quietly and picture someone or something such as a kitten or a puppy that makes your heart sing.  Imagine holding that person or creature to your heart.  You will feel this area open as you open the connection.  Now that you remember how this feels, hold the connection open.  Holding it open, think of someone else and send that energy outward toward them.  It is all a mental exercise, yet very real.  You are never alone.  You are never cut off, save in your own mind.  Use that very mind to bring yourself back into alignment with your true self and with all that is.

Mastery

A jack of all trades, a master of none.  It is good to be talented at many things, but is there benefit in mastery?  Indeed, there is.  You are here to achieve mastery over your thoughts.  When you can choose love and peace in every instant – yes, every instant, then you have achieved mastery.  Until then, you dabble.  Dabbling is well and good, as long as you do not play with your finger paints too long.  Remember that the master artist is already inside.  At some point you will move on from dabbling, pick up your finest brushes, and create your masterpiece.  It will not have random splotches of love and peace, but will be a glorious exposition of the finest artistry. 

The Master is inside.  Learning to master your emotions is an art.  What will you paint today?

All You Ever Have

Savor every moment of this existence, for now is all you have.  The past is over.  Why do you carry it to this present moment?  Doing so is a learned habit because you think all moments are connected and sequential.  They are not.  You create each moment anew.  You need not connect each dot.  You are not happy now?  Choose happiness ... now.  “But I cannot be happy because such-and-such is happening!”  And there you err.  There is only now.  Isolate this moment and choose how to see it.  Choose how to live it.  Savor this moment.  Savor this existence, for now is all you ever have.  It is always your choice.  That is how being a creator works.

Eternal

All that exists is Consciousness expressed as waves of energy.  You think you miss a person when they are gone, but what you are missing is their exact recipe of frequencies.  Their body had a certain frequency that made it feel a certain way to you.  Their eyes and nose and mouth vibrated in such a way that this made them appear a certain way to you.  Their soul, especially, vibrated in a certain way that made them recognizable to you. 

The body may be gone, but the soul lives on, vibrating, recognizable, eternal.  You cannot destroy the soul, for consciousness continues.  The body is recycled, as is soul energy, but the particular vibration that is your loved one will always exist in the ethers, as will you.  It is all part of the greater Consciousness … all one sea of loving energy.  We return to this basic lesson over and over until it sinks in that you are all connected, all eternal, and All That Is at the core.

Limitless

Do you know the limits of your heart?  Have you tried to find it?  Try today.  See if you can love too much.  When one is angry in your presence, open your heart more rather than closing it off for protection.  When one is sad, open it even more and watch the healing take place.  You are a healer.  All of you are, yet so few realize this.  Open your heart as wide as you can and stretch this muscle.  You have not even begun to realize the limits of love, for just when you think you have reached bliss, the heart expands again.  Test the heart’s limits today.  Stretch it as far as you think it can go.  We will meet you there.

Hands

You clap your hands to make a sound.  This can be for various reasons:  to call attention or to express appreciation or to keep a beat in time with music.  Such versatility, and all this with two hands striking one another.  A hand strikes out and hits another being.  Yet another use.  These hands can be used for such a variety of means.  They are instruments … tools.  They make noise, they perform work.  They can strike a face or caress a face.  Who does the choosing of how these tools will be used?  You do, of course.  But do you not realize that you are an instrument of Consciousness?  You can be used for harm, when will and ego get in the way, or good, when the greater Consciousness governs the instrument.  Be an instrument of peace and love today and every day, and that will be a reason for clapping.

Quality Not Quantity

You celebrate the years passed in physical form one after the other.  You light candles and sing songs.  ‘Tis true, there is reason to celebrate life, but not merely life in physical form.  Celebrate existence.  You consider the number of years in form important.  You consider it a tragedy when one no long has birthdays to celebrate.  We see it differently.  Celebrate the quality of the life.  Celebrate the level of love and compassion-sharing achieved.  This is something to sing about … another year wiser, another year more loving.

Quality, not quantity.   This is what matters, for life goes on eternally.  How long you spend in physical form matters not a whit.  How you spend that time in physical form is what it’s all about.

Anticipation

Anticipation is half of the fun.  And so you are impatient, waiting for news.  Is not the anticipation delicious?  Yes, until the doubts creep in and then the anticipation changes to disappointment.  You feel elation; you feel depression, yet what situation has changed?  Nothing but your thoughts.  How do you wish to feel?  Happy, sad, or somewhere in between?  It is always up to you.  Trust that all is in perfect order and allow yourself to enjoy the anticipation, but to find true peace, simply enjoy being you in this very moment.

A Thought Away

Distance does not separate us.
We're not so far away.
Take in a breath and blow it out.
Say what you want to say.

We hear you as you sit and breathe
And contemplate the light,
For deep inside is where we live
Not far away and out of sight.

Our world is yours; it's not distinct,
Just different vibrations
Not divided by false borders
Like geographic nations.

To join the two just close your eyes
And loving thoughts bring to your mind
And there our worlds meet on the breath
Like two hearts intertwined.

A thought away, that's all we are
So keep us close at hand
For now you cannot touch us
But at your side is where we stand.

The Human Barometer

One you are with expresses anger, and you immediately flare up.  Is it righteousness on your behalf or merely are you feeling their anger and enacting it?  If you are sensitive to energy, it is the latter.  If you are reacting as ego, it is the former.  Sensitives beware:  You are like a barometer rising and falling with the emotional waves of others around you.  Simply being aware of this automatic reaction can help you to maintain peace.  Knowing how energy affects you, use that knowledge.  Affect others by radiating peace.  Change the energy present by exuding love.  It goes both ways.  All is energy.  Do not let it use you.  Use this knowledge to bring greater peace and love to those around you and to your world.

On the Fringes

On the fringes.  Is that where you are?  What are fringes, but dangling pieces that hang from the main body of a piece of cloth.  Picture the mass consciousness as the cloth, and those who dare to think differently as the fringes.  Is this so bad?  It is the mass belief in a judgmental God that keeps man judging man.  It is the mass belief that you are all separate that makes it difficult for one man to forgive another.  Remain on the fringes if you can .. sending your higher vibrations ever upward from where you hang and change the very fabric of your world.

The Light Within

There is only one Light which shines on all of us.  It matters not whether you are here or there on either side of the veil.  The warmth of this Light is what binds us.  May it comfort you to know that this Light never goes out.  In our world it shines constantly.  In yours it is oft obscured by clouds and shadows.  That Light is not the sun, however.  It does not come from without.  It is always there within you.  It glows so brightly from the Whole of its radiance that it is felt to be without, but you cannot be without it.  It is this Light that gives you life.  Breathe it in.  Exhale it.  Feel its warmth and shine on.  Together we create a glow that warms the world.

Chapters

Death is not a punishment for the one who dies early or for those left behind.  It is also not a lesson to be learned.  It is a natural transition from one chapter of existence to another.  If in the chapter in the physical plane love was shared and there was growth, then you return to Spirit with a gift.  You add to the Whole. 

It is all about growth … evolution of the soul … this thing called Life.  “Why must those left behind suffer?” you ask.  They need not if they can see with new perspective.  If nothing comes of the passing of a loved one, then so it is.  If greater love comes from their presence and from all having shared love together in this incarnation, all the better.

Life is ongoing.  Death is not the end, merely a new chapter.  You may not turn the page at the same time, but you will eventually meet in the next chapter.

Genuinely You

He or she is “genuine” … the real thing … coming from the heart.  Why is this genuine?  For the heart is your link with Spirit.  When one is motivated by spirit they are genuinely in touch with the heart, and others can feel this.  When motivated by ego, you often refer to one as fake.  It is a false front.  Why are you drawn to genuine and repulsed by fake?  Again, it is all about vibration.  The heart knows what is real. 

You want others to be drawn to you?  You need do nothing but surrender.  Drop any pretenses.  You are the real deal now.  You are eternal spirit … of the heart of God.  Be yourself and you will sparkle … not as a fake reflection of a jewel, but as the genuine jewel itself that you are.

Beyond the Illusion

No other can do the work that you must do.  No other can solve your challenges.  In truth, there is no other.  We know this makes no sense to the human mind which looks about and becomes angry.  “Do you not see those others?  Do you not see what they have done?”  And the truth is, as long as you look out and see only humans you will remain in this mindset.  The moment you realize that it is your human eyes which deceive you, your human ears and fingers and voice which add to the deception, then you will begin to heal.

As illusion dissolves and you imagine atoms dissolving into waves of energy that you call spirit, then you will no longer perceive any differences.  This is called perspective.  Yes, while you are here and remain focused on the human world the challenges are very real, but with this new perspective, perhaps you can find a new approach to handling them.

From "Me" to "We"

Do you have any idea how great is Allness?  You have but a glimmer.  It appears as if the world revolves around each one of you, but it is not about you at all.  Therefore, it is not about that other one, either.  It is not about the “me” but the “we” who make up the All.  And even this is just a microcosm of the macrocosm.  Allness is so great, so vast that the individual mind fails to grasp it. 

For now, settle on feeling your present concept of allness, which is an aspect of Oneness.  It is a state of being so grand it could overwhelm you, for all arises from Love.  When you return to “me” you have eliminated vast experiences of Love.  Expand the consciousness to envelope as much of the All as you can to experience more of the Love.  For today, shift from “me” to “we” and you have taken a mighty step forward.

Turbulence

Like a pilot, you choose a destination and take off.  You have a flight path well in mind.  Then, unexpectedly you encounter turbulence—bumps along the way that cause you discomfort.  You can either fly on through it, or go around the bumpy parts.  While going around you see something from this new perspective that catches your eye, and suddenly you are going off in a new direction completely unplanned.  Why, this new destination looks incredible!   And so it is when you land and check it out.

Do you see how it works?  You may experience some discomfort in the bumps, but often the turbulence along your path is exactly what you need, leading you to an even better “now.”

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Sea of Love

Many are you in bodies, one are you in Spirit.  How can you read another’s mind if the mind is not of the same energy?  Waves of energy … that is what you are when you break down the illusion.  Sound, light, thought … it is all the same thing.  What is the Force that propels it all, the sea from which it all arises?  Love, plain and simple.

Would you not like to be drowning in a sea of love?  Release your grip on the need to be separate and dissolve into the love.  Melt away.  “But I will disappear!” you cry in fear, and that is illusion speaking.  You will not disappear.  You will become One.  You will return to Wholeness.  You will be Home, and it is the fear of not having any of that that has created all the disturbance in the first place. 

You are That, my friend.  Slip into the depths and feel the love.  It is not such a scary place to be after all.

Just Right

The sweet spot … that perfect point of balance, where everything is just right, in perfect harmony … delectable and delicious.  Are you seeking the sweet spot in your life, in your relationships, in your self?  It is all about balance.  Too much of a good thing is no longer sweet.

It is a delicate balance, this thing called life.  You are a combination of human and spirit.  Throughout your day your focus drifts between being very human and being aware of yourself as eternal spirit.  Where is that sweet spot?  Ah, finding it is half the fun, and you know it when you have found it.

Life can be quite sweet.  May your enjoyment of it be not too little, not too much, but just right.

Tightrope

Pride is a funny thing.  It allows you to see your worthiness and to hold your head high, as all of you should.  The challenge comes in giving credit to the appropriate Source.  May your pride be a reflection of the amount of Presence you are able to display.  May it be a reflection of your gratitude at your awareness of the Source flowing through you.  May it be a reflection of the joy in setting ego aside and allowing Love to flow. 

Beware.  Ego will want to take credit even for this.  Pat it on the head once again with understanding and remain proud but humble—a delicate balance, but a fine tightrope to walk upon.

Reflecting

If you were to shatter a mirror, would any of the pieces be any less reflective than before?  Not at all.  Each would retain its original quality.  You are a shard of the Mirror of which you are made—no less magnificent for your size.  Do not take the physical into consideration when thinking about your true nature, for physicality has nothing to do with the part of you that is essential.

Breathe in deeply and follow the breath inward, inward, inward.  Now exhale and follow the breath outward, outward, outward endlessly.  There.  You have just had the tiniest inkling of who you are.  Your breath merges with that of all others and all that is.  For now you are merely enjoying an experience of the in and out-breathing of the great Soul.  May your loving actions today be the perfect reflection of who you really are.

Changing the Outcome

Regarding assumptions, they can be dangerous.  Assumptions are based upon beliefs, which oft can lead you astray.  Before making a decision, examine your motive and the assumptions you are making.  Do you have facts to back up your decision?  Can you trust facts in a world where nothing is as it seems?

Go back to the basics.  Create a blank screen with silence as a soundtrack.  From there create the perfect scenario.  Now match it with your previous assumptions.  Which feels more correct?  Perhaps the answer or path is somewhere in the middle, but because you have taken the time to go back to the center, we trust you will have a better outcome.

Your Script

Have we not told you this life is a play?  For some it is a drama, for others an adventure.  And do you not have your script?  You have your role and your words so well memorized, so well-practiced, that you repeat them without thinking. 

Perhaps it is time to update your role.  Classics are entertaining, but times do change.  Can you modernize your lines a bit?  How about a bit of improvisation now and then?  See how your audience reacts if you change things up a bit.  You may surprise yourself.  See how it feels to step outside the lines once in a while.  Does it bring more peace, love, and joy?  Then step to center stage and expound on these new lines a bit more.

You are not stuck in your current role at all.  Allow yourself to be inspired.  You are a co-creator with the Creative Director of life.  Enjoy the freedom. 

Dentistry

You remove a tooth because it hurts.  Pain is an indicator that something is amiss.  Does the t(r)ooth  actually hurt, or is it the nerves around it?   Where is your pain really coming from?
 
Are those around you who you blame for your pain truly the cause of your pain, or is the real cause the nerve endings of your thoughts and beliefs?

Pay attention to the pain, then do what you must to extract yourself from the situation.  We do not mean for you to run away, merely to change it in some way by changing your thoughts.  Then, if action is still required, you will be in a much healthier position to take that action.

Can you play the dentist instead of the one in pain?  Step outside of yourself and look down upon the problem as the practitioner with the higher view.  “Aha!  Here is the root cause, not this surface issue at all.”  Be your own practitioner, as honest with yourself as you can, then get to work on the root of your pain.

Flying High

‘Tis true what they say
You cannot see the forest for the trees.
If only you could fly above
And see what the eagle sees!

Why then, my child, your view would change.
No longer would you fear.
For up so high when flying
All your answers would be clear.

The questions that you ponder now
Have all been answered, yet
You do not see this clearly
When your connection you forget.

Remembering is half the fun.
Ask the bird who flies
How free it feels to rise and soar
With abandon through the skies.

Leave your worries on the ground.
Rise above the body and you’ll see
That never do you walk alone
When you fly with Me.

You can lift off any moment.
You can rise above the pain.
Drift beyond the storm clouds
Far beyond the rain.

This freedom is your birthright.
You’ve merely lost your way.
But take My hand, come fly with me
On this, Remembrance Day.

Fancy That

“Tickle my fancy” – such a strange expression.  It means that a thing appeals to you.  What tickles your fancy in a delightful way and why?  Pleasure is the Creator’s way of drawing you near.  When your fancy is tickled you smile.  When you smile you cannot help but feel joy.  Where there is joy, there is love, and voila!  There you have reunited with the Creator!

Pick up a feather today and tickle someone else’s fancy.  Make them laugh and smile, and in so doing, be the hand of God.  Do you see how easy it is to co-create?

In Observation

Do you realize that you are addicted to your programming?  Your thoughts and actions play over and over like the grooves of a well-worn record player.  Ego likes this.  It maintains the feeling of separation, of individuality.  “And what is wrong with this?”  Nothing, we say, unless you would rather enjoy peace. 

How to find the elusive peace?  Step back and spend a day merely observing your self from afar.  Watch yourself think and act.  Do the thoughts and actions of that one seem peaceful?  Is there reason in them or insanity?  When you are ready to slip back in the role of that one again, remember that that one has never really been in charge.  Perhaps you have felt a greater closeness with the True Self whilst outside ego’s role and will take a bit of that back with you.

Better to Have Loved ...

When all you have left are pictures, oh how you cry.  You feel that you only have memories, but there you err.  Your loved ones are still with you.  They have left you in physical form for a while, but what they have left you cannot be destroyed.  They have left you a greater capacity to love.  They have expanded your awareness of how it feels to love and laugh. 

Yes, in a world of duality you now feel the pain of physical loss, but that love never dies.  Bring them to mind and they are with you.  It is the human side of you that instantly goes to grief.  Set that programming aside and visit for a while in spirit.  Have a chat and bask in the love until you can chat again face to face.  Love never dies.  You can experience expanded love in an instant.  Sit in the love and give thanks for having the love at all.

In Alignment

Why does it feel good to do good things?  It is not a reward.  It is because you are in alignment with your Source, with your True Self.  There is order in alignment.  There is resonance.  The Universe sings when there is resonance.

Nothing is ever so important that you cannot stop what you are doing to help another.  In helping another you align with your Source, for in truth, there is no other.  It is merely the right hand helping the left hand of the same Body.

Resonance.  Alignment.  Harmony.  All part of the experience of this song of Life.

On Miracles

Miracles are little peeks through the curtain … special occasions when we show you in an unmistakable way that you are not alone.  Why not bring you miracles every day?  Two reasons.  First, then they would lose their magic, their sparkle, their special “stand-outness.”  Second, if all realized that miracles were simply a sign of our closeness in your lives, then the veil would be lifted completely, and there would be no need for this earthly experience.  Don’t you think the fun should continue?

We are quite aware that life is not fun for many.  Learning to see the good and find the Love is the greatest reason of all to live as a human being.  When the point comes that all see the good and share the love, that will be the greatest miracle of all.

New Perspective

Prepare yourself.  There will be quite a surprise when you finally wake up.  You will find that many of the things you held dear are actually not so important, and those things you may have pushed to the side are more important.  In actuality, nothing is more or less of anything.  Everything simply IS, and it is in enjoying the existence of all that is that you grow. 

Life is for the experience of it.  Nothing more.  If you can bring more peace, joy, and love to the experience while you have it, the experience will be all the more full, but you cannot fail at this game of life.  Life simply is, so have fun, why don’t you?  Relax and ask to see things differently today.