Berries on a branch Hang heavy and low.The fruit of the treeSo abundant does it grow.You reach up and pluck it.It’s there for you to take.With all of this sweetness, Just what will you make?All the world is yours,Just like the tree that’s filled with fruit.Yet so many wander blindlyAnd [...]
Forget the past. It was a moment of the present that is no longer present and no longer affects you unless you hold onto it so tightly that you fail to see the beauty in the present moment. Yes, certainly you can learn from those past moments, but not by [...]
Just as a pebble sinks to the bottom of a lake, your conscious mind sinks into the depths of the Pure Consciousness of which it is a part. Deeper and deeper you go as you relax the body and allow the thoughts to drift away on the surface. There in [...]
Frost on the windowObscures the viewSo thick at timesNo light can get through.But take a fingerAnd wipe a small holePeer insideAnd lo! There's the soul!What icy exteriorDoes obscure what's inside?Why so muchFrom your True Self do you hide?Take a large clothAnd clear the whole pane.Never more hide the LightNot from [...]
Wish upon a falling star …Guess the number in a jar …All seems haphazard, nothing sure.Is nothing certain evermore?Yes, one truth stands o’er the rest.Of time and doubt it passes the test:You come from Spirit – know this now.Into your heart this Truth allow.The stars you see come from this [...]
Scattered thoughts run about the mind as if at random. Pay them no heed. The brain wants to chatter incessantly, but beyond the brain lies your connection with All That Is—with the very Source of those thoughts which run here and there. Do not eschew those thoughts, for they, like [...]
Truth is an elusive thing, for in your reality all is based upon perception, and perception is different from every angle. What is blue to you may not be the same as blue to your brother, yet how would you know? So often you do insist that your truth is [...]
Strategy is a word you use for a detailed plan. Do you not realize that your Creator has a strategy for you? You are to awaken however slowly to the Truth that you are not merely a human being, but a being far more powerful—a spirit-being … a child of [...]
Bury your resentments. They do you only harm, keeping you from expressing your true nature. So many of you hold onto negative emotions as if they were your friends—as if you could not survive without them. Hear us now: You would literally THRIVE without them.It is only the survival instinct [...]
Each day is a fresh start. As you open your eyes, think not back upon what has gone before, but rejoice in yet another opportunity to create anew. If you find yourself filled with worry, then you are holding onto false illusions of yourself and the situations around you. Surrender! [...]
Note from Suzanne: This poem came to me as have all the others—non-stop, in less than five minutes, with eyes closed as I simply listened. For the first 369 poems, visit www.MessagesOfHopePoems.org. You can search by topic by using the search block under my picture.Share your talents with the worldIn [...]
Beauty abounds, if you would only open your eyes. Beauty is, indeed, in the eye of the beholder. What is beauty to one person—and yes, even to one culture—may not be considered beauty to another. All of life is like this—subject to perceptions and beliefs. Each individual focus of consciousness [...]
There are many fish in the ocean—creatures of many sizes and shapes. Some are dangerous, some benign. These fish are analogous with your thoughts. They swim through your mind –some dangerous, in that they can cause harm to self and to others; some benign, in that they can do good [...]
From Suzanne: As happens quite often, I heard the opening lines of Sanaya’s message today and couldn’t help but think, “Where is this going?” And as always happens, the words continued and I ended up shaking my head in wonder at this process—the process of attunement and communication with such [...]
Note from Suzanne: This evening on ABC News, Diane Sawyer presented a special feature about the way the Japanese people are handling the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami. She expressed amazement that there has not been a single case of looting in the affected areas, and how beautifully the [...]
All of you are so very interconnected. You breathe the very air that has circulated through billions of bodies, yet it is with the spirit that you are even more closely entwined. Where do you draw the boundary between two focuses of Consciousness? Is it at the perimeter which you [...]
Carry on your tasks of the day as if nothing were wrong. “But how can I do this?” you ask, “when around me my world is falling apart?” Do you see the angst you create with this very thought? It is there you place your focus, and in this way [...]
Note from Suzanne: Yesterday while running, I was thinking about the earthquake and tsunami which had just occurred in Japan, and I couldn’t help but hurt for so many people who were affected. I suddenly received an insight into how to look at yet another seeming tragedy in our world. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Alight you shineWith a fire so brightThat all can feel itEven had they no sight.This is what happensWhen God’s love you know.And through your actionsHis Light you do show.Hide not this Light,But let it shineAnd all will then senseThat this Light is Divine.All have this Light,But in some it is [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
