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You give meaning to objects. These are agreed-upon symbols which must be learned. For example: a red, white, and blue striped pole outside of a shop. You know this means the business is that of a barber. Without the agreement and someone having told you what the striped pole means, [...]

You say you will wait until inspiration strikes. There! Do you see? You are already acknowledging that some Intelligence beyond the limited self is working with you—assisting you—when you lack an idea to move forward. You do not strike yourself unless it is to hit the side of the head [...]

Be a light unto others. Yes, there may be times when you do not feel like shining, and that is when others’ lights lift you. This is the human way, to vacillate between bright and dim, but hear us well: the light within you never goes out. It may simply [...]

Are you always in a state of go, go, go? When do you stop, stop, stop? It becomes a habit to fill every moment. Have a second? Pick up your phone. Yes, we see you. All of you, and you would see us, or at the very least sense us, [...]

What is a portal but a doorway. You read about portals to other dimensions, and you grow excited for good reason. You are not limited to this human experience. Using the analogy of a doorway is quite useful when shifting focus in a meditative state from one apparent reality to [...]

When you wish to speak to those across the veil, do you find yourself sitting and waiting, sitting and waiting, and you sense no presence? Here is some heartfelt advice: feel your heart. You know the feeling when a burst of love causes the heart to come into your awareness. [...]

A kaleidoscope appeals to those of every age, turning those in middle age and old age into children. Why is this? For the swirling, twirling, unexpected wonders revealed before your eyes stir within the knowing of the soul that life is full of wondrous possibilities. You may be stuck in [...]

“This is a matter of life and death!” you declare with great seriousness, and you are stating a lie. It is not that the situation you reference is not serious. Your choice of words is false, non-sensical … a misrepresentation of Reality. Life and death are not opposites. Birth and [...]

Gifts come in many disguises. That delay that causes you so much anxiety? From your limited point of view you may not be able to see that it is a great gift to you, for this delay causes other pieces to fall into place where they would not have, had [...]

Is your habit to see the negative or the positive? Do you seek out the problems or that which is working? Of course, the world is not black or white. There is a spectrum from one opposite to the other. Understand that somewhere in between is ideal when dealing with [...]

Who is this person you call you? What if you changed your name? Would you still be the same person? What is a person? A person-ality plus memories and emotions and characteristics and features and all those THINGS you use to identify you relative to them. And what do all [...]

Expect newness. Be surprised when you respond in new ways. Once you set the intention to grow and change, remain aware. You are repatterning your energy field as well as the pathways of the physical body. This is how evolution occurs. You may stumble and bumble, but in time and [...]

Where do you begin? When you have a new project, do you feel as if you have to figure it out by yourself? There is no such thing as “by yourself.” You have a team of non-physical helpers connected with you for life. If you doubt this, begin by moving [...]

What is important to you may not carry the same meaning to another. You may fret and simmer for minutes, hours, or longer only to find that the other involved in this story that the mind is knitting has long since forgotten the issue. And now who is the prisoner [...]

Sit quietly with eyes closed until you can feel your heartbeat without using the fingers. There it is, continuously doing its job of maintaining you in this physical experience. What is it that keeps the heart beating? It is not the mind. It is the soul. And beyond that? What [...]

“I lost it,” you may say when referring to throwing a tantrum or other such extreme behavior. And what is it you have lost? Awareness, dear one. Awareness of your True Nature and your deepest state. You were caught up in the swirling energies of a mental and emotional storm [...]

Be open to anything. Of course you do not wish to look foolish. To be open to something means to consider the possibilities. Your human world may seem limited, but it and you arise from a field far more vast than anything you know in your limited perspective within a [...]

Look around you. What do you see? If you are conditioned to see the human way, you see an object here, an object there. Perhaps people, pets, and property. I see differently. I see flow. I see not objects with space in between, but one united tapestry where “space” is [...]

To what or whom do you give your allegiance? Do you honor a story that has accumulated from the first moment those in authority over you gave you a name and told you who you are? Or do you honor the Voice within that tells you without words that you [...]

What is a heretic? One who goes against accepted wisdom. Are you willing to be a heretic? You need not speak your inner Truth aloud if it causes angst. Embrace it. Roll around with it awhile. Roll around in thoughts of being love and loving all others until the idea [...]

Do not ever think that you have learned it all. When you reach a point that no new information seems to be coming forth, this is merely a fertile time of resting and integrating what has already been learned. Why come into this incarnation if not to continue growing? Hear [...]

“You’re on a streak,” someone tells you, and you feel good. But now the pressure begins. The human side of you, which you would understand as the ego, feels it must continue the streak at all costs. And what is that cost? Peace, dear one. Why is it so important [...]

Gratitude is the great equalizer. All that you have and all that you appear to own are possible thanks to the one Web of connections. Yes, there are disparities. Through the contrast you are given opportunities. One disparity may cause envy. Another may cause pride. These may cause you to [...]

What is consciousness but awareness, your most basic essence. Why does it matter to pay attention to this? When you are not aware, it is far easier to suffer. What if you did not know that all is connected at the deeper levels? Then you would feel separate, alone, and [...]

Philosophy. A field of study in which you investigate the mind and thought. Do you know that most cannot even agree upon a definition of mind? It is for this reason that you will have those who spend a lifetime philosophizing about this formless aspect of you in a form. [...]

Do you really want to know how the story ends? Do you read from the back of a book to the front? No, you start at the beginning and enjoy the suspense as it builds. This is true in life as well, but instead of being simply a by-stander, you [...]

Mistakes happen. Do you chew on them endlessly, wondering how you might have done things better, reworking the scenarios in your mind over and over? This is the human way. Recognize the tendency, and then see mistakes for what they are: natural results of working by trial and error that [...]

What if that other who you judge has been wearing different lenses their whole life? What if both of you were unaware that you differ in your perceptions for both of you wear different sunglasses? The same light is here, yet the filters of the lenses shade the way you [...]

Does it matter what others think of you? To the human side it does, for approval means love. To the soul, which knows it is Love incarnated in a human body, you know that all of you arise from the same Source. The soul cares more about loving others and [...]

A swirling maelstrom. This is what you might call a storm of great proportions. It is quite easy to get sucked into patterns that swirl. Take notice how this happens in crowds of people and in conversations one-to-one when another becomes quite animated. You may be susceptible to these attractive [...]