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09/17/2025

Emptying

It’s not possible to catch a ball
when your hands are full.

It’s not possible to embrace someone
when you are all wrapped up in yourself.

It’s not possible to receive an insight
when your mind is locked in certainty.

It’s not possible to transform
when you are attached to your current form.

Put something down.

What can you release
so you have room
for what Life wants to give you?

Are you willing
to answer that question every day?

Let yourself be continually emptying
and you will experience
Grace continually filling,
through Her order.

09/16/2025

Who is it about?

Why do you judge others?

So you can use them
to feel better about yourself?
Are you unconsciously trying to shore up
your fragile self-image?

Do you figure
if they have these flaws,
then you are better than them
because you can see their flaws
and they can’t?

It’s all about you.

What if you did not need
to feel better about yourself?

What if your self-image
was taken off the table?

What if it is not open
for personal debate in your mind
because your value and worth
is at one with everyone’s value and worth
as part of the one Self?

When there is only one Self, one Being,
there is nothing to compare to:
no basis for judgment.

It’s all about Us.

09/15/2025

We Don’t Own Anything

If good does not belong to me
and evil does not belong to me,
then I need to hold each of them lightly
with an open palm
when they enter my experience.
It does not help to clutch at one
and push away the other.

Neither is me or mine,
or you or yours,
or us or ours.

We don’t own anything.
We have no real estate.

When we really get this,
we will not take things personally,
or judge others impersonally.

There will be
humble softness,
divine sweetness,
gentle compassion,
deep authenticity,
and a celebration of innocence,
which holds us and all.

We don’t own anything.
But we are forever owned by Grace.

09/14/2025

The Puppeteer

As the invisible threads of Grace
become visible and audible,
we realize that our bodies
are marionettes that are being moved
by the hands of Love.
They don’t operate without
the Life-force of Love moving them.

We don’t actually inhabit our bodies;
rather we are with them.
They are marvelous vehicles that help us
show up on the stage of earth,
but they do not contain us.

Our opportunity is to live without resistance
as we yield to each pull of Grace,
and to stop believing that we
run or control our own little puppet lives.

Through devotion
we can learn to be very still
in body and mind,
and to turn our heart to the Puppeteer.
This frees our intuition
to recognize and respond
to the slightest wink and nod of our Soul.

09/13/2025

Accessing Your Soul

We can access our unlimited Essence
that transcends our mind’s conditioning.

It takes awareness,
because we first need to recognize
that our impersonal conditioning
has us stuck in a rut.

It takes courage,
because we are leaving
the egoic nest of false comfort in the known.

It takes relaxing,
because all the physical
and emotional tension we carry
constricts our attention into repetitive reactivity.

It takes stillness,
because our monkey minds
have a distracting comment about everything.

It takes listening,
because we can only hear Grace
when we stop talking.

It takes love,
because nothing else is strong enough
to motivate us
to do all the above.

09/12/2025

Returning to One

We begin each incarnation
as a complete ‘being,’
dwelling in undifferentiated oneness.

We then, very early on,
get a lot of praise for our ‘doing.’
Next, we get mightily distracted
thinking the value of our ‘being’
is dependent upon really good ‘doings.’

In our endless search for “having” significance,
grasping and clutching become all-consuming.

Most of us live in this for much of our lives:
grasping at people and concepts;
clutching our feelings, love, and possessions,
all so that we can ‘have’ our complete ‘being’ back.

Take a breath. Reconsider.
Where could your ‘being’ go?
You don’t need to try to get back,
that which can never leave.

Relax, breathe,
and feel the reuniting realization
that your ‘being’
is not a fraction of the one Being,
but its forever, complete hologram.

09/11/2025

Take the Step

It’s not too late, ever,
to open to the glory and ghosts
that lie hidden deep within you.

You will find that any darkness
is shadows that are cast
by beliefs standing between you
and the light of your Soul.

Opening to the courage
to approach the belief
brings you into the shadow.

If you keep going
you will find that the belief
may be an outgrown truth that at one time
brought you temporary solace.

An example is: “I need my mother’s love.”
This may have served you as a toddler,
but at this point,
your attachment to your mother
(or anyone representing the love of your mother)
will keep you locked in a cycle of exclusivity.

See the belief for what it is:
an important stepping-stone
on the path across the river of childhood.

Your willingness to step through it now
in this way
helps you leave it behind
and stand and walk
in your authentic worthiness.

09/10/2025

Why Wait?

Gravity will always be on earth.
Its role is to
somehow tether you to the planet.

Until one day,
gravity loses its ability to hold onto you
and you find yourself
still you, still intact, the same in essence,
but body-free.

You can let go of gravity
before it lets go of you,
by going beyond your body-mind
and experiencing the innate freedom
of your eternal Soul.

This would be the point of meditation.

Why wait?

09/09/2025

Quit the Fortune-telling

Your mind thinks it knows
where your life is headed.
It doesn’t.

It doesn’t even know what
will occur in the next moment.
It likes to pretend it has security
by believing it’s in control.
This is living in a self-created delusion.

Let’s stop taking the over-the-counter drug
of forecasting the future
by either dreading or fantasizing
what may happen.

By letting go of the need to predict
you can celebrate fully
whatever is happening now.

When you learn to trust in the Unknown
as much as you trust in gravity,
it gives wings to your peace
to soar in the unfettered realms of Grace,
here and now.

09/08/2025

Self-devotion

I show my love for you
through tangible Self-devotion.

I don’t devote to you first.
That can cause me to live to please you.
This tempting hollow myth
is not healthy for either of us.
It creates approval addiction,
and broken hearts.

As I devote to Self-renewal
by recognizing and questioning my identification
with the me that thinks it needs your love,
I create space for the emergence of
my authentic Self.

As I embrace my authentic Self,
your authentic Self,
and thus the appropriate form of our relationship,
comes into focus.

09/07/2025

We Are Sustained

There is a tendency to think
that conditions need to be “just right”
in order for us to be peacefully sustained.

No matter what presents itself to us,
it can be met by releasing into
the sustaining presence
of our one divine Life.

This Life expresses Herself in all nature
with an ever-guiding intelligence.
When you awaken each morning,
you re-experience that you were held all night.

You have never not been sustained,
and always will be.
This is the Law of Unity
that you don’t have the option to break.

09/06/2025

Released From Prison

The grandest (and most common)
self-deception
is to confuse who you are
with what you do.

When you do this,
if you screw up,
you think you are screwed up.

If you do well
you think you are well.

Identifying with your actions
does not define you.
It confines you.

These keys
can release you from prison.

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