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04/11/2026

Why love?

You don’t love someone
because of what they do.

You love someone
because that is what you do.

Imagine a world
that prioritizes love
without judgments.

Let’s be this world!

04/10/2026

You Are Never Not This

The deepest part of you
is the part
that exists forever.

You are never not This.
You have never not known This,
even though when we incarnate
we initially forget it.

It is encoded in your soul.

When we are still enough
to hear the soul’s eloquent heartbeat,
we deeply remember
our innate Wholeness,
our sacred Beingness.

This restorative affection suffuses and saturates
our entire body,
connecting apparent opposing forces in Love,
neutralizing every concern
we could ever have
about anything or anyone.

We feel rarefied and permeated
with a divine sweetness and rejuvenated peace
as we experience ourselves
becoming the forever flourishing
presence of nonjudgmental Awareness
here and now.

04/09/2026

True Reflection

You are so at one
with the Divine,
that when the I AM
looks in the mirror,
It sees you.

When you look in the mirror
what do you see?

04/08/2026

Listening

Arriving in this moment
Relatives in one glorious Life

Pulling in beside a flower
Embracing its unique beauty

Being with its stillness
Breathing in its aliveness

Opening to what it is offering
Listening to each blossoming now

Not needing to add or correct
Ready to serve as called

Are we not each a flower
in this one universal display of Love?

Let’s listen together

04/07/2026

Holding Things Lightly

Have you noticed the difference between
having space around something that is important to you,
and grasping it so tightly you feel anxious?

Here are some things we often strangle:

• Opinions
• Decisions we need to make
• Political and ethical positions
• Relationships we are concerned about
• Relationships we are head over heels into
• Situations where there is apparent lack
• Situation where there is apparent abundance
• Projects we are working on
• Cherished possessions
• Possible plans for the future
• The past
• Finances
• Religious convictions

I’m sure you can add your own….
When we tenaciously cling to any of these,
we experience them as
no longer surrounded by light.
We are suffocating them
in the destructive darkness of fearful self-will.

Why do we do this?
For many reasons, but for the most part
we feel some kind of deficiency,
and clutching to them feels as if it completes us.
See if you can find it.

Alternatively, holding things lightly
is when we remember
that all life is created and sustained by
the flow of Grace.

04/06/2026

The Flow of Grace

When we pause the mind enough
to abide in the heart’s
nonjudgmental loving awareness,
we lose the belief in, and feeling of,
separation.

We experience innate and universal
Unity and Wholeness
flowing forth,
permeating everyone and everything.

We are, and all is,
the flow of Grace.

04/05/2026

Deception Unawares

Before I deceive others
I deceive myself.
But, this may not be conscious.

The fundamental lie,
is to believe that I am
what I think I am.

Believing this,
I am self-deceived,
and then I will bring this deception
to my relationships.

I will believe that you are
what I think you are.

I will believe that we are
what I think we are.

I will believe that they are
what I think they are.

Don’t believe these thoughts.
They can arise as conceptual tools
to help us navigate life,
but when we create self-images
of ourselves and others
they don’t serve us.

This is how we limit ourselves
and abide in dissonance and suffering.

04/04/2026

Changing Forms

So much in life
keeps us addicted to sameness.
If we are not alert,
religion can do this as well.

Any prophet that inspires us
modeled a life dedicated
to finding their Essence,
and allowing all their forms
to be continually changed
at the dictates of Grace.

One might say
that their number one priority
was humbly listening to Grace
and responding in accord with what they heard.

More often than not,
this had them radically depart
from whatever methods their society’s culture
was trying to preserve.

We don’t need to be afraid of changing forms.
Trying to sustain
that which is meant to be transient
is a primary cause of ego-inflicted suffering.

Transformation is the modus operandi
of life on the planet.
The activity of Grace
brings forms into our experience
and then transmutes them
when they have served their purpose
and are no longer needed.

What are you not willing to give up for Love?
Do your spiritual practices
take you to the edge of the known
and help you leap into the darkness
of the yet-to-be-revealed formless Light?

04/03/2026

Outgrowing Your Pot

Have you noticed that when a plant
feels restrained by its pot,
that its growth starts to get stunted
and leaves become strained and discolored?

Can you relate?

Are you yearning to outgrow your familiar,
potted self-concept and self-defined roles?

If you remain in the same mental-emotional space
for too long,
you will likely feel stressed and anxious.
You may be clinging to a sense of self
that no longer fits you,
as your authentic heart calls you to expand.

When the socially conditioned mind
tries to hold you in place,
it will start to blame
parents, partners, supervisors,
circumstances, finances,
organizations, religions, politicians, etc.,
for your lack of growth.
Intuitively, you know that’s a cop-out.

The walls of your pot are self-accepted
by the conscious and unconscious beliefs you hold.
They can be Grace-replaced.

If you don’t free your authentic heart
to learn to tangibly see
and love yourself without borders,
you may start to act in ways
that feel frustrating and limiting,
as you get exhausted pushing against the sides
of your imagined worldview.

It’s not your role that confines you.
You confine yourself
by thinking you are your role.

Time to let Grace have all of you,
by surrendering your wilting leaves
and your precious, budding blossoms
to the gentle Power that turns the seasons.

04/02/2026

Blameless Living

If someone does something
that angers you,
what would it take for you to feel no blame?

Can you live in a world
where there is never a reason to blame?

Can you see blame as
you being dissatisfied with your believed view of reality,
and looking for a convenient scapegoat
instead of owning your belief?

Even if someone has done something to you
that is unethical or illegal,
can you recognize it as such,
but not make them the source of your anguish?

While this is not easy, due to our conditioning,
it is ultimately much healthier than
the self-imposed suffering that is created
by living in your story
about how they should act differently.

When you blame, you do just that.
You get frustrated, disappointed, or angry
because they are not acting the way you need them to
in order for them to fulfill their reason for being:
to align with your values and make you happy
(or at least not disturb you).

04/01/2026

Stalling in Action

Watch out for this one.

Instead of taking concrete steps
to living a deeply fulfilling life,
the mind gets you think about the steps
you could take,
and convince you that that is enough.

Here’s how this classic stall shows up:
You think about
what it would be like to be in your zone.
You may remember those times
when you were there years ago.
You dream about what that could be like
in the future.

And then you go back to your comfy
inner sanctum of your daily routine
where you do what you need to do
almost on autopilot and…
“row, row, row your boat
gently down the stream.”

And then in your free time
you act out,
“merrily, merrily, merrily
life is but a dream,”
by losing yourself in:
books, SportsCenter, social media,
puzzles, news feeds, TV, shopping,
social outings, (add your own here), etc.

In this protracted daydream mode
you convince yourself you are doing something,
and defensively justify
why you are not taking progressive steps.
And then looking at others
who are deeply fulfilled,
you wonder why you can’t be more like them.

I’ve seen this last months, years, even decades.
This is one very common way,
that the ego eats you alive.
Underneath it all, you are afraid to act.

Please face these fears.
You are pure glory,
hiding behind a mask.

03/31/2026

Identity Paradoxes

Whatever you think you are,
is what you are not.
Settled self-definition or self-image
leads to self-deception.
You are forever evolving.

As hard as we try,
what we are is something
that cannot be defined with the mind.
It can only be miss-defined,
or at best, pointed to.

You come closest to experiencing
your authentic Self
while reposing in and as awareness:
pure witnessing without interpretation, attachment,
repulsion, or judgmental stories.

In this space of Presence
you transcend the ways you think of yourself,
lose self-consciousness,
and abide as the flow of Grace.

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