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01/12/2026

Premise: All is Consciousness

It will never be possible to understand
the scope, nature, and magnitude
of our common Source,
and Her unified, yet diverse creation.

Instead of trying to “figure out”
your way through life,
how about simplifying down to
accepting, allowing, and appreciating
whatever is occurring?

There may just be a Consciousness
a wee bit more Omniscient
than your mind
that knows exactly what She is doing
down to most minute sub-atomic particle
and corresponding wave of energy.

Gentle down into your spiritual heart
where you will find
your soul has the Bigger picture,
and gets The Premise.
Your mind is forever trying to do the math.

01/11/2026

Observing Our Ego

The ego has one foundational conviction.
It is alone, separate, and isolated.
This is where it lives.

When we identify with our ego
this is the menu from which
we eat, drink, and breathe.

This is a guarantee
that we will suffer.

The ego is not bad.
It is just ignorant.
It is partial.

It needs to be seen for what it is:
a hypothetical delusion
that is learned mixture
of thoughts, emotions, and beliefs
with which we have mistakenly identified.
You are not your ego.

It doesn’t need to be rejected.
It needs to be observed from Stillness,
for what it is trying to do.
Then we can choose to act
from it, or not.

01/10/2026

Reframing

“She is such a drain on my energy.”
Reframe:
“My thoughts about her
are such a drain on my energy.”

“Life sucks!”
Reframe:
“My current limited perspective of life
needs an overhaul.”

“That person clearly doesn’t get it.”
Reframe:
“I clearly don’t get that person,
since they are so unlike me.”

“No one loves me.”
Reframe:
“I can’t find anyone to love me
in the way that I have predetermined
will make me feel valuable.”

“I feel so lonely.”
Reframe:
“Since I don’t love myself,
I’m trying to find others to love me.
Since no one is showing up,
it’s unanimous.”

01/09/2026

Transformation

It’s one thing
(and often the easiest thing)
to get inspired by a new idea.

At that point, the spiritual ego
can swoop in thinking how awesome it is
(and how cool you are)
that you have received a clear revelation.
Now, you are off to the rest of your life.

The real work of transformation
is when we allow the new insight
to rework the mechanisms of our daily lives.

It may call into question your priorities.
It may rewire your devotions.
It may instigate radical departures.
It may disconnect you from your limited self-image.
It may challenge your assumptions about others.
It may commend you to let go of possessions.
It may reveal unconscious patterns to be released.
It may invite remorse over former choices.
It may ignite repentance.
It may kindle the courage to face your fears.
It may humiliate your identification with the ego.
It may give birth to your authentic voice.
It may produce thorough forgiveness.
It may quiet you down, inviting you into Stillness.
It may fire you up.
It may cause a revolution in your heart.
It may soften your affections.
It may encourage prioritizing listening over talking.
It may teach you how to love.

Grace does not leave you where She finds you,
if
you let Her have Her way with you.

01/08/2026

Is Your Life Out of Control?

In the next moment,
no one knows what will happen.
No one knows what thought will arise.
No one knows what feeling may surface.

If that bothers you, do you:
change the topic so that you
don’t have to think about it,
dwell in non-stop anxiety,
or fruitlessly try to control
your circumstances, thoughts, or feelings?

All of these responses
create the conditions for suffering.

What you can choose
is your response to any stimulus.

If your beliefs are anchored
in a single salubrious Source of existence,
then your focus defaults to one of allowing,
since this one Intelligence
creates, wills, knows and acts
in accord with what is best for one and all.

In this space,
you realize that life is not out of control.
It is completely under Control.

01/07/2026

Releasing the Reins

In today’s bottom-line culture,
we frequently engage spiritual practices
to try to get to some future Heaven/Nirvana.

How about adding
a daily spiritual practice
in which you stop
trying to do something
in order to get something?

Instead,
open to That which is doing and being us.

Whatever thoughts appear,
let them go in non-judgmental noticing,
abiding in the field of Awareness.

When you release the reins
to the silent Stillness,
you have nothing to measure.

You are finally saying to the Divine,
I trust you with everything,
and know you will reveal what I need
when and if I need it.

01/06/2026

Accessing Your Divine Potential

Your mind can get easily
distracted, confused, frustrated, anxious and depressed
by random thinking and feeling
about your past and future,
and by constantly focusing on your body.

That is why it is vital
to have daily spiritual practices
that identify these patterns,
and then take you:

• Beyond the mind’s cravings
into the Intelligence
that guides you,

• Beyond your emotional reactions
into your authentic Heart
that values you,

• Beyond your body’s urges and complaints
into the intuitive faculties of your Soul
that grounds you in the now.

Without a devotion to practices
that call out these disrupting patterns
and explore these innate, infinite realms,
your life will sadly manifest
only a fraction your divine potential.

01/05/2026

There is Only Divinity Showing Up

The laws of Consciousness governing us
are experienced in different ways
depending upon our openness to them.

If your eyes are closed and your ears are plugged,
you are going to miss quite a bit
of what is physically occurring
right in front of you.

It’s the same with Consciousness.
If you are not intentionally looking for
and listening to how the Divine
coincides with your experience,
you will miss much of it
or call it luck or fate.

Grace is all that is going on,
around you and within you,
all day, every day.
But, our minds are so easily distracted
that we often miss the show.

When you look out at your experience
through the eyes of Awareness
you will see the One creation.

If you don't see it,
it is not because it is not happening,
it’s because your conditioned mind
has a story about what it’s supposed to look like.

01/04/2026

Eliminating Beaver Dams

One vital way to become unstuck
is to commit to removing
the twigs, branches and logs
that are keeping your beaver dam in place,
and not letting Life
freely flow through and as you.

Try diligently disconnecting from
your misidentifications of yourself and others
in a humble, compassionate, and systematic way.
Each judgment you genuinely delete (not deny),
augments the flow of Love
in the tributaries of your experience.

It doesn’t help to blame the beavers
(no matter who they are or how related you are).
The obstacles today are in your river of thought,
so they need to be extricated.

We need to work at this because
each of us has way more submerged blockages
that we are aware of.
Each time you remove an obstruction
another one may float up.
That’s a good thing.
You are lessening the intrusive foundation
that is keeping the egoic logjam in place.

You flow from the endless Spring of Love,
and there is no more important work
than erasing that which is an imposition
to your authentic freedom and love.

Set yourself to it,
and watch Grace rejuvenate
your innate flow.

01/03/2026

Breaking the Mind-barrier

The mind is fixated and laced
in the friction of duality.
You don’t study non-duality
to understand your way
into the “experience” of Oneness.

While you can understand
the concept of Oneness,
the only way to experience It
is to go beyond the mind.

This is where meditation can take you.

You can use mindful tools and techniques
to learn to focus and concentrate.
This can be helpful to get you up to speed.

But eventually, they fade
into the experience of pure awareness,
where Grace reveals
a non-local flow of abiding Presence.

In those moments,
like breaking the sound barrier,
the mind is not there.

01/02/2026

Allowing the Movement of Stillness

There is never a hole you are stuck in
that is so deep there is no way out.

What gets to shift first,
is how you think about
who you are,
and the context of your life.

As you open into your heart
to tangibly reconnect with your soul,
your eternal hologram of the one Soul,
frozen fears start to melt
in the sunshine of Grace.
This loosens you up enough to actually
relax in Presence,
with what is present.

There is always
an orderly next step unfolding.
Paradoxically,
it may involve learning to be still,
and open to whatever is happening
without needing it to be different…
possibly for the first time.

Mountains can shift
in allowing this movement of Stillness.

01/01/2026

The Soul’s Path

Who you think you are
will evolve throughout eternity.
You can notice this in your experience
since you were a child.
That’s part of the design of Life.

You will never have an ending.

Self-concept is a stone you step on
as you cross the river,
but not a place to set up your tent.

As an individualized
continuum of awareness
you will always exist.

This is why cultivating awareness
is a worthy investment,
versus inhabiting accomplishments
and discouragements.

Funny that the soul’s path
is so counterintuitive:
it’s about letting go
of everything,
instead of holding on
to anything.

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