Lean Into the World

Life is so sweet. Taste the sweetness with every breath. Bless each moment with your awareness and presence. Lean into the world as you would a trusted parent and it will be kind to you. Lean into the world.

A Place of Rest

Believe in your own truth. Stop and listen. What are you thinking and feeling? What is your body telling you? Listen with your heart open and your mind free from doubt. When you step outside of the thinking and feeling long enough to notice it, then you can recognize the stories that are driving your anxiety. Let go of the stories. Look on your negative thoughts and feelings as if they were hurt children, and you will find the compassion and love you need to detach from the sense that something is wrong. Everything is just as it is, and with acceptance you will find a place of rest in the present moment.

Go Into Your Heart

Go into your heart for the answer. Go into your heart with love and acceptance. Whatever you fear can be accepted. Whatever your situation, you can accept and move from there. Go into your heart and let the angels and guides speak to you. We are always ready to help in any way when you are ready to listen.

Simply Love Yourself

Simply love yourself. On the days when it feels impossible, simply acknowledge the possibility of loving yourself. Why not? Simply love yourself.

Feel Good

It's okay to combine the physical and the spiritual. You are here to experience human life. Go out and experience it! Enjoy your body. Enjoy the sensuousness of this beautiful planet earth. Enjoy the sights, smells, tastes, sounds and textures. Infuse every physical experience with your soul-wisdom. Feel good.

Close Your Eyes

You might have to close your eyes to open your eyes. You might have to close your eyes to open your heart. You might have to close your eyes to open your mind. When you close your eyes, the distractions of the physical world have less power. When you close your eyes, your angels and guides can be heard more clearly. When you close your eyes, you are open to the infinity of being of which you are a glorious and important part. Close your eyes.

Your First Refuge

No one and nothing outside of you is the cause of your anger or hurt. The situation or the action of another is what it is. The source of your anger or hurt is the meaning that you place upon the situation or action -- more particularly, what you think the situation or action says about you -- about your safety, your worth, your life. Allow your own natural ability to heal to be your first refuge. "He's doing that. What can I do now, what am I willing to do now, that will allow me to maintain my own sense of peace and happiness?" A wonderful way to state your intention is to begin "I love myself, therefore...." When you feel that self-love bubbling up, when you allow your actions to be informed by that self-love, you will be open to generosity, understanding, compassion and acceptance. Give up the stories you tell yourself. Find the truth. You create your life, moment by moment.

Are You Acting from Love?

Before you take any action, stop and take a breath. Allow your higher nature to intervene. Ask yourself if the action is coming from place of love or of anxiety. When you act from anxiety, the situation is not bettered, even if you get what you want in the immediate moment. There will be consequences. An angry parent might get immediate compliance from a child by yelling or hitting, but the long term negative consequences are great. The same is true of any action you might take from anxiety. Just take a breath and reflect. "Am I acting from love?"

Nothing is Set in Stone

Believe in the strength of your life plan. You made your plan when you were in spirit, and you knew what you were doing and why. However, there is always room for change and adaptation. Nothing is set in stone. If you want, you can avoid the struggles you were planning on having. If you want to learn patience, just relax. If you want to learn to accept love, just love. If you want to learn to be responsible, step up to the plate. Smile and move forward, day by day, with love and kindness, with hope and faith. All blessings are availble to you.

Treasure

Your treasure is all around you. Just take a look with your heart and mind open to the wonders surrounding you and within you. Be grateful and joyful and all good will come your way as easily as breathing.

Behold the Glory of the Present Moment

Behold the glory of the present moment. Behold the beauty of the soul within you. Behold the glory of the morning and the evening. What more could you possibly want? As you enter fully into the glory of the moment, you support the passage of your physical self into more and more happiness. More and more of what you enjoy comes clear to you, and more and more of what you love moves into your physical realm. Behold the glory of the present moment.

The Eternal Soul That Is You

If you will only listen, you will hear the perfection of your beautiful self in every song on the wind. Every breath you take is beautiful and perfect. Everything you do is perfect and beautiful. If you will only listen from the deepest part of yourself, you will hear the perfection of the eternal soul that is you. You will hear the perfect self inside the imperfect creature you have identified yourself with. If you will only listen with the heart's ear of lovingkindness, you will hear the beautiful perfection of the perfect soul you are.

Peace in the Moment

Find your peace in the moment. Find your breath and your joy in the moment. Find your enjoyment in the small things of life. Find your happiness in helping and being helped, in learning and growing, and you indeed will glow with the light of god/goddess.

Your Own True Self

Will you not determine your own future? Will you not be the one to decide for yourself? Will you let others' actions dictate your mood? All it takes is to relax and breathe and know that you are in charge of creating your life. Other people's actions need not effect your happiness in the deepest sense. Find your own path and walk it with your head held high. Find your own true self in the universe and be that for all you're worth, which is everything.

Blissful Beingness

One day you will surely again know the blessing of spirit. But your knowledge is always with you. You don't have to die physically to remember. Sit still. Breathe deeply and evenly. Allow the thoughts in your head to float away on a stream of blissful beingness. There you will contact your eternal soul. There you will free yourself from the attachment to this outcome or that requirement. All that is required for you to be happy is for you to detach from your unhappiness. Detach from wanting things to be different. Just be where you are right now.

Release Resistance

Resistance only exhausts you, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. When you stay in resistance to a situation, you are clinging to it just as it is. When you accept the situation fully, then all your systems relax, and from this relaxed place, better decisions are made. Then you can choose to leave or stay. As long as you stay in resistance, you are married to the situation. Surrender, relax, accept.

Slow Down

You create your life with every breath. You choose what you see and remember. You choose what you dwell on and how you behave. Sometimes it doesn't feel like a choice, but it is. Slow down, pay attention, and choose from love.

Always Remember

Always remember these simple truths: You are safe. You are beautiful and wise. You are deeply and truly loved. You are forgiven. You are free.

Observance

Below the surface, you are one with everything. Below the surface, you are one with the universe. The god-form is within you and takes on many shapes. Your particular method of observance is unique and valid. As long as your observance is heart-guided and loving, there is no restriction on your path to divinity.

Exploration

The world is open to you for exploration. The physical world can be explored in person or in books and movies. The emotional and intellectual worlds can be explored with your heart and mind. The spiritual world can be explored by sitting, breathing, and allowing it to make itself known to you. Watch the images, thoughts and feelings that arise. Notice the thoughts that keep you attached to your unhappiness. Notice the limitations you place on your spirit. From this place of awareness your exploration can begin to break all barriers to perfect bliss.

Trust Yourself

Pay attention. Be grateful. Find joy. Look for opportunities to serve the greater good. Take good care of yourself. Concentrate. Be serious-minded and light-hearted. Know that protection and guidance are always available to you. Listen to the wisdom in your heart. Trust yourself. Accept yourself, others, and the life you have chosen. You are beautiful.

Right Here Right Now

Some people are happier than you are, some are less happy. Neither fact has any bearing on your happiness. Some people are luckier, richer, more attractive, others less fortunate, less attractive, more limited. Neither fact has any bearing on your worth. All these things -- physical attractiveness, wealth, possessions, status -- are of the physical realm, and therefore transitory. When you spend time comparing yourself to others, favorably or unfavorably, you turn away from your life, from yourself. Always always always bring the focus back to your life right now this minute. What is there to do or enjoy right here right now? That is life.

You Are Guided

People might question your work, but you are strongly and clearly guided. Follow the path of your heart and you will be protected.

Relax - Breathe - Move On

Because you are human, sometimes you will fail. Because you are human, some people will not respond favorably to your actions. Because you are human, some things will not go the way you desire. Relax, breathe, move on.

Your Path Will Be Smooth

Believe me when I tell you, all is for your path to enlightenment. All your experiences inform your soul and move you along your path. However, choose to focus on what is good and pleasureable, what is uplifting and kind, what connects you with others. In this way, your path will be smooth.

Forgive Yourself

Be a friend to yourself, and kind. Gently confront your misbehavior, enthusiastically encourage your adventurous spirit, cradle your grieving heart. Learn from every experience, and forgive yourself utterly.

The Leap Itself

You're full of ideas -- go with one that calls you. What's the worst that could happen? It won't work. That's okay. Then you try the next one. The point is just try it, give it your best shot. It'll be fun, whatever happens. Out of all the ideas you put into play, at least a few of them will reap rewards. It's worth it to take a leap. And the leap itself is a valuable experience.

Shake It Off

Relax and have fun. Share your happiness with everyone. Don't be afraid to smile and shake it off when something you don't like happens. Joining someone else in anger only adds tension in the world and in your body. Shake it off and smile.

So Much Beauty

So much beauty is created everyday by the human race. Spend your time with the beauty of the world in your thoughts. Focus on the beauty of nature and of human creation. The artistry available in the world is staggering. Whatever your taste, you will find beauty. Isn't it better to focus your energy on beauty than on suffering? Music, art, gardening, design, architecture. Rejoice in the beauty created by humans and the beauty created by the divine consciousness. Give yourself the pleasure and the blessing of beauty every day.