Compassion

Compassion doesn't say I know how you feel - that's pity. Neither does it say I feel what you feel - that's empathy. Compassion comes from a place that understands the lack of understanding or ignorance and says simply how can I help?
When genuine compassion is present with those who have hurt our personal sense of self  then we know we're making progress ( and this doesn't mean we have to be a doormat for anyone )... because the real self can never be hurt.

Insanity - Sanity

Wanting things to be different but doing things the same, from the same state of awareness...that's insanity.
Wanting things to be different and being willing to move through the changes, expanding your awareness, irregardless of the fear...that's sanity :)

Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda

We spend so much time looking to change the past thinking we could have done some things differently when that just wasn't possible...where our state of awareness was in those moments we did exactly what we could do.

Then we spend our present moments thinking of what we should have done when, in fact, we did everything we should have done to get us to this very moment Now.

And then we waste our imagination on what we would have done if things had been different, instead of realizing that the culmination of events were exactly what we needed and to wish things had been different is futile. We waste that God given creative energy on a past that was exactly what needed to be for our growth and we block the flow of that creative energy and the activation of our potential in our present moment. 

Everything thing that happened was exactly what needed to happen to expand our awareness and allow our soul to evolve and only when we can truly admit that we wouldn't change any of it have we reached complete acceptance of ourselves :)

Loving What Is

Yes!!! Been a long journey getting here...acceptance, no expectations from anything or anyone, Just loving What Is no matter how It appears.

Attention - Intention

When the attention aligns with the intention the vibration changes and things flow accordingly.

Faith Grows

Once again Spirit never fails to show me that when I truly let go, trusting What Is and holding my intention from a place of Love and integrity, irregardless of what appears to be happening... the outcome really is always the best for all involved :) 

Spiritual Practice

When we make our life in every moment and every interaction our spiritual practice, we learn more than we ever could from any book or teaching.

Natural

It's not hard to be spiritual...that comes natural. It's just hard at times to be human because,as humans, we've made it such a game that isn't real to who we truly Are so we cause ourselves and one another unnecessary pain. There's no effort required when we're living from our true nature. And maybe we have to reach that point of self created suffering to realize that it's just not worth it and all we really have to do is love and respect one another the way we want to be loved and respected.

Acceptance gives Freedom

Acceptance comes when we fully realize that every soul on the planet really is doing it's best and evolving at the rate they came here to evolve. When fully accepted we really can love everyone just as they Are with no expectations at all and how freeing that is.

...Just the Way of It

Simple Complex

Is it any wonder that we, as humans, have difficulty conveying what we truly mean through words. The very language we've created confuses us from childhood with words that don't sound as they should or are spelled differently to the sounding patterns we're taught...maybe why I love Dr Seuss.
I guess Math always made sense to me because numbers follow a sequence and there's always a solution to every problem. Although at times I think I drove my teachers crazy because I could come up with the correct answer, much quicker, without always following the formula. Seems kind of strange that I lost marks for solving a problem quicker than the complex way that was deemed to be right. Why, as humans, do we make things so complex that are really quite simple? Same theory could be applied to this whole awakening process. Seems to me that those who truly appreciate the simple things in life are often the happiest.

Cards

There is an element of excitement present when a situation arises and we realize that we don't have any control over the outcome...what cards will the Universe deal next? Who knows? But I'm confident that the hand will be exactly what I need for the next stage of my growth and fear can try all it wants to convince me otherwise...I ain't buying it. I always was a good card player :)

Heart

The Heart of Humanity Will see through the illusion and will reign supreme.

Questions and answers

The seeming "problems" create the questions, the questions create the answers, and so the problems become the answers.
 Because in Reality the problems never existed in the first place... nothing to solve, they just simply dissolve.

...Boy the ego does not like this one right Now :)

Uncertainty

The mind craves security but freedom lies in the Uncertainty and acceptance of the impermanence of all that isn't real. The evolutionary impulse that drives the Universe will have it's way expressing itself  through each individual as each individual. We get to choose whether we allow it to do so with or without our conscious awareness. To do so without causes resistance and suffering, but when we reach a point where the choices are conscious we realize that we have to embrace the uncertainty that comes with those choices and adopt a willingness to participate in the unfolding with no expectation of what the future will bring.

...And so it goes

Rainbow

We spend so much time looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that we miss seeing the beauty of the rainbow itself.

Liquid soap

Do you wet your hands before you put on the soap or do you dispense some soap before you wet your hands? Does it really matter which comes first?... My kid teaches me every day :)

It's only ever known Now

The moment passes and a new one is born and what I think I thought I knew dies with that moment...and what's waiting to reveal itself can only ever be known right Now.

Questions and Answers...Light and Dark

We ask questions and seek the light but maybe the real answers can only be revealed in the dark...if we're willing to go there.

Live It

We read books and look to others for answers through words. But really our greatest teachings come, not through words, but by example. Even as kids although, undoubtedly, we absorb and believe what the adults in our lives told us ( they're adults so how could they be wrong? Big mistake ) our deep seated conditioning comes from their example. Parents, teachers, the man on the pulpit and all other authority figures try to teach us in words what they believe and so we ourselves grow into adults and endeavour to pass our beliefs on.

If we're fortunate enough we wake up to the fact and begin questioning those beliefs and at least prevent passing them on to the next generation and instead allow them to choose what they want to believe, and show them through our life example an awakened way of living.

And if we're lucky enough to break through some of that conditioning we really do get to see that everyone is our teacher if we allow them to be. Not necessarily through their words but through their life experience. The murderer sitting on death row can teach us more about the reasons we shouldn't take a life than any law enforcer could, just as the homeless man sleeping on the street can teach us more about the downside of alcohol than any preacher on a pulpit extolling the evil of drink.

But maybe the greatest teacher of all is our own heart. The mind can often cajole us into doing things that it deems right or justifies in some way, but I've learned through every step of this process that if I listen to my heart that I'm ok with whatever the outcome is. When the intention comes from the heart it has to be for the greatest good of all involved in every situation. And although at times I flounder and wonder what the hell I'm missing when the outcome doesn't seem to match my intention, I guess I've gained enough awareness to know that Spirit knows better than my own little mind what's unfolding, and I've no option left but to trust.

We can use all the words in the world but if we're not a living embodiment of that which we want to teach, those words hold no power at all.

Realization

So much of the New Age movement promote and sell material claiming the answers to self development and self improvement when, in fact, the Self neither needs improved or developed. Very few point toward the only answer that matters ( but there are a few) because it would mean the end of their industry - Self Realization... the only one who can realize it is You.

...The greatest trick of the mind is convincing us that there's something wrong with us in the first place when we're all just perfect as we Are. Watch that trickster :)

Perspective

Sometimes we just have to look at what other people  are dealing with to change perspective on our own little stories and realize how much we have to be grateful for.

Flow

It seems the moment we open ourselves to Spirit that one challenge seems to follow another. The more I grow on this journey, the more I come to realize that each challenge prepares us for the next as we face the fear and move through it. And maybe this whole journey is really seeing that they're not challenges but only experiences affording us the opportunity for growth if we're willing to face the fear and move through it...seeing at the other end that it really was an illusion created by our own mind. The experiences will never stop, but as our own awareness grows our perception changes and we begin to allow the flow of life, moving with it instead of against it.

When The Going Gets Tough!

Maybe we all reach a point where there's nothing else to do but trust and have faith...Letting Go

Lifetime?

Lifetime - For some reason this word keeps popping in. In reality it's not even a word that makes sense since life is eternal and so can't be limited to time.
And often in life we think of things we should do or should have done, but since Now is the only moment that exists and it's all happening Now, it really is never too early or too late :)

What would Love do?

Maybe the only question we ever need to ask in every situation...

Loving and Caring, Giving and Sharing :)

Returning

All paths lead home...some just take a longer route and a few detours along the way. When we can respect and honor one another as individual parts of the Whole,it becomes impossible to label anyone as wrong. What they choose to believe is their Truth from their perspective. When we're really coming from Love we can be a beacon by our own example without the need to convince anyone of anything. When the time is right they'll look for pointers,which we can offer, until they too realize the only one who can give them the answers is themselves. All just a returning.

Friend

Someone once told me that our friendship was proof of the struggles. I didn't quite get it but maybe it was, although I think our little trickster pal,the ego, won in the end because of pride. To cross paths with anyone on this journey to Love is a gift indeed...and supporting one another is probably all we can do because the journey is always an individual one. True friendship holds no grudges,  a lesson for both of us...hope You're  well. Miss You friend :)

Almost there

In the end when Love enters there's no going back and It will have it's way. The ego will struggle to justify and stay stuck. For those on the path to a true awakening, the world, as we know it, has to be ripped apart and the false identity dropped... everything we've ever deluded ourselves about has to come to the surface.
And maybe the hardest part of all is having to witness how our journey to the Self impacts those we love.
We're given the choice between choosing from Love or choosing from ego. To see a loved one struggle and hurt affords the opportunity to realize there comes a point when we can do no less than come from Love no matter what the other has done. to hope and pray they find their answers and if there's a way to help to do so.
This force called Love is both selfish and selfless...It knows in the giving it all returns to the Self and there comes a point when we  really can't do otherwise. When it enters there's really not a choice anymore, there's only one way it can ever respond and to go against it is no longer an option no matter how much the ego baulks.
Because somewhere beyond the sadness of it all, I know Love is controlling this and my only wish is that those whose lives have been affected will realize that some day... I have to be Real.
Saint or sinner...neither but both. Almost there.

As Within so Without

We can't make the journey within and expect things to remain the same without.
Ever fear will present itself over and over in one form or another until it is faced head on and seen for the illusion that it is. We crave growth but, when the winds of change come blowing our way, we resist the very thing that will set us free.
Avoidance and defensiveness are the two greatest weapons the ego possesses. We'd probably all be doing one another a favour if we walked around with...Fragile, handle with care- I'm in my ego tatooed on our foreheads, in those moments of defensiveness.
But  once again this week Spirit never fails to show me how much I have grown. When I can witness those who have hurt me in the past experiencing their own struggle but feel no consolation in it and hope they find their answers. And when I can truly realize fully that everything had to be as it was for me to be here Now...the unfolding continues :)

Release

Who Am I?
Who Are You?
A definitive answer can never be given.
I don't know
Becomes the release valve
For the mind trapped
In an illusion
Created by thinking it knows.

Much Ado about Nothing

As humans we really do make Much ado about Nothing often missing what's really important. Mr Shakespeare would have a blast in this day and age writing his plays.

You Are The Gift

When fully realized, that God/Universe chose You to play the individual aspect of mind known here as You and no-one else can play that part a shift takes place. As the mind opens so does the heart. When that individual aspect of mind wakes up to itself, it becomes a gift to both You and everyone around You.The interconnectedness of everything and everyone is seen and the Golden Rule becomes the Way of Life.

Naked and with Nothing

Most want freedom but very few are willing to hear what will inevitably set them free. So many wearing the costumes of spirituality or awakened ones, but when the Truth that will really set them free is presented they withdraw to their I  know mind, erecting more barriers to strengthen their walls of confusion and defending that which keeps them trapped in that self erected prison.Most would rather cling to their comfort zones,no matter how painful, rather than face the truth that will give them their heart's desires.

Few are willing to really let go of the status symbols to which they have attributed their sense of identity for fear of losing that little sense of self. Not realizing that it's only in the willingness to lose that little sense of self that the real nature of who they are can be discovered. 

We enter this world naked and with nothing and we will leave it the same way. My sense of self never depended on living in the right neigbourhood, owning a house, a fancy 300 and all the other trappings, but for many years I believed just that.I built my identity on what I thought mattered in this physical world but was never truly happy because deep down I always knew better. The symbols themselves hold know inherent meaning and can even be enjoyed on the journey when there is no attachment. For myself I made the conscious choice to let go of them to ensure I wouldn't trick myself into believing I had let go of the attachment. Maybe some day I'll choose to have them again but the difference will be there will be no attachment because now I know Who I Am.

Initially there was a sense of panic when I could no longer identify with the person I thought I was. But once I made the choice the Universe responded by giving me exactly everything I needed along the way without any trying required on my part. Looking back now I can see that I really did need every experience to get me to where I am in myself right now and I wouldn't change that for anything

As every challenge arises along the way, I can still feel some of that residue of fear come to the surface, but the more I question and try to understand those thoughts the less of a hold they have and there is an underlying knowing that something else is taking care of this and it will all be ok...it can't be otherwise, the Universe knows where I'm coming from :)

It just Is

Life just Is...When realized fully, the mind no longer attaches meaning and then, there's only complete acceptance of the flow of life as it Is.

Mirror,Mirror

A smile from the heart comes through the eyes, that's love...just look in the mirror :)

Somewhere out there

Somewhere out there...I hope You are smiling from your heart :))

Emerging

The old way of being has to breakdown for the new one to emerge..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4O7ufx9D_s

Fruitful

Inspiration arises only when we truly let go, and any action born from that has to be fruitful...Yum:)

Kids know magic

My little 5 yr old neighbour - Guess what? A baby's coming out of my Mom's friend's belly, isn't that magic?... Magic indeed :)

Rich beyond Imagination

All too often in life, we believe our negative thoughts and use our imagination to cast ourselves in the role of poor me, creating an imaginary future we really don't want. We all have the ability to flip that and use our imagination to dream of the future we do want and discover those riches beyond compare that reside within each and every one of us.

Stepping stones

One moment leading into the next, just stepping stones on the journey. And Being here fully Now in this moment, I know good things are a comin :)

Gateway to Freedom

To realize that we never really know what's in store and Be okay with it, and count All our blessings along the way. I Am and I'm counting :)

Surfing

Beginning and end, beginning and end...they're One and the same in this circle of Life. The mind looks for answers and tries to make sense of that which can't be made sense of.
The sense of self begins to drop away when it realizes that it has no control. When we can accept the moment without trying to define why it's happening, and realize that we don't know why anything happens as it does, whatever unfolds will be perfect just as It Is because that's the Way of It.
 Wanting things to be different is futile...there's no sense in struggling against What Is. To think I know better than the power that drives the Universe is just downright laughable.
The greatest gift I can give myself right Now is to throw my hands in the air and admit I don't know...I'm open to whatever is coming my way. Surf those waves :)

I hope You dance!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmBSGlXqC4Q&feature=fvwrel

Now heals

Time heals? Since time is an illusion, healing can only happen Now.

So Much More!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK0HmAvoUgQ

Judge

We do so because it's so much easier than taking an honest look at ourselves and admitting our own downfalls. If the need to judge arises at all it's nothing to do with the other person but everything to do with me...the reflection brings clarity, only the mind can distort the picture.

Talk??

Who does that? We've become experts at using our finger instead of our mouth...kinda sad. I wonder will we try to replace all other forms of human contact, eventually, with technology? Maybe moderation in All things is the answer.