Today I am living my dreams

Today is the first day of a brand new way

Today I am free

Today I share love

Today is all there is

Today I love with complete abandon

Today I am flourishing in all ways

Today is the greatest day of my life

Today has only pure possibility, pure potential for anything and everything

Today anything that has held me is released

Today I am released

Today I AM REALIZED

Today I embark upon the greatest journey of my life

Today I am blessed with beauty all around

Today I look upon the whole of creation with child like wonder

Today is all there is

Today is a glorious day

Today I am truly helpful

Today I share myself with complete abandon

Today the Universe is conspiring for our best and highest good

Today that good is with me now in every breath

Today, through that very breath, I share this good with all

Today I love and laugh fully

Today, I AM

 

Woke today with a clear mind, and peaceful. There is only opportunity in this day, many beautiful and wonderful realizations are upon the horizon for the charmed life we are blessed to have been given. These are the songs that dance within me each day, and I shall sing them to the world. This dance is a miracle, even when it is only a normal simple day, as it is right now. I am blessed with a quiet and comfortable place to sit here and write from, as I sip my coffee and dangle my feet just right above the fireplace, my happy animals calm and content. And then I think about some of the atrocities of this world going on even now on our earth, and I have to say I do not understand, not even really at all…. I view films, as I did last night, about wonderful discoveries we are making in our science, and of our greatest philosophers and deep down in me I somehow know these are the discoveries of the ancients, and they needed no microscope or fancy devices to find them… it is the nature of the human heart -not the war, not the suffering. And so, where do these come from? Are they not healable? And then of course the question always comes, what can I do about it? The answer, for me, is never far behind a truly asked question, and as Gandhi taught; simply be the change you want to see.

That, when I do sit here, comfortable, and write about the true love that flows through even now, that really I am doing something about it. I care. I wish the best for each of my neighbors, and for the world. Even walking out on my little balcony with little clothes on a cold day I feel the chill run through me, and I am grateful when I step back into my warm, safe home, and then I sometimes think about those that do not have such a place, those that are starving, and those that are cold. What could this possibly be for? What could death be for, even millions at a time being slain? It boggles my mind, for sure, and in that mind there is no answer. But in my heart there is, and it is the former that is not my domain. These things surely exist for something, seemingly as a result of or for some function that no, I cannot comprehend. I will never figure it out. And it simply is not my life, or is it? There are multi-layered realms that exist and reveal themselves to me, to us. I gratefully see our western world beginning now to do something about talking and acting in alignment with the greater good. People are beginning to take steps in the direction of heart-centered living. It must start somewhere, just as the war-like greed mongering ways surely must have, and are they really not two sides of the same stick; war, and greed? How much better it feels to give to one in need than it does to hoard for myself.

Some of us may have a sense of entitlement and are not willing to do the real work  that calls from deep within– it may seem like we are ‘earning’ our ‘living’, though perhaps we are more causing it to be displayed, a mirror for us to look in reflecting our thoughts, manifest. For the same one that cuts another to pieces also truly wants to love and be loved…does not that one go home and hug his children with the same hands? How powerful our minds can be when we decide we are right, we are more special than another, or that someone has wronged us in a world as beautiful and inherently giving as the one we are blessed to live in. There is plenty for all, Let us share, and get along. We can change our thoughts and cause something much more beautiful to be displayed. How much more intelligent is the human heart, and how truly connected to each other we are.

So what can I do about it? I can give up conflict, forever. I can give up greed, forever. I can extend only Love, forever, share it. I can share only that which I truly am, deep down, and I can find the courage to look at what that is, so deep down that I may have been deceived that it is not so after burying this under the delusion and despair that the world is a cruel and unjust place…for it is not! And we only need look to nature to see that. MANY HAVE MADE OUR WORLD SEEM THAT IT IS CRUEL AND COLD WHEN IT IS NOT.

It is a world of love and giving and nurturing and sharing and where everything works in harmony, when we simply allow it to be so. Today I choose to be this, and let go of any of this war and greed I may have walked with, and I have. Each day I make this commitment, I choose to show up in the world being this simple change. I am grateful to even be alive, to be able to contemplate the vast sea of love that life truly is, and I do here, and now, sharing it with you, the world, and that which gives all things. Thank you for my life.

 

 

 

 

Many things are happening and great change is upon us…

We are always planting seeds, as if in huge gardens, perhaps the gardens of consciousness itself. In giant fields of imagination, always planting seeds…each season growing and harvesting from things planted long ago, that just kept coming up every season, right on schedule, until we may choose otherwise. A lush and fertile place where all things are possible, and we get to choose which seeds to plant. Our lives now, aren’t they really just results of these crops we ourselves have planted? That time has come see what we have been planting, forgive ourselves and anyone that may have advised us to plant seeds that would produce crops we really did not want, clear the fields, tend the soil and plant new seeds. In the end it is only us that can choose to plant new seeds and to nourish other crops, ones that we would like to realize. Let us plant these seeds in fields of faith, to trust the soil, trust the things that naturally nourish and grow them…these things do not come from us, for it the same stuff that nourishes our very body, mind and spirit, that gives us life itself. Always nature is showing us how to live…how to co-operate, how to give. And there is no difference in giving and receiving. It is magnificent to simply watch her go, the grand symphony of life, and to be a part of it.

We may choose the seeds and plant them, though not always get to choose which will grow and which will come to harvest. We plant them, care for them and trust the One that gives all things, being grateful for what does come and enjoying that, not ever worrying about the ones that may not have come or that may parish. There is always plenty…

True power does not come from us, it comes through us. No matter if we are on the adventure of a lifetime or simply sipping tea with a friend at a local spot we are alive with possibility and breathing the same beautiful breath. We are here to express that power, to share, to extend it - not to be it… to simply allow it to flow through. This way we never have to really decide anything, for all things are given in their own beautiful flow; save one simple decision- my will or God’s? In these fields we can plant, trusting whatever she would let grow therein, using only what we need and sharing with our fellow brothers and sisters, which are all things, from a water molecule to the very cosmos itself, and all that is in between, all that is. We become a part of and can see abundance everywhere, naturally… only, where does it all come from? Where do even the seeds come from? Where do these new eyes and ears come from that we may not have known before? Ah, this life….how did it get so sweet? We are loved that much… We can plant our seeds in the fields of faith.

Love and Gratitude

I gaze upon this day, the genesis of my greatest journey ever. Never before have I been so awake, so alive, and so aware of the bounty of gifts the universe seeks to share with us. These gifts come in many forms, and in non-form as well. That there is an unseen force which causes all things to be, which causes the very me to be is a realization I do not recall having just this way, not until now.

How many lifetimes have I lived? How many worlds have I existed in, and how do they all fit together? I do not remember being this able to realize what is beyond me, and even now I am aware of it, only it’s magnitude is staggering to contemplate and the best way I have found to know it is by staying still. And, where is the stillness? In my awareness, in my noticing, in my relative reality…how can it be that we live in a holographic universe? How can it be that we are boundless? How can it be that somehow my awareness is me and my form comes and goes? Is it I that calls form together to form the smaller me? Is there some grand architect of the universe that somehow has the power to do this…to assign our awareness to our form temporarily and then re-assign it, over and over and over again? Or is it set in motion like some mobius strip, never ending, eternal and ever-changing, infinite, and never changing at all?

These things I ponder as I set out for my day of fixing cars, practicing yoga and engaging with other beings of light and love. Who am I? What am I to become? Do I get to know, ever? Or is my life to remain a mystery for all of time, if there even is time? Will the mystery ever reveal itself? Or will it remain a peek-a-boo reality full of glimpses and fleeting realizations, only to be overshadowed by my form’s need for attention in the material world? We get to peek into the mystery from time to time, to notice the little things, to ponder them and wonder…is this reality? Is that? And where do I fit in, and why does my spirit long to be free? Am I not free in this very moment, and isn’t this moment all there is? A prisoner to my own perceived limitations am I surely, and a freed spirit in my simple allowing of freedom am I also.  As I embark on this, another simple day, I choose to realize my divine nature, the nature of no thing, the nature of being. As I embark on this, the greatest journey of my life, I realize more and more that it is simply a grand journey of awareness and self-awakening, self-realization. Does the material world even exist? Surely it does, and of course it doesn’t…ahh, my grand illusion of all things…how I love the great mystery, how I love becoming aware of becoming aware of being aware.

Hello everyone

It has been some time since I have written in this way, 384 days actually.
Inspiration is calling, and much has happened. When the inspiration came to me for this website, for working in this way, I was very excited. All the pieces fell into place in a beautiful way, and writing and creating this place has been so awesome. And all of you that are a part of it, especially the readers, helped so much, my gratitude to you. The whole purpose, to share gratefulness and how doing that, how simply practicing being grateful can drastically change our perception and our direct experience of life, is what it is all about.

384 days. Almost exactly one year...that actually kind of surprised me. It takes what it takes to get us where we are, and here I am. When I revisited some of the thoughts shared here with you I realized some things ... much of them very simple, and I laugh at myself when I see many of the titles of the posts are such things as "breaking free" and "letting go"..."new beginnings". It has been said we teach that which we most need to learn. Am I teaching? Dunno. I know I am sharing, on purpose, with you, and that in doing this we are helping each other on this journey of transformation. I am seeing how making small simple steps into a new way of living mysteriously offers a new world to be displayed... Did you see that? What was that!
I don't know, really. The truth is, I really have no idea what I am doing. The closest I can say with honesty and integrity is that I listen to the inspiration, the intuition that comes through me, and to the best of my ability, follow through with it...sometimes it's just plain weird! Such a vastly different way to live than listening to my old head screaming at me what I "should" do, than listening to and living my old, default notions on life and living, and it is WAY more fresh.

Simple things ... I realize how perceptions create thoughts, and thoughts become things.
A year has gone by now, and it is nice to come back and review and see how choosing better feeling thoughts certainly alters the course of a predictable life, because it has mine. I love not knowing, it's so much more full of possibility.
The stuff the universe comes up with is so much more interesting than the stuff I can come up with anyway. So what am I really trying to say?

It is possible to change.

It is possible to live a life you love.

Who you are right now is only who you have been, up until now.

Today, each day, is a brand new day, full of new possibility.

Everything is conspiring in our favor, right now.


As always, Gratitude

It keeps coming to me, this message: We are all capable of higher consciousness; greater awareness.
I think about people in my life and sometimes (many times) I judge, automatically. This is my smaller self, and it separates. In that moment, I choose to be aware. I see that I am judging, that I am listening to my ego, and I have a choice now. I can let that judgment go and choose to see deeper into that person, or into those people. Then I see that there is something much more than what I would judge, I see that we are all seeking love. When I am willing to give love instead of judgment, even if it just in thought, something beautiful happens, and I feel awakened. Suddenly, I am aware that our essence seeks to unite, and when I am willing to be in unity with others I feel more aligned with something far greater than I alone. And not just other human beings, but every living being. I feel a part of, and the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. Higher consciousness.
The real truth is, I don't know. Of myself, I can do nothing. I need be in harmony with what is greater than the whole to be in harmony with all that is. And, surrender is the only way. I have come to find that the great journey from our heads to our hearts is perhaps the longest we will ever embark on, and it is a daily journey, happening only right now.
The head, our ego, is our smaller self, and it wants to separate and isolate, and create fear. It operates on the past and the future, which do not even exist. So it is unreal, yet we give it power by listening to it and allowing it to be our guide.
The heart, our higher self, wants to unite and come together, and to love. It operates in the now, which is the only time that truly exists, and is real. It is so much easier to be in the heart, where this beautiful harmony is, yet many of us have chosen for so long, perhaps through agreement, to listen that smaller self that it becomes automatic, and we just simply believe the illusion that it perpetuates.
When we come together in ways that nurture this higher Self, we access something far greater than our individual self, and this is what I feel this sweet message coming to me may mean. Either way, when it comes, I am grateful for it.
I have practiced being in my head for too many years, and today I choose to be in my heart, in harmony with the Great Spirit, and with you.

Love, and Gratitude.

Namaste

My Dad always said that Thanksgiving was his favorite day. He said that he just had so much to be thankful for, and that he liked this day very much. I am so grateful for my Dad, he was a wonderful person, a great Father, and a true friend to many. He made his transition close to Thanksgiving in 1998. I am so very grateful for all the wonderful things he taught me about life, he was truly a giving person. There are many others too, people that stand for something, walk in a good way, and help me to become a better person simply be being the example.
There are also people that teach me other lessons, myself included. Sometimes I surprise myself at some of the thoughts I have, or ways that I act or re-act. Progress, not perfection, thank God. Today I choose to be aware of myself as best I can and make choices about the way I live and walk that will have a positive impact on life, and on lives. Yes, certainly sometimes, maybe even often, I fall short, although my intention is always for the best and highest good.

Every day I wake up and the first thing I say is "Thank You" for my life, for life, and just for the experience of being alive. So often my breath is taken away when I realize the profound gift that life is. We are given these awesome bodies, these magnificent minds, and this beautiful Spirit. We are given this beautiful planet, which has just the right conditions for billions of people and countless creatures to exist on. Just far enough away from the sun so we don't boil and just close enough so we don't freeze. The air we breathe, the life giving water, the great food, the sun, the moon, the stars, the rain, all these things working in perfect harmony to sustain this wonderful thing called life.

What a profound gift.

There is so much more depth I could go into on these things, and perhaps someday soon I will. I know that I contemplate such things constantly, and realize that every thing is in some way connected to every other thing. Our bodies came from the earth and will return to it, and our Spirit is eternal and will go on forever. In this moment it is all this (and so much more) I wish to acknowledge and give thanks for. I see that all of life is this profound gift, and that we exist by the ultimate gift of the creative flow of all that is, what I like to call Creator. When I went inside and decided to take an honest at what I truly am, this is what I found, and I see it in all others; good, bad or indifferent. We are of the same life force. We are creators too, each of us creating our lives and every resource necessary freely given us, along with Intuition, Imagination, Love, and vision, our access to divine guidance.

And so it is that gratitude has become my chosen way, and this special time of the year I say a Thanksgiving for all these things and so much more. I am grateful for the experience of life and all it's beautiful treasures.

Love and Gratitude

As we come into Autumn, let us be grateful.

Always in the Autumn air for me I feel great things coming, and there is this feeling of transformation all around. The trees change their colors, and the days grow shorter and become crisp and cool, and soon we will have the heavy rains and then the winter will come. On the Red Road, we look to the West,  the direction of sundown. We use this time to reflect, to remember our past and those that are no longer with us. It is a time for forgiveness, this will set us free to live our lives in a good way, and we will be aligned with the Great Spirit. We can be grateful for the times we have had with our loved ones, and however they have gone, whether it be their transition, or that they have just moved on to another season in their lives, we can wish them very best, truly meaning it, and we will realize the freedom that comes with that authentic forgiveness. We can "do unto others as we would have them do unto us", and we can see how when we forgive, somehow we are forgiven as well. This forgiveness creates a space within us where that resentment used to be, and in that space we can choose what we will put there now. I will choose Love.

I am full today, I see how the Creator has given us everything. Any feeling of lack would surely be a making of my own. Abundance is all around us all, all the time. We need only truly look into each others eyes and we can see the beautiful gift of life. And, if we take an honest look at ourselves, we can see how the thoughts we allow and the words we choose to speak create our experience. Let us now become responsible for these thoughts and words and begin to choose them more carefully, with love and gratitude. Think to yourself; "is this thought or are these words creating for me the kind of reality I truly want for myself and those around me?" Choose to become a conscious co-creator of your life and choose the thoughts and words that will bring you the happiness you truly desire. Look upon others with exceeding tenderness and be grateful for them in your life.

This coming time of rain and coldness, followed by the dark winter, is a time for us to look inside ourselves and heal, to be grateful for all we have experienced in this past year, and to look forward to the coming year. How do we know joy if we never know sorrow? This summer I was blown away by the living, vibrant trees and foliage against the beautiful blue skies, the puffy white clouds with the glorious sun shining all her light everywhere. This is possible because of the contrast of the changing seasons, and because of the rains, and is so pronounced because we have seen the darker seasons where the trees and flowers are resting, patiently waiting to beam themselves again when it is their natural time to do so.

So, as the Fall comes, I choose to imitate nature, I am grateful and happy, and soon I will also be wet and cold. Hot baths and books by the fireside will replace open windows and cool showers. And I look to the Creator with trust that everything is in perfect order and that all is well, I forgive, and I choose love and sharing for my way. How about you?

Gratitude.

We have built walls around us with our views of life and many times, we cannot see beyond these walls. We have made a way to see the world and then made believe this way is the way it is. Then, to reinforce that we are right, we go and try and impose this way upon others and when it doesn't work we become angry and frustrated.
There is a way out, and that way is to want more for others than for ourselves. Truly desiring the best and highest good for all involved. That doesn't always mean that we get what we think we want, and many times certainly we don't get what we think we want. But what we think we want is likely based on a flawed belief system, and usually entails "how can I get more for me?" We tend to think that if we can just get this, or that, then we will be happy, but seldom ever are when we get that thing. When we let go of this, the Universe always has something much better for us. Confusing?
We tend to try and insert our will upon others; if they could just do what I want, or accept my point of view, then everything would be fine. It is interesting how we even greet others throughout our day. We ask "how's it going" but many times we really don't even care, we are so worried about what we are not getting, or what's wrong in our own lives. We may be listening from; "that's great but what about me?" So many times, if we look with honest eyes, we can see how self-obsession is the root of all our problems. How about you? Try asking someone how their day is going, truly being interested, then actually listen from a place of truly wishing the best for them and detaching from your views and opinions for a minute.
Especially with those close to us. We want the best for them, certainly, and we think we know best. Our lovers, friends, children, parents; we want the best for them and we think if they could do this or do that (usually our way) their lives would be all better. But the things we think are the best for them are the same ways of being we use in our own lives that many times produce less than desirable results. So, we are wishing the best for them based on formulas that often do not work, especially for us. In short, we are trying to teach them fear and lack based thinking. We want them to see the world the way we do, but how is the way we see the world working for us? Are we living in Love or fear? Do we see lack, or abundance?
Gratitude is a great way to wish the best for others. When we look upon the people in our lives in the light of gratitude we begin to see the gift that they truly are. When we look upon our own life in the beautiful light of gratitude we see our authentic self shining through. Shine that light. Choose to see the light in others shining through, look for the beauty in them, and connect with that light. This light will eliminate the darkness in ourselves, and for each other. This is the great healing light of Love and all of it's beautiful attributes. Choose to live in Love today. When we do this, we are all healers.

Thank You

Every day we make choices about how we will engage the day, and those choices will determine the quality of our experience. We tend to live into our perceptions and projections about what is on the horizon. We actually will go out and seek out evidence to support our view of life. Many of us do this on auto pilot, completely unaware that this is happening, though I can assure you it is. Once we choose to become consious co-creators we begin to see that we can shift our view, and that shift can drastically and beautifully affect our experience. Many of these old ways of seeing and being are deeply worn patterns and can be changed, transformed. We can take simple small steps and the transformation is underway, if that is what we desire. Many times there is a pay off for staying in these old ways, and even though we may say we are not desiring the results we are getting we keep repeating the same patterns anyway. And that is another story....

We do not know what is to come in most cases and yet we will make a prediction, that is, we will dictate before how something will occur. Certainly, sometimes our predictions can be accurate, even right on. We are all pros at this, and I can see in my own life just how much I was predicting, and how it caused me to have a very limited experience. I would access the records of my past experiences and predict what was to come with what I knew already. Thus, not really being present. Boooooooooring. Not only boring, downright frightening in many cases. OK, I admit it, I used to live in a fear based projection of what I had thought was reality. It wasn't reality, and that I found a way out of this way of being is what all this work is about. Just sharing it, because I care about my brothers and sisters. Yes, you. I care about you.

I worked with a guy once, about a year ago, and he is very neurotic. He is always forgetting things, and he kind of stumbles around and fumbles about, has a short fuse, you could cut the tension in the air with a knife. He often spontaneously cusses loudly like a pressure relief valve operating. Even speaking to him on the phone I get the impression that something is about to go wrong. He has this view of the world, that it just can't be trusted. He is a very well meaning fellow and likable, just very nervous, to say the least. So, working with him, and allowing him to be my teacher, I came to some realizations. I had been developing this ability to trust and to let go, very consciously working on it. I noticed how people create a way of being and then act as if they have no part in it. Having some success in being a conscious co-creator of my experience I was fascinated by this fellow. Others around him were just calm and cool, but he was not. We were all in the same space, doing similar things. Simply, our views were just different. I began a conversation with him about work stuff, and when the opportunity came I said; "Well you just have to trust the Universe I guess..." and very nervously he said; "That's just it, I don't trust the Universe at all".
In that moment I got it. In his mind, it's all up to him. All the burdens of controlling the Universe and everything around him on his own two shoulders all at once, every moment, evey day. No wonder he appeared nervous and frazzled, that is a lot of stuff to be in charge of! And I saw myself in that way of being, there was a time when I was that very way. Everything I have spoken about this man I at one time was, that is how I recognized it so easily. I just simply found a way out.

True control comes from no control at all. True power comes from not desiring power at all. This beautiful Universe works in such a perfect way. There are forces and energies at work that we will never control, ever. We can align with them though. We can allow them, open ourselves, humble ourselves. We have been given everything, there is no lack, except that which we create ourselves. When we choose to look at the gifts all around us, the abundance, the beauty and the wonder, we can see that these forces at work are loving and giving beyond measure, asking nothing in return, just giving and giving. Aligning with this, we can simply get out of our own way. We can let go and begin to trust what we have fought so long.

Love and Gratitude