Expect the best

As you experience stages of this journey called 'life,' you always have choices about how to respond to what you imagine is unfolding. Whether you expect the best or fear the worst, the mind invites you to imagine and create scenarios to reinforce your thoughts.

Take a few moments to ask some questions. Notice how you respond to people and events in your current focus of attention. What are the reactions of people in your life inviting you to notice about yourself? How is every event gently nudging you away from what you outgrow and toward what is dear to the heart? Which signs do you hear or ignore?

As you recall more details of your night dreams, notice what they reveal about your waking life. Everything is a message. Which lessons are you invited to recognize? How do you feel about them? What role do perceptions play in shaping your experience? What happens as you sense your current situation is actually a blessing in disguise?

From the moment you focus your thoughts and attention on how everything is serving your greater good, you also transform how and what you allow yourself to see.

"The best things in life are unexpected- because there were no expectations." -Eli Khamarov

Love happens

Love cannot be defined.  As you give unconditionally, you feel it.  Love is like the fragrance of a perpetually blooming flower.  You can allow it to flourish or block its light and stifle its growth.  Love is enough unto itself.  As you grow more aware, love reveals itself as an ever-present shadow.  As you focus on being more loving, awareness arises as a silent, humble companion.  Hear the heart.  It always knows.   Uncover more hidden gems.  Join us for our March book launch for 365 Paths to Love.

"To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." -Karen Sunde

Be real

From the moment you are real with yourself, you can be real with others. Even now, you have the means to see things as they are.  You already sense what is real.  The most important thing is to challenge your own mind.  When did you last question your beliefs, emotions or sense of reality?  Be brave.  When you are in denial of reality, life is painful.  Fear and discomfort arise from ill-will. Shift focus. See things as they are.

Notice our desires bend the mind.  You cannot trust your perceptions, expectations or your thoughts.  When you remove attachment and ill will, then all is only ever going well. Challenge your assumptions.  Watch what happens as you stop what you are doing, or do things more slowly.  You see deeper meaning, notice what you skip over when you go fast. You suddenly have time to linger, to know things more intimately.

To find the truth, you must move beyond fear and wishful thinking.  There is nothing wrong with natural course of things, of the evolution of life and death.  Accept that.  It is not the length of life that matters but the quality of it.  This is where you get real. Be still.  The truth erases suffering. Problems do not exist when you love unconditionally. 

"From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside yourself." - Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)

Be that

Listen to yourself.  Notice how you use the past or future tense in your speech and writing.  Notice when and where you refer to other people. What messages are you sending yourself? Notice how often you truly speak and act focused on this present moment. Notice everything is always going well here. Everything speaks through you.

What enables you to see nothing?

Notice how you are conditioned to accumulate experience, labels, or words to add after your name to describe yourself.  As someone asks you who you are, what you do or, why you are here, notice how you respond and how you feel. Does the voice of ego or heart respond? Feel confident or hesitate.  Feel impatience for new credentials or, serenity of pure being.  Notice what enables you to see nothing, to watch identity fall away.

Notice how losing what you percieve to be important at certain stages of life actually offers valuable lessons about what truly is. What you appear to be losing is never what you think it is. Beyond your conditioning, the nature of clarity reveals itself. Inner experience confirms nothing is happening here.  True completeness is unchanged.

In essence, everything that could possibly happen is happening.  Your focus of attention shapes what you see and experience.  If you say you can or cannot, you are right.  Notice all perceived troubles disappear in silence. What is present is never threatened.