April 2015

The awakened spirit

The awakened spirit is set free from the neurotic trappings of the egoic mind. Things become simple and in the ordinary, the extraordinary is discovered. All of life is transformed by your transformation. Everything becomes sacred and in that sacredness, there are infinite levels of divinity waiting to be explored. The source of all light, […]

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Success

This week of moving has been wonderfully challenging. As I sit amidst the chaos of boxes and furniture waiting to be arranged, I can see that things are going to work out perfectly as they always do. Though my desire was for a transition filled with ease and grace, the challenges (primarily physical and mental)

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Love as the highest law

The foundation of personal integrity and compassion is love. This is a much higher vibration and more powerful than any moral codes, commandments or judgement. Those who are willing to judge others are also ready to suffer separation in order to feed the ego\’s need for superiority. It\’s much easier to condemn another than to

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Learning through experience

The only way to truly understand oneself is through experience. Life is an exquisite montage of trial and error and we must have personal experience in order to fully integrate a lesson. Wisdom comes to those who have developed an understanding that lies beyond knowledge. Often this takes many lifetimes to achieve. We arrange to

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Simple pleasures

My dogs are great teachers. Always willing to play and experts at living joyfully in the present moment, they remind me to keep things simple. But they are also wonderful energetic barometers. Domestic animals are our guardians of spirit and like everything else in the world, they reflect the energy around them. As we are immersed

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Spiritual gardening

Yesterday I spent some time communing with sacred mother earth at our new home – playing with the trees and flowers, watching the interplay of bees, butterflies and hummingbirds, each carrying it\’s own loving messages from the Divine. The large yard had been left untended for the last several months and I was delighted to

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Conscious suffering

When you understand that suffering is a teacher, it ceases to be something that has to be vanquished. Suffering has no value unless it is conscious suffering. The moment the mind begins to work overtime, thoughts of fear or analysis permeate your ability to experience joy in the Now. The way to cut through this

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Balance and integration

At the center of your being lies a profound wisdom. This is a place of balance and integration which you have been carrying all along and this core of love can transform the mundane into a deep and abiding connection to the Divine.  No matter how fragmented or frustrating life can be, peace resides at the

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