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Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart. ~RumiGod is here now! God is in you! God expresses as you! God expresses through you!The most amazing thing about God’s grace is that we believe it to be something different than what it is! Many times, we think we must beg, beseech or appease for God’s grace to embrace us, where in fact God’s grace is always readily available to us at no cost and with no obligations!If there is the perception that ......

It is your light that lights the world.~RumiIn our everyday lives we are getting absorbed by daily vortexes of tasks and goals. While we get bogged down in the details of the material world our minds get cluttered with the debris of fear, doubt, worry and not-enoughness.When we are caught in these everyday events, we are unable to distinguish between allowing God doing the work through us and us doing the work by our own force. Through our teachings we know that the burden is not on us to make a ......

I Am the Light of the World~Jesus the Christ (Lamsa Bible, John 8:12)There is so much more about us in the here and now than we can imagine! The Real world of the Spirit far exceeds what the logical mind can grasp! Only our feeling tones and our intuition bring us in vibratory harmony with Spirit and Its messages for us.Change is the only constant in the human experience, and it is easier for us to be mindful of the places we leave behind than to celebrate and rejoice over the spaces that become ......

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.~ RumiWe are unique, creative beings sharing our paths in this human experience. No matter the situations or circumstances our minds are creative all the time! So, what good would it do if our expression in this here and now is not from our true authentic self?On the one hand we might feel our intense desire to express ourselves and to put something into motion, yet on the other hand our drive might be coupled with the equally overwhelming human need ......

Never lose hope, my dear heart, miracles dwell in the invisible.~RumiWhen we cannot fathom the unfoldment that is happening in front of our eyes, we call this a miracle. However, this categorization of a miracle comes out of our human nature. In God there are no miracles, because in God everything is possible! In this vibratory field, our deepest intent meets God’s inexhaustible supply.Too often we limit ourselves to the physical world and solely focus on logical analysis. In this narrow spect ......

Your longing for ME is my message to you,All your attempts to reach ME,Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.~RumiIn moments when we get caught up in our day-to-day human experience, when we feel anxiety and even trepidation, we find ourselves standing at the seemingly contradictory intersection of human and spiritual facts. At this intersection we must choose what we consider to be real. Oftentimes we remain in a sense of frustration and longing because that, which we consider to be real, are ......

This moment is all there is.~RumiWhen we desire to be living every moment to its fullest, we often equate this with being busy, being inundated with different stimuli or being in constant movement.However, when we dive into the notion and meaning of a moment, we discover that it offers a much broader stage on which infinite possibilities can present themselves, rather than it being considered an insignificant short period of time where not much can be accomplished. A moment, in fact, this moment ......

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.~ Rumi, The Essential RumiWe need to get to know ourselves for us to heal! Without our own healing we cannot have a true relationship with the Divine. All the different places within ourselves that are still filled with doubt, worry, not enough-ness, anxiety, uncertainty, guilt, or shame are energies holding us back from living our true potential of a creative and soul fulfilling life. When we are healed, we know who and whose we are, we follow divine g ......

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~RumiWhen our focus moves from external circumstances to an inner awareness, God becomes the home-beacon, the focal point and point of reference of our lives. Any thought, action, situation, or circumstance around what others did, do or will do stops to have any influence over us. In this place there is only a quiet acceptance of the world as it is, without us trying to influence the timing of anyone’s soul jou ......

With love you don’t bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face. ~RumiYou are pure consciousness! You are a unique emanation of the most-high God, that manifested itself on this earth plane as you and your unique and perfect life. You are perfect, because you have never existed before in this time and space and your appearance will never exist in the future. There is simply nothing that can be added ......

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.~ T.S. EliotEnvision yourself as the eternal being that you are, sitting on the banks of a quiet pond on a crystal clear night, watching the reflections of the moon and the stars in the water.At one point outside of time and space you accept the promise of newness in a world made of three dimensions and you take the plunge from the eternal into the waters of ......

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.~RumiOur material world tries to convince us that consciousness only exists within our bodies or gets created by our brains, hence postulating that the material particles around us are the only eternal fragments of our reality. Accepting this as fact without reflecting on the Truth of what God is, creates consumerism, scarcity, anxiety, not-enoughness and most of the conflicts we experience in our world today.Whe ......

Agape is the guiding instrument of God’s mysteries.~RumiIf we accept ourselves only as living in this world all our physical, emotional, and mental bodies seem to proof to us that everything we like must be close and darling, and anything we dislike must therefore be distant and unfriendly. Once we buy into these ideas of duality, we get into trouble either, because we take things personally and start to manipulate our environment so we can feel cherished and adored, or we take an impersonal a ......

Although you appear in earthly form your essence is pure consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine light.~ RumiAll we know with absolute certainty about our human perceptions is that they are a particular modality of experience. These modalities also include our thoughts, feelings, emotions, dreams and visions. Yet, the difference between our sense perceptions and our thoughts, emotions and imaginations is, that only about the latter we believe that they form part of who we are in o ......

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.~ Hebrews 11:1 (KJ21)Living on an island in the middle of the Pacific brings with itself a deep appreciation of what community means and how community is alive and lived every day. I know in my bones that we are all unique, divine emanations of the one most high God, however, there are these times where situations and circumstances arise so abruptly, aggressively and force their way into one’s mind and heart, that all ......

Paths cannot be taught, they can only be taken.~ Zen SayingWhen we pray, meditate, study and are in fellowship with love-minded people, we re-train our own mind to clearly notice the appearances of lack, limitation, doubt, worry and not-enoughness for what they really are: erroneous patterns of thoughts and feelings that we adopted by simply being here in this dimension.When we made the journey from the eternal into this temporal and physical world of the here and now, we incarnated with an open ......

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. ~Dr. Earnest HolmesEverything that we perceive with our human senses and beyond is energy and all energy is vibrational. This is also true for our thoughts, feelings and emotions. All these are unique units of energy. In prayer, and especially in our spiritual mind treatments, these vibrational fields are broadened and become wider, more powerful pathways of communication with the Divine.Our vibrational pr ......

Whenever I walk, sit, eat, or practice calligraphy, I do so with the awareness that all my ancestors are within me in that moment.~ Thich Nhat HanhIt is easy to take things for granted doing the day-to-day tasks and duties of everyday life. It is easy to be on auto pilot when we do the little projects and undertakings we call mundane. We need to remember that we are creating that, which we want to experience! If we are going through our day unaware and are chasing only the completion of tasks an ......

We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.—T.S. EliotSpirit is everywhere and includes All that there is. It includes, embraces and permeates all of manifestation, and yet Spirit is so much more! Spirit is ever-present, all-knowing and without a beginning or an end. Spirit is the artist that continuously moves and creates everything and It is simultaneously the canvas on which all of creation is un ......

Meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres. ~RumiWe are having our beingness in the heart center of God! God is pure love and creates out of Itself all of creation, which includes you and me and everything around us. Because God does not have a beginning or an end and is without any circumference, God‘s is everywhere present in its fullness and knows all about our needs before even we know them. We all are perfect, uni ......

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.~ RumiOur life is precious! This moment is precious! This moment right here and right now is one without a second! This moment is significant and there is not one moment more important than another moment. Quite often we might be distracted by the notion that we need to wait for a “special moment” to occur before we allow ourselves to fully engage. However, all we are doing is withholding our gifts in this moment.While we might ......

God is pleased when your love realizes it is part of something oceanic and begins to move with the whole …” ~ RumiEvery morning we get up to get on the surfboard of our human self, prepared with everything we are as true Spirit, ready to catch the next big wave of infinite potential of the day.We get to decide which wave we are going to experience! The question is, whether or not we can observe the ocean of circumstances, cause and effect. Do we recognize the patterns of the circles of Life, ......

Consider this well, o you whom worldliness veils,God has tied “invocation” to “I will answer.” ~Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi (The Journey)Let this new year unfold like a new hero’s journey.As in the classic way our journey begins with a calling. The Truth that always e ......

A gift is pure when it is given from the heart […] and when we expect nothing in return.- The Bhagavad GitaWhen we look at the cosmos through the lens of our inner eye we get to answer a core question about the way we live in this world: Do we live in a universe comprised of large amounts of empty space and lifeless matter or do we live in a universe that is creative, alive and vibrant?While living in an empty universe encourages beliefs of not-enoughness, doubt, worry and self-destructiveness ......