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We can desire that certain things occur, and we can take action and do things that might facilitate them occurring. However, it always seems that there is an unknown that is part of the equation that we cannot control, try as we might. It is this unknown that keeps life challenging and interesting.

We are gods in becoming ... but we are not gods in fact yet. As such, we have some creative powers, but it is best if we use these in service to spirit and to others to the degree that we can.


If there is one area of your life that is most worth examining ... that will cause the biggest difference in your life and the reality that you experience, this is it, BELIEFS! This is where the greatest benefit results from the effort expended. This is where we attack the cause directly, rather than only dealing with the symptoms.


It seems that our spiritual job is something that we must volunteer for, something that we choose to do because we must, because we are driven to do it as the very expression of whom that we are.

Look around, nearly everything in nature undergoes many failures for each success. The trick is to keep on going and to keep on trying new things. If these are coming from spirit, success is assured maybe sooner than one might think.

The acorn knows exactly what it takes to become a mighty oak tree ... all it takes is the right environment to nurture its growth. Similarly the seed of spirit or consciousness that sparked us, knows exactly what we are meant to grow to be and how to get us there. It is a matter of trusting in the process.

We are all in some sense leading the lives we are meant to lead ... living under the circumstances that we have called unto us via our beliefs, our choices, and our actions. That does not mean that as a society we can't choose to make this better for everyone. Indeed, we can, such is clearly within our collective power especially in the new age.

We are ONE! One world, one race, one people, one entity, one civilization, one consciousness ...

There must be a recognition, a realization of this simple yet great truth. What we do to another, we ultimately do to ourselves, for others are only another aspect of us.

The sooner we recognize that there is an intricate web in which we are all part and via which we are all interconnected to others, the sooner we will be able to fix some of the dire problems experienced by many on this planet.

Everything has its place and its purpose in our lives. Everything is there for a reason. Everything contributes to whom that we are and what we can express in the world. We are meant to lead extraordinary lives. We truly are. Settling for any less than this is selling not only ourselves short, but those whom our lives touch as well.

We are creators, responsible for all that we experience ... everything, the good and the bad. There are no victims except those who choose to be such. This seems to be harsh to those who are harmed by others. But everything is spirit ... and spirit is ONE. So everything experienced is OK somehow and agreed to by the parts involved ... actually, more than agreed to, co-created.

There are things that I can do that literally no one else can do, at least not in the same manner. Does this make me special? Indeed it does ... it makes me a unique expression of spirit, of consciousness. However, when you get down to it, we are all unique expressions of source, the one consciousness that animates us all.

Life is meant to have meaning. It is meant to be an adventure. We are meant to encounter the unknown, explore it, and integrate it into our lives. Life is the expression of spirit in flesh. As such, it is perfect ... at least to the degree that it can be in the moment. How can this be with all the suffering and poverty that exist in the world? Buddha asked this very question ... why must there be suffering in the world? ... My sense is that it is there to motivate us to achieve something better, and to have compassion for our fellow beings.

In some areas, cause and effect are fully operative. In other areas they are not. It helps greatly if we know the difference. Similarly, logic and reasoning have their utility ... however, so does intuition, and sometimes both need to be applied cooperatively. The more we engage our whole brain in the endeavors that we undertake ... the better the results overall.

Along with free will comes complete responsibility ... which gets enforced via spiritual law regardless of what we believe. This does not necessarily happen within a single lifetime. The karmic bank accounts seem to span far beyond that. Eventually a balance must be achieved ... or a surplus. However, forgiveness may come into play as well under the appropriate conditions.

Some of us are destined to a fate that will not be denied. We may not know exactly what that fate is. But, it is there nonetheless. We can feel it calling us to it. We know that there is something that we are meant to do, something that we came into this existence to perform ... something that allows us to express the best that we can be.

We are the vehicles through which consciousness expresses in flesh ... doing her works in the world. We are the legs, the feet, the arms, the hands, the eyes, the voice, and even the brain of consciousness. Everything is spirit. Yes, including everything that is flesh. We are spirit incarnate. As such, it is spirit that animates us.