Barriers

Our task in life is to work with ourselves sincerely and honestly.

To remove the emotional and mental obstacles that are in the way of our personal well-being and soul experience.

Soul is. It is what we put in its' way that keeps us from experiencing it.

Our anxiety, depression, sense of meaningless-ness and purposelessness can also be seen as loss of soul.

By being willing to own and grapple with personal pain, we act on our commitment to deepen our relationship with soul and to open our hearts to love.

Love and fear are two primary feelings. We can identify with either.

Fear is not only fear of another, but fear of our reaction to another - which is fear of ourselves.

We can work with our fear of life, of loneliness, of existential boredom so that we can release them and move through our inner barriers that block our experience of love.

Today I will work with my inner pain and fear.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ A Course in Miracles

Surrender

Allow yourself to let go today.

So much grace and beauty enters our lives when we can get out of our own way and let life work out.

When, on the other hand, we try to force circumstances to be a certain way, we are unable to be present in them as they are.

Each day probably has the potential to work out if we can only let it, if we can learn to move with the natural flow rather than try to control and manipulate the events of our lives.

Like the weather, our lives have a natural rhythm. When we are in sync with that natural rhythm, things run more smoothly.

Today have faith, trust that if we allow our lives to unfold and if we stay present and alive, we will come to understand how to live.

Trust in your ability to live your life well.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Maturity

Lets keep ourselves in perspective.

We have been around the block with ouselves many times. We know where we get snagged up, we know where certain relationships or circumstances will lead us. We are familiar with how we react to various circumstances.

Just for today, avoid going down a street that we know is filled with potholes and take a street that runs some other way.

Why should we deliberately set ourselves up for disappointment when we can just as easily avoid it?

Why should we do what we know will not yield high returns?

If we know and understand ourselves, then it is our responsibility to put that knowledge to good use, to allow it to steer us through our lives in positive and pleasant ways.

Our lives work better when we are able to witness ouselves in action, knowing that we can enter in by choice rather than compulsion, feeling free to act as we choose, to tailor our lives to suit us.

To act with maturity.

Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself. ~ Kajetan von Schlaggenberg

Time and Space

Look beyond time and space into the infinite nature of the universe, into soul.

What we see around us is not all there is to this world. See more.

Trust your eyes and trust your heart.

What we see with our minds and our hearts are just as real for us as what we see with our eyes.

Reality is multilayered.

When we are still and quiet it unfolds itself to us. Its wisdom and meaning seep effortlessly into our pores. We come to understand truth and soul because we sense its presence within us.

We are a part of this divine mystery of life.

We are indivisible with the whole, a cog in an ever-turning wheel of time, beyond which lies eternity, more life, more me, more it.

See beyond time and space.

The influence of the senses has in most men overpowered the mind to that degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in this world, the sign of insanity. Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evolution of Spirit

We are all a part of a larger plan, the evolution of the human mind.

If evolution is natural to the species of plants and animals, then we must be evolving as well.

The true scholar seeks to build on what has been developed. He or she continues to test and prove, to grow theories and then to pass them on in good order to the next generation of researchers and learners.

Work to be a good scholar of life today, competent researchers of the human soul.

Work towards doing our part to expand in the accumulated knowledge that we all have access to.

Experiment and add to a body of information, then pass it lovingly on to the next generation.

We are all a part of the evolution of spirit.

"the Manuscript describes the progress of succeeding generations as an evolution of understanding, an evolution toward a higher spirituality and vibration. Each generation incorporates more energy and accumulates more truth and then passes that on to the people of the next generation who extend it further." ~ James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy