So many of us begin the new year with a load of promises to ourselves that unravel in a matter of weeks. But I am determined to make this year one where my resolutions stick. Over the last several months, I have been working on cleaning out my mental closet, through emptying my parents' home. …
A Message
Contributed by Brenda P Wisdom will come through the experience of life. It takes time to develop the inner muscle of listening and tuning into your own inner world. All experiences come from within; it is like laying a pathway of small bricks. The design and pattern are within, and you can make changes as …
Small Steps
Last week, I found myself at a table with two other parents like myself, who have children with special educational needs. We were talking about how something so small--a smile, a kiss, the meeting of eyes--can take on immense importance when it is a rarity. While we were sitting there, one of my friends got …
Finding the Courage to Fail
The last few weeks, I’ve been struggling with the question of what in my life is truly “mine” and what is others’ beliefs that I’ve taken on as my own. Since I was a child, I yearned to live a life of creativity, following where words lead me. Yet, as an adult I’ve found myself …
A Little Bit of Wisdom
It’s about the choices you make. It’s about who you support and why. If you are in a limited way of living then it is you who pays and feels horrible. The highest choice you could make is to honor yourself and choose yourself and your good stuff. Often we choose to help others but …
My Experience with Enlightenment
By Pauline H I happily and gratefully turned 50 years young last year. For many years I didn't even believe I deserved to be here. I struggled and perservered through the darkness to find that we all are love and light, nothing less. Since my enlightenment experience I have personally experienced a profound life-changing miracle, …
How to Become a Saint
By Elana Hernon I had joined an online meeting some time ago, and I remember one of the participants asking the spiritual leader/teacher how to become a saint. The teacher said it was egotistical to think that way. I think differently. If a desire to be a saint is in your heart and it is …
Why Do We Exist?
Why you have been placed with the individuals that surround you in your lifetime, if not for your own and for their growth and greatest joy and perfection as souls? This is the goal of all existence, to fill ourselves with the joy and bliss of being. To know the absolute is to limit; but …
Ride the Waves
Emotions are like a storm, but you are the sea, wide, endless and full to the depths. There is motion at the surface and raindrops may pelt at the waters, but underneath the outer layers is a teeming world, filled with secret, vibrant life. There is a calm, a swaying to beautiful subterranean undersea music, …
You Decide
Only when you recognize the true extent of your greatness can you fully understand that you are a boundless creator. There is such great light in you! Much like a gaslight, it can be turned up and down, regulated as you desire or as you allow your emotions to open yourselves up or close you …
Avoidance
I know all the tricks. All the ways we hide. The ways we put off inspiration--that desire to paint, to dance, to exercise--by cleaning that pile of papers in the corner or by hitting next on Netflix. Maybe you don't know who you really are or why you're here. Maybe the world sometimes feels so …
The Power of Your Thoughts
You are far, far more than the eye can see, Dearest One. You are a creator, the creative force itself, and your thoughts are the most important manifestations you bring to life. This is the Truth of your existence, and all that we collectively experience is the direct result of the choices each of us makes. Once …
You Know Who You Are
A Meditation Imagine for a moment that you are a single spark of light, floating in the vastness of space. Your light forms a halo around you, and you are bathed in it, cocooned in light. You know only the quiet and a vast, endless feeling of safety and serenity. You are swaddled in the …
What Would Love Do?
In all situations and in any time when you feel your compass point in many differing directions, simply ask yourself, "What would Love do?" This simple act will provided more insight than you know, for there is an inherent wisdom inside each of you, and this intelligence knows its answers far better than does your …
How Do Old Patterns Hold Us Back?
Many years ago, I woke up one night at 4 am with the realization that I felt an incredible sense of abandonment. I started scanning back and back through my life, trying to figure out when it first manifested itself, and I felt myself going back to being a newborn. I have never had conscious …
Honest Spirituality. 