Motivated By Spirit

Consciousness is the all-pervading, controlling factor in our lives. I know that is true for me. That morning, sometime ago, I awoke with a vague feelings of uneasiness ; a mild sort of discontent, which had no roots; merely a vine of awareness seeking to settle. If it had been allowed to continue, it would have found plenty of reasons to enlarge itself. I knew it was not a space I wanted to occupy for the rest of the day . I f it grew any larger, it would be difficult to dislodge later on. I had to make a decision. Would I allow my mind to meander in the fertile environment of lack and limitation; gathering all that is not to my liking; feeding upon them and strengthening the discontent; or would I choose peace?  I chose peace. I sat down with a wonderful piece of music and invited the forces of peace, love, joy, contentment and grace to enter my experience. It took some doing. The mild irritation had been allowed into the space of the first cup of coffee; and it tak...

Yesterday I was watching the Australian Open tennis match when the great guru Martina Navratilova, tennis legend, said the following about a player about to take the court. “ She has to play at the edge of herself.”   I know a life changing truth when I hear one; and I get my metaphysics from everywhere. So I knew immediately that what she had said was true of life and had to be taken into my conscious as a working premise. What does it mean to live at the edge of the know self? To me it means knowing there is no limit to who I am; that what I know now about myself is only a very small portion of all that I am. To expand my consciousness into the vast realms of possibility that is open to every human being. I have to live at the leading edge of what I know and do now. I fully embrace the open ended nature of reality, and enlarge my edge each and every day. As the edges expand I am more loving, more peaceful, more grateful, and more available than I was the day before. My...

Within every bright and shining Light there is darkness. As the Light beams in for the first time the eyes are momentarily blinded, causing darkness to appear as the initial manifestation of light. The eyes, whether physical or spiritual, must adjust themselves before they can encompass any new light and see what is revealed by the Light for them to see.   When one enters a room that was darkened, and turns on a light, the eyes are shocked into closing, or there is discom­fort, but as the eyes slow­ly adjust to the new level of Light they become comfortable and are able to discern the various shapes within the room. This analogy is also applicable to the Spiritual eyes and the Supernal Light we call The Creator God. Naturally it is not possible to see the Light upon a particu­lar level if one is not present on that level. The analogy of the lighted room is a good one ; thus will be used to illustrate what that statement means. If there is a room containing bright l...

Waking up from the earth sleep is pretty much like waking up from the sleep we do as physical beings. Some beings wake up instantly and are alert ready to perform at peak levels.   Some beings awake more slowly spending moments within the arms of sleep while trying to negotiate the wake-a-day world. Still others have to allow hours to pass before they are fully awakened. The same types are among those of us who are awakening to the life of Spirit.   There are those of us who one instant are held fast in the earth sleep, living their moments with no awareness of life beyond the five senses.   Seemingly, for all intent and purposes, lost in the material quest, never giving a moment's thought to what exist outside of the very material way in which they conduct life. Then the very next moment, or so it seems to those looking on, they are wide awake to the life of Spirit, fully endowed with all the gifts of the Spirit long time seekers can only imagine. Those who ha...

There are little things that sit in our psyches, gnaw at our thoughts, disrupt jour pensive moments, and form impediments to our grand expansion and glory. They may go unnoticed for years. If we address these impediments, by owning them whenever we encounter them, it serves our expansion and adds to our peace. This takes the energy embedded within them to neutral, thus making it   available to expand our consciousness in the upward direction of our soul’s progress. An example of this from my own experience will show that even those of us who are seeking to consciously expand our consciousness have such spaces within themselves. Back in 2001 I was living in Daytona Beach and scuffling to put food on the table and pay the rent. I was in between income bearing activities when I saw the ad for drivers at the car auction. I applied and was hired. It was much fun as all the drivers were lined up and drove the next available vehicle. Most of the vehicles were in disastrous condi...

As I am working to put the finishing touches on A Second Slice, the next book due out this Spring, I have been visiting parts of its precursor Slices. The following jumped out at me as a measure of how I have grown in my understanding since I wrote that volume. “There is a saying about truth, which is oft repeated by the purveyors of psycho-babble that is cogent here. It is –' truth is not truth until it becomes your truth'. Nuggets come through all kinds of channels and that is a nugget. It is my truth when it becomes a part of my living consciousness; informing all my actions and my reactions; whether I utter it or not. That is the manifestation metaphysicians prate on about all the time. To say then God is good and good is health is only using words, until my body demonstrates total health. By and large, that is so, but the totality of the statement is not yet true in my experience. I have headaches, not frequently, but I have them. (Recently I experienced a bout...