What kind of energy do you want to carry around with you? This seemingly simple question holds the key to transforming not just how you interact with the world, but how you fundamentally experience life itself. In our daily encounters with others, we face countless opportunities to choose our response. Someone cuts you off in … Continue reading What kind of energy do you want to carry around with you?
The human journey moves through a spectrum of experiences and understandings that vary from intricate complexity that is hard to make sense of, to having epiphanies of simple it could be. Our minds do tend to overcomplicate things, so sometimes it is really helpful to embrace simple concepts that further our understanding. Gary Zukav’s message … Continue reading Every decision you make results in your body experiencing either LOVE or FEAR.
YOU are a portal for love to shine into this world! Every small gesture, every moment of genuine connection, every act of kindness serves as evidence of this deeper truth. When you reach out to touch someone else's life, even in the smallest way, you're not just helping them - you're experiencing the authentic nature … Continue reading The truth of your being is that you are pure LOVE!
I want you to take a moment to put everything down. Take a deep breath, and as you exhale let everything you’ve been carrying around for the last few days fall. For the moment make your heart the sole focus of your attention, think of nothing else but your heart. Place your hands over your … Continue reading Your heart has been beating for you since before you were born, and you don’t need to know much more than that to fall madly in love with YOU!
Friday's meditation is dedicated to love, and today's wisdom from Anita Moorjani hits all the marks. One of the most profound lessons she learned from her near-death experience was the importance of self-love. She discovered that by accepting and loving herself unconditionally, she was able to heal her body and spirit. This insight challenges the … Continue reading If you believe that you only qualify for love when you are perfect, then you probably think that you’re not lovable.
Love can be such an elusive subject to wrap our heads around. There are so many different things we mean when we use the word love that the whole topic becomes a bit fuzzy. I have often wondered whether there would be a way to measure love. A way in which to quantify what love … Continue reading Is there a way to measure love?
Reading through the work of Hafez, I’m always aware of how the “tongue in cheek”, almost mischievous nature of his words brings an air of playfulness to what can feel like deep and serious topics. Hafez's poetry is a delightful blend of wisdom and humor, inviting us to embrace life's playful side. His words challenge … Continue reading I am afraid that you still think you have a thousand serious moves to make.
The world that we live in, can sometimes feel like a bit of a battleground. There’s so much happening in the world that feels immoral and unjust, that it’s easy to get caught up in the negativity, to define ourselves by what we oppose rather than what we aspire to. If you want to be … Continue reading Be a cheerleader – GIMME A YAY!
I have seen the miraculous effect of a love like this... When a person is in a space that has been proven to be explicitly safe - the kind of space in which you are really safe to make mistakes - so safe in fact that even when you show up as the absolute 'worst' … Continue reading I have seen the miraculous effect of a love like this…
Happy Friday! I usually prefer to share just two or three thoughts from our teacher of the week in the daily message, but every so often it's too difficult to choose, and today this is true for Byron Katie's thoughts on love, so here's a whole bunch! "I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, … Continue reading Love starts right now, by loving everything that is!
It's a trap that's easy to fall into... trying to 'find' love. And what's more, our flesh-and-blood bodies hold the memory that being 'alone' is dangerous, there was a time (a really looong time) when a human alone wouldn't survive for very long. Our bodies remember that and it makes us desperate to find the … Continue reading When deep acceptance comes from your own heart, you’ll be OK forever.
“Friday I’m in love!” Every Friday morning as I sit and prepare for meditation, I have this catchy tune in my head. Do you remember the words…? “I don’t care if Monday’s blueTuesday’s gray and Wednesday tooThursday I don’t care about youIt’s Friday I’m in love!” The Cure's iconic anthem perfectly captures the universal joy … Continue reading You decide not to close your heart when it hurts…
Have you ever looked at a human heart and wondered, "How on earth is it able to hold so much love?" The answer might surprise you: it doesn't. The heart, in its physical sense, is a remarkable organ, but its capacity for love transcends its physical limitations. Our hearts, both literal and metaphorical, aren't designed … Continue reading How does a single human heart hold SO much love? It doesn’t – It spills over, and that’s the point!
Fridays are a celebration of LOVE! And today is specifically a celebration of YOU… “A CELEBRATION OF WEIRD. Don’t become a spiritual zombie, devoid of passion and deep human feeling. Let spirituality become a celebration of your uniqueness rather than a repression of it. Never lose your quirkiness, your strangeness, your weirdness – your unique … Continue reading A celebration of weird!
Have you experienced it yet? That profound, radiating sense of peace and love that seems to swell from the very center of your being? Perhaps it came during a moment of connection with a loved one, or taking in a breathtaking sunset, or in the aftermath of a profound personal breakthrough. This feeling, often described … Continue reading Don’t give up, your heart beats just like the rest of us, it is available to you too!
Love can be a difficult concept to describe, trying to use words that clearly can't do it justice. It's a word thrown around so often, yet its true essence can be so hard to pin down. We chase after it in relationships, yearn for its presence, and sometimes feel lost when it seems absent. But … Continue reading Try not to judge them in the moments that they succumb to their own fears.
Imagine a pebble dropped into a still pond. The calm surface shatters, sending ripples outward in ever-expanding circles. This image perfectly captures the impact we have on those around us. Our thoughts, words, and actions create a ripple effect, influencing the lives of others in ways we may never fully comprehend. Tara Brach, a renowned … Continue reading If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected the hearts of those around us, we’d reach out and join hands again and again.
Happy Friday peeps! I’m sure you know by now that the topic of our Friday meditations is always love, and today is no different. Our sense of what love even is, is so deeply intertwined with how we have been taught to see ourselves and where we seek validation and acceptance for and of ourselves, … Continue reading You will love again the stranger who was your SELF.
I don’t think that there’s much I can write about love in today's message that’ll add anything to these quotes from the Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse, except perhaps this: double down on being kind to YOU, especially in those moments when you feel that you deserve it the least. When … Continue reading Empower yourself through your own acceptance of YOU.
The most profound revolution you'll ever experience begins with a simple act: truly loving yourself. This seemingly small shift carries the power to transform not just your inner landscape, but the entire world around you. The topic of today's meditation is love and I'm sharing with you Adyashanti's view. "Love is a flame that burns, … Continue reading …then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe…
Since waking up this morning, the word/s “authentic/authenticity” have been swirling around in my head, so even though today’s meditation is “Sharing Love” I decided to make the intro - Authenticity… We tend to think of being authentic as something we project out to the world, the courage to defy expectations and proudly display our … Continue reading … and you’re f#@king AWESOME!
“How do you spell love?” Asked Piglet “You don't spell it, you feel it.” Answered Pooh Ask a hundred people to describe what love is, and you’re likely to get a hundred different answers. It can be a complicated topic because for most of us, our history with love is well… complicated… We first learn … Continue reading When love is no longer something that you “need”, but something that you share.
There is a moment that sometimes becomes available during meditation - when you become quiet and unhurried - where something unexpected happens. You slow down enough to feel it: your breath rising and falling in rhythm with something larger than yourself. A sense washes over you that you are not alone in this breath. That … Continue reading Feel yourself breathing with all living brothers and sisters.
Hello! It’s Friday, and on a Friday the theme of our meditation is always love, or we could also say, the heart. And it turns out that Rumi has a lot to say about the heart. Rumi invites us to lean into the whispers of our heart, not just the pleasant chirps of happiness but … Continue reading You are creating wholeness within yourself.
As we navigate the complexities of human life, it's easy to get caught up in the constant chatter of our minds. When we are unaware, our busy minds become the space in which we live our lives. Thoughts cascade like waterfalls, analyzing, planning, worrying, replaying. Mental noise becomes the lens through which we experience everything, … Continue reading When the wisdom of the heart replaces the chatter of the mind.
What do you create when there's nothing you need? This question serves as a powerful prompt for self-reflection. It delves into the heart of what true love is and how it transforms us from fearful beings clinging to relationships, to expansive creators brimming with the desire to give. "Your Daily Dose" is a quick two … Continue reading What do you create when there is nothing that you need?
Love. It's a word tossed around so easily, yet its true essence often remains elusive. We crave it, we seek it from others, and sometimes feel a hollowness within us where it should reside. Love as an external validation that someone else provides often feels fleeting, dependent on others. But cultivating love as a state … Continue reading There is only one place where this work can be done… coming face to face with the “worst” parts of you, until you see them in a different light.
Love. It's a word whispered in fairytales, a yearning etched in our hearts. Yet, for many of us, truly receiving love can feel like a foreign concept. We shower love on others freely, but when it comes to letting it wash over us, a strange resistance sets in. Why is this? Why do we struggle … Continue reading Whoever taught you that you’re not lovable just as you are was never right, and being who you are was never wrong.
We all carry wounds, big or small, that leave their mark on our hearts and minds. The path to healing often feels like a long and arduous journey, filled with the hope of someday becoming whole again. But what if the answer to wholeness lies not in waiting for some miraculous healing to happen, but … Continue reading It’s not healing that makes you whole… It’s becoming whole that makes you heal.
"I am human only because you are human too." This sentiment is the foundation of today’s meditation. There is a felt connection we can experience with the humans in our circle when we let go of the sense of safety we think we gain from our tight grip on control, or the protection we think … Continue reading I am human only because you are human too.
