_This week I come to you with a few words on compassion. I have really seen how compassion is the energy that can really make or break a situation. Compassion by default, breaks down the barriers between humans and allows for us to accept and love humans regardless of how extreme or painful the circumstances. The tendency for most humans when confronted by interpersonal challenges is to defend ourselves and snub the other. We want to be right and the other is wrong. Unfortunately, this is what most of us do. People don't have to deserve our compassion. We can offer it freely and its power is transformational. Learning to have more compassion involves making the radical shift to assume the best in others and sit in their shoes offering them the loving thoughts wishing for their stresses, pains, suffering, and discontent to be relieved.
Jack Cornfield tells us; "Work with compassion practice intuitively. At times it may feel difficult, as though we might be overwhelmed by the pain. Remember, we are not trying to “fix” the pain of the world, only to meet it with a compassionate heart."

in most of my classes this week, we will explore compassion. I hope to see you on the yoga mat, and if not, please enjoy the contemplations and meditation exercises below.

Here is to a beautiful week filled with compassion!

In love,
Mayuri

CONTEMPLATION OF THE WEEK: COMPASSION

Start by examining your feelings when thinking about suffering. Don't sensor yourself, look at this openly and ask yourself freely:
Do I want to suffer? Do others want to suffer and where can I see this demonstrated in others lives or  behaviors? Do I wish anyone else to suffer? Can I wish to be right without wishing for someone to suffer by default? What is so special about me, that I protect myself and not others? Can I forgive my enemies for being imperfect humans, just like me?

You may wish to jot down your thoughts on these questions in a journal.

6 Simple Steps to Compassion Meditation
  1. Sit in a soft but upright posture: spine is straight, hands rest on the things; arms, shoulders, jaw and neck are at ease; eyes are closed or gaze is downward
  2. Gently bring focus to the heart region of the body, breathing in and out from this area; notice any sensations you may feel in this region of the body
  3. Begin by allowing loving, accepting and kind
    feelings toward yourself. Notice and release any judgmental thoughts that may arise
  4. As you breathe in and out, silently repeat
    the words: "May I be free of distress and suffering"
  5. Continuing to breathe in and out, repeat the words, substituting "I" with an individual's name, an animal or situation you wish to feel compassion for. "May _____ be free of distress and suffering."
  6. Come back to the heart region of the body. Reverently and lovingly place your hands over the heart. Stay with the heart for a few more moment, noticing any sensations that arise

 
_By Mayuri Gonzalez
VOLUME III Issue II                     January 8, 2012; 3:25pm EST

All of the yoga postures or asana's, provide us an opportunity to play with the ideas of "push" and "yield" and yet we can extend this energetic experience into our daily lives.

       As we approach each yoga posture (or any other physically demanding activity), we need to push ourselves to move the body further into the posture. This allows us to deepen the stretch and challenge our self to exert more effort and strength to sustain the posture or move deeper within the pose. This active energy of "pushing" allows us to build strength, and flexibility. There is another equally valuable force that it is important to bring to the table with our awareness. "Yielding" is a passive force that allows us to wait and listen to the feedback from our body. We are able to let go of resistance without being forceful or aggressive. Often, the act of yielding or surrendering within the posture makes the posture more available to us. I have found in my own practice, that I am often the one that is in the way of my own progress. I have been trapped in the tangle of my own frustration with my body when I blame and get frustrated with the limitations of my body in any pose. When I am able to breathe and relax, or "yeild" into the posture, I am reminded that my body just needs time and practice, pushing, and yielding. Each day that I show up on my yoga mat, my body greets me with new possibilities, and sometimes even new limitations. I can challenge myself and yet stay soft and remember that my practice is a process and I have to be mindful of the "release" that can be experienced through my asana practice.
     We can orchestrate these two forces beautifully and gracefully through the breath. The breath becomes the linking force between active and passive, doing and not-doing, control and surrender, pushing and yeilding. We can learn to be soft and subtle even in the midst of intense physical effort or stressful situations if we can bring our attention back to the breath. The beauty of yoga is being able to remain mindful in the experience and bring an inner attitude of trust and acceptance to our yoga mats.  Our breath can orchestrate the tone of our practice and bring these two energies into balance. 

Contemplation: Stay with this energetic idea of pushing and yielding. How can you use the breath in other areas of your life to balance the active and the passive, the receptive and the expressive?
 
By Mayuri Gonzalez
VOLUME III- ISSUE I         Sunday, January 1, 2012, 12:45pm

      Happy New Year! _A new year, a new cycle, a new moment. It all feels so fresh and energizing, and yet it's important to remember that there is always a new moment to be relished, if we see it as such. There is always the opportunity to release the thoughts, stories, patterns, and habits that no longer serve us. We don't have to wait for New Years or any other excuse to experience fully this energy of newness. Every moment, every breath, every second is somehow different than the one that came just before it, forever unfolding, evolving, and changing. There will never be a moment that will be the same as the moment that we are experiencing right now. It is impossible. With that being said, there is something to be said of the collective intentionality and hope for positive change that arises and magnifies as we cross the threshold of a new year.
     It is a custom in our culture to create a list of resolutions or commitments we make to our self when we usher in a new year. We tend to end the old year creating our laundry list of all the ways our world needs to change for us to be happier. We look deeply and scrutinize ourselves, looking for all the of things we should be doing to be a better version of our self. While positive in theory, these resolutions can be very limiting and stifling. Subconsciously we are making ourselves feel inferior when we reinforce the belief that we need to be "better" or "different" than we are. We focus on outer goals, like loosing that 15 lbs we have been needing to, and saving X amount of dollars before the end of 2012. We put the pressure on ourselves that we need to be better husbands, wives, and parents, or finally stop talking about giving up smoking and just do it. What if instead of all of these "needs, shoulds, and wants" we affirmed to be more connected to our self? Can it be that simple? What if our new years resolutions shifted away from a list of the things that we need to be happy, and more towards knowing and loving ourselves? Affirm to remain awake and present and take complete responsibility for your state and thoughts. Release your judgements, and beliefs that you aren't good enough just the way you are and affirm to live this moment (not this year) shining forth your highest self.
     I invite you to not limit yourself with traditional resolutions. Affirm to live and relish in this moment. Affirm to be present enough in the NOW to make the choices that are right for your self and awake enough to see the limitless choices and possibilities that are fabricated into every moment, there for your taking!  These moments of choice and possibility weave the very essence of this entire universe.
 
_ (Written by Mayuri Gonzalez)    
Volume II- Issue IV               Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:21am

      When is the last time you truly listened to a child and let them know that you can see and understand what they are feeling?

      Children need our empathic ears to help them to identify their feelings. We take for granted and assume that children even know what words like anger, frustration, disappointment,  or sadness mean. Many children don’t have the vocabulary to express and name the emotion that they are experiencing; they simply know that they aren’t experiencing something pleasurable, so they try to find a way to express this “yucky” unpleasant experience.  And lets face it, their attempt to communicate this unknown or unpleasant sensation can often look from the outside like kicking, screaming, whining,  disrespect, crying,and tantrums!  When children feel as though they aren't being heard they tend to just get louder and louder hoping that someone will listen. For them, is often starts with them hoping that if they get louder and louder we will cave in and give them what they want; but, with careful communication skills and compassionate interactions with them, we can shift them naturally away from the result they are desiring and help them to navigate this unpleasant experience bringing them more into the present moment.
     
Lets start with a little mock scenario. You are shopping at your local Target for catfood and garbage bags and as you are walking to the back corner of the store where these products are stocked, you happen to pass the toy isle with a gigantic colorful display of the new Stars Wars Lego Set. Your Son jumps up enthusiastically, tugs on your sleave and gasps "Look Mom, that is SO cool, I have always wanted that Lego Set! Can you buy it?" Your response goes something like this. "Steve, I told you already that we came here for cat food and garbage bags. I am not buying you anything, you always want something! I am sick of it. The answer is NO!" Does this sound familiar? All that child heard is NO. You aren't giving them what they want and you don't even care that they wanted it. In many cases, this would be the beginning of a very unpleasant shopping trip! Start by focusing on the emotional experience.  Let the child know that what they are feeling does matter, and respond from that place. One possible solution might go something like this: "I can see that you are really disappointed right now. I get disappointed too when I can't buy something that I really want. Why don't I write the name of that toy in my little book in my purse on your wish list so we don't forget how much you liked it." What we have done in that response is:   
          1. Let that child know that we see and care about what they are feeling.
          2. Let them know that we understand firsthand what that feels like. and
          3. Let them know that, even though you aren't going to buy them that toy now, you care that they
                     like it.
      It's important to remember that children, in emotionally charged moments are having an emotional experience. It is, by no means, rational. If we can compassionately examine our own life, we can all find a moment in the past that we were upset, and a probing friend or loved one was seeking to correct or help us to solve the problem, and we said in a fury, “I am just really mad (or insert any other emotion)” What the adult was saying was perfectly rational and would be a reasonable solution to the problem, and yet what we were really seeking was emotional validation. Many adults try to play connect the dots with children, or adults for that matter, between emotional and rational experiences. We seek to correct, deflect, or criticize the experience without starting first by recognizing and validating the emotional experience itself. The child is looking to see if we are really listening, understand, and care. Most of the time, they aren't even asking us to fix it.  When we are able to stop and compassionately say, “I can see that you are very frustrated right now,” we hold space for that child to pause and reflect on how it is that they are feeling and give that feeling a name. Naming their emotions is incredibly empowering for children.  It builds an emotional fluency that they need to be able to recognize and regulate their own internal experience. Unfortunately there is no hope in achieving this unless a child is able to gain the vocabulary and context to even know what these unpleasant sensations within them are called.
       When we, as adults are able to validate and articulate our children's emotional experiences without judgment, we are not only letting them know that we truly care and appreciate what they are feeling, but we also let them know that they can take a moment to reflect on themselves in a contemplative way to understand and name the emotions that they feel. This is laying the groundwork for a lifetime of healthy, reflective contemplation of Self that will help to lead these children grow into happy, healthy, connected and balanced adults. But it begins with our empathic ear! 

 
_VOLUME II ISSUE III      December 28, 2011. 11:51am EST
All of the moments in our life have led us to the present moment. All paths have led to this one destination. Our state in this moment has been created by the thoughts and the beliefs we have held in the past. These thoughts and beliefs have bred feelings, some warm and fuzzy and some not so much. We have all felt the pulls of dissatisfaction and remorse for the cards that have been dealt to us. These thoughts "If only I had"....or "It should have gone like this" create patterns within us of suffering where we subconsciously buy into the idea that the universe isn't caring for us, protecting us, and giving us the best. We buy into the pattern and feeling that we aren't good enough or that others are somehow out to get us. 

The past is over and done with. There is no other possibility for the past other than what has been. Get it out of your head that there was any other option for any situation other than what was. There is no opportunity to change the past and spending time locked in these patterns of thought often lead us to feelings of resentment, guilt, fear, and pain. Walking in this world peacefully requires total responsibility for one's state of being at ALL times. We have to consciously choose the thoughts that will serve our highest good and actively choose alternate thoughts when we are experiencing suffering.

The point of power is always in the NOW. Don't wait for some sign that you are on the right path or spend too much time fussing over the past. It simply doesn't matter. All that matters is the choice that you make right now! What are you telling yourself? What do you believe about yourself? Don't judge that thought. Just start by witnessing whatever you are telling yourself. Spend time in meditation or engaging in mindfulness based practices to learn how to witness these thoughts and create the space to see what is operating within. If you see the shadow operating loudly within you, you don't have to believe it. What an idea! We don't have to believe everything we tell ourselves! Think about it for a minute. We all criticize, judge, and badger ourselves all the time. We simply don't have to believe these thoughts and we can place them back in the stream of consciousness where they can float on by without taking a hold of us and choose another more loving thought in its place.

Engage in some time with yourself where you can tell yourself some powerful, affirming, and loving thoughts to give strength to the voice within you. Claim the life or experience you are seeking with enthusiasm and faith.

Step into the now and fill your life with thoughts that will make your spirit soar.
 
Volume II- Issue II             Tuesday, November 2, 2011;  2:29pm
This theme has been coming up for me a lot lately. There is so much going on in my daily life that is is so easy to be driven, seemingly to madness by the endless stuff and things to do all around me. The children, the house, work, laundry, phone calls, emails....and the list goes on. i have an immensely full, rich and abundant life. I am truly blessed! I am taking on online course right now, called "THE WAY OF THE CROW" with my meditation teacher Harshada Wagner (www.livingmeditation.org), and he has been asking us to contemplate the question "What is standing in the way of my happiness right now?" It has been a really rich experience to reflect on these 11 words. Whenever I am feeling off, uncomfortable, irritable, annoyed, stressed, or exhausted, I have made it a spiritual practice to pause and ask myself this question.  "What is standing in the way of my happiness right now?" The answer was quite unexpected and very powerful.

The nectar has been in the "pause". The suffering that I experience is when I fail to pause, to stop and check in with myself. It comes when I am constantly on the go and totally unconscious. I am just a moving machine doing stuff! In this space of pause before the answers arose, i remembered the sweetness of bringing myself mindfully into the present moment and even taking the time to ask my own self to speak to me. I ask my body and spirit to endure and put up with so much every day, but how ofter do I stop to give myself or ask myself what I need in any moment  I can press the pause button whenever I chose, and bring my energy back within. When I asked myself this question, my awareness dropped into my heart effortlessly. I somehow knew that the keys to unlocking my happiness resided in my heart. This simplicity of stopping for a moment to breathe, connect, and pause has completely altered my state. When I am having a manic moment, where the stresses are mounting, I pause....and, the beauty is, no one has to know what I am doing from the outside. i can indulge in this practice in the supermarket, while making dinner, feeding my son, or writing this reflection on my computer. I have been doing sadhana for almost 20 years and this practice is changing my outlook. I have read and studdied so much from many amazing teachers. I am definitely guilty of collecting spiritual teachings, upon spiritual teachings which i have filed away somewhere away in this brain of mine. And yet, this question, I am certain will stand out and stay with me for years to come.

What keeps me for being truly happy right now......is always FORGETTING God. (Whatever name that God is called)

What keeps me from experiencing joy is forgetting to connect, failing to take the time to remember what is real in this life. What keeps me from my own joy is forgetting about my soul as I move about my day. What keeps me from my joy is forgetting about the divine order of this universe, and placing my belief in the day-to-day nonsense. It is so damn distracting, and has a way of feeling so insanely important. The beauty has come with the shift. Sadhana is truly about practice. There is a reason why they are called spiritual practices. With practice, the shift becomes easier. I have come to appreciate this practice of stopping and connecting, and remembering God, and it has been so much easier to remember the divine in the middle of the muck, mess, and stress. The divine is always there. What creates all of my suffering is forgetting!

Because I am a thick headed human creature who is distracted easily (lol) I have set an alarm on my phone to go off one time an hour- my phone rings to OM every hour on the hour and a pleasant message to myself comes up on the screen that says——-

"Mayuri——Remember God!"
Love.
your Self.
 
Respecting Wildlife- http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2011/31238.html
Open and Listening

When in nature we often forget we are moving into another realm, one that asks us to drop our baggage and surrender.

For better or worse, much of the world we experience is dominated and controlled by human beings. We spend our days in houses, cars, and buildings, and inside these structures, we are in control. We assert our wills and manipulate our environment. Within the context of the human world, this is natural. However, we often carry this attitude with us into the world of nature. We forget as we enter the forest, or sit on the edge of a pond, that we are moving into another realm, one that asks us to drop our baggage and surrender to a different sense of order and meaning.

When we move from our everyday world into the world of nature, we may not even notice at first. We might continue talking loudly into our cell phone or to a friend that is with us. We might walk quickly as if we are on a busy city street, our eyes downcast, our thoughts hectic and hurried. In the best case, if we are sensitive to our environment, we will soon notice that it has changed. We may hear ducks calling, or wind moving through the leaves on a tree. If we notice the shift, we will naturally shift as well. If we don't, we may get all the way through a beautiful park without having lowered our voices. Next time you find yourself in the presence of wildlife—even if it's just a duck pond in the midst of urban hustle—try to move into a receptive state of openness and listening, no matter how much or how little time you have. Allow yourself to be captivated and calmed by the energy of the wildlife that covers this earth. Teaching our children to be respectful of nature and to stop and observe is a gift they can always cherish

We preserve pockets of nature in our urban centers and large expanses of nature in our national parks because of the magic we feel in its presence. It reminds us of our smallness and calls us back to a deeper, quieter part of ourselves. When we honor nature by being respectful in its presence, we honor the mystery and wild beauty of our origin.
 
By Mayuri Gonzalez
Volume II- Issue I       Wednesday, January 19, 2011

I am rereading Ekhart Tolles "A New Earth." Powerful stuff, I must say, and timely for all of us. I loved this idea that he spoke about in Chapter 3 that the classic Rolling Stones pop song "(I can't get no) Satisfaction" should be the theme song of the ego!

“I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no satisfaction
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no”

Hilarious and oh so true! Everything that keeps us unhappy or discontent is ego. And we try, and try, and try, and try………and somehow always end up missing the mark, forever unsatisfied. Why do we make it such a struggle? Perhaps the answer is that we try too hard, forgetting to trust and go inside to listen to our inner voice. We live in an outer world where we are taught that we “can’t get no satisfaction.” Think about it, when was the last time you remember feeling deeply satisfied? And when was the time before that? How much of your day do you experience contentment and peace? In contrast, how much are you spending stressed, unhappy, driven, exhausted, lonely, confused, or even numb? "I can't get no satisfaction." This is the mantra of the ego. This becomes the theme song to the soundtrack of our lives if we forget about the soul, about our true self. This underscores a life where we are looking for the answers outside of ourselves.

Everything that keeps us reaching for something else or something more... is ego.

Everything that insists that we must be unique, special, stand out from the crowd, and one-of-a-kind... is ego.

Our incessant need to be in control and fear of faith and trust.... is all ego.

Our insatiable appetite for more that leaves us feeling incomplete, madly driven, and discontent... is just the ego.

Our need to be right and defend ourselves.... is the voice of the ego.

Our natural desire to gossip, judge, name drop, condescend, blame, resent, praise, idolize, pity, and criticize...these desires are all mechanisms of the ego.

Ultimately, everything that separates us from our soul, our true essence is ego; all we need to do to break through this cycle is steady awareness. It takes nothing more then a shift of focus. When we can see the ego operating rather than the person (or our self) it’s easier to gain a little space from the ego and not take the manifestations of these egoic patterns personally. It can be an exercise in compassion and understanding. We realize that people themselves, (well, the essence of the person) aren't trying to wrong us or hurt us; it is just the ego operating in that person. All of a sudden, we are able to look at even our greatest enemies or the relationship that we struggle with deeply and see the ego creating the dysfunction. People don't create dysfunction. The out of control ego, housed within people creates dysfunction.  The dysfunctions and disconnects that we experience with the people in our lives stem from ego and forgetting that we all share the same essence. This beautiful energy of the creator, or source, makes up the core of every human and everyone on the planet. The ego just makes us forget this essential truth.

As I walked through grand central this morning and into the subway for my trip to work, I really looked around. I really opened my eyes, asking myself to lead with my soul rather than the ego. It was a trip. As I walked with eyes wide open, I saw the ego on every face. I saw the ego on the businessman rushing, slamming into others, panic stricken, looking at his watch; obviously stressing and obsessing over being late. Why could he not see that there was no other possibility for the present moment? Why couldn’t he see that he was in the perfect place at the perfect time; late and all? I saw the stresses, anxiety, disconnect, drive, and irritation on 98% of the peoples faces as I walked through the terminal aware.  How many of my fellow commuters were sharing my sentiment and thinking of the heart, of soul, of gratitude, of surrender? Any? I looked around and couldn't see a single person that seemed deeply happy or content. I looked long and hard searching for that spark in people's eyes and hearts, and I couldn't find it. I smiled at the people that uncomfortably, accidentally made eye contact with me and sent them real love from the depths of my being, recognizing that we are cut from the same cloth. I lovingly recognized the ego in the faces of my fellow commuters, and as a result brilliantly recognized the ego in myself.

Today, I set the intention to fall back into the arms of soul, rather than run through my day with the ego. When I started to feel unpleasant in any way, I asked myself; where was the ego? Where was my soul? Where was my relationship with God in that moment? When I felt stressed, rushed, and filled with anxiety, I stopped. I turned my attention back inward and remembered that this was just the ego distracting me. Everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) in this world is impermanent, and therefore unstable and unreliable. The only thing that we can know to be permanent is the formless, the soul within all of us. And for me, this brings me tremendous peace. Why identify with the outer craziness, when complete contentment is mine at the calling?

How do you see the ego and how will you loosen its grasp? The ego always wants "something else." Satisfaction lies in the arms of the soul, never to be found or counted on in the external, ever-changing world.  What would happen if we instead remembered the perfect peace that is always there within us?

Let's see.

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By Mayuri Gonzalez
Volume I- Issue VII        Saturday, September 18, 2010

Why do we take everything so personal?  Taking it personally reinforces the false belief of separateness, allowing our ego to leave us feeling disappointed or abandoned when people don’t act the way we would like. The world is a playground for our egos and spirit, always challenging us to rise up above the illusions and the “smoke and mirrors” and remember the true nature of reality; a reality filled with love and perfection.  

We share space with dozens of people every day as we go about our business, whether it is co-workers, family members, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, cashiers, cab drivers, train passengers, or random faces. Some of these faces we are emotionally invested in, and others we may never see again. In truth, all of the faces are manifestations of the Divine. We allow our very center of gravity to be shaken by others and blame anyone but ourselves when we are less than satisfied. In truth, there is no one to blame including ourselves. Blame can only exist if we don’t trust in something higher or a cosmic order to everything. If we trust in God, and are able to greet others with compassion, then we are able to find peace in the present no matter what the outside world looks like or feels like.

When we can look past the face, the insult to the ego, the disappointment, or the words, we are able to witness what is really operating within that human being we are sharing space with. Many times, we can listen to that inner voice and offer a speck of wisdom or a glimmer of hope. Sometimes it is in our highest good to simply walk away and take some deep breaths, until we can return to the space where we can stand firmly in light, love, and compassion. We have to remember that all of humanity is equal. No human being on this planet is greater than another regardless of position, race, gender, age, or economic status. One can even take it a step further and declare that humans are equal regardless of their behaviors or choices. Every person on the planet is given access to their own inner divinity and infinite possibilities to manifest a truly awesome experience; some people will not awaken in this lifetime to walk the way of spirit or consciousness.  What separates people are the vibrations each person chooses to align with, either consciously or unconsciously. When we stop taking it personally, we are able to stop fighting battles for others or defending our own ego or pride. We can lovingly look to others with compassion and understand what vibrations they are succumbing to. We can disengage and choose to step off the emotional roller coaster. We can hold up the mirror and gaze lovingly at our own reflection in others to gain greater wisdom and acceptance of all.


This week, make a pledge with yourself to not take the actions of others personally. Vow to honor the divine spark that unites us all and stand firmly and peacefully, recognizing the collective energy that binds together humanity.

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By Mayuri Gonzalez
Volume I- Issue VI                                                                                               Sunday, August 29, 2010

    So much of worldly society flourishes and is fed by our constant unsatisfaction. We are conditioned to feel that we have to reach for something else, some unseen goal that is higher than our current state of affairs.  We are programmed that life is an upward journey where we need to reach and climb higher and higher until we arrive at the top. All of this keeps us trapped in feelings of lack and need. We compete with one another to make ourselves feel better. We judge others to somehow justify and prove our own “so called” growth or goodness. We provide millions of excuses rooted in how the outside world has let us down because we don’t have what we want and begin to believe the illusion that that is why we aren’t content. What if we could remember that we are always walking, one foott in front of the other with our eyes gazing lovingly at the horizon; that we are taking the journey back home to our own self.

          Our life journey needs to be recalibrated to a horizontal path, rather than a vertical climb. This allows us to see that no human is higher or lower then another. Consciousness cannot be measured in a traditional scientific or quantitative manner. Consciousness isn’t to be understood or judged. It is beyond all of that.  Consciousness doesn’t know good or bad, up or down, more or less. They are concepts created by our egos, and much of present society is built by man’s ego. You cannot gain consciousness. It is to be experienced and aligned with, not earned or attained. It is always there for every being if we choose to remember what has been there all along just waiting for us to open our eyes.

    Life is not to be earned or gained, but to be truly experienced. The secret to life isn’t about achievements of any form, but lies in the understanding that all we have to do is return home. The horizontal journey of life is to return home, to perfect understanding, to perfect compassion, to perfect wholeness, to our own innate divinity. We are not learning, but rather remembering. We are not reaching, but rather accepting and loving.  We have to claim our own worthiness, our own beauty, our own perfection. We don’t have to change a single thing about ourselves or our current situation to find peace and satisfaction. There is nothing but the NOW, and all that we can do is put one foot in front of the other and keep walking, looking to the horizon with tender feelings of home in our hearts. Home is where the heart is, and yet the heart is in fact the doorway home.  

This week, take some time to remember----

My life journey is spectacular, perfect, and unfolding in every second of every minute of every day. All I must do is breathe, trust, and surrender and prepare for my own perfect homecoming. Back home to the universe of the heart and soul, to complete oneness and peace.

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