Dream In Time

You Matter

2012-01-29T09:41:00.001-08:00

Crescent Moon

2012-01-29T07:28:00.000-08:00

A crescent moon

Hangs low on the horizon

I pause at my bedroom window

Contemplating the view

I cease my meandering thoughts

And engage fully in feeling

Stretching my consciousness

Out over the city

The lights against the backdrop

Of dark night sky

Gives a sense of something beautiful

But reality lives on the periphery

And I’m thoughtful of the people

I’m reminded that most

Can’t fathom the depths

At which real life truly lives and breathes

There is so much more than the eyes

Can superficially see

There is more to life

Than the collection of shiny things

If you never wake up

The moments of this dream will be squandered

On nothing but sparkling toys lacking true and lasting meaning

It’s no way to live

It’s no way to be

Not when the only thing you take with you

Is the love you build inside and with others

Sleep now dear city

I whisper to the darkness

May you awaken in this dream

When the sun next returns

2012-01-22T06:38:00.001-08:00

2012-01-21T19:28:00.000-08:00

There are Just Those Days....

2012-01-21T13:48:00.000-08:00

Life Happens

2012-01-19T18:02:00.000-08:00

You can try to map out every single detail of a goal, mitigate every potential failure and upset and even develop multiple contingency plans to ensure you have complete control of a desired outcome and it can still go wrong. Sometimes it isn't the destination that matters, it's the journey...it's the dreaming...it's the planning...its the focus and determination to learn about yourself in the process. So, when life comes along and upsets your plans, find the love within to guide you and trust yourself to realize your truest dreams regardless. Don't ever give up and realize you can't plan for every contingency but you can be open to suggestions the universe will inevitably throw you for your highest growth. Stay positive. Be positive. Love yourselves no matter what it is you face and you cannot really fail.~Blessings!!!

(c) 2012 (photo comes from http://www.lifeflowenergetics.com)

Sensing Energy

2012-01-14T07:43:00.000-08:00

There are so many subtle things about this world that we miss all the time. I’m thinking specifically of energy. Maybe it’s a simple matter of focus. I think of it like hearing a radio but not knowing what music is. You hear it but dismiss it because there are no words to help you understand what you are hearing and separating out what you hear to recognize it as something. But, once you know what it is, you can hear it even if it the music is on so low that it is barely audible. Many things in life are like this. As far as energy, did you know that we emanate various frequencies of energy based on our moods and our beliefs? This is not made up. You can search youtube.com or the internet for information on the field of energy the human heart alone generates. You feel it but without knowing its there, you cannot define it and pull that energy out from all of the other sensations that you are taking in to realize what it is. We generate energy. Everything on this planet emanates an energy field. When you learn to tune into the energy and define it from the rest of the sensations you’re taking in you can begin to discern a little bit more about the energy you are perceiving once you get some practice with what different types of energy feels like. Just like different music on the radio, it takes time to listen to the different songs and then you can name them or even sing along with them.

Another thing about energy is that it carries signatures that we eventually learn to pick up on and after some time and practice, you can read the energy and learn from that energy. You can begin to discern what the energy of love feels like versus the energy of anger, sorrow or sadness. You can begin to discern when people around you are troubled or elated. When you pay even more attention, rooms will begin to speak to you, places that hold energy for various reasons will begin speaking to you and you will begin to discern the history as well as presence of energy any place you go. There is nothing mystical or magical about this. The one thing I would say is that just like people have various levels of acuity in their hearing, so too, do people have various levels of “feeling” and “discerning” energy. Sometimes the feeling becomes automatically translated to words in one’s mind…sometimes you feel the energy and can find no words to define it until you have enough experience to read the energy.

To change the subject for a moment, but only seemingly, I was born empathic. I could feel all emotion. I could walk into a room and instantly know who was upset, angry or happy. It was a useful tool growing up in my home. I always thought empathy was more internal and intuitive but now that I think about it, it is an energy sensitivity. Emotions generate energy in our fields. Some perceive it as auric colors, some perceive it in variations of thickness of air in a room and some feel in their bodies where an energy emanates in others. I believe now that it is all the same thing. For many reasons we can feel each other and so without even knowing what is happening, we can posture energetically or emotionally to deal with people we face who are giving off a certain type of energy. It is so fascinating to me how little we understand about energy. Connecting this knowledge to something else is even more fascinating…intent. What if we used our intent to specifically manifest certain types of energies so that others could purposefully fear them? When our governments and politicians speak words that generate fear, they are generating a certain kind of energy and as the words are passed on from person to person we infect each other with the energy of fear, panic, woe, anger, etc. Awareness of this in the wrong hands can result in some very negative consequences but not having awareness can have equally negative consequences.

Consider the volume, just on facebook alone, of all the of the life coaches, spiritual thinkers and loving individuals posting thoughts to make you think, reach higher, heal and return to a more positive and loving state. Do you know why this is occurring? Well, some are aware of what they are doing on purpose – like me – and some just know how good it feels to generate positive energy and infect others with beautiful positive energy brings about a positive frame for many to work within. Either way, it’s a good counter to all of the tragic and fearful energies rampant in this world. If we want to change, we are going to have to learn more about ourselves and the tools we have available to us to make changes. Become aware of your energy. Become aware of the energy you intentionally or even unconsciously emanate. Everything in this world matters. Your thoughts matter. Your feelings matter. Your words matter. Your dreams matter. We were not put here to destroy ourselves and each other. We were put here to refine our souls, to learn and to grow. Devastation and destruction need not be part of that equation but until we pull our heads out of the sand and learn to see what is real out there and understand just how we contribute either to the problems in this world or the solutions, we’ll only consciously contribute to the status quo. That is just no longer an option for us. We are growing too much for that to be acceptable.

Know this one thing, through the light of consciously dreaming in this incarnation, we can change what we feel and what we see. We may not get the benefit of seeing the many transformations we create but we can trust that if we harness our own awareness and let that awareness be completely undeterred in its mission to align with the positive, we will make a change, we will help one another and we will return to ourselves and the truth of our existence here on this plane. With these words, I am sending nothing but love and light to give you food for thought on your journey to awareness, to love and the conscious creation of your beautiful dreams. When we open ourselves up to create in the positive, we emanate love and light and affect those around us and that affect is like ripples and waves that travel across the planet. Like a smile that travels from stranger to stranger across the globe returning to you when you need it most, so does the energy of love and light travel. So, if everything creates energy, do you now see how your intent and words create a field of energy? If you continually string together a tale of woe in every human interaction, you are putting negative energy and fear out there in this world. We’ve all done it. But, when we become aware of what we’re doing, we awaken from the illusion and can begin to consciously create our dreams in this world, receive the beautiful love and light of this world and even begin to transform it into something better. Just some food for thought over coffee this morning…~Blessings!

You Matter

2012-01-12T20:07:00.000-08:00

You can create of your life, a series of magical mysteries for you to uncover. You can create exquisite simplicity and drink in the pure joy and bliss of special moments shared. You can create nightmares of this dream you are living and breathing. But every single breath and step is designed to bring you closer to who you really are. Forget about shooting the messengers and instead realize it is you who creates and it is you who truly desires to understand your life and your purpose. It begins with you. It begins with love. Embrace you and create your life in broad beautiful strokes of color and depth, meaning and bliss. Every effort matters. You matter.

(c) 2012 (photo, random internet find)

Rise Above Yourself

2012-01-02T09:49:00.000-08:00

It’s foggy and cool out this morning. I’m sipping coffee enjoying the diffused light through the mist. It’s the second day of 2012 and I think I’m very much over all of the reflection…well, except for the good stuff. Do you want to know why? Well, I’ve encountered many challenges this past year. As I recall them, I get the lessons – oh yeah, but when I recall and reflect on challenges of the past, I put my body through the emotional aspect of reliving those moments. What I notice in my body is heart palpitations, quickening heart rate, along with anxiety and discomfort. So, I stop reflecting at the level the challenges came to me and raise up quite a bit to the themes of what occurred. It is not matter of denial, it is acceptance for what was and refusal to relive the events at the level the challenges were created. There is no point in reliving any of your challenges at the level they were created. In order to push past the pain, the fear and discomfort, one must absolutely rise above it to the level of the lesson in the higher realms of thought as well as the real feelings and understanding in the soul. When you rise up into the position of the observer (as Tolle so aptly put it) you step up and away from the level at which a lesson or challenge occurred and you then create a safe vantage point from which you can view the themes without reliving the pain. Feelings are felt and so to us, they are real. But pain seems to hurt the most only when we stand to defend and resist whatever happened at the level of the pain.

Rising above the situation is no easy thing so let me see if I can explain how to rise above it. When people hurt us and we think thoughts of, “Why would they hurt me?” or “How dare they do this or that and I’m going to get them back for it,” you are reliving the pain at the level it was created and also trying to solve it from a painful place which will never result in true and lasting satisfaction. When you flip things around to the first step of higher level thinking, such as, “Why might I have chosen this particular experience to learn from?” or “What can I do to understand the truth of this situation?” or even “How can I open myself to the state of grace necessary to receive the true meaning of this, glean the lesson and move on from it?” you start to rise above it. Now, you can move even higher from ground zero if you just sit with your emotion without any judgment for yourself or any others involved and identify where in your body it hurts or feels heavy, what emotions you seem to be feeling and what untruths your mind now tells you about you concerning this situation. If you can strive to sort out this bundle of effects from a lesson, you can take accountability, you can begin to think clearly and experience the situation differently.

From there, with some effort and time spent just feeling your way through without adding any additional labels or negative thought, you can begin to free yourself to a state of acceptance for what occurred as a necessary part of your growth. I’m not saying this is something one can do over night but it is something we can do to help ensure our growth and healing from a painful or challenging situation. Its work! Hard work! But hey, you’re worth it right? So, why not seek to understand the higher meaning of the situations, even painful ones, that you have faced. I think back to one example in my life…If I had not experienced something really painful, hurtful and humiliating, I would not have known that there are people in your life that will love you for you no matter what. If I had not experienced something incredibly ugly, I might have missed the days and weeks and months that followed where a beautiful group of souls willingly helped me out of pure love…they showed me what real love was and that despite my normal negative patterns of thought when dealing with such situations, the bulk of the pain was of my own designs due to untruths I told myself…one’s I learned from, well, that doesn’t even matter. What matters is, I found loyalty, love, beauty, friendship and so much more from a very challenging situation. I no longer see it as the threat and devastating event I once saw it as. The interesting thing is that the more I embrace understanding the lesson, the farther I get from the pain of the event…I begin to see the light, the love, the purpose and the learning…very important learning I gleaned from a lesson. Life lessons – whoa can they be fun sometimes! And I use the word “fun” very sarcastically! But, we came here to learn and learn we will and hopefully we will come to the other side of our lessons, stronger, wiser and much more loving of not only others but with ourselves.

Sometimes I think we must travel through doorways of incredible pain in order to get us to look at ourselves differently. Sometimes the view we think we have of us is not very pretty until we understand how we came to hold such opinions, judgments and perspectives and then we learn how absolutely perfect we truly are and then, so, must every event we encounter be! Life can seem so imperfect and so often, so can we and others. But if we always hold the intent or willingness to see things differently, to embrace our own higher learning and know definitively that the mistakes we judge ourselves so harshly for are really designed to show us the core of our own beautiful souls, we can get through anything. We can…not without effort but we can do it. The really beautiful part, I think, is when we’re done processing these challenging situations. We can then bring ourselves closer to the truth about our lives and our purpose in it. None of us walks alone in this world. It is only our perspectives that tell us the things we perceive are real. Only when another shows up on our path bending light in another direction and we become willing to see where the light is reflecting the truth, can we truly free ourselves from difficulty we encounter due to our life lessons.

I understand the meaning of “rise above it” now. It is not dismissing or burying the pain of a situation. It’s merely letting go of the gravity that created the challenges and seeking to understand and free ourselves from the pain. In so doing, we learn more and more about ourselves and begin to understand the true beauty that lies within us. We are so powerful that we don’t even fully comprehend it. Our thoughts weigh us down like lead shoes or raise us up to imaginable heights of true understanding. I think that the pendulum of emotion swings wide sometimes but know that although your feelings may feel very real and very much like facts, they may not represent the whole truth of a situation. Seeking the truth of the situation helps bring you closer to the light. Everything has purpose and everything matters. Consider the choices you make and where you continually find yourself. If you don’t like where you are, your own thoughts have the power to raise you up or keep you grounded. Rather than remaining mired in pain and rebelling against it or plotting revenge against whoever it is you think put you there, stop for a moment and observe your feelings…then, look for the untruths you tell yourself, right your thinking in a loving and non-judgmental way and step up and out of the pain. Like I said, its work but you, well, you ARE worth it. Give it a try and if you struggle, ask for help…pray, talk to friends, reach out for counseling or read books that might help you understand. Just don’t stay at ground zero. Don’t chose that for yourself. Choose to be free by understanding and then taking the steps to rise above it. Blessings of love, peace, healing and light!

Dreaming Your Lives

2011-12-30T05:15:00.000-08:00

Twenty years ago, I never would have imagined my life could be as it is now. Things were more superficial seeming then or more accurately, I was more superficial then. As many of us do for periods of our lives, I never even contemplated for long the fact that there are just more important things in this dream we refer to as life than the material and superficial. Life has much deeper meaning than we give it. It’s important to find our place in this world and create for ourselves the things that we most need to exist within the rules of this collective framework we believe in. It is infinitely interesting to me how we dream asleep and create unconsciously until we are driven hard to our own core of existence and then we begin to awaken from the dreams of our unconscious creation. We begin to question why we have dreamed the things we have dreamed up to a certain point and then we slowly begin to understand. That’s when the dream get’s more interesting.

We slowly tear things apart to understand and attempt to fully comprehend the meaning of life and the depths of the meaning in our own lives. If we begin to fully awaken, we start to understand that duality and non-duality exists at so many levels and dimensions of our thinking. We realize that our creation here, even our very bodies are a dense collection of thoughts that we created to exist in this frame. If you desire to continue with your awakening in this dream, you begin to understand we exist at many levels and in various dimensions. Thought, dimension, levels and existence can become amazing tools for self-discovery. That IS what this existence is all about really…to understand self and through self, the loving nature of everything…the complementary existence of dark and light and the importance at all levels of keeping balance.

The more we embrace the paths of our own existence, the more we seem to want to search the world outside of ourselves for answers to questions that always lie there patiently waiting inside of our own hearts. We’re not taught how to search. Some of us find our ways there through various doorways. We come face to face daily with judgment and labels and yet, we do not know what it is we hold. Like a baby playing with a complex electronic toy, we dabble in our lives not understanding. The beautiful thing about this dream is that when we begin to awaken and become aware that we are dreaming and then ask for assistance, it magically appears on the path through people and scenarios that make the dream richer and more colorful and sometimes even more painful just to get our attention….so many things serve as the compass that lead us back home…to ourselves and we just don’t know it.

Let go of the superficial understanding of your existence, embrace the path you’ve walked up to this point accepting the fact that you have done everything you have done to perfect your learning and awaken to understanding within this dream. In your sleepy state, you have unconsciously created a number of things in your lives to help you awaken and understand. Don’t regret one moment of any of your creations. They were perfect for their time, key to your personal development and doorways to returning home to the hearts of you. Everything that has happened in your life has purpose and meaning. Every person has crossed your path for ultimately GOOD reason. Every situation, play and drama you have encountered has been designed by you to find yourself. It’s very beautiful really.

When you awaken and become lucid within your dreams and you begin to consciously create, you begin to learn how powerful you really are and with that knowledge can come both joy and fear. Find the love in the knowledge of your own power and you will find the greatest gifts of your existence. Receive the love and blessings always intended for you. Keep close to Source and put nothing between you and It and watch the way your dream unfolds differently. Seek the deeper understanding always and trust that it is, in fact, within you. This will be particularly important as we move into this great year of change. You are the consciousness behind the light you emanate in this world and your consciousness is never limited by time, space nor distance. Consciousness never dies so ultimately, nothing in this dream can really hurt you but you. Enjoy the entertaining aspects of the dream and keep it all in perspective with an intent to view the positive nature of everything. Even pain can bring positive learning for you. Trust yourselves to find your answers. You will find them. Have faith in yourselves and believe in yourselves without question. Seek always the love from within you and to emanate that in your lives every day and you’ll find yourself surrounded by amazing beauty and joy to facilitate a greater existence for you. Happy New Year dearest souls. May the love and light fill you, surround you and protect you all of the days of your dreaming here in this frame.

Thank You

2011-12-25T09:42:00.000-08:00

I watched the sunrise this morning

Clear blue sky as far as I could see

Chill of the morning awakens my senses

I feel a softness wash over me

As the rays of the sun light up my world

The absence of fear in my soul

Feels like the sun rising in my own heart

With everything within me that makes me me

I expand beyond the sky and Earth

I reach up into the stars that shine

And I know that I have returned home

Home inside of my own heart

Where Source placed a treasure great

And circumstance awakens it from too long sleeping

It is love that lights this universe

And we radiate like candles in a dark room

We are seen and heard without any words

And so much matters like never before

One shift, one thought that returns to love

And a soul is set free

Free to fly, to explore and to love

My body speaks now filled with light

And I see the sun as if for the first time

And I see my place in this space and time

Smiling I close my eyes and whisper, “Thank you.”

Some Favorite Ayn Rand Quotes...

2011-12-23T06:45:00.000-08:00

Different perspectives are something I treasure. Ayn had an amazing perspective on things...Enjoy!

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

― Ayn Rand

“The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.”

― Ayn Rand

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.”

― Ayn Rand

“There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even thought we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Disengage from the Fear Machines

2011-12-19T19:56:00.000-08:00

Lately, I find myself incredibly frustrated by the fear machine rising now in every faction. Its so subtle but if you dig deep you see how it has permeated everything. I cannot engage in stirring up the fear and presenting the shock and horror in this world - it exists and in great abundance. Religion has no safe harbor. Politics and laws have no safe harbor. Media provides no escape. Even water cooler conversation is rife with fear, worry, hatred and mistrust. I could jump on the band wagon of let it all fall apart - believe me that's where I lean just now but then something else occurs to me...with all of these mini greed factions hiding in religion, hiding behind carefully crafted words so artfully portrayed by every other faction to strum our heart strings I find there isn't much left to believe in. We cannot stand idly by and its so damn hard to know the real truth when you're looking out into the world with jaded perceptions shaped by the very things that created this mess. I could complain and get angry, I could instigate riots and revolts but if I did, what better option could I proffer? Fixing something so horribly broken with more of the broken same thoughts does not seem like an answer to me. Maybe I'm naieve to think as I do and maybe I'm just too uneducated to have any answers. The only thing that I'm certain of is that we are by far better than this and yet we act like lifeless, limbless and spineless creatures crawling in the mud sometimes and it makes me want to cry. But I can't bring myself to do that either. I cannot stand behind any of the existing factions so I'll do the only thing I have the power to do and change how I view it. I'll change how I interact with it. I'll work harder to show this world more love and light. I'll learn to breathe slowly, think more clearly and act only on the truth...and I can't know the truth from listening to anyone else...only what is in my heart. So, I'll go within and seek to understand why, why we tear each other part, why we seek to destroy this beautiful world with such thoughtless abandon...there must be a reason.

(c) 2011 (photo, random but beautiful internet find)

A Favorite Quote from the Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

2011-12-18T15:26:00.000-08:00

"There is no need to blame your parents or any one who abused you in your life, including you. But it is time to stop the abuse. It is time to free yourself of the tyranny of the Judge by changing the foundation of your own agreements. It is time to be free from the role of the victim. The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life--when the real you comes out, when you don't care about the past and you don't worry about the future, you are childlike..."

"The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others, just to be accepted by others, rather than living our lives to please ourselves. That is what happened to our freedom. And we see in our society and all the societies around the world, that for every thousand people, nine hundred and ninety-nine are completely domesticated. The worst part is that most of us are not aware we are not free. There is something inside that whispers to us that we are not free, but we do not understand what it is, and why we are not free..."

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My inspired commentary from these words: I am free. Your words intended to harm, oppress, destroy and hurt are a waste of your breath, energy and my time. I no longer believe the lies you told yourself, the lies you told me and the lies you tell the world - only the truth. Thank God above for freedom. Let yourselves be free from the judges and abusers by refusing to let them continue to abuse you by continually telling your stories of woe. Those grand illusions of woe retold over and over just give all your power over to the abusers and judges. Stop it. There is no need to extract from others sympathy for the beautiful light you already have inside of you. That love and energy are yours to create at any time you choose. So choose that instead of harboring anger, blame and vengeance and you will know freedom. I am free. Blessings dear souls and so much love and light to you! Thank you Don Miguel Ruiz for your beautiful and timeless wisdom!

Alice Walker Reads Sojourner Truth

2011-12-18T12:41:00.000-08:00

Wisdom from The Warrior of The Light

2011-12-17T09:56:00.000-08:00

I wanted to share with you some of my favorite quotes from Paulo Coelho, The Warrior of Light. Read these again and again and again until they sink in deep dear souls. Have faith in yourselves and the greatest self-love you can possibly imagine. Everything you do and think as well as say, matters. The Spirit of Light is always watching and does see all.

A sword not last very long, but the Warrior of the Light must.

That is why he never allows himself to be deceived by his own abilities and therefore avoids being taken by surprise. He gives each thing the value it deserves. Often, when the Warrior is pondering grave matters, the devil whispers in his ear: “Don’t worry about that, it’s not important.” At others, when he is faced by the banalities, the devil says to him: “You should pour all your energies into resolving this situation.” The Warrior does not listen to what the devil is telling him: he is the master of his sword.

A Warrior of the Light is always vigilant.

He does not ask anyone else for permission to wield his sword; he simply takes it in his hands. Nor does he waste time explaining his actions: faithful to God’s decisions, he gives his answer in what he does. He looks to either side of him and identifies his friends. He looks behind him and identifies his opponents. He is implacable with treachery, but he does not seek revenge; he merely drives away the enemies of his life, never fighting with them any longer than is necessary. A Warrior does not try to appear one way or the other, he simply is.

A Warrior does not keep company with those who wish to harm him. Nor is he seen in the company of those who want to “console” him.

He avoids anyone who is only by his side in the event of a defeat: these false friends want to prove that weakness is rewarded. They always bring him bad news. They always try to destroy the Warrior’s confidence, all under the cloak of “solidarity.” When they see him wounded, they dissolve in tears, but, in their heart, they are happy because the Warrior has lost a battle. They do not understand that this is part of the fight. The true companions of a Warrior are beside him always, during the difficult times and the easy times.

At the beginning of his struggle, the Warrior of the Light stated: “I have dreams.”

After some years, he realizes that it is actually possible to reach his goal; he knows that he will be rewarded. At that moment, he feels sad. He knows about other people’s unhappiness, about the loneliness and frustration experienced by so much of humanity, and he does not believe that he deserves what he is about to receive. His angel whispers: “Give it all up.” The Warrior kneels down and offers God his conquests. That act of surrender forces the Warrior to stop asking foolish questions and helps him to overcome his feelings of guilt.

Each Warrior of the Light contains within him the spark of God.

His destiny is to be with other Warriors, but sometimes he will need to practice the art of the sword alone this is why: when he is apart from his companions, he behaves like a star. He lights up his allotted part of the Universe and tries to point out galaxies and worlds to all those who gaze up at the sky. The Warrior’s persistence will soon be rewarded. Gradually, other Warriors approach, and they join together to form constellations, each with their own symbols and mysteries.

Quote from Paulo Coelho, The Warrior of the Light. Photo, random internet find.

Enemy Within

2011-12-17T07:42:00.000-08:00

It's amazing to me to see all of the misguided, self-righteous indignation out in this world over nothing but illusion. It's even more amazing to see very troubled souls out their claiming to do God's work while shredding and attempting to destroy individuals certain souls have decided are bad or wrong. The thing is, Source sees every single thing every single soul does....every single thought souls think...every lie, every blow thrown, every injury inflicted with malicious intent and every piece of destruction in the wake of everyone of these very hurtful and misguided souls. God needs no man to do His bidding. God appoints no man as judge, jury and persecutor of souls. Only misguided tragically wounded souls assume such a role that seeks to prevent free will and destroy love through fear, witch hunts and the weaving of grandiose illusions of enemies stemming from the the darkness and wounds in their own hearts.

If any soul wishes to engage in a truly good battle and one really worthy of its efforts, battle the enemy within -- the one that sees only enemies, attack and strife without. Your judgements of this world and the individuals in it are not needed. Your discernment within self, is required. Seek to understand the chasm of difference between these two options. Learn to see true love and light for what it is instead of seeing your own darkness projected out into this world. Understand cause and effect in your own life before fixating on others in this planet. Only then can you bring about true right action, right thought and positive change in this world which will ultimately bring a soul closer to Source, true love and light. Change starts within the self. ~Blessings of infinite love, light and healing to every soul on this planet.

(c) 2011 (Photo, copyright unknown)

Perspective is Everything

2011-12-15T19:52:00.000-08:00

Perspective is everything, I thought as I drove through the dark. The thought didn’t really coalesce fully until I sat at a red light and noticed how beautiful that red light looked through thousands of rain drops falling on my windshield. The feelings that gave birth to those thoughts began a few moments before when my daughter Samantha and I walked out of the store. It was dark and crispy cold out and the rain began to fall…a beautiful and gentle rain. I looked at her and she looked at me and we started laughing together dodging rain drops as we made our way through the parking lot to my truck. I watched in awe at how much this baby child has grown. I was thinking this was one of the last times I’d be giggling with an 8 year old child of mine. This was my youngest and she’s almost 9 (she reminds me now often). We had only one more stop to make and she was searching for her little red umbrella in the back seat. She had on these little polka dot leggings and a black pea coat she swiped from her older sister earlier in the week. She said she liked it because it reminded her of my coat. She was just adorable dodging rain drops while holding her umbrella. I don’t think I ever noticed the rain before as I did in that moment or her, my beautiful little girl who is growing up so fast.

Time rippled again in front of my eyes as it has so many times these past many months and I went about my tasks but was weirdly disconnected and yet reconnected at the same time. I kept getting lost in the scenery like I was seeing it for the first time. We finished our business and headed back out into the rain. The bare naked trees glistening in the parking lot lights held my attention for what seemed like an eternity. “Come on mommy. You’re getting all wet,” Samantha said. I looked at her and laughed feeling very much like a child myself. All around us was a cacophony of angry and impatient holiday shoppers trying to park, honking horns and even shouting. But that didn’t matter in the slightest to me. No commentary had I on the negative events transpiring around us. For me, the entire world went away when I looked into my little girl’s beautiful blue eyes. We both looked up at the rain again commenting on how amazing the drops looked when they caught the light on their way down. We giggled on the way home as she told me that if rain was God crying, then snow must be angel poop. There is just nothing sacred to an eight year old. I’m still laughing at her logic. Yes, perspective IS everything.

Red Balloon

2011-12-11T06:52:00.000-08:00

What person or situation on this Earth has hurt you the most? Are you ready and willing to be free of the pain of it? Just decide to forgive self for allowing pain to occur and then forgive any other persons involved. Please understand that this concept does not mean that you reconcile with the people involved and forgiveness means you allow them back into your life to hurt if you have discerned this is not appropriate for you. Quite the contrary. You must love self enough to hold appropriate boundaries with those who have hurt you. If you continue to carry the wounds and the pain, it will be so very difficult for you to grow in this life and find true love and happiness within you. Forgive them not for their sake but for your own in order that you free yourself from the burden of anger and wounding. Know that all interactions have purpose, even painful ones. Seek higher understanding of what transpired, focus on what YOU may have learned about you. Try to understand that holding pain and negativity to you will always have an undesired energetic consequence in that what you hold focus on, you will draw to you. If you don't like how that sounds or you do not want that, please consider reading yourself to fully let go.

ACTION: Take a deep breath and say these words as often as you need to focusing on the person or persons involved in a scene or event that wounded you: "I forgive you, I forgive me on this plane and all others through all time and all dimensions and I now let this go. If you need a visual to reinforce your actions then imagine taking all your pain and anger from the situation, individual or individuals and stuffing that anger and pain into a big bright red helium balloon. Once you are certain it is full, breathe in deep and see yourself tying a string around the bottom to keep anything from coming out of the balloon, hold the string in your hand and as you visualize the string and the balloon, know that you alone have the power to hold the string or to let it go. Now, let it go. As you watch the balloon gently float away, allow your pain, anger and sadness to be completely transformed into peace, love and serenity. Even if you don't feel it right away, try to imagine these sensations.

We cannot fix the negative effects in our lives if we do not do the work to get at the causes...knowing we cannot control others and we can only control what we do, say, think and feel will help us resolve negative effects much more constructively. Be willing. Be courageous. You can do this. ~blessings of love, light and healing!

Return to Life

2011-12-05T06:24:00.001-08:00

There is an interesting dichotomy
Of understanding
Where you are both isolated
And yet connected all at once
The ways of man trapped in illusion
The myriad ways in which we hold our own keys to freedom
And yet we cannot see what is right inside of us
We are the pathway home
We are what we are waiting for
If only we knew
We could sit back and join our love with others
In infinite support and generation of light
I open my arms, my heart and my mind
And I pray…I pray that we become better able
To gently awaken sleeping dreamers
To their own divine creations of light
Whisper softly, return to love
Return to life

(c) 2011 (photo, random internet find - no claim to copyright)

Dream Your Dreams

2011-12-03T08:37:00.000-08:00

I have walked the edges of shadow lands
Stood at the bridge between worlds many times
And each time I return just a little wiser
I grow in my own light, just a little brighter
I am a time traveler and a dreamer of dreams
I live and breathe right beside you smiling
Life incarnate can be hard sometimes
It can often seem to tear at your heart
But that's only the illusion waving a flag in your face
Dig deeper and reach higher dear souls
There is so much more to life than you know
Reach all the way in
Feel everything without
Embrace the light in its myriad facets
Drink in the depths of the emotion in this plane
Hear the voices and whispers through time
Dance with the images and sing haunting melodies
Know without a doubt that everything matters
Know without a doubt your love never leaves you
Understand your beautiful extension from Source
Walk upright and find your silver linings
Wonders and miracles great do await you
You need only consent to seeking the path
Walk with much courage, faith and self-love
Know that you are the eternal and infinite
Breathe in the peace and sparkling energy of existence
Journey on dear souls, dream your dreams

(c) 2011 (photo, copyright unknown)

The Angel Sighs

2011-12-01T06:50:00.000-08:00

No one understands
The bowels of hell like an angel
They'll walk right into the center
Without even a care
To save one soul screaming for help
And its sad when that soul
Cries so terrified in the darkness
The angel brings them up and out
At long last into the light of day
And that poor soul still screams
With their eyes closed so tightly
Clawing and flailing for anything to grab hold of
And the angel whispers, "Awaken dear soul"
"You are as you've always been, free"
But the soul can't hear over his own cries of despiar
And the angel whispers yet again, "Just open your eyes"
"Finally, now you can see here in the light"
And the soul flails even more in a panic
Clawing at the air and anything within reach
And the angel sighs seeing the choices there made
And steps out of the soul's reach
Leaving him in God's hands
Sorrow strikes but a moment
For there are other souls in need
And the angel prays hard and long
And sends nothing but love and light

(c) 2011 Jaie Hart (photo unknown)

Inspired by all those souls over many years who simply said "open your eyes and see" when out of fear I merely wished to squeeze my eyes shut knowing only darkness and feeling afraid of the light. I'm grateful for those angels incarnate and dedicate this piece to everyone of them. Now I can see. Thank you. :)

Words + Emotion = Energy So be Careful in What you Create! :)

2011-11-30T18:52:00.000-08:00

There's a distinct chill in the air preceding the coming storm out west and my thoughts seem to be carried up and out on a cool breeze. I see the city far below me and a thought crosses my mind. From up here, I can feel the dark and light energy in rather interesting pockets. If I focus in on anyone area, I can see what generates the darkness and what generates the light...when I zoom in closer, I can feel words and the power behind them generated by souls both aware and very unaware. I realize in that moment that we just don't know the depths of energy we unconsciously create and put out into this world and that is tragic to me.

We have experiences here in this plane (and also many others). However, when we hone in on an aspect of our experience and convey it to others with any emotion tinged with hatred, venom, toxic and poisonous anger, hurt, sorrow, etc. we end up tainting with our words and all who come into contact with the negative energy of what we negatively convey. Conversely, when we hone in on an aspect of our experience and convey it to others with an emotion tinged with love, curiosity, assuming positive intent, happiness, wonder and joy, we end up positively influencing everyone we come into contact with--with our positive energy.

Words have power. Thoughts have power. These two in combination create a certain kind of energy. When we push that out with good intent and with a positive message, we are filled with light as are those who come into contact with us. However, when we push that out with bad intent and with a negative message, we collapse our light in on us and pull the light out of others creating voids of darkness all around.

We must be ever so cautious in how we use our words and our emotions to create energy. We should consider consciously creating. Describing a bad experience is not in and of itself bad. However, when we engage in blame, hate, vengeance and anger surrounding our story, we really just create negativity for ourselves. We always end up choking on our own toxic poison when we engage in blame and seeking to hurt others with our words. So, to remedy, we should consider the collective of our experiences and even if we experience something bad if we take a more curious stance, assume positive intent, seek truth over assumption and seek true understanding or the silver linings of our experience without conveying insult or injury to others, we can actually increase our own light. I've written much lately about always being on the receiving end of your own insults, attacks and hurtful lies about others. If you don't believe me, do a little test. The next time you speak ill of others with vengeance and pure vitriol, notice how you feel. Notice the sinking feeling in your heart or stomach centers (chakras) as these two in particular are very sensitive. Now, the next time you refrain from speaking ill of others and instead take a more curious and accountable stance as you speak or maybe you hold forgiveness and love above all and let that guide your words - notice how your stomach and chakra centers feel. Likewise, again, when others are speaking with vitriol and hate versus love and forgiveness, notice how your energy centers feel. They vibrate differently based on whether you convey or are the subject of a positive or negative story.

Assume nothing, don't exaggerate or rewrite history in the negative and don't engage in gossip or insult. These things hurt YOU the most and not the object of your feelings of negativity. Likewise, when you lift others up with love, forgiveness and light-filled words, you also uplift YOU in your energy.

Every single word you say, everything you do and everything you think and attach emotion to matters. So, be authentic and deal with negative emotions but take personal ownership rather than blame and you will not be adversely effected by your own words. Focus on the positive. One of the aspects of truly successful and happy people in life is their ability to seek silver linings, higher meaning and true understanding beyond the superficial. They will be authentically honest but will develop the ability to do so without being hateful or insulting.

Some food for thought thanks to a dear soul's post tonight. Thanks Sharon! :)

Blessings dear souls!

(c) 2011 words/photo Jaie Hart

Breathe and be Peaceful

2011-11-29T18:56:00.000-08:00

Heaven help us, this life can be hard! With all of these ego's smashing into each other repeatedly, blaming, attacking, short-changing, taking advantage of, disregarding, hurting on purpose, hurting on accident, slights and perceptions...UUUUGGGHHH! It doesn't have to ruin your day but sometimes it does. When it seems like the world is trying to stir you up and is seemingly succeeding, there isn't much you can do from the outside-in but there is a lot you can do from the inside-out.

I believe we have an infinite supply of love and energy from our Source, Creator if you will. Love is an amazing energy source. It's hard to feel it when we turn our back on it by getting our egos engaged in a war of "better than" or "tit for tat." But, if you disengage, even when you don't want to, you might start to just feel pain and that's okay, let it hit. It won't last forever and then you can forget about the outside world, sit with your thoughts and just tap into the Source instead. It's not hard all the time, just when the ego is not preoccupied with scheming to make you seem separate and different from anyone and everyone else. Take up meditation, yoga, exercise, walking or anything else that gets you outside. It's a great diversion until the ego can disengage and you can start remembering your strength, your own self-love (despite your seeming mistakes, foibles or what have you).

While the world can be an incredibly scary and hurtful place sometimes, you are always surrounded and protected. There is a beautiful source of love inside of you that you can tap into whenever you want, whenever you're ready. If you're having a hard time, forget about yourself for a minute and go help a perfect stranger, grab a can off the top shelf for someone who can't reach at the store, compliment someone's hair or shoes, smile at a stranger and wish them love and peace without saying a word. You'll then start the love flowing again and it will fill you up, energize you and prepare you to wake up and take another step in this crazy mixed up world.

Breathe and be peaceful.

Blessings!

(c) words-2008/photo 2011 Jaie Hart

Set Your Love Free

2011-11-29T06:33:00.000-08:00

Never for one moment believe that you are not good enough to be great, to feel loved and to be beautiful. Reach deep into your core, beyond the hurtful words others may have given you and love yourself with all of your heart. In so doing, your love will set you free from the chains that pain has bound your heart with. Then, your own love will have you soaring to heights unbelievable. Believe in you heart and soul and never waiver in your dedication to your love and light. Know that you are the master of your perceptions of Earthly experience. Seek the silver linings and blessings of every frame of the scenes that are your life. Reach out for the best that life has to offer and trust it will always be within your grasp. Blessings dearest souls. Higher love is here for you now.

(c) 2011 (picture copyright unknown)

True Expanse

2011-11-27T16:32:00.000-08:00

Watching the illusions unfold
Can sometimes bring displeasure
And even great pain
It's hard to let go of the illusion
We have known it our whole lives
To set it down and let it go
Seems sometimes more terrifying
Than embracing the love
Of the seemingly unknown
Exit the fearful places within you
Know that your demons and adversaries
Are all part of the dream
See them for what they are...Actors...smokey spectres
Playing a role, trying to learn
And find a way to become free again
The pain of the illusions
And machinations of the ego are strong
But you, you are divine and so much stronger
You can step out of the sludge and grime
You've allowed yourselves to become mired in
There is a better way
Embrace the love and light within you
And there you will find freedom
The true great expanse of existence

(c) Jaie Hart, September 13, 2011 (photo copyright unknown)

One Small Thing

2011-11-26T22:10:00.000-08:00

You can master the most difficult tasks if you can do but one small thing...believe in yourself. You know that you can trust you. You know that you have faith in you. You know your strengths and dedication better than anyone else! Let no one challenge your beliefs about you not ever! Love only beginning with you and let that love always be your guide and filter for how you see the whole of the entire world and all of its inhabitants! Life is beautiful. You can do this! :)

(c) 2011 (photo copyright unknown)

Honor to Be Here

2011-11-26T21:46:00.000-08:00

We are naive to think that adversity and negativity won't find their way to cross our paths no matter how spiritual we are. You are not failing when these two teachers find you. You fail only when you react to them negatively with vengeance or other dark emotion instead of responding from a place of honor, honesty and integrity. Bless the messengers, bless the situation and thank Source for the opportunity to live, breathe and learn. It is an honor to be here on Earth at this time. Let us never forget that honor and find ourselves ungrateful for the abundance that we do so often receive. Blessings of infinite love and light dear souls!

(c) 2011 (photo copyright unknown)

Understanding Emotional Abuse - Stop it!!!!! You can. You have the Power!

2011-11-26T19:09:00.000-08:00

Feelings, Facts and Finding the Love Within

2011-11-26T18:28:00.000-08:00

Compliments and people who feed your ego do not make you any greater than you are. Conversely, insults and people who make every attempt to destroy your ego do not take anything away from you. People may hurt your feelings but feelings are not facts. Feelings are typically born of assumption and assumption is also not a fact. Know who you are and love who you are. Surround yourself with people who wish to create light with you rather than focusing on those who wish to steal your light away. It's funny, there is enough love and light to go around and those who wish to steal it away just haven't figured out yet that they truly are worthy of their own love and light. If they new this one fact about themselves, they would not be so eager to hurt others who they think may have taken their love away. It is a twisted assumption. Let assumptions go. Work in the now and only on facts. Know the truth about yourself to protect you from those who would hurt you and to increase your ability to surround yourself with people also filled with love and light. Simple things but they can get complicated really fast if we don't keep our wits about us. Make sure your actions match your words and reflect true love and light for yourself and others. You can't fake it, everyone can see so why not be honest and get to the bottom of your fears, find the true love within so you can heal and be happy in this incarnation. It is a choice, make it count--find the love within and embrace it like pure golden sunlight. You can do it!

(c) 2011 words (photo, copyright unknown)

Provisional Truth

2011-11-26T18:02:00.000-08:00

It is so sad to me how many lost people misunderstand the meaning of this simple term and how they become so mired in psychological transference and projection they cause great harm to their own souls while attempting to harm others. One thing the wicked story-tellers of this world forget is that they are ALWAYS on the receiving end of every foul word they give birth to in this life. It makes me sad for those who engage in illusory attack because with every vile word they prolifically spew forth, they bind their own souls ever closer to the darkness. I realize now how allowing any words such folks say to come even remotely close to strumming a heart string within you in anger, sorrow, shock or disbelief begins to bind your own soul to the darkness and that just cannot and must not be. I've danced with the heart of darkness many times in the last couple of years and every time I've understood the darkness more...the dark ones lack the ability to use the true most powerful tool in this universe - and that is love. They can scream it from the mountain tops emulating those who know what love is, they can talk about it and pretend to know what it means but the truth is they cannot wield it to save themselves and they end up relegated only to gaining their perception of glory through attempting to steal the light of those around them through intimidation, insults, manipulation for sympathy and even fear. Its a wasted effort that never works in the end and for their efforts they only end up torturing themselves because their souls know the truth even if their minds seek to hide from it.

I can no longer stomach the proximity of such misguided souls who will not seek the assistance of healing and light. I know the darkness and what I have that it does not and in that knowing do I find strength. All of the traumatic things we go through in this incarnation are designed by us to test our own trust and faith in our own Source given light and if we let it--it shall prevail because it is all that we can truly hold and is all that we ever really need to hold. If you do not know Source given love, there is no way to know truth...truth will be obscured by darkness and love will always be but a fictional fantasy. To not seek the truth, love and light from Source is a conscious decision to remain wounded and alone in perpetual darkness. Sad truth, but truth none-the-less.

"In the beginning was the word." I know what that word is and thank Source I heard it and I feel it. That word is the key, the only key that matters. It unlocks every door but only if you step out of the ego and its fears long enough to see and feel it. I pray that every soul out there spewing forth vile hatred and pure toxic venom collapses their twisted and wounded egos straight into the heart of Source, true love and light. Only then will they learn the truth about themselves (and its really not the toxic hatred they spew forth - they really are better than that and just don't know it), existence and everything else. Maybe then their provisional truths will be replaced by love and light and they will learn to speak with true love, honor, honesty and the highest integrity towards mankind.

The truth is, we are all one and as ACIM says, the need for hatred and attack is an illusion - a gross misunderstanding due to the lies we allow ourselves to believe about ourselves. If we can find a way to eliminate this through true Source love and light, we can heal, grow and be embraced by love in everyone and everything. Those who miss this message are choosing to be lost, choosing to remain mired in darkness and choosing to torture their own souls. They do not need vengeance. They need space and a safe distance from you until they can come to their misguided senses. Prayers can help so give them freely...love helps tremendously but you may have to love from afar to keep yourself safe from these emotionally dangerous and wounded souls.

Blessings of love, light, healing and the understanding of truth to all.

Re-Post: Story-Telling What it Gets You...Nothing But Misery!

2011-11-26T13:22:00.000-08:00

We’ve all done it…had something really horrible happen to us, it caused us great pain and we unwittingly sought validation from friends or loved ones because of the horrors or frustrations we’ve just been through. We not only sought validation but we also sought sympathy. Energetically speaking, someone took our energy away and we sought to fill that back up by gaining energy from someone else. It’s not necessarily a bad thing as we do it quite innocently—we don’t know any better. What we also don’t know and understand is that there are unintended consequences of these actions. When we take on any kind of victim stance in life, we send out a vibration. The more we tell our tales of woe, the more we unconsciously ask the Universe to reinforce that vibration and then the Universe in it’s infinite wisdom responds with more of the same.

If you don’t like how that feels, realize your story is a past life lesson that you learned from—forgive, forget and let it go. Think healing thoughts of your energy being restored naturally by being kind to yourself, realizing people can only take from us the energy we permit them to and that you are not any form of the representation of your painful stories. Truly, you are not. You are a bright, shining and sparkling soul. You are in command of who you give energy too. The things that you resist will persist in this area…so if you resist your hand in any part of your tale of woe (and we always have a part, big or small) the negative energy or tale will persist within you maintaining that vibration. The way out is forgiveness…forgive yourself, forgive the person that may have hurt you and choose to let it go. It’s only through these actions that you can change your vibration in a healthy way. Think of surrounding yourself with kind and loving people or companions who will support your position in life and not attempt to take you down and you will change your vibration and attract those kinds of people to you.

If you want to think about it another way, we all have emotional baggage—the pain that we have suffered or delivered for one reason or another. The more we own and identify with that baggage and carry it with us, the more our vibration and energy attracts more of the same level of negativity. If you have noticed certain negative patterns and themes in your life (and they are there if you’ll be brave and courageous enough to look for them), chances are you are carrying emotional baggage. The simple answer is as I stated above—forgive the other side/forgive yourself, forget what they did/you did and let it go.

If you are asked questions about your past and you are sharing, restate the lessons learned in the positive. Don’t tell the tale of woe but explain it as the life lesson it was, what you learned from the situation in the positive and try, if you can, to see the positive outcome of whatever it was that happened. When you tell your tale in a positive light, you do not bring back the negative vibration of the time. You keep yourself, your thoughts and your story “positive.” When you can tell a positive story, you keep a higher vibration about you. When you can tell your story with compassion for yourself as a loving soul, and the other parties involved in your story with compassion as loving souls, you maintain a higher vibration.

I’ve had some not very nice things happen in my life. In fact, some would call them core-level emotionally disrupting things. I would have agreed a year or two ago, but today I see my hand in my own undoing, my involvement, where I unwittingly gave my power away but more than all of that, I see the experiential value and life lesson learned. I take that as an extreme positive and I hold compassion and forgiveness for myself and all parties involved in my various stories. Because I allowed myself to forgive myself and forgive the other parties, I’ve allowed myself to forget the pain, the self-righteous indignation and betrayal feelings and I’ve let go of the experience in the same way I finished the 10^th grade in high school, I’m now healed and whole. My vibration won’t draw those kinds of lessons to me again.

Remember, you are not your story. Your story is a limited perspective—yours, consider other possibilities, consider your actions, consider the fear, the worry and pain of other parties who may have hurt you. People do only what they know how to do in any given moment and beautifully enough, we learn and grow and hopefully do things differently. So, I challenge you today to think about the stories you not only tell others but the ones you tell yourself. Are they positive? If not, rewrite them in the positive! You’ll change your vibration and really learn to live. Life is a lot more joyful without carrying emotional baggage.

I hope you have a beautiful day.
(c) 2011 photo/words

Truth and Love

2011-11-25T08:56:00.000-08:00

Sadly, sometimes a soul seems to only find it's true value and self-worth when it is reflected as only the soul thinks it should be in another's specifically expressed love for them. To me, this is like walking a gossamer tight rope without any form of net below. This desire calls forth to the universe for more of the illusion and not the truth. For within each and every soul in existence is Source love and we exist beautifully and perfectly even without the illusion of the only love we will accept for us reflected in another's actions. Calling forth to the universe for such conditional love from without is a trap and an emotionally deadly one. Unconditional love allows those we come into contact with to love us in their way without accusing them of diminishing us in some way by not loving us the way we think we should be loved. We can never be diminished once we discover the heart and soul of who we are, find the lies of illusion we tell ourselves and begin to understand and explore the true infinite power of Source love. Even if you can't feel it in this moment, trust that it is there, know that you will find it and embrace wholeheartedly your willingness to change your perspectives and perceptions and find the real truth. ~Blessings

More on Perpetual Victims and the Dangers they Present

2011-11-25T07:58:00.000-08:00

Oh goodness could I write a book on this topic! (I've already started one). People will tell you exactly who they are within minutes, hours or days of meeting and what they will end up doing to you should you refuse to be to them exactly what they want you to be. They will do this through manipulating you for sympathy and will be exacting in their blame about how all of the troubles and woes of their tragic life are due to the person that they love and adore. Such people truly have no honor nor accountability. Be not fooled by them for a moment. Those who proclaim so loudly to have been damaged and harmed by another insidious soul are actually telling you that they are a damaging, harmful and an insidious soul. What to do then when you find you are in the midst of such a soul? Distance, disconnect and strengthen your own self-love, separate from them whether they are family, friend or lover. Set a hard boundary and see it through and listen to not one word they say. Love them from afar as you would any soul in Source’s Creation but know definitively that not one single word a wounded soul screams at you or others about how horrible you are or someone else is-- is truth. You know the truth about you so discount the emotional and verbal attacks of those who proclaim to love you but then attack you as a person to your core. No soul has to stand there and take that. It is the most unloving thing a soul can do to itself. When crazy knocks at your door, simply refuse to open it. It is your right and it would be unloving of you to subject yourself to such torment. Walk away and hold your head high and know that not one word of vengeance or retaliation are necessary. State your truth with love and walk away...never look back. Hurt people hurt people and that, my friends is a definitive truth. You need not take that on nor own it. Pull away, love from afar and love yourself more than anything on this Earth. YOU ARE WORTH IT! <3

Be aware that there are souls in this world so wounded and damaged that they cannot take personal ownership for the woes in their world. They are damaged forever because of some evil woman or man and so their life lies in ruin at their feet. The reality is, the soul may be unable to help being wounded or victimized at some point in their lives but they absolutely can take accountability for what they will do about it in a healthy way. They can stop, at any time, from telling their dishonorable lies, tragic twisted partial truths and choking on their own poisonous toxic anger at any time they choose. Sometimes they won't though. Sometimes it is by far easier to blame and hate everyone than to face their own demons. Tragic but truthful. Know that with such souls, giving them sympathy reinforces their weakness. If you really want to help them, use empathy instead and give advice only when asked and if you give advice, refrain from any form of rescue. Reflect honorably what you hear them say and challenge them as to how they can change in an accountable fashion. If you are even slightly sensitive in nature, I don't recommend even engaging them. The thing is, because of their wounded state, at some point you will become their target. They'll use splitting techniques at some point announcing that people are either all good or all bad. They cannot comprehend reality and truth through their own pain so they'll make it up. Don't fall for it and see through the vicious words of anyone publicly claiming horrible truths to get even with someone. When you see anyone publicly claiming hateful words about another, realize that one day the person they hate will be you. People who possess so much hate are unable to refrain from making you their target at some point without psychological help.

Know the nature of the tragically wounded soul...see through the pain and understand where it comes from. Not one word they say is about anyone but themselves and they will tell the world exactly who they are by blaming someone for all of their wrongs and misery. Hidden in their proclamations about how horrible this person or that person was or is, they are telling you who they really are. The truth in what they say is not about the person they are claiming is all bad or all wrong...those truths are about them...about what burns within them from the inside of their wounded core. It's important to be able to recognize the Perpetual Victim because they can cause you great emotional harm but only when you do not see them (they hide very well). The "Misery Loves Company" axiom is more than truth with such individuals. Distance yourselves from the psycho dramas as is your right and your choice and be prepared to protect yourselves from the world-war-III approach they will take when you set a hard boundary. Be strong and loving with you. Get help if you must but tolerate bad behavior in another not for a single moment of your life. It is not gallant or honorable to sacrifice yourself for another soul's wounds. Especially when they have owned those wounds as part of their very existence. Telling them who you think they are is seen only as negative judgment and persecution so don't bother. Focus on what you will and won't tolerate and do not budge!

My sincere and honest wish is that all of the Perpetual Victims would find the strength to turn their focus inward on their own healing and forgiveness. For all the vitriol they put forth into this world, that energy is precious and could be used for their own healing if they would but seek it. Pray for them if you want to be helpful but do not stand in their presence a moment if it hurts you. You are under no obligation to take abuse, either emotional of physical from anyone ever. Every single one of us has choices to make and free will dictates our ability to play that out. Be loving and gentle with yourselves and know that not everyone is capable of healthy emotion. Understand this and move in tune with your own internal love and voice. You deserve to be surrounded by loving individuals who are truly kind and supportive of you. You deserve to disconnect from those who are jealous of you and must tear you apart in order to feel okay. Be watchful for those souls that proclaim so loudly they feel they must save the world from the bad souls in this world as these seemingly honorably stated desires come from their own doubt about the goodness in their souls. If they call everyone fakes, phonies and liars and persecute others for these things, it is because in truth, they know they embody these things and persecute themselves internally. Their actions are at the core, a very strong cry for help. Know these people when you see them. Do not wish them harm ever for in so doing, you bring only your own pain. Focus on love, light and loving actions for you and you can free yourself from the Perpetual Victims who live only to victimize until they learn the lesson is about healing themselves. Blessings of infinite love and light dear souls. May you all find healing and Source love within and without.

(c) 2011 (photo copyright is not mine)

A New Day

2011-11-23T06:11:00.000-08:00

Drifting gently from dream time
Into the chill of a starry morning
Last night’s visions slipping into the black
The feelings linger filling me with light
Reaching always deeper
Finding purchase in beautiful comprehension
No resistance, just moving with the tides of morning
Into the beauty of the coming sun
I relish the thought of golden light
Like music to my soul and dancing on a breeze
I let go of the night and treasure the morning’s gentle foot steps
Bathing me in the warmth of a brand new day

(c) 2011 words/photo

Believe in YOU!

2011-11-18T06:39:00.000-08:00

Fear not. Let not anger and hatred dim the light within your soul. Embrace the true beauty of your very own soul. Forget the harsh things that unawake parents and guardians unwittingly taught you, hold not a single vengeful thought within your soul and unleash no harmful words out into this world. You are always on the receiving end of what you put out into this world. Prevent your mind from miring your spirit in dark and harsh thoughts. Embrace your love and light, your internal flame and know without a doubt, that flame can never be taken from you by any soul. Your love for yourself is your strength. Be strong dear souls...seek only right thought, right action and healing of all wounds that make this difficult for you. Issue forth no blame but rather assume responsibility and accountability for you and the thoughts you allow yourself to entertain. You can do it. I believe in you and now I hope, wish and pray that you will believe in you too. It matters, so much! Blessings of love and infinite light dearest souls.

(c) words/photo, Jaie Hart

Beautiful Bliss

2011-11-17T17:51:00.000-08:00

Have you ever held a moment in time

So soft and so elegant
Quiet like the first few moments
After the rain stops falling
The silence and stillness so present
You could hear a butterfly flapping it’s glorious wings
If you haven’t yet
I pray that you do
For in such a precious moment
Will you not only feel all the love in this magical Universe
But you’ll be surrounded by it’s light
Entranced in pure being
Yes, that’s it
This moment here, now
…Beautiful bliss

(c) 2011 (photo, copyright unknown)

Step Away from the Ego - and No One Gets Hurt

2011-11-17T04:45:00.000-08:00

The observer within is a place we all may retreat to in order to rise above any egotistical pain that seeks to encrouch upon our consciousness. If you can spend enough time there, you will begin to see that what the ego takes offense to has nothing to do with you at all. The ego is so very fearful that it will be exposed while the soul stands tall, confident and ever-present...we have so many facets...retreat to the observer position and let the egotistically created emotions wash over you like beautiful ocean waves crashing onto the shore and then gently retreating out to sea, attaching no further emotion or fear to what you witness...then, just breathe! Life is beautiful. :)

If you understand the ego's design, it is not surprising how two individuals can hear or see the same thing and one will walk away upset and disturbed while another will be curious and open. It is the ego that thinks it sees a threat. It is the ego that hears only negativity. It is a very wounded ego that sees and takes insult to everything under the sun. Luckilly, we are not all ego. From the soul we can see the ego's machinations, understand them to pick apart the true life lessons there and then from there, transcend all the pain and twisted torment the ego tries to bring. Stop the negative and painful thoughts with these words, "I Believe In Me." Repeat these words whenever negative or fearful thoughts arise and think nothing more about the negative thoughts. Say nothing more. Do not judge, do not become fearful. Just observe how over time the fearful egotistical thoughts will fade into the black the stronger you nestle in to the truth about you. The real truth, which of course is love. ;)

Blessings of infinite love and light dear souls.

(c) 2011 (photo copyright is unknown)

Check Yourself - :)

2011-11-16T19:00:00.000-08:00

Check yourself whenever you are about to unleash an unkind word. It’s likely that you are actually in need of love instead of shredding someone up one side and down the other. Love and kindness will do so much more for you than engaging in a war of words or spewing forth unkindness in some twisted effort to make yourself feel okay. You can never be made okay at the expense of another soul. Cruel is as cruel does and cruelty will get you nothing but self-loathing in the end. Why chance it? It just isn’t worth it. Dig deep within your own soul and find your own self-love inside. Raise that flame as bright as the sun. Fill your heart with compassion, forgiveness and gratitude. When angry thoughts arise, get silent and understand what the messenger and emotion are trying to tell you. Stop shooting and gaining revenge against all the messengers, it’ll only make you feel worse about you.

Kindness is as kindness does. Actions congruent with positive words are evidence of true authenticity. You can do more than merely aspire to be that. You already are that, you just need to believe. Happiness will come to you the more you can incorporate these truths into your existence and experience. Tough times will come and you’ll face the bullies and the liars sometimes. But, the reality is, the more you choose to feel the love within than to attempt to seek it from the outside world, the less impact the bullies and liars will have on you.

Trust in you and know that every single day you start anew. Every single day you learn more of the truth about you and not through anyone’s eyes but your own. Flattery and sympathy cannot add to who you are. Insults and bullying cannot detract from who you are. Only you can truly size up your worth in the eyes of Source. When you stand in your integrity and authenticity, there is no fear and you have nothing within you to give this world other than kindness and love. When you are standing in dishonor and fear, you have nothing to give this world other than angry and vindictive hurtful words that leave lasting scars-- Tragic truths but truths none-the-less.

Think before you speak. No, wait…think about you before you speak and act. If you were on the receiving end of what you are planning to do or say, how would you feel? In a way, although you may not be able to easily connect it, you are always on the receiving end of your own actions and words. So, do yourself a huge favor – act with kindness and love, be authentic and exit your fears…find love and beauty in everything and let that emotion be your guide. Blessings dearest souls!

(c) 2011 (Photo, copyright unknown)

Truth, Love and Light

2011-11-16T06:22:00.000-08:00

· We are neither made greater nor lesser by the words and beliefs of man-kind. We are soul, love and light and need know nothing more. Trust only the truth that lives and breathes deep inside of you in that precious place where you are one with the Source. Be love and light, see only love and light and the let the shadows fall where they may. Stand tall and hold your head high...be comforted in knowing that your free will allows you to demonstrate love by your loving actions. The words and actions you choose to employ, show the whole wide world the truth about who and what you really are. Worry not about gossip and slander, they mean nothing. Do not engage in propagating gossip and slander to keep your soul from being mired in darkness forever. Focus on the love, focus on the light and feel every beautiful breath of existence no matter what. ~Blessings dear souls!

Live and love, no matter what.

2011-11-15T06:56:00.000-08:00

Crazy, jealous and hateful people do exist in this world. However, their path does not have to interfere with yours. Their craziness, jealousy or hate has nothing to do with you. Remain ever present in the moment, breathe in the peace and love within you and just continue your journey with design, focus and clear intent. You will rise above the seeming insanity of certain situations and people. Reach beyond the superficial, dive into the love and light with abandon...embrace true love and light in your life. Do it now! ~Blessings.

Bliss

2011-11-14T17:53:00.000-08:00

Find a peaceful moment or create one, breathe in deep and imagine the sunlight filling every cell in your body...feel how good it feels to be bathed in sunlight...feel the warmth radiating through you...now, imagine that warmth is pure love....hold that thought and enjoy it for as long as you can. Repeat again and again and again just because! :) There are no finer moments than those you are fully present and focused on bliss. ~Brightest blessings!

Healing Love

2011-11-14T06:25:00.000-08:00

Endings
Are only Beginnings
Even when you can’t see it

Pain
Is only strengthening your soul
Even when you don’t want it

Goodbyes
Are harsh and sad
Even when you only want the best

Hold on
To the goodness inside you
Even when you can’t feel it

Remember
The goodness in others
Even when you don’t believe it exists

Healing
Will come to you
Even when you think it never will

(c) 2011 photo/words

The Passive Aggressor

2011-11-14T06:03:00.000-08:00

The one who cries loudest of injustice
The one who strikes out in offense
Is always the one who rightly should be suspect
And that fact will be proven again and again

The betrayal that perpetuates their anger
Is self-betrayal from wounds unhealed
And forever will they blame and transfer
And punish themselves through you

But, there is an answer to this seeming quandary
This struggle of defense and attack
See the illusion for what it is
And don’t waste another minute of your time

Others who claim to love you
And then use every shred of energy in your destruction
Really can’t hurt you at all
It is they that hurt from festering wounds

In time they will realize it is their own soul they detest
In time it is their own heart they will blame
In time with repeating the painful lessons
They will learn how they went wrong

This is not justice for them
It is painful and hurtful
But, when they stop the blame
And see the pain is caused by no one other than themselves

Finally they may seek to heal
Finally they may seek the light within
Finally they may focus on healing themselves
Finally they may accept and love themselves

I wrote the above piece in 2008. This topic comes up quite a bit so I thought I'd repost. Learning lessons can be tiring but you never have to subject yourself to someone's pain when they refuse to heal it and try with all of their might to take you down with them spewing forth vitriol and twisted untruths. Bless them and turn the situation over to your Maker. Then will the situation truly be healed. The passive-aggressive approach truly only hurts the perpetrators and it can't hurt you when you see their delusions and complete lack of truth for what it is. So, bless them, forgive them and stop interfering with their lessons! Stand back, let them find their way to the real truth and keep yourself out of harm's reach. Be grateful, on one hand they are teaching you to stand ever closer to the light. (Oh and ladies, if you are or think you are dating someone who may be passive-aggressive, do yourselves an enlightening favor. Pay for a criminal background check. You'd be amazed at the things some folks will lie to you about and you'll learn that every penny spent is worth it if it saves you from getting involved with someone who is a convicted criminal or having to go through the motions of filing a restraining order - trust me, I know of that which I speak). Blessings of love and light.

Waves

2011-11-13T12:44:00.000-08:00

A good friend reminded me of a helpful concept I put out once and I thought I’d touch on it again (Thanks Scott). We all seem to be struggling with adversity, lower-level atmospheric disturbances and people acting in ways we wish they wouldn’t and it affects us until we can learn to detach. Well, before you can get to a place of complete detachment, there is a step. Well, at least I think so. That step is surrendering to the tidal waves of emotion and just letting them hit without taking any action. It really is that simple. We cannot control the actions of others and its just not right to bully, belittle or attack people into doing what we think they want. So, the only thing left to do if we want to grab hold of harmony instead of choking on our own poison of anger and venomous words coming out of our own mouths is to just go silent and let the waves of emotion crash down on you like the waves of the ocean crash down on the shore.

We don’t have to stop the tides and in fact, the more we resist and fight against them, the more discomfort we will feel deep within us. So, we acknowledge the emotions that come. Maybe its sadness, frustration, grieving loss, anger or sorrow that you’re feeling. It doesn’t really matter which one it is that hits you, just notice it and realize you don’t have to do anything about it. In fact, that little urge within that prompts you falsely to do something is really just you resisting pain. The truth is, the sooner we stop resisting and just learn to go with the flow, the sooner we’ll realize that the emotion will wash over us and then recede much quicker. The best advice I can give a soul is to take no action until heavy emotion subsides. Consult with a friend, a counselor or minister about how you are feeling but disengage from resisting the emotion or fighting against it. We cannot change the actions of others who either inadvertently or specifically intend to create harm in our lives but what we can do is learn to detach from it little by little until you get to the point that you realize, you don’t have to chose pain and you don’t have to choose the negative emotions at all. Like my favorite Zen story, “Is that so?” you just see what’s coming and just stop resisting it.

It’s hard to just “go with the flow” when you’re angry or upset. However, you can rid yourself of feelings of helplessness or being a victim by taking control of what you chose to do in response to whatever emotion or situation it is you face. Another important point, I have to say, is that the more you tell your story with vitriol and hate, the more you just add to your own pain. Stop talking and turn your focus inward where true healing can begin. The waves will crest and fall and if you are an adult, you’ve likely learned self-control by now, so employ these tactics to master self and respond to what you face by removing the power from it. You remove the power over what you face by standing on top of your emotions, knowing they are there and choosing healthy outlets. Maybe you focus on something else for a while…clean house, clean your car, clean your room, mop a floor, do dishes…do a lot of dishes (I love this one…I use it as a meditation)…just empower yourself by refusing to react. When you react and strike out, you give away your power. When you stand up and respond responsibly with your emotions, you stand in your power.

We have free will and we can choose to use it however we want but if we want freedom from emotional torment, we have to cut off the sources of that torment and know this, the primary source of torment is you and your reactive thoughts. Stay with me just a minute because I want you to understand this sentiment is not intended to blame the victim because no one has my empathy more than victims but, victims can take back their power through self-accountability, self-reflection, deep and honest intro-spection and lots of self-kindness and self-love. People do sometimes become victimized but our thoughts following and reactive emotions can tend to do us the rest of the way in. We can’t always help what happens to us but we can help what happens next with our thoughts and our responses. We can choose love, light and positive thinking to stand in our power or we can chose hate, darkness and negative thinking and give away all of our power. My vote is with the positive as I do not wish to lend further effect to external causes. I know that at least that part is within my control. When you can get some practice under your belt, you’ll find your automatic thinking begins to change and over time you learn to more easily get to the next step which is detachment. It takes effort, I will be very honesty but hey, you’re worth it and so is your sanity. So, what do you say? Can you let the waves just come and go and learn to not attach heavier emotions to them? You can do it if you make up your mind and employ the right tools to keep yourself empowered. I hope you’ll consider. I wish you much love, light and positive energy on your journey dear souls!

(c) 2001 article and photo (link is not mine but self-explanatory in terms of any potential copyright there).

Life is a Privilege

2011-11-12T21:34:00.000-08:00

Self-mastery requires self-love - so go find it and embrace it wholly. Living a life in harmony requires the ability to hold compassion, self-control and self-respect - so look within and find these things...embrace them wholly. Life is a privilege and not a curse but the experiential value will depend greatly on the perspectives you hold and the words you choose to describe inside your own mind what you experience. If your words are hateful and negative, the negative energy and torment grows within you. It's not worth it. If your words are loving and positive, the positive energy will create in you great bliss. Its worth it. Do no harm in this world. Use introspection for understanding rather than seeking excuses in the outside world. Love and light heal all wounds but only to the extent you can right your thinking. See the truth about yourself and love yourself any way. Never give up hope of succeeding in life but hold no desires that require interfering with other souls. Such desires are not born of right thinking and will only lead to your down fall. Live and let live. Love and let love. Turn within and believe in yourself. Brightest blessings of love and light to all in existence.

Resonating Light

2011-11-10T05:13:00.000-08:00

Let your heart be undeterred in its quest for resonating light! You will find it in everything you see here in the corporeal world as well as the world that lies beneath the veil of your dreams. Nothing is as you think it seems. In fact, loving more, resisting less will lead you closer to the true Source of love and light...the only thing that really matters. Be brave and courageous, be trusting and faithful...know, will and dare and hold close to you the resonating love that comes in the silence and stillness. ~Blessings!

(c) 2011 Photo/words Jaie Hart (All rights reserved)

Silence and Stillness

2011-11-09T20:07:00.000-08:00

There are times when a soul needs silence and stillness for no other reason than to face and embrace one's self. If it is uncomfortable for you, inquire within as to why that might be. There is no greater love in this universe than the love that can be found within you. Let that love be your guiding light and comfort in what can sometimes seem a cold and harsh world. The world is as it is and people will be who and what they are, take no discomfort in that but strive ever and always to understand. Compassion above hatred may not win you friends but it will make you appreciate you and your own internal true love from Source within. Love holds no obsession, anxiety nor the desire to do any soul harm and those who cause it with intent to do harm suffer only from an ill-heart. True love soothes that away, beautifully, amazingly and brings about the greatest freedom there is.

Be unafraid of the darkness in this world. If you look for it, you will find much. Stand not in judgement of your fellow man but in a space of understanding. Trust yourself to see the truth no matter what anyone screams at you to the contrary. Truth cannot ever really be spoken but felt and demonstrated with action. Words are limited as are people who use them to wound and harm others. Live for the light of love within you and let each find his or her own way with blessings of love and light.

Forgiveness is NOT Equal to Reconciliation

2011-10-22T19:31:00.000-07:00

Forgiveness is not necessarily reconciliation. A soul can ask for forgiveness but should not expect that forgiveness equals reconciliation. If a soul really wants reconciliation, they should ask for it and then be prepared to respectfully accept "NO." I look at it this way. If I stick my hand in the fire and get burned, I can forgive the flame for doing what it does and for being what it is -- too hot to leave my skin in tact and I can forgive myself for sticking my hand in the flame but if I don't like my skin burned, I am under no obligation with my forgiveness to decided to keep my hand in the flame and suffer burning skin. Always forgive and do use discernment on what is safe for you. If you do not wish to reconcile and someone calls you unforgiving, hand them a dictionary and have them look up the two separate and very different definitions!

Here they are in case you wondered:

for·give:

v. for·gave, for·giv·en , for·giv·ing, for·gives

v.tr.

1. To excuse for a fault or an offense; pardon.

2. To renounce anger or resentment against.

3. To absolve from payment of (a debt, for example).

rec·on·cile:

v. rec·on·ciled, rec·on·cil·ing, rec·on·ciles

v.tr.

1. To reestablish a close relationship between.

2. To settle or resolve.

3. To bring (oneself) to accept: He finally reconciled himself to the change in management.

4. To make compatible or consistent: reconcile my way of thinking with yours. See Synonyms at adapt.

(http://www.thefreedictionary.com)

See? Not the same.

~Blessings.

Light Moments of Bliss

2011-10-18T19:52:00.000-07:00

I watched a satelite crawl across the sky tonight and I let my consciousness go with it. I drifted on a sea of stars amazed at the view below. So many hurrying about with something important to do or some place to go. Not me, I've got no place to go and that thought thrills me to no end in this moment, this rare precious moment of pure light, peace and bliss. The journey of life can be a challenge and one that takes all of your mental faculties and energy to manage. Some days we do well and some days we don't. In the end, however, it truly is the thought that counts and what, in fact, you've done with those thoughts.

Restless to soar, I let those thoughts go. I'm off to traverse the milkyway and watch the starlight from the myriad of galaxies I have to choose from. Or, maybe I'll chose not to expand but rather go within for a time. I have many things to ponder just now about life and love and everything in between. My head tingles at the thought of processing life lessons. There is beauty and magic to be had in experience here in the Earth school. Its not so serious although it can seem infinitely so at times. I laugh as I think about it. It's my dream any way so I think I'm going to rearrange a few things. I'll not share it as the warrior of light must keep a piece of his dreams to himself as the energy is most appropriately needed to manifest said dream. (Thanks Mr. Coelho for that juicy bit of wisdom). I like it so shall make it my own.

Oh if I could tell you the joy of this moment. You'd not believe how I got here. It wasn't easy. In fact, it was damn hard. But, worth it...it was...every breath, every step, every dream, every memory from every life until this very moment. As I think back I see the glow of love and how it permeates everything in existence. You may think I've snapped a bit and perhaps I have but it makes no difference to me. I'm free. My thouhts are free. My love flows free. My light is free. I'm grateful to me and to the dear sweet treasures of light beings who were some how able to make me see. Thank you for that dear ones...from the center of my soul, I love you so.

Don't worry so much about the drama that plays for you in this dream of life. Yes, there are wicked and evil things and seemingly, people to contend with in this world and at some point in your lives you will have to face it or them. But, you have everything you need and the grace from Source directly to help you make your way...to help you make sense of it all one day. All you have to do is show up fully present and wholly accountable in your own life to get there. Sweet dreams beautiful dreamers and much love and light.

You'll Always Have You

2011-10-11T05:20:00.000-07:00

We speak too much
Because we cannot stand
To face ourselves
The secret self that lives on the inside

We run
But we cannot really hide
From the reality
And totality of who we really are

We search
The world outside ourselves
To find the answers
That only ever lie within

Our search
Brings us home empty
Disheartened, lost
Until we find that spark inside

If we pay attention
It’s that spark
That peels away the layers
Of all that is illusive and unreal in this world

Take the time
To know yourself
To love yourself
And trust yourself

Don’t fear the silence
Don’t ever fear the stillness
No matter what you think you do not have
You’ll always have you

(Photo/words - copyright Jaie Hart, 2009)

Creating False Idols

2011-10-11T05:09:00.000-07:00

What is it that you crave to the point you make yourself crazy? Are you obsessed with a person, places or things? Do you feel you would only be okay if you had these things? Do you wish to destroy or harm those you think keep you from it? Did you know these are mere symptoms of creating false idols and your sheer dependence on the outside world to save you? Did you know that nothing in the outside world can ever save you from such designs and having them merely commands your spirit into a very negative and dire state of pain and suffering? Do you like living in this state?

If the answer is no, you will need to learn to free yourself and you can do so with real thought and real love that comes from nowhere but deep within the heart of you. To find this space and this peace within, you must learn and know truly that you possess all you ever need to be happy and feel loved. You must know that you are good enough and deserving to give that to yourself without interfering with another soul in existence. Creating false idols and your obsession with them will only ever bring you pain, deep heart-wrenching, soul twisting pain. No one and no thing in this world is accountable for your happiness and your love but you. If you are miserable, you are chosing this state. Rather than blame, get to the heart of the real reason why. What within you feels you deserve to suffer, you deserve pain and misery? Why would you not put your faith and trust in yourself to rescue you rather than discount yourself by thinking it is the responsibility of another, a situation or a thing to save you? Even should you gain that one thing, that one person or that one situation, did you know it would never bring you happiness? In fact, when you obtain the object of your ill-affection you would ultimately seek to destroy it due to the fact that it did not live up to your fantasy of rescue. So then, the creation of idols is the source of your downfall and the one thing in this world that will ensure your misery. You can choose otherwise. You can choose other thoughts. You can choose to stop the obsession along with the victim-blame mentality for your own inability to save yourself.

It's not easy to get there and it requires your willingness to put down your own ego and let long-standing wounds heal, forever. It requires that you dive into the heart of the painful thoughts only you have the power to create and reinforce. It requires that you see, truly see your own hand in your undoing time and time again in your life. It requires that you step back from your hatred with everyone and everything that has ever harmed you and learn to forgive yourself for allowing it to happen and then finding, eventually, forgiveness of others for doing the only things they knew how to do.

It's a worthy endeavor to travel inward with courage and love and know that you are the master of your destiny and you need bend no one's will to save you or to make you whole. Your miserable state of existence is caused, in fact, by your own decisions and thoughts...that is what you take accountability for -- your own thoughts...not the behavior of others. People will do hurtful things but if we hold them in contempt forever, we continue hurting ourselves with their words and their actions the rest of our lives. It is necessary to understand this if you wish to grow beyond a life of misery and emotional pain. You can reach beyond such a state and many before you have as they become ever more aware of the true human condition.

Do not blame yourself or anyone for the state you currently find yourself in. Accept that it is the culmination of your efforts and your thoughts and know that you have the power to change you...you cannot change another. You can bully and manipulate people to do what you want them to do but such behavior just exhibits for the world the sick state of your mind. You can heal it if you allow it to be so. It is your choice to think and feel as you do in your miserable state. However, you can stand up and leave that behind any time you choose by finding your self-love and relinquishing pain's urges to create false idols to save you. May you find infinite love and light on your journey. May you find compassion and love for yourself and others. May you find the beautiful ability to remove the blinds of sadness, not good-enough and pain from your own vision. Create love within you instead of false idols and you will be free. Blessings dear souls.

(photo is a random internet find I do not hold the copyright to)

Food for Thought: What Are We Creating?

2011-10-11T04:38:00.000-07:00

Whatever it is that we hate or disparage with so much negative energy, we become. How is that an answer? If we hate oppression, the goal should not be retaliation with the same behavior. When someone hurts us, our focus should not be to hurt them. When someone takes something from us, our focus should not be to take something from "them." In such actions and with such thoughts we become the object of our dis-affection. What we really need is to disinfect our minds from thoughts of less-than, greater-than and lack. There is so much in this world that exists and beautifully so. But if you only ever focus on those causing harm, what does it get you? If you want to make a difference, focus on lifting people up, focus on eradicating hunger or abuse and focus on connection with your inner love inside and shining the beautiful and positive energy of that out into this world. We can make a difference all right but I cannot help but wonder if we're seeing the truth. Our own hatred obscures the real reality because we need to believe in common villains. But here's the thing, we created this...all of this. If we engage with our own creations with hatred and violence, are we not really telling ourselves how much we hold ourselves in disrespect and condemnation? There is by far too much negative judgement in this world and not enough positive discernment in what we allow ourselves to think and subsequently, feel. What we focus on, we create. The emotions we feel deepest within the heart of us is what we manifest. Can we move away from the state of victims and villains, blame and retaliation? Please? Did you know the quality of your life depends on finding your way to love and expressing that in this world? Food for thought dear souls. Much love and infinite light for you all this day and every day! Higher love is coming now!

(Photo is a random internet find I do not own the copyright to)

Mirrors and Shadows

2011-10-09T08:41:00.000-07:00

Mirrors and shadows abound
What do your reflections hold for you?
Do shadowy images make you fearful?
Does embracing your light make your more so?
Have you ever stopped to consider why?
Some fearful lesson has constricted your breathing
And so there you hold yourself for eternity
It is unreal, you know
An illusion created with your own mind
Whatever is happening may in fact be happening
But the source is illusion
You called it to you
Because you wanted to understand you
When shadows fall be courageous
You always have a light inside
And if you allow it
It will clear your path of illusion
Illuminate your unknowing mind
And rest you peacefully in this world
More self-assured of your path and your destiny
Remember that mirrors do refelct
But they also distort
Do not use them to confirm nor dispell anything
Observe and only hold awareness of the reflections
You are greater than you realize
Step back and let it be so

(c) October 2011, Jaie Hart (photo random internet find)

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Changing of the Guard

2011-10-09T06:56:00.000-07:00

Life isn't always blue skies and sunshine. Sometimes no matter what you do, things outside of your control will seem to go horribly wrong or people you thought you could count on will separate from you. Do not be disheartened and never believe you are being punished. We are constantly learning in this life and when you begin to understand your lessons a little better, a shift occurs within you and in order to keep the right kind of lessons coming, there may be a "changing of the guard" concerning situations and people around you. Don't become fearful because that only prologns the agony. Don't become angry and change resistant because that too will only prolong your discomfort. The easiest way to approach change of this nature is through peaceful acceptance and understanding. Your lessons don't come from the outside world as you think they do. They are coming from inside of you so to become angry and resistant is like becoming angry with and resistant to yourself. The emotion will seem so very real as the scenes and actors do their parts. But take heart knowing it's all your creation. All things have polar opposites so also stay centered and grounded when the amazingly good things happen in your life as well. They too are your creations; your reflections. Stand still, observe and breathe your way through change from a passive and peaceful perspective. In this way, the changes will come in and go out more cleanly leaving you less emotional and more ready to face the things that you must. Remember always your inner light...that light of love always shines within you. If you must grab hold of anything to get you through, grab hold of that and just breathe. Giving more credence to anything in the outside world over what is within you will never make you whole. Only you have the power to do that from within you. Be brave, be courageous and be love! Blessings dear souls!

(photo is a random internet find. I do not own the copyright)

Victims and Villains

2011-10-08T06:13:00.000-07:00

In this world, no one is more justified in bad behavior than the victims and villains. The villains having suffered tragedy, trauma and deep, dark unhealed pain are justified in their acts of anger and agression on the unsuspecting. The victims, also having suffered tragedy, trauma and deep, dark pain are justified in their acts of vile vengeance. And, so it goes...each trapped in this horrible prison of no love and no light and they willingly go through the actions again and again looking for that moment of sucess that makes them feel good. It is a tragic act to witness. What's even more tragic is that the only seeming way out, forgiveness, seems like at fate much worse than death. They can hear the words but cannot let go of their justification for pain and creating more of the same. It is a vicious cycle and circle that will repeat until one or the other can find the courage to step outside the lines drawn, seek to understand the pain both felt and inflicted and learn to see their own hands in their own undoing. Forgiving a villain is a heinous unacceptable thought to a victim and I understand this so would never suggest someone start there. To make the shift one must learn to find a way to accept accountability for choosing reactions, emotions and embracing pain. It's hard to believe that is a choice, but the aware know this is true. The only way back into the light is to seemingly give up the ego's fight to be right and maintain its justification and plunge headlong into the abyss of darkness...letting go. Within the darkness there is peace, no motion, space to feel and breathe, cry and grieve. It is like the caterpillar who weaves a cocoon around himself to prepare for a new body and flight.

The steps are not easy to take but diving into the emotion, that is the key to freedom...diving in and yet taking no action other than to "see the truth" or understand what is really happening. When one can see the wars for energy at any cost, one one can see that the saving of face dispells any form of grace that may be held to pull you through...that's when progress can begin. So, looking back - how did this happen to me from the perspective of self-action only...forgetting about what the villain did and intenly searching for choices made that lead to a state of victimization is what we need. Once we can isolate our own actions that lead to a fall or a state of becomming a victim, we can see the errors of our ways and know definitively that errors are okay. They don't take away from you. In fact, the act of seeing your own errors brings growth and you're still a beautiful and amazing soul if you've made mistakes. When the realization dawns that you are not bad, unlucky or singled out to become a victim in anyone's mind but your own, you can see that you are no victim at all and you can begin to forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know and be glad that know you do know.

Moving a few steps further ahead, you might wonder about the villain. Did you know that a villain is only a victim too? This does not excuse bad behavior and bad behavior should be stopped for many reasons. Not because it hurts and creates more victims but each act carried out by a villain further reinforces his or her own victimhood. Every attack we engage in pushes us further and further from the light of our own self-love. We victimize ourselves in this regard without ever even considering we hold that much power. But, we do. We just need to be willing to step out of the shadows of the roles we created to learn long enough to fully comprehend the verses and lines well rehearsed to lock us into our own prisons.

To see the truth, one must find their center, their courage, strength and love. This is not easy for those living a life where they have become victimized. But, it is not impossible and I tell you from first hand experience. When in a victimized state of thinking there is never any shortage of events or people to continue the abuse. And we join in that with our own unloving thoughts. But, when you can understand the villain is a victim and you know they are already in a very dark and unholy place with their thoughts, adding to that with further action that will only provide you with fleeting feelings of victory replaced continually by more emptiness, you learn to step back and just understand. You learn to side step the attacks of the victim because you see the core of their actions and you learn how easy it is to side step the blows and move to a state of understanding and compassion while holding enough self-love to protect yourself...not defend and continue to engage but rather a letting go with thoughts.

There is a lot to consider in these words and no one knows more than I how repulsive they might be taken by a victim with fresh wounds. I too had to hear these words once. For whatever reason, I took them to heart and I found forgiveness for myself and all the villains in the world. I now know they are victims too. I know that when I step outside of that prison, I can help free myself and them to move on to greater learning (and pray that it comes along with love and forgiveness). It is a matter of choice between living in twisted anxious conflict and living in peace, light and love. We have the power to make such choices. Love yourselves first and foremost and learn that for every problem, there is a positive solution...for every puzzle that life leaves on your path, there are ways to solve them. Those ways are not in the outside world. The answers are within us all. We need only learn to try on some new and different thinking and find a way to feel and love ourselves through it. It can be done, I pray it is done quickly for all trapped in this very dramatic and painful part of the dream. Just remember that villains create victims and victims become villains. Disengage. Love yourself. It's possible to heal and become whole again. Blessings dear souls.

Dream Within A Dream

2011-09-25T06:24:00.000-07:00

How little we understand the concept of dreams. I don't know that I can ellucidate for you the full meaning, but I have things for you to ponder. ACIM (A Course In Miracles) teaches that we are, as we live and breathe in this dimension, dreaming the dreams we choose. This is the assumption I am working under with this article so bare with me. My premise is not proven and I don't know that any science exists that could bare this out as a definitive truth over a provisional one. I'm going to deviate from my premise for a moment. I'm going to go to the topic of dreams as they are commonly known. Have you ever dreamed at night and suddenly realized within the dream that you were dreaming? I know sometimes at that point you might just wake up. But, if you have ever experimented with lucid dreaming then you know that at the point you are dreaming and become aware that you are dreaming, you have just been handed immense power to create within the dream. The monster coming at you to shred you to bits can be reduced to the size of a stuffed animal or pet you sit down and converse with or you can fly and explore the entire world, this Universe, our Galaxy and beyond. This part I know is true because I have experimented myself with lucid dreaming.

Now, lets go back to the premise or assumption that I'm leaning towards as a result of my work with ACIM. Within our lives here in this dimension we commonly know as life on Earth, we are dreaming. We are collectively dreaming here because we commonly agreed to create this realm in this dimension of existence. Just like the dream within a dream, when we become fully aware here in this frame that we are dreaming, we
realize our infinite power to create. We begin to stop moving with fearful thoughts that create monsters for us to battle unconsciously and we begin to understand their presence in our lives. After all, we know we are creating. When we put focused attention in this dream on creating scenes or people, what happens? They arrive. I have seen this and maybe it is a matter of perspective or provisional truth for you but it is a definitive truth for me. I am suddenly and acutely aware that in this life, in this dimension, and with this frame of reference, I am dreaming and I am infinitely powerful to create whatever I so choose. With that choice comes a huge responsibility and I cannot force my free will on another without consequences to my soul or spirit so I put out a certain vibration that calls to others and they make their way to me because they have similar focus and intent and then they enter my conscious sphere of existence and dream with me.

When we are dreaming within the dream, when something terrible happens or too strong of an emotion over-takes us, we wake up. It is the same in this dream. When "death" occurs in this dream, we wake up to the place we are dreaming from. The interesting part is that I do not know how far the dreams go. We wake up from a dream in this life and discover we are safe in our beds dreaming. So, when we wake up from this dream of life, we will wake up safe somewhere else. And then what? I don't know. I have only bits and pieces and traces of memory to go on which will be confirmed later because I wish to create that. For a few moments, these thoughts dissolved my concepts of reality. But I looked around instead and thought, "WOW, what an amazing job of co-creation I see."

I cannot explain the reason for my thoughts and questioning and if I could, I'm not sure that I would entirely because it might take away the fun of individuals expressing here in this life. It makes sense that we come here not knowing that we are dreaming. If we were awake in every dream, what would be the point of dreaming? How could you truly enjoy, with absolutely freedom, whatever it is the mind wishes to enjoy? This doesn't get to the meaning of life but rather understanding the framework within which we live. My purpose in writing this at all is that intense emotion, particularly pain, interferes with our ability to create in this dream. When that pain interferes with our dreaming, we become sidetracked and lose our ability to consciously create and enjoy our creations. Finding ways to create healing is not only possible but required for the completion of our ultimate goal of dreaming in the first place. Our minds are infinitely powerful and need continual expression and exploration. Pain stops that from happening. Love keeps it going and helps you achieve higher and higher learning. So, when the dream becomes painful, understand that you are the one dreaming and you can bless this dream (your life) with your love and positive intent to continue your
growth or you can stop yourself cold by holding on to pain. We are infinitely powerful creators and the sooner we learn this and truly allow it to resonate within our thoughts, we'll be creating nothing but battles and monsters for the collective to contend with. The masters knew these things and more and so they ascended in complete confidence and full consciousness...they awakened from THIS dream. Ascending masters create an
amazing wave of positive energy for us to use here for our own awakening and the more we become lucid and aware, the more we raise our own vibration and create the space optimal for others to begin to awaken within this dream.

So, dear souls, pay attention to the dreams you dream within the big dream. It matters what you do, how you think and that you hold love above all other emotion as the most powerful tool in the universe. Your awakening matters not just to you but to the collective of co-creators here with you who came to learn and explore. Time for more coffee! ~Blessings, love and light dear souls!

This post dedicated to James S (Zenbear), James R. and Ron B.(both, dear soul family). Thank you for your patience while I begin to awaken. I love you!

(photo/random internet find)

Emotion and Creation

2011-09-24T04:49:00.000-07:00

We live our lives day to day not giving much thought to the undercurrent of emotion that pulses within us. If the emotion is light, happy and satisfied, life is good and we create, even unconsciously, nothing but good things. However, if the emotion is dark, heavy and sad because of unhealed trauma and pain from any point of our current existence, life doesn't feel good at all and we unconsciously create nothing but more pain and negativity in our lives. Most often, in this particular state, we manifest people - actors in our play - that will come along and help us expose the core of that painful emotion. We're so amazing in our design that we don't even know that we do this, but we do...rest assured. Those people that enter the scenes of our lives that seem to know where every single goat is tied up or where every hidden button resides are not there simply to drive you mad. I know at times it seems like they are just vexatious spirits hell bent on your destruction. But, the reality is, they are beautiful message bearers. If you quickly pick up on this fact, you'll stop flailing at them outside of yourselves and dive deep within where the core matter lies. You'll take a look not at what horrible thing you must have done to be punished so by trying souls but you'll begin to look for the things within you that sent up the beacon of light that called them to you for a dance at certain times in your life. Maybe the tune of the beat unconsciously is off key and out of time, but dance you will...over and over again until you truly begin to understand the reason and purpose that some souls have in exercising your inner demons.

It all boils down to healing and this simple fact: "What you focus on, you create." This is a little known fact of life that we'd all do better to try to understand. If our focus is negative, distrusting and angry over events that happened in our lives that create pain, guess who you are going to call to you...yes, someone to help you expose and uncover those hidden wounds. Those hidden wounds can be brought to light not to make you feel bad but to understand why they exist at all and give you an opportunity to both understand and then begin to transcend the pain. Healing then can enter your soul and restore a more centered and balanced disposition. If you're still unconsciously creating then, at least you won't be creating terrible and frightening situations. If you take it one step further and realize that you do have the power to consciously create and manifest abundance and love in your lives, you can begin to practice that and over time you'll notice the mirrors in souls who enter the scene in a positive light.

The reality is that it is all positive when you can step away from emotion. It's all a matter of perspective and perception. We choose how we will see the world and it's inhabitants that we choose to interact with. We set the stage, direct, cast and act in our own plays every day. So, why not put some time and attention into striving to feel good or at least balanced and then consciously create? It's not that hard. Think back, for a moment, to your days of youth...remember your imagination...that is the space you want to start in...visualize what you want to draw to you and let yourself feel the emotion of receiving what you visualize. Do this as often as you can and feel really good about what you see. You are so divinely powerful but you just don't realize that. This is something we are not taught. In fact, we are taught the opposite. So, if you don't like what you have created in this life and you are stuck in a place where you spill your power out in every direction through blame and dishonesty with self, it is going to be very hard for you to attract positive and loving things in your life. However, if you take back your power through accountability and positive and loving thoughts, you will soon be amazed by what you can create.

This is your life and like a good friend of mine has often said, "You are the captain of your ship and the master of your own destiny." So, get out there and create in the positive, love yourselves, open your minds and hearts to new thought and start heading in a more positive direction with your emotions. Small changes can have big impact for you. Much love and light, dear souls. Remember, the journey is the destination.

Light Chasing Darkness

2011-09-06T06:35:00.000-07:00

Cool of the morning
I breathe it in slowly
Relish the vision
Of the sun's rays climging
Ever higher into the sky
Darkness chased by the light
Seems and interesting metaphor for life

If we can fearlessly allow
The light to shine within us
To show us all of our dark places
See what's been lurking there honestly
And allow the light
To chase the darkness away for good
We could finally connect to the love within

But when mired in our darkness
We fight the light of day
The saving grace that would heal us
And make us whole
I find it almost humorous
The night sky cannot ever escape
The coming of the day

I will remember this moment
And realize by the heart of me
The light will always chase away the darkness
We need not fight nor fear it ever
We can remain unafraid to see our darkest places
We can embrace the light fully
And let the darkness fade

(c) Jaie Hart, September 6, 2011

Expanding Horizons...an excerpt

2011-09-04T11:07:00.000-07:00

“…We have the crosses of our time’s evolution to bear…the gifts and curses, the hopes and dreams, the desires and conflicts and what for? Why does any of it ever even matter anyway? It matters much. Just not for the reasons you might think. The whole goal of life is to come to a place where you move beyond the superficial and material, to grow beyond a microscopic focus on your own tiny orbiting physical human universe and stretch beyond the stars in your own realm. Only when the mind, heart, spirit and soul align in truth and in love do you begin to even scratch the surface of the importance of life and yet, at the same time, fully realize the insignificance of all those things we only think are so important. We sacrifice so much to save face and do little to save this planet for our children or our children’s children. We pay for our selfishness with experiences of tyranny and tragedy, theories and machinations that only represent proof positive that all we see is a mere illusion of progress…an illusion of a created existence that is here only because we wish it to be…”

Beyond the Beginning

2011-09-03T10:29:00.000-07:00

Beyond the Beginning is an excerpt from my work in progress, Expanding Horizons. I hope you enjoy. It's coming along...a few more chapters to write and then the editing begins. Now, on with that excerpt:

So, the last chapter is where my journey began and now I will move forward quickly twenty years later and tell you what I’ve seen. In all that I’ve seen and experienced, I’ve come to many realizations but one in particular stands out the most. Just the other day, I went out for a walk in the middle of the day. It was unbearably hot and the skies were blue in beautiful California. I noticed the trees, the clouds in the sky, the birds sweetly singing and I thought, “Every single era, at every time in the world a soul of some sort has walked and begun to realize that we all live, breathe but a moment and die.” Not to sound bleak or disheartened because from the heart of my travels, I am far from that, but in every time in existences, some spiritual traveler has realized that many souls have walked this Earth before him or her and many souls will walk this Earth after. We are not special or different than they were in the beginning. We have the crosses of our time’s evolution to bear…the gifts and curses, the hopes and dreams, the desires and conflicts and what for? Why does any of it ever even matter anyway? It matters much. Just not for the reasons you think.

The whole goal of life is to come to a place where you move beyond the superficial and material, to grow beyond a micro focus on your own tiny orbiting physical human universe and stretch beyond the stars in your own realm. Only when the mind, heart, spirit and soul align in truth and in love do you begin to even scratch the surface of the importance of life and yet, at the same time, the insignificance of all those things we think are so important. We sacrifice so much to save face and do little to save this planet for our children or our children’s children. We pay for our selfishness with experiences of tyranny and tragedy, theories and machinations that only represent proof positive that all we see is a mere illusion of progress…and illusion of a created existence that is here only because we wish it to be. Nothing more. That’s all there is folks. It sounds so melodramatic and even a bit sad but if you look well below the surface of those thoughts, therein lies an amazing beauty…If life is an illusion, who controls the scenes and the actors or props? Who sets this stage of life? Who writes the scripts and gives out the parts? Who decides who auditions? Who decides to sell tickets? Who decides just to observe and be entertained? Who, I ask you? Do you know? Would you really want to know the truth? Would you even believe it if I told you? Probably not so I’ll just say it…It’s you. It’s your design. You do it so beautifully too.

Every word, every scene and every act perfect and the points and morals or realizations, well, now therein lies the magic and then again, more questions maybe? How? How do we create this illusion? I can offer you seekers no compelling evidence or story to tell to soak up and own there as truth. Each seeker must find his or her own way. Each actor must learn his or her role in the play and realize the play and its meaning and then you begin to understand why you created it and how. The illusion, that very word, doesn’t in function like you’ve been taught. The illusion is something more…it’s love at the core, it’s love that drives you to live and learn and the whole time. For most of your lives you deny yourself the one thing that created you and that you created your role and your play for…love. To learn about it’s magic, power and all of its facets you create the drama, the scenes and then enters the freewill of other actors writing their own plays learning about love in their own way and your scenes end up juxtaposed and either elation of frustration ensues.

When I look back now at what I have created, I laugh. I laugh because I took it all so very seriously. I was a mere actress in a soap opera that I wrote, directed and acted in without consciously realizing that the scenes were mine, the emotions they elicited from all of the other actors were an attempt to teach myself to remember who and what I really was and hopefully in the process, teach others to remember who and what they really were and none of us necessarily became the wiser for our efforts because we were so mired in our own egos…the play went on with a thick red curtain of very strong ego blocking the full extent of this magical play called life.

The realization sent me back into the land of nowhere, seeking resonance with all that was…trees, plants, flowers, the skies, the mountains, the meadows, oh yes, the meadows…the oceans and more. Then, I went back through all of my human to human experiences and can now suddenly recall the scenes as I called them to me to play. Now I’m really laughing but with a distinct difference. I now have an idea of what and who I shall call to my play next and what it will be about. I shall leave the old ideas and concepts of basic life lessons and seek to grow beyond my wildest imagination for no other reason than the simple enjoyment of this play we call life. I will exist in all realms now no longer limited by time in my own mind because I have realized what illusions and limits mean. I would love to tell you about it in detail but rather I’ll finish with the concepts in this book. I have met souls that told me the truth outright and I stood there with glazed eyes not understanding a word of the gibberish those amazing souls were speaking straight to my heart. I am learning now and as such, I cannot give away the secret but I can turn the light on in dark corners for you to find your own way in whatever way calls to you and I hope that you enjoy the process. Every soul comes to find his or her place in this life and you will find yours. Just do this one thing…keep an open heart and keep the ego from making your mind a steel trap afraid to take in new and ridiculous ideas about life in the cosmos, on Earth and even within the sphere of your tiny universe of life in your own world. You’ll have a much easier time than I did if you can keep this in mind. So, back to the dark hall ways and looking for lights to turn on for you. I leave you with simple concepts but the light is on for you to find…you will find it. Blessings!

The Most Powerful Tools in the Universe

2011-09-01T16:55:00.000-07:00

There are things in this universe more powerful than any device, machine or manufactured energetic reaction. There are certain tools that are so simply at our disposal that actually are the most powerful tools in this universe. Do you want to know what the most powerful tools in the universe are? They won't cost you a single dime, in fact, they aren't for sale. You won't have to study under some institution or guide for months and years to get them. You won't have to search with maps for this treasure because they don't exist any where you might physically look for them. Although you could try with all of your might to imagine them to manifest them in great abundance, you'll never touch them using any old laws or secrets. Language sometimes misconstrues or obscures the truth and understanding is often twisted on purpose and sometimes this can greatly limit understanding but the truth is, the real truth is that you already own these tools within you and you cannot wield them improperly if you truly understand them. Are you ready? Okay, here they are:

1. Love
2. Honor
3. Honesty
4. Authenticity
5. Truth
6. Respect
7. Integrity

In all of your dealings, in all of your thoughts and all of your interactions, hold only yourself to these tools. Judge no one, not even you by these tools. See everything and everyone through the eyes of love (even see yourself only through the eyes of love). Honor every soul as a divine being part of the One that we all are (this means also honoring yourself). Seek and speak only the truth and do it with your heart and honesty (but never brutally so). Hold respect for yourself and every soul as the divine souls we all are. We are One, hold yourself and your behavior to the highest integrity. Don't worry about what anyone else does or says...just focus you and your behavior on these things and you will render the fear machine's attempts to scare you into giving away your energy and power, useless. These are the most powerful and amazing tools in the universe. Use them wisely and often dear souls and watch your lives change for the better! ~Blessings of love and light dear souls!

(photo was a random internet find. I do not hold the copyright on that).

Dreaming Awake

2011-09-01T07:57:00.000-07:00

The meadow is warm
Yellow and now purple flowers
As far as the eyes can see
Familiar places
Memories begin to swirl
Blue birds sweetly singing
Conscious thought stretched far and wide
Feeling every drop of existence
From deep within my core
Frenetically peaceful esscence
Runs through the heart of me
But I make no effort to move
It is time now to stand still
Dreamers dreaming, I feel their call
Sleepy awakening, I feel them too
The ones still mired in foggy darkness
The ones standing tall in the light
We are all one
Both here and elsewhere
But most of us just don't know it
Although I am dreaming
Right here in this moment
I'm acutely aware of awakening
The mixed emotions it brings
The joy that this concept brings
And I float on the breeze
And am witness to amazing things
The universe stretched out in my hands
I smile from inside
Despite the torrent of emotion
Even though the dream goes on
I treasure these moments
And visions
And love
Still...always...forever

(c) 9/1/11 Jaie Hart (photo, random internet find)

Observer Incarnate

2011-08-31T22:49:00.000-07:00

Reaching out
Into the colors of the sun set
As the world turns
So do the cares of another day ending
Another day spent
Here on planet Earth incarnate
I can feel every ray
Of the sun as it fades gently from view
I let go slowly of the day
And breathe in and out gently
As I watch enchanted
A sliver of crescent moon
Hangs low in a fading blue sky
Birds in flight
Sea breeze blows the rest of my cares away
Such a beautiful view
A beautiful life
~sigh~

(c) photo/poem Jaie Hart, August 2011

Part of Me

2011-08-30T18:12:00.000-07:00

Littered
pavements
Things cast aside
Wondering why

So careless
What else is it
We cast away

The asphault holds silver sparkles
When the sun hits it just right
Newly painted lines as I make my way home
Homeless man standing on the corner
I can feel his story
He's a part of me
Woman walking across the street
Three children in tow
I can feel her story
She's part of me

I watch the sun
Slowly sink behind a freeway overpass
Thousands traveling oblivious
So focused on their destinations
That they miss the present
I feel their stories
Because they are part of me

I see the birds sillouhetted against the sun
I feel them flying free
They too are part of me

The breeze blows
Frustrated drivers honk their horns
Caught up in some unthinking road rage drama
I feel their stories too
They're part of me

An open field
Wild flowers in bloom
Like a piece of time frozen
in a concrete jungle
I feel it's story
It's a part of me

All of the emptiness
The things cast away
The forgotten things
The hidden things
I feel them all
They are part of me
And I am part of you

(c) photo/poem Jaie Hart, August 2011

Light Worker's Call to Action

2011-08-28T09:07:00.000-07:00

So many of you out there are doing your daily thing and creating much love and light in this world and it is with deepest gratitude I think of you. Many others may feel a call and yet are feeling unsure of what they can do to lend more love and light to this world. I'll tell you that it does not take much effort to bring positive thoughts into focus on any area you choose. Simply imagine where you wish to bring more love and light. Focus your efforts and attention to the hearts and souls of mankind here on this planet. Hold a space of love and light for others to reconnect with the love within, to begin to remember who they really are and begin to take on greater understanding of this world and each soul's purpose in it. You need do nothing more. If you feel called to certain purposes in an effort to create good, healing, love and light, by all means do so. Just remember that free will must remain in focus also. It is not up to us to force people into the light or "right thinking." Each must make his or her own decisions about what they will and won't do. As light worker's collectively, we can create a huge grid of energy across the planet that is positively charged that will help others awaken, to right their thinking, right their actions, to heal and begin to understand there actions and to change them. Send up your prayers for love, compassion and understanding across the globe for the millions who remain asleep...unaware of the harm they cause themselves and this world. While we may not be able to force a single soul to do the right thing, we can create an energy dynamic that will facilitate awakening. This facilitation of awakening has been going on for a very long time. We can thank the efforts of the light workers that came before us for creating a space of love and light for us to awaken. The energy across the planet is strong and we can make it stronger. We must remember how very powerful we really are and know without a single doubt that we have the power to change the environment, to allow for more healing and more peace. Call upon your God, Goddess, Source, whatever...for strength to deal with the things that will come, the grace to respond with love and light and the compassion to hold for those still sleeping instead of anger or frustration.

Your jobs are not easy ones and your efforts are appreciated. Know that in every time in existence, people felt like we do...that evolution brings us many gifts and also curses and that there are many times there is little we can physically do. Many people worried which added more fear to their environs. We need not follow in those particular foot steps. Love is the most powerful tool in this universe. It can create spontaneous healing, spontaneous recovery and spontaneous change for those open to its power. Love cannot be wielded incorrectly ever. The truth is that the inauthentic will have choices to make: Heal and grow or propagate more fear. Love, when allowed deep into our cores, brings us healing, peace and so much more...Love allows us to see the truth, to feel the truth and to live the truth. Love will always be your sword of truth, use it often, gently and peacefully.

Be strong in your convictions to bring about a better condition for both the inhabitants of this planet and the planet herself. Seek understanding of the lessons you face and do not become disheartened by what you see or experience. Stay close to the love and the light and those who share your passions. They will lend you strength when the tough life lessons come. In love and in light, brightest blessings to you all.

Mirror Mirror

2011-08-20T08:22:00.000-07:00

Mirror, mirror on the wall…
I thought I knew the reflection staring back at me.
It seems though lately,
That I don’t know her at all.

I’ve taken her for granted all of these years.
I’ve watched the struggle from a different vantage point.
I’ve seen the joys and disappointments,
But I’ve never really seen me.

Lately it seems that all I’ve known of me…
Is what the world has reflected back to me.
I’ve had my life filled with too much pain…
And in my reflection it now shows.

But as I stand here and stare a little longer,
The face seems to fade and I see something else.
I start to see the soul…
The spirit behind the façade.

I see strength.
I see kindness.
I see wisdom and eternal youth.
I see a still hopeful teacher and student of life.

As I focus back in I see the lines around the eyes.
For a moment I’m anxious…
But then I’m at peace.
Each line represents the laughter I’ve had.

I then notice the tiny little streaks of white hair.
And again, for a moment, I’m anxious…
But then slowly, again, I’m at peace.
Each tiny gray hair is a lesson I learned and won’t have to repeat.

I see from one perspective my once smooth skin,
Now filled with spots and a weakening radiance of youth.
Again, a slight pang of worry…
But then I recall that I’ve had my morning of youth.

I’ve now earned the right to ascend to midlife.
I’ve earned the wings that raise me up.
I’m a mother, a boss, a friend and simply a soul who cares.
All of these things …bring more joy than the tears of yesterday.

No longer am I the willful child…
Continually knocked to the ground,
Who struggled to stand too soon…
And begin to run from myself again.

I’ve gained the wisdom to know…
That when life knocks you down again and again,
It’s sometimes better to stay down for a time…
Take a look at the world from your new perspective.

Then slowly rise when you’re truly ready,
When you know the time is right to dust yourself off,
Forget the path you were on before…
And then carefully choose a brighter direction.

It’s not obvious in my reflection,
But I’m no longer the wounded child from yesterday.
Nor am I the aging soul of tomorrow…
Today I am simply present.

With all of my worries,
With all of my joys,
With all of my faults and foibles,
I’m proud of who I have become.

My reflection doesn’t frighten me any more,
Because I have some how learned to love what I see…
To love what can’t be seen by those in the outside world…
To accept me for me regardless of what others think.

Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Thank you for showing me the truth…
Thank you for showing me who I really am…
Thank God, I can finally see.

(c) 8/2007 Jaie Hart (Photo and words)

Life Changing Darkness Transforms to Light

2011-08-12T10:41:00.000-07:00

There are things in life that occur that change you forever...no going back to old paradigyms of thinking, acting or living. Sometimes it is a single defining moment or event and sometimes it is a series of life changing events over many years. I could write my own story here but that would be a novel and not a simple blog post but I do have to say that although some of these events and happenings may be quite difficult to contend with and even traumatic, the oppening of the heart, spirit and soul bodies that occurs afterwards is worth every ounce of pain that you've had to contend with.

I remember a time in my life where I was bothered by people who were different, even though I know it is I who was different. I never quite fit in even if I could play along quite well. I would notice the fearful thoughts arising in others and I seemed to be repelled and bothered by those things even though at some level I wanted to help. Little did I know that I could see these things only because they existed within me. When I read The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield nearly twenty years ago, it planted a seed, a good seed but it took so long to find the nourishment enough for that single seed to germinate, grow and begin to bloom. One of the things referenced within this book is the fact that once your heart center, soul center and spirit center has been openned, you can never go back to being who you were...oblivious to the wake cast behind you as you travel through life. You begin to understand how everything matters, the smallest things, a collective of things, every thought, reaction and action matters.

I've taken some harsh words for my perspectives on compassion. I see every soul in this world as a beautiful soul. Despite whether they exhibit negative behavior or conduct themselves in unbecomming ways, I see their souls. I see the light that shines within and I also see the shadows at the core of their worldly reactions dictated by the ego. Hate has left me. Fear, well, I'm working on that...my only fear in this world is that people will remain asleep and continue to do great harm to themselves and others as a result of their refusal to see there is more in this world than material substance, gaining riches, power and control over others. But then again, if I look closely, it isn't really fear at all...its more like disappointment...it drives me to want to work harded to explain how the different paths we walk, the events that unfold that are so very difficult and seemingly life shattering are not really about tearing you apart for the sake of tearing you apart. These things happen because aspects of our character, built up through years of environmental psychology really need to be shed, shredded or obiterated in order for us to learn to go within and seek the light. Not all of us will succeed and despite efforts of the best of the lightworkers this world has to offer, some folks will make choices to stay mired in the muck of dark roads that lead nowhere.

So, as a lightworker, the hardest thing to do is to leave tortured souls to their own devices. However, there is not one of us in this world that has the right to circumvent the free will of any soul. We can hold a space of love and light to entice people to think about themselves and their lives differently but that is about it. We should not become frustrated at our lack to show someone their own beautiful light within. Sometimes some folks must find it on their own and when we become open and aware, we must merely seek compassion and understanding both for those striving to find the love within and sending love and light to those reaching higher and higher realms of enlightenment. Every time one of us heals, opens up and learns to accept life as a series of choices each soul gets to make on their own, the more we open the doors wider that will ultimately allow even more souls to come through to the light and love they hold within.

Having your heart open shows you things differently and once you see things differently along these lines, you will never be the same again...you will mature and grow, raise your vibration, increase your love and light. Allow this to be and do not be alarmed at how it comes to you. My best advice is to seek the deepest understanding of every trial and tribulation you face. Don't let the ego make it personal, make the ego your friend and when it becomes engaged in a negative way, treat it not as an enemy with harsh words but with the same love and patience you would a child trying to learn something new. Focus on your own love and light within, embrace every seeming imperfection you think you have and know that you are perfect despite them...with them. You don't have to change anything to open your heart, your spirit and your soul...you need only to allow new light and thought to enter you without any fear...strive to understand, drink in the delicious beauty in this world, see the best in others and in yourself and be unaffraid to set boundaries where others are so mired in the dark they inadvertently attempt to draw you back in. You will not lose your light. You came here wiith it. It cannot be taken from you. The only danger is forgetting...forgetting your light, your love and how divinely powerful you really are.

So, fear not when the trials and tribulations come. As difficult as they are, you will manage and if you can seek the deeper meanings of what you face, find some kind of silver lining, your heart, soul and spirit will begin to open naturally and beautifully. Just some thoughts to share this morning as I reached my consciousness out into this world and intensely felt the darkness...moved away from it with love and focused instead on all of the bright loving light in this world. Much love and light to all and brightest blessings for peace.

Gypsy Heart

2011-06-24T10:05:00.000-07:00

I drove around town this morning taking care of some errands and treating myself to a little Starbuck's mocha (my once a week divine indulgence!). In the last fourteen years, I've lived in so many places and this morning as luck would have it, I passed by just about every place we have lived during that time period. Huntington Beach is a big city for a little city. It covers a lot of square footage. I drove by the place I lived when my third child was just born. Oh the memories that struck me then. It was such a difficult time of so much solitude and deep soul searching and then right across the street, we lived there too right before my youngest child was born...again more memories washed over me. Times challenging to live through but lessons so rich I wouldn't have traded them for anything in the world. I unintentionally drove past a few more places and again, more memories flooded my consciousness, some good and some not so much but I consoled myself realizing that with every tear shed was a beautiful life lesson learned.

Growing pains in the highest regard it seems these past many years. I feel like a gypsy sometimes always having to pick up and move for one good reason or another and with four kids, traveling lightly is absolutely impossible. Maybe I'm awestruck at the wonder of starting over...embracing change? Nah, that's not it. I definitely am not afraid to start over. I've done it so many times that it seems routine. But, this gypsy heart of mine finds a new longing. One that has me wanting to stop all the commotion of motion and settle down and put down roots for a while. You learn a lot while you are in motion and I have full recall of every step of every journey I have ever taken. But, I would really like to stand still for a while and just observe the world moving around me. The merry-go-round of life will always spin and sing, rising and falling while continually turning but I think I'd like to stop for a while. I've never known this kind of feeling before. Can a gypsy heart really hold a desire to stop roaming?

Maybe it's age, wisdom and maturity that is not so quick to pick up and go any more. As I look back, I think in some ways I've always been in search of home never realizing that this feeling of "home" is not some place you go or some place you live. It's some place you are. This heart of mine now wishes only to roam within the beautiful confines of love and light, following the sun, rainbows and big white puffy clouds crawling across the cerulean blue skies from inside my consciousness. I don't think I would mind standing still but how will I learn to? I'm not sure if that's even meant for me and I'll take what I'm given in this life and I'll learn to love every minute of it. In all of my life, in nearly 45 years on this Earth, I have moved 22 times. Always some place new, always for some very good reason and now I wish to stop. That's so funny to me and I'm most certain my closest friends would giggle at my thoughts just now. Oh right, Jaie stay put in one place? What is it, April Fools? That's okay. I can entertain my thoughts and dreams as I will and smile at my own silliness expressed in this life time and time again.

This gypsy heart may not even quiver any more at the thought of picking up and leaving again, chasing down another dream or roaming new horizons to build even more new dreams. But there is one thing it has given me...a gift so precious...the ability to learn to feel at home no matter where I am. After so long now I find this is of great importance. Learning to live inside of your skin, feeling whole and a love that defies logic and reason beaming out strongly from the inside and so beautifully returned from the outside world as well...well, I'll just say that I am one very happy soul. Come what may, life lessons will abound but I will always know that I am home.

Observations

2011-06-18T06:26:00.000-07:00

Diffused light

Comes to life in the darkness

Chasing shadows across the sky

And I, I’m here watching the play again

Wakeful dreaming once again

For no other reason

Than the sheer joy of presence

In the morning hours

I find a great rejuvenation

Rested after a night’s repose

Hopeful when the new day dawns

I will awaken a little more and a little more

This can seem a strange world at times

But one glance at the play of light

As the morning sun rises above the mountain tops

The colorful display

Reminds me of how simple life can be

How beautiful, magical and even fragile

For in a single moment

The flash of bold and beautiful colors

Dissipates slowly into simple cerulean blue

And a moment of sheer beauty has come and gone

But it returns again and again

Each day we awaken and learn anew

Some things we can count on

Some things continually change

And who are we to judge it all any way

Mere mortal humans

Playing with concepts we think we understand

With our logic and reason we claim the truth

If I want the truth

I’ll watch the sun rise and feel it