Life is a Privilege

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

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

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.

(c) 2011 (words and photo, Jaie Hart, All rights reserved)

Forgiveness is NOT Equal to Reconciliation

Forgiveness is not equivalent to reconciliation. A soul can ask for forgiveness and it is wise from a soul perspective to always give it but the forgiven soul should not expect that forgiveness equals reconciliation. If a soul really wants reconciliation, they might consider asking for it and then be prepared to respectfully accept "NO" in terms of reconciliation.  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 even appreciate and respect the flame for it's purpose here on Earth wishing it everlasting light and life with no ill intent.  

I can forgive myself for sticking my hand in the flame if I want but if I don't like my skin burned, I am under no obligation with my forgiveness to decide to keep my hand in the flame and suffer burning skin forever more or demanding the flame to change in a way that it won't burn my skin.  The latter would simply be a fruitless endeavor.  After all, a flame is a flame and will burn as it burns. That is what it does even as it gives off light.  In the flame example, it is also important to note that if I cannot reconcile my goal of sticking my hand in the fire and not getting burned, I need to remember that fire burns so I don't do it again.

Consider always forgiving to ease your soul and another's but do use discernment on what is safe for you in terms of reconciliation. 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!  Also realize reconciliation is a choice that is yours to accept or not to accept as you desire.

Here are those definitions 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.

Some truly well-intentioned souls might say that you haven't truly forgiven unless you have also forgotten and then reconciled.  Those who would say such a thing either do not understand the difference or may have an entirely different agenda where your desires and feelings are entirely inconsequential to them.   However, using the above example, forgiveness is easy but forgetting and reconciling anything other than fire is hot and I don't care for burns would simply be entirely unacceptable for my well being.  There is no judgment of bad or good involved.  There is discernment and then action consistent concerning desired outcomes.  Put another way, do most definitely forgive and forgive with all of your heart so that you no longer carry the burden of toxic anger and pain of lacking forgiveness.  Remember that to forget may be unwise less the same perceived transgression be repeated.  If that transgression involves physical, emotional, financial or other harm to your person or belongings; to forget may be wholly unwise.  To reconcile is a matter entirely up to you if you deem it wise, safe and appropriate.  The only person likely to judge you and judge you harshly for forgiving and choosing not to reconcile will likely only be the transgressor and anyone else the individual can convince of a one-sided story.  So in the end, why would you even care?  Cut your losses.  Forgive and remember all that you have learned, reserve judgment, use discernment and if necessary set boundaries and hold to them.  Just food for thought.

~Blessings.

Light Moments of Bliss

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

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

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)