GOING THE DISTANCE WITH SPIRIT AND WITH THE AMBASSADOR OF PERSEVERANCE.

"It's not about how hard you can hit but about how hard you CAN GET hit and keep moving, forward. That's how winning is done!"

—Rocky Balboa

THE ORIGINAL ROCKYS. AND THE GREATEST ONES I KNOW.

{AND}

MY HEROES

ROSALIA

MY MOM

( L. My dad) (R. My uncle Mike)

Hello. Welcome to my world and to Spiritual Rocky and a message of hope and strength and of the revelation and work of the Spirit where Spirit is the power and force for change and the good to climb and surmount the highest mountains and to beat the greatest odds and where we are the vehicle and instrument of Spirit to harness and extend its reality and benefits to life on Earth as it is in Heaven.

This is where it goes the distance and toe to toe with the shadows of darkness and despair and any challenge to its Truth and peace by knowledge and by True presence and by True strength and divine guidance. Its intention and reality is Truth. Its process is awareness and awakening. Its vessel and source is Spirit. Its purpose is US. And its graduation, is, remembrance.

We are on a journey to rediscover who we really are and why we're really here on the wings of every better thought and feeling and in the experiences that are their manifestations and signs and their Truths and their blessings. We are on our way to where we want to go and to who we really want to be and to who we really are asking ourselves how we want to be and live this miracle of our life we are and it is, because, we were.

Through mortal thoughts, and with the help of Spirit and the divine guidance of our source, a bridge is made to move nearer and to access more easily the divine mind and to go to divine places where we can narrow the gap between the world and human consideration and experience and belief and the True mind and True self and the holy mind and living life and Truth of God.

We will see and experience its benefits and rewards as long as we don't continue our separation with our only reality or reality itself or the reality of every good and True thing. We should take care to not make life a roll of the dice of what is True and sure and Truly benefitting sidestepping or denying what can lift and save us from the suffering and unease that is its natural byproduct but not our True nature or our True experience or will or the nature of our God that we are.

Our freedom and peace is not in doubt as long as we connect with our remembrance of what we can know and believe and bring into our experience and our lives to rise higher and with greater Truth once again. It's in us. And we are it. And we are the gateway to it. Yes. It can seem hard to come back to what we once knew very well and to what and where we were we are, but should be harder to not be who we really are or to not be where we really only are.

Spirit's Truth is its reality and strength and ours and the fighter in all of us who doesn't doubt the outcome or worries about the challenge ahead but is also the cause for and the path to every victory and every battle that never needs fighting. Every struggle is one that we don't need to lay down with in suffering though rest will be its reward and Home coming and comfort and peace what we will experience in our day and live in our hearts.

We are the mirror and manifestation of the Spirit and will of God and the miracle of its transforming potential to return to the Godly and Heavenly as a force of Nature and change and the fire and intention of its holy and divine and eternal Spirit. Within us all is divine knowledge and the source for higher thinking and reasoning of the True and higher self and the God within.

It can produce and offer experiences uncommon in our normal world and different than our natural tendencies and realities holding the potential for greater realities and grander Truths and more ideal experiences opening windows of awareness to all True and enduring and life-bettering things more natural than they are extraordinary. It brings everything back to life and back to Truth and our True purpose and all back to our True Home.

We are here to go for that brass ring of the best of Self and its higher knowing and what is True. Our deeper connections and openness to its presence and reality is how we can access it and how we can be shown the miraculous even admist the mundane and unremarkable. We have the tools and armor for the work ahead; and by the divine hand of God we can reach higher places and even the greatest we have ever.

We have to believe that the uncommon or the extraordinary, or the unfamiliar, can be the path to success and to the natural and simple and our ride Home and our ticket to ride to redemption, self-honor, self-respect, and self-salvation.

Perseverance and the good work of Spirit is God on a good day and the soul validated and convinced and on its hero rise. When you enlist the help of Spirit you can move forward with undeterred confidence and purpose and heart and be the master of your experience and in charge of the outcome though control is not the vessel for the outcome or the purpose of the free but instead a sign of the absence of what is open and giving and without need.

You can have victories unknown to the mortal Man, but as one with him capable to reach the peace and understanding that goes farther and a strength and conviction that is the stuff of Heaven that won't surrender to or suffer the darkness that hangs above or give way to any blow to its Truth and to its destiny that not only goes for the win but also strives to overcome and to Truly believe.

It may not be easy, but reality doesn't take a lot of work unless you give it some and to work for the good is not to work at all but to gain and enjoy the Sweet. But You will become greater and not less by it until the work is in spreading your joy and happiness and its presence in you.

This is how you find rest from the good one and greater faith in your knowing and greater ease and peace in your Being and how you know what you came here to remember beyond the world and beyond what was forgotten. The process is not the enemy of Truth or the real battle to be won, but the way towards understanding and the way to the beginning of the never-ending end of knowing.

All stories. All epic dramas. Every tale of fantasy. Every drama of pain and bliss and battle of Dark VS light. Death VS Life. Peace VS Chaos. The Sweet VS The Tragic....

Every story or life account that has ever been that uttered the words," In the beginning" has had Villain. Victim. Bystander. Perpetuator. The Victor. The Defeated. The Kind. The Cruel. The Lost. The Found. The Hopeful. The Despairing. They have showcased The Strong. The Weak. The Broken. The Whole. The Free. The Bound. The Innocent. The Guilty. The Sinful. The Sinless. The Savior. The Saved. The Zero. The Hero. The Loser...THE WINNER!

As far as my part, as far as my role, I have lived, and played it---ALL."

--- SPIRITUAL ROCKY

We are amidst oceans of potential on a journey of Self-realization and Self-discovery through winds of change with the free flying Spirit powered and strengthened with all that is divine and all that is True by will in a dance with chance and destiny. We rise with every dawning Sun and every uplifting thought that gives rise and life to the living breeding hope and the better for the hopeful and the believing causing the unfolding of True nature and the miracle of redemption.

We are on our way to magic and to miracles and to the opening of channels of awareness within towards revelation and insight awakening to answers long sought but already given and to the God within that the life that would be lived may be the Truth that would be known that would set it free realizing that who we really are and meant to become can be a reality and the best experience we could hope to have and the greatest Truth we could ever be and that the best is yet to come.

But what can be said that hasn't already been said. What can be known that is more than what has already been shared but less than what is still to be understood or remembered. And yet what can be conveyed that is less, or more, or greater than what is yet to be lived and more than what is still to be received and believed.

Socrates said,

"An unexamined life is not worth living. To find yourself, think for yourself. The only good is knowledge and the only veil is ignorance."

I'm here to share and convey what you might need to hear but not what you need to receive, and more, what has not been said that may cause you to believe and receive and then hold as your own.

Through messages yet to be shared and conveyed, and thoughts yet to be in our thinking or entertained, we will choose what and when that will be but then know we are on a journey and on the fast track to realize and experience more than what we have known and that where we are going is where we want to be and that all that's going on is what we've made True in our living and believing what we have made so in our seeing and understanding.

But it will take ascending to another level to know it or find where it is that we may benefit below, above, and where it will always be and to Truly believe the greater Truths and the greater gifts and what we are really looking for and that what await us is in us. If you place what's True before you and in you the holy and divine will assume its place and place you above death and below the rise of suffering and will meet and greet you at the table and the alter of its understanding and peace and its bountiful offerings.

This is our reality and our Truth. And this is the Truth above all others. And this could be the experiences we give ourselves and the best experiences of our lives we could ever hope to have and even better ahead as we step into its greatest creations and its divine promise and holy wonder.

We are "The creation and the Life" and the greatest Truth and reality there is, because we are "The Life" that would be and the Truth that can only be and despite what we think and know or believe about ourselves or where we are stands True and unwavering and sure.

In its creation, and all that would be created as it was created as it always was, the known world fades in the background and we can see what we are and who we can become as we are and all as it may or could be it already is if we would breathe it into Life and allow Life to exhale us into its reality and embrace what can only be so.

I am a writer of these inner Truths and revelations and what I call My Holy Moments---epiphanies and the highest messages of the greatest Truths and realities of life and life as we know it that there can be and that can be known and received. I have been bestowed with receiving holy Truth and divine thought and I am a light bearer and conduit for these higher messages from higher sources and higher places of knowledge and from the God within. It's the Wonder Counselor in us all. It's who we really are.

They cause the inner and outer experiences to be One and greater understandings to shed light on the one Truth and the one True life and liberates life and us from the darkness and confines and entanglements of the world and our phantoms of reality and from our judgements and fears that cause misunderstandings and misguided perceptions that can lead nowhere but back to what and where they are and what they do.

They free us from the making of the false into Truth in endless repetition and cycles of unending suffering and dis[ease] their telltale sign that we're off the little worn track of the reality of peace and the greater tale of greater being and Truer knowing. They also help us guard against turning reality into what cannot be real les we give it the power and identity that belongs to us, which is Truth unpretending and reality uncompromising and True creation unbending and unwavering and unending.

The revelations and insights I receive can bring one to Self-realized but divinely given and inspired hope and faith transforming the living condition into the living dream of awakened life and more enlightened and happier living giving us the hope and the assurances and the faith we need in times of trouble or distress.

They may come in degrees or in varied clarity and strengths but not in outcome or performance or what they're able to do or in their solid and unbridled Truths. Along with divinely inspired action there is no other weapon or fighting tool greater or more reliable or durable that you need to make life your ally and your strength and refuge and your overcoming a given.

I experience and live this daily more than I don't, and it is Truly and literally a Godsend and a blessing in its receiving and its living and really out of this world. It's said hope is thought made divine and this is the saving grace and the highly positive effects this ascension to holy thought offers and is capable of doing in me and anyone else open to it.

We can receive and be blessed by the purity and holy presence of the divine mind and by hope that from it our thoughts and our higher perspectives and beliefs are made more real and stronger and brought together making alive the Truth and the best it has to offer.

I am told I receive messages from channeled Spirits and from Heavenly sources beyond this world, but I just know that they are holy and higher thoughts and messages and definitely divine and from wherever or whoever I receive them from and however they come are cut out of a different cloth than in the way of normal thinking and consideration and in the common perceptions of our world and how we see it and us in it. They get to the Truth and the heart of the matter. They are in the service of Truth and reality and knowledge bearing the mark of the source that can be perceived, then known, then experienced, and then believed.

They offer and extend healing, True understanding, and peace because of the nature of what comes through and because of what they do and are and because of what they actually say. In other words, I hear and talk with God and write down her higher thoughts and words and her deep, inner feelings that are straight from the rafters and holy halls of Heaven and all that can be known in the mind, heart, and soul of God. You can say, I remember Heaven.

These messages and writings and spiritual thoughts have been an unintended or unplanned mission or vocation of mine but have also become my joy and my pleasure and my saving grave and what I have come to call my work. They started off as good or positive and encouraging thoughts and feelings jotted down in a small, unassuming little daily planner or organizer in the late 90s and eventually to divine insight and revelation of the highest order and magnitude thereafter.

I did not expect or plan or could have ever imagined its service or Truths in me or through me and only increasing and getting better and higher and not wanning not knowing also how much more and greater was just ahead. It has been quite something and quite a ride and of back then I have come to realize quite an audacious and momentous time.

They are always connected to Spirit and to the knowledge and realities and to the clearest and purest thoughts of Heaven and to the very thoughts of God and the best I can think or receive. They are the higher and natural instincts for the good and only where God can be. They are heavily philosophical and reasoning and biblical sounding. They can appear or seem poetic. I am not schooled in any of this, but yet, here they are. This is why they are also in every one of us and as close and accessible as we would have them be.

I was trained in the Truth a while ago. May I be able to share the Special moments and Special times I was in the Heaven of knowledge and in the comfort and revelry of my Spirit and my True and better half and self and my Soul Love and the understanding and knowing and Love of God.

But I'm just a regular joe with a cup of joe and good things with something to say in a life that has allowed me to learn from and grow into who I really am. I don't know or really receive anything you don't or can't, because we come from the same God of Truth, who shares with all who will listen and with those who entertain him and his insights and his greater understandings and knowledge.

The invitation comes from the opening. The receiving comes from the welcoming. The benefit comes from the new and the different which makes it the greater as much as it can be the familiar and the Truer and the better. If it doesn't seem or feel like you can receive or entertain it, or like you're not there, let your feelings and your more inner promptings be the gauge to what can make a difference in life and in your life and in the state of anything like a good cup of morning joe.... :)

But we too often get mind hijacked by or overtaken with the falseness in life and with what we think is the Truth and with what we think we're making that will free us but only tightens the chains around our wrists and keeps us in a fog of non-remembrance and unknowing and untruth that only causes suffering because we are the Truth and the free and the peace and the easy.

We get caught up in the illusions of the world and in our lives and in the phantoms and false realities we have inside us that clog up our divine filters or receptors and our holy purpose that make us go three ways south when we're headed in one direction North and then get turned around only to start right where we were not arriving where we intended to be or wanted to go. This makes it difficult to hear what we've been wanting to know and challenging to get to where we need to go and to the Truth of the matter wherever we are.

By The Holy and by the will of Man we are given the chance and the power to alter the human condition and to recover from loss and to awaken its undying light to bring back to life its faith and hope and the human heart that it may rise above its world and above suffering and misunderstanding. With it we are able to build a bridge and close the gap between the world and human consideration and thinking and believing and the True mind and True Self and The True world of all True seeing understanding the True art and reality of God.

We are in need of waking up and clearing our eyes from a dream that has caused us to be asleep to the real world and to our real identity and to not know their reality apart from their awakening, as their wakefulness is not their awakening, but ours. We long to be aware of and hear once again what we’ve stop listening to and what we've stopped knowing and seeing and believing.

We have the ability to be more aware and to experience True wakefulness and the greater realities by our own whispers and thoughts through the voice and presence and through the divine mind of God, who only enlightens and who only offers peace and understanding and our highest Truths for us totake hold of. His Truth he wills we will for ourselves and what we will for ourselves can only be his if it's ours. We work together to ward off sleep that we may only dream of and believe in greater and sweeter things that we could live.

Some will be challenged in not escaping the long and dark nights of joyless and restless sleep when they've separated themselves from who they are in their sad and lonely ventures away from the Truth seeking genuine and real Self who rests in peace and who knows who it really is. I can tell you I've been there. Its joy is of Oneness of being and unity and camaraderie with life itself and with the reality from it it was born. It smiles from within out into the world and is of the brightness and glowing promise and strength and warmth of the very Sun. It is our eternalness. It is our True peace. It is the best place we can be. And it is our destiny.

In entertaining these messgages and insights I recieve and what I have to contribute and share and what I find great joy in doing so, Life and peace can only be their benefits and outcome, but offer more that ring of their Truths and reality your True Home away from Home. I am here to be an advocate for wellness and the higher way, and for you, that you may benefit and and rise higher and be more assured in your walk to the only Truth you can ever know. YOU.

The innate nature and creative potential and power of the Truth, and the best of us, and the good is always ready to show up and go to work and do its work and make things happen to change what in dreams has made waking life a nightmare of false realities and the harmful and its illusion what it has woken up to though asleep to reality and the helpful and the saving.

The possibilities and creative thrust to rise above and to alter known reality is endless and worthy of attention and has great power but is not always the chosen path or the desire worth choosing or realized in times of need though the need is surely there but in not choosing can cause detrimental effects in body, soul, mind, and Spirit.

The incursion of the false world and what we make of it and the unreal in us then manifesting outside us is the inner turmoil we feel and the trouble we get into that causes the lives we live to be filled with difficulty and unhappiness, confusion and doubt, pain, and unhealthy emotions and thought processes that hamper what we know better that can turn everything around to the better and Truer and towards healing or away from it.

There's an ebb and a flow to our zeroing in and locking on what really works for us and what really matters and what gets us out of trouble, and it changes depending on beliefs and other things and mostly on our thinking, but it is there. But like the chameleon who changes its colors so we, too, as we go from one and the other to try to find the right one that hits the right cord or hue. But the right one is all of them that gets us to the True one of our visions and our deeper desires. This is why I like the words in the song by Boy George Karma Chameleon.

It says,

Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma

Chameleon!!!

You come and go

You come and go

Loving would be easy if your colors

were like my dream

Red, gold, and green

Red, gold, and green

Knowing and tapping into and using our True Power is formidable and has great energy and strength and is the reservoir of the miracles and the transformative events and wonders of God. Since we have it, we are it, and can make magic and big things happen we thought were beyond the unimaginable and beyond our imaginations and beyond the impossible. But they are not beyond the capability or capacity of our True Self, our True strength, our higher and Truer knowing and only reality, and the works of God.

But you can convince yourself of anything even of who you are not and can believe you are better than anything else other than it and better than who you really are. But if you don't know who you really are you really better? Because she who knows who she is knows more than she has forgotten she is not and knows the one solemn, sublime, and only Truth. She is greater than all else of the conjuring and imaginings of the perceived self and its chosen reality and its false beliefs.

We will ever stand at the gates of our True form and the real presence and the real reality of God in us until we choose it and us again and our joy as we come back to ourselves in the midst of sadness and confusion as we walk through and are redeemed by it and by the Sun and light of every better day and every better way. This is what I hope for you and the world that we can remember what we are really searching for and trying to live that we can Truly live.

When in the throes of darkness we can know we are greater in the world when tapped into our higher knowing and clarity of Being this being of strength and Spirit and innocence and the God of all and the source of all that can only give us hope. We are born of innocence and Truth, which is greater than the world or the life we would only know and greater than what we would only know and understand and believe of who we really are.

We know and are the choices worth living and pursuing and worth believing that shine of their light and healing promise. But we also know the ones not worth the morning or the slightest consideration or the glare of their unreality unless they're used for the purpose of awakening True vision and True living. They are not worthy to lay or bear witness to our Truth and and our healing reality that brings happiness to our souls since they offer only the lifeless and untrue things and the imposters and stealers of wellness and our coming resurrection.

This is good to be self-assured that you can be on the higher tracks and the higher ground and on the higher dimensions and planes of consciousness and right thought and right action when you take from yourself what God has given you and that you hold the key to your own Salvation and to your own steps up the mountain of redemption and rediscovery and True fulfillment .

You can rest in knowing the decisions and the direction you choose to make and take can have the greatest impact and the greatest outcome and can have you headed for the markers and experiences that will take you back Home and to the light that shines of renewal and understanding and new promise and renewed strength. This is the promise of the Sweet Spirit and the assurance of the light of the Godly presence in you.

All is never lost when we know who we are and when we know we have in us the creator of worlds and the destroyer of untruths and darkness and all false presence by any hand and the creator of our world helping us with the life we want it to be and want to live in where we smile as we lay in the Sun of what we join him in in its making and in it's creating and in its warming and in its healing.

We and our world are living proof that life is full of evidence of the potential for change and that with the chance and the capability to come alive again and be better and stronger than before we can find we are made for miracles and redemption and change for the better extending its grace and benefit to all life and to all things in wondrous and magical ways.

"Mastery of Self is Mastery of ALL."

"Mastery of All is the completion of the All of Self"

Any problem can only exist when the one experiencing it is not the problem solver and when they are as the problem would be or as they would have them be it. But since no one is not their own problem solver, and since there are none who are not who they really are and can only be, this only leaves one thing to know and understand and the only thing to be; that we will arrive at our answers and the Truth by the becoming Self and by the transforming soul and by life itself and not only coming to them but also as the Master of them, All.

Through the undertaking and through the process of the renewing Self and being open to another approach or idea for what we are really trying to get to and do and where we really want to be, we are one step closer to our better halves and the best that can be had, which can help us realize better realities and higher Truths and understandings and increasingly to know who we really are.

We can find who we are when we make it who we really are. Then can our souls and Beings Truly fly with greater ease and live with greater peace in the new creation and new life when the eternal source comes to life IN us.

"Release The [enlighten]ment"

We are though not here to convince anyone of anything but really to just be examples of what can be the better choice and what one can convince themselves of if it rings a Truth in them and speaks to them as to who they really are. This is in the hope they will be inspired to be aware of and manifest as a result greater and better things even with doubt and living unconsciously and so be enhanced and blessed in the living and in the receiving of them. It will say and give a lot more since the giver and the receiver are one and the same being a part of Life that seeks to Truly know.

Self-freedom, and the Self allowance to perceive and discover innocently, is the way to the enlightenment of anything and what we're looking for. It is the way to Self-knowledge to say that we don't just know it but that we know it and that we have something. It is the way out of the lifelessness of being and the reliance outside the Self and the disempowerment of surrogate or casually or carelessly handed or handled Truth and half-realized understandings that it may not seem or be taken as it is or appears to be but as all it can be and was intended to become.

This is a path or journey of finding out who we really are and of the True self that is not always easy but worth the effort if the path of least resistance is the one where freedom takes its course on its way to its Truth and reality liberating and lighting the way for its light and the soul on earth.

I'd like to invite you on this journey of the wonder of being and life and together realize great things are ahead and just above the fray and that we can approach and touch the open gates of Heaven and walk through and experience paradise right here on Earth in any moment we are open to receive it in the many that are to be had and available and all that are blessed and strengthened because of it.

The voice of Truth and Spirit can be known and heard amidst all the chatter and chaos and all that would be through the experience of its awakening and through all yet to be grazed by the light of Truth. Those who yearn to be freed by the bondage of untruth and the illusion of the perceived self and its lesser creations and deeds will know it by what they become from it and life that can only show it.

We need only listen long enough through the chaos and the tumultuous times to find what we are looking for and then know that outside the noise and confusion are clear answers in repose and calm quiet but also very much alive and dynamic and eager to share and extend and share the voice and utterances above all others of beauty, promise, hope, and Spirit.

Every day is a day to be aware of illusion and how we can be mis directed in our mis guided perceptions on our journey to Truth and the good places and every True and good thought and every worthwhile thing born of it. And no day is without it or the opportunity to observe its effects on our lives given we give ourselves every opportunity to experience it and hopefully Truly live it. If it's our experience, it doesn't have to be our new Truth but the Truth that we make new everyday.

It's given weight and power only by common thought and mostly judgement but liberated by exceptional and rare consideration and uncommon awareness by the welcoming of the simplest and freest of realities but also by the grandest and most enlightening and most beneficial of Truths.

But to fight for Truth is not to really have to fight for it more than to just allow it to be where you can be unleashed from the resistance to its reality unfolding its miracles and gifts ascending to greater heights of reality and liberation. This is so we may win more battles against the perceived enemy of struggle and separation and against our own thoughts allowing us to be shown which ones are more real and True letting the lesser and false ones be as we come into the only ones bearing True life and True understanding and the True mark of God.

Within us all is divine knowledge and the source of higher thinking and reasoning of the True and higher Self. It's the God within and it can produce and offer experiences and feelings and insights uncommon to our normal or everyday world or life and our accepted or perceived realities.

It can form greater realities and grander Truths and greater windows of awareness and insights to all True and enduring and life bettering and life bearing things. It can change and alter your life in wondrous ways if you would be the change factor and the change you would cause though it and by it and then see it as it could only be.

This can cause the lessening of suffering and greater understanding as to the nature of and the reason for anything more than you may know. Although God doesn't suffer Man's man-made temporary creations or judgements but waits for him to awaken and to be wrapped in joy by the eternal and True creations of the God of all True life and all True things in recognition of it and her Truth they create together and from it more in miracles and the magical.

Using our natural abilities as natural as remembering who we really are and how we want to really feel and knowing how we want to live we come to find and realize they can be used to bring to reality what is within us but also outside us and what is True and ALIVE in us.

They are the creators of life’s joys and experiences sublime and bring everything and we ourselves into balance and focus and back to Life and back to what's real this our life purpose and where we long to be again. In appreciation and acknowledgement of them we know we are there and have surely received.

In our search, or in our daily grind, we often overlook the shining light of redemption and rejuvenation in dark times and these abilities that are in the wings waiting to unleash their strength and transformative powers and look for rainbows in the dead of night and a pot of Gold at the end of it in a heap bin. But we are the rainbow, and we are the light in and of it, and that makes us, Golden.

We look for the Sun and only see shadows and sometimes in seeing the shadows forget they only help us when we can make out what they really are and what they do, which if not get in the way of our clarity and our Truth, point in the direction of the light and to make brighter what in shades of the dark lessens the rays of peace and salvation. We don't realize the Sun only sees our light through the darkness and every downcast shade we may have had drawn down and placed before us through the clouds that hover above because of what we denied of the clearer skies in us. Everyday really is a beautiful day. What happens after and outside of that has nothing to do with it and is a different day.

"Oftentimes the shadows serve not only to conceal those who wish to do evil, but also to protect those who seek to do good."

---Alexsandr

We also look for The Wizzard and Kansas in lost and foreign lands forbidden to strangers and feel as orphans without a Home. But if we look closer, we close the curtain on him and skip away from the yellow brick road that leads us to friendlier surroundings and to the sanctuary of The Emerald City that leads us to the familiarity of the Home that never left us. They are there, or where they are, but also everywhere in the places where if we don't fall asleep on our journey to it, we will see where we desire to go and where we desire to be and will be there but having really gone now-here.

Our greatest soul desire is to be known to ourselves and that the world we live in would be a mirror of the best that could be. We want to understand our lives and want it to be a healer and a creator not a destroyer and what harms, an uplifter not that which would cast us down, and a friend not a foe or an enemy to guard and fight against and to have us prepare and draw our battle weapons to defend against the injustices of what we have carved out and given life to and allowed to live we have placed before us.

We need to understand that life can only stop being our enemy or the opposite of what we want when we stop being an adversary to it but a partner in its understanding and then Truly knowing our God in it will show us what to befriend and who will give us what we really want and who will bring us down or seek our, or have a hand in, our destruction. Knowing that God is in and is everything and that living this Truth we can know it Truly and completely is all we need to know and all we need to do, then, show it.

Joy and healing are what we will find when we realize there was no one really against us but only are misunderstandings and our fears and our judgements. What else can there be? But when we can understand this, we will finally reach the knowing that forgiveness of what we were or what we knew or didn't know was not only the answer and the key but also its final blessing and our reality back Home.

The Buddha said,

"To understand everything is to forgive everything."

Our fears arise when we forget that, or worse, when it's not the choice or the desire or the belief or the way back to ourselves and to peace and happiness and an easier way to live but only a passing thought on the way back to what hasn't worked before and what will still work against us if we think what we are up against is bigger or greater than it is.

"When we cling to one thing, we resist another."

But we should never fear what is only as real as we would make it or have it be and instead be glad and be hopeful in what is always open as the other and better choice which is the real reality only delayed in time and in its choosing. We should never fear a life that is only really meant and made for the good and for Truth and peace and True contentment and the finest and highest of understandings and our finest hour.

But sometimes you do have to fight the shadows in the Sun or the clouds on a clear day since they've been made real and so become the enemy before us and so all we can see or believe in. But what we are really after doesn't see what we see but also doesn't care about what we're "up against" or "the odds, because it knows on which side the odds are Truly stacked and really on and where the clear and open skies are.

This Truth of Truths knows where the light Truly shines and knows the REAL winner in the end. But the fight should be a fight for peace and for what is real and True and for what Truly gives and is worth receiving. When you receive it, it shouldn't be a surprise, but if it is, even better.

The irony is that to fight for what we really want and for what's real is just to accept it against the backdrop of unnecessary resistance against it. If the only problems we have are outside us and the ones we Truly fight against and fight Truly solving are inside us where answers are but also outside us, then we will have made a separation between the Truth within, and the Truth without, and between the answer inside, and the problem and the answer outside, for as Jesus says it's all one.

If we stand alone in the struggle and don't use our higher source within who knows where everything is and what it is, we can't expect to have it solved and move to better and Truer places. Nothing tends to go away or be solved this way and then an adjustment or rethinking is in order.

Someone may rightfully ask how can we not have problems? An answer could be, don't have them, which their natural reply and response you could assume would be, "that's impossible!" You have just solved the problem and touched its understanding.

There are no answers outside of Love and that includes self-Love, or outside of peace and that includes peace for yourself. They are the only things that Truly live and heal and really matter. There are no two ways to be free from what troubles you and from the judgements of everyday life and to find understanding and solace and healing outside the innocence and purity of the soul of life and its divine source because it knows what real healing and well-being are and because judgement is not the way to them or the answers to living or to the preferred life or to its reality, or, to what's True.

If one tries to find or manipulate other means or avenues to better conditions or to True healing and freedom from the harmful using what hasn't worked but in different forms, they will be left with their absence and left to question what went wrong. Those who don't will have what they are looking for and liberation long last and will rest in their knowing and will find rest with the good one.

A river that flows to the Sun brings the glare of revelation to the sights and senses filling the one body united in Love and in Being to the True nature of God. Peace and well-being flourish in the heart of understanding, for wisdom and the good spring from their well because they are near their source and the waters of its purity and Truth and bless all who wash and drink from them.

Fear is strengthened and empowered in our judgement for it and in our resistance against Truth and reality and our higher knowing where our sight is blind to what is not to fear and to what is True all around us and granted us at all times. God plants it in everyday and in every soul and Spirit of True vision, True belief, and True history by its very Being to experience and know itself as the same and calls us to what can only be True and what can only be Truly lived.

But if we fear we suffer in resistance to the Truth and in the denial of its realities that save that don't harm or cause unease. We suffer in our alignment and agreement with the false and perceived reality, which often is at struggle or at odds with greater perceptions and greater realities and the higher Truths that can motivate us to seek them when they're not where we are, or more, when we are not where they are as can the lesser realities when they're not embraced for what they are but what they came to tell us that we would understand the cause of all misunderstandings and all miscalculating and all suffering.

In the choice for freedom, we have the Truth choice above all where we can be removed from where we are and where we can stop suffering because of where we have focused and because of what we have chosen to be when we use THIS choice as the key and gateway to what we Truly want to feel and to what we Truly want to be.

The Lebanese Poet and writer Khalil Gibran wrote:

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

We can't really know anything outside of what we will know or will to know or what we only choose to experience or see or take as our experience and reality, because it's highly and directly and very personal but so too should be getting at the Truth of it in it and also outside it, which makes it the most direct and the most personal of all and the most rewarding.

If we judge what we see and see what we have judged and are tricked into not looking the other way or another way how can we know what's really there and not be duped or hoodwinked and taken for a ride and had by it? That's what magicians do. But this magic is backward, dangerous, not entertaining or helpful, and, not fun.

When we evaluate our lesser beliefs experiences and elevate the value and offerings of our Truer and higher beliefs and experiences and see the lesser ones for what they are no matter what they may appear as or what they are our beliefs and perceptions and better experiences can meet us and rise also and rise above them and can turn into True perception and True belief and eventually to awareness and to Self-revelation and can be our new reality and Truth will reign again if we don't put greater emphasis and control factors on what they have been and instead allowing what we can make them become. When the feeling of arriving to the Truth has arrived in us through all that we live inside and outside us we'll know its True purpose and its real benefit for us and what is Truly for us to take happily.

Experience may not be The All of Truth, but it is the defender against sleep walking and not knowing from where you are coming and where you are going when it's used to shed its light on its True meaning and real purpose and Its identity and should be honored and appreciated because of what new births it reveals and gives rise to and what creations by it have yet to wow.

Truth saves. If you say that Truth is personal and opinion and not everybody's then you will have agreed and can only be right. But one can't exist without the other if we are to know the difference between them and what Truth would bear when choice is no longer just its cause or Truth but its Self-reflection and its acceptance of the given by any measure of reality for all that would be lifted and redeemed by it.

When Jesus said, "The Truth will set you free", he didn't mean an observable or factual Truth, but actual Truth made of all Truly living things and all True and good and all enduring and lasting things. You'll know it when your feet no longer touch the ground but stand stronger in your knowing.

Here are some beautiful words I'd like to share from the song Up Where We Belong.

Who knows what tomorrow brings

in a world few hearts survive

All I know is the way I feel

When it's real I keep it alive

The road is long

There are mountains in our way

But we climb a step everyday

Love lifts us up where we belong

Where the eagles cry

On a mountain high

Love lifts us up where we belong

Far from the world below

Up where the clear winds blow

Some hang on to use to be

Live their lives looking behind

All we have is here and now

All our lives out there to find

The road is long

There are mountains in our way

But we climb a step everyday

Time goes by

No time to cry

Life's you and I

Alive today

Life lifts you up....

Where you belong.

I think freedom is the reason for all things and all life. And knowing we that give it to ourselves is the cause of everything else and what we need to know. Life answers Life. Nothing else can bring the living back into it. The great ones in history had great faith and conviction and strength in their peace and in who they were. They had great faith in their freedom and knew where it came from and how to keep it. That's what made them great.

Freedom lives. But it won't go where you are, or will you be able to go where it is if you've taken yourself away from it or denied it even though it never leaves you or is ever not with you and even though you are never not with it being only of it. If you investigate yourself, you'll know the key or answer to this riddle or conundrum and what and who you're really looking for or after.

But you can't come from guilt or fault assumed or any kind of judgement or any of that in the process because it's not about that but about remembering and about the innocence of you and about the illusions that can get in the way of that.

There are apt lyrics in the song No One Is to Blame by Howard James:

"You can feel the punishment, but you can't commit the sin"

"Doctor says you're cured but you still feel the pain."

When we partner with Spirit and divine knowledge, we have the greatest collaboration and partnership in Truth and in the blessings of its experience and the greatest of its ability to heal but more to let us know only wellness and wellbeing is. This helps us in life not suffer the pain and dilemma of not being known to ourselves and of lost identity and the pain and struggles of living in the world. By it we are spared our perceived separation from The One and The All and the struggle for our peace.

The Universe and our True beings will supply and help us with that. They'll bring what brings about our growth, not our destruction. Our keener knowledge, instead of our confusion or misthought. The hard lessons, but also our glorious revelations. We're here to learn what we need to master. Until then the teacher will not leave the student. We're here to work on ourselves. There's no doubt about it, otherwise we wouldn't have come here as teachers of what we need to know. Life takes discipline. We should all work at it in mind, body, Spirit, and in all ways.

I think worse than judgement against this approach or this Spiritual tool or the Truth of life is the judgement of what takes its place and assumes and seems its reality. This is because Judgement doesn't care what Truth is or about what you need to live it or to be free.

It can become harder to separate yourself from the wrong choice for truth and what harms if you don't discern what's good for you that you would surely keep and truly benefit if you take a moment to realize what you can really have that would lift you from the perishable and the ungodly.

Underlying everything is something; and it could be what you really need and the one thing that can give you a leg up out of the cadre' of impersonators of holy grace and the True and honorable fight. This if you look for it and believe in what it could do that you may not choose something else and find what it is not instead slowing down and making more arduous your way and journey and the path to the redeeming and your redeemer and the Truer choice and what can only be it and save you.

If you feel you have lost what you need to bring you out of the dark and unnecessary suffering you can feel you've lost everything. But what's worse than losing everything or anything is losing nothing and thinking all is lost, which tells you it's ok to drop some things and to gain in another way or other things or with what you already have. You have more than you think. It may be better than you think. You can't lose or not have what you really want or really have, and you don't have to keep what you really don't have or want.

What we should know is things do get better because of the things for the better and because of the better in all things. Freedom lives, and lives to bring about what good can only come out of it and can only be better if we keep hope at the center of our lives and make courage and inner strength and faith the cornerstone of our steps towards what we make the miracle of our lives and what we can allow that will bring light to every dark room and the morning to every dark night.

Balance is our real benefit here in life, because we can use all things to our advantage but still not be over run or overwhelmed by it when we aren't on one extreme vs the other in our desire for it. But if moderation is, as they say, the economy of God then the extreme is the excess of the unholy and the dark and the wrong end of Truth and the wrong end of things and the shallow end of the well of well-being.

But isn't everything light and moderate if it's not run or based on fear or doubt or worry or a reality that brings down by extremes what seeks to fly high and soar in repose and ease and float in lighter streams and dreams?

I think all Truth and reality is abstract and completely personal and subject to imperfect perception and imperfect understanding until you get down to the specifics and to their details and their innate, deeper and higher Truths and natures and realities we only need our lives to be the test and proof and demonstration of their reality and the gateway to them, especially if they only cause and create life and True meaning and real well-being and don't destroy them. The divine irony is that you find then the very real and tangible clarity and Truths of their absolute and pure form and their Truest identity and reality and ours where we can live in its peace and wellness and in its higher knowing.

If Life is but a dream could we have dreamed of a better way? Or was it to dream then to awaken to the dream that the unreal and the dark would be the cause of our slumber and nightmare and the absence of our peace and visions that don't delight, but that in our sleep we would be graced with the light of Truth and know what was to dream and to awake to to settle our soul and to rise happily to Truth and brighter visions of a better way and the living of a better day.

The harsh realities and the harmful in Life is not its greater Truth or reality. But it can feel like it is if we live the least or the worst of our experience and sometimes the worst of ourselves and not what it or what we could be even though we know what we want it to be and who we really want to be and become. It can't be denied that we live in a very negative and dark world filled with unrighteousness and inequities and harmful elements and the worst of Man and the least of what he could be and the worst of what the world is capable of being. But we are here to bring light and Truth to it all.

But if we know what we want to be and what we want to experience in life why can't we make it be. it's often because we will make ourselves the biggest obstacle we will ever have to what we're really trying to get to and to having True peace and understanding and also because of what we have miscreated from our judgements and because of our judgements and what we have believed and sown into our lives that causes that goal to be harder to reach and harder to realize. This causes the hard things to show up and come into being and give us a hard time and time and again even though we don't think or believe we had anything to do with them. And that's why they keep showing up and deceiving us and are what they are. But when we judge we are the weakest. And we shouldn't judge the greatest or the most when we have the least to know and the less to give or offer and when we don't have the better or stronger of us to understand and Truly create and then foster and further all the good that is.

I work with the tools of Life which are the tools of Spirit that only gives and breathes Life into the living and the world and all that is and heals in its understanding and Truth and offers great benefits if we use them to bring clarity and focus into our lives which can only bring peace, Truth, and understanding and our True identities out from the confines and dungeons of lost Being and unknowing and false believing. The Truth sets you free because you are that which sets you free. We know the way because we ARE the way. But you can't see the light or Truth in dark or false places or find answers where problems are unless you are the light and the answer and the solution.

The stark and sometimes harsh and very True reality is we can always make the undesired and those problems or hard realities appear worse than they are as bad as they can be and make them almost the greateast or most prominent things about us but really are the smallest, less significant of things when we believe them enough and when it's all we care to see and know and understand. The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus said,"You become what you give your attention to." And another quote from the Roman philosopher Seneca The Younger says, "We are more often frightened than hurt; And we suffer more in imagination than in reality." Problems are assumptions. If they weren't they'd be answers without question and they'd be right and not just mostly wrong.

If it's not because of our judgements or our less than divinely-inspired beliefs or approaches or our lower considerations and the denial of Truth and all the good that can come out of it, then those experiences and tough realities have been given life to or kept alive and made more real and True and relevant more than than they should be or than they are. They are not the Truth we have made them out to be.

We don't have to believe in what's not True, and in the same way, believe in what we've made True that isn't. Otherwise the Universe and our Spirits have conspired and collaborated with us to bring us situations and experiences to rustle up and heighten our awareness of what to avoid or that may be around the corner possibly worse than they are sometimes through hard lessons or in tough ways for our benefit but that doesn't negate or deny the fact it's working in our favor so we don't have more to be concerned about or to work on we rather not. This from an all-Loving and merciful source so that Life may not always be a test of what we can overcome and endure or survive or what we need to learn, but one that we can live out its Truth and saving reality and enjoy the fruits of our greater understanding and awareness and a Life Truly worth living and being.

The fact is we tend to condition our lives and make decisions and live out their choices we eventually don't like in what results from them but live and choose them anyway; and these choices result often in pain and hardship and suffering even though we think they're going to give us peace and well being and not suffering or hardship or a harder life, because who would harm themeslves and make themselves suffer. It's a hard way to go, but we do it. We may not always be aware of them because they can come from the heart but not always. But if they are from the heart good will always come from them just maybe not as fast as we hope or wish it would. We may be the sum of every high and low but that's because we are the total of our complete and whole selves that we subtract from or add to because we can.

It has been said nothing happens to us that we didn't or don't allow on some level and allow to be our experiences and our personal realities for a reason or reasons that we're unaware of that doesn't seem to be our plan or any decisions of ours but wouldn't be our reality or experience if they weren't and is serving in some way from the "unwanted." How fun is it we get what we asked for we don't want until we choose and ask differently and get what we really want instead.

We can see this work in the positive when we see things in a better light and choose the softer option and when we live more purposely and positively and in more awarenes of what we really want to live and feel and just choose better and so then have better experiences, because then things wouldn't be or appear to be as we have chosen them to be and the experiences we have caused and made them to be. Then it's not so much about choosing but about BEING the better choice and experience so Life can take a turn and be there for us if we are there for it.

We also have to be watchful of our thoughts, too, because, you know, they can turn negative and not be based on Truth too easily and then what else can we expect but what can result from that. The ancient Roman statesman and emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius said, "The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts." Keeping this in mind, I think, can make us more watchful of what they can be.

What are we not giving we want to receive and what are we giving our attention to we don't want to see or experience. We should want what we need but already have to give ourselves, and should give more attention to and allow ourselves to experience what we care about more and what can be given for us to receive and live. This is the only way we can have it and to realize and see and have come into our lives what we've decided to place in front of our misplaced choices and considerations instead of allow all that's not been working or helping to be our next focus and creation and experience whether we know or realize it or not. If you don't accept anything less than what you really want you'll get nothing less. If you accept anything and everything else and don't eventually let it go you can only keep getting it and more of what you don't want or can't take.

If you keep what is not serving it's obviously not going to work for you or suddenly change into something better if it just stays what it is and nothing else happens. Or if you keep something obviously just not good at all and just keep running with it and think all is Ok but keep experiencing what isn't and what it's causing you to live and think it's doing something for you you're not going to easily realize it's not, especially if it's catered to the world and the lesser of you and you keep catering to it until you come to its unforgiving creshendo or something clearly hard or bad or not centered on Truth and your real Truth. You won't want to keep it and will wish you had something else or a better way to get it. You can't change what is not working you don't decide isn't.

Don't deny the arduous or hard flow if it's there or try to make it like it's not, but don't keep it. Thats's not how you'll have what you want and where you really want to be. Just flow through and out of it to a better flow and stream of well being and Truth and higher understanding and of you and what may be going on. The ancient sage Lao Tzu said, "Those who flow as Life flows know they need no other force." I've been told to float like a leaf in a still stream. How is that not better than the hard flowing rough waters we find and cause ourselves to be in.

It's said seeing is believing, but if you believe, you will definitely see and Truly believe. People see and believe many things but their lives often, unfortunately, reflect and are lived in the worst or the least helpful of what that is and then need to change what they have allowed their mind to know and see. You can believe the dark is the light, and the light what is casting shadows in the night, because you can't see the light when you're ridding on dark clouds, or not see the dark when the clouds are your proof the light is not there. But when we are admist trial and the hard we can keep one thing in mind. The Sage and mystic and philosopher and poet Rumi, said, 'Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy."

We can also benefit from understanding what Epictetus said,

"People are not disturbed by things but by the views they take of them." This may seem like an over simplified and too obvious and just stock explanation of things lacking compassion and understanding and anything that could help us in the here and now but it would have to; but how could anything else be more True when in the inverse we can see things in a better light if that's how we take it. Another great sage and philosopher and poet, German born Friedrich Nietzsche, wrote, 'One must be a sea to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure." And The Buddha said that ships don't sink because of the water around them. Ships sink because of the water that gets in them and says don't let what's happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.

But people make not True and hard what is more True and right and easier. They make what is hard and not better and not True and not easier and not good to do the better and the Truer and easiest of all not knowing it's not but choose it instead anyway, and the easy of peace and understanding the hardest of Life and True knowing, and Truth, the greater of the false and not the Truest of Truths. They keep working on it thinking it's going to turn into something Truer or easier and better but nothing changes when change hasn't happened. This can get screwy and not helpful when you think it has and when you think, heck, I've changed this into what's good, to what's real and True, to what's perfect. But is it?

When You can't hear or see the Angels there are only Demons about and the howls and visions of The unholy and unrighteous vengeance. In our efforts to reclaim our peace or to get a handle on things and the better of our life or our day we still tend to miss the mark. Aristotle said, "It's not that we aim too high and miss but that we aim too low and hit." Often what we aim for we should be avoiding so we don't actually reachor hit it.

But sometimes you have to dip into the sinner to realize you touched the saint. To live wrongly to find what was wrong may have been right. Be the bad when you were really the good. To suffer when healing was just as strong and right and around the corner. Be the victim when you were the victor in waiting but also in the making when opposites and judgements have run out and run out of time and their time and when Truth has shone its light. As Sigmund Freud said, "from error to error, one discovers the entire Truth" But you can't know the Truth and the real Truth of your "error" if you're not honest about and don't accept what you have made yourself so you can become what you may be you are.

The True life can be said to be lived Truly and be said to have shinned in reality and to have been the reality and the best and the Truest it could have been when our more heightened awareness leads to the greatest feelings and realizations and perceptions and summons and brings out the greatest in us and the experiences to prove it. The greatest will be in the eye of the beholder and in the seer but not in the lesser nor will it be the least in the eyes of what is and the better and the Truer. Swiss pyschologist Carl Jung said, "The least of things with a meaning is worth more in Life than the greatest of things without it." You might be surprised what means the most to us but can seem small in Life but is bigger than you may think.

Peace is allowance and acceptance of what is, meaning, what has always been, or, just there. It's not settling for the absence of freedom or the just or settling for trial and suffering but the acknowledgment and acceptance of its True understanding and reason for being and knowing that all that is unreal and not at rest and not free that struggles in its unease and illusion and battle for more of the same can become something else and what was undone made whole, True, right, real, free, and restored back to itself again when we make it US and make it BE and know all is Truly well. Freud said, "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

It is knowing that True freedom and True justice and True receiving will prevail and will be lived anyway no matter resistance against it. The other option doesn't really work and just goes on and goes against this Truth and what is and what always is and what will always be. It'll take training away from yourself and where you think you are and who you think you are back to where you really are and who you really are.

It's interesting we can also use where we are as a springboard or stepping stone to better places and Truer peace and to a Truer grasp of the Truth and understanding when we know and open ourselves up to the awareness of its True purpose and real reason for being and use steeley conviction and determination to get there. There is another great quote from Marcus Aurelius who said, "The obstacle in the path becomes the path." He also said, "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." Rumi offers encouragement and insight with a profound saying and message and says, "As you start to walk on The Way The Way appears."

But when we can't seem to make any headway or progress in our dilemma or struggle we should take note from another sage writer Victor Frankle who says, "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." But this can be hard for some when they can Love their situation more if that's what they give their attention to; and so won't change if the breakup is the real loss and harm and hard change for what they need but won't give or allow themselves.

You should stop masking and side lining what works for you and letting distractions get in the way and instead get to the work that needs to be done. Just get real and don't cater to the false and illusion. That's where you are. And that's what's not working. We should be in the business of moving towards what works. Accept, but then get real. Then choose again. And then let the True work of the soul and Spirit take over and be your wings and your peace to the Truth of reality within and within all that you would allow it to be. You are the work. And you are the answer. And you are its final gift and reward.

Moderation and simplicity and patience. Even or especially in our emotions and thoughts. This is the key to all roads to well being and True and peaceful living and to what works in easier and more centered and balanced living and the higher reality of its Truth. What else could you ever need to rise above and to conquer what you're up against and to be free. I know. It can be hard but we are of tough stock and made for it and to win ourselves and our day and life back. I've personally lived a Hell of a life and made it one but always reached out for Heaven to get another step back up to where I Truly belong. The great artist and poet of music, Prince, says in a song, "It's time to reach out for something new." But sometimes you have to get to paradise through the darkness and hells you have sown so that you may shine and live greater than a thousand Suns and Heavens in you. If it wasn't for my Hells, Paradise would be too far away and hard to reach.

Simplicity really does breed the greatest Truth in word, action, and Being. It makes silence the maker and validator of great Truths and the teller of all good and worthy tales that don't suffer because of themselves, and sense, the greatest of thought and ease and understanding. The great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy said, "There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and Truth."

Life can be hard because of our clay hands and our mis creations of the unwanted but chosen, or because of the acceptance of someone's else's work. Life or existance is heavy because we put boulders on top of the feathers God gave us to carry and to walk around with. If the masses have never known the thirst for Truth and demand illusions they can't live without, as Sigmund Freud said, they'll soon have realities they can't live with and false, harsh Truths and experiences they'd gladly give away and will wish they never had them.

You also can't rush or push the solution to the problem because you slow down the Truth already ahead of it to tackle it and when the solution of the problem is already inside you, waiting, to be revealed and to help. Jesus says Life is unfolding right before you, and no where else. This is where the answers are and the real you and the Truth of anything and the real beneficial energy of Life. It gives you what you need to know because Truth and understanding is in it. Look for it, and it will be there.

But those who are beset or plagued by worries and undesirable conditions will address them in the present moment as what they have chosen them to be to cling onto and believe and focus on that can't or won't release them because they haven't released themselves and because they were made and not created until they are transformed into the clarity of the Truth of reality and True understanding and the True creations that only need to be accepted and lived in joy and the eternal and True God-given peace. Epictetus said, "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

It can't be ovelooked or denied that there are many who are addicted to talking about their problems and their "bad day." I'm not talkin about catastrophic or Truly severe or life altering events or experiences; those are a different animal and who could fault or not expect someone to voice their pain and suffering even though it would even help them to find another way to deal with their extreme and difficult situation or situations. They just need real support and compassion and understanding but that can be hard to come by, unfortunately.

But continuing to talk about the everyday usual or common things or problems we all experience can help or seem to help for a little while but, you know, can only go so far and only help so much because the True reality and Truth of it hasn't come to full awareness and hasn't hit it yet and because it keeps them going and alive and then it's hard to stop that dark train and there's no cure but to silence the drug of choice.

But I'll tella ya, there are people right now who know what a bad day is and who are just trying to make it through and to another day with some semblance of hope and faith and positive feelings and thoughts who don't have time or the energy to consider or worry about the smaller things they wish they only had to deal with. They may not even have the physical wherewithal and capability to be out there somewhere dealing or going toe-to-toe with the normal experiences and things everybody or others easily complain about in the "Life and the day" but if you can believe it probably wish they could in contrast to their situation. They just appreciate and are just happy to have gotten up and seen the Sun and to be alive that because of it the day is good hoping and positively expecting the next one will be as good and maybe even better.

They know what tough or hard or frustration is and what's not. They are also likely better at seeing those experiences in a better light and more positively because, for one, they have to, more than the others despite their situation or state and because of it. Others have much to learn from them.

It's a comfort and an easier way to go to complain and to talk about problems but it doesn't have much sustaining power or ability to heal to what's True or to tell you what's really going on, especially if it just continues. It's wasted energy if all it does is sustain and reenergize itself. A great quote I've run across is from Alexandre Dumas who said, "There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence." Leo Tolstoy says, "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."And Rumi said, "The quieter you become the more you are able to hear."

But people have just so much space for things in their minds let alone for what's True or worthy that's why they keep the least so they don't feel as alone. Most of us live in and reach for the hopeless and the casual before we have to reach for and accept the hard and the desperate only then the real and the Truth then to find peace and understanding and relief from what we have made. The highest ones, who have lived and been, are their teachers and just accept what is.

People also make darkness the answer to the illusion that it would be Truth and the light to soothe and answer all. But no light shines where the light isn't or where the Truth can't be, or can the Truth be where it's not. But if it is by the dark that the Truth is it's by the light the good or real is not. But it is only by the light that what's True and good and real and shines, is, and answers and settles all.

With insight of understanding and cause for pause you find the True nature and presence of all right things and the equalizer of the extreme and unruly passions and the balancer of the moderate and the good for the better and the greater and the brighter. Darkness, though, would not be if not for the light that made it so. And there would be no light if the light was all that you could see, and the dark, all you couldn't see. But just know the Sun in your eye is more the Truth than the cloud over your head and the dark rays in your heart. And know no day is without the warmth and clear skies to bless and comfort your soul in it.

People are also addicted to their situations as bad as they can be because of sympathies they get from them they would otherwise not have but ironicly and sadly only forstalls the peace and well being they want and just continues the pain and suffering they've been experiencing keeping them suffering and where they are, and, it's just easier to stay there which tells you the real and True work for relief and empowerment and self reliance has not yet begun. It's hard to change, for some, when for the moment you feel "Ok."

Be honset with yourself. It's a great way to find or realize your're not helping yourself as you may think you are if you don't Truly look into your situation and yourself and try to understand why it's there and what it is and why your're there with it and why it's even still there. Start with you. You'll know what it is or whatever it is if you know what you are or are not being. If your're not honest, what can you really know or really be or become. Sigmund Freud says, "Being completely honest with yourself is a good exercise." The Buddha said, "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

But what has come to teach and to help that has yet to be learned or taken advantage of is present to cause the awakening and the freeing of the mind and the soul and the slaying of the false identity that is before and in you that you have assumed and lived as real and True and your own. This is the pitfall and slippery slope of forgetting and not being who you really are. We are living in a momentus and a lively and pivotal time. It's one of change and self awakening and transformation and the renewing of the human soul on Earth and the fostering of the Spirit from Heaven. It's there for us. Let us be there for it and Life's True gift of Being.

The heroes and overcomers will be the ones who say, NO, to the least of who they are and to what they do not want to become or possess or live and, YES, to the best they are and to the best of life and to the living of that and what brings to them the greatest in happiness and peace and joy and the highest knowledge and good. Another great quote from the sage Epictetus, "Circumstances don't make the man. They only reveal him to himself" and says we can shape our destiny.

Everything is telling you something about yourself. Take note and don't miss or avoid or discount it. That's all your're really learning and understanding and discovering here. We are all champions of our own cause and can create our victories and that winning day.

To be sure you're being tested in the fire of self awakening and revelation and on your view of things and what you have internalized and believed that can only materialize what you have made. It's really not a situation or condition or anything or what have you or anything outside you that is doing it to you or is the enemy or the problem but the false to Truth within that is the illusion or the illusory and what doesn't matter in the long run or serves you've focussed on and made a part of you that says 'this is True and who I am' and that 'there is no way out and nowhere else to be and nothing else to try except to stay right here.' This is false and not the Truth by any means. If the false were True there would be nothing left to believe and nothing to not. Take Home message? Don't believe the false is True. You won't know what to do and you won't know what to believe.

If you inhale the false of the world you will exhale the Truth of its illusion and leave breathless the peace of the only reality and the good in all that's right and will always wonder what's really True and Truly real.

But if you focus half as much, or more, away from the problem than you do on or in it you could get to and see more of what's not it and less of what it is its showing you and be in a better place and see the answer if you look where you're not looking or seeing. Live your best thoughts and words, and your Life will not suffer because of them. And in every action we live in their honor may regret not be the echo we had to hear or had to say.

This is all that is happening. And this is the grand false Truth. And this is why you are not at peace or at ease. And this is why you are often not sure what to believe and are confused or just don't believe. And why you suffer. And this is wrong and not the Truth of you. It's not who you are and where you really are and shouldn't be what you want to live or want to be.

Also, making the unwanted or what is troubling you or your peace bigger than the Truth you are or the life that you really want or wish to experience makes it all the harder to be freed from it. You can't overcome what you've made bigger than you even though it's smaller but with real and big effects and seems more True unless you use it to your benefit to realize the difference and to come to better conclusions and a better understanding and the Truth of it which is its falseness and what's really at hand. If you make the small things big they can only reveal themselves as what they're not but with great adverse affects as if they were and more than they would normally or could be.

You have to give yourself a rest and from your own thoughts and let Truth take the reigns and use that energy and your energy for what actually works and release everything else that binds you and denies your peace and sense of well being to get the job done and to take you to where you're not going and want to go; and take control of it and let go of everything else that gets in the way. This you have control over and should use it. The great philosophers like Marcus Aurelius talk about Control and not being concerned with and letting go of what we can't.

Control where you are putting your energy and use moderation and your higher sense to put it where it should be and spare your energy not on what's not working and not doing any or much good for you. Don't waste your energy on things that you can't control (and that's always outside you unless you've brought it in) but do use it on what you can and that always resides in and from you. Epictetus said, "Make the best use of what you can help, and take the rest as it happens."A wise Viking saying goes, "The unwise Man is awake all night, and ponders Everything over; when morning comes he is weary in mind, and all is as burdensome as ever." Marcus Aurelius says, "Limit your actions to what is Truly necessary, and you will have more time and peace."

It can be a slippery slope and not a good one and not good at at all if you don't take advantage of what can really help you and use the illusion to make knowing what's real its real purpose or better to not make anything at all or more of what is hard to unmake or undo that's not Truth but hurts the most and seems the most real. Don't give in to making it True and make more of what you do not want.

The lessons of reality and to True creation can't be learned outside of the willingness of the learner to be enlightened or at least informed beyond what they know or care to believe; to be engaged with reality or changed from within by what has caused or brought the lesson to be learned or the change, as you won't know that it's a lesson or change and that it has value and benefit if you just suffer in it and never go past or look beyond it. Epictetus said, It's impossible for someone to learn what he thinks he already knows."

You can't have the clarity of higher perception and informed understanding and the freedom to live freely and to reach more positive hindsights beyond what is familiar and easier to keep that can have great adverse effects but can retain some attraction or appeal but no releasing qualities or real ability to enlighten or heal and when this is all you offer it and yourself. What we internalize we familiarize and then materialize for our growth or our destruction. We need to customize our sincere and heartfelt desires to what works. Carl Jung said, "Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; Who looks inside, awakes." The heart is the center Truly being alive and thriving.

All suffering and peace are informants and a question. Listening and answering is the Master of their fulfillment of their Heaven or their Hell. But as Einstein says when the answer is simple God is answering, and you know where he is.

Everything in Life is a question: will I judge myself, or another. Will I choose freedom, or bondage. Peace, or dis ease. Will I honor True Being or place the false or false identity at the head of the table of the True and True Being and myself closer at hand to it. Every answer answers itself and is by will and will answer the Truth beyond all others without question and will settle every soul with it and in honor honor their God within them and the light of all Being and the cup of its rememberance and the depth of the all of its understanding.

You have to figure yourself out before you can figure things, otherwise you'll know more about something than you will about yourself and less about what it actually is; and others may be a moment of solace or two for you and a light or some insight back onto you but they're not the answer or the light or insight FOR you. Although problems only really exist in the past, or the future. But the past is gone and the future hasn't happened yet. They can't be in the present moment because every moment is new unless you bring them to it. Then you've created a false reality that isn't there. By the way thats's what drugs do. And you feel and experience all the negative and sad and dark emotions and anxieties because you have connected with and have realized what you have neglected which is the Truth then the Truth can only hurt it.

Live in the present moment and connect with your experience but leave out the old and the false and what hasn't happened yet to be more in control of what your NEW and better and Truer moment may and can be. It's Ok to be all over the place and in every which way but loose in your situation or on your journey to finding or to being aware of your Truth and the life you really want to live. A beautiful and very wise and profound quote from Friedrich Nietzsche says, "One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

Problems only exist because we believe there is something to solve. The Buddha said, "You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution." He also says, "All conditions are impermanent. Work diligently for your own salvation." The Buddha says we are the authors of our own health or disease.

There are no two ways to be free from what troubles you and from the judgements of everyday life except to leave behind what they have been and what they have caused but you have to understand first what they are to really be able to handle and get rid of them. It makes you know what tools to use and what ones can't get the job done and what would never work. Something to keep in mind is what the ancient sage Confucius said, "He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem" But people go 3 ways South when they're headed 1 way North and get turned around only to start back where they were they're not and so nowhere but where they have taken themselves.

But sometimes you have to go to your lowest point to reach your highest place as Friedrich Nietzsche says, "You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes." Then as Roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius says, "Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

You can be blind to the unreal and still see the Truth in it or believe it's there, and believe the Truth is where it is not but still be blind to it and see the false with the clarity and reality that only belongs to it. We need to be perpetuators of Truth and its reality and the peace and understanding that goes along with it in a world lacking it and the awareness of where it came from and the potential of its highest good which is to rise back up to God.

Your teacher is not the one who says what you need to know, is. Your teacher is one that makes what you need to know the greatest question you will have and the reason you will answer it with more insight and understanding. Troubles are a sign you have made the answerer not the bringer of the question or the solver of the problem but the one who questions, but never knows. But questions are good and the answerer always knows and knowing what you need to know is how you know you have mastered the question and mastered and know the final cause for the answer and who brings it, and, what is not it. When you question more than you doubt you'll stop questioning and doubt less and begin to know and believe and understand. How is it though that the right answer is not as important, as we're told, as the right question. Because without the right question there is no right answer.

Taking action, too, is also the way and the call to rise above and to conqure the false and the illusions of life and the world we hold and carry within. Training validates the soul and its discipline in the body is confirmation of the Spirit and confirmation to the soul that all is well at hand and whatever may come it is more than enough and that by this work is rest its gift and confidence and assurance and strength and recovery its reward. The Buddha said,

"Your body is precious, it is your vehicle for awakening.

Treat it with care."

Empowerment and taking action over your own Life will free you not masking over or avoiding the existence of the dilemma or the hard time trying to make happy what's in terrible sadness but validating and honoring the strength and Truth within to overcome and to get a better handle on what's before you if only for a new perspective on it or a new idea or feeling to open the gates to higher Truths, better feelings, and higher and better experiences beyond. Building a routine of Truth and wellness for your peace is how you make things really happen for you and not just what happens and doesn't really go anywhere or do much for you.

But to be freed you have to get real and Truly connect with whatever it is you've made into something and feel the rawness and reality of its real pain and affect but also know the better and happier is just down the road where you really are. I've done this. And it works. It's not to make you feel bad or hurt but to inform and to help. Then say, no, or no more, to what's happening or to what has bound you and to how it's making you feel and be. It's not of you and you're not of it and accept no more what's robbing you of your joy and happiness and True life and do what you have to to get there...What you have to.

If the lessons aren't learned the cycle continues and we continue the endless cycle of not remembering what we're supposed to understand and learn and keep forgetting it and the Truth of us and keep letting our misguided or misconstrued lives and thinking and the world be our savior from them and our only understandings and Truths and realities. Difficulties and struggles can only then result and can be significantly harsh and called the future of regret; and misunderstandings and guilt of the past in the present. The Danish philosopher and poet, Soren Kierkegaard, said and wrote, "The unhappy person is never present to themselves because They always live in the past or the future."

But guilt and regret are never the good emotions or feelings in the present moment or anytime. Only understanding and compassion anchored to True knowledge, always, is the key to be released from them and can be your release and can be conquered by acknowledging only their false and insane and non-life-bearing and non-life-forgiving and non-life-fulfilling ways. What more do we need to know or know what to do with them and to save ourselves and be our own way out of the insane?

In The Conversations with God series God says all of life is a choice between Heaven or Hell. Only one choice though there are two. Though only one True choice Truly exists which is marked by its freedom to choose it. But the other is often what is chosen not knowing it is as easy or easier choosing the right one because that's the one we really want and because we don't easily choose against ourselves and because the right one chooses us if we let it. But we can make a Hell of Heaven, but also a Heaven out of Hell.

The fact that this is possible means and tells you that only one is True and can be our choice. You got to look at kids. You got to look at kids. If you notice they're not starring off in the distance and suffering their lives or wondering what may come or if it's all going Ok or will it be Ok or thinking it's not and what may be around the corner to prove it. They're off in Disneyland skipping and frolicking giddy and as happy as a lark or Mickey or Minnie and as happy as God and as they can be and having a good ol' time where they have chosen to be and are. They're living in the moment; their moment; and it IS Disneyland.

As in the Eagles song Hotel California and in its lyrics: It says,

"This could be Heaven, or this could be Hell"

"A dance to remember, a dance to forget"

But if there is damnation of the Truth by the Truth it's by the false that bears its name; to call it another is to damn it surely. If there is to be Salvation let knowledge lead the way and let peace and innocence and awareness be its sign; and understanding and its purer waters be its saving grace; and let The True Heaven remain its only call and real name.

No matter our circumstances or personal dilemmas or trials we are never where we would not have us be or where we cannot be, or are we where we are we can't choose not to be. We are not incapable of taking advantage of what Truth has to offer or of what is aware of us that wants to help us on our journey of awareness and Truth consciousness where in openness and acceptance our eyes are filled with and find what they can Truly see, our ears hear what is beneficial to receive, and our thoughts come into aggreement to agree with and to believe in what we would do better to understand and to really know and believe.

The great 13th century Persian poet Rumi says,

"What you seek is seeking you."

Our eternal and Living Truth can lighten and light the dimly lit corners of our minds and our lives and collectively the world itself and light our way when darker days and less positive or uplifting thinking seem more prevalent and more consistent and as strong as our denial of what is calling us from within to change the dynamic and the score and the scenery and to free us from the hold and bondage by the outer world but knowing it has knowledge and insight that for us it means the most and should bring us there to manifest as God through us so we can know and experience and believe in what is possible despite us and despite the illusion. Sometimes you have to let go of the world, so the world can let go of you.

It serves and it is good to normalize the extreme until you can know the balance of your experience and the validity of the moderate and the eased and relaxed association of expectation, as I have learned moderation is the economy of God. Moderation is the sanity of the excessive and nothing you really have to wait for to bring you all you need you already have and that is already there and more.

Extremes are the excesses of the common man and don't really work for him or for anything if they're not brought back to center or to stable ground. Realize this and find the Truth and your Truth and your higher understanding in all that is or that would or could be and the living of its balance and ease and its greater Truth. If you don't use moderation in the extremes and highs of living, the joys and better emotions will be shorter lived and harder to come by for the fall from the edges of compromise and the fleeting to the bottom of the staid and common living.

We can though make ourselves crazy because of overcomplicating our minds with simple things like choosing better and lighter. It's not hard to be sane in life when you realize or find it just makes more sense and just feels better and doesn't have suffering as its backdrop or cornerstone or a spiral back down into darkness. But crazy is not always bad and can bring you to sanity because it's so crazy and unbelievable and causes us to pivot away from it and because of its obsurdedy bringing to light there has to be something better and Truer and clearer to light our way and a better way and path and something more at peace.

Sanity though is just the normalization of insanity, otherwise how could you know which one is Truly yours and Truly sane and which is which and which was created from the extremes of its middle truth and higher rationale and more balanced mind.

How is experience then the key to belief and our Truth but not always to True or complete knowledge and understanding and not always to The Truth? Because True knowledge bypasses what we believe and know which is imperfect and can be almost anything even though also the Truth. Jesus says experience is not Truth because that can be anything and can be as varied and as many as there are those who see its Truth or their Truths differently. But through experience it can act as a demonstration and a gateway to the greater knowing and proof of its clarity and purer object of its discernment creating the good, the blessed, the less hard and painful, and the Truer. This is how you know you know and how you feel sure and good about it.

This is based on the best of emotion and feeling and on revelation and awareness as a way to cause belief to align with what is beyond it and with what is True and with the better and with what's better to know but also choosing from all considerations possible instead of obscuring and diminishing the grand picture but also capturing what we can only really and truly live and really choose and see if we are to be set free and made better by it.

Resistance to the natural stream and the hard flow and the arduous only produces natural tendencies but unnatural realities and not our higher tendencies and reality which is to bring light to the darkness, and Truth and understanding and the better stream to the false and to the illusion of conflict and the hard. Its false fight you need only to accept to release and then allow unease and the rough waters of the unreal to be where you no longer have to be to win in the real struggle and battle for the higher Truths and better realities.

Phantoms of Truth don't have to be the dominant force and presence and reality and the force to overcome and their judgements and misunderstandings the mountains to climb or that bring you down or mountains to bring down and, the hard way to go. Marcus Aurelius talks about "Deliberate disengagement" and about "Acceptance of impermanence." Nothing lasts forever, and our acceptance of what no longer has to be and what will not always remain we let go of is how we make this become reality and the Truth we've been waiting and reaching for to call our own.

What we believe and what we think is True and good can be what is True and/or good, as Truth or the good is only what you say it is until you know it is and when you know it is know it's all there is. But "The Good" and "The True" can also be "The False" and untrue if what is believed True, or good, is actually the false and the least and the worse in disguise if what results from them shows it and if it doesn't enhance or offer life to itself or to self or you or others and if all it does is take away and not give the good back in return and if it's not the real deal and what you actually want.

All that's left is something you thought was good but is only really the dark and the sad and the harmful and hurtful masquerading as Sunshine and happiness and peace with nothing worth having on the vine of well-being and True healing when it's not there but seeming as real and as there as it can't be. Life can be lived falsely if one leans towards or chooses it and so in false ways until Truth is allowed to bring its offerrings of the life and to the life that would bear its name.

But if you end up stepping over or going past or ghosting the Truth the false will remain and will reclaim and posses what it had and was giving then the Truth can't reclaim and liberate you or conditions from the apparitions and shadows of the unreal back to True life and happier and easier living and better awareness of it.

Truly knowing what's True, and really believing what can be better believed and considered more True, are their own reward and the ultimate and highest of all understanding and reality and the very definition and the epitome of "The Good." With it you can slay and make out what is illusion and what is not, especially if the dark or the negative is all it has to show for and is the reason to keep what is good to feel and to know but absent what can't be lived Truly, believed and lived mercifully, and understood completely. I've suffered in not making out or differentiating the differences of my own but of my own doing, which has been plenty of motivation not to repeat it.

But Illusion and Truth, the good and the bad, can spill over into the other easily and can seem different things in realation to their extremes but chosen as the same even though there is not awareness of it even though the effects show something wasn't chosen right or didn't give what we wanted or that maybe something went wrong as you can believe and make True what can't be True or just isn't and think what isn't good is not because of your choosing but because the thing is not what you thought it was supposed to be. Can they be one and reconciled as the same thing and one of the other? It depends on what you believe and decide to know and what you may misunderstand.

Something may seem wrong or not quite right making you feel as if you're going in the wrong direction as something else can seem like you're headed in the right direction but definitely aren't. Just check what rings the greatest Truth in you and check your feelings about it. If It's geared towards the higher plane and better feelings of what's right, Then it is likely to be so.

The fastest way to know, and the closest thing to being right about anything, is to ask yourself what most feels right, or, what feels the most arduous way to being right or to feeling and being better, or makes it feel like the long way around to actually being it. What takes you to the heart of the matter and to the heart, mind, and to the True power and benefit of life and to the God who has bestowed it to you. If it's none of these, or hardly, how could you choose it and feel it's right on and your True Heaven on earth. But it doesn't have to be that hard to dicern the Truth. But as always the Truth is always within.

Most of what we think is real is 90 percent false or at least close to it. The other10 is either confusion or the Truth. The interesting thing is we decide which one they are and which one we place or assume any percentage on, and we'd be completely and exactly and 100 percent right but closer to the Truth if it was the greater of the good and the greater of that better life and the cause and reason for its happiness. But Truth is ALWAYS 100 percent True and real and you can count on it.

The True seeker doesn't mind the hard work to get to the greater of Truth and to the better of who they are, but knows ease is the True calling and wisdom of her creative Spirit in the workings of what doesn't tire or falter. Pick which lane that can best get you there and see yourself where your Spirit and your God would see you and have you be---with the Truth and very presence and essence of the free flowing you.

To overcome the dark and illusion is to step into the living reality of Truth and peace and not its endless abyss of restless sleep and visions that don't soothe and gladen and that make real what is untrue. This will be the fulfillment and satisfaction of all those who come to drink of its holy waters of Truth and who rest in its divine knowledge and peace and blessed and holy and eternal promise and way if chosen to be the still river and shinning hill within them.

By divine order and by human and divine right and consideration the jagged edges will serve to reveal and to remind of a diamond to be made in the fire of a perfect Love and a True union of Truth where in innocence and through honor and conviction will sit at the right hand of the one and True God. Then let it be said your faith has saved you and your belief healed you. And let it be known in God's eyes you were already saved and whole and, in his arms, so dearly Loved. Then the dream will become real and life will be everything and more than you ever imagined or dreamed it could ever be.

Everything always just boils down to us. But this is a good thing and good to know and good news. Again, from the poets of music The Eagles rock group in their song Hotel California has lyrics that say,

THE EAGLES

"We're just prisoners here of our own device."

I like these lyrics because they are largely True in the sense that if it's because of something or someone else that we feel chained or controlled or impeded or out of sorts or out of control, this kind of profound Truth can unlock our chains and shackles and release us at will from believing other causes for our situation or for where we find ourselves and what we're stuggling against then not leaving us still bound in them or to them and not better than we could be having assumed a role that doesn't suit us and that leaves us less than we really are.

We wouldn't otherwise be the ones with something to learn from it for our purposes being of our own making and be freed by it. Life is about choices, not judgement, and that includes us. That's because Truth and understanding is in everything uncompromised and unaffected by anything that attempts to assume what it is with no power of its own being a phantom power even though it doesn't always appear to be that way and even though it's in what it doesn't appear to be in or what doesn't appear to be itself at all.

But we can choose the better of us and the better of our lives, always, and that's the greatest choice and purpose fulfilled and the greatest creation we could make of it and what we could understand from them.

I think noticing this is being sincere and heading in the right direction, because sincerity is the presence and the height of real Truth and honesty and the way of innocence and the path of the Truth seeker and the freedom maker. But if you don't notice or aren't aware of it you can't see it and you won't have it even though you are Truth and can see it and can easily reach out and grab it.

Other lyrics in the song I also like:

Last thing I remember, I was

Running for the door

I had to find the passage back

To the place I was before

"Relax", said the night man,

"We are programmed to receive.

You can check-out any time you like,

But you can never leave!"

I believe these lyrics are what I'm talking about in this blog and what really, it's all about.

The key to knowledge is the key to the acceptance of Truth and reality as they are, or as it is and can only be and can't be. It isn't the inversion or the reinvention of what they can never be, because even though they can't be you can feel the effects of what's not really possible in you but carrying the suffering that comes with denying the only real thing there is and the only thing you can hope to have to get you out of every false, living nightmare and struggle.

The question is then can you keep making to endure or keep making constant or True what doesn't endure or last or what isn't True and what is not the incarnation and the True, eternal presence of the lasting? Yes. You actually can. Until you realize you can't. And then you do it all over again. This reminds me of a Kelly Clarkson song, "A moment Like This."

Her lyrics:

"Everything changes but Beauty remains"

Everything changes but Beauty remains, because only the essence and very Being and presence of God and the Truth of real living doesn't change in all that is but grows bigger and brighter and greater and stronger and more like himself and itself and that's all of us as we are children and the likeness of God and all we need to know and so in our purest and truest form remain as he. And this IS Beautiful.

The Chinese philosopher Confucius sums up this idea and statement perfectly when he said:

"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."

The changing or morphing is the constancy of Truth in disguise. The changing is really the evolving back to itself made better and Truer by experience and the willingness to be aware and open to the innocence of its expression and undertaking. Notice a child or just children anywhere doing anything and just being themselves and you have a front row seat to and a picture of the changelessness and the best of God.

They are the constancy of change showing that the real constant is the light and flouncy, the innocent and unbridled, the rebounding and free, the eternal and pure, and the good. They're our best examples that we don't have to change on our way to it or our way of it and that we are what they are and that showing us they will, and we can, continue to be it, together.

Children frolic and flounce and skip along merrily like every corner or patch of the world they walk on is a prance and dance in Disneyland to the greatest ride and experience of their life. They don't know any better because they are the better and at least have forgotten the worse. They bounce back from anything and never long leave their joy and their happy face and their freedom and their ways of God and don't really change who they are because they can't. And thank God they can't. And thank God we can't if we believed it and if we allowed ourselves to live and see it.

This is why Jesus said,

"If you don't become as little children, you cannot enter The Kingdom Of Heaven."

Their innocence and their lightness is their Kingdom, and, The Kingdom. And so maybe it's we who have known too much or remembered too little and have forgotten more than we should have and our innocence and our lighter and joyous steps. But we can come back to it when we take a leave of absence from ourselves so that we can remember and know and experience and feel it again in our lives and maybe, just maybe, someone will say, "Boy. You see them? They look like they're floating. Like nothing is waying them down. They even look like ---Children."

Can you remember a time when you were like this? Innocence and Truth were at their heights and so was happiness and ease of Being. This was before what was whole and unfractured and unseparated turned away from its remembrance of itself and before defenses against it were further weakened by life or by perceptions of it. Someone may wonder as long as it keeps changing to the changeless can it still be considered or said to be True or unchanged if the changing is the constant and never not changing?

Well, the Truth is the True change factor and is always unchanged. But everything changes on the way to remembering its beauty and its truest and highest state made real by its constant nature whole, unchanged, ever present, and True. This is its only True nature and its flowering Splendor and beauty and its True Being of the good that is in everything any way we can choose or find it to be. It's in us, for we are change for the better.

This is as far away as our recognition and our welcoming of it but closer than we think and more freeing than what we call liberation or our liberators or real life. Take a moment to reach for and connect with what doesn't change of your own True essence and deeper understandings to be liberated from the trials and dilemmas of your own mind and the perils of our common denials and of our repetitive and unchanging world.

More words from the poets of music. The Swedish pop group Ace of Base have words in their song, The Sign, which I really like.

It goes:

"Life is demanding without understanding."

The song also says,

I, got a new life

You would hardly recognize me

I'm so glad

How can a person like me care for you?

(Ah) Why do I bother

When you're not the one for me

is enough enough?

Under the pale moon

For so many years I've wondered who you are

How could a person like you bring me joy?

Under the pale moon

Where I see a lot of stars

is enough enough?

I saw the sign and it opened up my eyes

I saw the sign

No one's gonna drag you up

To get into the light where you belong

But where do you belong?

Understanding is the cause of peace. Because with understanding comes peace, because peace is understanding. It's demanding because misunderstanding is a lot of work and doesn't bring peace. But this is more than just about positive thinking or encouraging or helpful advice or ignoring the negative or discounting the world around us or our lesser selves. It's about divine connection and awakening and True communication and True understanding.

It is realizing that we can even use the negative and the world we live in and think we see and even who we think we are as stepping stones or as signposts to the better and to more Heavenly places within and without and to the real Truth of any world. The band Crowded House in their song "Don't Dream It's Over" have lyrics in their song I find interesting and poignant.

They say,

There is freedom within, there is freedom without

Try to catch a deluge in a paper cup

There's a battle ahead, many battles are lost

But you'll never see the end of the road

While you're traveling with me

Hey now, hey now, don't dream it's over

Hey now, hey now, when the world comes in

They come, they come to build a wall between us

We know they won't win

Patience and faith for the good and the liberating is everything and are the keys to it all. Sometimes you have to hurry up and wait for something that may be slow but sure. And if it's sure it's already there and waiting for you. But should we just be positive at all costs. In other words, are we to just be or stay positive and discount completely or not acknowledge the negative or the dark in whatever form it comes or may be in even if it may have the potential or ability to be transformed into something greater and Truer than itself if that would be us, too?

If we can look at it in a different way, especially if we have already made it real and something hard to look past but even harder to step over or walk through, is this positive? I can tell you the negative, or the dark, can be our liberators and just what we need and something positive to take advantage of if we realize nothing came into existence that was not intended for our return to Truth and for our liberation even despite it.

The real cost or struggle or sticking point is trying to receive or extract the positive from the negative and not reclaim the Truth in the negative. You might think this is just semantics or just a clever play with words and not actually the Truth or how it goes, but there is a difference. And it's the biggest difference.

You can't take something and make or turn it into something else or what you prefer and into what it actually is unless you understand it and use its presence and real purpose to recreate and release it into what it can be and what it is in ultimate reality. When you see what you've recreated you can then see and know the difference of the creations and the real choices that were present and may need to choose again and will have the better half of discernment.

There is Truth in the negative. It's what you learn from it and what you can really see in it. This is as the Truth itself not as the Illusion of the Truth. When we learn from the negative isn't that positive if it results in the positive and if it results in reality or in what's more real and less of what keeps it false and so revealing the Truth? Isn't this always choice even though we may delay its realization and our return to it through the process that will eventually bring us to it and itself through us?

If our story is not taking us to Disneyland more than or at least as much as it doesn’t maybe we should tell a different tale and believe in a different place so we don't go on every ride away from it instead of to the only real place that matters and where dreams do really come True.

I remember a nurse once telling me that in her workday every step she took and every minute she worked on the clock and every dollar made with each step she took was one step and a moment closer to another trip to Disneyland for her and her family. What an honest thing to say and admit and what a statement and what a comment to share but also how Sweet and Special.

But it makes sense. Who wouldn't want to work for that! And what a Beautiful and great life that is or would be and poetic in a way. You can sure count me in! That has to be some kind of workday and has to be Disneyland, every day! It made me start thinking; aren't we all really just working for Disneyland?

Weakened faith, along with thinking through the lenses of the dark, and separation and Self judgement and judgement against life itself, are often why we suffer or why we aren't where we want to be or why we feel other than what we want to feel. This can make us feel stuck in our pain or our problems not realizing to turn it around is to turn ourselves around away from it but then turning back to or towards the reality of our Truth and to the reality of everything we came here to remember and know it as it is. What we live is common to us all that's why we can heal each other by the same means and by these same Truths.

The iconic TV show Cheers in their theme song couldn't put it any better.

Making your way in the world today

Takes everything you got

Taking a break from all your worries

Sure would help a lot

Wouldn't you like to get away?

All those nights when you've got no lights

The check is in the mail

And your little angel

Hung the cat up by its tail

And your third fiancé didn't show

Sometimes you want to go

Where everybody knows your name

And they're always glad you came

You want to be where you can see (ah-ah)

Our troubles are all the same (ah-ah)

You want to be where everybody knows your name

Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's dead

The morning's looking bright (the morning's looking bright)

And your shrink ran off to Europe

And didn't even write

And your husband wants to be a girl

Be glad there's one place in the world

Where everybody knows your...

It's not really about what you did to the finish line and what came before or what you considered and what you failed to. And to you it seemed you were at the start of the race and could not believe what was in front of you and didn't know if you could finish and did not know if you could even begin or make it through.

But when you had more to go and more to show, and you knew you had no more to give or to show, you got on your hands and knees and took yourself there and gave more than you ever had and more than you thought you could give or could have imagined and more than you ever gave or were given when it mattered the most. And when it was done you went back Home tired, but relieved, and THE BEST you have ever been and hugged, "The Ones."

It happened to me

I got back up

AND I CAME BACK HOME!

Welcome to The turnaround which is really the next step forward to the next destination. It can also be where we really want to go and where we're headed anyway, and our next stop.

Jesus says,

"You go forward by taking a step back."

He also said,

"And so have you discovered the beginning that you look for the end, for where the beginning is there the end will be. Blessed is he who takes his place at the beginning, he'll know the end, and not experience death."

So, there's only one place to go...

One thing to do...

And only one thing to be and believe...

Until then...

SO,

LET'S,

GO FOR IT!

BELIEVE IN THE FIGHTER AND HERO IN YOU

I DO!