Complaining is unoriginal. Acceptance on the other hand, activates all that is unique about you. Engage the full power of your positivity. Indulge yourself for a moment and judge things in terms of what they offer your heart. Weigh each by its measure of tenderness toward you. Shift your perspective as this moment blooms. By letting your mind visit new points of view, you give your heart more reasons to expand. You heal yourself by creating the tranquility you require, so distance yourself from people who try to define and decide serenity for you. You are the busy bee, you are the lovely flower, you are the sweet honey; embrace that you are the seeker, the journey, and the destination. Have the courage to leave some of the questions unanswered and trust that you know the way. All you need to do is to decide to stop waiting. Opinions, recommendations, and advice are noisy art critics. Quietly marvel at what others will only realize as a masterpiece later: You. Be experimental. Serendipity rewards this. You will meet key people in uncanny ways. Break your patterns. Disrupt your routines. Where these circumstances may not serve you, your attitude most certainly will. Let nothing shock or trigger you. Choose your responses. Nothing is ever lost. All that you treasured in others is now a deeper part of you. Let the sadness pass, but invite appreciation to stay. You have toyed with acting small, but you are vast — timeless, endless, boundless, light beyond life. Remember that you came here to shine. As you quiet down, you will find that what you thought was you was merely what the real you has been allowing to flow through its vastness. If it comes to a choice between determination or tenderness, always choose tenderness. Over time, few people remember to remain tender. If you can rush and breathe evenly, then rush. Otherwise, breathe evenly and go gradually and save that rushing for later when it might help. When your focus is right here, there are no problems, only features. When you expand your awareness to all that is here, all is well. To the smallest of things, give the greatest of care. As you do this, you will come to see that there really are no 'big' things to take care of. The little details are an opportunity to radiate lightness. As you move through them with a gentle grace, you will shed the weight of duty. As easily as this moment passes, so the next is free of obligation. There are no requirements and nothing owed for you to be who you are. When you get blown off course, steer gently and faithfully back. One small change here restores your journey's momentum and direction. If it looks like chaos up ahead, blink away that mirage and behold this precise moment. Being here now means there are options and hope. Tend to the tasks of the day as exercises, not details. Do them as a practice. Rise above what you feel. Deactivate your reaction triggers. This is you, as accepting as this, as serene as this. As easy as it is to see the stillness somewhere in you, so you can let it consume you here, now. Do not defend 'who you are.' After all, that is technically 'who you were.' The fluid essence of your being is uninterested in wearing any label. Let every thread of the past fall from you like a worn-out, wrong-size outfit that has gone out of style. The being you wear is custom tailored. Expectations, progress, and milestones are the weeds that crowd and tangle your flowering presence, awareness, and calm. Uproot them. No more movement. Trust the stillness within you to handle everything. Fully inhabit this space, leaving exertion and overextension behind. Even precious memories go bland. Appreciate the fresh herbs life offers you to cook with. Slice up your day into bite-sized moments. If it is so important to be learning from your experiences, then experience yourself from now on. See things from inside the seer in you. Choose your food consciously — nourishment beyond nutrients, vitality past vitamins, and sustenance that surpasses mere substance. You have sacrificed before. So now, sacrifice the seriousness, the intensity, and the stories. Be open to receive the gifts of levity and lightness. Visualizing has its uses. Imagining you are now freed of the need for visualization itself, what do you see? Return here and work from here. Allow the negativity to pass through you without limiting or delaying it as it travels along. Refuse to judge it, and it will leave. The nature of appetite is that you are separate from what you crave. Experience appetite's emptiness. Taste this perfection of waiting. Forgiving converts all negativity everywhere into transformative energy. Discover for yourself how mistakes fit within perfection. Listen to your appetite until it starts to repeat itself. There is no harm in hearing things again, only in assuming their continuing usefulness. Leave your coverings and masks behind and share yourself without apology. It is time for those who prefer to focus on the exterior to go. It is not a question of which direction is more challenging, but of which leads you here, back to centered patience. Thus, the answer is either. Make contact. Meet. Visit. Embrace. Gaze. Sit. Chat. Stroll. Linger. Laugh. Remember that this is an enormous celebration of everyone's lives. As often as your body flushes and purges, your mind is reminded and invited to do the same. All you take in is useful, but only for so long. Be rid of what has lost meaning for you, and allow it to be gone. Living is a shedding process. Peel back today's layers of passing thoughts. Let these situations remind you that whatever tightness exists may also go. You must remain light and open in order to adapt and overcome. Memorization is a misuse of your mind. The best use of that busy brain is to make many observations but few decisions as you go about. It is time for you to be free of heaviness. Be respectful, forgiving, and light with yourself, and then extend this same treatment to others. Your body stores memories like food, in many places. Find them. Flush them. Cleanse yourself of all that can hide and hold what is not fresh. Experiences are dusty mirrors, too difficult to see yourself in, so stop looking for reflections. Close your eyes and see yourself, true and clear. As far as your ability to be here, what 'happens' has nothing to do with what is. Locate your thoughts and senses, but now find yourself. See what is in your heart. Now accept what is in your heart. Now be what is in your heart. This being makes your days vivid and precious to all. Take firm, gradual, and even steps when you do, and remember to rub those feet, too. 'Step by step' means to give each one its own time. Your brain wanders farther than your feet and yet your feet know when to stop when they are tired. Shut off your senses for awhile and rest it. What others see of you might as well be a lifetime ago. You are pure potential right now. Even once you do act, you are still ever new. You are as vast as all you can conceive and as lovely as you have ever found loveliness in others. Treasure and care for this gift you have. You are as great as your capacity to appreciate and as small as your ability to judge. Over time let there be fewer words and more compassion. Needing strength is a story. Lacking anything is a fiction. You are the author of perfection. Once you decide so, the world is remade to suit you. Decisions are vibrations that, like a catchy tune, attract listeners who might hum along. So be aware of the sort of fans your music will draw. What you take in with each breath does not have to be the same as what you let out. The full release may be waiting for when you sleep. Breathing is the perfect practice for the fluid and cyclical solution you need now: no sooner will you have it than you will begin to let it go. Bow to your experience for what it has taught. Now laugh at it for just as long and do today clearly and lightly. Flow through the clamor. Unburden your shoulders. Let them bear no weight but that of a clear, contented mind. The balance between them is the balance in you. The 'death' of a person, relationship, or venture is pure transformative energy. Yield to grief that yields to acceptance that finds celebration. Doubt is as tempting, sticky, and addictive as any other form of belief. Lose interest in the idea-chase and establish your calm awareness. You get what you get when you get it. You'll know what you know when you know it. You will find that this delay is actually a good thing. Whatever remains quiet in all this commotion may be conserving breath because it has a lot to say to you. Hush everyone and give it the time. When you need a teacher, you will have many, but this does not mean you are a 'student' — you simply enjoy these packaged reminders. You speak things into existence. So use kind, caring, confident words to manifest peaceful momentum. Otherwise, be quiet until you can. Embrace gratitude so that whether you seek comfort or connection, you will have plenty. Give thanks to everything presented to you. Sense that uncomfortable is just a feeling and that wisdom is just a word. Wake the presence within you that surpasses present conditions. Success is relative. Understanding where things fit for tomorrow is not for today. Enjoy all of this. Live in a way that lets things fall into place. Expectation can ransom your joy. Be mindful about letting expectation hijack your day. Find liberty in uncertainty, perfection in presence. Close that book of tales of intrigue and woe, whose villains, plots, and pains are created using a language your soul no longer speaks. Your mind's job is to fish for reasons. But most of the things it reels in are either too big or too small. Your heart is a sea with all your answers. Holding plans in one hand and love in the other, you will soon need two hands for one. Put plans down and lift love with both hands. You are so very interesting; and beyond all these 'features,' you are still endlessly more. You come from beauty. You create beauty. When it is time to make a choice, remain a witness to who in you is choosing. If there is an urge to choose quickly, wait. Choose smoothly. Love all of this preparation. It is here that you cultivate the essence that inspires others. How you do what you do is your connective power. Be strong and flexible. Develop strength that is flexible and flexibility that is strong. Practice this in body, mind, and spirit — gentle certainty. There is a frontier to explore today. It lies between your peace and your discomfort. Onward into your own unknown features. There is enough good and bad news to distract you for a lifetime. The point is awareness, not news. Remain aware that you are what is real. Rushing is something you pretend to do, but you are already here. If there is indeed a place you must get to as quickly as you can, it is here. If it is not positive, it does not belong in your world. See it as it is, and no worse than it is. Be uplifted by its potential or use it to move on. There is richness in listening, so listen to the talkers; be the silence that contains them. Hear all they say; hear all you refrain from saying. Stories are a spillage of crumbs that starving ones scrape together to make a meal. Not one story will fill you for very long. Love is the feast. Unite your energy with things that generate more light — light that keeps spreading and brightening. Leave nowhere within you unlit. They say that appearances may deceive, but perfecting your presentation will turn your vision into reality. Bring forth what you see. Every weakness born has an identical twin that is an opportunity. Everything that comes to you is beautiful if you will see all that it connects to. Spend real time with people. Scheduling time is not the same as spending time when it is time. Let your appointments slip. Stay awhile longer. You are wanted and needed there, but such flattery distracts you from the truth of your purpose here. They can go on without you. Frustration is natural. Retaining it is artificial. Accept and release all things, impatient youth, because you are still younger than you will be. Regardless of what yesterday's version of you needed, this is the perfect invitation to become comfortable redefining what comforts you. Complaining feels creative, but being a serene witness channels true creativity. These events happening around you are the best that can be. Choose neither. Nothing that has an opposite is as real as You. Reject talk that makes divisions of types and levels when there is only oneness. So cast off from your dock into the vast ocean before you. Sail where there's wind, keep your bearings, and don't be afraid to change course. You are 'having' these experiences; a thing you 'have' cannot also be the thing you 'are.' Define yourself without inviting experiences to help. Help them without thinking of yourself as 'The Helper.' Change will manage itself. Follow your inclination to get involved and show devotion. Celebrate the fact that everything is temporary. Let it be this for awhile, and that for awhile. Choose to emerge from these changes reborn. Though your efforts may meet with praise, detach from concern and peacefully flow. It only matters that you harmonize with yourself. From the position of love, you can say almost anything, because the words you use only gift- wrap the heart-felt meaning rolled inside them. Make a new set of rituals — ones that support your finest expression. There should be a ritual for every aspect of what you want to sustain. Both apathy and habit generate a lot of inner chatter — excuses, fictions, and gossip. Quiet this noise and there will be no resistance in you. Your day is a little hourglass: each grain of sand in it measures a moment to love. Smile, make eye contact, touch, embrace, compliment, give. Are you sure? Do you need to be sure? Will you remain sure? Perhaps it is time for certainty to become an instinct and cease being a search. Your mind will come up with more you could say, but hire your heart as your speechwriter. Always speak with more compassion than wit. Build a bridge if you truly must cross right now. Otherwise, marvel at the void. Stand at the edge and applaud the convincing illusion of distance. Check your motivation today. Give up the goal for a moment and rediscover your purpose. Recharge by revisiting your original reasons. Where we are most certain is often where we are most blind. Close your eyes and brave an expedition to the other side of your certainty. Delivering kindness is the second most important thing you can use your day to do. The first is to receive kindness from yourself. Take lightly any advice to 'ground yourself.' You are aboard this rolling, spinning, quaking planet where 'grounding' itself is in motion. Find the courage to keep communicating with yourself and with others about yourself. Those who are interested make it worth the effort. Forgiveness does not have to be holy, high, or mighty. It is simply a way to relieve your heart. You are limitless capacity to forgive and grow. The delivery is more important than the package: poor delivery breaks whatever is inside. Be mindful of how you say what you say. Be free of facts, policies, and issues. People enjoy people and people appreciate meaning. Do not waste time scrutinizing impersonal minutiae. You are known for making good things because you use good ingredients, and you come by good ingredients from using good judgment. You have reached good places before, and none were worth preserving at the cost of growth. Being fulfilled and being satisfied are different. Whatever state you wear to present yourself to the day tells the day how to receive you. Dress yourself in readiness, confidence, and interest. As you walk through today, don't turn around to see if your footprint is still on yesterday. This you leaves no trace on the past or the future. Today's habits came from yesterday's information, which is now either inaccurate or incomplete. Which habits are past their expiration date? Sarcasm is a jester along your path. Its creativity is hurtful. As you lose interest in laughing at derision, it will look for work elsewhere. This should not feel like success, failure, a path, journey, process, or work; it should feel like play. If you cannot have fun, play elsewhere. Free of ego, you are unstoppable — able to use every form of critique to improve your own approach. Assume all is here for your benefit. Today's guides are nearby. You don't need to seek them out. They already know to look for you, so stay open to each of their surprise visits. Society will not celebrate you falling in love with yourself, so do not await its invitation, approval, or congratulations for this courtship. Wonderful surprises await you today, provided you exhale expectations away right now. There is no bad or good, just disinterest or gratitude. Sit relentlessly, until your internal storyteller exhausts every book in your collection and has no legends, myths, or tales of you left for you. Celebrate where you are right now, with full appreciation of the yearnings that remain. Let wanting be a reminder that you are still young. You will uncover truth by being less vocal and more present. And just as this happens, you will begin to lose interest in uncovering truths. We are trained to harmonize with the outside world. Train yourself to harmonize within. Come to know your own signs and states. Don't measure in miles, measure in breaths. The outward traveler might drive, fly, or ride, but no vehicle can shorten the inner journey. Nothing is worthy of your devotion until you pay homage to the great gift of your being. Tend to your needs first and then others'. Your body is a partner that relies on you for good food, safe stress, and regulated rest. Be one of the few people who are consistent with this. Fact-based truth requires endless revision and more facts. Find your truth in the mystery of inspiration and in the power of the unknown. You own nothing that does not in fact own you, so give eagerly and possess lightly. Use any gain as a chance to somehow own less elsewhere. Today has you in its embrace. You will be just fine. There are no more impossible things for you — only things that take a little more time. Change your state. Begin with the same energy you expect to have at the highest point of the day. Make it so by shifting your own outlook. Seeds take root. Plant faithfully. Wait patiently. Appreciating these basic principles will enable you to perceive as much as you will ever need. It is enough for you to be here. And it is alright for you want to strive for more. All ways have a rightness for you. There are no wrong ways. Everything changes in a breath, so patience as you try to plan too many breaths ahead. Like a cup, let your emptiness be what truly fills you. You cannot fail. You will try dozens of things and learn so much from so many interesting people along the way. It will be worth it all. Don't read into things: your emotions cloud your perception, your senses are not perfect, and your vantage point is limited. So, stop. If you continue like this, you will be poised to succeed in ways you cannot yet comprehend based on what you know just now. Keep going. Only part of you is seen, and even less of you can be explained — mere glimpses of a shadow. Thinking you are seeing yourself is blindness. You will be such a success by doing what you love. On the way there, unravel the myth that your path will need to be anyone's but yours. When your body surprises you, be patient and grateful; it is constantly healing for you. This unending renewal is taking care of tomorrow. You will do just fine, better in fact without needing to know any more than you do right now. Ignorance can be very valuable sometimes. You are like the night sky: even where the eye perceives darkness, there is brilliant, faraway light. You shine more light than you realize. If you value endurance, also value paths that are neither comfortable nor convenient. You are not lost, you are returning to your center. When you no longer wish to grapple with it, it will go just as it came. You battle a monster imagined from your own shadow, only imagined. Feelings form like fog and then gather into a mood. Your own warm light can dry up these flightless clouds. Shine all passing moods away. Expand by loving this, not by striving for that. You offer more than can ever be dangled before you. You are the treasure. You are the goal. Mediocrity was never an option. By now the very idea has no place to take hold of you, and there is no one here to compare yourself to. This is just a season. It will have its weather patterns. You already know what to expect. You also know you will still get your sun. Confidence in your heart, Humility in your head, This moment in your hand. Move away from friction. Submit to your own momentum. Get rid of the mind-sugar — the ideas that spark beliefs but fail to nourish your calm awareness. Such triggers will be less and less useful to you. Let go. Leap joyfully. Soar gracefully, never to land again. While your mind drifts among the clouds, your spirit can float across the winds. This is no mere step along the way, but is in fact, the Way itself. The part of you that resists this is simply not paying attention to right now. You have planted a seed of love that has grown into a tree that can shade you from the heat, cradle you between its roots, and let you rest. There is another opportunity here — a deeper, less obvious one — to sacrifice and be changed. Intensify your transformation by surrendering. When it feels like falling, don't flinch. Continue 'falling.' That feeling is merely false conceptions dropping from you, yet thinking they are you. The people you invite in are the spices in your recipe; they make your good that much better. Mix them liberally and look for new flavors. Not every nut is so easily cracked. Take your time to figure out the proper approach so you do not hurt yourself or make a huge mess. Some beans won't cook until they've been soaked. Other things are like that, too. Even you need some time to soften before you engage. Sharing means you are as open to giving as to receiving. Be evenly balanced in generosity and humility. There is not one without the other. As all of this lifts from you, remain with what neither rises nor falls. Here you are — free of any more new insights, radiating perfect brilliance. Have the courage to slow down. This is going to take exactly as long as it is going to take, so put your focus and your essence into every detail. Growth needs emptiness to fill. Free yourself of the explanations that have stayed long enough. Once you have cleared space, let it remain so. It requires no effort to stay here. You are quite naturally 'here.' 'There' asks too much of you. Decline offers to travel far to gain your insights. Devotion is simple and story-free. It is loving service. It is a commitment to deepen. You are prepared to go to this holy place within you. The Universe is matching you with a challenge that will both inspire and improve you. All you need to do is live into it. You are fully prepared. Logic fits nowhere in this picture. Do not waste time building rationale. Keep developing all of your instincts. Be fluid, unceasing, and earnest. Your feelings will have their say and depart in peace. Be mindful about letting them speak for you. Their voices do not sound like your voice. There is nowhere else you should be. You are here. There is no one but you. You are here. There is nothing missing in you. You are here. A master is at your fingertips. More precisely, let your fingertips be your master. One snap is lesson enough to remind you to be present. Close the book for a moment on your stories made of words. Now let your pulse tell its story of here and now. Listen for one whole chapter. Identifying the problem is the work of your mind, offering solutions is the work of your heart. Let your spirit manage the whole affair. Forgetting is a beautiful cleansing when you let it wash over you gradually. Do not fight your mind's grip on thoughts, let it tire naturally. We do not hope our way out of holes; we climb our way up mountains. Try to see everything as a form of pure positivity and personal progress. The negativity is good, fertile soil for growing potential and harvesting transcendence. Put your head as well as your hands to work here. If your tendency is to take yet another mental journey, then get the itinerary beforehand to be sure you're going somewhere new this time. Your acceptance will make today go well, your devotion will make tomorrow go well, and your healthy sense of humor will make others well. Fear is a mirage that only appears because you are looking at yourself from too far away from yourself. Close your eyes and see fearlessness. Your outward beliefs and passions are only poor imitations of your inner peace and love. These two original aspects are the true You. Even those truths that served you well are an attachment to illusions. Ending your search for truth begins the discovery of your perfection. Deep conversations are worthwhile fitness exercises for the mind, so long as you keep in mind that you are far more than mind. Concepts will take you but so far. What you have been taught and told things are is one thing, when what they actually are is nothing. Notice where your unquestioned habits pave for you an endless maze of preparation. Politely decline trails with corners. Have an attitude of acceptance and you will not need to reject anything. You will simply be too busy inviting goodness to host any lesser guests. Tune in to your internal indicators — the depth of your breathing, the strength of your pulse, the ease of your digestion — and gauge your day. It is time to draw in from all of this reaching toward some future you, to straighten and not lean so far forward, to cease striving to become. Attainment will show you some more things. Really though, you have had little need to be shown any more things in order to go deeper. Attraction and repulsion are happening all around you. At the same time, you are recognizing them as illusions in your stillness. Voices that speak to your soul should be asked to say more, but not much more. Repetition serves the mind; newness serves the soul. What was on your mind just as you awoke? Free that thought to the winds and be here. As your mind captures, as quickly set free. Those thoughts are as real as your ability to internalize the emotions they trigger. Here and now, you are not thought, emotion, or trigger. Like renovating a kitchen you find dull, reinventing yourself is a convenient distraction from using the same space to learn new recipes. Being enthralled with delving into secrets, mysteries, and hidden patterns is a pastime that will always require new entertainers. Keep going. Keep pushing through. It is not that you are 'almost there' — you are already here. Rather, it is what you are almost free of. Stress moves in when you create space within yourself and allow daily happenings to fill it. The space you create is exclusively yours. There are always options, so relax; there are always consequences, but don't worry; there is rarely an opportunity to be here yet free. You are supposed to be identified by what you would normally do in a situation like this. That fact is the stealthy saboteur outside your being. You come up with very good questions, ones in fact, that take a lifetime to answer. Now turn away from the questions, toward the lifetime. Saying, "It has been worth it all" tricks the giving heart into deferring to the accounting mind. Instead say, "I have loved every moment." Time has made the details unclear, though your mind tries to paint replicas for you. And since the painter merely copies originals, pay little. It doesn't need to make sense to anyone. In fact, a good indication that you are being true to yourself is that explanations escape you. Lovingly maintain your skin as a symbol of the boundary between what is internal and what is external. Read and respond to its signs all day. Injury is a call to action. Whether it is rest, therapy, or change that is needed, listen closely to your internals and adjust to support them. Anticipation is passing. Your sight is drawing ever closer, shifting its focus away from things down the road and onto itself here and now. It is alright to withdraw, alright to be misunderstood, alright to be considered an outsider, alright to sacrifice surface for depth. Challenge your idea of what harmony looks like. It will always be socially acceptable to harmonize with society, but with yourself... Difficulty is neither friend nor enemy; it is a perspective that puts many moments into one package in order to create a fictional story. There are certain people who trigger certain reactions. Treat both as interchangeable causes and responses that substitute for silence. Getting rid of one habit invites another to replace it. Let the natural course of things carry you steadily. Change flows without force. You were trained to respond to some things in a set way. You were even trained as to when not to respond. Deprogram yourself patiently. What you perceive to be negativity is in truth, a place in you that you assumed was changeless. Greet every change without preference or bias. Venting when you feel you must is a trick of the mind unwilling to rest. Giving voice to discomfort is time better spent surrounding it. You may be encouraged to share negativity. Do not. We each have so little time together. Only express what is positive and no less. There are aspects you sense should feel better than this. Challenge this thought. Back it into a corner until it is forced to help you here now. Patrol your boundaries daily. Look for things you did not put there and discard them. Track clever, whispering saboteurs and banish them. You are neither here to suffer nor to flee it. When you are loving at your fullest magnitude, hardship vanishes and goodness takes form. Venting is the only way some know to reach out in love. As warmly as you welcome the words, recycle them into unmovable silence. Allowing emotions to escape as words can be foolish. Both are often only partially-informed before they begin making misplaced demands. The moment before you speak, consider what expectations you are putting on your words. You are the one whose existence affects things. Voicing negativity is like being infected and making someone else sick. Healing the body or the mind both require peace, quiet, and love. The last time you laughed well should not be far from memory, and the lightness it created should still be floating around inside you now. Purely positive. Reword everything you would dare criticize about yourself and make it purely positive. This is the only clear perspective. Bow to children's laughter and pardon your years: souls as wise and new as yours mock self- control and propriety every chance they get. Methods that have you looking to the future rob you of the present. Question relentlessly what, how, and why here or now ever lacks. You should be overjoyed by where you are. There was no way to perceive it from where you were, and yet it is already behind you. A greedy child is certain each next thing brings lasting happiness. Our minds work at this same level, so let no one's wants disturb your calm. Some days happiness is a feeling. Other days, it is a process. Still other days, it is a destination. Be consistent, and happiness becomes a state. What you have is exactly what you need. The concept of what you should have is noisy wind that is most easily handled by letting it howl. Many who have achieved your alleged goal remain unhappy. Your actual, unspoken goal leads deeper within, not higher without. Deciding to be content rather than waiting for it to arrive is the difference between counting clouds and painting them. Patience over choice. Self-preservation is enough for some. But you have the privilege of a broader fulfillment that will uplift more souls than you will ever see. This is yet another reminder for the day that while you have organs, senses, and realizations, you are not these things; you are ever more. Move from talk of scarcity, conversations about endings, and tales of cataclysm. Move toward projects that build, reach out, and grow. For as long as you listen, they will talk, and for as long as you talk, someone will listen to you. As you become quiet, you are perfect and one. What they choose to ignore is that expansion represents effort and contraction release. The fact that things recede is not cause for alarm. They will tell you there are doors and states and levels, and you may need this for awhile. Your soul is unable to embrace terminology. You were not transported here by thought; you were brought here through your breath, easy inhales and exhales that kept playing catch. You expect your mind to forget, your heart to forgive, and your soul to rise — endless tasks for concepts that point everywhere but here. Your mind is filled with stories about the lives of other great souls, while your heart is filled with the story of your own soul's magnitude. Things as subtle as a flower can teach you if you let them. Things as raucous as a jackhammer will let you call their noise teaching as well. What you eat can either strengthen or weaken the trust your body has in your mind to listen and respond to its ever-changing needs. Parts of you require conscious cleaning. Other parts have been cleansing themselves since you were born and do better without your efforts. If your mind wanders to think about longevity, briefly redefine the concept to span the length of one flawless moment and try to attain it. Trust your digestive being to handle its own cleansing. Trust your mind to refresh itself periodically. Trust throughout your aspects. Eat, move, and rest in ways that promote your highest state of health today — not for the sake of anything but proper treatment of yourself. Your health is what you should be concerned with. Your health can benefit the whole world. Your health can enhance the lives of others. Longevity, vitality, and perseverance are respectable goals, but they treat your health as if it were a savings account for another day. If you are prone to rituals, make highly personal ones that pay homage to your body's current and long-term needs. No one else need know. Raise your level of health today. The energy you cultivate in your being will extend from physical to mental to spiritual faster each time. What makes you healthy and what keeps you healthy are specific to only you. No array of diets address or sustain the wholeness of You. Somewhere between diligence and passion, live. Somewhere between reckless and carefree, love. Somewhere between teacher and student, stay. The purpose of this body your wear is neither permanence nor perfection; it is a vehicle. Scuff it up a bit, get it dirty, see what else it can do. The season for your mind to rule has ended. It conjured up enough weather to keep your heart indoors a lot, but the season has changed. Feel exactly what you feel. Turn toward it, accept it, open further to it. See it to the farthest reaches of its existence. All the way. If you were to be accused of something you did not do, no denial could remove the accusation. So I accuse you of keeping happiness hidden. The concept of acceptance only begins to bloom when you are opening yourself to things you do not normally welcome happily. Follow your inhale all the way through to your root. Follow your exhale all the way out into the other side of the world. This is certainty. You are no longer afraid. You have experienced the difference between your body and your being. Former obstacles are now as thin as fog. That which is dead does not inhale. Half of each breath proves you are alive and aware. The other half proves you can also let go of all. You are the blue sky. There are beautiful clouds, sunrises, sunsets, and shades that pass over your vast, clarity. You are the blue sky. Inhale slowly to bring your mind home to your body. Exhale slowly to bestow your inner union and clarity on the rest of the world. Heedless of wherever you are right now in your breathing cycle, exhale. This is how immediate your ability to end tension is. You are the cure. There is a way that sacrifices the present for the future. This way wears many masks and takes on many names. Never sacrifice your present. See that you have been kind to your body. Not the kindness of doing what doctors say is best, but the kindness of doing what your body asks. When you are caught in a storm of emotion, find shelter in your root. Watch from safety as the eye passes over and the winds subside. If you can recognize a painful emotion, you can step outside of it, walk around its perimeter, measure it, and decide how to deal with it. Recognize suffering and remain peaceful. Inhale tenderness, exhale attachment to rescuing or saving anything. Involvement is the savior. Embrace the energy of fear or anger wherever it finds you. Whether from within or put upon you, it is unable to overwhelm your tenderness. Free yourself of the idea that you have tendencies. It is only through the faint echoes of others that you thought you had any at all. Stroll past that quaint inner plaza where concepts and philosophies sip tea and prattle the day away. Keep walking. Long strides. Mind your steps. It is when you are busy looking up the road rather than feeling what your feet are telling you that things happen. Find your silence in this moment and return to it so often as to never leave it. The need for inner silence only ever rises in this moment. When you feel lost today, explore awhile before turning around to see where you lost the path. Your surroundings may lead you onto another. Preparations that take longer than today to build need to be reevaluated. You will be best served by adjustments that are small but core. Be fearless in letting go of what has defined your way. With what is familiar there is the constant danger of wandering in circles forever. Whatever you rely on as your compass for the day, remember that compasses must be read often, because they only point but so far ahead. New for the sake of new isn't any more useful than old for the sake of old. Unquestioned patterns are in jeopardy every time you exhale. Forgetting about any quests or levels of attainment, try being here for the sake of being here. Instantly, your pace of life has changed. The challenge you accept is no less pointless than the one you pass up. Neither victories nor failures illuminate any true facet of your being. This day would be yet another view from a moving car if you did not pull over and decide instead to walk the lovely garden of your soul. You need to slow down right now, but don't suppress anything that is still moving around. The purpose of slowing is this kind of seeing. If you are a painter, and I take away your brush, are you no longer a painter? Remember that your body is merely your favored brush today. When your feet take turns moving forward, you are said to be walking, yet when your mind and heart take turns, you are said to be unsure. There will always be a new story replete with facts and critics stacked against what you believe. Embrace belief and disbelief as one. Cherish the numerous paths that people take to get to where they are each going. For you, abandon today's path as yesterday's endeavor. You excel at being peaceful with others, but it is even more important for you to direct your practice of peace to the upkeep of your body. Just as your kindness rallies hearts and minds to your cause, it also brings every aspect of your physical being into alignment with your will. If you can still be agitated, you can still be improved. If you can still be improved, you are still using a limited definition of yourself. That subconscious timeline is no longer useful. It was the creation of an expectation that is no longer here. Sweep out other such traces, too. The details can be surprising. Characters in this life play can act quite uncharacteristically, and this is the finest part of the whole performance. You are going to respond to many things today. Notice times when you give a conscious answer and times when your being naturally responds. Today's conversations can include more moments of silence than you were comfortable with yesterday. Through your silence, speak. Today, find out what you want to know about yourself. Find out by getting out there and talking about what is meaningful to you. The day will rouse your vigilant mind to defend you with answers that silence all opposition. Gratefully decline your mind's chivalrous vigor. Who else is here with you, making all of these observations and judgments about your progress? It is not a being, it is a passing belief. Achieve agreement throughout your being as you move through the day. Confirm that every bit of you wants to be in each new place you go. Hold on to what you have learned long enough to weigh it in your spiritual hands and examine it from all angles so you can establish its worth. What happens to you next in the day is often only a reflection of what happened within you moments earlier — what you ate, thought, felt. You will not recognize where you already are unless you have reached the end of your attachment to maps, journeys, and trails. There is much left to discover in you, more of which can be found today in fact. As you get past the layers, you will see your endlessness. Consider that today is not a lesson, but rather a direction: this collection of moments points you past teachings toward something else. The only thing that can stop you is your own imagining of a concept that you can be stopped. As you prefer freedom, exile your concepts. Vitamins, minerals, supplements, and special diets are as crucial to the vitality of your being as dye is to the wetness in a glass of water. Go past gauging how you feel right now and listen to the organs in you that work on a longer timeframe than your last few meals. As the needs of your body change, the listening of your mind must also adapt. Become better and better at responding to your shifting needs. You are emanating magnificence again today. It will attract some, repel others, and for you yourself, it will turn the day into a dance. Check the inflections of your voice throughout the day. Pull back when you notice emotion speaking through you to drive home a point. Be mindful in your associations. Though others label you for it, be particular about where you offer up your sacred moments of life energy. A dispassionate tone need be no less loving. Cool the source of your heated opinions and speak in a way that slows yet opens your heart. Today's opponents are not vindictive, they are corrective. All that rubs, squeezes, and grinds you polishes, streamlines, and smoothes you. Today reserve a moment to contemplate nothingness itself, the emptiness worthy of thanks for supporting your vast awareness. The use of relationships to substitute for the daily meeting and knowing of yourself is as temporal and destructive as any other drug. Effort is yet another addiction. Trying rejects being. Solving rejects accepting. Identifying rejects unifying. Expecting rejects noticing. The day will offer gratification now and later. As you forego now for later, you will ultimately move past gratification as an incentive at all. Today is where you should feel fully at home. There is no separation from your potential in this day’s gradual progression in front of you. Participating in things today will give you a taste of the meal you will do well to learn to cook for yourself in your own familiar kitchen. Today, project your desires no further than the inside of your being. Redirect the focus of your endeavors from out there to right in here. Follow what you’re doing to yourself, trace its chain of thoughts and find the loose link. Pry this open and be still for the events that follow. Clinging starts with that first step outside of direct experiences before choosing some other place to visit, tour, and dwell. Mind each step. Today is a different space. Every other thing in your mind that resembles it is an impostor to be pointed out, uncloaked, and ushered away. If you try to dominate the day, you will most certainly lose it. Harmony, my friend, with all that comes and gratitude for all that will go. When the day asks you to engage, engage. All other times, be watchful while waiting, loving while distant, prepared while detached. You enter the remainder of the day with the same amount of infinite possibility with which you awoke. Demand nothing for your goodness. Beyond your upbringing, training, and peer group, you have a true purpose that is exactly what it is. You are manifesting it even now. Start fresh today with your next approach. What you tried yesterday worked or didn’t on a completely different universe than today’s. People use verbal weapons against each other, even right around you today. Wherever you find yourself, you are so placed to prevent war. Break through the thin eggshell between what was in your heart yesterday and all that is in the world today. This whole thing is yours. You have today, you have your mind, your heart, your body, and you have your spirit, your soul. Still you sense there is more, yes. Behind each set of eyes yours meet today is a deep well of life lived and needs unmet. All will benefit from your acknowledgment of them. No teachings today, no reading, no methods, no routines. Dedicate this day as Pilgrimage to You Day. Make the journey no farther than a blink. Advice belongs to the past, and the given day is no more than a convincing collection of inputs. Your unbound awareness is the true day. Keep quiet today, and the moment you fail, acknowledge that you were unable to keep quiet through effort and return again to quiet. Seek freedom, solely freedom — freedom from outside thoughts, freedom from your own thoughts, freedom from belief, freedom from I. Today you will see that you are peace itself. If even for one moment, it will become clear. Even if your attention misses it, your being will see it. You have some impressions that today is perfectly suited to making disappear. When the time comes, choose to turn off your projector. Today’s movie is yet another sequel starring your favorite actor. But today is not a day for movies, it is a day for being outside and active. Your mind has received this message many times and usually conveniently fails to relay it: do not use your mind to move through the day. Treasure opportunities to be with people and pass up opportunities to sit and watch images. There is nothing fresh about being a spectator. Direct your mind to the source of you — the source of your radiant goodness and warmth. Allow this heat to burn away today’s mind. The mirror shows you a form that is familiar yet past. Today itself is the mirror in which to see your true self. See yourself in the day. The saying, "Nothing can stop you" misleads: nothingness contains within itself a vast landscape that tempts some to build barriers. The closeness you feel to the most beloved person in your day is actually all self-contained: you are the lover and the beloved in one. Everything meaningful that has disappeared from your sight before today, brightens the lantern of your being as you travel deeper. Doing exercise, devotion, or creativity in a group can feel transformative, but unlocking the power in these activities requires solitude. Just like present thoughts and feelings, the day’s unexpected allies and opponents will come and go. Stand up to welcome them all. Notice that you are beginning to embody a different kind of silence — one that has nothing to do with sound and all to do with movement. Something in you knows that no one has ever been here — that this is solely your world to experience and affect. Resolve to be one with it. Not one belief is better than any other; but some beliefs will serve you better than others today in pointing you toward fuller awareness. Weigh your attachment to belief and your willingness to inquire. Decide if today is a good day to shake your trees of beliefs for fruit. Imagine for this moment that today is your graduation from all the world's teachings, which makes you the foremost authority now. What one can do, another can do. Spend all of your time developing and refining your skills, and not one moment comparing them. Be unmoved by veiled spiritual threats that warn of what you must be able to do or how it must be done to be worthy of some stale label. The invention of all these separate parts — your body, mind, heart, soul, spirit — was the start of all this confusion separating you from the day. Dwelling on lack, does not produce abundance. Celebrating what you have attracts friends who want to share what they have with you. Today holds your fulfillment. Once you start looking for it, you won’t be able to find it, and once you prize it, you will lose track of it again. There are quiet fears that slip back in under the noise. As you return to your own manifestation of silence, listen for these scurrying nuisances. Resolve today to make peace between yourself and all you have considered to be different, inexcusable, or unfair. Open your arms wider. Submit to your daily routine, but with an attitude of passive awareness that keeps you out where perspective and patience abound. You have a style that is fully your own, and when you embrace it for all its beauty, you will love everyone’s features as aspects of your own. Honestly express yourself today. Where you are injured, do not feign strength. Where you are strong, do not suppress. Flow forward in truth. The circumstances poised to unfurl throughout the day can do so as they will; it is how you treat yourself that puts them to any use. Noisemakers will accuse you of being unenlightened because you cannot concentrate amidst their noise. Quietly listen more closely. Every aspect of hiding or protecting within you deserves close examination. Lying to yourself about what you are holding back points deeper. You no longer need to protect yourself from the past. You are light, radiant and weightless, with no way to benefit from being guarded. Because you are willing to tell yourself the truth, to lay bare your secrets, to fall into your abyss, you are, here and now, breaking through. Today there will be 1,000 invitations to see the delusions being presented to you and to receive them in love and discover blissful emptiness.