Today I am grateful for Dreams — both those seen while asleep, as well as those felt while awake … I am initially thankful for the former — for their symbolic reflections of both previous experiences as well as current interactions between my material mind-body and the energies of the Cosmos – what some call […]
Today I am grateful for Power, especially Power in all its less-then-well-known forms — subtle forms that include the Power to intently answer the insincere &/or unneeded call for help, the Power to serve the Universe even when ignored by humanity, the Power to care for those who persecute or ridicule, the Power to joyfully […]
Today I am grateful for my Past — how those events have co-generated my Here&Now, as well as how they have solidified the person I have decided to Become … Yes, I realize that there is no such thing as a truly objective recollection of the past. Our perceptions of time (along with time […]
Today I am grateful for New Beginnings — namely, the ability in each moment of my life to start anew; to allow my Soul to rise from the ashes of current sins and recent foibles to be reborn into each & every iota of its selfless glory … I am thankful for the ability to […]
Today I am grateful for “The Mystery” — namely, the forever unknowable that encompasses the entirety of our lives, including the infinite moments before our Beginning (the existence of conscious energies – or “the Soul” — pre-conception) and the eternal lingering after our End (those energies’ return to the Cosmos after the death of our […]
Today I am grateful for the power of the Smile … For whether I am saddened or angry, envious or pained; whether I am worried or resentful, critical or arrogant; whether I am lonely or dejected, fidgety or befuddled — even when I am downright afraid, all I must do to head back towards a […]
Today I am grateful for Health — not so much for the physical sense of well-being that comes from the absence of illness or injury, but rather for a far deeper Health; the sense of Wholeness that washes over us in those moments when we feel a synchronous harmony between what we know, what we […]
Today I am grateful for Transcendence — namely, all those times in my life when I have been downtrodden by circumstances depressing or unfair, and yet have risen regardless into a life of Purpose and Joy … Yes, we all encounter confinements and enemies and temptations in abundance throughout the course of our lives, and […]
Today I am grateful for Silence … … the ultimate calm from which all life springs; … that place of rest from which is born all motion; the complete canvas of nothingness upon which the myriads of matter paints its many masterpieces … And interestingly enough, I am just as thankful that we humans do […]
Today I am grateful for “The Way” — not the mental/emotional “path to salvation” preached by the dogma of the Christian church, but rather the active & practical Way shared by the founding mystics and Masters (Jesus included) of all the world’s more prevalent faiths. The Way is a lifestyle that mandates only one thing: […]
Today I am grateful for Faith — not the “faith” that others cling to bring them “peace of mind” from a concrete assurance of salvation in the hereafter, but rather the Faith that knows nothing of such self-centered hopes and has no such desires or expectations. Indeed, I speak here of a Faith that knows […]
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