The Root Of Rage

Unchecked frustration is a poison. It eats at us and haunts us. It can so quickly build into rage and explode - hurting us and our loved ones.

We should seek to curb frustration through the loving, conscious expressing of our fears and worries. When we share these in a gentle way the weight of them lifts off us and frustration is no more.

We should also seek to curb frustration through removing the burden of expectation. We should seek rather to be hopeful of what the future might bring and accepting of what comes than to be dogmatic with our expectations for this can only create frustration and disappointment when things turn out to be different from our planned outcome.

To experience joy and freedom we must banish frustration from our minds. Seek to cease it's occurrence through releasing expectation and then to halt it when it does occur by releasing it with love.

In this way frustration loses it's power to harm and becomes instead an emotion that comes and goes like all others. In healing frustration we find peace must surely be with us for the mind can rest and the heart can be still.

On Living In The Now

Seek to live in this moment. Right now. For there is no other moment in existence but this very one.

The past is gone. It no longer exists. To be haunted by that which is gone creates guilt, depression and longing- pain that exists in this moment over injuries from something that has passed. Releasing the past is paramount to being in this moment and it frees us from the shackles of these pains.

The future has not happened. It does not yet exist. To be too concerned with what may (or may not) happen creates worry, fear and anxiety. This is pain that exists now over things that have yet- or may never- happen. Releasing the future to be what it will be gives us the freedom to create our desired future in this moment.

Looking back is necessary to avoid past mistakes and to replicate and expand on past successes. Looking forward allows us to plan brighter futures and avoid possible pitfalls. Yet to dwell in either of these spaces draws us out of this moment, where we are, and puts us where we are not.

Instead we must be where we are. Here. Now. For it is only in this moment that we can ever find true happiness and freedom for no other moment exists.

This Too Will Pass

Nothing can be kept forever. All things are temporal and must eventually change.

When we learn acceptance of change we can truly master life. Each thing, person and place will come and go and when we learn that the going is inevitable we stop holding on and attaching and start to appreciate the blessings they bring.

Each joy will pass. Each sorrow will pass. We cannot bask in any one blessing forever nor can we suffer any one torment forever. Each thing has a time and then it will change or leave us.

So seek to accept the transitory nature of things. Let each experience come and then allow it to go. In this way the pain of lost attachment cannot harm us. In this way we are free.

In memory of Paul.

On Abundance

Give thanks for all that you have and for all the good things coming to you. We are creative beings and that which our minds dwell on becomes what the hands manufacture.

When our minds are filled with thanks for the abundance and love in our lives we tend to draw more of these things to ourselves. When we are negative in our thinking we tend to find more to be negative about in our lives.

In this way we find many financially wealthy people who are miserable while others have great joy in the very little they have. An attitude of gratitude is paramount to being satisfied, and ultimately, happy with your life whether you be prince or pauper.

Gratitude reinforces our mental belief that we experience abundance in all things and this in turn makes us able to create more abundance since one cannot have something if they do not believe they can have it.

So seek to be grateful for the many riches in your life and be hopeful of more to come. For in thanks we find that wealth is all in the mind and she who masters that mind has everything and needs nothing.

Tha Joy of Giving

Seek to share the best of your being with the world. It is through service that we are able to uplift others and recognise the abundance that exists in us.

No one can give something they do not already possess. It is thus that when you share of your joy, laughter, hope and love you begin to see how much more you have in reserve.

What we put out into the world multiplies. If we seek to put love out then that multiplies. If we seek to put thankfulness out then it multiplies too. When we seek to put generosity out then it too multiplies and eventually so much love, kindness and gratefulness will surround us.

So take some time to be kind to someone who needs to smile. Share a laugh with your neighbour. Be gentle with your colleague. It is in doing these things that we discover the abundance of joy within us and it is in this way that we bring joy to the world.

On Inner Wisdom

There is a voice in every heart that implores us to be our greatest selves. It recognises us as the possibilities that exist in our dreams rather than the culmination of past choices we have made.

It insists on guiding us to be what we dream of becoming. It seeks to lead us to joy and fulfilment. It asks us to be the highest version of our greatest vision of ourselves.

In this voice we have a companion, always gently nudging us to be more, be better, be happier.

And it speaks in soft tones and metaphors. It whispers in our dreams and nudges us to look at coincidences. It uses emotions and chance encounters to remind us of what we could be if only we would listen to it.

Seek to hear this voice. And when you have heard it seek to follow it for it is your greatest encouragement and the path to your highest joy and in it's guidance you will certainly find your way to fulfilment.

Freedom in the Moment

The gift of conscious living can only be experienced by being present in the moment.

Consciously coming back to the current and eternal moment of now allows you to be free. There are no ties to the past and the weight and pain that reside in it as the past no longer exists in the present. There is no worry for the future either as it too does not exist as it has not occured and so all that remains is now. Right now.

This moment is a gift wherin all pain and guilt cannot exists because they only exist in a moment that has passed. Similarly fear cannot live as it concerns things that do not exist now. And though they may exist in some future "now" they have not come to pass and so they are not real.

All that is real is right now. And right now freedom exists, peace exists and stillness exists. In this moment you can be peaceful and still and whole if only you would choose it. In this moment your choice is your experience. In this moment you are truly free.

Love Never Leaves

Love surrounds us always. It is in the gentle and the rough. In the brilliance of light and the coolness of shadows.

Love never leaves us and is always waiting to escort us to grace. Love is a confidant, a friend, a lover and a parent.

Love keeps us in it's embrace and when we feel most alone and the woes of this world weigh heavy on us love gently reminds us that we are never alone. For in love there is companionship and that love is always within our hearts.

Looking With Many Eyes

Perspective is a healing gift. To see things from a multitude of angles is an ability that we all have to create strength from pain.

No thing is absolute- all black or all white. Each experience has shades of joy and pain, laughter and sorrow, peace and distress.

Each action has motivations of love and fear and when we can see each component as it truly is our understanding grows. So, we can be compassionate in the face of injury and loving in the face of rage.

It is only by seeing through many eyes that we can be always loving and still for then we can see that life always spirngs from the remnants of death and when all other emotions are stripped bare only love remains.

On Passionate Work

Passion is the fuel that keeps joy alive. When you are passionate you find joy in the simplest tasks and the most arbitrary things.

Passion drives you to work more effectively and it makes work's burden light. Passion makes your days meaningful. It gives you the drive to achieve and satisfaction in your endeavours.

So seek to do the things that you are passionate about. In this way you will find rewards far greater than a pay cheque or praise. In this way you will find joy in every day.

On Overcoming Fear

Fear is the enemy of success. It boasts in procrastination and revels in our failures.

When we strive to move forward it pulls us back. When we dream of greatness it tells us we will fail.

We must be strong to make fear weak. We must fight it's inertia and act when it tells us to wait.

For to overcome fear we must take action. We must run when it says walk, leap when it says halt. When we act regardless of fear's grip we overcome it. In this way we become free.

In Stillness

In stillness there is peace. When we are still the ebb and flow of life releases it's grip on the mind and gives us the chance to find peace within ourselves.

When we are still within we cannot be quickly moved by what is outside us in the world. Stillness is the basis upon which strength of character stands. Free choice can then flourish where we can act out of conscious consideration rather than powerless reaction.

So, be still. For in stillness you are at peace and in peace you can find your freedom.

The Gift of Fun

Find fun in every day. Fun is life's way of remining us to be happy.

There are always opportunities to play, to frolic and to laugh. There is always time for a smile.

Life is too short not to laugh every chance you get. It is too special not to have magical moments. And surely life is too precious not to treat it lightly.

For it is in play that the beauty of a smile beams true and in laughter that the heart sings loudest.

The Gift of Pain

Pain is a gift we too often curse and, in so doing, miss it's true value.

In disease and illness we can discover the blessing of our good health. In loss we can remember the blessing of relationships and seek to love again. In turmoil we can learn the blessing of the peace we had and that will come again.

In pain we learn to appreciate our blessings and to value what and whom we have. In this we find pain is the prelude to peace and the preamble to joy.

On Thankfulness

Be thankful for all that you have and all that you are. We are each showered with blessings, gifts and talents for which we should be grateful and appreciative.

When we are grateful we enter a state of peace as we are no longer concerned with acquisition of new things or changing ourselves. Instead in gratefulness we look at ourselves and all we have and say: "I have enough and I am enough".

In this way we find grace in acceptance and peace in the knowing that fulfilment lies not in having more or becoming "better" but it is in being happy with what and who we already are.

For within us all is beauty and greatness and brilliance and this is our true wealth. And for the wealth within us all we can only be thankful.

Chasing Dreams

Every heart has a dream. Follow yours.

Your heart has quests and hopes and goals for you. Following the way towards these is where bliss lies waiting for you.

Fear will fight to keep things comfortable and worry will try to block your path but the dreamer cannot be halted by worry or vanquished by fear so long as she trusts the guidance of her heart.

Trust that you will finally arrive at your destination and take pleasure in the journey. Be joyful that you are heading towards your heart's desires even if the way may be slow.

For it is in chasing dreams and following the heart that we discover our own way to fulfilment. And it is in achieving those dreams that we become great.

Lighting The World With Love

Seek to share with the world the love in your heart.

Share it first with yourself. Be gentle and caring with yourself as you are deserving of love and if you cannot love yourself then no one else can.

Share your love with your family, partner and friends. Find out the ways that they choose to feel loved and be that for them.

The more you share your love with them the more love you will find is within you to give. Love is a well that can never run dry and the more of it you give the fuller the well becomes.

Share your love with starngers, the weak, the poor, the children, the aged, the wretched and the sick for they are your brothers and sisters. When you can share your love indiscriminately you will find that love lives all around you.

You will become a beacon of light, brightening the world for all. You will give hope to the hopeless and joy to the sad. Your little bit of love can change the world if only you would share it.

Seek to share love with others to bring love to your world.

Each Day I Choose Joy

Each morning choose to find joy in the world. Happiness is life's sweetness and it asks only that we savour it when it reveals itself in the blessings of every day.

That the sun still shines is a blessing and it's warmth and light are reason enough to smile. Take a moment each day to enjoy the sunlight and the life it brings.

That our hearts can love is a blessing we too often take for granted. Yet it is in sharing and recieving love that we find joy and hope. Take a moment each day to give your love to another for it is in this way that we find that we have an abundance of love within us always.

That there is life in our veins is a blessing and it is the greatest gift we can receive. Use it fully and don't waste even a moment of it for it is far too short and fleeting.

Chase your dreams and let life's magic be revealed for you. Don't put off your joy for tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. All that exists is this moment for the past is no longer and the future is not yet to be.

Let now be your happiest moment, the zenith of your joy for there is no better, or other, time to be happy than now.

Concious Evolution

Growth is as certain as birth and death. We are all of us always growing.

Whether through learning about the world, about ourselves, gaining wisdom, finding love or becoming increasingly fearful we grow evermore into who we want to be.

Choose to conciously evolve. Create an image of who you wish to be and then, in each moment, make the choices and take the actions that will turn you into that.

Thought guides action. Action determines what you become. So in order to become the perfect being you seek to be you must first choose to be it.

In this way growth is not the steady progress towards death, it becomes the path to fulfilment and a fuller life.

Love and Freedom

Let love be free. Seek not to constrain it or define it or control it.

Rather let it be what it chooses to be. Let it be in the small things and the fleeting things and the things that come for a time and then pass. Let it be true and passionate but don't try to keep it forever as like all things love comes and goes.

Let love change over time but don't become complacent in love or expect love to wait for you. Seize every opportunity to love and be loved.

Love indiscriminately. Love with all your heart. And remember, when you let love free, love frees you.