Spiritual Illumination is grounded in deep appreciation, a gentle shimmering quiet awe. Real self-love is soft, radiating, kind - a soft glow - it springs from such deep gratitude about the truth about life - it’s comforting to be around - it’s warming like gentle sunshine

I really love film and I love to share movies I’ve found that are really beautiful and not to be missed -

Tonight I watched “Something New”. It’s a drama-comedy and it’s about inter-racial relationships - it’s so well done - such a beautiful gem of a movie!

I also saw this weekend The Fall - Oh My God! What a film! While watching this film I experienced a sense of pure euphoric delight that I haven’t remembered feeling since I was a child - it’s really exceptional.

I’ve been playing with the idea lately of winning things - contests, drawings - of wonderful unexpected surprises - of hearing “You Won!” and it being something new, delightful, wonderfully adventurous. I’ve been resting in the feeling of what it would be like to hear those words and then experience the fruits of the winning. So, a few days ago my husband says “Guess what? We won tickets to see The Joshua Light Show! I entered our name in a drawing and we were 1st runner up.” Before I started playing with this idea I’ve never won anything from a drawing,contest,ect.

Even though I was raised in the rural farmland of Wisconsin, it took moving to New York City to discover my relationship to plant life. Surrounded by forests and cattle fields, I never questioned my connection with Earth. The vibrancy, love, and wisdom of nature was my basic experience of the world.

When I arrived in the hustle of Manhattan, I was instantly swept into the wave of activity that surges through this city. But, as the exoticness faded and I began to create my life within the constant barrage of human motion, plants became my touchstones to the natural world and profound teachers of the deeper connections we all share.

It began with a lovely Kalanchoe. When I arrived home with it, I sat in the darkness of my tiny room and honored its presence in my life. The plant communicated that it was here to ground and support my energy, and I affirmed my responsibility to love and care for it. I called upon the devas responsible for the Kalanchoe’s creation and affirmed that it vibrate with highest potential and grow into its deepest expression of health and vitality. (more…)

You are made in the image and likeness of the Universal Intelligence. What is true of It is also true of you. Whatever qualities It has, you are constantly demonstrating those qualities as well. This Universal Intelligence is experiencing itself through you. Your desires for expansion are It seeking to experience Itself in a way that has never been.

You are a fingerprint of Universal Intelligence and it is infinitely creative. If this force can create galaxies, billions of human beings with not a single one exactly the same, and an infinite variety of plants and animals, then it is very clear that it is impossible for this Source to run out of creative genius. It is Creative Genius embodying in form constantly. And because you are made in the likeness of this Genius, there is no limit to what you can create.

It does not matter if the majority of your life so far has had tremendous tragedy, sadness, trauma, grief, and quiet desperation. YOU HAVE THE POWER RIGHT IN THIS VERY MOMENT TO BEGIN TO CREATE PEACE, LOVE, JOY, CELEBRATION, AND ANYTHING THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT MAKES YOUR HEART SING. And even if you have had plenty of peace and love in your life, there is truly NO CEILING on how much you can keep experiencing. THERE ARE NO LIMITS ON HOW MUCH HAPPINESS, LOVE, FULFILLMENT, ECSTASY, JOY, AND PEACE YOU CAN EXPERIENCE WHILE YOU’RE ON EARTH. (more…)

I was listening today to a talk given by Dr. Robert Holden called Shift Happens. One of the main things that struck me about it was his take on self-improvement - that how we begin something will be how we end it. If we come to self-improvement with an attitude that there is something wrong with us that we need to fix in order to step-up to life in a good way we will always end up feeling there is more to fix - we never “get there”. In all the good intentions to bring the best of who we are to life - with all our love for humanity and the world - that attitude is actually unkind - that constant dialogue of how we’ve gotta be better - if it were coming from the outside - like from a spouse - it’d be grounds for divorce.

He talked about practicing instead self-acceptance - where we relax into a deep knowing of our true nature - where we approach ourselves with love, curiosity, kindness and respect. (more…)