The soul is fluid; soul perception always embodies natural flow. It embraces new things without resistance and lets them go just as easily.

Bring your awareness fully into the present moment. The soul enters the world, for you, through every particle of your body. These particles of soul force, or points of light, exist only in the present moment. If your mind projects into the past or future, you lose touch with the radiance and cannot experience your soul.

Here we are again, at Day One. Interesting how my mind orients itself to the feeling of a new cycle, tells itself to start fresh, and the rest of me readies for the pop of the gun — just from the habit of defining this day, which is just a day like any other, as a new beginning. ONE is a powerful word. First step. Impulse. Motive. Upswing.

The more we try to be super-smart, on top of things, focused on outcomes, and mindful, the more we probably need to space out and daydream.

Here is something I said to a client this week, that I think I needed to hear myself.  We were talking about his being more successful in his career, being able to put out the kind of energy that attracts the money he’s worth. I said, “Entitlement is a function of centeredness.

I had dinner with a friend from twenty years ago the other night, and it was fun catching up. She is a therapist and in these interim years she married and had 2 daughters—after age forty. One day one of the little girls chose to wait in the car while she ran into a store to get something. When my friend came out she said, “What were you thinking about while you were waiting?” Her daughter said, “I wasn’t thinking, Mom.” “Well, what is not thinking like?” my friend asked.

I did intuitive consultations in Sacramento for the past few days and had several men as clients. They all owned their own businesses, and were sensitive, alert, and humorous. On first glance, though, they appeared somewhat rumply and a bit slouchy. Ordinarily, I would not have been drawn to them, as they gave off an aloof quality as well.

I am thinking quite a bit this week about those subtle balancing acts we must learn to master if we are to become truly mature and full human beings. To be ONLY happy, or understanding, or even balanced, is to miss half of life and not grasp the depth of human experience. To be ONLY worried, depressed, irritated, or out of control is, similarly, to move through life hopping on one foot.

I have been thinking about thinking lately. How the self-generated yakkety-yak only stops when we read a book, talk on the phone, or watch television, substituting other voices for our own. Occasionally, we meditate and have a modicum of success at suspending the static.