LIVING WELL

Seek not a life filled with riches
Live a life filled with richness

Focus not on what you lack
But be grateful for what you have

Laugh, love and play often
For life is short and precious

Let go of attachments to tomorrow
Live joyfully today, future worries do not borrow

Forgive and forget your past
Cherish and enjoy your present

The present is truly a gift
The gift of life is your present

When you live as a beacon of light
You help others find inner delight

Let go of pettiness and self
Help others and you help yourself

When examining what is great wealth
Enlightenment reveals it is great health

When you appreciate nature and beauty
You attain freedom and serenity

Take life lightfully, joyfully, exuberantly
Because ultimately, nothing else matters

EGO VS SPIRIT

The ego takes, the spirit gives
The ego thinks, the spirit feels
The ego controls, the spirit allows
The ego judges, the spirit observes
The ego is fear, the spirit is love
The ego struggles, the spirit surrenders
The ego sees lack, the spirit knows abundance
The ego is restless, the spirit is stillness
The ego is in the mind, the spirit is in the heart
The ego says ‘I found the way’, the spirit says ‘I found a way’
The ego reaches for the destination, the spirit relishes the process
The ego strives for outer perfection, the spirit for inner perfection
The ego sees the world in polarity, the spirit sees the world in unity

WHO AM I?

In the infinite ocean of the divine
A drop of water am I

In the vastness of the almighty cosmic play
Bounded by senses am I

I experience who I am not
Only to experience who I am

As every drop of water disappears into the ocean
So dissolves the ego of who I think I am

I am that which everything is
All that is everything is in me
If only I will go within and seek who I am

ENLIGHTENMENT

Enlightenment
…is being, not doing
…is remembering, not learning
…is a journey, not a destination
…is emptiness of mind, self and ego, form and time

Enlightenment is not confined to words
It dwells in the space between
In nature’s language of silence

Disconnecting from the mind and senses
I go within to seek my truth

In diminishing, you are closer to the goal
In striving, you are further from the truth

FIRST SEEK THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Serve God first
… You help humanity
… You help yourself
… You become one with God

Serve yourself first
… You lose God
… You lose humanity
… You lose yourself

STRUGGLING FOR BALANCE

Most people are busy
Yet they are not effective

Of those who are effective
Many are not balanced

Of those who are balanced
Many are not happy

Of those who are happy
Most are not purposeful

Begin living with purpose today
So that you become
…Purposeful
…Happy
…Balanced
…Effective

HELP ME, GOD

Oh, my Lord
Love me … merge with me
Help me surrender in serenity

With your love, fear vanishes
With your grace, struggle ends
With your faith, logic dissolves
With your peace, restlessness ceases
With your abundance, scarcity disappears

Merciful God,
I can live no longer without your grace
Grace me with air when I’m drowning
Grace me with the wisdom to know that I’m your child
Grace me with the wisdom to live from within,
So that I will not leave without

Without you, why live?
Without you, why breathe?
Without you, why would I even want to be?