Spiritual Awakening & Conscious Living

Today I will allow the divine to show me the many ways that goodness still exists in and all around me. That there are others just like myself who are surrendered to and guided by divine principles of love, unselfishness, kindness and compassion. 

Please stop mirroring the insanity and shallowness of trending, popular culture for temporary, fleeting approval and quick gratification. What the world needs now more than ever is brave men and women to courageously step into their own awakened authenticity. 

Wildflowers are like the hope inside of us. And it is in our long, barren winters that we long most for their graceful return.

Their AI models could never replicate our authenticity. Our creativity. Our hearts. Our passions. Our wisdom. Our real life experiences.

I knew it was happening. I think we all did. Perhaps in our loneliness we let it. I’ve met so many beautiful souls on social media, people I’d love to have coffee with, hike with, ride on the back of my motorcycle or just have an innocent, deep conversation with.

Being still, I had stopped running and behold I discovered a courage and strength unimaginable. Consecutive Day 6,946 Clean & Sober.

Some of us have experienced so much darkness that we have befriended it in ways that no longer serve our path forward.

In our seasons of darkness and doubt we continually remind ourselves that goodness, good people and kind heartedness still do exist, even in this world.

There is nothing more painful, chaotic and disturbing than for an awakened one to disavow their knowing of truth. To discard the rare gift of clarity of seeing in exchange for short-lived approval in culture is always a sharp thorn to the soul.

It’s easy to remain committed to our spiritual practice when we are in pain or contrarily when we feel deeply inspired. We meditate, pray and take good care of ourselves intuitively during these periods.

Do not underestimate the power of prayer. For sincere, effectual prayer is the hallmark of every miracle, every saint and being of light that has ever walked the earth.

Whether man, woman, boy or girl, the element of the human heart longs for the divine father as well as the divine mother, For this world of duality is made manifest in the unseen forces and inherent polarity that exists between the two.

Childlike trust in the divine activates immaculate forces unseen. Yet this faith without works (intelligent, surrendered action) is dead.

Over the years sanctuary has been very helpful upon first awakening. Let us devote as best we can, as much or as little time as necessary. For the element of time is needed until it is not and it is best utilized to ensure that our 24 hours ahead is embodied with strength, purpose, care, love, and divine inspiration.

As we grow, evolve and transcend along our paths. When we have bravely, fiercely and courageously met, examined and slain our own inner demons. We are alas confronted with the remnant echoes of all of our critics within.

For it is in a flash, perhaps milliseconds, yet truly it is outside of time, that years of our life’s experiences flash before us. Gracefully revealing what some of us already knew. There was always higher purpose at work. Always. Always. Yet now grace has said… here – see, Know.

It’s the last day of 2023, as I write this and my heart is a bit heavy, but all is well, nevertheless. In my own experience I’ve come to trust and know that in God’s world there are no mistakes.

One can never encapsulate in its immensity of expression the pure natural state into a being or individual personality by means of will, coercion or force. But left to its own intelligence and spontaneous nature, once surrendered to, will perfectly express itself through the individual but never as a person.

In my own experience, to be truly sober or sober minded means to be free from the influence of the unhealthy. This could be substances, people, inner thought streams, destructive addictive behaviors, or any influence that carries us away from our natural state of beautiful being.

I have compiled answers to a handful of the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) I often get about my writings and talks in which I by nature interchangeably use language that is common to the traditions of Nonduality, Vedanta, Christianity and Zen Buddhism. 

One such teaching and series of writings which did have a rather profound effect on me at the age of 21 was ACIM (A Course In Miracles). It was Marianne Williamson’s “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles” that first prompted me to explore the Course itself more intimately.

If you’ve ever fallen deeply in love, and who among us hasn’t? You would know that your whole perception of the world suddenly shifts to a much higher vibrational plane.

Our world as many of us once knew it, began to change drastically in 2020. We witnessed what many of us can only now, fully acknowledge as the beginnings of an advanced eroding cycle of community, connection and in many aspects even hope itself.