Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Introduction

Happy Valentine’s Day! No matter how bleak things may appear, Love is always in the air, and at least once annually, we tune into it en masse.

There’s great power when we come together in like mind and intention. Let’s use this Valentine’s Day to our combined best interests. What the world needs now more than ever is a huge injection of Love, Love, Love, because Love causes people to see, be and do our best.

Yes, I am aware that Valentine’s Day love points toward romantic Love, but it too, is sourced in True or Unconditional Love. For this week’s blog, it came to me to look into the million-bazillion love quotes online, choose a few possibly worth your time, quotes worth a pause, a mindful inhale, and breathing into the world stage on the exhale.

A Community Valentine

Let’s create a community Valentine to send out to all human beings everywhere. Of course, if this is not your thing, or you need to change the quote to your preference, feel free. Please share my blog with those you think or feel would resonate. Thank you. Okay. Here we go.

“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing. Love is knowing I am Everything, and between the two my life moves.”

Maharaj Nisargadatta

“Valentine’s Day is just another day to love like there is no tomorrow.”

Unknown

 “Love recognizes no barriers, it jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.”

Maya Angelou

 “There’s no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.”

  Reese Witherspoon

 “Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love, you know it must be something marvelous.”

Criss Jami, Killosophy

“To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.”

Vironika Tugaleva

 “The end of wisdom is Love, Love, Love.”

Ramana Maharshi

Love! There is no falling in or out of it. It’s in and all around us all the time. It’s who we are. If you don’t already know, don’t believe me. Hone your attention on it and watch it come to life.

Do you have a favorite quote on Love? Leave share it in the comments. Thank you in advance for your wisdom.

Happy Valentine’s Day with Love,
Kaye Sturgis

Eight Unexpected Treasures Blogging Has Given Me

Eight Unexpected Treasures Blogging Has Given Me

Introduction

Are you interested in blogging, too? I know. Here we go again with yet another question. When a reader followed by another client recently mentioned that they wanted to start a blog, and another reader and friend started her blog, it was all I needed to go ahead and write about eight unexpected treasures blogging have given me over the past year.

At first, I didn’t know what I was doing at all. I figured I could, at the least, write a blog a week and post it, if nothing else. I would begin to share – without stress –with whoever is attracted to the wisdom I’ve gleaned over a lifetime. My prayer was and is hoping it would also serve and assist readers in the quest to express our best.

Whether to expand the blog, monetize, be led to a particular focus, stop, or continue, I had to trust it would reveal itself to me over the year. There was enough pressure to put my heart on the line week after week for my first step. Fortunately, I can honestly say that as planned, without almost any stress, it has gone exceedingly well.

So, without further ado, here’s what I’ve learned so far.

1. Shockingly, blogging has been much easier than I thought.

Getting to it was the most challenging. And yet not stressful at all once I started. I was going for consistency. It generally took longer over the first few months, and a few blogs took up to twenty hours to write, but I was invested in and wanted to nail those special ones.

Mostly, I’ve kept it low-key, posting only on our website until any next steps were made evident. Some writers need to get down to business, but I needed to write mindfully more than anything, so I focused on that.

I also have 50% paralysis in my left hand and can only type with the index finger, so I make any number of mistakes and am slower than I would be otherwise. Don’t feel sorry for me, though, because my index finger has, over the years, memorized the key positions and their spacial relationships to each other, and I don’t have to look where to type. Pretty cool how the body will compensate when something doesn’t work.

2. Getting myself together to write what is important to me makes my heart sing.

Unconditional Love has been a powerful theme of interest all my life. This blog has had me digging deeper to tie this foundational Reality into navigating our daily human roles because Love is here with us, whatever we do, wherever we go. We are not apart from it.

3. To Accept My Limitations with Grace. 

I am always slightly chagrined to find mistakes in a blog I thought was perfect. The Truth of it is it’s okay. I am satisfied with the best I can do. It’s a gift of my heart. For now, I can be okay with being a “good” writer, not a “great” writer, not yet, anyway.

4. Consistency is Key.

I’ve started a few blogs over the years but stopped after one, three, or eight because the time was not yet ripe. Readers love consistency. When we drop out, our readers drop out. I had to grow into it, I think. This time, I examined what would support consistency. Writing what I love seemed critical to the task.

5. Consistent Blogging Got the Energy Flowing in My Life.

It seems like “priming the pump” with blogging seemed to turn on the Light to wake a creative sleeping giant that resides within. It’s easier to manifest when our hearts are in the right place. Opportunities and support abound when you seek to give the very best of yourself.

6. I Feel More Connected to My Community of Friends. 

I feel lucky and blessed to be a part of a circle of wonderfully creative friends who inspire and support me to continue the work (as I very much do theirs). It is so confirming to have our gifts and purpose appreciated by those we love and who love us.

7. Writing to publish is mindless and mindful all at once.

Writing to be published is mindless in that we pray to step aside and allow Who We Really Are will flow through us onto the screen into words that form the blog. Writing is contrarily a mindful process, and consistent blogging takes us deeper into tapping into our souls and expressing parts of ourselves that may not otherwise have surfaced.

8. Blogging has opened up to the service I was born to give.

With a few short weeks left in my year-long unconditional commitment and out of the blue, the direction for the next step has shown up. I am looking to see if the idea is “Coyote” (trickster energy) or one worth pursuing and that I can actually do. We’ll see what happens. I’ll let you know when I know. In the meantime, I’m going to keep blogging once a week. I hope you will consider a blog of your own.

Conclusion

The words written herein show eight unexpected treasures blogging have given me. They fell onto the page like a robust waterfall drops over a cliff. Not all are this easy and quick, but it feels great when it happens. How about you? Have you thought about trying your hand at blogging?

If so, following through gives excellent rewards! Try it. You may love it. I can’t imagine anyone having more resistance than me. If I overcame it, so can you. Maybe it’s something else for you. Whatever it is, I encourage you to express what makes your heart sing.

Comment? Thank you.

Love and Write It Down. Make It Happen!
Kaye

Initiation into Tarot

Initiation into Tarot

Introduction

The Tarot cards are one of the most amazing tools for turning and looking within because everyone “needs” a mirror, and the images on the cards can offer reflections of our inner construct and beyond.

Three Factors Merge

My “initiation” into Tarot started unexpectedly with the aligning of three factors, a gift of a science fiction trilogy in paperback, the birth of my second child, and a picture of a round MotherPeace Tarot Card.

The first came while I was pregnant. I was not a sci-fi fan but was gracious when Diana, a friend, gifted me a sci-fi trilogy to read “ for when I was home with the baby, nothing to do, and plenty of time on my hands to read.” From this one statement, you can tell Diana did not have children of her own. Boy, would she be surprised if and when she did! I put the books under my bedside table and promptly forgot about them.

Kelly was born on August 10. Delivered within a manageable four hours of labor, she could not wait long to get here. Our days filled with mother-daughter bonding and the usual adjustments. A couple of months later, Kelly was pronounced terminally ill with a liver issue, and I headed into therapy to learn how to cope with this new and devastating aspect of motherhood.

The third thing that happened was that the therapist showed me a copy of a round MotherPeace Tarot card, and I instantly connected to it. I owned the Rider Waite version from a few years ago, but for some reason, I never really resonated with those cards. That deck sat on a bookshelf, an attraction for dust mites.

One day soon after seeing the card, I remember Kelly was napping. I decided to check out at least what the Sci-Fi trilogy was about. After all, Diana knew me well and felt I would “love the reads.” It was the respectful thing to do to see at least what she had taken mindful time and joy to gift me. I peeked under my bedside table, and there they were as I left them, neatly stacked and tied with a big fat pink ribbon for me, the new “baby mama.”

Trilogy of Tarot by Pier’s Anthony

I untied the ribbon and saw the three books written by Piers Anthony, and all three had the word Tarot in their titles. That certainly piqued my interest, especially in lieu of my recent connection with the MotherPeace Tarot card. What a perfect synchronicity. Now, I understood why the friend gave me books I didn’t think I would like.

The trilogy wasn’t your average science fiction, but a journey of someone who journeyed home from a distant place by way of the path of the Major Arcana in the Tarot. As laid out and reflected in the trilogy, the protagonist is, in the beginning, offered three possible ways Home, each reflecting the “energetic imprint” of three different and specific Tarot decks.

Each Chapter was thusly named after one of the twenty-two Major Arcana in the deck. They started from the beginning and flowed through to the end. The card images can be seen as an allegory of our journey as we are born into a dual world and our evolution along the way, where we finally merge back into the Oneness from whence we began.

In this way, the character sets out on his journey, as does the Fool of the Tarot, the first card, image, and leg of the adventure. He stops and experiences the perspective and experience of each Major Arcana along the way until he finally reaches Home with the World card.

What if . . .?

I felt strangely compelled to model after the character of the books and take a journey via the Major Arcana of the MotherPeace Tarot deck. It seemed like a worthwhile and much-needed diversion from the stress of daily life.

Diana was right. Hers was the perfect gift for me when my daughter was born and diagnosed, and it taught me how to turn within in earnest and begin to learn how to become a Peaceful Mother and so much more of who I really am. I called it Initiation into Tarot, and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to give it a shot.

Here’s how I proceeded:

Beginning at the beginning of the Tarot with the Fool card, I spent as much time learning about it and applying its value to my life and perspective. I stayed with the Fool, reading about it, looking at the images, trying to dream about it, and watching Fool’s Way of Being and how it was also apparent, if I looked for it, in my and others’ lives. The Fool mirrors our Divine Consciousness: childlike, innocent, trusting, intuitive, impulsive, adventuresome, pure spirit.

When I finally felt I understood the heart of the card through and through, I would go to the next step and card in my journey, in this case, the Magician, and repeat the same thing. Journey, reflect, repeat.

It took me six months to journey through the twenty-two Major Arcana, and I had many parallel adventures along the way. When I finished, I could seriously read any card from any deck, anytime, anywhere, right side up, upside down and all around, and also be pretty accurate. Shocking, really, but true. Most important, though, was that in embodying and integrating MotherPeace, Kelly benefited in countless ways.

I integrated into my body, mind, and soul the archetypes presented in the Major Arcana, similar in context to Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. Due to having done this through the direct experience of seeking to master and understand the Heart and Soul of the Tarot/Life, I ended up doing just that.

What About You?

If you are interested, take your time in purchasing a Tarot deck you feel attracted to explore in the way described above (there are over 4,000 decks), and begin your odyssey to get to know yourself. Doing so will bring greater understanding to your life. Remember that the Fool, who mirrors our Divine Nature, must accompany all the other cards and images. We can never again forget who we are.

I’ve facilitated many others through the Initiation into Tarot, and all who attended came out of those courses being able to read Tarot expertly, comfortably, and accurately. You can absorb this into your daily routine without much effort.

Conclusion

An Initiation into Tarot can help you find more outstanding balance within. And it’s plain to see that the colors, actions, and images on the cards act as little mirrors of our souls and life to teach us to look deeper into who we really are in a balanced approach. They help us, when studied this way, accept all parts of ourselves and detach from what doesn’t serve us and never has.

If you’re interested in an Initiation into Tarot course, please email or say so in the comments. I’m not planning it, but I would consider it if there’s a demand. Thank you.

In Gratitude and Increasing Love,
Kaye

Questions Whose Answers Create a Future Worth Living

Questions Whose Answers Create a Future Worth Living

Introduction

Last week’s blog, “How to Quit a Habit,” led me to contemplate questions whose answers create a future worth living. If you’re reading this blog, you’re most likely interested in elevated perspectives, too, and realize humanity needs all the Real help it can get.

Indigenous Prophecies

Many indigenous prophecies speak of how humanity has endured destructive phases in the past. They also seem to agree that we can’t expect to be rescued by aliens, angels, or anyone else.

No. The task for humanity this time is to step up to the plate and take responsibility for rescuing ourselves. It’s time to resolve our presumed traumas and shadows, i.e., evil or “live” spelled backward, take our power as Divine Beings and the Love Consciousness we are, and fulfill our Destiny.

I don’t know about you, but I am pulling out every tool in my toolbox, connecting with other like-minded peeps, and am leaning in this direction. I am also pouring my heart into encouraging you similarly if you resonate.

Questions for Healing Humanity

Tony Robbins elevated my perspective many, many years ago regarding a Biblical quote, “Ask and you will receive.” His thought was you don’t have to ask anyone in particular. No. You can ask the whole Universe, and IT will answer your question. I have been experimenting with this idea for decades since I heard him point at it, and he’s right. It works! All the answers to everything are at our fingertips and we don’t always have to go online for a lot of the important ones.

Here’s how it works. Create a question we want to be answered by our Source and follow it up with a deep intentional breath. On the exhale, we let the question go, get on with our day or fall asleep if it’s that time. Make a habit of asking great questions to the Universe, feeling them fulfilled, and observing what happens. We need to work smart on this stuff.

Use or adjust the following deep questions to your preferred musings. These are meant to get answers that open up our future into one worth having. Think of the possibilities. Imagination is the doorway to more than we can dream.

What would happen if our combined intent to send questions into our Source of Being to create a future worth living proved to help set a clear direction for restoring wholeness and integrity to human existence?

Question # 1

How would it be if humanity sought to pay more attention to balanced solutions to our mounting issues, starting with our personal lives and rippling out en masse?

Question # 2

How can we learn to trust ourselves as it gets increasingly more difficult to trust those who lead us? What happens when two or more make collective decisions with integrity or wholeness? Does the Light of their attention draw others to it?

Question # 3

When you turn a light switch on in a dark room, the darkness disappears when the Light hits it. Similarly, when we shine our Light on a shadow, the shadow goes poof. Isn’t it time for us all to release our trauma, turn on our Lights and illuminate our way through the tangle of issues that face us, one by one or all at once?

Question # 4

Could enough people sending an intention of a barrage of Love Boms to Russia and Ukraine and ALL our leaders worldwide be influential in de-escalating the war in Europe to the level where a solution can and will be found?

Question # 5

What does it take for a self-created out-of-balance society starting with me, to come into balance?

Question # 6

What will it take for each of us to recognize and realize who we really are en masse?

Question # 7

Can humanity exist without so much suffering? Can you and I? Yes. “Pain is necessary, but suffering is optional.” (Buddha) Darkness is necessary. Evil is optional. One teaches and may cause pain. The latter causes suffering. Discovering the distinction between the two is golden.

Conclusion

We are all One, so any answers received by one will benefit the Whole of Humanity; let’s get our questions in order so the answers move us toward a greater restored peace, prosperity, and True freedom.

The above are only a few questions whose answers may help bring a future worth living. I know countless others are waiting to be asked.

In Love and Trust,
Kaye

How to Quit a Habit

How to Quit a Habit

Introduction 

This week’s blog is about how to quit a habit via a story. It worked for me, and I envision it can work for you, too.

You may know the father of holistic medicine, Edgar Cayce, recommended moderation in all things for people as a general guideline for general health and well-being. He also said moderation was not an easy task for most. If my own life and those I’ve known are examples, I agree with Edgar.

A bicycling, fully employed ninety-six-year-old once told me that being consistent with his diet and health was the most challenging but critical task he had ever had. The hardest thing I ever had to stop was a cigarette addiction. I know. Gross. But don’t judge. I felt ashamed enough of my unhealthy behavior for a hundred people. I was in denial of my slow suicide, and I went out of my way to hide my addiction or thought I did.

Mark Twain Said It Best.

Like most smokers, including master writer Mark Twain, “It is easy to quit smoking. Why I’ve done it a thousand times.”

My father smoked like a chimney was one, but he was never successful. He smoked– unfiltered Lucky Strikes back in the day. As a child, I was attracted to the name. When you think about it, who doesn’t want to have endless lucky strikes at a whim? Those sly tobacco companies knew how to name a brand.

His choices didn’t stop me from seeking ways to help myself quit. For years, ceasing the habit didn’t “take” with me either. Hypnosis or chewing Nicorette gum didn’t work for me. Neither did the tape that programmed me to stop smoking for life nor the training that tried to instill fear of smoking with all sorts of scary threats if I didn’t quit.

Finally, it wasn’t the dozens of well-meaning but judgmental lectures from healthcare practitioners and friends that helped either. Countless times, I tried quitting by myself and with buddies, and once even in a group.

Examining the Mindset and Other Hurdles

I didn’t give up. One-by-one, I sorted through the hurdles. One was that all of my family members and many of my inner circle of friends smoked cigarettes. It was an impromptu social event to do it together.

Another was the suppressed and repressed anger that started appearing when I quit. I was always so calm and peaceful when I smoked.

Never wearing clothing more than once, brushing my teeth each time I had a cigarette, driving with the car window down, refusing to smoke in my house, but only outside, and thinking I was keeping the odor, my shame, and habit/addiction a secret. I seriously needed a wake-up call to the out-of-balance situation.

Later, after quitting, I occasionally mentioned to a friend or co-worker that I had been a smoker and had stopped. And invariably, they would always say, “I knew you were a smoker.” We don’t hide anything even when we think we do.  

Life mightily assists us on our wisdom path when we are open to it. I feel like a different person than the one in my old story because I am. I could not dare to share these things once upon a time. It feels like freedom to do so, to tell the truth as best as I can, shadows and all.

It is also doubly worth sharing my obsessiveness, addiction, and process of disentangling from life-taking influences and patterns I’ve worked through with you, dear reader. Human life can be tricky at times for any of us, and I would love this sharing to assist your process of letting go of old patterns and behaviors, even in the smallest of ways. 

The Wake-Up Call I Picked Up

What finally tripped the switch was one thing. My father had an aneurysm and ended up in the hospital. They put him on oxygen; afterward was caught smoking five times! He could have blown himself and his room up, maybe hurt others, but he could not stop smoking. Finally, they kicked him out of the hospital for it. And that was a big deal for our family.

That was what did it for me. I could not imagine being at the end of life with all it entails and having to quit a lifelong habit such as smoking cigarettes. I decided right then and there that I would “quit until I quit, and quit I would. There had to be a way, and I would find it.

You can’t solve a problem on the same level which created it.

                                                                                       Albert Einstein

Another approach was necessary. For decades, I’ve been a fan with some success at asking Love Consciousness a question and letting the answer find its way back to me. It’s a unique variation of “ask, and you will receive.” I was starting at square one, so I asked. “What do I need first?”

A few nights later, I was sitting in my backyard (smoking a cigarette and enjoying the fireflies) and heard the answer in my head. “Mind is the Builder.” To begin with, “Ask yourself how you can want to quit smoking cigarettes more than you want to continue smoking.” Once the answer to this first question shows up, you will find your way to success.

I needed to build my desire to quit more than continue smoking. What a sound answer it turned out to be. This helped me learn “Everything is an inside job.” Once we get clear and focused inside, the outside takes care of itself.

A Quit Date

Ninety days in the future became my target date to become a nonsmoker. My most successful attempts to quit smoking for the most extended lengths were planned rather than “cold turkey,” which was always short-lived. We each have what works for us best. 

Preparations

In the meantime, I pondered, “How can I want to become a nonsmoker rather than continue smoking — without health issues?” Soon, I began to feel ready and to look forward to being a nonsmoker. I asked other questions, too.

“What didn’t help when I quit before.” “What helped when I quit before?” “What hurdles will there be?” “How shall I handle the anger and other negative emotions that I stuffed along the way with the addiction?” What can I do to make this effort successful? I trusted the answers would show up, and they did.

Visualizing in advance was recommended. I envisioned people asking me if I wanted a smoke in stressful situations. I would answer in each, “No, thank you. I’m a nonsmoker.” I decided to use Nicotine patches, reducing them in potency over three months, to help with the physical withdrawal, a rubber band to snap against my wrist to pattern-interrupt cravings (ouch!), and long walks on the beach when the anger would boil up.

Realizing that certainly, after about a million cravings – the end of craving is the end of craving – just like the end of suffering is no more suffering. I visualized getting through the temporary onslaught of difficulty I saw coming and fulfilling my quest. If I had any resistance, I would remind myself to “just quit until you love being a nonsmoker. Then decide if you want to start again.”

Becoming a Nonsmoker

The day came. It was in the summer sometime in 1996 when, after thirty years of being addicted to cigarettes, I finally had my last one. The first three days and into three weeks were rough, physically, mentally, and emotionally. I took long walks on the beach. I dreamed my father offered me a cigarette, and I accepted. I was so happy to wake up and realize it was a dream and I had not put the stuff in my body.

Around six months out, I realized I genuinely loved being a nonsmoker, and all cravings for nicotine and cigarettes finally dissolved. Where once my whole life revolved around replenishing nicotine in my body, it is no longer of any consequence whatsoever. I am free of it.

I am also not bothered by other people smoking; I have no judgment about it or people who smoke. Many people have a much easier time quitting than I did, but I was able, with the help of questioning the One-Who-Knows-the-Answers-to-All-Questions, listening to the answers, and applying them.

Conclusion

In this little blog named, How to Quit a Habit, you have now read a strategy that worked to change one habit, in this case, smoking cigarettes, to becoming a nonsmoker. It inspires you to find your best path to successfully transforming dreary old life-taking habits into renewal and freedom from them.

Here’s a question for you. Is there something you would like to drop, change or add to your life? If so, maybe consider asking some questions to get your mindset moving in the right direction and other questions whose answers support your success. So simple, yet very powerful.

Thank you for your comments.

Love and Gratitude,
Kaye

Three Milestones on the Path to Personal Awakening

Three Milestones on the Path to Personal Awakening

Introduction

To start 2023, I offer you a blog about three milestones on the path to personal awakening we reach that came to mind recently. Ideas for blogs are always plentiful. It’s the execution of them in a way that makes sense, is semantically precise, and also hopefully serves your best that’s the tricky part. I invite you to add your comments.

We’ll approach each milestone one at a time to explore the hallmarks of that part of the journey, i.e., what there is to glean and what is better left behind as we proceed.

Our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual fortitude at any given moment may determine our pace, or maybe the speed is already pre-determined. We can’t know for sure. What we do know is that seemingly losing ground and then gathering our best strength to keep moving forward helps crystalize our advancement to the new milestone we’ve reached.

With each milestone, true inner freedom increases.

The First Milestone  — Sleepwalking in Our Conditioning

At the first milestone, we appear to be at the mercy of the world around us. Our parents and immediate environment teach us about our world. We are deeply “conditioned” with these “teachings” and often traumatized in ways we know and don’t know. These traumas express via life-taking feelings, beliefs, thoughts, behaviors, and actions, all rooted in the sense of separation from our Source of Being.

While traversing the first milestone, we often feel like life is happening to us, it is the way it is, and we are powerless to do anything about it. In our confused plight, we turn around and blame others for all our problems. In this unevolved victim state of perspective, we suffer greatly and project our pain onto others. We are sleepwalking and deeply misinformed about life and ourselves at Milestone One.

Each milestone holds a treasure

“. . .just like the lotus, we too have the ability to rise from the mud, bloom out of the darkness and radiate into the world.” — Unknown

As time marches on, we may be blessed to perceive or to have it pointed out to us that we are engaged in repeated patterns of suffering. We may become sick and tired of old and painful habits, tendencies, and practices that seem to stick to us no matter what we do. We slowly, or occasionally in a flash, eventually realize how we remain the one common denominator in all our suffering. And blaming ourselves is no better than blaming others.

At this point, the pain drives us to find a way to get humble, i.e., flexible in perspective and seek a new perspective to stop the suffering. Here we begin to wake up, but to what, we’re not exactly sure. We do know that we want to forge a new path in life rather than succumb to being controlled by the past or others in ways that are no longer useful at best and life-sucking at worst.

The Second Milestone – Self Discovery

When we reach the second milestone, our newfound flexibility in perspective initiates a new blueprint for further greater self-reflection. Corresponding shifts in our thoughts, feelings, and actions soon begin to occur. The thoughts and feelings of manifesting greater freedom engender a sense of personal power, power to act in alignment with our authentic Selves.

We are the ones, at long last, who get to decide who we will be, what we will do, and how we will live. We arrive at the second milepost ready to become who we are, not what others want us to be.

We dive into self-help and spiritual growth. We affirm “new and improved” personal, communal, and global beliefs that promise to transcend suffering and deliver the new life we are creating. Vision boards adorn our walls as we imagine the creation of the life we desire fulfilled.

We travel. We start companies. We live in ashrams. We dream of futures. We exercise. We raise families. We become Astrologers. Health Care Providers. Accountants. Visual Artists. We skydive. Become master musicians. Teach kids. Politically polarize, Argue over whose values are best, and billions of other things. We feel alive.

At this point in our path, we are determined to recondition ourselves in the image of our desires and, in doing so, embrace a brand new paradigm. And it works — to an extent. We are making our own choices and living up to our potential as human beings. Life seems better than it did before. And yet, there is more in store for us, too.

Here we go again.

It’s not forever before we discover that not every desire that comes to our hearts and minds gets fulfilled. Plus, we see “blind spots” that continue to cause us suffering, albeit less than before. Still, the worst pain is the pain we don’t know we have, and humanity is overflowing with suppressed trauma. We discover we traded victimization, blame, and judging others for empowerment. In our deepening humility and compassion for ourselves and others, it dawns on us that there is another milepost ahead.

Our wisdom deepens. We realize that maybe we don’t have free will as we thought, but we still show up to the play, relax and accept our roles, gifts, etc., as they unfold. We remember to laugh. See what happens. Let go of what goes. The third milestone can be seen from here.

The Third Milestone – Heaven on Earth

As we narrow our gap on the third milestone, our perspective elevates to seeing life through the Heart of Love. Comparisons and judgments no longer exist. We live purely in the present moment, and everything around us is seen with fresh childlike/Christlike eyes.

The tapestry of life is seen with crystal clarity when past the third milestone. Finally, we see with crystal clear vision that we do not have a broken universe, nor are we or others broken as once believed. We feel safe, whole, loved, and trusting as this third milestone of our awakening path of perspective dawns and lights up Reality. Our entire vision fills up with the living dream of Heaven-on-Earth.

At the third milestone, we see our True Identity. We are creative, cooperative, flexible, focused, loving, and balanced. We are all part of the One True Absolute Self. Evil still exists in our world dream but is merely a shadow of its former self, no pun intended. 

Conclusion 

Today, we explored three milestones on the path to personal awakening. The first seemed to portend a victim consciousness, full of suffering and unconsciousness and seemingly conditioned by external forces.

The second milestone on the path was reached when we made a stand and claimed our ability to create our reality with intention. We learned everything about the subject and applied what we learned with due diligence. Our experience broadened, but we saw that our direction was still lacking in the ultimate fulfillment we sought.

We began to let go of everything we once thought we knew and, finally, saw the light of surrender. The third milestone immerses us in the beauty of Love Consciousness, where we are content to let things unfold as they will, without stress, judgment, or attempts of control, i.e., life as it was meant to be.

Write your comments below. We would love to hear them. Thanks.

With love and service to the Divine in us All,
Kaye