2020 – Step 108: Indirect Discovery

“When your body is crucified with the disease, ascend in the consciousness of health.  When your mind is crucified with trials and temptations, arise in the sphere of self-control.  When you are entombed in sorrow, resurrect yourself into happiness.  When you are buried beneath restlessness, resurrect your mind into continued calmness in deep meditative silence.   …

Step 302: Beam Me Up Scottie!

When walls go up - misunderstandings occur.  Value.  Worth.  Substance.  Running like a thread through all of life's lessons is recognizing that growth and maturity come from being able to find creative solutions to problems and persevering even when solutions are not readily available.  Life is benevolent - if we miss a "class" - it …

Step 94: Next Steps

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as who you become by achieving your goals."  Thoreau Where do you feel "pressured" to fit in?  Expansion - Contraction -  Transformation.  Point of Balance.  Spirit experiences life in the Sacred Temple called "my body."  When emotions gain momentum - managing impulsive/compulsive actions becomes …

Step 74: The Answer in The Question

"Viator - (n) a wayfarer - traveler."   ~Dictionary.com Common ground.  Convergence. Evidence is only as good as the model and modeling can be dangerous business. How much evidence is enough?  Time to move on.  The Mind bows to the Heart. Smaller Forces bow to Greater Forces.  Rite of Passage.  Milestones.  For today - the outer …

Step 73: Where Proof + Evidence + Imagination Intersect

February 22, 2019.  Do you remember?  Did you make a promise or were hoping for something?  Think.  Change is a process - not an event. Control is constraint - Creation is expansion. Patience, perseverance, stillness, objectivity, observation are all very important qualities of a MIND that is becoming STILL. It is not going to sleep. …