In that there is no ego on the other side of the veil, does it not make sense that the guides and the beings that guide us on our path will likely do so silently, not needing the affirmation that notice will provide? They do so with the single need and desire to see us to our destination, and out of harm’s way. They do not need constant attention as they do this. Just seeing us to our destination up the Mountain of Perfection is joy enough for them.

To endure pain is to help the human race to evolve. That is not to say to deliberately inflict pain on ourselves, no that would be ridiculous. The point here is to know that in times of pain and hardship, when the heart feels it can bare no more, these are times of growth, of lessons. Accept this. Accept it as a stretch of road on your journey towards your personal light. Consider your personal light to be the horizon you are journeying towards and that the light is the purpose you chose when you made the decision to incarnate such as you have. To endure the pain means to get through it, to the other side of it, stronger, wiser, and that much closer to your light. As we learn, the human race grows stronger. As we reach our light, the human race evolves. Consider this.

Daily, I witness the masks that people wear that hides their true selves. Why do they wear these masks? They wear these masks because they are secure in the attention they can get from others as long these masks are in place. They are unsure and uncertain of the attention they may receive from their own true authentic selves. To be aware of the masks others wear makes it possible to understand them and show understanding and compassion for them, aware that they wear these masks to hide an insecurity.

What we call “luck” is only but an assessment of circumstances. When we understand that patterns we follow to create the circumstances of our lives, we can begin to consciously construct our own circumstances and change the “luck” we are having. It really is all about understanding the patterns we follow. What are we doing to keep us arriving at the same walls we hit, or what are we doing to arrive at the same alleys of forward momentum? If you are unhappy with the walls you keep hitting, pay attention to the steps that took you there and try a new approach.

Sometimes, it is a maze- our search for answers and our own personal enlightenment. Sometimes it is all just a maze. We walk through it, searching and hoping to find the opening out of it at the other end, and there are these walls we bump into. So often, it is the exact same wall we have bumped into countless times before. For some, they are content to be at that wall. They give up the journey right there. They seek to get no farther. For others, they will not be content to stay at that wall. They will backtrack; paying attention to the steps they took that led them to that wall, careful not to repeat them. This is a lesson in perseverance, to find the path that does not lead to that same wall. Wall after wall, those who have the drive, the heart, and the desire will not repeat the patterns that lead them to the same wall over and over again, but instead will lead them out of the maze into the light.

Happy Buddha

Happiness is not in the attainment of this, that, or whatever. Happiness is the natural state of all our beings. It is expressed in the uncovering of our core light that has been over covered by layer upon layer of mind gunk that is its barrier to love expression. Remove these layers, crumble the cinder blocks of fear regret, remorse, sadness, worry and be amazed at how brightly this light shines. It is and can be amazing when it is genuine.