Simply resolve to be a better version of yourself...

Don't waste any energy on guilt. Simply resolve to be a better version of yourself and put ALL of your energy on accomplishing that...

Have you ever witnessed Nature feeling guilty? God does not feel guilty. The Universe may create tremendous collateral damage through a cosmic event, but it never experiences guilt.

Guilt is a human construct. We are brainwashed into feeling guilt. It is a way of keeping us "in the corral." Any activity outside of the "accepted" behavior and we are taught to punish ourselves.

If God is all things, all knowing, and all loving then what could God possibly need from you? Certainly no specific behavior. God gave you a free will so that you could explore. There is no "wrath of God", no "judgement." If and when you do something that doesn't represent who YOU are, your greatest vision of yourself, then change course and aim for that...

Resolve to be a better version of yourself today, simply because you desire to be...

Duffy 

When you used to say, "Don't jinx me!", subconsciously you knew...

Your thoughts actually cause things to happen. Remember when you used to say, "Don't jinx me!"? Subconsciously you knew...

Thoughts have great power. They create your existence. Words have greater power still. Your souls knows this, so on some level your mind does also.

Most people are convinced that the world around them is fixed and unchangeable. It is however nothing but energy, patterns of energy that your brain turns into images. It is your thoughts about these images that create YOUR existence. No? How is it then that one person can "see" the same thing and one thinks it ugly, while the other thinks it beautiful? Or right and wrong?

You are not a victim of the world subject to its whims. You are a powerful creative spirit that can create the world of your choosing. Witness someone who chooses happiness. It may be someone who you see as disadvantaged or handi-capped, yet they choose to see the silver lining. What is different? Their thoughts...

Once again, your soul knows this. When you used to say, "Don't jinx me!", subconsciously you knew...

Duffy

Start believing it is a world where everyone is working together...

It is only a "dog eat dog" world if you believe it so...

Start believing it is a world where everyone is working together

and it will be so...

From early in life we are told, "it's a dog eat dog world, only the strong survive, it's survival of the fittest..." Is it any wonder you think you're in competition with everyone/everything?

WE are intended to be in COOPERATION with everyone/everything... It is in our DNA. No? Drop something next a toddler, and he/she will run to pick it up for you. It is only after a continuous repetition of fear based rules that we begin to see the world through the cracked lens of fear and competition.

You know what? If you look past that lens it is all like it was...

Start believing it is a world where everyone is working together and it will be so...

Duffy

BE the change you want to see...

 

You are the only one you can change. BE the change you want to see.

SEE the change you want to be.

Nature is always changing, becoming what it wants to BE. Humans? Not so much. The irony is we love to observe the changes in nature; the change in the seasons, flowers blossoming, new leaves, old leaves, the first snow...

When it comes to ourselves, we want everyone else to do the changing. We want more honesty, fairness, love, compassion, kindness, principles, morals, virtue... But we want the world to go first, we want the change to accomodate us. 

YOU are the only one you can change. If you want to see more compassion, go first. BE more compassionate, SEE more compassion. Be on the lookout for compassion and you will see a more compassionate world. Look for opportunities to be more compassionate and you and all in your world will experience a more compassionate world!

You are the only one you can change. BE the change you want to see. SEE the change you want to be.

Duffy

Your ego is not a team player...

Your soul is the part of you that is the TEAM player with the Universe... Your ego is not a team player...

What happens is what is supposed to happen. Think about that. Why is it that you resist so much of what happens? The answer is your Ego...

Since you're Ego NEEDS to be constantly reinforced it is special, it is continually bristling at everything whether true or imagined that shows its irrelevance. It requires exceptualism, even if one has to wear victimhood to gain notice. When it is not being fed we experience a host of negative emotions; anxiety, annoyance, anger, irritation, worry, etc. Usually this is where we fall back to judgement as a remedy...

Instead of judgement which reinforces separateness try allowance and acceptance. Our soul is interested in cooperation/collaboration/harmony. It's peculiar that we laud team players in athletics, but in living/ politics/finances, TEAM somehow undermines and threatens
"rugged individualism." Team is natural. Individual is artificial...

When you experience any negative emotions, use them as a signal to seek cooperation. Submit to the TEAM...

Duffy

Being part of the "ONE" has always been our true identity...

All fear comes from our sense of self. We fear losing our identity, but being part of the "ONE" has always been our true identity.

Our Ego wants us to see ourselves as separate. Separate is never equal, so our Ego tells us we are also superior/better/more worthy... SPECIAL! We identify with "things" that show us to be better. When someone spends $550 on a leather coat, the coat conveys you had the ability to purchase it, that you had the sophisticated taste to choose a trendy style, that you can afford to live in a place where it is safe to go out and brandish it...YOU ARE BUYING IDENTITY with the coat, identity that demonstrates clearly that you are better.

This identity is never lasting, and so must be constantly replenished. Tremendous fear is generated by your Ego when your ability to exhibit superiority is threatened. It needs to be BETTER!

Your true identity however, is that you are simply part of a greater whole, a "ONE"...You  are nothing more than a tiny piece of the Universe and subject to its cycles, its plan, its needs. Your Ego will fight anything that suggests this is your true identity, because your Ego becomes insignificant as soon as you awaken to who you are.

Notice when your Ego tries to point out how you are special and find a reason showing you're connected to all...

Duffy

The river is still going to the same place...

You can flow with the river and love life or you can try to swim against it hating every day. The river is still going to the same place...

The Tao (the WAY) has been called the river of life. You and I all follow the river, as do all of the animals and plants. The progression of the entire Universe is one continuous flowing stream of events.

You know this at the subconscious level of BEing. Your Ego however tells you that you that you are more important than God/Universe/Tao, that you aren't just a spoke on the wheel, but the HUB of the wheel! You are not. No amount of fighting the flow will change its course...

You can flow with the river and love life or you can try to swim against it hating every day. The river is still going to the same place...

Accept and allow that everything that happens is normal and fine today...flow...

Duffy