Kindness

Everyone alive knows how hard it can be to be human. Trying to survive can be cruel. People in Darfur and Iraq and those living on the streets of any big city know. Those with life threatening illnesses and depression know. Those with loved ones in harms way and those with severe mental illness know. Those who have lost their faith or their children or their love, they all know.

My question is, since we all know what pain is why would we not try to show compassion to others who are in the same boat? I realize we aren't all in the same part of the boat but none the less in the end we all come to the same destination before departing.

How can we enrich the journey? The answer is simple but not easy. It takes courage to look at the problem, it takes insight and self esteem. Are we brave enough to make eye contact with those who like us travel along? How would we like our children to be treated, our parents, our partner? How can we best serve those we love, even if we don't know that is what this is?

We are not seperate from them or better it's an illusion to believe differently. Once we figure out that we are safe, we realize that it's not threating to be kind and caring is not optional anymore.

Finding the way

I have seen so many people struggle with finding their way through the spiritual realms and to them I give this knowledge. Your answers are within, no one "out there" has our answers but they can give us direction, like a lighthouse, lighting the way so that the shore can be found.

Everyone has an inner voice, feeling or sense that is available to use as a guide, we all have our own "lighthouse". Finding that consistent inner knowing can be difficult, especially if we don't know what we are listening for.

"Peace be still," is an excellent mantra for quieting our inner thought processes. That or something soothing and pleasant that you use is one way to quiet and balance the mind. Quiet peaceful thoughts will take us to places that are necessary in order to learn to listen. Listening takes patience, consistency and a sense of humor because the process can be frustrating and many would give up as the inner knowing is pushed aside for the impatience of our ego needs.

Life circumstances can be such a challenge that we think we have no time to meditate or listen, or we think so many other things should take precedence over becoming quiet when in fact it is in becoming quiet that we will be refreshed, recharged and more balanced. All of which will help us to hear what we really need to in order to make our lives better.

Doing something as simple as listening to ourselves, is a hugely positive step in gaining confidence in ourselves. Allowing ourselves to have our own feelings, being in our own lives and creating positive experiences with our own thoughts guiding the way are invaluable tools that are the beginning of giving to ourselves necessary to create a better reality.

And so it begins

Throughout my time on this planet I have had many rich and wonderful experiences. This blog is the culmination of my past existence and the beginning of a new direction for me.

I have traveled a harsh and mostly lonely road for the past 10 years, a dark night so long and bitter that I thought death would not only be a relief, but a welcome occurrence. I never allowed myself to go past the thought though as I had made a promise to myself years before, once I started down this path, that suicide would never be an option, and here I sit because if I knew one thing, it was how to keep a sacred vow, made to myself, long, long ago.

This site is dedicated to the advancement of the human spirit. It is here to serve, like a port in the storm, as a hideaway, an adventure and a soothing place to be yourself.

As the pages start to flow one into another it is my hope that those who pass this way leave inspired, wondering and thoughtful.