Sunday, March 10, 2013
I am honored to be part of this LOVEly short video!
This short video is a wonderful glimpse into the mystical art of my friend, Yvonne Rosenlund. I have the great honor to be a part of this. During one of my evenings of meditation and reflection, at The Port of Dubuque, I wrote a poem, and shared it on Facebook. Yvonne asked if she could create one of her fabulous Zendalas, with my poem as the theme. I, of course, said, "YES!", and I am joyful for this collaboration.
Check out the video...less than two minutes long...and then check out her work. It really is beautiful, like its creator. Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
Patrick
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Saturday, March 9, 2013
Imagine this... A true story!
Imagine this... One day, you wake up to a bunch of smiling strangers, wearing lab coats. They are clearly glad to see you, and they look vaguely familiar. Yet, everything feels strange. This is not your bedroom. This room is filled with computers and bright lights and wires, and some of these wires are connected to you.
Imagine this... After what feels like a very long time, one of these smiling strangers says, "You ran the simulation well. Really well. That is our best run yet. Tell us, did it feel real? Did the amnesia protocols do their job? It seemed like you were completely immersed in the game. What was it like?"
Imagine this... You have no answers, at first, because as she is asking you these questions, you are trying to process two distinct sets of memories...your life, in the simulation (the one that you are experiencing, as you read this), and your life before your participation in the simulation. At first, they both feel true, and not true.
Imagine this... As you are able to more easily hold both sets of memories as true, you realize that everything you experienced, in the simulation, was a game, and one that you created. You are the designer of this whole project. This lab. These people. The simulation. They are all because of you, and your groundbreaking work.
Imagine this... You realize that everything you experienced in your simulation was very real, while it was happening, and at the same time, a construct of your mind and emotions. It was real because you believed it was, and now you realize just how beautiful all of it was...still is.
Imagine this... As you get your bearings, you realize that you still feel the love for all of your loved ones, but none of the hate for those you thought of as your enemies. In fact, you feel a fondness for them, as you might for a bad guy, in a movie. This is new. This is the first time you have felt like this, after a simulation. A breakthrough.
Imagine this... Days go by. Tests and meetings and computer diagnosis and medical examinations fill your days, and you still feel a deep love for the people and experiences of your simulation. You realize that the you, of the simulation, will always be alive within you. As will all of your experiences...the people, your choices, your feelings and thoughts, all of it.
Imagine this... About a week later, you hear a knock at your office door. You open the door, and it is one of the new senior engineers. For a brief moment, you have a funny feeling about them, and it passes. You invite them in, noticing that they will not make eye contact with you.
Imagine this... They sit down, across from you, still not making eye contact, and they ask your forgiveness, in advance of what they are about to tell you. You agree, and when they look up at you, your heart skips a beat. What an unusual feeling. If you didn't know better, you would say that you were feeling something like love.
Imagine this... As you are trying to pull yourself together, they look at you, and say, "Again, I am really sorry. I was told to do it, by the project manager. I was new, and I didn't feel like I could refuse. I was in the simulation with you. I know you feel it. Even as I am telling you this. You know that I was your love. You can feel it."
Imagine this... You are reeling, and they continue, "I remember when we first met. When we got married. I remember the births of our two children. I remember burying our oldest. I remember the day you died, and I remember the years of living without you. And I can't help myself. I still love you. Are you angry?"
Imagine this... As you sit, across from them, with tears of great joy, in your eyes, you have no words. So, you come around the desk, and they stand up...and then you are holding each other. It is strange, at first...you are different than you were...and then, all of a sudden, it is familiar and beautiful.
Imagine this... For a long time, you simply hold each other, and they say, "Do you remember what you said to me, whenever I was sad or worried? You would always say, 'Nothing is ever lost, and nothing ever dies.' I always wanted to believe it. Now, here we are, and I have you again." And with a little smile, you say, "And I have you again."
Imagine this... This is just a story. As all stories are, it is true. Is it real? It is as real as the emotions you felt, when you read it. It is as real as you believe it to be. Just a couple more questions. How would you live, if you knew that nothing ever died, and nothing was ever lost? How would you live, if you knew that your every experience is your creation, and it is perfect and beautiful?
Imagine this... When you woke up this morning, you actually entered a simulation, with implanted memories of all kinds of experiences...worries, joys, hates, loves, feelings, thoughts, etc... Your whole past, a construct, created by you. Your whole world, existing because you believe it does. How do you live, today, with this freedom?
Imagine.
Blessings. I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
Patrick
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
It's only pretend, right?
Can you imagine yourself letting them be, with no need to make some wrong, and some right? Can you imagine that, whether you see them all as beautiful, as blessing, they are? Can you imagine that you are the one deciding factor in the existence of each one? Can you imagine that what you call blessed, though it seem otherwise, is blessed...that even what you may have called cursed, may be blessed, if you say it is?
Imagine yourSelf as perfect LOVE...as That, in which all is perfect and true and whole. Imagining is a nobler sounding word than pretending, but pretending is no less powerful. If it is easier for you to say "pretend", remember this little mantra -- "Pretending is practicing, and practicing is remembering."
Pretending is practicing, and practicing is remembering. Say it a few times, to yourself. Then say it a few times, aloud. Feel it. Let yourself feel it. What are you practicing today? Can you let yourself practice blessing everything, regardless of how you have previously known it? Can you practice being LOVE, and allowing your world to be LOVE? Allowing all of it, then being easy with yourself, when it is hard, or when it feels like lying?
Pretending is practicing, and practicing is remembering. What you are remembering, and what no one else can remember for you, is that you are LOVE...perfect being, perfect understanding, perfect allowing. You are remembering that you are LOVE, and that everything you experience is you, is LOVE. This is what you are remembering. You are LOVE, and LOVE is all. You are LOVE, which knows all as LOVE.
Today, can you let all of your opposites...love and hate and joy and pain and sadness and happiness and light and dark and so on and so forth...be whole and perfect and true, living within you? Can you pretend that they are? Can you pretend that you are LOVE, in which all is perfect and whole and true, living within you?
It's only pretend, right?
Patrick
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Do you know what happens?
Do you know what happens when you relax about your spirituality and enlightenment and heaven and saving and being saved and...all of it...all the worry about getting to something or back to something or becoming something?
Do you know what happens when you relax all the letting go and digging and releasing and cleansing?
Do you know what happens when you simply let yourself be? When you let your world be? When you let God/Source/Universe be?
You begin to remember that "what is" is perfect, as it is. You begin to remember that you are perfect, as you are. You begin to remember that there is nothing to become, and nothing to stop becoming. You begin to remember that you are (already, always) everything you seek.
You are everything you seek. You can relax. There is nothing missing in you. There is nothing extra in you. You are perfect and whole and true, as you are. In truth, you are LOVE, in which all is perfect and whole and true. You are LOVE, in which all exists.
When you remember yourSelf as LOVE, you remember that your world is LOVE too. This is what happens, when you relax. You begin to remember things like this. You begin to remember that you are LOVE, and LOVE is all. You remember that you are LOVE, and LOVE knows all things as Itself. LOVE knows all as LOVE.
You are LOVE. LOVE is all. LOVE knows all as LOVE! Say it with me, "I AM LOVE, and know all as LOVE!" Remember?
Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
Patrick
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Morning Meditation -- Friday, February 15, 2013
In this perfect moment, I am aware of the times, when I have felt these feelings. Nothing to change. Nothing to fix or make right. I simply am aware of them, and I allow them to be, exactly as they are. I allow them, and I love them as my creation. I love them as perfect experience, perfectly created, and I love myself, as their creator.
In this, is ease and well-being. In this, I begin to remember that I am everything I seek...that all lives within me...and I remember that...
I AM LOVE, and know all as LOVE!
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Morning Greeting! -- Friday, February 15, 2013
So. Yesterday was LOVE Day! What would happen, if you just kept it going? What if you decided that today was LOVE Day, too? What if you chose to experience yourself and everything and everyone through the lens of love?
I invite you to keep the flame alive, to renew your love for life, to remember what is joy for you! I invite you to choose, today, totake nothing personally, and to take nothing for granted. I invite you to pay attention, and be thoughtful and kind.
I invite you to be easy with yourself, and with those around you. I invite you to laugh and dance and sing and play, and be unabashedly in love with your life.
I invite you to ask yourself, "What would it feel like to, all of a sudden, remember that I am perfect LOVE, creating all of this, perfectly? What if I remembered that I am LOVE, and I knew everything as LOVE?"
I invite you to let today be LOVE Day, and let yourself celebrate love in all of its aspects. I also invite you to remember yourSelf as LOVE, and to remember everyone you meet as LOVE. Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
Patrick
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A Special LOVE Day Message -- February 14, 2013
I am always my own sweet heart. I love me, with all of my particular thoughts and feelings. I love me, and even when I forget how much I love me...I remember later and then I love that forgetful me too. How about you? Can you allow YOU to be the true love of your life?
Can you allow YOU to be the true love of your life? Can you hear the worries of "but that's narcissism" or "that's selfishness", while also remembering that truly loving yourself means that you feel whole and at ease with yourself, and when you do...oh, when you really are aware of yourself as LOVE In The Human Experience...then you are anything but selfish or narcissistic? Can you feel that?
Can you feel how self-love...remembering yourself as perfect and whole...remembering yourself as LOVE In The Human Experience...means loving your whole self? Can you see how self-love would lead to loving...more and more...your every experience? Can you see how being the love of your life can lead to loving every aspect of your life...including other people and places and experiences?
Let today be a day of loving yourself. Let today be a day of remembering...or at least pretending...yourself as LOVE. Can you allow yourself to be perfect and whole...exactly as you are...for just this moment? For just a moment...can you love yourself, exactly as you are, and let that be enough? Can you know that as all that is, for just this moment?
Remember yourSelf as LOVE, and remember your world as yourSelf. You are LOVE. LOVE is all. LOVE knows all as LOVE. Blessings!
I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
Patrick
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Morning Meditation -- Thursday, February 14, 2013
I am loving it all, as I love the moments when I have allowed mySelf, my world, everyone I meet and know, my every experience to be LOVE. I am loving it all, just I love my choices to give and serve and allow. I remember that it is all my creation, and I love it all. In this perfect moment, I remember that it is all truly perfect, and I remember that...
I AM LOVE, and know all as LOVE!
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Morning Greeting! -- Thursday, February 14, 2013
You are LOVE...perfect being, perfect understanding, perfect allowing. You are LOVE. You are That, in which all exists. You are That, in which all is perfect and whole and true! Woohoo!
You are LOVE, and LOVE is all. LOVE is all, and knows all as LOVE. Today is a perfect day, for remembering this. Remember yourSelf as LOVE, and remember everyone you meet as LOVE.
Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
Patrick
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Morning Meditation -- Wednesday 13, 2013
I can also choose to roll with the change, and what I may have, before, called "disappointment", I can choose to call "reappointment". I can choose to allow "what is" and remember that, consciously and unconsciously, I create my world. I can choose to allow "what is" to be perfect, and pay attention to the blessings, living in this moment.
Such freedom, in allowing "what is"! Such ease and well-being, when I remember that nothing is lost...that everything is alive within me. Such joy and delight, in choosing to know this moment as perfect, and myself as the perfect creator of this moment. In this, may I allow the moment to be opportunity and excitement! Woohoo! Hallelujah!
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Morning Greeting! -- Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Do you know what happy people know? Happy people don't wait for their world to make them happy. They allow every moment to be, as it is, and they find the happiness, in the moment...exactly as it is.
Today, you can practice the art of happiness, by asking yourself, "What is the joy in this moment? What is the blessing?" In every moment, you have the power to curse the moment, and you have the power to bless the moment, as it is.
Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
Patrick
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Morning Greeting! -- Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Make time, today, for playing and laughing and singing and dancing. Remember, it is all make-believe. Let it be fun! It can all be fun. Have fun, and don't take it so seriously, eh?
Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
Patrick
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My morning meditation - Tuesday, April 12, 2013
In this perfect moment, I am simply allowing my thoughts and feelings, and blessing them as I am aware of them. I bless each one, as they come, while I also choose to know the whole of my experience as blessed. I bless my world, and I live in a world of blessing.
I AM LOVE, and know all as LOVE!
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Who are your bad guys...your adversaries and enemies?
Who are your bad guys...your adversaries and enemies? What are you fighting for? What are you fighting against?What is so wrong, that it must be righted? Who do you feel pity or sympathy for...who needs to be fixed?
Relax, my LOVElies! Ask these question, with no need for judgment or guilt, and no need to correct or fix anything. Just allow the questions, and answer them honestly. Then, remember that your whole human experience is your creation.
This is great news and a powerful reminder that you are free to create anything. You are free to create your world as broken and imperfect. This is a perfect way to create your world, by the way. You are also free to create your world as whole and perfect. Another perfect way to create your world.
Now is simply a wonderful time, for being aware...paying attention...to how you are creating your world. It only takes awareness and allowing. Pay attention, with no need for guilt or judgment, and then simply allow for your own inner wisdom...the voice of LOVE...to whisper the truth of you.
In every moment, perfect LOVE whispers, over and over, "I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE. I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE. I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE." Listen to this voice, and rejoice. Your life is only as difficult as you believe it to be, and you are always free to believe it easy.
When I simply allow, and create with ease, I live in the NOW, and life's a breeze!
Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know You as LOVE!
Patrick
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You are all that you seek.
You are heaven, nirvana, enlightenment, fulfillment, wealth, health, well-being, joy, freedom, music, dancing, friends, understanding, pleasure, union, acceptance, ease, peace, beauty, love, etc...
You are all that you seek.
In truth, you are LOVE, in which all things exist. You are LOVE, in which all that you seek is true and perfect and whole. You are LOVE...perfect being, perfect understanding, perfect allowing...and everything you seek is alive within you.
You are all that you seek.
You are LOVE. Remember? You are LOVE, and LOVE is all. You are LOVE, and LOVE knows all as LOVE. Make some time, right now, to practice allowing LOVE to be all. Pretend, if you must, at first. After all, pretending is practicing, and practicing is remembering.
You are all that you seek.
Remember yourSelf as LOVE, and remember your world as yourSelf. You are all that you seek. Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
Patrick
"Oh my god! Here, taste this. It's horrible."
"Oh my god! Here, taste this. It's horrible."
What are you sharing, in your social media...in your FB posts, your tweets, your Tumblr posts, your texts?
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Who Are Your Bad Guys? -- A Quick Meditation Starter -- February 13, 2013
Who are your bad guys...your adversaries and enemies? What are you fighting for? What are you fighting against?What is so wrong, that it must be righted? Who do you feel pity or sympathy for...who needs to be fixed?
Relax, my LOVElies! Ask these question, with no need for judgment or guilt, and no need to correct or fix anything. Just allow the questions, and answer them honestly. Then, remember that your whole human experience is your creation.
This is great news and a powerful reminder that you are free to create anything. You are free to create your world as broken and imperfect. This is a perfect way to create your world, by the way. You are also free to create your world as whole and perfect. Another perfect way to create your world.
Now is simply a wonderful time, for being aware...paying attention...to how you are creating your world. It only takes awareness and allowing. Pay attention, with no need for guilt or judgment, and then simply allow for your own inner wisdom...the voice of LOVE...to whisper the truth of you.
In every moment, perfect LOVE whispers, over and over, "I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE. I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE. I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE." Listen to this voice, and rejoice. Your life is only as difficult as you believe it to be, and you are always free to believe it easy.
When I simply allow, and create with ease, I live in the NOW, and life's a breeze!
Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know You as LOVE!
Patrick
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Afternoon Meditation -- February 13, 2013
I can also choose to roll with the change, and what I may have, before, called "disappointment", I can choose to call "reappointment". I can choose to allow "what is" and remember that, consciously and unconsciously, I create my world. I can choose to allow "what is" to be perfect, and pay attention to the blessings, living in this moment.
Such freedom, in allowing "what is"! Such ease and well-being, when I remember that nothing is lost...that everything is alive within me. Such joy and delight, in choosing to know this moment as perfect, and myself as the perfect creator of this moment. In this, may I allow the moment to be opportunity and excitement! Woohoo! Hallelujah!
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Some Inside Scoop Into The Truth Of You!
Can you let this be true, even for just a bit? Can you let yourself feel the stirring within you? The "Yes!", that is knocking about, inside of you? Can you, at least, entertain the idea, or simply pretend it to be true...for just a little bit?
Try it. Give it a whirl. Because here's the thing. It's true, but I can understand if it doesn't feel that way...at least, at first. This is where pretending comes in, and is so brilliant. Pretending is practicing, and practicing is remembering.
And this is what we are really talking about. You are already perfect and whole, and you are remembering this, little by little. Pretending is simply a wonderful way for making this remembering a more conscious experience.
You are perfect and whole, and you are That, in which everything is perfect and whole...That, in which all exists. Now is a wonderful time, for remembering this. Remember yourSelf as whole, and remember your world as yourSelf.
Remember yourSelf as LOVE...perfect and whole...and remember your whole human experience as yourSelf. In this, is ease and well-being. In this, is joy and freedom. In this, is the whole truth of you. You are LOVE. LOVE is all. LOVE knows all as LOVE!
Blessings,
Patrick
A Quick Afternoon Meditation -- February 12, 2013
Make a moment, and be still and silent. Simply breathe, for a moment. Allow your breaths to be deep and slow...allow...allow...nothing
Now, relax into this moment, allowing these slow, deep breaths, and ask yourself this question, "What would it feel like, to celebrate even the smallest of joys, with no need to figure them out? What would it feel like to celebrate the biggest of blessings, with no need to figure them out?"
Keep breathing and allowing. Just let those questions flow through you. Allow them to be, with no hurry to answer them. When the answers do show themselves, allow yourself to feel them, as well as think them. Allow...allow. In this, you are allowing your own wisdom, and wisdom is the voice of LOVE...the whole truth of you.
Keep breathing and allowing and listening to wisdom...let it remind you of what it feels like to celebrate for no reason. Give yourself this gift of breathing and allowing and listening and remembering. What a gift! What a blessing, to allow this moment of connecting with the truth of you. Wonderful!
I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
Patrick
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Sunday, February 10, 2013
Daily Meditation -- February 10, 2013
In LOVE, all is true. In LOVE, all is real and beautiful. I remember that LOVE knows and allows all as LOVE. In this, is such ease and well-being. In this, is kindness and generosity. In this, is understanding and acceptance. In this, is abundance and fulfillment. In this, I remember that...
I AM LOVE, and know All as LOVE!
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Daily Meditation -- February 9, 2013
In this allowing and loving, my self-doubts and disappointments become old friends and servants, who have served me as I have asked them to. They have been the protectors, I created and charged with my defense. They are not my enemies. They are not stumbling blocks on the way to a better me. They have been my loyal and dutiful servants...important in the story of me.
How wonderful, to see our enemies as our friends. How freeing, to simply be as we are...with all the bits we love and don't love, allowed and loved, exactly as they are. This is healing without healing...without fixing or correcting anything. This is healing by allowing and loving what is...remembering what is as perfect and whole. How lovely!
I AM LOVE, and know all as LOVE!
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Morning Meditation -- February 6, 2012
I AM LOVE, and know all as LOVE!
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Death is no more and no less real than anything else you believe in.
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LOVE is all. No exceptions.
Imagine pointing at one part of a river, and proclaiming that it is more "river" than another part.
Now, imagine proclaiming one aspect of yourself is more LOVE...more divine...than another.
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Daily Personal Meditation -- February 5, 2013
In this perfect moment, I remember that I do not have to give reason, or explanation, for every experience. I do not need to understand the "cosmic" meaning of this or that event. I can simply allow it to be, as it is, and ask myself, "In this moment, what is my joy?"
I AM LOVE, and know all as LOVE!
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Here it is. The answer to everything.
LOVE is all.
That's it. Oh, and...
You are LOVE.
That's it. You can relax, now.
Remember yourSelf as LOVE, and remember your world as yourSelf.
Blessings,
Patrick
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What if you didn't need to invent reasons for what you are experiencing?
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Oh, what joy, in knowing without knowing.
Patrick
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Is being right so important, that you would trade your joy for it?
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Whether we do, or do not, we are.
Patrick
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Such freedom in knowing that nobody else's life need be less true, for yours to be true.
Patrick
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Morning Greeting -- Tuesday -- February 5, 2013
On this beautiful Tuesday, remember that, within the experience of frustration and disappointment, are the seeds of hope and discovery. LOVE lives in every experience...the triumphant and the challenging ones.
Today, pay attention to your moments of disappointment. Then, without changing them, getting rid of them, or over-thinking them, thank them. Without trying to figure out why, thank them, and give your focus on associating them with gratitude.
Watch what happens! This is a powerful way of hacking your reality...without hacking your reality. Here is "actionless action"! This is you, performing miracles, like any seasoned prophet, saint, or savior.
Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
Patrick
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There is no purpose to fulfill, other than the one you give yourself.
Nothing missing. Nothing extra. You are LOVE In The Human Experience. Within you, lives All That Is...the perfect potential of all possibility...worlds within worlds within worlds. You are That, in which all things and no thing are the same thing.
You are perfect LOVE. You are perfect LOVE. You are perfect LOVE.
In this perfect moment, can you allow this to be true, in the same way that you have allowed other things to be true? In this moment, can you allow this easy truth to be your truth? Can you allow yourSelf to be exactly as you are, and choose to call this "LOVE"?
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Monday, February 4, 2013
I'm telling ya, brothers and sisters in LOVE...
When sharing a quote, on your timeline (or anywhere), please cite the author.
I would like to address something a little more mundane, than my usual writing, but something near and dear to me, as a writer.
When sharing a quote, on your timeline (or anywhere), please cite the author. Their words were inspiring enough, for you to share. Citing them is the easiest way to show your gratitude for their gift of inspiration. It also helps others to discover these writers, and have their own experiences with them. How wonderful is that?
Now, with that said, all wisdom is within us, and the wisdom you see in another, is simply your own wisdom, reflected back to you. I encourage you, the next time that you see a quote that inspires you, to read it (a few times), and then make time to really feel it. Let the essence of it speak to you, and pay attention to how it is answered, within you.
Let the original words be a touchstone, to the wisdom that lives within you, and listen to how this wisdom takes shape, within you. Hear it speaking with your own voice. Feel the essence of the message, the core of it, and then hear it spoken in your own voice...colored by your own way of speaking...flavored with your life experiences.
Hear it, in your own voice, and share it in your voice, if it is important for you to share. Here is a truly authentic and empowered response, that honors all. Now you are creating the opportunity for others to feel inspired, and to feel connected to their own wisdom. What a gift! What a blessing, to be in joyful service to wisdom.
Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
Patrick
Imagine dressing as a monster...
Imagine dressing as a monster, and then being scared by the monster in the mirror.
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Is being right so important, that you would trade it for your joy?
Is being right so important, that you would trade it for your joy? If you would only allow your joy, you would remember that you do not need to know what you already are.
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Whether we do, or do not, we are.
Whether we do, or do not, we are. In this truth, is ease and well-being. In this truth, is the whole truth of us. We are. We are. We are. I am. I am. I am. So, it is.
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I am and I am not and I AM.
Oh, what joy, in knowing without knowing. What freedom, in having without having. In silence, I hear the voiceless Voice, speaking within me. In stillness, I feel the actionless Action, within me. I am and I am not and I AM.
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Morning Greeting for Monday -- February 4, 2013
Good Morning! Happy Monday!
Today's awesomeness is brought to you, by...you. Pay attention to the kind of stories, you are telling yourself, about Mondays. Are they full of opportunity and blessing, or are they filled with mistakes and bad luck? Either way, you create your day, and today is a perfect day to choose for it to be awesome! I know you can do it! Bring on the Awesome! Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVEwww.facebook.com/patricksterecnhuk
Friday, February 1, 2013
No regrets at then end of your life.
The truth is this. No matter what you have created for your life, you are going to be so pleasantly surprised...even if you are expecting great things, already. No matter what you have created, for your human experience...it is all LOVE. You are LOVE. Even now, you are perfect LOVE, and LOVE is all.
It is this simple. You are perfect LOVE. Exactly as you are, you are perfect LOVE. LOVE is all. Really, and truly. You are LOVE, and LOVE is all. So, you see, there is nothing to return to. Nothing to gain or lose. Nothing to be made worthy of. You already are all that you seek. You are LOVE...perfect and whole.
You already are perfect and whole. You are That, in which all is perfect and whole. In your moments of tragedy, and in your moments of triumph, you are perfect and whole. In your moments of fear, and in your moments of joy, you are perfect and whole. And you are That, in which all is perfect and whole and true.
Be easy with yourself. Be easy with others, and with the world. Allow. Practice allowing and understanding, and when you find that you have not been practicing these...practice forgiveness, of yourself and of others. Not because you should. Not because you will be judged for not doing so. You won't and you aren't. Practice because it helps you to remember the truth of you.
Be easy. Allow. Give understanding. Give forgiveness. To yourself and to others, give these gifts, and you begin to remember the truth. You begin to remember what is already true, and is always true. You begin to remember that all things are, as you are, whole. This is it. This remembering is what you call "healing". All healing is simply the remembering that we are already whole.
We are already (always) whole. So, death is not a returning, or becoming, so much as it is a remembering. It is a remembering of what is already (always) true. What an interesting way to look at death, eh? As a remembering that we are already whole. As a remembering that we do not have to make ourselves worthy of perfect LOVE.
We are perfect LOVE. We are always perfect LOVE...no matter what.
Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
Patrick
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Daily Uplift -- January 15, 2012
In this perfect moment, I am simply allowing myself to be perfect and whole, as I am, and allowing this to be true of the world. When I remember that there is nothing for me to do, to make this true, I experience ease and well-being, freedom, joy, and the palpable presence of LOVE. In other words..."S'all good!"
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Watch out for donkeys. They'll steal your toothpaste, when you're not looking.
After a long climb, just after dawn, a young man reached the top of a holy mountain, where, he had been told, a holy man lived. Sure enough, when he was able to catch his breath, he saw a small cave, and at the mouth of the cave, sat a very old man.
The young man approached this wizened guru, and said, "Teacher, I have traveled far, and have braved harsh conditions to meet you. Please, tell me what wisdom you have for me, as I continue my spiritual path.
At first, the teacher said nothing. Then, clearing his throat, he said, "My son, lean in closer. I have a great wisdom to share with you, and only with you. It is this...Watch out for donkeys. They'll steal your toothpaste, when you're not looking."
The young man was speechless. Was this wisdom? Was this all? Had he struggled through it all, to hear this? He asked, "Master, surely...I mean...well, is that it? What does it mean? Is that wisdom?"
The teacher simply looked at him, and said, "Let me ask you a question, my son. Does it feel like wisdom, to you?" Before he could catch himself, the young man blurted, "No! No it does not! It sound like nonsense. I feel like I've wasted my time."
At this, the old man perked up, and smiled. "Is it nonsense?" he asked, and the young man, again, found himself speaking without thinking. "Yes! It is nonsense. I could have come up with something better than that. I know it. You're a fake, and I am fool!"
The old man, still smiling, said, "Right, on the first account, and maybe right on the last. Let me ask you, since you said you could come up with something better, what is it? What is more wise than what I have shared with you?"
Again, as before, he found himself speaking, before he could think, and he heard himself say, "Anything. Anything is wiser than that. Like 'Save the struggle and your time. Don't climb mountains, looking for gurus. They've got nothing you don't have."
He looked at the guru, wrapped in amber robes, and he fumed. Still, the old man smiled at him, but said nothing. For almost a minute, there was silence, until he he thought it was going to drive him crazy.
Then the old man laughed. He laughed and laughed and laughed. He was doubled over, in laughter. At first, this made the young man angrier, and then he found he could not help himself. Soon, he was laughing too...and then he got it. He got it!
It came to him, in the middle of the laughing, and when he realized it, he looked over at the old man, who was no longer laughing...only smiling, with great delight. Now, he was smiling too. He felt such peace and such well-being.
He sat down, in that moment, and for a long time, they simply smiled at each other. Then, as the Sun climbed to the middle of the sky, the young man got up, smiled a deep smile, and without a sound, made his way back down the mountain.
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You are LOVE. Can you allow this as your truth, exactly as you are?
As you begin to experience yourSelf as LOVE...as perfect being, perfect understanding, perfect allowing...you begin to experience your world as LOVE. You experience this as true, without having to change a thing. You remember that it is always true...that LOVE is all, always and already...and you simply allow.
There are many experiences, right now, that may (understandably) be demanding your ire and outrage. You may have experiences that feel like heartache and sadness. It is very probable that you have experiences, that you have labeled "wrong" or "injustice" or "stupid" or even "evil".
All of these are LOVE. They are you, and you are LOVE. LOVE knows all, perfectly, as LOVE. In LOVE, all is allowed. All exists, within LOVE, and is LOVE. LOVE is all, and knows all as LOVE. This is the essential truth of all things. It is your essential truth. When you allow this to be true, you experience the change of no change.
When you allow what is always true...LOVE is all...to be the truth of your current experience, you begin to allow LOVE to be your experience. This is change without change. It is a remembering of what is already true, and it is easy, in the moment that you allow it to be easy.
You are LOVE. Always and already. This is the whole truth of you, and it is the whole truth of everyone and everything you experience. This is true, even when your experience appears to be other. Even when your experience, or your understanding of another's experience, appears to be other than LOVE.
You are LOVE, and LOVE is all...always and without exception. LOVE is all, and knows all as LOVE. LOVE knows all as perfect and whole. LOVE knows all as complete and perfect LOVE. Your experience, exactly as it is, is LOVE. Can you allow this to be your truth?
Can you allow yourSelf to be LOVE, exactly as you are? Can you allow LOVE to be your experience? Nothing to earn or take away. No better version, of yourself or your world, to wait for or work for. Can you, right now, as you are, say, "I AM LOVE, and know All as LOVE!"? Can you say this, and feel it as true?
Can you simply entertain the idea? Perfect. No? Also perfect. If you are interested in learning more about this, please feel free to contact me, through private message. What I am offering is not better than what you are experiencing, and I offer nothing that is not already yours to know.
I am simply offering that you are LOVE, and LOVE is all. I am offering that LOVE is all, and knows all as LOVE. I am offering that this can be your experience, and it is your experience, when you allow it to be. I am offering that you are perfect LOVE, and that this is always true. You are LOVE. LOVE is all. LOVE knows all as LOVE.
Blessings! I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!
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Imagining is remembering. You are LOVE. Imagine living as if this is true.
This is the whole truth of you. You are LOVE. You are perfect being, perfect understanding, perfect allowing. You are all that you seek. You are LOVE.
Imagine living as if this is true. Imagine what this feels like...to live, knowing that you are perfect LOVE. Imagine knowing that, because you are LOVE, so too is your every experience.Imagine knowing this. Imagine knowing that everyone you meet...regardless of what they may first present or how they may be acting...is LOVE. Imagine knowing them as they present themselves AND as perfect LOVE. Imagine knowing that you are LOVE...no matter what you are experiencing. Imagine knowing that you are LOVE, without having to do anything to make this so. Imagine knowing that you are perfect LOVE, exactly as you are. Imagining is remembering. When you imagine anything, you are remembering your truth, as unlimited possibility. Imagining is remembering. Remember yourSelf as LOVE, even if it feels like your imagination, at first. Imagining is remembering. Remember yourSelf as LOVE, and remember your world as yourSelf.www.facebook.com/patricksterenchuk
The Middle Of The Sky -- A Truth Story
The young man approached this wizened guru, and said, "Teacher, I have traveled far, and have braved harsh conditions to meet you. Please, tell me what wisdom you have for me, as I continue my spiritual path.
At first, the teacher said nothing. Then, clearing his throat, he said, "My son, lean in closer. I have a great wisdom to share with you, and only with you. It is this...Watch out for donkeys. They'll steal your toothpaste, when you're not looking."
The young man was speechless. Was this wisdom? Was this all? Had he struggled through it all, to hear this? He asked, "Master, surely...I mean...well, is that it? What does it mean? Is that wisdom?"
The teacher simply looked at him, and said, "Let me ask you a question, my son. Does it feel like wisdom, to you?" Before he could catch himself, the young man blurted, "No! No it does not! It sound like nonsense. I feel like I've wasted my time."
At this, the old man perked up, and smiled. "Is it nonsense?" he asked, and the young man, again, found himself speaking without thinking. "Yes! It is nonsense. I could have come up with something better than that. I know it. You're a fake, and I am fool!"
The old man, still smiling, said, "Right, on the first account, and maybe right on the last. Let me ask you, since you said you could come up with something better, what is it? What is more wise than what I have shared with you?"
Again, as before, he found himself speaking, before he could think, and he heard himself say, "Anything. Anything is wiser than that. Like 'Save the struggle and your time. Don't climb mountains, looking for gurus. They've got nothing you don't have."
He looked at the guru, wrapped in amber robes, and he fumed. Still, the old man smiled at him, but said nothing. For almost a minute, there was silence, until he he thought it was going to drive him crazy.
Then the old man laughed. He laughed and laughed and laughed. He was doubled over, in laughter. At first, this made the young man angrier, and then he found he could not help himself. Soon, he was laughing too...and then he got it. He got it!
It came to him, in the middle of the laughing, and when he realized it, he looked over at the old man, who was no longer laughing...only smiling, with great delight. Now, he was smiling too. He felt such peace and such well-being.
He sat down, in that moment, and for a long time, they simply smiled at each other. Then, as the Sun climbed to the middle of the sky, the young man got up, smiled a deep smile, and without a sound, made his way back down the mountain.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The wisdom, you see in others? It is the same wisdom that lives in you.
Any wisdom you see in another...in a guru, prophet, saint, or savior...is simply your wisdom, reflected to you. Now is the time...you can feel it...for you to trust your own inner wisdom, in the way that you have trusted the wisdom of others. It is the same wisdom.
It is the same wisdom. It is the same voice...the voice of perfect LOVE...and it lives within you, as surely as it lives in those you call "wise" or "enlightened" or "holy". Now is a perfect time, for you to trust your own inner wisdom...for you to trust the ever present voice of LOVE, within you.Now is your time. It is always your time. You are the answer. You are always the answer, and the answer is always LOVE. You are LOVE. It is the whole of you...the whole truth of you. You are the wisdom, that lives within you, and this wisdom is simply the voice of LOVE. You are LOVE...perfect being, perfect understanding, perfect allowing. This is all there is. You are LOVE. Remember. Allow yourself to remember this. Allow. Remember. Remember yourSelf as LOVE. Let this be your wisdom...your enlightenment. In this perfect moment, decide that you are LOVE. Decide that you are LOVE. Let this be your remembering. All wisdom, all healing is simply the remembering of this truth. This is all. It is this simple. Decide, right now, that you are LOVE. Remember that you are LOVE, and you remember that your world is LOVE. You remember that this is always true. Any wisdom you see in another...in a guru, prophet, saint, or savior...is simply your wisdom, reflected to you. Now is the time...you can feel it...for you to trust your own inner wisdom, in the way that you have trusted the wisdom of others. It is the same wisdom. I love you, so much, my beautiful friends. I love you as mySelf. I love you as the perfect expression of LOVE In The Human Experience. I love you, and know you as perfect LOVE...as That, in which all exists...as That, in which all is true and perfect and whole. I AM LOVE, and know YOU as LOVE!www.facebook.com/patricksterenchukwww.twitter.com/brotherpatrick