Webster says: The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular.

The term has no single definition about which a majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree, and various theories of truth continue to be debated. There are differing claims on such questions as what constitutes truth; how to define and identify truth; the roles that revealed and acquired knowledge play; and whether truth is subjective, relative, objective, or absolute. This article introduces the various perspectives and claims, both today and throughout history.

So even the experts are somewhat unsure of what truth really is.

Dealing with a crisis can be the most difficult time of your life.  Everything gets turned upside down.  We may even go into shock.  Now how do we know the truth to follow.

We each have truth available to us in this moment, it is within us.  Go to Living From The Heart to find out how to access this truth. 

Have you ever had the feeling that you just know something?  You don’t know how you know it or where the information came from, but you KNOW!

You know it to be truth and you will stand by it as the truth.  Where did this come from, your mind, your heart and soul, or from outer space????

I had this experience while in my cancer journey and confused and uncertain which way to turn.  See what happened to me click here, in Song of My Soul: Hope Inspiration and Wisdom From A Cancer Suvivor.

Sometimes we just want someone to tell us the truth for us.  They can’t.  The truth resides in each of us and is the only truth there is for us.

Does truth change?  Each moment is new and different and ever-evolving.  In each moment, go within and access your truth.  Jesus said, “Be still and you will know.”

He was pointing us to the truth that is available to us every moment.

This is the most important piece of the puzzle for living.  If we believe this and act this and BE this, your life will be more peaceful.  Under the layers of beliefs you have aquired since you were a child, is the underlying fear of not being good enough.  As a newborn baby you knew you were love.

With time we begin to think “I am separate from love”.  Through our experiences we develop thoughts that I have to heal, improve, and change who IAM to know love. When in effect what we have to do is ‘realize’ love – what we already are. We do this by accepting who we are, honoring our vulnerabilities, and living within peace by not seeking to continually fix who we are. 

Only when we truly love ourselves do we have it to give to others.

When you know that there is nothing you have to do, nothing to improve, you live in love, experience love, and express love.

Once you know this and have the tools to experience this, life flows.  The present moment is the place of love.

“You are the one to witness great changes in the world. The world is hurting and the world is at its best. The world is on a way of destruction and a world of pain.  The world is meant to suffer no more. It is meant to be a vehicle of hope for all.  Love is breaking barriers to what is possible. 

 Let go of the fear there is no fear in healing.  The healing begins with a breakdown in its structure before it can heal the wounds of itself. Many will witness the change in what will happen next and that will be a way of peace among nations.  The nations are at their worst and at the same time at their best. 

 Healing will bring the people together and the governments and leaders will have to listen to all those who work for peace and fairness among men. This is the nation among nations helping and supporting each other to a better world of tomorrow.  The right time will come in building and breaking down the walls of tomorrow’s leaders. Rebuilding a better tomorrow of the people in place of the heart ache and pain of the people. 

 Let your heart sing and believe the words. You will witness big changes that will benefit the nations.  The hearts are ready for change hope and dreams to take place for themselves and their children of tomorrows.  There are so many beginnings and so many endings to the story of destruction but there is only one god and only one way that will make it possible for the world to mend. That is bringing the heart of the people back to tomorrows dreams and what is possible to create if you are ready and worthy of that change. 

Love is the only real thing you can count on. Love is unending love sees no pain. Love only creates what is imagined and what is real. Let it be so. ” Thor

This was one of my most profound lessons as a cancer survivor.

Yet the core of our being, our soul, is LOVE!

We lose ourselves in this thing we call life. We forget who we are and what we came here for. We begin to believe we are all these experiences we are having. Through our experiences, we form beliefs and then we live out these beliefs over and over.

But we are not our thoughts, beliefs, and experiences. They exist outside of us.

We have a choice every moment to love and accept ourselves and create the life we choose. So many of us spend our time hoping, wishing, planning and scheming for our lives to be different than what they already are. We have used so much energy and time trying to create situations other than the one that we have, and end up missing the life in front our noses today.

It is absolutely necessary to love our life and ourselves exactly as they are right now. Loving whatever is present in your life today is one of the greatest secrets to manifesting more love and abundance in your life. Be grateful for now and everything in now.

Reconnecting to my heart, I began to see ME again, and remember ME. I peeled away layers of thoughts, beliefs and experiences I accumulated through my life. I saw at my core I was love. But did I really love ME? Until I loved and accepted me completely, I knew I could never truly love another, and I knew I could never truly be well and alive and a cancer survivor.

When you connect to your heart and live from the inside out, you will see you are so much more than you can even imagine. Because at your core you are love itself.

The more you love and accept yourself exactly as you are, the more love you get from others, and the more loving, empowering, and abundant experiences you will have. Loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve, you improve your world.

“I accept, approve, appreciate and love, myself exactly as I am.”
You are love, and you are powerful beyond belief.
Live Your Greatness!

I arrived at the lake to prepare for some friends to arrive for a couple days of fun.  It was raining and overcast skies.  Not a perfect setting for a bonfire and time at the lake but was assured that all would be perfect.

As my friends arrived we noticed two beautiful pelicans sitting right in front of the cabin on the lake.  I had never seen that before.  Then they explained that they had seen pelicans as they were driving to the lake.  They were beautiful, peaceful and serene.  What a message for us, for all of us to live our life in peace and serenity.

As time went by we saw a third pelican, then a fourth.  I couldn’t believe it!  Why were they suddenly here?  They had never been here for 11 years.  Even more intriguing….they were all right in front of our cabin.  They had the whole lake.

As we pondered this, we wondered if this was a message from the universe for us.  No one seemed to know.  What is the symbolism in a pelican.  So true to our lives in 2010, we fired up the computer to search for a meaning of pelicans.

Pelicans:  Abundance and plenty!!

We were astonished…..the four of us met and came together through a prosperity program. 

We were learning and understanding the infinite abundance of the universe.  That all is provided for us all the time.  It is only us that stops the flow of goodness to us.  We block the flow of abundance in whatever form (money, relationships, career, etc.) by our limited beliefs, our past, our fears and resisting what is, right now.  We all were born connected to this infinite abundance.

Our journey here on earth is about finding and remembering our home……our inheritance.

Thank you God for the beautiful, powerful message!

I wonder what today will bring…

I wonder what this Christmas season will bring….

I wonder what the meaning of this holiday season is for me……

I wonder how I could give and receive love…..

I wonder what the biggest gift I could give…..

I wonder what I am to learn this coming year…..

I wonder what I really want to do right now….

I wonder what my greatest gift to the world is….

I wonder how I feel about…..

I wonder if I should call__________….

These simple phrases allow you to stop…it opens you and helps you to feel and get a glimspe of the answer.  All our answers are within us.  Often we act or react to something someone says or what someone wants or wants us to do, without really stopping to check in what is the best for ME!  When we react we are acting on autopilot..we are going through the motions without a clear direction and without lining up with our true wants and desires.

 I love what Neale Walsh says about reacting…He says when we are in REACTION we are not seeing clearly or acting with clarity.  We act with clarity when we are lined up with the true us, the us within, the power within, our true self.  So reaction is based on something outside of ourselves.  But when we are in CREATION mode, we are responding with clarity.  We are responding to something by first checking in, finding our answers and lining up with our truest self and true desires.

REACTION        vs         CREATION             There is only one difference in these words…and that is the letter C.

So when we “C” clearly we are the creators of our reality.

So stop today and ask I wonder…….and watch what unfolds.  Practice…this is a habit to develop and use to create what you want in your life.

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They are showing up in our life for a purpose.  We wanted them to show up for us.  We actually set it up this way

They show up for us to see what it is we want and don’t want.  They show up to remind us that we are not those thoughts or words or actions.  They show up to remind us who we really are.  It is like a game.  We came here knowing the rules and how life worked and why we are here.  Through life we slowly forgot the rules, how the game was played and why.  Even if we have forgotten, we are still playing the game because we are living.

So we have adopted our own rules and how life worked, we began to believe them, and now we have convinced ourselves that they are real. 

All of the so called challenges (we only think they are challenges) that show up for us is the method we created to help us remember!!

How perfect the words in the poem Jaques wrote.

Hallow We—-

Take off our false disguises
Stop living from unrealistic expectations and the Lies
That we have allowed others and even ourselves to believe
There is so much more that we can achieve
Don’t let any challenging situation allow you to be deceived
We are made in the likeness of Holiness
It is time that we focus on our blessedness
Take the time to be still
So that our Divine Will, will be revealed
Let us be a little more gentle with ourselves and each other
And Be the change we want to see in another
Let the Divine in you shine like a star
As you are reminded how Hallow We are

peace and blessing,
Jacques
htttp://www.divinitypersonified.com

Sometimes we are so busy and don’t take the time to relax and open to our true potential.

And then we wonder why we get what we do in life…………hmmmmmmmmmmm

This is a short video that will ask empowering questions that will open you up  to YOU!

You ask yourself questions all day long. Are they empowering? Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant, has created these empowering questions that you can ask yourself. When you ask yourself empowering questions, you open yourself to receive empowering answers. Relax and listen to the music and the questions.

Ask Yourself Empowering Questions

As we wonder we talk about the facts and then we tend as humans to want to blame someone.  Who is to blame? 

When we blame we are actually pushing our energy out on someone else or out into the world.  Our energy could be a feeling or a thought.  If we have a thought about the event, it is an energy within us.  This is the time we can look within ourselves to find where the thought may also be true in our lives.  Now I am not saying any of us have been in this type of situation, but the thought or feeling is within us for a purpose.  What is the purpose?

It is an opportunity for us to look at our stuff, our life and where do we feel, think or act in a similar way.  It is an opportunity for us to become more aware of the energy within us and release it.

Here’s what Julia has to say…

As you may already know, a horrific event occurred October 9th in the desert near Sedona, Arizona at a retreat led by James Arthur Ray, well-known author and personal development guru. Two people died immediately and another died this weekend after participating in a questionably executed sweat lodge. Almost two dozen others were hospitalized with illnesses ranging from dehydration to kidney failure.

I don’t wish to lay blame–others will be doing that, and it’s strictly an ego exercise to do so. But I did want to communicate one important message in light of the outcome: Never, ever obey anyone’s authority over that of your Spirit.

If someone seems to know more than you do, have achieved more than you have, have obtained what you want to have, or seems more enlightened than you believe you are, it is not a signal to abdicate your own sense of knowing to subject yourself to his or hers. Partake of their ideas, yes, if you’re attracted, and try them on to see if they fit for you–or not.

If you are receiving any internal signals that something is wrong–or even not quite right, or just simply not a match for you–pay attention and heed those signals. You don’t have to prove anything to anyone–even to yourself. Don’t let your own fearful ego lead you astray in a quest for something it’s telling you that you haven’t got. Ego is a consummate liar and will sell you down the river in a heartbeat.

All knowledge is already yours. All your desires are already yours, even if you aren’t yet experiencing that. But the way to realize and manifest them into your reality is to follow your Spirit to the vibrational level where you can claim them. And you can’t do that if you’re busy following someone else. Or a group of someone elses. Or your own ego. Following anyone other than your own Spirit will lead you down in vibration.

If you find yourself caught up in group energy, something that often occurs due to the longing to feel the energy of being at one with your fellow human beings, pay special attention. You may find yourself willing to do things and take risks you’d never take if your energy was centered within yourself and not in the composite mind of the group.

I am somewhat painfully familiar with that dynamic because I once found myself streaking naked across my college campus after getting so caught up in the pack mentality and energy, I was compelled to join the streaking crowd. In that case, the only deleterious effect was a photograph of the back of me in my birthday suit (blessedly, with a shirt over my head) that showed up on the front page of the city’s newspaper.

And here’s one I have been learning the hard way: If your body is telling you to back off whatever you are doing instead of pushing, listen and obey. Ease your way into growth–don’t force your way into it.

As a spiritual teacher, I take my responsibility to influence very seriously. For me, having your attention is a sacred trust and I am intent on keeping my ego in check to keep that relationship clear. Starting with the experience I tell about in the introduction to Recreating Eden, I have been continually shown that rejecting all authority outside one’s own being, and honoring the voice of Spirit within is the very key to reaching the highest level of vibration and experiencing enlightenment.

My Spirit has always made sure I understood that trying to assert any authority over a person’s own inner guidance, no matter how right my ego may tell me I am, is a ticket to disaster. My desire is to empower you to listen to your Spirit and be yourSelf, not to get you to take what I have to say as being the gospel. You don’t need a guru–you have one within.

I can only imagine the pain that James Ray is in right now, not to mention the loved ones of those who died or who were otherwise injured. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that all involved may have stopped listening to their inner guidance. Then again, that is an ego-based judgment, based on limited evidence. Everything is in Divine Order, even when we don’t like what Divine Order looks like at any given moment.

The take-away as I see it is this: Anyone who urges you to deny your internal signals so as to expand and evolve may just be, without even realizing it, asking you to risk your life. Anyone who tells you they can show you the way to Nirvana who isn’t emphasizing that your Spirit is your only true authority is under the influence of ego and can’t be trusted (only your Spirit can be trusted). But don’t take my word for it–ask your own Spirit if this is true.

 To learn more about Julia click here.  She truly is an amazing friend!