LOVE...

                           "Walk in the way of love for that is what you are." 
   The personal separate self can only know love as a feeling, quality, attribute, act of, etc., it can never truly know love as being itself, because the personal separate self is made up of conditioned thoughts. Thought is only a thought, with what meaning we give it.

                                                         I see as Love.
                                                         I hear as Love.
                                                         I smell as Love.
                                                         I taste as Love.
                                                         I breathe as Love.
                                                         I am the sensations of Love.
                                                         I know only Love.
                                                Brings you to eternally Being only Love.

Attraction...

   Distraction or Attraction? You always get to choose, where  you place your attention. Either with a distracted thought or an attracted thought. Move in confidence with a thought of inspirational, loving  attraction! Your natural self guarantees bliss with authentic, attracted thought!

Shine...

           You are it All. Where do you choose to Shine your attention?

I cues...

   If you are taking your cues from your outside world you are looking through the lens of a separate personal I, and your experiences will be both personal and separate. Ex:This happened to me, I had to do this because this happened, I can't because this is going on, I don't have the means, The situation made me feel, I wish I could change this, etc... Sound familiar?

   You ARE the I of the world, you ARE the I of your world and everything that occurs within your I world. Drop believing that you're a separate I, drop inward and take your cues from here... and your I am presence will literally light you with the love that you ARE...this is your true self discovery, not a personal I discovery!

*Correction, Monday's blog March, 16, 2015 The "Who" sang "Who Are You" not the Moody Blues.
Thank you Ananur for the correction.

Popeye... My first enlightened encounter.

   Great sages and spiritual teachers often use the phrase I Am, I Am. I Am is a mantra used in single mindedness  meditation.  Sohumm is the  sanskrit word for  "I Am That." Sooooo...used as an inhalation breath and Hummmmm...used as an exhalation breath. I am also stems from the Sanskrit word self pride.

   I first heard repeatedly "I yam, whats I yam and thats all that I yam" from an endearing carton character named Popeye. My siblings and I often repeated Popeye's expression in response to just about everything, but we said what we heard "I am whats I am and thats all that I am" with self pride! Also, none of us knew what a yam was at the time.

"Who are you"... Really?!

   Mind runs thoughts all the time. Who is it that is placing attention with a thought? Is it the separate personal I creating another story? Is there a you that is watching your thoughts? Are you aware that thoughts come and go yet your awareness of thoughts is always here, constant and changeless? Who or what generates thought?

   When I first heard the Moody Blues song  "Who are you, I really want to know?"  What a gift! Ask yourself "Who are you"...and let what is be revealed.

Here, Now...

                 You are always here, now. Here, now is only where you can ever be.

Suffering...

   The nature of believing that we are a separate personal self is the cause of all suffering.There are approximately 7 billion people in this world that identity themselves as a separate personal self....thus the conflict and upheaval of the world.

   The yearning, the desire to be happy, whole, free, love are simply calls to be your true self. Follow your inner most desire to know the truth of who you are and the belief of a separate personal self falls away, revealing that who you are has never left and the happiness, wholeness, freedom and love (that you are) pervades everything... It is here that suffering can not be known, because suffering does not exist.

Focus...

   Focus on what you truly are, limitless, expansive, abundant Love! Focus on this and you automatically become this. It's simple, because you already are!

Circumstances...

    If you are dependent on your circumstances to bring about happiness you are fooling yourself. There are no circumstances that can bring you lasting happiness, peace or joy because you already are happiness, peace, joy, bliss and stillness. One has to go within and look at erroneous beliefs and concepts that one holds true and see that they are nothing more than a thought. The only thing that (feels like a change) changes a circumstance is adding believed thoughts to the circumstance.

Example: It's a cloudy gray day again, I don't feel like doing much when it is a gray day.

   The weather does it's thing naturally. When thought and emotion are added, suffering or temporary  happiness ensues and we are out of alignment with our true nature. If you can see that you are changeless happiness, peace, joy, bliss and stillness you would never see a gray day or judge any circumstance, you would let all that is pass, knowing that what you are is ever changeless. Your interaction with any circumstance would and could only arise out of that which you are...limitless, expansive, eternal happiness, peace, joy, bliss, stillness, love. You are not your circumstances!