I am so grateful for the degree of peace we have in New Zealand. We have so many blessings.

My heart goes out to those in Ukraine. May our human collective consciousness wake up to the amount of insanity we need to address!!!

May we that are blessed with a safe country focus on what we have with gratitude. Endeavour not to take our countless blessings for granted. Recognise that we are gifted everyday, to wake up and be able to live the life we do. And may we each do our inner work in order to fully show up with the level of conscious compassion and responsibility our humanity needs.

Bless.

Being stubborn in your thinking is one thing. Being proud of being stubborn adds another cementing layer on top.

Endeavour to let go of fixed views and thinking you know how anything ultimately is.
The truth is, nobody knows.
It’s in recognising that we don’t know, that we can find release and surrender.

When we are willing to stop, face into and be with the experience of uncertainty, with fear or lostness, without scrambling too quickly to find a box to put it in and an answer we can label it with.. Only then do we begin to open to the mystery and the deeper dimension of truth in life. This is where true freedom lies.

With each person that comes across your path, endeavour to connect with them in recognition of them as a soul, a spirit.

Show interest, be human, be kind, be genuine. It’s amazing the conversations and connections and blessings you might have in moving through life this way.

We are all human.
There is more that connects us than separates us.
Be a light and a moment of goodness in the meetings you have.
There is so much power in kind eyes and listening ears.

Learning to be present includes learning to bear our more difficult feelings.

Presence is present with all aspects of our human experience.
There is no judgement or comparison in presence. Just being.
We don’t have to like it. For sure being human can be extraordinarily challenging at times.
And yet presence is present within the discomfort and with the dislike. Just like a loving parent to their child. There is understanding and a place for it all.
All is included.
May we learn to be that way with our vulnerable selves.

Life is grace, constantly unfolding.

Whether we recognise a moment as grace or not, it is.

A spiritual teacher I like called Adyashanti talks about grace in the most wonderful ways in his book ’The Most Important Thing’. He explores the many different forms grace can take.. and how even the most challenging experiences we can have are a form of grace.

This moment now is grace. The presence of being is grace. Life is grace. We just need to wake up to it and come into conscious participation.

Meditation is not to change or control your experience, but to fully show up in presence and awareness with your experience.

If we go into our meditation trying to change our feelings, we are already in a place of resistance and rejection with ourselves.

However when we are willing to deeply allow and be with our feelings with loving awareness, our heart can receive the message that all of our humanity is allowed, accepted and supported to move through. This heals and naturally facilitates release.