A miracle isn’t a host of angels appearing with flashing neon signs signaling your next ginormous spiritual expansion. Not that it can’t be I suppose. Usually it isn’t. The change in how we see an event, a person, ourselves or our world is the real miracle. And as Marcus Aurelius said so beautifully, everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. So how about taking the time to recognize those every day, ordinary miracles that occur in your world. Little miracles that might actually be the signal of your spiritual expansion, or your new ability to view your world and your life with a little more love. If we can just begin to see a relationship through different eyes, or the experience we just had that didn’t feel so good, in a different light, we could have new thoughts and…
Did anyone ever say life happens to you when you’re busy planning something else? Maybe they said something like that. I hope they did..because there are moments when it definitely seems as though this might be true. Mind you, the big challenge with this idea is that now we know it’s our very own consciousness making our life, it must mean that we’d been living unconsciously, since nothing happens without our participation. Ouch. For awakening beings that really, really hurts. And there are times when even for us deliberate, conscious livers of life. Can you actually say that? Or does it sounds more like something you eat, like liver and bacon? Anyhoo, for us, there are times when what we want shows up, but we’re a bit busy with other plans. Claire, a brilliant, beautiful actress and voice over artist told me just such a tale the other day. Her…