Abraham-Hicks: The nature of your Inner Being

So, your reason for being here is to be physically focused and connected to your Source for the purpose of taking the Source of pure, positive Energy beyond that which it has been before. That's how this physical earth plane got here. Somebody like you from broader, Non-physical perspective imagined a delicious physical experience, and in that pure flow of Energy it is come to be.

Abraham-Hicks, 2/13/93

Once you emerged into these bodies, all of you did not come into this body, just a part of you. A part of your focus is come forth here, while a larger part of you, a broader part of you, a very much older, wiser part of you remains in Non-physical.

Abraham-Hicks, 1/13/91

Your Sixth Sense is your Inner Being who has a full view of all you are living, all that you have ever lived, and all that is in your future. Your Sixth Sense is your Inner Being with broader perspective of that which you are. Your Sixth Sense is your broad perspective, you can call it God perspective, you can call it Inner Being, you can call it Soul, you can call it spiritual guide. It is the Non-physical part of you that has very keen awareness of that which you are. Your Sixth Sense is your feeling barometer that lets you know the distance between what you want and what you are currently vibrating....your gut feeling.

Abraham-Hicks, 1/23/93

You acknowledge that your Inner Being exists? And we say to you that your Inner Being is very old, it has lived thousands of Life experiences. Your Inner Being sits now as the culmination of all that you have lived -- very decided, very sure and very happy -- in a place that by your standards, you would say is pure ecstasy. Your role, your work is to harmonize with you, which means -- think thoughts that make you feel good -- Speak words that make you feel good.

Abraham-Hicks, 7/4/91

You have an Inner Being within you, that has been walking with you all the days of this experience, who is aware of all that you want, and all that you are. We are wanting you to find a very real connection with that which you are -- with your broader Non-physical counterpart -- with your God-force -- with All That Is -- with your Higher Self -- with your Soul or Inner Being or whatever label you are wanting to assign it, so that you can be and do and have that which you've come forth to be, do and have.

Abraham-Hicks, 5/2/92 B

The only way for you or any to reach this place of understanding of this life experience, in the context in which it was intended, is to reconnect with who you are to gain that sense of the overall picture sense of the, I am and why I am here.

Abraham-Hicks, G 8/1/92

You intended to come forth into physical experience to live, to love, to laugh, to play -- to look for reasons to feel good!

Abraham-Hicks, G 6/7/91

Without your perspective, Universal expansion would not be. It's time for you to take credit for the important part you play, and yield the good stuff to yourself by virtue of your own self-appreciation... If we were standing in your physical shoes, a day would not go by that we would not make a list of positive aspects of ourselves, and of those that are closest to us that mean the most to us in terms of interaction. A day would not go by that we would not count our blessings, and express them in every way we could. In that acknowledgment, you bring yourself in alignment with how You really feel about you. How You really feel about you is absolute adoration. And if you ever feel anything less about you -- or about anyone -- you are not You.

Abraham-Hicks, 9/28/02

Take your Inner Being everywhere you go. If you take your Inner Being to the party, it's going to be a good party! If you take your Inner Being, the food that you eat will be received perfectly by the cells of your body. Every word that comes out of your mouth will be beneficial to everyone who hears them with their ears, or with their vibration. Don't go anywhere without your Inner Being. That's what "Allowing" is. Always having your Inner Being present. And then, anything else that happens is always orchestrated perfectly by Law of Attraction.

Abraham-Hicks, 2/17/01

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Abraham-Hicks on reality and dreams, deciding to see your Vibrational Escrow

Q: I had a very lucid dream once where I was in a forest... and it felt like this moment now, just as real. And somehow I felt that I would go deeper into the dream and forget that this current experience ever existed. And I was afraid of that movement, and so I woke myself back up. But when I awoke, it made me contemplate what this right now is and if perhaps I could be really dreaming this and have forgotten that this is a dream.

Abe: Well, from our perspective you are dreaming this. In other words, the reality that is really real is the broader, nonphysical part of you. Everything is perceptual -- in other words, the only reason that this reality looks and feels and smells and tastes and sounds so real is because you have vibrational interpreters that interpret the energy. So in your dream state, at another level of consciousness, you are interpreting the energy and having a different experience.

We don't want you to ever worry about the realness of that which is here, but we don't want the realness of that which is here to limit you and make you think that that's all that is real. In other words, in this world that you call physical, that is occupied by a few billion human ones, [are] as many worlds as are perceivers of it. In other words, what is real is as you perceive it to be.

A dream is your re-emergence into nonphysical, achieving vibrational alignment with who you are then, and then as you come back into your [waking] state, the entire dream actually takes place as that which you know from nonphysical is translated back into a physical equivalent that you can make sense of. Dreams don't happen all night long -- we don't care what their meters are telling you. The dream is downloaded almost instantaneously as you are coming back into conscious awareness.

An out-of-body experience varies from a dream in this way: when you find vibrational alignment with who you really are, you can catch a glimpse of whatever your Inner Being is glimpsing at. So sometimes an out-of-body experience will show you another world, sometimes it will show you this world -- but what an out-of-body experience is, is you perceiving through the uncluttered eyes of who you really are. And we would say that this dream that you are describing was more of an out-of-body experience than it was a dream. But [it's] hard to tell the difference because from your human perspective it was different from this reality.

You are right, you are so much more than the one who is focused here in this physical body. But you came here with great and powerful intent to be here, and there is no place you would rather be -- that is our promise to you. And so while sometimes you do take escape in other thoughts, in other realms, in other dimensions, you are fulfilling your reason for being here, and this is where the whole of you wants to be focused.

Good.

Abraham-Hicks, Washington, DC, 5/1/04

Make a decision to have an out-of-body experience where your Inner Being gives you a glimpse of your Vibrational Escrow. We think it would be good for all of you. We think it would be really good for you to get a glimpse of your Vibrational Escrow because when you get a glimpse of it, before you can see it, you have to feel worthy of it. In other words, you can't see it until you feel worthy of it even in your dreamscapes.

Make that an intention. Start writing this down -- `Inner Being, in my dream state, in my out-of-body excursions, I want a glimpse of my Vibrational Escrow' ­which means I want to work my way into a place of such worthiness that I have full view of it. And as you let that be a vibrational challenge or goal, and as you begin to accomplish it more and more in your dreamscape, then you'll begin to see it filling-in in your life experience.

Abraham-Hicks, Hawaii Cruise 12/05

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Abraham-Hicks: It doesn't matter if you don't get it done, it's just fun to do it

When you are really in the flow with your Inner Being, ideas come easily they are implemented easily. It's fun while you are in the process of them, and it doesn't matter how they unfold; and nothing can go wrong, and it doesn't matter if you don't get it done, it's just fun to do it. Your Inner Being feels no limit. So, anything that feels like limits is something that you have self-imposed.

Abraham-Hicks, 3/15/03

I can read an Abe quote one day and see one thing and another day see something entirely new. I just looked at the above quote this morning and this stands out: ...it doesn't matter if you don't get it done.... My protestant work ethic looks at this quote and thinks "What??!!" LOL

I woke up this morning thinking about the work I was setting up for myself for the next few months and that it was from my old way of thinking. Is it fun? Yes, in some ways and my desires have been answered in many ways. I'm in training to do taxes beginning in January. I like learning something new, the bosses are great, they are opening a new office a few blocks from my house which will be a special plus in the winter, I like having money flow, and while I've never done taxes before, this type of work is familiar to me. I was thinking last night in class that I am learning ways that will help me manage money, invest it, and be wise about handling it. I have been desiring money and LOA has brought me work that will be dealing with money.

Is it my bliss? Not quite yet! I think the most fun I've had this year was writing purple prose for a contest. It was so easy and so much fun to write and there was a bonus: our entries were numbered and we were to vote on our choices for a final round. The numbers for my favorites looked like lottery numbers to me; I played them and won $200. They didn't have any big bills when I cashed it in and I can still remember how much fun it was to have them count out this big stack of money in my hand. I've been thinking that it would be great to get a job where I wrote purple prose for a living. Writing the book jackets or blurbs for romance novels kind of fits in that category. I wonder if that is a specific job and one person who writes them for a publisher?

When you are really in the flow with your Inner Being, ideas come easily they are implemented easily. It's fun while you are in the process of them, and it doesn't matter how they unfold; and nothing can go wrong, and it doesn't matter if you don't get it done, it's just fun to do it. Your Inner Being feels no limit. So, anything that feels like limits is something that you have self-imposed.

Abraham-Hicks, 3/15/03

My loving connection with my Inner Being flows to me and through me as joy.

Ideas come to me easily.

My ideas are implemented easily.

Everything about my ideas is fun to me.

I don't care how my ideas unfold, I just enjoy them.

I'm carefree. Whatever happens with my ideas is always right for me.

It doesn't matter if I get it done or not. I'm totally relaxed about it.

I have fun playing with my ideas.

I just have fun. There's nothing I need to do or should do or have to do. I have no limits.
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Abraham-Hicks: A rampage of Abe on feelings and following your bliss

..when you are activating a belief that is not serving you well, you feel anger, you feel frustration, you feel fear, you feel defensiveness, you feel jealousy, you feel guilt, you feel urgency.... The degree to which you feel any of those feelings, good or bad, is the degree to which you are allowing or not allowing the Energy to flow.

Abraham-Hicks, Kona, HI, G 12/9/00A

So guilt is "I've got it better than I deserve in [relation to] others who deserve also"? Is that a good definition of guilt? "I'm living more than I deserve..." -- which couldn't possibly happen because Law of Attraction wouldn't let it happen -- "...in [relation to] others, who are living less than they deserve." Which couldn't happen because Law of Attraction wouldn't let it happen.

In other words, guilt is such a wasted emotion. It's like regret -- you cannot do anything about something that was, so soothe yourself in your now.

Guilt, regret -- get rid of them.

Abraham-Hicks, Philadelphia, PA, 5/3/04

Complaining about anything, holds you in the place of refusing to receive the things you've been asking for. Justifying about anything holds you in the place of refusing to let in the very things that you've been asking for. Blaming someone, holds you in the place of refusing to let in the things that you've been asking for. Feeling guilty, feeling angry, it doesn't matter what you call it, it is a refusal, not a conscious one. You're asking; you can't help but ask. The Universe is yielding; it must yield. It's a big question, folks: why aren't you letting it in?

Abraham-Hicks, 3/10/01

Your emotion, your indicator of vibration, is indicating the ratio between your currently focused desire and any other belief or thought that you hold about same. When you feel negative emotion, anger about something, or fear... the name of the emotion does not matter, it always means that there is a desire within you that, in this moment, you are contradicting with some other thought. Your emotions are always about your relationship with your own desire, and nothing else.

Abraham-Hicks, 2/17/01

The way you feel is about what you're doing with your energy. When you feel bad it's not because somebody projected negative energy to you, it's because you're not letting your energy flow. If you feel frightened, it's not because there's a monster in the bushes, it's because you're not letting your energy flow. If you feel tired, it's not because you ate something funny or because you have some sort of physiological difficulty, it is because you're not letting your energy flow.

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Your Inner Being is eternally aware of you, here in this physical body, offering guidance in the form of emotion to help you know -- in the moment of the emotion -- whether you are moving toward or away from that which you want.

From Abraham-Hicks Daily Planning Calendar

There's an expression in the physical environment that you use to entertain each other -- it doesn't serve you very well! -- that says, "I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat."

And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat! You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady steam, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed. The only thing that matters is, "What are you doing right now in your vibration?" And you can tell what you're doing right now in your vibration by the way you feel.

Abraham-Hicks, Los Angeles, CA, 08/4/01

There is nothing that you cannot be or do or have. You are blessed beings. Source adores you. You are leading edge creators. You have come forth into this leading edge environment to create. There is nothing holding you back other than your own contradictory thought. And every time you do that, your emotion tells you you're doing that.

Abraham-Hicks, North Los Angeles, CA, 3/22/03

Just like the wild beasts, you want your own autonomy. You want freedom. You want freedom from negative emotion. You want freedom from somebody telling you what to do. Whether you are consciously aware of it or not, what all of you want is a sense of Well-being.

Abraham-Hicks, 2/3/01

Hypothetically, people worry about everyone being selfishly oriented. "If everyone did exactly what they want to do, what kind of world would this be?" And we say, a really, really good one. Because if everyone did what they wanted to do, everyone would feel free. And if you feel free, you feel empowered. And every negative emotion that exists -- hear this -- every negative emotion that exists is because there is some sense of loss of freedom somewhere in there.

Abraham-Hicks, From the workshop 9/29/04

Think of this random Universe where everything is possible. The organizational skills belong to Law of Attraction. If you will relax and allow Law of Attraction to do the organization, the managing, then you can spend your time doing the things that please you.

Abraham-Hicks, 9/21/02

If it is true, and it is, that when I, meaning, any point of Consciousness, asks, it is given, then can you not feel the perfection of the selfish ego? Every vantage point gets to ask, and every vantage point is answered. And when everyone is individually choosing and Source is answering---then what could be a more balanced world?

Abraham-Hicks, 8/31/02

"Is this pill really an effective pill? Is this process really an effective process?" Anything that causes you to allow what you desire is the process of coming into alignment. And so, we're not, in any way, validating or invalidating anything. Many offer their "dog and pony show" as being the one that works. And good for all of them. We applaud anything that assists someone in allowing the Well-being, that they so much want and deserve, to flow.

Abraham-Hicks, 9/9/00

You have no responsibility to struggle. None whatsoever. Now, there are many who would say, "Well, Abraham, we sure hope everybody doesn't listen to you because there are a lot of people that do a lot of things that make our society go that do them out of commitment rather than out of joyous impulse." And we say, well, that's unfortunate -­ it would be wonderful if everything you were doing, you were doing out of joyful impulse. And you say, "But what if everybody woke up tomorrow and just said, 'From now on I'm not gonna do anything I don't feel like doing'?" And we say the world would be a much better place -­ because more of you would be connected to Source energy, angst would be gone, you would be nicer to each other, you would be locked on to your signal, all of the things you've been asking for the Universe would now find a way to deliver them to you.

If tomorrow everybody could focus upon what makes them lock on to the signal, everything that they have ever wanted would flow to them without any justification.

And now we say to you the most important part of that: not one other has to figure that out in order for you to begin your thriving. Just you.

Abraham-Hicks, Boulder, CO, 6/2/01

The basis of your life is absolute freedom, the goal is joy, and the result of that perfect combination is motion forward, or growth. Your goal is to find objects of attention that let your cork raise.

Abraham-Hicks, Virginia Beach, VA, 4/12/97

It is our desire that what you have gathered from this above all other things is:
"It is time for me to just relax and chill out and let the wellbeing that is natural to me play a bigger part in my life."

You are magnificent beings who are powerful in your creating...

And friends, YOU ARE TRYING TOO HARD!!!

Life is supposed to be good and it is supposed to be fun.

Let more of your moments be about things that interest you.
Let more of your moments be about things that feel good while you are focused on them.
Let more of your moments be about things that make your heart sing.
Or things that taste good, or things that look good, or things that smell good.

Just relax more of the time!

Be the selfishly oriented GENIUS that you were born to be and insist that you feel good more of the time.

And it is our promise to you that blessings beyond anything that you have lived will flow into your experience...AND FAST! There is great love here for you. We are complete.

Abraham-Hicks, Boston, MA, 5/15/04

You have within you an Inner Being, who will guide you through the path of least resistance, or through the path of most allowance, to the swiftest, surest route for the satisfaction of your intentions.

Abraham-Hicks, 6/6/92 A

We would never do anything that didn't make our heart sing!… And so you say, "But that choice doesn't seem to be there. There’s this choice that doesn't make my heart sing, or sort of staying where I am. So what should I do?" And we say, we'd hang around and wait for something that makes our heart sing—and then we'd jump in with all four feet.

Abraham-Hicks, From the recording G-2-28-04A, Also in GASP04 (ten tapes), San Francisco, CA

You live in a state of grace. You forget that when you feel good, only good things can come to you. It's just a matter of relaxing, and things will come.

Abraham-Hicks, 1/23/94

Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy -- you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.

Abraham-Hicks, 1/5/02
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Abraham-Hicks: Accept you and love you and accept that all is well with you

Get out into the sunlight, out where everything is, with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those who don't agree with you, those who make your life feel uncomfortable don't come into your experience, because your vibration, through your practice, has become so clear, so pure, so clean, so in keeping with what you want, that the world that revolves around you just feels like that. That's what you planned.

Abraham-Hicks, 3/9/01

There is no risk for you out here on the leading edge, ever. And when you come to understand the true nature of Well-being in which you have come forth then you can relax and begin to enjoy this magnificent adventure which is your creative life experience. We are not here to guide the specifics of that which you choose. You get to choose that, and you can't get it wrong. We are here to assist you only to assist you in finding vibrational harmony with your desire; knowing that when you find vibrational harmony with your desire, you are, in this moment, a joyful Being. And that is our dominant wish for you.

Abraham-Hicks, 6/1/02

The Universe can please all of you at the same time. "Well, how can that be? If I want to live in the mountains and she wants to live at the ocean, how could the Universe possibly please us both?" And we say, as each of you gets to the essence of why you want what you want, and are not pointing at the other and saying, "No, no, not that, please not that," the Universe can fulfill both. Be playful. Know that it's going to be alright no matter what. Have as much fun as you can. Be as easy as you can. Don't take anything very seriously, because everything blows over, good and bad. You can't stand still. So nothing lasts very long. The best of experiences you must move beyond -- and the worst of experiences you must move beyond. Don't make where you are too big of a deal. Let it be what it is: It's a moment in time where you have the choice to feel good or feel bad. That's all that it ever is.

Abraham-Hicks, 5/8/01-B

No matter what it is, if you really want it, and if you get out of the way of it, it will happen. It must be. It is Law. It can be no other way. It's the way this Universe is established. If you want it and you relax, it will happen.

Abraham-Hicks, 9/21/02

You are all connected to Source energy and well-being is what is natural to you. And as you come to expect that things will always turn out right, then things will always turn out right. Most of all we would want to say to you, and its not an easy thing for most of you to do, but it is the key and its what we would encourage you to practice, as you work a little more at loving you, then you allow all that is you - which is pure love - to flow through you. As you don't like you, as you find fault with you, you pinch that off.

So look into the mirror, look into your eyes and say, "Inner Being, are you in there?" Your Inner Being is in there. And then say, "So what do you think about me? What do you think?" And your Inner Being will look back at you with love so deep and so sure that maybe you'll hear. Your Inner Being adores you. Your Inner Being knows your value. Your Inner Being is YOU. Self-appreciation doesn't come easy to you because you try to evaluate yourself through the eyes of so many others. You said, "I'm going to do what must please me" but at the same time you've suffered because you wanted to please them. As you look into your eyes and you find your Inner Being who is pleased - a large clump of resistance will dissipate. What we're saying is, "Accept you and love you and accept that all is well with you and watch the benefits that will come to you from that."

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17 Seconds of Abraham

Because you have come to rely on only your five physical senses, most do not understand that everything is about vibration. The vibration that you interpret as vision, the vibration that you interpret as sound, or the vibrations that you interpret as smell or taste or touch, these are all vibrations that you have learned to translate through your five physical senses. But there are other vibrations that you cannot decipher through those senses. And so, you must use another sense. Some call it your sixth sense; we are calling it your emotional center, that feeling that you get in your solar plexus. Those emotions that you feel are also interpreters of vibration.

Abraham-Hicks

Your Inner Being is always guiding you toward what you are wanting. It is never protecting you from something else.

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Now, how is it that you achieve vibrational harmony with something? Well, you observe it, you contemplate it, you chew on it, you talk about it, you think about, you muse about it, you consider it, you remember it, you stew over it. In other words, by giving your attention to something, if you spend any amount of time in your observation of it, you, within a few seconds, usually 14 or 15 or 16 seconds, begin to achieve vibrational harmony with your object of attention, and once that has been achieved, it is yours.

Abraham-Hicks

In the same way that there is not an instant wanted thing manifesting in your experience, there is not instant unwanted thing happening in your experience. It takes some adapting to vibrations. If you've managed to hold anything, wanted or unwanted, for 17 seconds -- there is a coalescing of thought that takes you a little closer to the vibration of whatever you are turning your attention to. Those 17 second increments, are not discernable. And that's why, when you get into that place, it feels like instant manifestation. Just like when you get into that negative place, it feels like instant manifestation. It's like, "Where did that come from? Seemed like it just sort of snuck up on me," instead of snuck up over a long time.

Abraham-Hicks, From the workshop recording 12/1/01

The only thing that makes the difference in the way you feel right now is the thought that you are thinking right now. It doesn't matter how much money you've got; there are joyful people with no money, and there are unhappy people with lots of money. How you feel is about how you are allowing the Source that is You to flow. So when we talk about the Art of Allowing, we're talking about the art of living; about the art of thriving; about the art of clarity. We're talking about the art of being who you really are.

Abraham-Hicks, 7/20/02

No one can deny you anything. Only you do it through your own contradiction in your own desire. Nothing outside of you is keeping you from what you want. Only your own contradiction within your own vibration.

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Recognize that you have only to state, "I want a new red car," and leave it at that -- not setting forth your counter-creation, your contradictory-creation, your destructive-creation, your anti-creation or your un-creation.Offer only those thoughts and words that are in the direction of what you want.

Abraham-Hicks, From the book: A New Beginning I

You can take your next breath of desire and step into your next place of allowing, and all that you ever had, and ten times more, can be in your experience immediately -- when you accept that you are the asker and the receiver, and the letter-in of all of that.

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In appreciating yourself, you vibrate in harmony with your Core Energy, and when you vibrate in harmony with your Core Energy, you allow that which you are to this physical time and place.

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Relax into your natural Well-being. All is well. (Really it is!) The essence of all that you appreciate is constantly flowing into your reality. As you find more things to appreciate, your state of appreciation opens more avenues to more to feel appreciation for. (As you think you vibrate. As you vibrate you attract.)

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'Know thyself!' and trust that knowledge. If you find a negative subject, you should talk about it until you feel better, rather than just blow the subject off. The idea is that the subject gains momentum as of the last place you left it. Well-being is your natural state.

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Creation isn't forcing or commanding something into existence. It's more of a rolling over, a good stretch, blissing out, lying on the grass watching the flowers blowing in the breeze or the clouds floating by.

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Our strongest wanting for you is that you lighten up. In other words, spend more time looking for things to laugh about and play with. Play your way through this. It really is the key. When you follow your bliss ~ it is always an easy journey.

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Abraham-Hicks: When you feel your connection, you never again feel incapable or alone

We are wanting you to understand who you are and why you are here. And we are very much wanting you to "feel" your connection with your Inner Being, because when you make that connection, never again do you feel insecure or fearful or unable or incapable or alone. Once you make that connectedness with who you are, then you can get down to the business of doing and being and having that which you've come forth into this physical experience — to be and do and have.

Abraham-Hicks, 2/17/91
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Abraham-Hicks: We looked forward to the contrast when we intended this life experience

I ran across an interesting Abe quote, not an official Abe quote, but one transcribed by Lois Payne. I'll include the URL of the post below. I'd like to read the complete transcript, so I'll keep looking for that.

What I'm struck by is that Abe is apparently saying that we asked for this contrast, the same contrast that we want to get rid of. Something that happened to me this morning was a relaxing into "what is." I'm at the place now where I'm saying, ok, I know something will work out somehow. I'm just going with the ideas that are coming to me and if one doesn't work, another idea pops up. I'm also affirming that the energy or assistance will be there to help me take care of everything.

I like knowing that we didn't intend to get stuck in the contrast and the reminder that Source Energy gives us unlimited and loving support. Sometimes just a change in words or perspective gives such a big "aha!" Here's the quote as posted:

Echo snips from: LOCKED ON in LIVONIA - Abraham-Hicks 6.30.01 (part 6), transcribed by Lois Payne:

[Lois explains about the Questioner: ... although she likes the idea of the "we are all part of this one big ocean of God"....now she feels that her identity of who she feels she is --- is insignificant... that she can't feel a relationship between herself and this big 'ocean' like she could between herself and her Godly man image of God that she used to have.]

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ABE says: You make the transition into non-physical saying----OH YES NOW I SEE, OH NOW I UNDERSTAND, OH NOW I SEE THE BROADER PROSPECTIVE, OH NOW I GET IT.... and you are so excited and eager to go and DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN!!!

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You never get it done and you can't get it wrong!!! Each new desire that you can vibrate in tune with will give birth to yet another bigger greater more powerful desire. your physical focus on the leading edge is far beyond your ability to comprehend the importance of your coming forth to expand All That Is -- this stream of well-being --this God Force---this Energy that creates worlds. You just cannot imagine the unconditionally loving non-physical appreciation and support for your willingness to have this physical focus that you are experiencing here.

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You say, LET ME GO FORTH AND MY INNER BEING AND MY VIBRATION AND MY CONNECTION WITH MY SOURCE WILL REMIND ME OF WHO I REALLY AM.

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OH, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW EAGER AND EXCITED YOU ARE TO COME FORTH FROM NON-PHYSICAL ----- YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MAGNIFICENT YOU TRULY ARE. You have no idea of the perfection of the alignment of circumstances and events that are allowing you the perfect opportunity to experience EXACTLY what YOU intended to experience in this physical realm. It's the same contrast that you think you would like to rid yourself of... but folks----believe us when we say that YOU DID NOT INTEND FROM NON-PHYSICAL TO COME HERE AND GET STUCK IN THE CONTRAST AND STAY THERE.

YOU CAME TO EXPERIENCE THE CONTRAST AND MOVE THROUGH IT. TO FLOW THROUGH THE CONTRAST WITHOUT GETTING STUCK. . .

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And you can always just look around your life 'reality' to see exactly what you are vibrating. Whatever you see in your life is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS a perfect match to your vibration. The LAW OF ATTRACTION RULES ALL THAT IS------THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE BOTH PHYSICAL AND NON-PHYSICAL. That which is like unto itself is drawn. What you think about and what you get are always a match.
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As the one you call Jesus said again and again -------"have I not told you that ye too are gods?" You are NOT separate from that which you call God..... you are SAME. ohhhhhhhhhhhh folks...if you only knew....

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......we are complete.

Abraham-Hicks, Livonia Workshop, 6/30/01
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Our non-physical Self is the Energy flowing through us

I've been thinking lately, how does manifestation work? And I've been getting answers. I just looked at an Abe quote that I have seen several times and have a new insight.

You are physically focused beings with Non-physical Energy flowing through you. And it is impossible to separate one from the other. So act - act as much as you have physical time or energy or breath within you to act. Action is a delicious way to spend life experience. Action is one of the predominant reasons you have decided to come forth and be in a physical body.

Yes, act all that you want - after you have flowed Energy towards the outcome that you seek. Let your action be inspired action, not motivated action. Motivated action is doing it because there is a lack if you don't. Motivated action is trying to overcome something. Motivated action is very often trying to perform action that someone else wants you to perform. Let all of your action be inspired action.

So how do you do that? You do that by talking about what you want and why you want it. That will bring you to the vibrational connection with who you are, and from that place you will be inspired to the how, and the who, and when, and where."

Abraham-Hicks

This is such a typical Abe quote and I've seen variations since I found Abe, but I feel like I've just connected the dots on this picture!

I see now why we are to flow energy first toward what we want. It's because that's how we create. We are non-physical beings expressing and focusing in the physicalness of this world. That is our life force, that is the Energy of who we are. That Energy is what creates worlds.

I have such a feeling of relief now. I really have created what I desired. I've asked and it's given to me because I flowed energy to it -- that's how it works. I don't have to be concerned at all about when I see it or how. It is mine and that's all I need to know.

And the interesting thing is it seems to me that's what I wanted to know. I wanted to remember and experience that I am connected to Source Energy and to my Inner Being. The purpose of all this creating and desiring seems to be to experience who I am flowing through me -- to experience my non-physical self flowing through me.

The things that I desired seem very unimportant compared to that connection. I feel like I would just like to float in a bubble of timeless bliss and connection. Abe says they want us to have intense desires and flow energy. I just feel like floating, Abe!

The thing is, I think I can float in bliss AND enjoy this physical experience. I suspect that is the ultimate for me -- to be centered in peace and to be in love with the sunshine and birds and squirrels and fresh air and kitties and rainbows and mustard fields and friends and movies and good books and all the good stuff.

You are an extension of Source Energy. You are one who loves, and you are one who loves to think, and you are one who loves to create, and you are one who loves to contemplate. You’re one who enjoys stimulation of thought. You’re one who enjoys choosing; you enjoy considering; you enjoy pondering; you enjoy fashioning. You enjoy putting things together. You enjoy figuring things out. You enjoy knowing. You enjoy not being sure and then becoming more sure. You enjoy the evolution of a thought. You enjoy the expansion of an idea. You enjoy the expansion of life experience. You enjoy the pleasure of being this genius focused in the most creative environment that has ever existed, for the fulfillment of things that satisfy you.

You are liquid love in physical bodies, wanting, more than life itself, because it is life itself, to adore the vessel that’s you through which this Source Energy flows. You are God. You are Source. You are creator.

You always feel good from your Source Energy perspective.

Abraham-Hicks, San Rafael, CA, G-2-21-04A
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Abraham-Hicks on your Inner Being and the Leading Edge of Thought

You are much more than you see in these physical bodies. And that is not always easy for you to see, as you are using only your physical senses to make the valuation. But there is another part of you -- a greater, broader, and older -- that exists, right now, in the Non-physical dimension. That is a surprise to most of you. While many of you accept that you have lived before this, that there was something before this physical experience, and while many of you want to believe -- you are hoping -- that there is something beyond this physical experience, very few acknowledge that, right now, while you are physical, that there is another part of you, a greater part of you that remains in Non-physical dimension. And we are wanting you to know that, so that you may reconnect, consciously and deliberately, with that inner you. We call it your Inner Being. Some of you call it your Higher Self or your Soul. It matters not what you call it, but it is of great value for you to acknowledge that it exists, for there is wondrous guidance that is available to you through this inner you.

Abraham-Hicks, From the Abraham-Hicks Planning Calendar

You have an Inner Being within you, that has been walking with you all the days of this experience, who is aware of all that you want, and all that you are. We are wanting you to find a very real connection with that which you are -- with your broader Non-physical counterpart -- with your God-force -- with All That Is -- with your Higher Self -- with your Soul or Inner Being or whatever label you are wanting to assign it, so that you can be and do and have that which you've come forth to be, do and have.

Abraham-Hicks, 5/2/92 B

Can you feel the perpetual evolution of that which you are? In other words, you envisioned you. Now you are you. Now you summon you back through you, and extend it further. That is the reason for physical experience. You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are.

Abraham-Hicks, 2/26/94

This physical experience is the leading edge of creativity. This physicalness is the application of thought to matter -- it is the fine-tuning of creation and it is essential to growth -- even from Non-physical perspective. You are providing a very valuable service to your broader Inner Being!

Abraham-Hicks, G 2/8/91

You deliberately chose these short snatches into the physical so that you could keep bringing fresh perspective into it.

Abraham-Hicks, G 10/26/91

You acknowledge that your Inner Being exists? And we say to you that your Inner Being is very old, it has lived thousands of Life experiences. Your Inner Being sits now as the culmination of all that you have lived -- very decided, very sure and very happy -- in a place that by your standards, you would say is pure ecstasy. Your role, your work is to harmonize with you, which means -- think thoughts that make you feel good -- Speak words that make you feel good.

Abraham-Hicks, 7/4/91

All-That-Is, or God, is not finished and waiting for you to catch up. You are the leading edge of thought, here seeking more: more of all that feels good to you, more of that which is fresh and gloriously uplifting. (You are, in essence, bringing heaven to earth.)

Abraham-Hicks, From Abraham-Hicks Daily Planning Calendar
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Correcting my heading to Well-Being

A pilot corrects the heading of an airplane a large percentage of time that they fly from point A to point B. In spite of the need for corrections, the plane lands amazingly accurately and on time (exceptions are when there are other things that delay the flight).

My Inner Being provides that same type of guidance to get me where I want to go. When I don't feel good, I have started tuning in to my Inner Being. I have a feeling of what that Presence is and I take a moment to listen or rest in that feeling. I may ask for something like peace of mind or comfort or guidance. Sometimes I say that I want to feel good. Sometimes I ask my Inner Being what it would do in this situation. When I do that I feel a flowing toward me and see things in a different way.

As I was doing this, I realized one day that feeling good means being in the Now. And worry and resistance is about the future or the past. When I feel well-being, I am totally in the present.

I've also been thinking a lot about control. I noticed that when I felt upset about something, I felt like someone/something was in control and I wasn't. If I felt upset about something at work, they were the source of money instead of the Universe or me being the source. When I feel upset about something in a relationship, it seems to be because I feel like something I want is not in my control -- it's in their control. Some version of..."I want to feel loved and they're not doing what I want so that I feel loved."

Choosing to change my thoughts so that I feel good puts me back in a feeling of being in control. It feels good to know that I'm in charge of how I feel.

And the last part is trust. Abraham tells us time and time again, that when we feel good, what we desire comes to us. So, all the unhappy feelings are about something that I want. This has been the last part for me, to trust that what I am really seeking is to feel good and to trust that when I feel good I am lovingly provided for. I relax and trust God and allow God's good to come to me.

Now that I have had a taste of how good I can feel, when I choose thoughts that don't feel good it has become extremely unpleasant. It's not worth it anymore to think I can't have what I want. It doesn't matter to me. All that is important is to feel good. And how I feel is a choice that, thank God, only I can make.

I have come to the place of choice and I choose well-being. I choose to look for things that feel good. I choose to believe that what Abraham is saying is true. I choose to believe that things will work out and I don't need to manage that process, I can let God handle it.

Just do your best to keep yourself in balance. One of the first things that causes Energy misalignment, is asking or demanding too much of yourself in terms of time and effort. In other words, you just cannot burn the candle at both ends, so that you are physically tired, and then expect yourself to have a cheerful attitude. So, the rule of thumb has to be: "I'm going to be very, very, very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that."

Abraham-Hicks, From the workshop recording 3-6-05

How can you possibly guide your life by the standards that come from outside of you, when there are not two in your world that ask the same thing of you? You have to, once and for all, decide that you're going to orient yourself from your Source perspective. When you make a decision that nothing is more important than that you feel good, your life will begin to become that which you knew it could be when you made the decision to come forth into this physical experience.

Abraham-Hicks,From the workshop recording 10/5/02

In your moving yourself up the Emotional Scale, your business will begin to prosper in new and profound ways! Your business, your relationships, your finances cannot grow beyond your emotional response -- nothing can grow beyond your emotional response. Everything matches your Set-point of emotions on every subject that exists.

Abraham-Hicks, From the workshop recording 12/6/03-B

So, the truth is, there's not one path. The truth is, there's not only one right path. The truth is, all paths can be made to be the right path. The truth is, that every individual has a different path. And that different path that every individual is launching incrementally and amending constantly--that true path is known by Source and is guided by Source if you will pay attention to the way you feel.

Abraham-Hicks, From the workshop recording 10/13/04

You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you've come to believe that getting there must be really important, therefore, it must be your purpose. And we say, but if you're not getting to joy, then you've gotten nowhere. Joy is really where you're going.

Abraham-Hicks, From the workshop recording 12/13/03

The only thing that makes the difference in the way you feel right now is the thought that you are thinking right now. It doesn't matter how much money you've got; there are joyful people with no money, and there are unhappy people with lots of money. How you feel is about how you are allowing the Source that is You to flow. So when we talk about the Art of Allowing, we're talking about the art of living; about the art of thriving; about the art of clarity. We're talking about the art of being who you really are.

Abraham-Hicks, From the workshop recording 7/20/02

You can say things like, "As I look at successful people, and by that I mean rich people, yes, and I mean happy people, and sometimes they're rich and happy. But when I'm talking about the successful ones, what I really mean is the really happy people. People that are really joyful, that want to get up every day, that are eager to get into their day. Almost without exception, they had a pretty rough beginning, which turned them into a powerful rebel initially. And then they found a way to relax into their natural birthright of Well-being.

Abraham-Hicks, From the workshop recording 2/2/02

Relaxation and Lots of Energy

I'm just following this shift with interest. Last night I felt so much relaxation inside, not feeling it in my muscles although they followed the relaxation, but deep inside. It was a fairly pure state of being.

It's working for me to check with my Inner Being when I feel I'm going off in my thinking in a way I don't enjoy. I might give my Inner Being a desire about the way I want things to be, but much more often my desire is just to want to feel good and it feels good to me to connect to my Inner Being. I took private pilot lessons and the analogy they use is that when you are flying from point A to point B you are off course most of the time. You constantly adjust your heading and end up flying in the direction you intend. Same with this I think. I adjust my heading to "feeling good" when I touch in with my Inner Being.

I was checking in during the day and by the time I was driving home from work I felt like I had so much energy wanting to express! I felt like I was in a cocoon and it was too tight and I was ready to go free. I couldn't even think of anything that would be bold enough or alive enough to express all of that energy except something like sky diving. It would be so immediate and Now oriented to sky dive.

I was thinking this evening when I get home that I don't have to consult the Law of Attraction Manager (the Manager) or consciously think about what I desire or "work on it," the Manager knows what I want and is working on it. I don't have to be concerned about it at all unless I want to for some reason.

What interesting times these are.

Abraham-Hicks on your Inner Being

You are much more than you see in these physical bodies. And that is not always easy for you to see, as you are using only your physical senses to make the valuation. But there is another part of you -- a greater, broader, and older -- that exists, right now, in the Non-physical dimension. That is a surprise to most of you. While many of you accept that you have lived before this, that there was something before this physical experience, and while many of you want to believe -- you are hoping -- that there is something beyond this physical experience, very few acknowledge that, right now, while you are physical, that there is another part of you, a greater part of you that remains in Non-physical dimension. And we are wanting you to know that, so that you may reconnect, consciously and deliberately, with that inner you. We call it your Inner Being. Some of you call it your Higher Self or your Soul. It matters not what you call it, but it is of great value for you to acknowledge that it exists, for there is wondrous guidance that is available to you through this inner you.

Abraham-Hicks, From Abraham-Hicks Planning Calendar

It is only in your physicalness that you feel singular in your ability to be: "I can only be in one place at one time, I can only do one thing at one time." But from your broader perspective, you are multi-dimensional.

Abraham-Hicks, 1/23/93 workshop

You acknowledge that your Inner Being exists? And we say to you that your Inner Being is very old, it has lived thousands of Life experiences. Your Inner Being sits now as the culmination of all that you have lived -- very decided, very sure and very happy -- in a place that by your standards, you would say is pure ecstasy. Your role, your work is to harmonize with you, which means -- think thoughts that make you feel good -- Speak words that make you feel good.

Abraham-Hicks, 7/4/91 workshop

Take your Inner Being everywhere you go. If you take your Inner Being to the party, it's going to be a good party! If you take your Inner Being, the food that you eat will be received perfectly by the cells of your body. Every word that comes out of your mouth will be beneficial to everyone who hears them with their ears, or with their vibration. Don't go anywhere without your Inner Being. That's what "Allowing" is. Always having your Inner Being present. And then, anything else that happens is always orchestrated perfectly by Law of Attraction.

Abraham-Hicks, 2/17/01 workshop

You have an Inner Being within you, that has been walking with you all the days of this experience, who is aware of all that you want, and all that you are. We are wanting you to find a very real connection with that which you are -- with your broader Non-physical counterpart -- with your God-force -- with All That Is -- with your Higher Self -- with your Soul or Inner Being or whatever label you are wanting to assign it, so that you can be and do and have that which you've come forth to be, do and have.

Abraham-Hicks, 5/2/92 B workshop

This last week I was asking my Inner Being how to think about the things that seem right in front of my face, that I don't like. I want something new. The answer that I received was to appreciate. I was guided to go get fresh air at breaks and lunch at work which refreshed me. I asked to feel good at work and by the end of the week felt good and full of energy.

This is me. My Inner Being is who I really am. I think about that sometimes. I am this powerful being of spirit expressing in this body. Appearances otherwise are just that -- appearances.

Most of the times I feel much better when I think that. When that doesn't help me to feel better then I just keep my face pointed in the direction I want to go and keep on going. It's like soaking a pan that has burned on food on it...it may take a little soaking to loosen it up...but it comes clean.

Wishing you a beauty of a week and all the love your heart can hold. :)
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Discovery

I was talking to my Inner Being this morning before I got out of bed. I felt so anxious about the future and trapped like a fly in amber in the actions and thoughts from my past. My Inner Being is me, I am my Inner Being. All that creative energy is mine to have and experience and express. There are all these practical things to do to provide for bills in the very near future and I didn't give a hoot about them at that moment. So, I asked my Inner Being (IB) for guidance, did some affirmations of what I wanted to create, and got this feeling that I wanted to draw. So, I got up, got out my pencils and pad and drew! I felt energized. Now, I'm running around with energy, the words are flowing, my eyes are wide open. I know that when I want to, I will get the needed things done easily.

I couldn't find the exact quote, but Abraham talks about allowing what we desire as feeling good -- the kind of laying in a meadow staring at clouds kind of good. Or petting your cat or sitting on a dock dangling your feet in the water. As I was talking to my IB and thinking this morning I was contemplating that this is the eternal Now. I was thinking about what that means as far as taking action. We think there is time. There appears to be time while we are in our bodies. But we are still a soul in the eternal Now. So, in the eternal Now, there is plenty of time for me to just "be."

I talked in my post on December 25th about feeling like I finally had both feet on the same path. It's exciting as all get out to think that what Abe is saying is REALLY true. So, is it possible that I really can pet my cat and allow the Universe to bring me what I want? I know I've had some wonderful experiences when I let go and just did something totally off the wall for the fun of it. I pulled a $200 winning lottery ticket out of the numbers of some entries I made in an online contest. I found $100 on the sidewalk. There are other things. But can I live that way? Well, this I know. I have decided to be happy in a way that I feel good about -- that fits me. It's not the way my family or the people around me think or feel, but they would be happy at my having success. I think they would wonder how in the world it happened because I am not doing things the expected way, but they would be glad to see me happy.

I don't have a bay handy to dangle my feet in, but I think it's worth a try to believe I can do exactly what I want and that God Goddess All That Is will roll out a red carpet in front of me. I think this most Holy Presence rolls out a red carpet for us whatever direction we face. We just don't always like it because we don't really want to go that way. It is up to us to choose a path that feels good to us, that makes us happy. This is a big bright beautiful world and there is plenty for everyone -- plenty of money, love, and all good things. Here kitty, kitty, kitty! (grin)

Namaste to all of you bright lights out there!

Suzanne

Here are some of the Abraham-Hicks quotes that fit with my topic today:

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You have within you an Inner Being, who will guide you through the path of least resistance, or through the path of most allowance, to the swiftest, surest route for the satisfaction of your intentions.

Abraham-Hicks, 6/6/92 workshop.

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If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate; in other words, if you could just decide to play that game, look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after.

You don't have to understand energy flow. You don't have to understand the vibrational dynamics. If you would just decide to play the game of appreciation, you would live happily ever after. That one game is the only tool you ever need to allow THE ENERGY to flow. You'd suddenly have more friends. Everybody that is wanting to be happy would gravitate around you. You would vibrate in harmony with positive things.

Things that are not in harmony with what you appreciate could not be a part of your experience. You'd start living a better life. Anything that you ever appreciated would begin to flow into your experience. And you would say, "Man, I must have stepped into another dimension."

And now we say, Go forth and tell no one. Until you really have this, don't try to convince anyone else about it. Because they will bring you forceful evidences about how wrong you are.

Just live it. Breath it. Vibrate it. Ooze it.

Abraham-Hicks, workshop 7-9-95

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We would never do anything that didn't make our heart sing!… And so you say, "But that choice doesn't seem to be there. There’s this choice that doesn't make my heart sing, or sort of staying where I am. So what should I do?" And we say, we'd hang around and wait for something that makes our heart sing—and then we'd jump in with all four feet.

Abraham-Hicks, San Francisco workshop, 2-28-04

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Response to channeling in Words of Well-being, Dec. 7, 2005

When channeling in Words of Well-being on December 7, 2005, I was asked to share these experiences.

I was not enjoying my job, relationships, had health problems, financial problems and just generally had come to the end in the direction I had been going. I found the Abraham-Hicks information and knew it was what I was looking for. Instead of trying to make changes in small increments, I jumped in to completely change the whole direction of my thinking. It was a lot to take on and I quite naturally didn't immediately feel better. Abraham talks of how we create our reality and that when we appreciate, we are connected with the loving Source and with our Inner Being. One time I was feeling pretty miserable, many things not seeming to be working well. I was in a pet store looking for food for my cat and asking for guidance and I asked my Inner Being: Well, how would you do it in my shoes? How would you appreciate right now? And suddenly I saw all of the food and toys that were available shelf after shelf. And the beautiful colors and just the abundance. And the money I had to buy it. I walked out into the dark night and looked at the grainy broken concrete and the patterns looked beautiful. It had started to snow and I stood under a light in the parking lot and just looked at the big, fluffy flakes coming down. I drove home in a daze of enjoyment and appreciate of the lights of the cars and how traffic moved so smoothly and how stunningly beautiful the snow storm was. Seeing the grainy concrete as beautiful really surprised me and I also remember just that joyful, constant appreciation and wonder at how beautiful everything was. We have a tremendous capacity for joy if we will allow it.

And there is one more experience I am to share. I had taken a job in January this year and it was in a very unpleasant environment. I was in training and the trainer was difficult and rude. I was miserable, but felt I had to stay with it because of health and financial reasons. I had asked God for a sign that I was on the right path in my work with learning reality creation. One day I left the training and I felt at my lowest ebb. It was gray and so cold outside. I backed my car out of the space and straightened it up and started to drive when a seagull flew down beside my driver's side window. I was so surprised! If the window had been open it was close enough that I could have touched it. And here is the other part that is a bit of a miracle to me, I was so amazed that it was there and stayed there that I drove to the end of the parking lot looking to the left at the seagull instead of watching where I was going. It stayed right beside me until I got to the end of the parking lot and then flew into the sky to join a companion that was circling overhead. Now, the other part is that I'm in the midwest and this was January, not a common time to see a seagull!! There is a large lake in a city about an hour from me and perhaps that's where it came from. All that week I saw hawks and other beautiful birds and written material about birds being an expression of freedom came to me unexpectedly. The seagull was simply wonderful and I still get tears in my eyes when I think about it. I love animals and see them as an expression of God, too, so this was especially meaningful to me.

Beauty is all around us. There are miracles happening every day. And we are one of them -- the gift of this life and the love that we are. That's the greatest gift we can give ourselves and others.