| In a world full of stress, deadlines, needs, and | | | | from this point on in your personal growth, you |
| scarcity, it is sometimes hard to determine that | | | | will achieve two out of the three before you die: |
| you have any power. Helping yourself can feel like | | | | You will experience and you will create. You |
| an overwhelming and unattainable mission. | | | | cannot help it. It is happening every second of |
| However, we also live in a world full of new | | | | every day. It will, however, take a conscious |
| information and understandings. Ideas of | | | | decision to remember. It is a conscious decision to |
| self-empowerment and the feelings that these | | | | awaken, to grow spiritually, and to become the |
| truths bring is testimony for a new way of | | | | greatest version of yourself. |
| thinking. | | | | 6. Walking the spiritual path means that you made |
| The universe is unlimited, and, if you choose to | | | | a decision to seek the truth of who you are. The |
| explore it, you will awaken to a whole new way | | | | quality of life that you live is strictly a matter of |
| of knowing---a whole new way of being. Spirit is | | | | choice. You may choose to live your life at any |
| available to all people at equal levels; there is no | | | | level of awareness; all are honored and respected; |
| "better than," or "more deserving." The choice to | | | | nothing is judged. |
| raise your consciousness means to broaden your | | | | 7. The universe is continually offering opportunities, |
| awareness, open up to new possibilities, step out | | | | opening doors, and answering prayers. You can |
| of your comfort zone, and allow information other | | | | choose to be conscious and awaken to these |
| than what you already "know." | | | | offerings. |
| Spirit has many names: God, Great Spirit, All That | | | | 8. Judgments, punishments, opinions of right and |
| Is, Mother/Father, Great Mystery, Allah, and Lord. | | | | wrong or good and bad are human concepts. |
| All are interchangeable. Your spirit, which is housed | | | | These concepts are illusions that hide the |
| in your body, is part of that giant whole. In fact, | | | | perfection of the soul. Judgments and |
| everything is made up of the same energy. All | | | | punishments do not exist in the spirit world. |
| things---every tree, rock, grain of sand, gust of | | | | Life is a journey of becoming, a continual cycle of |
| wind, drop of water, animal, insect, bird, planet, | | | | evolving from one lifetime to the next. What you |
| star---are expressions of the divine, and we are all | | | | do not achieve in this lifetime, you will achieve |
| interconnected in a divine and profound way. | | | | later. You choose the rate at which you evolve. |
| You are an incredible spirit of divine perfection, | | | | To follow the spiritual path is a choice and a |
| the same composition as Spirit. Creator is an | | | | matter of readiness, but it offers phenomenal |
| ocean and you are a drop of water in that ocean. | | | | rewards. Your spiritual path is a completely |
| You carry within you the exact components and | | | | personal experience; no two existences unfold in |
| properties of the entire ocean. You are made of | | | | the same manner. As the spirits constantly |
| Spirit, in the reflection of Spirit, and Spirit is in you. | | | | remind me, everyone participating in the |
| The following basic truths are unifying principles I | | | | earth-walk will eventually come to complete |
| have learned in my work with the spirits. These | | | | consciousness. It is only a matter of when. |
| truths present concepts about healing and working | | | | Judgments are what most often get in the way |
| with energy. They also provide suggestions on | | | | of personal growth. When a person directs |
| how you might apply them to your own life to | | | | judgments toward others, it usually indicates |
| enhance your process of healing and well-being. I | | | | personal feelings of inadequacy, unworthiness, low |
| guarantee that if you make them a part of your | | | | self-esteem, and lack of self-love. Judgments can |
| daily life, your life will improve in a dramatically | | | | cause fear, hatred, arrogance, war, greed, anger, |
| positive way. | | | | blame, jealousy, pain, and loneliness---the |
| Anyone, at any time, can make choices for | | | | psychological disorders of the human experience. |
| happiness and for healing. This includes you. Read | | | | They are often imprinted heavily and cloud the |
| the following truths and begin to ask how they | | | | reality of one's own being, which creates |
| might affect your life. | | | | tremendous fear. Judgments have nothing to do |
| Universal Truths | | | | with truth or the perfection of the soul. Our job |
| 1. Spirit loves and values you unconditionally. | | | | as humans is to clear ourselves of the many |
| 2. You are first and foremost a spirit---a soul | | | | judgments we hold toward others and ourselves. |
| having an earth experience. This earth-walk is but | | | | Spirit does not pressure you to change, because |
| one fraction of your being. | | | | you are loved unconditionally for all of eternity. |
| 3. Your spirit has a divine purpose. | | | | The urge for change is a pressure you feel from |
| 4. You agreed to forget your previous existence. | | | | within---your own soul urging you to create a |
| This makes becoming enlightened a quality of | | | | better life. Happiness, peace, deep joy, and a |
| remembering who you are. Remembering is | | | | closer connection to Source are all available to |
| embracing this reality and then making the | | | | you. Something has encouraged you to ask |
| necessary changes in your life to reflect this truth. | | | | questions, to seek, to pick up spiritual material. If |
| Respect, honor, compassion, and reverence for all | | | | your life is not being lived from a place of fullness, |
| life are necessary components for the path to | | | | love, spontaneity, passion, sensuality, and divine |
| awareness. | | | | joy, then you probably need to make some |
| 5. You are here on earth to experience, to | | | | changes in your life in order to attain these |
| create, and to remember. If you do nothing more | | | | qualities. |