URSULA'S FLOWERS

I don't think you have ever been properly introduced to Ursula's flowers. Ursula K. has been part of the school since it began, and part of my life long before. She has fairies dancing in her huge brown eyes. She is a Swiss elf living in Los Angeles with her artist husband and lovely cat. Hopefully one day you will meet her! Until then, for a bit of happiness for your eyes, do visit her website, and tell everyone where they can get the best flower arrangements ever!  http://swissbloom.com/ 

A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

This was the November 2010 Monthly Message on my Website. I've just renovated all the monthly messages. I haven't created new ones in a long time, but there are lots of old ones to read, which are always new

http://www.theclearandsimpleway.com/november2010message.htm

A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY

When we are open and receptive, we can find words of truth and inspiration everywhere, for example, in the song Already Gone by the Eagles: "Just remember when you look up in the sky, you can see the stars, but still not see the light."  And . . . "Well, I know it wasn't you who held me down. Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free. So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key."

The point of this message is to encourage you to stay open and receptive to messages of Truth. Life can be an exciting journey of discovery when you let it be. Resolve to live your life alert and aware. See the stars with something more than your physical eyes. Resolve to see with your heart. Resolve to see without fear.

When we look at life through eyes of fear, we have no choice but to shut down to protect ourselves. When we shut down in an attempt to stay safe, we are less safe .  . . because it means we are living life with less intuition, less open to the Truth that expresses itself in every moment. We are focused on the fear in the mind, instead of the Truth in the heart.

Truth is always speaking to us. Always. When you know this, when you stay open to discovery, then your life has meaning because you see the meaning of life, which is self-discovery . .  . discovering your true nature, the nature of everything. You allow yourself to be guided by light . . . and there is no need to fear the darkness when you are guided by light. "So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYCPccFQHWA 
*Already Gone, written by Jack Tempchin and Robert Arnold Strandlund for the Eagles 1974 album On the Border.

THE JOURNEY OF THE HEART

Usually we go to school to acquire something we don't already have. Your School isn't like that. You attend this School to find what you already have within you.

This is a school of the heart. The journey of the heart is a journey of acquiring not more, but less. Acquiring less has nothing to do with material possessions, name, or fame. We do not take the inner journey to please the ego that always wants more of everything, but for the heart that IS everything.

As the Italian poet Antonio Porchia reminds us, "In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."

The outer journey is traveled with the mind. Traveling with the mind means learning a lot of useless things that are not true anyway and then living as though they are. Things of the mind pass away with time. Wisdom is older than time.

The wisdom of the heart cannot be learned; it can only be revealed.

The wisdom of the heart arises as a deep inner knowing; a feeling; a conviction that cannot be disputed.

Your School awakens the Wisdom already within you. 

LESSON 38 LIFE JUST IS LET IT BE

What purpose does anger serve?

Anger has only one purpose—to protect the false self. Anger is a cover-up for fear. Beneath anger is fear. Most people would rather feel angry than afraid. Fear feels powerless and anger feels powerful.

Anger has no power, except to defend and build-up the false self. Anger is darkness, and all darkness keeps us from making contact with God. Anger is just another false image we worship in place of God. Isn't this sad when you really think about it? Isn't it sad to be worshiping the darkness of anger rather than the light of God?

A PURE BRIGHT CRYSTAL

 

In your heart is a pure bright crystal. The heart is surrounded by the ruins of your false thinking. You have forgotten your true nature. You have forgotten the pure bright crystal of your shining heart. You are here to remember. Now. In this lifetime. Not in some other. You are here to wake up. This is your divine destiny. This is the reason you incarnated on earth. Now! To wake up now.

Madeleine L'engle

Here is my friend, Madeliene L'engle, the author -- no longer living -- well, she wasn't my friend in the sense that we ever met, though I saw her speak once upon a time, but certainly a friend of my soul. I would say it isn't maybe -- but definitely -- we must walk through the dark forest of ego to reach the Light of Understanding. So, keep walking, friends of my soul . . .

Happy Vernal Equinox

Happy Springtime Everyone!

A new birth is yours when you continue 
to apply yourself to all the lessons
of your life so that you are born
into the present moment. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/03/20/vernal-equinox-2015-solar-eclipse-supermoon-kick-off-spring-in-the-northern-hemisphere/

Chocolate Chia Pudding

 Chia Chocolate Pudding - serves 4
Chia seeds are good for us, high in antioxidants. Chia pudding sells for a lot of money, but you can make your own for much less. Enjoy!
Ingredients 

* ½ cups water
*¼ cup chia seeds
*2 tablespoon cacao powder cacao powder
*⅛ teaspoon stevia, (or maple syrup, or honey to taste).
*⅛ teaspoon sea salt--I prefer himalayan salt.
Directions:

1. Combine blended coconut milk, water, and chia seeds in a quart mason jar and shake well
2. Add cacao powder, sweetner, and salt and shake well
3. Refrigerate overnight to let chia seeds soften and absorb liquid.

LIVING FROM A THOUGHT SELF

Human beings live from a thought self and call it real. Sigh.

Thought = Feeling = Action = Your Experience of Life.

Watch yourself get worked up over something you are thinking about--something that creates negative feelings within you. When you notice that you are deeply, emotionally involved in negative thoughts, take a breath, step back from yourself, and ask:

Is this who I really am? Am I these thoughts I have been believing? Am I these emotions I have been feeling? Do I want to be this negative thought self?

Ask these questions anytime you find yourself getting caught up in a negative experience. If you believe you are a thought self, you will be compelled to act as if you are. For example, when you start thinking jealous thoughts, you soon feel very jealous. If you do not stop to question this, you soon believe you are this jealous person. Then you are compelled to act like a jealous person.

This is true for any negative thought self you create. If you think thoughts of anger, sadness, hostility, paranoia, and inferiority long and strong enough, soon you feel that way--and then you act that way.

Taking a moment to stop, step outside of your thought self, and ask intelligent questions about what you are thinking and feeling can give you perspective. You may realize that you are not a thought self unless you believe you are. You may become calmer. You may come into touch with who you really are.

You may begin to see that thoughts come and go and change all the time. You may begin to see you are not a thought, but the space between two thoughts.

Nuclear Power -- Unclear Power

Hello Everyone,
Have you ever read any of the monthly messages on my website? Actually, I pretty much stopped writing them awhile back, but am updating them when I have a moment, since I like everything I write from the past to be fully polished in the present and I've recently updated my website. Have you seen the update? Hop on over when you get a chance, and let me know how you like it. Of course, I could always change it again...anyway, here is the message from April 2011:

What can we learn from the cataclysmic events, both natural and man-made,that have shocked & rocked the world in recent years?

Happy St. Patrick's Day Everyone!

I happen to be a bit of Irish. I am posting a day early, so we can celebrate the rest of the month. I hope everyone is getting as much out of their lessons as I am. I am being more self-observant--witnessing happens sometimes now of its own accord, which is amazing to me.  I wish all the snakes of negativity might be driven from you--and I know this can happen, with self-effort, self-observation, watching my reactions, and saying NO to the dark energy of negativity--NO--you are not welcome here.

Here are magical shamrocks to wish you all a bright

 green spring healing heart uplifting St. Patrick's Day.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

May you find the real gold at the end of the rainbow!

Top o' the day Leprechauns,
In honor of St. Patrick who it is said drove the snakes out of Ireland on the day of March 17, I've changed our classroom decor to shamrocks, and posted a Celtic Prayer, an angelic version, along with the mighty wish that all the snakes (negative thoughts and feelings) also be driven out of you. Just say NO! Say no in a very powerful way when darkness comes knocking on the door of you mind. Say NO! You may not enter here. You have no right here. You have no right at all. 
Green is the color of the heart chakra, the color of spring, of healing energy, so may you experience it in full force within you, surrounding you with life-giving strength.

I Arise Today
I arise today
Through a mighty strength
I arise today
Through the strength of the love of God,
Seraphim and cherubim
In obedience of angels,
In the service of angels,
I arise today
Through the strength of Light:
Light of sun,
Radiance of moon,
Splendor of fire,
Speed of lightning,
Swiftness of wind,
Depth of sea,
Stability of earth,
Firmness of rock. 

 And here is our ever-friendly angel all in misty green today:

Your Lessons

I am in the process of re-editing all the lessons. I am replacing many of the photos and pictures because when I first created the lessons, I did not realize that I couldn't just use pictures I found on the internet. All the new pictures belong to me, created by me, taken by me or friends who consent to their use. Since each lesson is only for you, not to be shared, no one else should see them anyway, but just to be on the safe side, and because it is copyright law, I am making these changes. It is a lot of fun and I enjoy the creativity.

I am also making other changes in the lessons, as I hear and translate more clearly the words of the angels. This means I am reading over every single lesson. I am nearly finished with this process. It is great to read all the lessons again. And again. 

Here is from Lesson 49, Lessons from Nature and Nature Spirits,

People who truly love and are open to the world of nature may develop working relationships with nature spirits. Nature spirits respond to feelings of love and concern and may thus be empowered to communicate with certain individuals. This communication may come in the form of intuition or as an actual manifestation of the fairy spirit.

Posting Just Because....

...the blue colors are so heavenly. Like heaven for my eyes. 

For my German-speaking friends and students...

Egos leben in der Zeit, und da Zeit nichts Reales ist,
leben auch die Egos in etwas, das nicht real ist,
was bedeutet, dass Egos nicht real sind. Die Zeit
ist von Bedeutung für das Leben hier auf der Erde,
aber für die Ewigkeit hat sie überhaupt keine Bedeutung.
Die Engel leben in der Ewigkeit, und auch unser wahres 
Selbst lebt in der Ewigkeit,
im ewigen Jetzt.
-translated by Annegret Baumhardt ©2015

Egos live in time and since time is not real,
egos live in that which is not real, which
means egos are also not real. Time is
relevant to life on earth and not at all
relevant to eternity. Eternity is where
angels live. It is where your true self lives,
too, in the eternal now.

...and here are some of your classmates: Monika F. who of course hosts the angel work in Mainz, Germany, Jutta and her sister Christel, who host the angel work in Maulburg, Germany. We are smiling after eating sweet things on a little outing together.