There is a spiritual "inertia" to the formation of the self, from moment to moment, from vision to lifetime. When you set a thought to a decision, and then the decision set into the action, a state of "BE-ing" is the inevitable result. The question is; what state of being do you seek? You see, the spiritual inertia that nudges your perception of being isn't formed at the fingertips, the tongue or the eyebrows. The spiritual inertia that nudges the movement of your thoughts becomes the spiritual inertia that is inevitably set into motion through, YOU! Once set into direction, your motion, your spiritual inertia will carry you through just fine! That is what determined faith is all about! "BE", don't avoid being. - WD Allan

The universe is a wonderfully fascinating place you know. People place themselves into the fray of life focusing on the simple things that make up ones days, and then it seems that experiential decision making has taken place somewhere by something, somehow, and the accommodation of the experience of love, hate, anger, fear or some other affective descriptor enters into the formula often leaving people with a feeling of "where did that all come from?" Frequently the last place one looks for the first derivative in that formula is within ones own manipulations that attract it into the experience. Why is it that the consideration more escapes than not, that one actually draws such toward themselves through their own being rather than the universe more frequently dropping it into peoples pathways of life? Yes, of course it comes to pass that sometimes things simply do happen. It does however take place that people craft their own courses, tear apart the paths through the forests and the jungles of their being only to eventually find themselves plopped down into the valleys of happiness and despair, love and loss, achievement and challenge and so on. Through the decisions and the actions we make every day, through the manipulations and the soulful articulations of the meaningful natures of life, we create and draw toward ourselves the fabric of the tapestry of who we are, who we were and to whom we will certainly become. Think of the responsibility of personal actions of change, instead of always relegating it to the function of some divine proportion of guilt ridden destiny. "YOU" create your destiny in life more than anything else does! When you come to accept this fact; WOW, will your changes progress in the directions you want them too!- WD Allan

One of the largest causes of peoples everyday anxieties and strife is that they tend to openly welcome the ills that accompany a day with much more accepting resolve than they invite the overwhelming presence of peace, calmness and light into their lives. The cause of this is of course that most consider the presence of anxieties to be a natural thing while they also consider the entrance and the presence of light, calmness and peace to be akin to some occasional flight if not a complete rarity in life! When people then set out to "CHOOSE" to envelope themselves with calmness, peace and the light of the essence of calmness and goodwill, eventually this becomes habit, and the habit an eventual mainstay that wouldn't be given up for all of the jewels of the tower! Choose wisely! How you interpret your experience is exactly what you will engage! - WD Allan

Life nowadays really meets itself astride the gallop of the horses of commerce, the flight of the mind of busy-ness, the run of the absolutely necessary as many see it all. People meet the demands of others, feed the wants and the necessary's of everything from job to deed, from emotional want to psychological infusion, and the end product of much of it all is a depletion of one meeting ones own needs while not keeping others from meeting theirs. This last portion is the functional definition of "assertiveness"! To meet ones own needs includes ones emotional self, ones vocational self, ones spiritual self and so on and there is absolutely nothing wrong with saying the word "NO" to others in order to spend some time on YOU! Take time for yourself! Take time for your own spiritual vision of what and whom you envision yourself to be and yourself to come, and in time the demands of others and of the world will begin to draw back into their proper perspectives. Be there for you, for many others placing demands upon you are certainly doing the same for themselves! - WD Allan

Its become all too common that the affect of the tear is seen as an exhibition of ones weakness while the presence and the promotion of ones laughter is seen as curing and indicative of a sound character. I can't begin to tell you of all of the people I've seen both personally and professionally who hide much of their anger, angst and rage through the presence of a smile and some laughter. Laughter is often attributed with the capacity of some deletion of the sour materials of life, when I can say most heartily that it doesn't do this at all! Mask? Yes! Offset? For a time. But delete? Absolutely not! When one becomes grounded in the awareness of ones feelings and all of the emotions surrounding the events, the situations and the people in ones life, then there can be a true exhibition of the congruence of the self in whole form. When this comes to be, then the spirituality of the soulful-self appears from behind its hidden veil and this is the path to that ever sought state of a moment of "bliss" in life. It never lasts forever, but it does come, in time, with intent and most of all, with a true congruence of what truly lies within under the skin. I can soundly tell you from experience, just BE YOU! - WD Allan

As the saying so aptly puts it, "pluck a string on an instrument, and the vibration is felt across the universe." Many have grave difficulties with such an axiom for their minds wield not to the effects that can adapt the ether of existence. If it had happened that Moses had not been born, or that Franklin Roosevelt's parents had given birth to a daughter and not a son in his place, or that Einstein had never chosen to travel to the US and stayed in Europe, the world and yes, the universe would have been a much different place. One choice, a set of choices, a pluck on a string in all of what is can easily move matters into uncharted territory. So, the next time you feel you can have no affect in the matters of the world, or that you haven't made a difference in your life or in the life of another, just stop and think again! You may have affected much more than you could ever have imagined in the universe! Have faith, and "BE" the best that you can be in your tidings, through your decisions, and in your life. Most of all, "BE"! - WD Allan

A fascinating truism "seeds" are to the creation of the moment of anyone's life. Even if one doesn't quite align themselves with the picture of a seed being laid day by day along the way, the simile is precise enough to fit anyone's spiritualist tendencies. We all do lay down seeds as we travel our separate paths and as time moves along, some of them sprout, some lie dormant and others pass into oblivion, to the ether of what might have been. When one doesn't allow the "auto-pilot" switch to be thrown itself automatically in life and when one exerts a thoughtful re-creation to each and every day and to the happenings of the day, it quickly becomes an emerging awareness that one crafts the effects to come according to the seeds one plants along the way. An absolute paradoxical scheme! The effects one leaves behind can and often does influence the thoughts, choices and the decisions one makes as a result of those very seeds. Sometimes more so than one realizes! - WD Allan

The greatest of offerings of the heart frequently come in the form of a word, a phrase, a song that only expresses that truest message of love in whatever passage one can muster. There are those who think themselves bereft of the capacity of such expression. There are those who believe they have the capacity while yet meeting the struggle of life head-on and allowing it to taint the song. Then there are those who simply allow the expressions of the heart to flow as naturally as one breathes. Allow yourself to merely express the core part of yourself to another and you will have allowed the core of the love that you hold within to pass along to another as it was always meant to. - WD Allan

Responsiveness is one of those grand indicators of existence. How one responds indicates thoughtfulness or decay of thought, flight of impulse or strength of will, relax of defensiveness or ultimate guardedness. Ones responses change however as life and existence moves along. As experience is encountered and as one gains the ever growing scars of ones indecision and error that so naturally compliment the sheen and the luster of the glow of ones successes, one eventually learns where the true balance of the self comes as well as how to regulate oneself. The tools of self-mediation and of an inner knowing of the self become clearer with such times along the path of life and thus, one gains the wisdom of a knowing existence. Its why we are taught to listen to and to infuse ourselves with the knowledge of those with more experience and more wisdom than we ourselves hold. Hold close to you the wisdom of their ages, for "it is one of the banes of our existence, that we should forget ourselves all too easily." - WD Allan

Throughout my spiritual experience, little to nothing has transcended the ability and the strength of learning to live truly in "the moment" of ones existence. When one truly releases yesterday into yesterdays past business, and doesn't over-burden oneself with what may or might or not happen in tomorrow, suddenly the totality of ones being is left and its here where ones complete and utter focus remains. The power and the inner strength one gains from existing in "the moment" focuses psychic/soulful energy into what really matters. Today, right now, "the moment" of life, and when this happens one can entirely dedicate the power of the re-creation of existence into this very moment alone. This is why the masters of thoughtful meditation have so earnestly attempted to show the value of the way. This is self-creation at its zenith as it was intended to be, as it is intended to be. - WD Allan

Sometimes challenges in life creates stress. Stress over time tends to create even more stress and when the challenges in life seem to grow instead of reducing to their proper perspectives, this is when the searching for a sense of the self tends to grow right along with such times in life as frustrating as it can seem. Searching and asking isn't the problem. The searching and the asking when compounded with an ever growing inner state of anger directed as much inward as outward colors the soulful experience into that proverbial mole-hill that suddenly has grown into a seemingly insurmountable mountain of possibilities that blend into a vague haze. Relaxing the mind opens the landscape of things back into proper perspectives, and hence, then the answers begin to seem more available. Back to the benefits of meditation! WD Allan

There was once a wise soul who said that once you plant the seeds of hope into the fertile soil of the self, you will sow the stuff of dream making made manifest into the existence of life! If one gardens the seeds of the chaotic, the negative and the things that make life a consistent upset mess, then these seeds will eventually result in precisely what you work for. If one gardens the seeds of hope, the seeds of joy, and yes, the seeds of love. Then this is what one will find in increasing bounty in life. The manner of ones seeking tells much of the individual. The greatest part of all of this is that one can change what one sows at any point should one so wishes. Soulfully spiritual footwork is the only requirement. - WD Allan