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The thoughts that we present to others are the only lasting tributes that we really send off into our future. They are what we leave behind us. They are the means by which we affect our very existence. They steer the course that creates our being. They are the thoughtful creation-makers that craft the pathways of not only our experience, but the affections that influence others as well. Once you know what the thoughts are that your trying to convey, then you can be sure of where your future is. Be sure. For me, the thought is clear. LOVE. - WD Allan

Interestingly enough, people tend to get very comfortable with their patterns of being. Patterns of people, patterns of none, patterns of travel, patterns of some, patterns of meals, patterns of strife, patterns made up just to thwart what is actually nice. There is nothing wrong with patterns of being that please us all. In fact these patterns tend to define us in so many subtle ways. When however one sets oneself against the veils of what really is amongst us all, in some patterned way in ones life there is a muted and veiled wish for no communication between oneself and from the very re-creative engine that makes all of this possible to begin with. Eventually, many of those most stoic of separatists come to the conclusion in life that they really aren't as all alone as they thought they were, and then suddenly, spiritual matters enter the conscious equation of being yet again instead of them festering in the subconscious for so long. Call it an awakening, or a revelation, or even a simple change of the mind. Call it whatever you will. Suffice it to be in any context you wish. When one in this family of being looks deeply again within themselves for what they know is truly there, then the rest becomes a self-endowment of the soul patterned after a great tree of life that has been blooming for eons. - WD Allan

Its an easy thing, to fixate on the physical, to enamor the tactile, to focus attention onto those things one can touch or grasp and/or manipulate. Its ironic really that the most elementary part of the self, that affects the self, is manipulated through the most simple and decisive qualities of ones choices and intentions. - WD Allan

Looking for the doorways that lead to new and greater levels of self-understanding sometimes come at the most auspicious and then again, the most inauspicious moments in life. Just when you think that things have become rather nested, and comfortably routine, just remember what they say about routine lifestyles. When you think that things are going well, something has the potential of piddling in your brew of life or at least off-setting your understanding of the way that your life and your existence has be-come. When those doorways have presented in a locked fashion, the answer obviously is in the keys you need to open those doorways. The best place to look for the keys that you seek isn't in a locked case, some ethereal cupboard, or on some key-hook of the soul. The answers that you seek always lay within yourself. The route to those answers are the way. Just something to think on - WD Allan

When I look back onto the days of the past and think of the coming days of the future, I am constantly reminded of how quickly the days did move along, leaving behind the eternity of what was, now only to be known as the individually transcribed transience of what had been. Never think that today lasts forever. Today is your day! Right here and right now! If for any reason you haven't taken notice of the brilliance of today, why not do it now before it suddenly has become your yesterday. - WD Allan

There was a time in the past when I found myself slogged amidst through great difficulty of various sorts. It was one of those times in ones life that people dream they should never have to witness or worse, have to put up with. Its interesting that when we are engaged in some great difficulty in life, we often think of it as a period that no other person could ever really have any understanding of, when the truth is that just about everyone has some integral understanding of such periods. Relatively speaking of course. I did of course eventually begin to feel like things were starting to get better, but Great Spirit it did seem to last forever, and had I simply hid my head under my pillow, or worse, had I chosen to remain in the mindset that the sea's of upset would never go calm for me again, heaven only knows what the results could have been? That long-lasting and very testing period in my life provided me with a stairway to higher levels of awareness, greater strengths in the understanding of just what the human spirit was truly capable of when the chips were down, and most of all, it enhanced my intimate connection to the Great Spirit and my other spiritual connections that I so count on for my very existence! As the old saying goes, the grass is always greener on the other side of the street! When one is mired down with the difficulties of life in whatever period, it might help to recall that no matter what is currently going on with your life, you probably aren't alone in your besieged wilderness! Turn your trials into the tallies of a great spiritual strength building exercise and then choose to reconnect with the you that really is within you! You might just be surprised at what you can handle! - WD Allan

There are those who seek Beverly Hills Glitter and those who seek gold. Those who are still young and many more who are old. Those who seek intimacy and struggle with strife. Those who make merry and more a joke out of life. There are those who save their wallets for a dark rainy day, while others give freely to make l...ife what it may. There are those in all walks, who seek the experiences they've yet to know. But there is only one that sits amidst, that inner-palace of the soul. BE there with it! - WD Allan

Personally held realms of truth flow as the Nile feeds the fields! Everyone has some personal understanding of life, of existence, of the very truths that form the nature of God, the Great Spirit or however one chooses to recognize that greatest of all truths in existence. Why does one person decide that a blue suit looks best on a sunny day when another person decides that a beige suit manners much better in the sunshine? Why is it that some would rather drive a Mercedes than any other car in the world, when another person wouldn't be seen dead driving one? Why is it that some adhere to very firm and strict beliefs according to their own understanding of God when others are as flexible and as variable as someone could possibly be with regard to such beliefs? There are never easy and pointed answers to such questions and why should there be? The creation and the re-creation of life in any one moment of one's life is construct to the way that one deems it to be, and this is never aligned perfectly between any two people in any and every way! We all have differing opinions and manners of belief and of life and therefore we all hold our beliefs individually as we currently understand them. These moments witness change as time moves along. Change in some form, change in some color, change in some values and ways that we at any given time acknowledge ourselves in accordance to our surrounding world. That's the greatest thing about our beliefs! The are never static, they are never stagnant and they never have to hold fast to anyone else's edicts except according to our own. If someone tells you otherwise, you might want to re-visit just where that person is truly coming from? You might be surprised! - WD Allan

Receiving is certainly a vastly different thing than giving, to any personal sense of being in the experience of life. Some find the act of receiving a wonderful event, while others find the act of receiving extremely uncomfortable one and likened to the parchment of those things one wishes to not engage at any time. Sometimes its for the fear of being rejected. Sometimes its for the fear of being enamored or immersed into some tie(s) to someone one wishes not to be tied to. Some simply don't know how to receive, or worse have been hurt badly in their past causing them to become rather, forgive the term, a bit "gun-shy" to any such of an interpersonal act. Instead of thinking of hating the receiving of something, think of the act of learning how to receive the presence of "Love" in life. Now talk about scary! Look, everyone at some point in time in their lives has had a love turn ill somehow. Everyone has gone through the experience of some rejection of some sort. Everyone has had some sort of an instance of needing to RE-LEARN the art of taking a risk in life yet again and letting someone in when one really would rather do ANYTHING otherwise. As a wise old friend once related to me, "sometimes you just have to take the risk in life to allow someone else in, when you have firmly decided to never again let someone else in." You can extrapolate this to any circumstance or any gift you might receive. A flower, a dinner, a coat or even, an expression of affection and yes, of love. Yes, the act of receiving and accepting a gift of some kind in life is a risk, but a risk of the sort that without it, one would certainly understand well the way of alone-ness to an extreme. If your one such as this, you well understand what I'm saying. - WD Allan

While fear is a natural mechanism, it IS NOT a natural or a static state of BE-ing for anyone or anything! We were never meant to experience our BE-ing all based in fear! When this comes to be in life it could, does, and will begin to degrade even ones cellular structure. It will also degrade ones spiritual quality of life and as well degrade soulful wonder for the experience of all of life! Some leaders adore fear as a means to their policies, but the wise ones well understand that fear is as wanted by a society as would be a cancer epidemic running through the air. Fear is natural in its place, but never out of its place! - WD Allan

In a previous moment of time many sunsets and moons ago when I had decided to make a study of the Eastern arts, I also found myself discovering the benefits of and the effects brought about by meditation in my life. I had unknowingly rediscovered and enhanced the sensations and the perceptions that I was born with, that I existed with all along and found the means and the reasons to seek a much deeper and a more involved inner-life. The vast spiritual awareness that comes from a true study of meditation is one of the gifts in the experience of existence from the Great Spirit! Ironically this is a way of existence that many seem to find every reason under the sun to avoid for reasons known only to themselves. I wrote a chapter in my first book on this subject and chose to attend to many of these reasons in the hopes of benefiting others through the discussion. Amongst the greatest of these reasons is that ever-present word and theme in life, "Fear". Some run through life working their tails off, yes, making successes of themselves for sure, making a living, gaining security for their families and the like, all of which are honorable means to be sure. In there in all of this however are the fear based reasoning's of the psychology of the spirit that enhance the worst of reasons to "never stop" lest one would have to take a good and true look at oneself in life. For this, the Great Spirit in his wisdom created the twilight of the day, the twilight of the souls departure from all of the busy-ness in the world where one can finally stop, breathe and experience a lag to all of the go, go, going, going on around oneself! Set this into a pattern for your day and you will surely begin to re-discover something within yourself that you had left long in your past. YOU! Ironic it is that as children grow they do seem to also leave behind many of their spiritual sensitivities that sense spirits, behold wonder, and re-create a true inner happiness! Rediscover this! - WD Allan

In a seminar I was conducting on living in spirituality, I was once asked how one could possibly live a life without ever lying to another or to a loved one? My answer, "one can't". Sometimes to hide a birthday gift what is done? One lies! Sometimes to spare feelings about that extra pound gained? A lie is told! Is this literal thinking? Yes, that could be said. The biggest tragedy though? The onward pattern of consistently Lying to oneself! - WD Allan

We are creators of habit in existence. Once we find a pattern of being that suits our existence, we tend to make it into a way of being, again and again, and yet again until it becomes such a normal part of our day that we would have it no other way. The unfortunate part is when one chooses ill patterns in this way, darker modes of being, destructive ways of life or worse, when one separates oneself from the love that they are due in life as a very function of being itself. Perhaps this is one of the reasons that vacations and holidays were created? People seem to need excuses to break with the patterns of being, to seek out alternate routes of experience at times if for no other reason but to remind themselves that they are alive and can yet again experience excitement set well apart from the usual monotony that becomes daily life. A thought comes to mind! Why not set yourself into some little patterns of difference throughout every one of your days to set a new flavor to the color of your day? Take a different route on your way to work or on your way home. Choose a different style of clothing. Veer away from that old hairstyle. Re-color your room or re-arrange the furniture into something you REALLY wanted to instead of what seems to be so dreadfully "practical"! COME ON! Choose some varying ways to live your life and to enjoy your life, just a little bit each day. Will this make you an unpredictable person from how you usually are? YOU BET IT WILL! How much fun would that be?! Now extrapolate this into other areas of your life, and Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Yay! You'll have a little more fun with your life! After all, who ever said that we have to BE one way ALL THE TIME? - WD Allan

"Have the presence of mind to..."

That beginning to a sentence has been used as a preamble for virtually any and every age group of humankind and almost in as many contexts. In the young, its sometimes used to teach them how to think in a rather consequential manner so they may learn to account for the impact of their own actions in the future. In the adolescent, it means almost the same but with more forcefulness due to the broad nature of the actions adolescents tend to engage in at times. In the older set, it often refers to that ever-growing sense of hope that is wished for through the course of life. However the way its applied, one thing is sure and true. Every reference to retaining and building a presence of mind refers to the practice of awareness building in ones existence. When one purposefully begins to attend to their own awareness of themselves, of others, of the world, and of the energies that form all of the above, the doorways to ones awareness open wide and begins to present itself as the constant breeze through a screen door on a warm summers day! Have the presence of mind to have a true presence of mind in your life! You won't regret it, and as time moves along, you won't wish for any other state of being. Believe it! - WD Allan

Everyone has some innate sense of the timing of their own "order" to the events of their days and the way that their lives tend to unfold. Whether or not one consciously attends to their choices, to the unfolding path of the stones beneath ones feet, eventually there is a very real and true meaning to the color and the times that pass through a persons soul. Not everything is understood right away. Many things are seen as mistakes, as errors, as undeserved markers that litter ones days. Other times events, happenings, and patterns of being are clearly understood as the direct results of ones choices, of ones decisions and the plans one has laid out before they come to pass. The reality is however that everyone, yes everyone, lays out their path and the many way-points they set their sites toward along that path as it was always meant to be. The difference between those seen and embraced and those not embraced are divided only through a chosen lacking for a vast perspective of the long run of all of ones life. In the end, people adopt and set their sites toward the goals and the themes we all truly wish to experience in life. The season to truly embrace is each and every season that we experience! If your not happy being engaged within the construct of any particular season in the days of your life, simply pick up your feet and move along to another one! - WD Allan

I'm often amazed at those who cordon themselves into lines of virtual being, the existences of ill and unease in life. Lest otherwise they would know well and understand that they were much better off than they ever realized they were. Its all too simple and easy to come to believe that your life is much worse than it has to be. Its all too simple and easy to become comfortable with the insinuation that ones presence on this world is destined to be one of hardship, one of pain, one of misery. Yes, difficulties do come along. Sometimes they stay for awhile, sometimes for a long while, and eventually they do leave again even in the most difficult of circumstances. When however, one comes to the understanding that one is not all alone in this existence one begins to accept the postulate that to share oneself with a greater presence along the path of life is to share the pain and then the pain begins to diminish. Of course your afraid at times! Of course your angry at times! Of course your fearful of opening yourself up at times! If you weren't, you wouldn't be here! You would be across the veil in the ether which eventually we all will be. While you are here however, why not make of this experience all that you can! Don't rule the path with the stones of an ill-formed destiny of self-induced misery, pain and anger. There will be enough of all of that to come naturally along the way. We need hardly add any ill-spice to the soup! Make it as sweet and as wonderful as you wish! - WD Allan

The circular nature to the universe is innate to the very design of existence its been said. The reasons for this are self-evident beyond possible measure. It exists to allow everyone the benefits of the experience of all of existence. This is the manifestation of creation and the re-creation of the experience of life. It also, as the leading quote persuades in everyone's experience, allows one the fortune of fate that what another has dished out in ones own direction, they too will eventually benefit from the same experience themselves. The term karma is used to describe this. So are the terms fate, yin and yang, yes many cultures have their own ways of interpreting this truth to being. Suffice it to remain that it does exist and sometimes it provides the only solace one retains once one has been burnt badly by another. Hatred, anger, and forbid, violence solves nothing. These tomes of the ill of a chaotic self only serve to disturb the spirit and place one in a misaligned juncture for a good amount of time until one crosses the river to that grand island of spiritual wonder known as forgiveness. Forgiveness is the spiritual anti-body to the angry ill. Forgiveness is the chemistry of the travel to the brightest state of being there is; this is the brilliance of spiritual enlightenment. Everyone at some point in time or another will discover this. Some at a young age, some quite old. Some in the thick of things and other during moments vast and bold. Forgiveness I was once wisely told "IS" the only true answer to what tarnishes the soul of the hurt when another has crossed your spirit and your mind. In the end, this will become real to everyone! Pray it becomes real, soon for you! - WD Allan

Civil decency is a manner of being where one recognizes ones true connectedness with others, and that one isn't all alone in the world. To act out in explicitly rage-induced ways in the end serves to cure no ill, and certainly corrects no wrongs to people, things and articles. It does and will always serve to deconstruct ones own steppingstones along the pathways to existence. History has proven this well, as has the effectiveness of a sense of decency when articulated in conjunction with ones true nature, that of a decent one. Why not treat others with the respect one desires for oneself? In the end, that communicates WONDERS and becomes much more respected and is relished as an endearing quality to life! Much more than the former! - WD Allan

Nowadays one of the qualities that seems to be in the greatest demand is the ability of people to exercise an understanding compassion for others and even more, within the vestiges of ones own self. This is easily discerned if one would only place enough soulful thought into the perspective of ones own life and of its relationship with that of others. An over-expounded expression of anger and rage are frequently the results of feelings of a loss of control in the experiences of life. If enough time passes with increasing incidences of feelings of a loss of ones own direct control in even the most assured matters of life, the response will vary greatly in a graceful manner from person to person which is of course expected. An eventual anger over the fear that comes from such a state of being is as expected. This is one of the reasons that religiously spiritual tomes become so popular throughout such periods of life. It doesn't provide a true explanation as to why things are the way that they are, but spiritual thoughtfulness of many kinds do provide a wherefore to some comforting solace that one is not all alone in existence! It provides the means to settle the sublime anxieties and the unnerved fears stemming from the worlds upsets. It gives one the means to a pathway to the soul and it also provides one with the tools to stave-off the infusions that are so common with so much social upset. After all of this is said and done however, how one reacts to things out and about is directly proportional to ones abilities to decide in grounded manners how one would react to what others do. Nobody can control anyone else you know! The only thing one can really do is make ones decisions as to how one will react to the actions of others. This is thoughtful decision-making and is best walked in the manner of a wide perspective of ones life. DO think before you react! You may just pat yourself on your own back for thinking well beforehand! - WD Allan