"If people are going to get back into balance, one of the things they have to do is seek the truth.
They have to start really speaking the truth themselves, and that's a difficult thing to do. The way
it is now in the world, we don't mind lying."
            John Peters (Slow Turtle), WAMPANOAG

'Well everybody's doing it.' 'Do unto others before they do unto you.' 'If it wasn't for back luck, I would have no luck at all.' These are excuses and rationalizations for giving up accountability. Be true to yourself. Seek the truth, The Great Spirit is the truth. The truth shall set you free. This is the truth. We cannot be free if we are dishonest nor can we live a balanced life if we are dishonest. As we grow, we need to start taking stands. All warriors take stands. The warrior's belief is constantly being aligned to truth. The warrior will always know where he/she stands.

Great Spirit, help me today to seek Your truth, not my truth.

Have you ever turned on your television or radio, not really to listen to it, but just so that it will block out the silence? There are so many opportunities throughout our day, for us to avoid being quiet and alone with our thoughts and our God. How many times do we watch with awe, as the sun sets at the end of the day, or notice that the leaves are beginning to change color in the fall, or even take the time to enjoy the food that we eat? Most of these precious events pass us by, for the most part un-noticed, as we scurry off to the next event of the day.

Each and every moment of our lives does not need to be engulfed with activity. We can slow down, stop for more than a minute and enjoy all that surrounds us. God has created beautiful things in our lives that we fail to see, when we refuse to slow down. God is not in a hurry and He certainly is not bound by our schedules or impatience. God's timing is perfect for everything. We are the ones that need to slow down, sit back and soak in all that God is and has surrounded us with daily. By always seeking the grand events, we often miss the day to day events right in our midst that are truly awesome.

From God Today Devotions

Never acknowledge any other human being on earth as superior to you in your opportunity to become spiritually intelligent. Never believe that anyone has a superior chance to rise higher in the unique spiritual world than you can. Human beings are equal in the sight of God in opportunity. The opportunity for you to go as far as you want, as high as you want, is right in front of you.

Lingering problems, such as tension, frustration or anguish, are not enemies to battle but false patterns that house originally pure energy. These problems are dissolved by letting them hover in the midst of your awareness, without self-condemnation, with the aim of completely understanding its content. Hence, problems are dissolved by understanding all the intricacies of the false pattern. This frees the pure energy to return to its natural cosmic flow.

The sure sign of a successful entrance into a false pattern is that the problem temporarily intensifies. What is really happening is that you are now seeing the roots of the pattern, instead of just "suffering on the surface." This is why solving any problem (even an inefficiency at the office or a problem in the family) always includes a healthy upheaval in the beginning. Isn't this tremendous! Problems are dissolved by a willingness to have the problem intensify, with awareness, and not by trying to push the problem into a smaller space.

Spiritual success requires a willingness to face our inner world as it is, and not as we imagine that it is. This is the healing power of HONESTY, which Vernon Howard once said is the eighth wonder of the world.

"The pure act of seeing the fact, whatever the fact be,
brings its own understanding and from this, mutation takes place."
             J. Krishnamurti

1. The material man takes life seriously and MAKES it full of worries, sorrow and
    tragedy. The divine man makes life an enjoyable game. The desire-infested man is full
    of mental ups and downsnd mind-corroding moods, while the desireless yogi is evenly
    happy although he is variously active. There is no excuse for any man to live
    miserably, oblivious to his divine nature.

2. The light shining in the bulb cannot exist without the electric current to sustain it,
    but the current exists whether or not it shines forth through the bulb. So also,
    intelligence cannot work without the power of intuition behind it, but intuition remains
    even without the instruments of rational thought.

3. Dogmatic disciples with their little minds strive to represent their own particular master
    as greater than other masters. . . Anyone who says, "My master is the greatest incarna-
    tion of God, or the only liberated master," is unquestionably ignorant. . . A liberated
    disciple is completely loyal to (his teacher) who had shown him the way to
    liberation, but he always respects other avatars and masters.Ignorant disciples, trying
    to glorify a certain avatar as supreme over other avatars, instead belittle that master
    through their . . . hate, inquisitions, crusades and religious wars.

4. Condemning others makes a man oblivious to his own faults, which therefore flourish
    unrebuked. Many individuals hide their own serious flaws behind a critical spirit. . . They
    cannot stand the painful operation of being themselves corrected. Such persons     expend their energy and intelligence on superficial activities and so have neither time     nor vitality left to concentrate on essentials.

5. As every wave, if it were conscious, could feel the ocean beneath it, so every liberated
    being feels the entire Sea of Spirit behind his perception.