The divine sees through each and every living being, delighting in creation through the eyes of each one. You can never be lost, for the sacred moves through you at all times. Just as a flower blossoms in its right season, so shall your being unfold in its own time. Trust yourself as you trust the divine, and you will find the beauty of all creation looking back at you through your own human eyes.

Love is not an action word. It is a state of being, a state of kindness, compassion, peace, and joy. To be in the state of love is to accept oneself as love and to see every other being as equally deserving of care and devotion. As above, so below. As within, so without. To accept the divinity within is to accept the divinity without.

May all beings live in security and in peace, beings who are frail or strong, tall or short, big or small, invisible or visible, near or faraway, already born, or yet to be born. One of Buddhism’s oldest and most luminous teachings on loving-kindness, the Metta Sutta invites us to extend boundless love to all of life, without exception. Here is the Discourse on Love, translated by Thich Nhat Hanh.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

There is no God outside of you. There is no God apart from you. The light of Christ and the awakening of Buddha are not distant teachings, but two names for the same recognition: the divine you have been seeking has never been anywhere but here, at the very ground of your own soul, waiting for you to become still enough to know it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

In his light, voices appear, as if mocking me: You are a liar. You don’t deserve this. Who do you think you are to sit with the Buddha? I become aware that these are voices of this world, of Maya, of the matrix. The mind is the ultimate source of samsara. To sit still, to surrender, to let go, is the way out — and the mind that once tormented is revealed as no thing at all.

Time is not linear, nor is it a curve or a spiral. It is a great wheel, set in motion at the beginning of Creation, carrying each era its own quality of consciousness, its own gifts, and its own lessons. The current wheel is the age of the mind. Yet the wheel is already turning toward something the ancient sages called an age of wisdom and beauty.

The moment you realize that your voice is the sound of creation is the same moment you will wake up to yourself, to the vastness of space, the absence of fear, and the wholeness of your divine being. You are not an accident. You are the precise tone of Om manifested in flesh, and this tone of creation belongs to you fully. You are born with a specific voice. Only you can create a unique world using your voice.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

A tired soul is an old soul. It has traversed different worlds and different lives, and has carried burdens not always of its own making. This tiredness is real. It is the signature of a soul that has loved and endured across great distances of time. And if you find yourself weary today, know that your weariness is not the end of your story. It is proof of how far you have already come.

Some of you are living your final incarnation on this earth. More souls are being permitted to leave because of their endless sacrifice and their lifetimes of service. The council has decreed that these souls be freed, to move to another plane of existence where they are called to be. These souls know, deep in their being, that this life is their last. My compassion flows to them, for it is their light that holds an entire planet. And as Gaia ascends, we rely upon them greatly.

The light you seek is the light that you are. When the world appears to be dark, you must learn to have faith and hold on to the light inside. Sometimes we have to break, to shatter into pieces, to find that we are unbreakable and undefeatable. Do not give up just because the night is too dark. Do not stop believing just because everyone has left you. You have never been alone.

The path of enlightenment is not a strive for spiritual perfection. It is the giving up of the strife. Life will never handle you all the cards you want, but rest assured that you have everything you need. As you strip away what is not you, what is left will be the essence of your eternal life. Nothing needs to change for your world to change.

Your purpose is not created or assigned. It is the living, breathing essence of who you are, and it is the gift of your soul to you. In the silence, this knowing will be so certain that you will not be able to turn away from it. Honor your divinity. Open your heart to the Buddha nature already within you, in this moment, wherever you are, however difficult life may seem.

Green Tara speaks of the path to liberation, the journey inward through stillness and the releasing of all false selves, until what remains is pure, timeless, and free. She reminds us that the light is never far, and that her promise holds across every stage of the journey: to be a companion in difficult times, to walk beside us through countless lives, and to guide us toward the enlightenment we have been working toward all along.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Happiness rises when circumstances favor you and leaves when they do not. Joy is different; it does not depend on what is happening around you. It is the natural condition of your innermost being, prior to thought, prior to circumstance, prior to story: what you are before the world tells you what to be.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

All you long for is already within you, waiting to be uncovered. There is no need to add anything to your life to become your true self. Instead, find yourself as you lose yourself – the false self that gave you a name and a face. When all that is not you falls away, there is your true self. It was never lost. It was only hidden beneath what you were told you were.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

There are moments when nature offers you a quiet lesson. A butterfly moves from flower to flower, unburdened and unhurried, and somehow everything it needs comes to it. It does not force its way through the day. It simply opens its wings and follows what calls it forward. What if the very things you have been straining toward are already on their way to you, and all that is asked of you is to trust the unfolding?

In every lifetime, there comes an opportunity to truly come to know yourself, not through the striving of the mind, but through a deeper voice of wisdom that has always lived within you. Every person, every event, every learning has been woven into existence before any form took shape. Trust that inner knowing. This is the meaning of love at its core.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

In your sleep, you are returning to the place you came from. Yet this place is not a place at all. The real dream is the physical world your body inhabits. And as you awaken, your light ripples into the dreams of others, stirring them toward their own divinity. Awakening is never a solitary act. It is a gift to all of existence.

Do nothing, from a deeper knowing that what is meant for you is already unfolding. Beneath the urge to act, something sacred is moving in your favor. Let the mind wander, let the body resist, and simply observe, trusting the quiet current within you. You are never separate from what you love, and what is yours cannot miss you. Rest in that certainty, and allow the path to reveal itself as you come into alignment.

The lotus must take root in mud. Do not be ashamed of the darkness you have moved through, the suffering that seemed without reason, the weight that felt too great to carry. It is precisely because of that darkness that your light carries such depth. The teacher who has never suffered cannot speak to suffering. The healer who has never been broken cannot mend what is broken in another.