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The Ultimate Leap In Life…
Is to let go of all the bullshit…
And know that LIFE’S “gotcha!”
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Change Your Consciousness And Change Your Life…
Morning Prayers – Altar/Photography by Toni Roberts
You are the creator of all that you experience…
Including the condition of your body…
Your life…
Your finances…
So stop bellyaching…symbolically and literally…
And get to work clearing out all of that mental…emotional…and spiritual garbage to which you’ve been clinging all of your life…
Let in some fresh Creative Energy…
Remember…
Consciousness is the only Creative Force…
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On Relinquishing The Illusion Of Human Rulership…
My Sacred Space – Photograph by Toni Roberts
Today…I am in FULL CONNECTION…at peace…calm…receptive…non-resisting…resting in the knowledge that “God’s” got this…all of it…this body with its aches and pains…my finances and other insecurities…the kids…grandkids…my People…my country…the insane, dangerous asshole in the White House with his threat of WWIII…the fate of the planet and all its living beings…
All of this…and so much more…I surrender this day…
I turn it over to Whomever…Whatever…I have no idea…I do not know…all that I do know is that it’s too much for me to carry on these puny human shoulders…
And furthermore…I do not have a clue as to the solution to any of it…So…here…”You” take it…Whoever…Whatever Caused me into being human in this timespace called planet earth…
On this day…I quit…I relinquish all belief in human rulership…I replace ego-command…with Divine Command…and rest in the Knowledge that this release triggers…
Your Response…
And for that I am most grateful…
Ase.
Toni Roberts
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Getting Through Life’s Dark Moments Unscathed…
Melancholy – Photograph by Toni Roberts
No more reaching…no more preaching…no more stretching beyond Self…
Beyond wherever I find myself at any given moment in TIME…
Instead…I wait…still…patient…knowing that we exist in an ever-changing Now…
Knowing that there is no need to waste precious Energy in futile attempts to change whatever the current Reality…by means of the human will…
Thus it is that I walk this daily path guided by neither desire nor fear…
Nor by the egoistic hubris of believing that I have knowledge of what should be…
Instead…I humbly partake of whatever distasteful dish that Life presents to me…
Knowing that I have helped prepare it in some hidden kitchen…of my subconscious mind…
And so…with one prayerful…careful step after the other…I continue on…at peace…in the darkness of this Great Unknown…with only the Light of my Faith as guide…
Toni Roberts
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The Healing Potential Of ADVERSITY…
According to my observations of the Rhythm of Life over the past forty-odd years of my paying any real attention to the rhythm and flow of my own life…
I have observed that Life is an Upwardly Spiraling Ascension… (See visual above.)
If one follows the spiral on its journey upward…one sees that the spiral takes a downward dip (01) (02) (03) just before it continues its upward journey…
And so…before each ascension…the spiral descends downward…Thus it is in this human Journey to Wholeness of Being…regularly…like clockwork…we meet Adversity time after time…as we spiral upward…
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Although these inevitable sojourns into hardship…illness…financial struggle and the myriad other devastating events of our lives may feel like Death ItSelf…as if there is no hope…that we are cursed and doomed…these dips in the Spiral are as natural and inevitable as up and down…light and dark…summer and winter…sun and moon…
If we do not lose hope as we stumble through the dark periods of our lives…we shall find…time after time…that we emerge from the darkness stronger…wiser…and more powerfully able to ride the inevitable adversities of human existence...victoriously…as we continue on this upwardly spiraling journey to the “Heavenly Realms” of Consciousness and Existence…
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Between A Rock And A Hard Place – Photographed by Toni Roberts Central Park, NYC
And so…fear not when once again you find yourself “between a rock and a hard place…”
Do not give in to fearful…negative thoughts…hang on for dear life to that one scrap of deeply buried Hope…use all of your Emotional Energy to renew every bit of forgotten Faith…hang on to the Knowledge that you are not a “human having a spiritual experience…”
But Spirit ItSelf…expressing in…as…and through your humanity…
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Remember…the Spiral periodically dips downward in its Journey of Ascension…
As will your human experience in this man-created world…
Toni Roberts
Photo-journal of a woman's transformational journey from breast cancer to wholeness.
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on January 21, 2020