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Many Happy Returns

By Debra Basham, on January 30, 2021

“Whether we have happiness or not depends on the seeds in our consciousness. If our seeds of compassion, understanding, and love are strong, those qualities will be able to manifest in us. If the seeds of anger, hostility and sadness in us are strong, then we will experience much suffering. To understand someone, we […]

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

By Debra Basham, on January 25, 2021

This post might be considered “The High Road Part 2.”

I learned to think of re-spect as the willing to look again and again.

I am not attending an eight-day workshop Healing and the Everhealed with Barbara Brodsky (January 23-30). It was very odd to not be guided to attend, especially given that my […]

The High Road

By Debra Basham, on January 21, 2021

This morning a daily message suggested we ask ourselves, “Am I living according to spiritual principles?” The message continued with the principles are constant, encouraging us to ask our Higher Power how to best apply these principles today.

I had received a five-hour Zoom link for meditation and inspiration envisioning a peaceful inauguration day, […]

Hair

By Debra Basham, on January 19, 2021

Keep a watchful eye for spiritual materialism. Don’t look for a goal, but practice meditation nevertheless.

Don’t try to push your ideas, don’t dictate, and don’t edit the dharma, the truth and the teachings.

The dharma is yours, so you could relate to the dharma very simply.

Let dharma come to […]

It’s Perfect!

By Debra Basham, on January 11, 2021

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

~Antoine de St. Exupéry

Yesterday afternoon I attended Remembering Wholeness with The Mother, a divine feminine being channeled by Barbara Brodsky. The opening comments tied right in with a previous evening’s conversation about some ongoing pain. […]

Repercussions and Moral Awareness

By Debra Basham, on January 6, 2021

We are all volunteers, come to awaken ourselves and all human beings. ~ Aaron

A pithy line from the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors in the Hebrew Old Testament has been working on my heart. The story is familiar to many: Joseph, the youngest son and his father’s favorite, was given […]

2021 – A True Spiritual Path

By Debra Basham, on December 31, 2020

Deep Spring Center Thought for Today December 31, 2020

So often beings have a limited view of spiritual life that creates a duality in themselves, so that they only see themselves as ‘being spiritual’ when they’re being kind and loving.

When painful emotions arise, then they think, ‘I am no longer being spiritual. I […]

Warp and Weft

By Debra Basham, on December 18, 2020

This post begins with a reprint of a Sacred Story published December 23, 2017: “Husband’s Clothes:”

As she stood in line at the grocery store the man in front of her looked so much like her late husband it almost took her breath away. The same height, the same built, even a similar style of […]

Two Wings of Mindfulness

By Debra Basham, on December 15, 2020

Deep Spring Center Thought for Today

If one never were to experience this dark night of the soul, one’s compassion really would be limited.

One may have a belief, ‘I can be compassionate with that which is light and beautiful and loving in myself and others’ but one has never tested it to see […]

What Else?

By Debra Basham, on December 10, 2020

One of the amazing gifts of wintering on Pine Island is the variety of plant life that flourishes in the sunshine and warmth of Southwestern Florida.

People (and plants) can be so very creative. People and plants can also be quite destructive.

This succulent was planted in the center of a landscape boulder and […]

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