What follows are several brief excerpts of the words of the guide, “a voice of the six directions,” who speaks through me. To read more of “his” words, or to schedule a personal reading, please contact me.

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Wherever you go, you’re always at the center of six directions. It is a place where all is held. But when you know that you are there – when you allow yourself to be conscious of how you are held – then you can make full and conscious use of the offerings and perspectives of all of the directions. And when you are resisting none of them, when you can welcome each one with its particular brilliance, then you are at the heart of life itself. That is the place I speak from. It is a place that all who read these words have also experienced – some more fully or frequently than others, of course. But all of you have been there, and you carry the memory and knowledge of it somewhere within you. That is why my words so often ring true and even feel familiar to you – because they pluck some resonant chord in your soul which already sits where I sit, and knows what I know.

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As I have said so many times, it really does not matter in the ways you think it does whether you do “this” or “that” – whether you live in the city or the country, marry or remain single, work as a lawyer or a gardener. Of course some of you would prefer to be married lawyers in the city, and some would choose the opposite – and on the level of form, all of these options and many more have been provided to you. They are the field in which you get to play. They are the palette of colors with which you get to paint. It is not unimportant or irrelevant which choices you make, because there are some to which your spirit is more naturally drawn. If you have never wanted to have children, for instance, then becoming a parent will make your real work of inner development far more challenging that it actually need be. Even in such a case, that would not make it a “mistake” or error – but most of you feel quite challenged enough already by your inner and outer circumstances that you would prefer not to “up the ante” unnecessarily! If you feel you want to be a single gardener in the country, fine, then go and do that – but do not think that means you will escape the cauldron of human difficulty. The parent raising two small children faces one cauldron, and the lone mystic, another. Experiencing these cauldrons, allowing them to work fully in you and on you, reaching the point where you willingly agree to accept the cauldron (which cannot anyway be refused – but how hard you try, and for how long!) as your gift and your teacher – that is what you are here for on this plane. That is the reason for your physical existence.

Seen from this perspective, it becomes quite clear that nothing you do could be either “wrong” or “right.” However, your attitude or inner posture can make things feel “wrong,” or make you believe that they are wrong. If you think that by getting to choose the outer form, the palette, you will assure yourself of ease and happiness, you will be sorely disappointed. If you therefore try again and again and again to change the outer form again, in the illusion that this will bring the ease you seek, you will become increasingly confused and embittered. If you have become so twisted and distorted inside that you do not allow yourself to choose those forms to which your spirit most genuinely gravitates, and force yourself instead to choose other forms, you will also suffer unnecessarily. So there may be a level of basic work necessary on the personality before you are even able to consciously enter your chosen playing field, so to speak. (Of course, wherever you are is your chosen playing field. But I am speaking of the time when you recognize and accept it as such - and when you recognize also that you have the capacity to reconfigure the outer form, without having a compulsive need to do so, and without having illusions of what can and cannot be achieved through such reconfiguration.)

Life offers itself up to be lived in you, and through you. It is endlessly generous, available, abundant in that way. When you meet it in that spirit, your experience is joyful. When you resist it, your experience is painful. Therefore, the ratio of joy to pain in your life provides a continuous bellwether of your acceptance of and resistance to the terms of life itself. But it is not really so important – except to the small, personal you, of course – whether you are feeling joy or pain. Pain does not mean that something is “wrong” – it is more like a flashing sign: “Lessons to be learned here. Follow this pain to its source, and you can learn them.”

Life is not “out to get you,” ever. And, despite surface appearances, no agent of life – no plant, animal, or human being – or ever “out to get you,” either. But the lessons you need to learn will pursue you relentlessly – and will only grow more clever and more forceful, the longer and harder you try to escape or evade them. ( I speak playfully here, as if the “lessons” themselves had intent or will. But what I am actually describing is an immutable energetic principle which is entirely impersonal.)

If you accept the challenge of your life, and embrace it – if you live it out fully, bringing yourself to the tasks at hand with all the depth of courage, wisdom, spirit and heart you can find within yourself, then you will serve life. And if at the same time you can also remember – not only in your mind, but in your marrow – that this life as it appears is in some ways an elaborate façade, a stage set, and that the whole of your existence and being are much larger than they appear on this level, then life has an easier time of it in its effort to serve you. I do not say to detach from physical reality out of disdain, or despair, or some misguided sense of superiority regarding your advanced spiritual perspective and perceptions – not at all! I say to you, Only notice that the tapestry is larger. Only allow yourself to know and feel the ways in which you are that larger tapestry, as well as being a single puny thread. The life of the thread is much richer once it understands its true place in the magnificence that is being woven.

And of course, these words “I” “speak” – for there truly is no I to speak them, and they are not really spoken anyway, only transmitted into the being of the one who writes them down – these words themselves are also capable only of pointing toward what is much larger, more intricate and more infinite than I have stated here.