Hold yourself accountable for your own life, your own issues, and your own journey. No one owes you anything. You are in charge. If you have not learned this yet it is time to do so because everything is changing and if you do not take responsibility for yourself you will be left behind. What you have been anticipating is now underway. Remain calm, but do not rest in complacency. Remain focused, but do not ignore the larger picture. You are all part of the greater world and what happens there matters to you as an individual. Remain aware of your own issues, but do not forget that you are on a journey of many lifetimes, that the greater intent is that of your spirit. So don’t forget to include your spirit in all of your decisions. Prepare for your future; it is now. And don’t forget to have some compassion, for self and other.

Here is today’s Soulbyte. An audio channeled message will be coming later as we get back into our normal blogging routine after a nice two week break!

On butterfly wings continue the journey into the deeper self, exploring who you are, who you have been, and who you are to become. With gentleness and tenderness, with intent set, make your way closer to your truths on your fluttering butterfly wings. Require honesty, integrity, kindness and compassion of the self as you venture deeper so that the completed self who emerges at the end of your reveries may advance you both inwardly and outwardly in the world around you. Your journey inward is solo, but your outward journey must include everyone else in the world, for you are all connected. The fluttering butterfly wings of your spirit have impact. The reverberations of your inner work do make a difference, effecting everything and everyone else. That is the true life’s work of every being upon that planet, to fix the self so that all may rejoice.

Stay connected to the essence of who you are. Take care of the body to free the mind. Take care of the mind to free the soul. Hone your awareness of yourself as a spirit on yet another journey through the veils of earthly existence, seeking always the higher self residing within. All beings are spiritual entities of the highest magnitude, energy beings seeking wholeness, no different from you. Respect each other as you wish to be respected. That is the highest compliment you can pay another, respect at all times. No matter the journey selected or the choices made, grant respect to the struggling spirit within.

It is not enough to walk the walk and talk the talk. That is ego. To truly walk the walk and talk the talk is to fully embody what that means. And what does that mean? To embody the walk and the talk is to live from within every day, consciously honing every thought, action and deed, activating them from deep within the self where the real work is done, the work of balancing and aligning with true spirit. And then you will walk the walk and talk the talk most easily and naturally.

Watch what you think and say. Watch how you speak to the self and to others. Watch what you do and how you respond to the world around you? Are you thankful, kind and compassionate at all times? Or are you bitter, resentful or angry? Do you feel slighted, neglected and ignored? Or are you grateful for your life? Even though your life may seem difficult to you now, know that it is only a test, offering you the gift of transformation, offering the substance by which you will transform. There is no change without substance, no fire without first the sharp spark, no wholeness without first the breaking down, no day without night.

Begin each day not only intent upon walking the walk or talking the talk but by really doing it inside the self, for that is where your walk and your talk really originate from. Though you might have looked to another to imitate, now look away, only inward, and begin the deeper transformative journey that will naturally unfold. Pay attention by becoming conscious of what is going on inside the self. That is where the real journey begins.