What are you seeking, yearning for, desiring, needing? Turn inward today and begin a new practice, breathing into the heart chakra, instigating a new awakening of emotional content, deepening your connection to yourself. With awakening heart the seeking, yearning, desiring, needing slips away and love, kindness and compassion begin to emerge and take their place. Soon all becomes clear and there is no need for anything else. A path with heart begins in your own heart. Turn inward and take the first steps there today. Just breathe!

Who is perfect? Though we strive for perfection no one is perfect. We are all human and to be human is to be fallible and imperfect. It is the human condition. And yet we still strive to be what we are not. Far better to strive to be what we are: Spiritual beings taking a human journey. Far better to focus on what compassion is than perfection. Far better to learn what unconditional love is and to strive for that. Begin with your imperfections and love them for what they teach you. Begin with kindness for the self and know that human condition first. It’s a good place to start.

Respect all beings for the life they have chosen, for the plans made long before birth to take the journey now unfolding. All beings come into the world equipped with all they need, prepared to face the challenges they have posed to themselves. Knowing this, find the strength and compassion to step out of the way and let them proceed, for this life is their soul’s necessity.

Know this too about the self. You came into this life to have certain experiences, to learn specific lessons, to gain awareness, to chart a life of advancement. Such advancement is afforded all beings, though the route taken is individually laid out and unique. Such advancement is earned, learned, and gained by the experiences that life affords.

With compassion and respect view the self and others, knowing that life’s challenges are prescribed as prefect evolutionary practices. Honor those challenging practices, for they are the desires of the soul, the deepest search for evolution, for awareness, for eternal enlightenment. All journeys have this at their core, even yours!

A path with heart winds inward as much as outward, for how can it be a path with heart if the true self and the true heart are not found and embraced. Finding one’s path with heart entails finding who one truly is, so begin there, unlocking the secrets of the secret self, enabling the heart’s intent, venturing first along the inner path so that the outer path may be recognized as truly resonant. If one’s own heart is unknown one’s path will be hard to find.

To despise the self yet seek to love others will not result in a path with heart but only in a heartless striving for the unattainable. Learn first to love the self and then all love will be possible. A path with heart hums with loving kindness and compassion for the self and all beings. That is a true path with heart.

A warrior strives always for balance, and yet a warrior is always open and flexible, ready for anything. Yet a warrior also knows that excess reduces the possibilities for real magic to happen and so a warrior is impeccable in maintaining an open mind and heart while simultaneously honing the skills of a patient warrior, knowing that all good intentions and dedicated practice eventually bring rewards. In humbleness does a warrior proceed through life, knowing that at any moment everything can change. For a warrior knows the real truth, that to think one is in control is an illusion. And so a warrior’s main goal is to walk a compassionate path of heart with grace and humbleness, maintaining balance within and without, fully aware and ready for anything.