Where will your path lead you today? What choices will you make? All beings upon that earth are charged with two things each day: 1) to take care of the self and 2) to be a conscious citizen of the world. Both of these charges require not only compassion but also maturity. They require that each individual become fully responsible for the self and the decisions made about how to live, think, and act in the world you reside in. As beings upon a shared planet, sharing must become part of the mix of self and other, inner world and outer world, for without cultivating and nurturing sharing there will be no resources upon which to draw.

Advice for today: Ponder how you personally nurture your shared planet and all the beings you share it with. One to one, you are each responsible for each other. Make your actions be the mirror you want to see in others. Be what you want to see happen in the world. Even though it may seem fruitless at times, live your convictions, one step at a time, one day at a time, one to one.

You hold within yourself the entire world. Let not it be a strange world but a fully explored world. Be open and nonjudgmental as you journey into your depths and your heights, as you discover unknown territories and tread upon well worn paths. The world of you is vast, far-reaching, rich, and endlessly giving and forgiving. The world of you is all you need to live a full and wealthy life. Your only true conquest is you. You are your greatest challenge, your most pressing engagement, your eternal other. Your search for love and wholeness and acceptance will only be attained in the world of you.

Embrace not only your humanness but your naturalness as well. Just as the sun shines, the moon glows, the water flows, the air swirls, and the earth itself nurtures you, so are you part of nature. But you are more than that, and this is what you must more fully understand and embody if you and nature are to regain your equilibrium. You are not separate from nature but one with it, one aspect of all other aspects that make the earth whole, a creature among creatures, an energy that makes life on earth viable and complete.

Align your energy with that of your solar system, with the biological imperatives of your planet and your configuration as a human animal so that your time and your life are well spent and well lived.

All beings upon the earth must rise up now as one, all a part of the whole, all equal to each other. Out of the chaos, like a phoenix rising from the fires of transformation, transform each other. It is your duty, and the way of all nature, to recreate the balance that is necessary for survival of all life.

In this moment, still the body, still the mind. In this moment, breathe. In this moment, allow tension to release, allow mind chatter to quiet, allow heightened energy to wind down to stillness within. Bathe in this pool of calmness within the self for this moment. In floating moments of your day, receive and release. Be still, suspended in time. All is well.

Facing who we really are is often the most challenging of tasks. We tend to want to present ourselves in the best light, in a picture perfect manner, as infallible, always right, without imperfections. At least that is our outer presentation, as it is hard for us as human beings to face our own imperfections and so we primp ourselves into what we are not.

As the world changes at the current rate, rapidly now, if human beings are to keep up there must be a shift into conscious acceptance of what it means to be human, to be as the other animals upon the earth, no more perfect or imperfect than the cats and dogs of our dreams, the birds of the air, the fishes of the seas, or the soft-footed animals who walk gently upon the earth.

Facing who we are each day is the challenge of all time, but becoming fully who we are is the challenge of this time. We are creatures who must come into alignment with nature and the natural world. It can’t be ignored any longer: it’s all about survival.