Happy New Now

As we pass through the doorway of 2024, and into the space of a New Year, many of us are filled with anticipation and excitement over what these next 12 months might bring. If last year was challenging for us (and who doesn't go through challenges?) or we feel that we didn't quite live up to our potential in some way, we may feel ready to turn the page on what has been, in order to embrace what might be. In our looking forward however, we miss the plain truth of this present moment; that everything right Here and Now is exactly the way it's suppose to be, and unfolding perfectly for our highest good. No matter how many 'resolutions' we make, or how many goals we set, it will make little difference to the quality of our lives unless we are completely present Here and Now; awake to the freedom and joy that is already within us. Though we have heard every single spiritual teacher (including this Spiritual Teacher) tell us that what we are looking for can only be found by turning within through meditation, we continue our endless search for something in the outer world that we think will fulfill us (have you found it yet?).

With that in mind, I share with you again, the poem that I have shared the last three years that powerfully sums up the opportunity we have in approaching the New Year, not as something that will deliver what we most long for, but as an endless opportunity to rediscover That which we already are; That which can bring us the Love and fulfillment that we feel are lacking in our lives. The power and profundity of these words are even more relevant and inspiring now, given the confusion and upheaval that we are witnessing on an unparalleled level, around and within us. I offer them to you fresh and new, and suggest that you meditate upon them as you begin a new cycle of 365 days on this earth, and another trip around the sun. Refer back to them on a regular basis throughout 2025; whenever you need a reminder as to what 'New Years' is all about, and where happiness and fulfillment are always found.

I Cannot Wish You...

I cannot wish you good fortune

knowing that good fortune is what you are,

while bad fortune is just a case of mistaken identity.

I cannot wish you all the things of the earth

since earth itself is what you are and that is sufficient,

while all the rest will never be enough.

I cannot wish you the things you want to see

when much unseen is waiting for your denial of mind

that refuses to see.

I cannot wish you strength or courage to conquer

the trials and tribulations of life