Keep before your inner awareness the truth that out of Spirit’s infinite vastness emerged the thought of you, and your spirit then took physical form as a spiritual being having a human incarnation. Isn’t that alone enough to banish all doubt about the power inherent within us to awaken in this very lifetime? Just behind the spark of our life is the Flame of Infinity enlivening us, cheering us on, mothering us into our innately enlightened Self. I tell you there is nothing to prevent you from feeling that great Power behind your life.

Today, withdraw from living in some future fantasy and live right now as if the entire Universe is conspiring on your behalf, because it is. Carry yourself as if all your needs are met, because it has been so since the beginning of time.

The key that unlocks the storehouse of inspiration, of your inner genius, is within you. Turn the key with meaningful inquiry, humility, and gratitude, all of which silence the ego and magnetize the divine muse to whisper into your intuitive awareness. Once you have amused the muse with your inquiry into the Self, it may softly approach you in the form of a sweet or consoling presence, or very loudly through challenging circumstances. The muse will don whatever form is necessary for awakening the genius-consciousness within each one of us.

Many times what we learn about love is counterfeit. It is love masquerading as getting our emotional and other needs met and meeting those of others, a reward offered for satisfying our heart’s desires. So the first thing to remember is that only through having a deep, inner awareness of being love itself are we able to see the distinction between love as a noun and love as a verb, to being love itself without a subject or object upon which it is placed or directed.

Most of us are certain that we have experienced some degree of love, be it with a life partner, our children, parents, siblings, friends, God, our spiritual teachers, animal companions. Although love itself is an invisible energy, it feels tangible when we feel it directed towards us and when we direct it towards others. This is love experienced as a noun, a “something” labeled love. The ultimate form of love, however, is a verb. It is a state of being love itself, the essence of our true nature.