Luminata Daily Reflections—the Engine of Life
Mind is life’s dynamo. Thought is the dynamic creative power of life. Thoughts create motion in substance and this motion creates material forms. It is the nature of thoughts to create. Your inner world of consciousness creates your outer world of circumstance. When you focus on a pattern of living you are drawing into your life the very images you contemplate. The image-making faculty of mind is the creative engine of the universe. Change your thoughts and you change your life. If you are unsatisfied with your circumstances, change your mind. It is the manner in which you concentrate that forces circumstances into your life. What you think about and desire strongly you magnetize to you. Your life is shaped by your mind and your mind is shaped by what you wish to experience. Those who master this secret become masters of their life, and become the image of their inner mind. —Emory Michael
Luminata Daily Reflections—the Garden of Life
Life can be compared to a garden. There are times for planting and times for reaping. We can only take out of our garden what we have put into it. The seeds we plant and the care we give to our garden determine the harvest. We reap what we have sown. The seeds we sow in the garden of life are the thoughts, words, decisions, choices and actions we make. When our thoughts, words, and actions are imbued with kindness, harmony and gratitude we are sowing seeds of light and goodness—our harvest will be a joyful one. When we sow what is good, true and beautiful, we open ourselves up to receive in like kind and in the same measure. Happiness can never come through taking, but only through giving. When we take what is not ours we have sown the seeds of our own future misery. When we give out the best from our heart, mind and will, we prepare a more beautiful future for ourselves and those we love. The law of the seed is the law of reciprocal action and bestows happiness and bounty upon those who live in harmony with it. In the measure that we give, so do we receive. —Emory Michael
Luminata Daily Reflection– Seeing with the Heart
When we embark on a spiritual journey to the discovery of the secret of ourselves, we learn to see the world from the inside out. We develop new senses — inner senses — that have their origin in our energetic nucleus, the core self or higher self. We learn to see and hear not only with our eyes and ears, but we learn to see from the inside – we learn to see and feel with our hearts. Of course, we still see ourselves reflected in the world, for the world is a mirror that reflects us back to ourselves. True seeing comes from embracing and expanding the light within our hearts, and seeing that light in others as well. –Emory Michael
Luminata Daily Reflection
A universal law operates through every interchange in life. Thanks to the reciprocity at the heart of all action, we benefit our lives in the measure that we benefit the lives of others. Life is what we make it; we reap what we sow. In other words, we grow as individuals and improve our own situation when our efforts, personally and professionally, improve the life conditions of others. When we give, the universe gives back. The love we bestow upon others is the love we receive. When we learn to apply love on the wings of this universal law we become masters of our destiny. —Emory Michael
Thought for the Day—the Watercourse Way
The greatest experience we can have in our lives is the discovery of the inexhaustible reservoir of light and power within our spirit essence, the heart of our being. From within, one receives the eternal wisdom. It streams from an inner sun as bright as the sun on the clearest day. We may find within our heart a portal that leads to a universe far grander even than the external universe revealed by the physical senses. This inner world is our true home, the realm in which our spirit, the higher self, eternally abides. We contact that luminous energy by a loving disposition and a generous attitude to life. Darkness cannot touch us when we radiate the light.
Our efforts to contact the source and live in the light will not weaken us or lead to escapism from this world. Rather, a living contact with the inner light gives strength and inspiration for living. Many obstacles and rough spots are removed by a gentle attitude and by the emanation of positive goodness that flows from within us as a result of our efforts to attune ourselves to the divine within. This is the Taoist approach, the watercourse way, of gentleness and serenity that removes obstacles by kindness rather than by force. Love is the greatest power in the universe. —Emory Michael
