You are in more dimensions in any moment than you are ever aware

Love is the harmony of a shared heartbeat

You are worthy of unconditional love

Embrace your grace

In the face of ignorance, manifestation masquerades as coincidence

Be grateful and full of greatness, and you will be full of life

Love can not be built without the foundation of truth

The tender touch of a friend can melt any mountain of fear

If you are not aware of how your opinions are formed, don't be so quick to defend them

Only you can empower yourself to be free

Beyond the sky are dimensions offering realities that are equal only to the imagination

Change one belief or attitude about yourself and you change your entire life

A world absent of dreams is a world absent of life

Whatever you have thought and done, you are unconditionally loved and forever forgiven

When you talk, leave time for the walk

Build the roads that ought to be travelled to take you places never lived

Your joy patiently awaits your unconditional embrace

Every person with whom you have an issue is mirroring that issue within yourself

May the Lord of the wind blow your sail so you end up amongst the magic in which you dared not believe

You are God's profound and cherished dream

Love is the warming glue that cocoons us in the embrace of the eternal womb

It's a jungle out there when there's a jungle in you

The answers you receive are only profound as the questions you ask

Align yourself with the most joyful people you know and you will know what they feel

You are Nature's eternal gift to the Universe

Whatever you do, when you do it in a state of joy, it transmutes into joyous energy

Focus on your dreams and be witness to your magic

You are made from an unlimited creation and eternal joy that is forever your identity

If we did not have eyes, would the midnight stars exist? Would we hear them instead?

If you can always be yourself, joy in all ways will be yours

Love allows giving without the fear of not receiving

Love the freedom forever in you

Discover what you want to become and act it out in every oment. Then this is what you are.

Is your self-doubt more powerful than your desire for your dreams to be realised?

The lotus flower can teach you things no master can

Wisdom is the wand that transforms mistakes into Evolution

Your ability to make a wish would not exist if you did not have the power to make it come true

Make a wish, believe it will manifest then forget it, so you won't think to doubt
Divine Order will take care of it

Your intent is the essence that creates your circumstances

Lose your fear of failure and your failings will lose you

You belong in the moment

Divinity's song fills every corner of the universe with love..Listen

It is not the fear of the unknown but the fear of new adventures that harms you

No one can define you

You attract those who share your dreams

Life is a dream and death is an illusion. Can death be the awakening from the illusion we call reality?

When you feel wonderful because you gave, allow the joy of giving to be returned

Nature's laws within you can teach you everything you wish to know

The kingdom of heaven is within you and cannot exist without you

It's not what you do but why you do it

Your spirit soars free through the universe. Why not you?

Focus on joy, and not what it takes to be joyful

Life is made beautiful by attitude alone

An open mind is an open door to miraculous new adventures

Embrace change like you would a newborn child

Every person you don't forgive estranges your ability to love yourself

Be clear about your dreams and not concerned with how they materialise

How do you expect your dreams to come true when you hold them at a timeless distance with a stiff arm of fear and the stern hand of doubt?

Your answers are coming

You are here because you are loved

Have a light heart

Every experience came from a dream

Thoughts create your reality. What did you create today?

You are the creator of your habits and the master of their undoing

Being unaware of your thoughts is like drifting without oars down the river of life

Be indefinable by race, colour or creed and you are inseparable from the mind of God

Even asleep, you are observed with love

The challenge of truthfulness evokes more fear than the ease of sowing lies

Listen to Nature's symphony. It can transport you to places you've never been

The mystical merge of love into life is the Divine chemistry of all creation

Risk new adventures and trust the Universe will reward your efforts to evolve your soul

Give for love, forgive with love

Be patient and realise you have all the time in the Universe to create miracles

You are the magnetic centre between past and future

Challenges confronted with truth and love make personal evolution inevitable

Imagination creates knowledge

Every drop of water, every ripple in the ocean is alive with intent to nourish your soul with new adventures

Be a lamp unto yourself...

As the Buddha was dying, 

Ananda asked 

who would be their teacher after death. 

He replied to his disciple - 

"Be lamps unto yourselves. 

Be refuges unto yourselves. 

Take yourself no external refuge. 

Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. 

Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. 

Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. 

And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, 

Shall be a lamp unto themselves, 

Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, 

But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, 

Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, 

Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, 

It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; 

But they must be anxious to learn."

I think this beautiful story is a great reminder not to cling to other teachers, or books, or fellowships and put our "salvation" (for lack of a better word) in their hands. Ultimately, we are our best guide (a conscious, whole "we"). Furthermore, it seems like a fact to me that no other person better understands OUR INDIVIDUAL experience than we do. So then how could they be better guides than ourselves? To reference the dialogue in Conversations with God, our truth, and everything we ultimately need to know, is within us (within who?... not the idea we have about ourselves or an ego-identification, but the conscious witness/spirit/etc.). "Truth is not discovered... it is created." And all of reality is subjective (Einstein called it a persistent illusion), so you cannot possibly know my truth, my reality... unless we meet at the level of the spirit, at a higher consciousness... Namaste: "I honor that place in you where the whole Universe resides. And when I am in that place in me and you are in that place in you, there is only one of us."). Ultimately, all great teachers seem to do this. They get through to that consciousness in their student, and in the end... the greatest teacher is the one who has made himself unnecessary. The student is "a lamp" unto herself.

I'd like to balance this, however, with what Charlotte Joko Beck writes about in Everyday Zen. This message doesn't give "me" the permission to take on a defiant, closed-minded attitude ("I'm my own teacher... don't tell me what to do," "No, Universe, you've got it all wrong," etc...). The ego-centered, flesh-encapsulated entity I appear to be does not make for a great authority either. And again, from Conversations with God: "I cannot tell you my truth until you stop telling me yours." As soon as we "know" god/or whatever our conceptions of a higher reality might be (Tao, Universe, etc.), we have frozen whatever it is and packed it up tightly and conveniently in a little box that will sit on the shelf and gather dust. Then, it's over: the line of communication is cut off, the ongoing feedback is blocked, and we are missing whatever Ultimate Reality there may be because we're holding on to a concept of it. To conceptualize and to "know" God/the Universe/the Tao/etc. etc. etc. is a contradiction, and an unfortunate fallacy. What's coming down the pipeline (as feedback, or experience, or understanding), is always, always evolving. Everything is in a state of flux and change, so why wouldn't god (and its interaction with, or messages for, us) be as well (this is more easily understood by Eastern philosophies with their concept of the Tao). Receptivity, openness. Today's God, is not tomorrow's God. I have fallen into the cycle of "knowing" or thinking I "know" God and what's really happening here... but when I have done that, I end up knowing jack shit. What is the difference between understanding, and knowing? [really... I'd like to know your thoughts]

"Knowing God means being God, it is not relative knowledge." -Ramana Maharshi

So Beck poses the question: "If you're not the authority, and I'm not the authority, then what?" Ultimately, she suggests that life itself is the only viable teacher/authority. Every experience and circumstance which we are able to consciously and mindfully connect with, become one with (italics to emphasize my point that it takes a different view, or M.O. than is customary of us in order to be receptive and open), is our "Master" and will teach us more than anyone else can. And, my take is that the conscious, mindful "us," spirit is life itself. And so I find that among the facets of our being, we are both the student and the teacher (the "created creator" -again from CwG).

"Even the least among you can do all that I have done, and greater things." -Jesus

Expressed with the utmost love, and with a sincere desire that your path always be clear... and that each step illuminates and reveals the truth of who you are,

Jason Magnon

Experiencing The Spiritual- Paul Hedderman

Dialogue with Paul Hedderman and Jason Magnon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay4XO4TWmxI

It was a privilege to have this conversation, and in the end... I just realized how very little I know ;)
[but... who is it that doesn't know... and what don't they know??? Hah!]

Enjoy. And please don't forget to check out www.zenbitchslap.com for more from Paul.

Thank you,
Namaste,

Jason