Every human being goes through periods of suffering. For probably 95% of spiritual seekers it was suffering that motivated the searching. Often, searching is an attempt to remove yourself from the experience of human suffering, the experience of what the mind would perceive as the human predicament.

But when you are truly open, when there is no attempt to get away from anything and there is the recognition that everything is in exact alignment always, then the heart is open. When the heart is open either meeting your own emotional issues or, as it gets larger, meeting tragedy that is always going on in the world, what occurs is this love, that is not asking for anything, receiving the feeling of what is being broken down and lost, and that meeting cracks the heart open like nothing else can. It deepens the passion and the compassion for the poignancy of human life, and the compassion becomes imbibed. I'm sure everyone has seen movies where someone is going through some tragedy in their life and at the end they meet their lover who has been searching for them and they embrace and there are all kinds of eruptions of emotion. The meeting sets something off in the heart like nothing else.

There is a depth of richness of this pure love which has no past and no story and thus it has no fear. It's not searching, not seeking, not running, it's not looking to be in service, it's just here, existing in the human plane. Where there is so much tragedy in the human plane, there is joy and beauty. And though it isn’t looked for, when the flavor of that comes in, there is this heartbreaking beauty.

Something becomes more alive in the deeper recesses of the heart. Begin to feel the beauty that's always beauty in your case, because carrying this love there is the meeting with what is broken. It's like the end of the movie where someone has been imprisoned and breaks out or is treated unfairly and is broken but meets their lover and there is embrace. You begin to realize you are the embrace and you also are what is broken. There is nothing that is more rich. So ironic that what the mind trying to get away from and deny is discovered to be like the rich earth tones, the exquisite beauty of humanhood.

It is never about looking for anything. It is never about changing anything or trying to fix something that your mind perceives as wrong in the external. This may arise organically but it's not about that. It's about being still. When you are still you are the recipient of everything. You feel the infinite nature that is untouched and you feel the whole play of humanhood. Then when what is misunderstood and lost and acting out comes into the heart, you feel this melting. It's not that you are the sage and what is lost is coming to you. You are all of it. There are no levels. You feel what it is to be completely broken. You feel the love that is the Beingness, meeting this. What comes out is a deeper and deeper sense of humility. A deeper and deeper sense of compassion. A deeper aliveness in the earth tones of the Heart. And what is discovered is that fear begins to fade away.

The movement to get away from anything that the mind sees as suffering, wrong, hurtful is normally unconscious and it goes unrecognized that this movement is fear. But when you are receiving everything, you discover the beauty that is in everything in all of the different flavors of what it has to offer. You are planted where you are, you receive what is offered, and what is being received and the receiver are recognized to be inseparable.

The fundamental fragility of the human psyche becomes so tender and beautiful. Every human being searches for love. Every human being has experienced suffering. Mind's idea is that the love is the answer and the suffering is what we want to get away from but true love is the open pool. All the animals in the forest can come and drink out of it. It does not discriminate. It's just there to quench the thirst and then the fluid that goes into the mouth of the animal becomes part of that being.

When you are clear, there is such exquisite beauty in what the mind calls tragedy. It is a meeting of what is being experienced as separate, alone and fear-driven with what is universal, kind and loving. It all exists within the Heart.

As the sensitivity grows and you begin to feel more and more in a larger and larger sphere, there is an aspect to the earth tones of the heart that always feels this incredibly beautiful and rich poignancy. What is discovered is there is no such thing as "bad". The byproduct is that the love becomes so rooted there even begins to be the feeling of celebration in the meeting of human tragedy. Nothing is excluded. Nothing is separate from the Self. And the nature of the Self is it comes back for itself.

Your nature is completely divine. Limitless. Untouched. And at the same time you are here in this human experience that offers something to the Heart that is beyond description

You know on the level of quantum mechanics, on the most fundamental, elemental level everything is interspersed with everything. Nothing is separate. It's been shown that the entire universe is contained within the smallest measurable unit of size - thousands upon thousands of times smaller than an atom - because distance is an illusion. What is real is not in the arena of location. The feeling of the Heart is not bound by location. It's not in a specific spot. It's not in the arena of the mind's creation of distance.

We are all in this together. Everything is your brother or your sister. It's all the Beloved. It's all yourself. There is no separation except in the mind. When you are fully humbled and open and something moves across the sphere of your awareness that seems hurtful or ignorant, there is not the feeling that it is anything other than me. Because everything is you. It is taken in, and it is met, and the beauty of the meeting is the richness of humanhood meeting divinity.

It all exists within the Heart. The smallest measurable unit contains the entire cosmos. Nothing is separate from anything else. We are all of it. Just feel the beauty of the poignancy of all of it. You know it has been reported by astronauts who have looked back at the earth from great distance that while there is destruction and decay and horror and beauty, life eating life, and destruction and creation, looking at the earth from great distance the totality of it is just this feeling in the heart—of Home. You are Home. There's nowhere to go. Feel the totality of the full expression. Perhaps you can feel the richness of all of it. All of it.

In a world dominated by ego, it is difficult for many of you, as you struggle with ego, to assume the virtues and qualities of a master. When one assumes the virtue of humbleness, one begins to understand that all is forthcoming in perfect and divine order, as this virtue is of great importance in your quest for mastery.

It is a most important layer of your growth, a final release of the domination of ego over self. Ego is a great deterrent as you walk the straight and narrow path to mastery. As you become humble, the ego falls away, allowing you new growth and the area where your ego held you in slavery may now be filled with the light of Love. Each time you allow the ego to dominate, you maintain your position within the third/fourth dimension. Ego will separate you from your inner Divine self; ego will cause you great pain and suffering. You will find that each time you are caught up in the demands of the ego; you will most likely speak and act from your ego. When you set aside the ego, you clear the pathway to speak and act from love, from your higher self and from your inner divine wisdom.

You must ask for your ego to come under the direction of your Soul self. It was never meant for the ego to direct your life and to be in control of your affairs. The ego was meant to function in harmony with your Divine self. As you fell from grace, into the third dimension, your ego took over, causing you great pain and suffering. As you closed the portals to your heart, the ego was given free will to dominate you. As you return to balance and harmony, you must bring the ego under the direction of your Divine self. The ego serves an important function within your daily lives. It helps you maintain balance and harmony and assertiveness, when it is functioning under the guidance of the Soul self. Unchecked, the ego leads you to the emotions of guilt, shame, anger, aggressiveness, fear, and all lower emotions which will impede your path back to your unity with your inner Divine self.

As you assume the virtue of humbleness, you will find that love follows, as to be humble one must love. The heart center must be filled with love; there must be assertiveness, yet gentleness. There must be wisdom, there must be kindness, there must be the virtues and aspects given to you by the Creator, as you descended into your physical expression. Open your hearts, and allow the very thought of humbleness to permeate your being. As you focus on this divine expression, you lift yourself up and into the place of love, for love is the highest vibration. Those who achieve the state of humbleness integrate a great step on their path towards self mastery. A most blessed profound, virtue to integrate, Dear Ones. Be steadfast, it is another layer, another step of your growth, as you find your way back to your home among the stars.