Donna Goddard shares her love for the Divine and the world with a large international audience and has a strong social media presence. She has authored about twenty books on spirituality and personal growth—nonfiction, fiction, children’s fiction, poetry, and specialty books in writing and dance.
Who is this “I” that navigates the path? What part of me is real, and what part is a costume I wear so the world can recognise me? The further we travel along our path, the less interest we have in being defined by roles.
You’re not here to be understood by everyone. You’re here to stand where your energy belongs, where it comes alive. That is what a frequency holder does. And when you do, you create a space where others can feel at home in themselves and rise into their own expression.
Master of Me: Meditations is for spiritual seekers, seers, and teachers. We are all all of them. We are all seekers, though we may not know what we seek. We are all seers, though we may be looking through a murky window. And we are all teachers to someone. Naturally, the quality of our seeking, seeing, and teaching improves with our growth, but that is simply a matter of time (although, in actuality, the soul knows neither time nor space). Once you become acquainted with the meditative state of mind, it will tend to stick around. After a while, you become inseparable from and deeply in love with the consciousness of love, which underlies all authentic meditative practices. You become a walking, talking meditation yourself.
After six months of living in Store Creek with the cold weather, it was good to finally arrive at spring’s doorstep. Merlyn wondered if that was why Ben had decided to visit today. He said it was a rental inspection. But that was just a joke. At least, Merlyn hoped it was a joke. Although it was two years since their separation, they had been married for three years. Nothing needed inspecting. Merlyn’s mind was put at ease once he arrived. He appeared to have no interest in checking on anything. He chatted for an hour or two before saying that it was time to return to the city and that he had a big week ahead of him at the State Ballet.
If we can’t see people clearly, we can end up trusting people and situations that are not in our best interest and dismissing people and situations that would make our life better and happier. It is not just in regards to little things, but if we understand the far-reaching and powerful effect of thought, we realise that it can even be a life-and-death matter. Thought is very powerful, and the underlying intention is everything.
To get to the underlying intention of anything, it helps to ask ourselves, What is this for? We can ask it about everything. Eventually, it is not necessary to ask it so often as experience and wisdom lead the way with little effort. Once asked, we must listen for the answer. Don’t listen to the ego’s answer. Its answer will usually be the opposite of the truth. Ask with an open mind. If we discover that we are deceiving ourselves about some matter or that we have been deceived by someone else (intentionally or not), then that is a good discovery. Once we know what a particular venture or relationship is based on, we will also know its outcome. To those inexperienced in such thought processes, this may seem like magic or foolishness. It is not magic. It is simply understanding the human mind. And it is not foolish. Those who do not understand their own minds can never be fulfilled or happy.
