 We are responsible for and to each other. The well-being of one impacts the well-being of all. In this truth, there is the opportunity to send positive intention as meditation or prayer. In Metta, or loving-kindness meditation, we ask for the well-being of others as a mantra intoned silently or aloud. One such meditation may be expressed as: “May all beings be happy, may all beings be peaceful, may all beings be safe, may all beings awaken to the light of their true nature, may all beings be free.” You may repeat this as you sit in meditation or walk along the way. As you express loving-kindness for others, so too will this reflect back on you, awakening the interconnected heart paths we share together in peace and love. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
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 Random acts of kindness are not random. The entities involved, both the giver and the recipient, have a contract to experience that moment of expressed love. Even if they do not seem to know each other in this lifetime before the act occurs, they have a connection in spirit, one spirit to the other. One needed to learn to give, the other to accept. One to serve, the other to receive. As small an act as opening a door or offering a hand, touches the hearts of both involved, and thus adds to the tapestry of the interdependent web a luminosity born of compassion, empathy, and love. In acts of kindness we express and recognize our unity in the Creative Spirit. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 Even that which is labeled an accident is not an accident. Everything that happens, happens because it was planned by one or more entities to happen. An event called a tragedy occurs and the lessons multiply for the victims and the survivors alike. Those whose spirits journey to the other side of the veil are not gone, just transformed. They have completed their purpose on this plane, for themselves and for those around them. Those whose spirits remain learn in grief and, if remaining mindful and aware, come to realize that those who have passed are not “dead,” but simply have left their bodies behind to return to their true home. Before we were here, we existed in another dimension, and when we are done with our lessons here in this body, we return to that same place. The universe is so large, and the planes of existence so many . . . the moments in time and space that seem to mark our lives with elation or grief are in truth malleable, shifting as sand on the ocean’s shore. There is no death, there are no dead. Our true selves exist as co-creators of the Creative Spirit in a perpetual state of grace and love. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 Sometimes even the sweetest cacophony of sounds beats back the sound of our own hearts speaking truth as an echo spraying up from a deep well. The pebble, falling from on high, falls into the cool spring water, sinks below the surface and, by its presence, changes the pool, the well, the sound, the echo. Discerning the lessons that reverberate from deep within when a shift in perception occurs can change the paradigm of your life. If you turn right, rather than left. If you awaken before dawn or after. If you lose a person or gain one. Even if a feather falls in your path and you stop to pick it up, the flow of your life changes, even subtly and takes you into a different expression of reality than if the feather had not fallen at all. Be mindful, pay serene attention, and the ripples flowing cross the surface of your life will guide you gently and safely to the further shore. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 Kindness begets kindness, creating an unbreakable chain held together with links forged of love. When one sees the need of another and responds, one is acting on behalf of the Creative Spirit, which asks the highest good from each for the highest good of All. The smallest act, done to ease the path of another, sets off a vibration that expands throughout time and space. Even if the recipient is not aware that the act of kindness has been offered, he or she will feel the spark of love that sent the kindness their way. When one reaches out toward another, perceiving that he or she can help that incarnate spirit, one experiences the reality of the interdependent web of existence, along whose radials love, peace, and kindness travel from one toward the other, forming the bonds that undergird the All within the Creative Spirit. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 To those who wait in peace and act peaceably, all things are possible. Violence only begets more violence as the injured becomes the sword wielder and the sword wielder acts to injure. But by remaining in a state of peace, only peace is nurtured, renewed, and reborn. Peace allows for thought and quiet action, even when committed in a manner of deep conviction. Acting in peace confuses the adversary who only knows violence and knows only how to counter such with more violence. When peace is the selected method of change, there is no clash of steel, no impacting of bullets, no physical harm or emotional abuse. Rather than remaining adversaries, then, such become friends through the modality of peace, working for a common good. Peace, which acts from the heart, asks for a response framed in peace. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 Why does magic work? Why does prayer work? Magic and prayer work because we are co-creators with the Creative Spirit. When we set out our intentions, our desires, our goals, and release these into the universe, the Creative Spirit apprehends these acts to actualize these workings. When we pray for the speedy recovery of an ailing person, the Creative Spirit utilizes our energy and molds it around the idea, giving it an energy and reality of its own. That energy then manifests on the Earth plane as a result . . . e.g., the healing of the person. Why does it seem that not all prayers and acts of magic work? Because our awareness is limited by our Earth-based perceptions. A result may not happen in the time frame originally desired, or it may appear not to happen at all, but the Creative Spirit knows the spirit mind and heart and coordinates the result with the paths these entities are on. As co-creators, we act best when we send our intentions, desires, and goals forth imbued with love, peace, and kindness. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 When we use only our Earth-bound minds, our awareness of the world around us is shaded by so many distractions and sleight of hand tricks. Reality becomes a skewed jumble of glass pieces within a kaleidoscope. It is difficult to tell, with this physically ensnared mind, what is illusion and what is real, what exists only on this plane to confuse and what exists to clarify. When we sit in meditation and quiet the monkey mind of the physical Earth plane, we start to see by feeling the truth that is around us, we perceive the limitations of our physical eyes and minds, and we engage our spirit mind that sees with the eyes of the heart. In this expanded perception, we become aware of our oneness with the Creative Spirit and of our roles as co-creators of our reality. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
 Washing a cup, walking along the street, breathing the air—all are ordinary acts. When these are practiced as mindful activities, we find our oneness with that which we are doing, with the environment in which we are acting, and with the All within the Creative Spirit. When we are mindful, there is just breathing, doing, being, with no expectations or judgments. In the act of mindfulness is found a quiet bliss of being—the process is the goal. Doing something mindfully— for example washing a cup, and allowing no distractions but maintaining a gentle focus on the cup, the water, the suds, our hands— allows us to be present to the moment we are in, not the past one or the future one. In the act of the ordinary, we find the precious mindful awareness of being in the here and now and, in that moment, we can experience our centered oneness with the All. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list.
 Each in his or her own way communicates with the Creative Spirit, of which we are all a part. Some refer to this communication as prayer, others as setting intention, and still others as meditation. When we sit or stand, centered and focused, and ask for help for self or others, that greater entity, known by many names, hears and responds. In the asking, we enter a state of grace, aware of our oneness with the All. Whether we receive what we are asking for, or whether we recognize the response, the knowledge that we have actively engaged with a larger energy, confirms our connection with each other and the Creative Spirit. Knowing we are not separate beings, but rather a part of a larger whole, requires that we remain aware of those around us and engaged in their well-being. Prayer, by any name, is an act of kindness, compassion, and empathy. Namaste! https://www.tobiehewitt.com/contact.html to join my mailing list. (Art by Joy Argento; https://www.redbubble.com/shop/artbyjoy)
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