Living in LIGHT, LOVE & TRUTH

Balboa Press

Contents

Preface...............................................xiIntroduction..........................................xiii1 Life Purpose........................................12 Before This Physical Life...........................153 During This Lifetime................................204 The Ego.............................................265 Free Will...........................................326 Guidance & Intuition................................407 Energy..............................................458 Intimate Relationships..............................549 Hope & Faith........................................6210 Gratitude..........................................6911 There Is Only Love.................................7412 The Balancing Act..................................8613 My Views on Beliefs & Religion.....................9414 Conclusion.........................................9715 About the Author...................................101

Chapter One

Why are we here? It's a question that everyone asks at least once. The question is usually asked when we are in crisis or in despair. Trying to understand the reason—the higher purpose as to why we are here—can be difficult. If we are willing to work with it and commit to improving ourselves, it does become easier.

It's like riding a bike for the first time. Practice gets us off our training wheels, and before we know it, we are zipping down the street, laughing at how we had trouble to start with! Once we learn to ride a bike, we never forget it. It becomes embedded in our memory, and the lesson can be recalled at will.

It is the same with living in light, love and truth. Living in light, love and truth first involves learning the process of living—like riding a bike. Enriching our lives can be compared to the different routes we take on our journeys—taking different paths along the way. The process is the same (riding the bike), but the surroundings (the bike route) and circumstances (the bike speed) are different. Life is about learning to see the good in everything—to love, and to be grateful for what we have, to feel deeply, and learn as much as possible. There is love in everything, and when we really live and view life with an open heart (and live in our truth), the light illuminates the way. Not only do we see it everywhere, but also we feel it and think it. Love becomes us.

I hope to help you see beyond the vision of your eyes, to believe and trust that there is something more to life—something bigger and greater than where we stand and what we know with our minds. I hope that you acknowledge that we are here in a physical body to learn and evolve our souls. Yes, I believe that we are souls on a journey to evolve (by choice). I can only state my point of view from my direct experiences, but I hope you can relate them to circumstances in your life.

To help you on your journey, I have included reflection exercises that you may wish to complete. These reflection exercises will help you explore situations in your life and provide guidance to live in light, love and truth. I suggest having a notebook and pen handy while you read. But above all, complete the exercises at your will.

It all started when I was quite young, and it occurred to me that everyone is different. I was a quiet child, and I didn't speak much at all. But I was always observing things from the background.

As a youngster, the one thing I could not tolerate was negativity on any level—whether it was physical, emotional, verbal, or spiritual. I couldn't entirely understand how other people (including my friends and family) could think so differently. How could someone not care about another person and his or her feelings? Why were some people kind and some malicious? Where was the love?

I didn't understand why we were different until I was in my twenties. I came to understand that it is natural for us to be different. I only came to this understanding by learning the lessons that life presented to me. By being different, we provide the opportunity for others to work through their life lessons, or we are the ones provided with the opportunity to work through our life lessons. Quite often, lessons happen in tandem: two lessons, two people; two souls, two destinies.

I believe that life is very much like an education system with primary, secondary and tertiary levels. This education system can be best described as a collective learning process of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of lessons. It has a lasting affect, and can be continuously applied or recalled at our will.

The origin of the word educate is derived from educare (Latin) "bring up," which is related to educere "bring out," "bring forth what is within," "bring out potential," and educere "to lead."

To me, learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are within us. Our learning starts as soon as we are born. Certain periods in our life are like grades in school (complete with curricula). Our physical life is the system: primary, secondary, or tertiary. The system is relevant to our souls' previous level of enlightenment. The subjects and grades are relevant to our souls' current development. To break it down a little further, this is how I believe it works: lessons on a topic; of a subject; in a grade; of a system.

A lesson is a term that collectively describes the knowledge acquired, by topic, subject and grade. Topics are the situations that you are faced with, the subject is the theme of the situation, and the grade is the complexity of the theme, of the situation. For example, a lesson about honesty (topic), in a relationship (subject) that is intimate (grade). The system determines the complexity of the intimate relationship (a companion, a soul connection or a twin flame).

Lower grades start with simpler topics on a single subject. With each higher grade, topics become more comprehensive. And as complexity increases, the subjects become multilateral. A higher system equates to a higher vibration, energy level and sensitivity level.

Vibration is a term I use to describe our intuitive awareness as a whole. One's intuitive energy level is the magnitude of energy we have and can emanate outward. One's intuitive sensitivity level is the degree and clarity of feeling we sense. Every system has a spectrum of vibration, and the spectrum is exclusive to that system. Remember: each system relates to an entire physical life.

You can think about vibration as the speed at which a blade in a fan rotates. The "lower" the system, the slower the blade speed (meaning a lower vibration); the "higher" the system, the faster the blade speed (meaning a higher vibration). We will intermittently change speeds, depending on the lesson we are learning, the circumstances (topics), the people involved (subjects), and the complexity of the situation (grade). We will go back and forth, depending on our success in learning the lesson. Being able to maintain the increase of vibration is dependent on actively applying the knowledge acquired.

Our vibration may also be impacted by the vibration of those with whom...