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What if a butterfly went searching for its butterfly-ness? Would it find it? Or would it already be in its full complete-ness? Already in the perfection of whole-ness? How can Life quest after its own butterfly-ness when the beauty-ness is internal, always in readi-ness for the light? The same is true for you and me. The intact-ness of your and my spiritual identity is already the divine-ness within us, which always has been and always will be. So, absorb restful-ness. Be quiet-ness. Be still-ness. Let all thoughts and words gently fade away into wordless-ness. And realize that in this empti-ness is space for the real you.   Eternally, the divine Presence fills all space. So, there is ever only Presence encountering Presence.   A blade of grass never becomes a rose, a cat, or a star. Always, throughout eternity each is maintained in its own individuality. Never subdue yourself. Let yourself come out. Never be afraid to be different. Always be yourself. Only in freedom can you be yourself. Assert your individuality. Joel S. Goldsmith, an illuminati of the 20th century   Right now you are as much in the Kingdom of Heaven as you will ever be. Nothing can be added to you, and nothing can be taken from you. Joel S. Goldsmith   Other Mystical Offerings: • The Treasure is in My Own Garden • First Find Gold Within • Divine Seeds • “Divine Destiny” • It’s Already Present • Creative Individuality • Be True • Self-Governance • Ad Infinitum Ourselves © prose text © by Zane Maser, 2023. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2023 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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There is no need to run outside for better seeing, nor to peer from a window. Rather abide at the Center of your Being, for the more you leave it, the less you learn. Search the Heart and see if he is wise who takes each turn: The Way to do is to be. Lao-Tzu, “The Book of Life”   The Self which shines as the sun within the Heart is Real and All- pervading. On diving deep upon the quest ‘Who am I and from whence?’ thought disappears, and consciousness of Self flashes forth as I Am within the Heart. This is Heaven, the abode of Bliss. What is the use of knowing anything except the Self? What else is there for anyone to know, when the Self Itself is known? Having realized the Self, nothing else remains to be known. It is the All. Rumi   Other Mystical Offerings: • “Eden” Consciousness • Heaven’s Realm is Within You • Allowing Allows Consciousness to Open • Mystical Revelation • “The Cloud Of Unknowing” • Anwar El-Sadat’s Experience of Illumination • The Entire Flame of the One: Symeon, a Christian Mystic • Walt Whitman: Set Alight from Within • Happy Buddha Day © © by Zane Maser, 2023. Photos gratefully used from FreeImages. All 2009-2023 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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WHAT IS, IS WHAT IS. Some thoughts are worth pondering deeply, especially if a pearl of truth is hidden and waiting to be revealed at a level beyond the human mind. Is, is present tense, now, this exact moment, dwelling in Is-Land. WHAT IS. I HAVE. WHAT IS I HAVE. I HAVE WHAT IS. Such allowing brings harmony, peace, acceptance, trust, and rest as the calm and relaxing results. It is a state of non-resistance. If is future tense in the realm of imagination, dwelling in If-Land. WHAT IF THIS. WHAT IF THAT. I WANT OR DON’T WANT. I WANT CONTROL. If is the abode of worrisome concerns, doubts, anxieties, fear, as well as agitation, stress, tension, tightness, competition, even terror are the inharmonious, unhappy results. It is a state of abject resistance. Each of us gets to choose at any given moment whether to inhabit the tranquil setting of Is-Land or the disquietude of If-Land. IS, IS ALL THERE TRULY IS. THAT IS ALL THERE IS. IS, IS RIGHT HERE AND NOW.   P.S. Many, many times daily I am bringing myself back to what is. It’s a moment-by-moment exercise, and I’m still in the thick of it but persevering. It’s worth every continuous, conscious effort to practice living in Is-Land—the only place of Reality and of divine Life.     Whatever occurs in our experience is our state of consciousness expressed. Joel S. Goldsmith   Other Mystical Offerings: • Buddhist Story of Two Monks, Two Choices • The Oneness Of Cause-Effect • Self-Creation • Self-Effect • Continuous Now • Now is Non Comparative • Choice, Choose, Chosen, Consequence • Be Free of Fear • Rest from the Mists of Doubt and Fear © Text © by Zane Maser, 2023. Butterfly photo gratefully used from FreeImages. All 2009-2023 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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The following, introductory extract, in honor of Earth Day 2023, is from “Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction,” by Cameron La Follette and Chris Maser. “What would it really take for us, in the United States, to create and maintain a sustainable lifestyle? How would we even know where to begin, since “sustainability” is impossible to define—albeit the word is increasingly used? One sees it everywhere. But few of the many definitions have anything in common, because sustainability is not a fixed endpoint. Rather, it is a lifelong journey toward humility and reciprocity of caring in our relationship with Planet Earth. Beyond that, sustainability must mean creating and living in a society in which the integrity, resilience, and productivity of Nature’s Laws of Reciprocity come first. Sustainability is so frequently mentioned that we forget there are no ‘levels of sustainability.’ It is not systemically sustainable, for example, to build a gigantic ‘sun farm’ out in the desert, thereby degrading thousands of acres to power cities and industrial systems with ‘clean’ solar energy. We might call such a thing ‘shallow sustainability,’ but nothing more. Only by setting human use of resources within the Rights of Nature paradigm, in which Earth’s integrity comes first, can human societies flourish, living in harmony with Nature’s Laws of Reciprocity, which is a critical premise of this book. Human beings depend on Nature’s systems for life. If the global ecosystem becomes less able to support a good quality of life, humans will suffer accordingly. Thus, the central focus of this book is creating a blueprint for changing our relationship with the Earth by placing a Rights of Nature framework at the center of the American legal system, both at the Federal and State levels. Furthermore, the Rights of Nature must be ‘first among rights’ in our rights-based system, so Nature’s resilience is the basis from which all human society springs. We then explore ways in which placing the Earth’s ability to flourish first and foremost will change our relationship with the environment and our current land-management strategies. Finally, we offer suggestions and guidelines on how to bring those changes to fruition. We take this approach because true sustainability can only be achieved by thinking systemically—not by merely tackling one symptom after another without addressing the system as a whole. The blueprint is in our hands, thanks to the courageous and farsighted decisions by the nations of Ecuador and Bolivia, which have already placed the Rights of Nature at the heart of their legal systems. Ecuador, in 2008, became the first nation in the world to have the Rights of Nature in their Constitution, which has been accepted by a nationwide vote. Bolivia followed suit in 2010 with an even more comprehensive Rights of Nature statute, which the country is in the process of fully implementing. These two nations are leading the world in reorienting human relationship with the Earth to a nature-based legal and economic system. We acknowledge their courage, strength, and visionary action to protect the Earth for the future of all living beings. We begin by laying out the Nature’s fifteen Laws of Reciprocity. These laws constitute the biophysical foundation of all living systems—the often-invisible laws by which they operate. Human economic and social activity must fit within these laws if the Earth’s biological resilience is to continue. Laying these laws open to scrutiny helps us better understand the Earth’s systems in which we are embedded, and of which we are an inseparable part. Following this, we discuss the emerging paradigm of Nature’s Rights, led by Ecuador, Bolivia, and the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. This new paradigm was formed in the wake of those two countries’ extraordinary, courageous leap in rewriting their laws to place Nature’s Rights first. Although still entirely outside the framework of existing international law, the Global Alliance has already created an international voice for Nature’s Rights. Innovative partnerships involving the cultural principles of indigenous peoples are beginning to appear in other places, such as New Zealand. In addition, new voices—such as the Catholic Papacy—are speaking out on the importance of protecting Nature’s integrity. Although no country, with the exception of Ecuador and Bolivia, has ensconced the Rights of Nature in their Constitutions or national laws, the concept is now being discussed, studied, and seriously considered, even in the United States. Although the heavily corporatized economic system in the U.S. might seem like the last bastion against Nature’s Rights, a growing number of American towns have adopted Rights of Nature clauses. As environmental degradation expands, so too does the urgent discussion of the need for the Rights of Nature, as the central operating principle within the legal system. It is the only way humans’ relationship with Nature can be fully repaired. … Sustainability in our vision simply means the ability of a natural system to maintain its critical functions. By analogy, if you commence cutting the strands of a net, it will retain the capacity to act as a net only so long as enough of the strands remain interconnected. But the net’s overall effectiveness is reduced with the severing of each strand. When enough of the apparently useless strands have been slashed, the net will develop such large holes that its ability to function as it was designed to will end. Linear-thinking, economically competitive, industrialized nations such as the United States often extract Nature’s commodities to the ‘bare bones’ of ecosystem function. It will require political determination, courage, humility, and cooperation to go down the road we describe in this book and begin living in a Rights of Nature legal system. Can it be done? Yes. We are today at a crossroads in terms of whether humanity’s future is reasonably assured because ecosystem resilience remains strong, or dangerously unstable because our intervention has sufficiently degraded them. The choice is ours. This choice does not mean we shall be thrown into a dark age, but it does mean that people must be more personally responsible, mindful, humble, and caring—both locally and globally. Put differently: Act locally and affect the whole world. We must repair our relationship with the Earth that sustains all, and live in a Rights of Nature culture. Diverse peoples throughout history have proven this is possible.” “No person, institution, or nation has the right to participate in activities that contribute to large-scale, irreversible changes of the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles or undermine the integrity, stability, and beauty of the Earth’s ecologies—the consequences of which would fall on succeeding generations as an irrevocable form of remote tyranny.” David Orr   “Our goal is to inspire compassion for animals, people, and the planet. It’s about motivating youth to become agents of positive change. And our work explores the interconnections between those three topics so that students have the knowledge and the tools to make more informed, compassionate and socially responsible decisions.” Meena Alagappan, Teach Heart executive director     Other Gifts-of-Nature Offerings: • Earth Day 2012 • Be One with Sacred Earth—Native American Wisdom • All Life is Equal • Revering All Life — Native American Kinship • The Essence of Spiritual Ecology • Nature’s Affluence • Oceans—Water Bearers for the Land • Forests as Our Spiritual Inheritance • Sacred Rivers • Bird Consciousness • In Truth All Godlings • The Global Heart © © Cameron La Follette and Chris Maser. Post © by Zane Maser, 2023. Fawn lily photo by Sue Johnston. Other photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons and FreeImages. All 2009-2023 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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“Ageing is a beautiful thing. You are moving toward your apotheosis, the thrilling fulfillment of it all. There is nothing to be worried about. The body has to fall apart. You need an invitation to depart. You have to give up this physical existence. How else can you explode into self-realization? …      I don’t know what death is all about or what happens. No one does. But I do know that I have lived a life that constantly becomes more interesting and more meaningful. I have grown to love life and in particular the life that is in me. Nature has brought me here and I trust that nature will take care of me in my final years and after.” Thomas Moore, Ageless Soul: The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning and Joy   A spiritual master, the great Indian philosopher, J. Krishnamurti, asked his audience, “Do you want to know my secret?” All ears perked up in anticipation to learn the key to enlightened living. He responded by sharing his private truth: “I don’t mind what happens.” “Life and death are but different phases of being. You are a part of the Eternal Life. Awaken and expand your consciousness in God so that your concept of yourself ceases to be limited to the little body.” Paramahansa Yogananda, beloved Master of the East and West   “We are helped by those who have passed from our sight. You must never believe that there is a retrograde step from developed spiritual consciousness. As individuals attain spiritual consciousness on earth, they are a blessing to everyone who brings themselves within range of their consciousness, and even to some who are not aware of what is going on. But when those individuals leave this human plane of consciousness, nothing happens to their spiritually developed consciousness. Death does not touch it. You can’t put it in a grave.      As a matter of fact, you’ve already learned, those of you who practice meditation, that I can’t ever be placed in a grave. If you have ever meditated with the I, you know that I was never born and I will never die. You know that I was never confined in a physical body, much less would it ever be confined in a tomb. “I and the Father are one,” therefore, we are never limited to time or space or place. “I and my Father are one” and that oneness is immortality. For that reason, I go on forever and forever and forever. And that I is the state of consciousness, which I am. Consequently, if anyone is benefitting by it here and now on earth, you can be assured that those same benefits will go on throughout eternity.” Joel S. Goldsmith, Chapter 21, Living in the Light, pages 367-8, from The Heart of Mysticism   Other Mystical Offerings: • Holding Death Consciously • Sudden Deaths Come Calling • Homeward Her Journey • The Paradox of Grief • The Gift of Release • Memory Garden • Remembrance Day © © by Zane Maser, 2023. Photos gratefully used from FreeImages. All 2009-2023 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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Some memories fade much more quickly than others— when the time is ripe. We hold ourselves tight in story lines distant past— only we can free. Letting others go in forgiveness, in true peace gives freedom to all. Letting myself go in forgiveness, in release is total freedom.     Free others, frees our self. Free our self, frees others. The circle of love is always intact.   There is a lake of peace. Its Source is within. The still water cleanses, nourishes, revitalizes. All residues of earth are dissolved. Your soul remembers its original, liberated state of being.   Other Mystical Offerings: • The Law of Forgiveness • Spiritual Shedding of Skins • When the Genie’s Bottle Becomes Too Small • What You Give, You Get • New Heart, Clean Slate • The Inner Scrooge • Put A Feeling In A Balloon © Haiku poem and prose © by Zane Maser, 2023. All 2009-2023 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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“…There is a sufficiency of Thy grace present with me now to meet the need of this moment, and sufficient unto this moment is Thy grace. There is a reason for this. In God there is no time. There is only an eternal now. Something that is constantly now never changes. It never becomes yesterday or tomorrow. It is always now, and now there is a sufficiency of God’s grace to meet the need of this moment. Your realization of that makes this a continuing moment of grace for the next million years, because now is the only eternal time there is, and if there is a sufficiency of God’s grace for this moment, and this is a continuing moment unto eternity, that is the answer. You do not have to demonstrate persons or things year after year: you have only to demonstrate [or realize] God, and then you have [realized] good unto eternity. When you have [realized] that I is God, that I is with you forever and ever.” Joel S. Goldsmith, “The Mystical I,” page 33     Other Mystical Offerings: • “The Mystical I”—A Free E-Book • Moment By Moments Of Grace • “BP” is Be Present • This Minute is the New Year • Continuous Now • Every Moment Is A Gift • Spiritually Attended • Spiritual Abundance © © by Zane Maser, 2023. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2023 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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Because I have shared quite a lot about loss, grief, and the healing process on this site, not only about my journey but generally, I believe this superb video by Michelle Thaller is of enormous healing content and hope. I share it for all who may be lifted up, like I have been, by her words and journey through the “dark night of the soul.” Her flattened-right-down-to-her-knees experience in the loss of her beloved husband gives all of us permission, as new waves of sadness and grief arise due to current, major shifts and changes both personally and collectively, to fall to pieces, if that is where the dark places take us. In the agony, despair, lack of control, and uncertainty about the future, we are given the opportunity, should we choose, to open to not only the enormity of our pain but also to the healing Light that, in fact, never leaves us comfortless. Gradually, we can be raised to a new, higher level of revival, rejuvenation, and renaissance. In this video, a beautiful symbol is included about shattered pieces of glass and artwork. Skilled craftspeople are able to reconstruct the fragments of glass, using a thin line of gold, to create a transformed piece of art in yet another form of exquisite loveliness. Our Soul is like the gold. As we empty of the personal sense of self, of our personal loss and grief, the Self has space to come in. Life is reborn in its purpose. Michelle’s example in her heartbreaking passage through extreme, intense suffering in the abyss of darkness is a gift to each of us. We, too, can walk the way of strength, fortitude, and courage to let go, shatter, fall down, cry incessantly, stare at the wall for days, pull the covers over our head, scream, stop eating—whatever and wherever it takes us in our individual journey of absolute relinquishment and eventual renewal. Such a spiritual way creates its unique forms of Art.   Some Other Offerings about Change, Loss, and Grief: • Sudden Deaths Come Calling • Holding Death Consciously • Shrouded in “A Dark Night” • The River of Grief • The Paradox of Grief • The Gift of Release • Five Snow Geese  (about the passing of a dear friend) • Homeward Her Journey • Bittersweet • Mending • Sharing Heals the Heart • Remembrance Day • Resilience © Text © by Zane Maser, 2023. All 2009-2023 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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When it all commenced, there was a plan and purpose for each one’s travels. Based on harmony and a synchronous order, all in one accord. Simple in beauty. Infinitely intricate. Splendor of design. Unfolding timely for each necessary need. Nothing left undone. Take no thought at all. When in attune “it” shows up fully pouring out. Self-equipped for life. Stay in divine alignment. Sufficient this day. Rest in assurance. This life you’re perfectly placed. Fly, butterfly, fly.   All that you are and all you will ever require emanates out from within a divine Center. You are governed, protected, cared for, provided, guided, and blessed from this internal Holy Ground. It’s all within. Each one has to make her or his own contact with this central Source, like turning on a switch and allowing the already available current to flow as the abundant grace of the moment.   Other Mystical Offerings: • Heaven is Earth • It’s Already Present • Constant Care • Always Accompanied • The River of Supply • The Divine Broadcast • Divine Seeds © Haiku poem © by Zane Maser, 2023. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2023 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.

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You cannot please everybody, but to those souls who cross you path, give kindness and love. There is no more liberating action than sincerely to give people kindness in return for unkindness. Paramahansa Yogananda     “Love is the law of God. When we are in tune with divine love, loving whether it be friend or enemy, then love is a gentle thing bringing peace. But it is gentle only while we are in tune with it. It is like electricity. Electricity is very gentle and kind, giving light, warmth, and energy, as long as the laws of electricity are obeyed. The minute they are violated or played with, electricity becomes a double-edged sword. The law of love is as inexorable as the law of electricity. Now, let us be very clear on one point: We cannot harm anybody, and nobody can harm us. No one can injure us, but we injure ourselves by a violation of the law of love. The penalty is always upon the one who is doing the evil [meaning here from any form of misdeed, error, transgression, misjudgment, or ignorance all the way to conscious, intentional wrongdoing], never upon the one to whom it is done. The injustice we do to another reacts upon ourselves; the theft from another robs ourselves. The law of love makes it inevitable that the person who seems to have been harmed is really blessed. He has a greater opportunity to rise than ever before, and usually some greater benefit comes to him than he had ever dreamed possible; whereas the perpetrator of the evil deed is haunted by memories until that day comes when he can forgive himself. The whole proof that this is true is in the one word, “Self.” God is our Selfhood. God is my Selfhood, and God is your Selfhood. God constitutes my being, for God is my life, my Soul, my spirit, my mind, and my activity. God is my Self. That Self is the only Self there is—my Self and your Self. If I rob your Self, whom am I robbing? My Self. If I lie about your Self, about whom am I lying? My Self. If I cheat your Self, whom do I cheat? My Self. There is only one Self, and that which I do to another, I do to my Self.” Joel S. Goldsmith, from Chapter V, “Love Thy Neighbor,” pages 67-8, in “Practicing the Presence”   Other Mystical Offerings: • Choose Love • Spreading Love • The Cape of Love • A Wall Of Love • Love Prevails: Part 1 • Compassion on the Day of Love • Cupped Hands Of Love • Oneness Is Oneness • Only One Soul • Realization of the Divine Universal Life © blog post and photo of hands clasped © by Zane Maser, 2023. Other photo gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2023 rights of Zane Maser and SunnyCat Astrology reserved worldwide. Always am I grateful for the inspiration and editorial assistance from Chris Maser, my kind-hearted, generous soul mate.