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The whole of the all is right here within you now. Feel the joy surge out. Embrace what you are. Know that you already have. Live clothed in fullness. No journey to take. No far search to undergo. Wake from mortal dream. A be-ing complete. Embrace it confidently. Relax, rest, just let.     At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. Lao Tzu There is never a conflict with person or condition, but rather a false concept mentally entertained about the person, thing, circumstance, or condition. Therefore, make the correction within yourself, rather than attempting to change anyone or anything in the without. Joel S. Goldsmith The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. Lao Tzu   Other Mystical Offerings: • Divine Seeds • Divinity Remembered • Be True • Inner Signature • Soul Note • Spiritual Eyes • The Authentic Life • The Treasure is in My Own Garden • Bewick’s Wren—His Own Song © Haiku poem © by Zane Maser, 2024. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2024 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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“God is. God is; and God is now. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. There is no way of changing God, and there is no way of changing God’s plan, but we can bring ourselves into harmony as the [children] of God by realizing: ‘I can of my own self do nothing. I of my own self am nothing. …There is none good but one, that is God.’ Let us relax in the is-ness of God, in the omnipresence of God. Relax from praying for things. Relax from striving and live in the conscious awareness that the nature of God is infinite intelligence. It knows the need, not only of humans, but of every insect and blade of grass. The nature of God is infinite wisdom, and we do not tell God anything. We relax in the realization of His wisdom. The nature of God is love, and it is God’s good pleasure to give us the kingdom, just as it is His good pleasure to give us light. We do not make the kingdom any more than we make light. We do not force light. We let there be light! We let God’s grace function for us. Let His will be done in earth as it is in heaven, not by might, not by power, but by His own Spirit, by His own wisdom, by His own love. We relax and let. …You will begin to appreciate how good your health is and how abundant your supply is, only when you stop trying, when you stop struggling, when you relax and rest in the assurance of your oneness with the Father. Why struggle any more? Relax and let that unfoldment come from within.” Joel S. Goldsmith, “Man Was Not Born to Cry,” pages 191-2   Only God is. Only God as. All and only God. And I am with you.   If you could open your eyes and see that Light Divine filling all space— all things as waves of light dancing around you—you would know God is in His creation and all is well. Paramahansa Yogananda   Other Mystical Offerings: • In Emptiness Is Spiritual Fulfillment • Self-Emptying Meditation • Divinity Remembered • Divine Seeds • “Divine Destiny” • Spiritual Legacy • Spirit-Ward! • The Lineage of Fatherhood • Let It All Rest… © © by Zane Maser, 2024. Photos gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2024 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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Butterfly hidden. Developing from within in preparation. Timed in perfection. A coming-forth transition. Wings open to dry. Flight takes it higher to rarified altitudes. A cycle complete. ******* Invisible emergence. Visible emergence. Invisible metamorphosis. Visible metamorphosis.     What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly. Lao Tzu     Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the Truth abides in fullness; and to know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without. Robert Browning   This Haiku is dedicated to a gentle, very loving man, Joshua Rivers, who made his bodily “transition” last Friday afternoon. I see his big smiling face lit up in his release to freedom!   Other Mystical Offerings: • Going Vertical • The Spiritual Journey of Salmon • Each A Divine Chapter • Inner Signature • “Divine Destiny” • Spiritual Pace • Spiritual Progress • Creative Individuality © Haiku poem © by Zane Maser, 2024. Photos gratefully used from FreeImages. All 2009-2024 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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Be here in the now. All mystics have taught this truth. God here in me now. Now time is no time. Smoothness of glass reflected. Clear, pure, true present. Nothing segmented. Now is indivisible. Constant renewal. Each now is itself, as is each of us our Self. Now is let it Be. Let peace be its gift. Eternity remembered. Creation beheld. Only one Center. All is inclusively joined. Nothing excluded. Only now is One— a state of grace acknowledged. Visible Spirit. Relax in Its care. Be reassured in all ways. Fear forever gone.   A minute ago has no existence. A minute from now will have no existence. The only moment I can know is this moment, and it is this moment in which I’m knowing everything, whether you give it the title past, present, or future. To me it’s now, and it’s now that I’m living, and it’s now that I have always lived, and it’s now I always will live. I cannot live the minute that I came into this room, and I cannot live even one minute from now, so there is no use of looking forward to being a hundred or two hundred. I can’t ever reach it. Joel S. Goldsmith, The Deep Things of Spirit, Tape BA   My heart is a centre of infinity. My body a dot in the soul’s vast expanse. Sri Aurobindo   Other Mystical Offerings: • Spiritual “Now”-Ward-Ness • Now is Non Comparative • Continuous Now • “BP” is Be Present • Every Moment Is A Gift • Savor Joyful Moments • The Fabric Of Oneness • The Entire Flame of the One: Symeon, a Christian Mystic • Immoveable Center © Haiku poem © by Zane Maser, 2024. Sky of stars photo gratefully used from Wikimedia Commons. All 2009-2024 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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Please enjoy the following piece written by Chris Maser. Inner patience is a transcending of the personalized sense of “me” through the capacity to control our thought-induced behavior in a way that we respond peacefully—without resistance—especially to an unwanted situation. Otherwise, a knee-jerk reaction of frustration or anger can ensue, often before we know it! Therefore, whatever control we have over our thoughts is within us, which can only take place in this eternal moment. Any concept of the “future” is but a figment of our imagination taking place in the eternal “now”—always in this present moment. In essence, neither you, nor I, nor anyone else has a future of any kind, because the eternal present is the sum total of what exists in reality. Inner patience is, first and foremost, patience with our self when an outer circumstance escapes our sense of control. The degree of inner patience determines our measure of inner harmony and freedom, augmented by following the truth of our heart. Inward patience is like deep, still water. My patience allows the moment, in whatever form, to simply be what it is. Patience is a gift initially given to myself and then to you. The extent of serenity, kindness, unconditional love, or whatever positive (or negative) quality we share with others returns to us. That said, as with all relationships, there are significant components that must be consciously addressed: 1. Allow versus control: Allowing means to give up trying to personally control the outer, material world and/or people in the way you want it or them to function in order to feel comfortable. The continuous practice is to simply allow the process of whatever is going to happen to unfold naturally, trusting that you can handle it internally with the aid of spiritual guidance. Being present in such an intentional way reduces—and ultimately eliminates—reactivity and internal stress. 2. Accept versus resist: Generally, our earliest human conditioning sets the stage for us to habitually resist what we don’t want, which begins literally with our first breath and is so deeply ingrained that it continues throughout our daily life—unless and until we purposefully decide to set the course for our own journey, thus ensuring the outcome is self-chosen. There is clear, factual evidence of such widespread resistance in that our communication is saturated with the negative expression of what we are trying to avoid. “I don’t want this,” or “I don’t want that,” rather than expressing what we choose to move toward. Inner patience, however, requires that we accept what we cannot control in the world of human nature and events, as opposed to constantly combatting it, an effect that simply guarantees its mental and psychological strength and continuation. How, you might wonder, do we accept what we do not want? The answer is simple when we pause for a moment and convert it into its positive aspect that is likely what we already desire as the constructive, overall outcome. If, for example, the weather station predicts a partly cloudy day, a forecast you may not want, think of it as a partly “sunny” day. Or, you may dig in your heels about the onset of winter’s snow, but consider that it’s the summer’s stored water, a critical resource for all life. Sometimes, it requires broadening the picture further than our self and self-interests. 3. Respond versus react: How we respond or react to a circumstance increases or decreases the positive energy of our world and beyond into the larger sphere. Response, the ultimate of inner patience, is thoughtful consideration of alternatives that breed internal and outer peace. Reaction, born of aggravation or a feeling of being thwarted, guarantees mindless retaliation, as Winston Churchill observed decades ago: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” such as the countless wars throughout the centuries motivated by the exact same reasons of greed and the desire to overthrow the obstacle or to control it. 4. Respect versus judgment: Depending on our cultural heritage, we’re taught to view the world through a particular lens that determines whom we tend to respect and those we are inclined to judge. Respect is the outcome of inner patience whereby we understand that everyone is “right” from their point of view ingrained by their specific, familial background, including their social setting and conditioning. So, neither right nor wrong exist. There is only “right,” “right” and “different”—the inner attitude that nurtures respect for individual and collective rights. “Wrong,” on the other hand, is judgment based on a definite, learned perspective that socially fragments humanity’s goodwill and collaboration. Can we reconcile right, right, and different that will ultimately eliminate all concepts of wrong? Absolutely. Through inner patience we can learn about one another’s viewpoint and arrive at a shared understanding through realizing both the similarities and differences within each situation and reaching a sensitive compromise of neutrality founded on mutual acceptance and respect. Often, we discover we share about 80% of the core principles regarding an issue, and this enables us to negotiate the rest through giving and giving back—a result based on the new, higher level of understanding that spiritually you are me, and I am you. 5. Impersonalize versus personalize: The degree of impersonalization (not taking external circumstances personally) or personalization (comparing yourself to another person, circumstance, or condition) presents the inevitable fork in the road. This is the defining moment when a choice is presented between options to continue on the familiar but worn, often unsatisfactory road with the same, longstanding results or to courageously embark on an innovative, unknown road that leads to a novel and welcome effect. The decision is yours! While you may think you have a choice in much of your daily life, there is one thing in which you have no choice—you must choose. Everything you are and do is based on how and what you choose. If the mentally oriented, left-handed fork is favored, you will be increasingly mired in the constant, competitive, economic, and social materialism of humanity’s undeniable, current direction. If, you embark on the right-handed, spiritually oriented fork, it will progressively free you from humankind’s ever-changing, sacredly-held, often self-oriented “concepts” and “ideals,” thereby leading to the tranquility of inner patience. Inner patience is a major step toward self-mastery, in that external circumstances or persons no longer disturb your individually attained center of peace. Thus, each time you transcend an unwanted occurrence you advance one step closer to an enduring calmness of mind, heart, and soul. Bodhi in his Bodhisattva state   Other Pieces Written by or about Chris Maser: • A Visionary and Voice for the Animals and Forests-Chris Maser • Forests as Our Spiritual Inheritance • The Essence of Spiritual Ecology • The Marys River of My Youth—Eternally Flowing • Eternity And The Banishment Of Fear • One Small Nudge affects the Whole World • Earth Day 2012 © Post and Bodhi cat photo © by Zane Maser, 2023. “Practicing Inner Patience” written by Chris Maser. 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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As the smaller and major events of erratic climate and wars, for instance, pass across the daily, world stage, it is without doubt that we are in the middle of dramatic “jarrings” and significant un-doings that are setting humanity onto new paths of beginnings with hopefully very different outcomes than now. In unison with the global scale of change, so many of us are undergoing similar, powerful endings in preparation for the unfoldment of fresh possibilities and bright chapters that more nearly reveal who we are in the present. The following two reminders are nurturance for our souls that light does indeed follow whatever darkness we are individually and collectively shrouded in at the moment. The Light remains steadfast in its shining behind the clouds of transformation. Perhaps on our metaphorical knees we can discern it more clearly!   “Being alive, it seems, means learning to bear the weight of the passing of all things. It means finding a way to lightly hold all the places we’ve loved and left anyway, all the moments and days and years that have already been lived and lost to memory, even as we live on in the here and now, knowing full well that this moment, too, is already gone. It means, always, allowing for the hard truth of endings. It means, too, keeping faith in beginnings.” Katrina Kenison   “All spiritual light comes only after darkness. When we are happy in our health, supply, and relationships, there is no spiritual progress. As the material conditions or persons fail us, we are driven to the spirit. Just note how often you feel pleased because of apparent harmony, and you will see why you must be jarred out of merely human good.” Joel S. Goldsmith, Man Was Not Born to Cry, page 91   Other Mystical Offerings: • The Gusts in Life • The Phase of Relinquishment • The Gift of Release • When the Genie’s Bottle Becomes Too Small • Spiritual Shedding of Skins • Each A Divine Chapter • On the Cusp of a New Beginning • Bittersweet • An-Unprecedented-Time-of-Self-Revelation • 2020 Consciousness—Birth Pangs © Post © 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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Snowflakes floating down. The earliest arrivals lay the foundation. They cool the surface. Later snowflakes have a base. They are the seen ones. Those flakes underneath, their task is invisible, their service unseen. There are pioneers and those arriving later. Equal and diverse.   “We are always expressing our inmost self, even when we are trying to hide it. Mostly, we hide it from ourselves, but those who meet us know us, sometimes better than we know ourselves. …You impart yourself to others. People will be drawn to you if they feel warmth, joy, spirituality, and good, because in the presence of those qualities they are finding only the love of God flowing through.” Joel S. Goldsmith, Man Was Not Born to Cry, pages 88-89   Other Mystical Offerings: • Insignificant Significance • Spiritual Smallness • In Truth All Godlings • All Life is Equal • “The Frequency Holders”—The Quiet Mystics • One Small Nudge affects the Whole World • One Light Lights Thousands • The Tree That Shares • Merciful Opportunities • Freely Given, Freely Given © Haiku poem © 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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Our Father in heaven sacred is Thy name. Thy kingdom is come. Thy will is done in us as it is in heaven. This day our daily bread is given. We are forgiven as we forgive. Lead us beyond our temptation and deliver us from error. For Thy kingdom and power and glory are all that is now and forever.   Is, is the fundamental, foundational word of life, because it is right now. All you or I can ever have is this now. Is creates our life, such that the Lord is my shepherd, not later today or tomorrow but now.   I am what I seek. The Holy Grail is within. To find, look within.   Other Mystical Offerings: • The Ego’s Sneaky Version of the 23rd Psalm • The Treasure is in My Own Garden • Divinity Remembered • Meditate on the Word “IN” • Heaven is Earth • Nothing Needs Adding • Constant Care • The Law of Forgiveness • Love Given is Love Received © Revised prayer and other words © 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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“Learning the importance of meditation is one of the first requisites in the development of spiritual awareness. Regardless of our intellectual capabilities or the amount of reading or listening we may do, our spiritual capacity expands only in proportion to our ability to meditate. This spiritual awareness is developed in silence, not in thinking, in listening, or reading. For this reason, reading and studying are but tools which we use to enable us to reach that inner silence known as meditation. As we meditate and open this inner Soul or spiritual faculty, we shall not only understand things that we knew about and never before understood, but things that we may never even have heard of before. In the stillness and quiet of the silence, we are able to receive what cannot be heard through the ears. The more often we meditate—not length of time in any one period, but the number of times in each twenty-four hours, even if each time be only one minute, or two or three—the more rapidly will our spiritual awareness be developed, and spiritual harmony brought into our experience. When our eyes are closed and we are in the darkness within, we find the entire kingdom of God there, ready to pour itself into our mind, our body, our home, our business, and even into our purse. With eyes closed, our attitude is one of receptivity as though we are inviting God to speak to us, or as though we are inviting the Spirit to flow forth through us. Our part is to remember that the fullness of God is within us, and as we are still, the Spirit makes Itself known in our experience.” Joel S. Goldsmith, Man Was Not Born to Cry, pages 27-28     Other Meditative Offerings: • In Emptiness Is Spiritual Fulfillment • Meditate on the Word “IN” • Meditate on the “Omni’s” • Inward Hearing • Spiritual Quiescence • Calm Waters and Stillness of Soul • Spiritual Atmosphere of a Quakers’ Meeting • Into The Silence • The Eternal Way of Silence   © © by Zane Maser, 2023. Thank you, Joel, for this quote. 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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This “positive work in progress” is from the Natural Grocers November 2023 monthly ad. Written by Charity Isely, it’s a story “of individuals and communities working together to seed hope and healing for people and the planet.” Bison return to indigenous tribes “As the New York Times reported in July, bison are returning to indigenous tribal lands, bringing promises of healing and restoration. After westward expansion and the U.S. government-sanctioned mass slaughter of the animal reduced its numbers from the millions to only several hundred by the late 1880s, the slowly rebuilt conservation herds of around 20,000 have been primarily housed in parks and wildlife refuges. Now, aided by the InterTribal Buffalo Council’s (ITBC) leadership and collaborations with public and private parties, bison are returning to the indigenous tribes whose cultures and survival are intertwined with the animal. In March, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland issued a ‘bison conservation order,’ which includes $25 million in funding for aiding tribal bison restoration. Her own words say it most eloquently: ‘This holistic effort will ensure that this powerful sacred animal is reconnected to its natural habitat and the original stewards who know best how to care for it.’ It also signals hope for a critically endangered North American ecosystem—prairie grasslands. Bison are the prairie’s original ‘ecosystem engineers,’ and studies have found that where the animal is reintroduced the biodiversity of native plants, birds, and other wildlife increases, and the prairie experiences an improved resilience to climate change.”     Let each of us applaud and honor the efforts of the many who have diligently worked over the decades to make such a transitional, elevated point possible through coming together as brothers and sisters all of the One Planet and One Heart. This marks a huge rectification and joining in what the Master Jesus taught to “love our neighbor as our self”—neighbors that include the animals and the global ecosystem that maintains and sustains all life. May many more shining, neighborly examples follow that exemplify the uniting in a singular interest for the animals, the ecosystems, and one another. Such an uplifting of consciousness is the only way toward a true and lasting peace on earth for all inhabitants.   Other Ecological and Animal Offerings: • Revering All Life — Native American Kinship • Be One with the Sacred Earth—Native American Wisdom • “Something Sacred is Coming this Way”—Choctaw Wisdom • Every Day is a Prayerful Respect for the-Earth • For the Love of Animals: “Respect and Gratitude” • All Life is Equal • In Truth All Godlings • Earth Day 2012 • The Essence of Spiritual Ecology • Forests as Our Spiritual Inheritance • Sacred Rivers • A Visionary and Voice for the Animals and Forests-Chris Maser © 3rd paragraph © by Zane Maser, 2023. Thank you Charity Isely! 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.