Open and Surrender

by Merci Gracia | Jan 31, 2012 | Conditioning, Inner Presence, Intuition, Self-Awareness, Truth

You are so much more than the limited, conditioned personality you’re identified with. The best way to connect with the essential part of yourself is to surrender your troubles to it and ask for solutions. The results will tickle you pink. What do you have to...

The Naked Truth

by Merci Gracia | Dec 25, 2011 | Compassion, Peace, Truth

Holding a grievance about something is self-sabotage and keeps you separate from peace. You can never really know why anything happens the way it does. When you fully realize this, it’s difficult to hold a grudge for longer than a few seconds. What arises...

The Future is Now

by Merci Gracia | Dec 6, 2011 | Fear, Feelings, Present moment, Truth, Worry

Stress is a signal that you’ve been pulled out of the present moment by concern over the past or fear of the future. The past is gone. The best preparation for the future is to be present when it comes. That’s now. Merci

Radical Forgiveness

by Merci Gracia | Dec 4, 2011 | Acceptance, Forgiveness, Love, Truth

There is no alternate reality where life happens the way it ‘should’. This is it. No matter how it seems to your limited viewpoint, reality never gets it wrong. When you realize the truth that no one can ever harm you, you realize that there is never...

Make Believe

by Merci Gracia | Dec 1, 2011 | Beliefs, Conditioning, Truth, Understanding

Even though your experience of reality seems so real, that version is only true for you. Whatever you perceive ‘out there’ passes through your particular filter and becomes part of your story. It’s useful to remember that everybody writes his-story a...

Correct Your Vision

by Merci Gracia | Nov 30, 2011 | Change, Truth

When you’re focused on changing others, progress can seem very slow. When you work on changing yourself, others appear to transform quickly. That’s because the lens through which you’re looking has a new magnification. Self administered optometry....