If you are searching for a way to step onto the path, find healing, become present, live from love, what better place to start than with what you are experiencing right now? This busy mind, this back pain, this happiness, this emotion, this clarity, this confusion, this situation—it all has value and meaning. As Pema Chodrin says, “Start Where You Are.”

Do you feel love and connection right now? If so, expand on that, feel it, drink from it, let it consume you. Become the sensation. Drop deep into the intimate knowing of this personal experience of love as the doorway into the universal depth of divine love. Open the floodgates and let it fill you, form you and redefine you in its image. Become limitless in your flight of freedom.

These are times of great change, times of chaos and of healing. Most importantly, these are times of the greatest transformation of consciousness on our planet in millennia. Ancients, looking ahead, called this era leading up to 2011-2012 the end times.* My heart sees these not as the end of our lifetimes, but a transition into no time, or The Now. What is changing is our experience of literal time. Through our personal struggles, each one of us has the choice to wake up to a greater awareness and accept life in the present moment. We live at this point in history with an incredible opportunity to awaken our minds and live not in the mental concept of past or future, which brings pain, but in the peace, joy and love of the present. The harmony that will remain when disharmony takes its last breath will all at once be realized as the only true reality.