July 10, 2025

Article highlights: 

• Have trouble disciplining yourself?
• A new look at an old chestnut

How were you disciplined as a child?  What did school teach you about discipline or your church?  Discipline.  After years — or lifetimes for most of us — of harsh, forced ideas about discipline as children, in monasteries and ashrams, it’s no wonder a lot of us feel wary about it, or even burned out.  Perhaps its time to rethink it? Well, I came across the perfect new perspective to do that!

An author and writer I follow, MasonCurrey@substack.com has a monthly column about creativity I enjoy.  In a recently blog about the creative habits of composer John Cage he cites a quote from the 2012 Cage biography by David Revill.

Mason focuses on Cage’s perspective regarding discipline, sharing that it “blew his mind” to think of discipline in this way.  I have to say that I was also impacted strongly by Cage’s approach to self-discipline.  My thought was, “This is the outlook on disciple that every modern spiritual seeker should adopt for their beliefs and practices!”  

Naturally, then, I thought of you.  I think you’ll love it as much as I (and Mason) did. To share it, let me first drop in the paragraph Mason shared by the Cage biographer and let you discover it as I did.

Revill writes: “Cage points out that discipline comes from the same root as “disciple” — one gives oneself up, administers one’s life from the core of one’s being so it may follow a path. “Discipline is giving yourself rather than expecting things to give themselves to you,” in the formulation of Cage.

“Disciplines are important as disciplines. The specific nature of the discipline is not as important as the discipline itself.” He proposes, “the question is not what should I do or how to do it but how one achieves the state of being disciplined — learning true discipline is to give oneself up.”

Then Mason Currey continues,

“OK, this kind of blew my mind. Discipline is not a virtue that some people possess and others lack, Cage says, nor is it a muscle to be exercised and strengthened over time. Rather, it is giving yourself over to something. It is not about exerting self-control; it’s about surrendering control.”

Whoa!  Right?  Many of us have struggled with, or shied away, or rebelled against the idea of spiritual discipline.  Certainly that includes me — too many lifetimes in ashrams and monasteries perhaps.  Forcing and regimenting feels more exhausting than freeing.

But giving oneself to one’s practice or commitment or to one’s spiritual path in general — well that feels like a fabulous fit to me!  What a perfect upgrade of discipline for the spiritual journeyer of any kind, right?

I also love the sentence saying , “one gives oneself up, administers one’s life from the core of one’s being so it may follow a path.”  Think of that… living or administering your life from the core of your being to allows your life to unfold from your core!  Doesn’t that just make soOoo much sense?  It does to me.

You can even apply that to daily living… to you work, to changing your diet or a habit, to exercising, or to any aspect of your day. As a “giving” not a forcing, or a “have to.”  Redefining discipline in this way is a wonderful AHA for me, how about you?

With love,
~ 💗 Mayet

July 3, 2025

Article highlights:

• The frequency of freedom
• The song of interdependence 

Dear Freedom Singer,

Tomorrow, on the 4th, as the U.S celebrates a date associated with its formation, I was given a Heart of Love Message about this.  I found it interesting and think you might too.  

Enjoy,
Mayet

A Message From the Heart of Love
You Are the Freedom Singer

The eyes of the world are upon the nation of the United States.   It is a nation founded on the principles independence for the individual and the freedom for all.  This was at that time such a radical idea that it caused a shock wave felt around the world that reverberates to this day.  And so — in one way — it fulfilled its destiny simply in its formation by seeding a new potential for humanity that has taken root in countless ways.

The conception of these United States within the Americas was an ideal that opened a world of new thought and potential.  It broke with many norms, helped create important improvements everywhere.  Overtime — again fulfilling part of its destiny — it became a so-called “melting pot” of  diversity.  One seldom seen elsewhere on such scale.

All this opened many areas of human living for debate.  Which naturally resulted in descension and division.  And that is what comes to a head here now.  For — as with most ideals — the “American Dream” naturally achieved some but failed to achieve other of it’s highest aims.  For instance, it has provided independence and freedom unevenly and imperfectly and its diversity is unresolved as well.  

Thus, as with all things human, the spiral of balance turns another revolution bringing humanity once again to the key impulses of that dream.  As with all spirals, the circling back to a previous point is never exactly to the same place, for it is a spiral not a circle.  Which means the initial  issues and opportunities are now different in important ways. 

Although it is not yet fully apparent, this is already a new world in time.  This is no usual turn of the spiral.  It is an unusually elevated one.  So the question regarding freedom for all is still there and the opportunity for independence is as well.  But on this elevated round  the focus of independence now must accommodate interdependence, not just independence.   

The greater good must now be equally considered along with the individual’s freedom and rights.  This is part of what is new, among other things.  And so, the individual is asked to see themselves as more capable of considering the good of humanity as a whole, not solely their own beliefs.  This dream of freedom was then, and is now, a dream you were instrumental in conceiving.  You have been trained and prepared for this.

How to get along given your individual freedom and diversity of culture and belief — that is now your urgent puzzle.  But we would say that from our  perspective it cannot be met by simply choosing sides in the ground zero of your daily lives.  Nor will it be lived out or decided in one nation only.   Ready or not, you are a world community now and the actions of any one country impacts all others profoundly.  This will come into play.

On this elevated round of the spiral, the Soul attributes such as love, harmony, unity, interdependence must be daily grappled with.  You have tasked yourselves in years past to value these attributes.  And in doing this you have helped Gaia in changing the grid of life to support them.  Now you are called to integrate them. 

Happily, people such as yourselves share an important common preference which  serves to unite you.  You do indeed each prefer that your own dreams, wishes and prayers serve the highest good.   

Now begin to equally ask that your beliefs, thoughts and actions also serve the highest intent for all life and for humanity’s positive evolution in the light-filled opportunities of these times.  Let this be your strongest intent. In this way, you personal preferences can be held without impeding the greater growth of all.

We would say to you, you have been the freedom fighters, now you are called to be the freedom singers.  And ringers.  You are asked to inhabit the frequency of the fuller freedom and interdependence of humanity.  And you are invited to let that freedom frequency ring forth from your being, letting the song of freedom well up from the depths of the soul that you are.   

We join you in this and assure you it is a resounding song that sounds now for a new humanity.  This is what we would suggest you give yourself to most fully in this time of descension.  You are part of a great chorus that begins to ring forth.  

Fear not, trusting strongly and steadfastly that you are part of a joyous new song sparking the blooming of the New Eden growing within you.

~ 💜♥️💜 ~