Day 37 of the Feast
Dear One,
Today I want to share this excerpt from Be Love Now by Ram Dass with you. (I received permission to do so.) As you read it, I suggest you try it as an exercise. It's powerful.

"Imagine feeling more love from someone than you have ever known . You're being loved even more than your mother loved you when you were an infant, more than you were ever loved by your father, your child, or your most intimate lover -- anyone. This lover doesn't need anything from you, isn't looking for personal gratification, and only wants your complete fulfillment.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success -- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Imagine that being in this love is like relaxing endlessly into a warm bath that surrounds and supports your every movement, so that every thought and feeling is permeated by it. You feel as though you are dissolving into love.

This love is actually part of you; it is always flowing through you. It's like the subatomic texture of the universe, the dark matter that connects everything. When you tune in to that flow, you will feel it in your own heart -- not your physical heart or your emotional heart, but your spiritual heart, the place you point to in your chest when you say, "I am."

This is your deeper heart, your intuitive heart. It is the place where the higher mind, pure awareness, the subtler emotions, and your soul identity all come together and you connect to the universe, where presence and love are.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not "I love you" for this or that reason, not "I love you if you love me." It's love for no reason, love without an object. It's just sitting in love, a love that incorporates the chair and the room and permeates everything around. The thinking mind is extinguished in love.

If I go into the place in myself that is love and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness."

Thank you for putting your spirituality first during this time of deep practice. I am practicing with you.

Love, Sarah

Sarah McLean
Director, Feast for the Soul, Inc.

Meditation Highlight
Avianna Castro is a truly delightful, magical, and wise guide. She is a medium and a psychic who heads up the Avi Om Meditation Cetner in Flushing, Michigan. Meditation, in her words, “saved her life.” In her meditation series, Removing Resistance and Stepping Into Your Higher Self,  Avianna takes you on a spiritual journey and guides you into meditations such as letting go, forgiveness, the energy of trust, and the importance of your words. Create the space to let go and step into becoming the grandest version of your being. Enjoy Avianna's meditations here. 
Living the Feast
Here's the beautiful Prayer of Saint Francis.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy. 

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive, 
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, 
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.

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