When you begin to come to your senses you may in many ways appear rude. This is only at beginning. You are changing vibrational rate of your body. You are becoming more refined. You are becoming more holistic and holy. You are becoming an individual with your own sense of who you are.

As you come to your senses you begin to drop what is no longer needed.

You may drop toxic relationships. You will begin to avoid toxic people even if to do so may make you appear not "a nice person.” Let me tell you that you will survive such a judgement. Just stay with this. Coming to your senses gives you a sense of your own authority.

When you begin coming to your senses you allow others opportunity to come to their senses. They are toxic because they are separate from love. Coming to your senses allows them to sense perfume of wisdom. This is sense of knowing who they are and knowing that they belong here as a Divine being. Is this not a gift worth spending time to discover and sharing with others?

Coming to your senses means you learn to avoid senseless action.

Much of action we engage with is designed to make us senseless. We turn up switch off and switch on television. We zone out and we call this re-creation and renewal. Over a period we shut down our senses and we need greater sensationalism in order to get same fix. More powerful images of violence and unhappiness are required to penetrate our defences. We become people of part and people apart. We become what my teacher Osho calls “logic choppers. We rationalize our lives. We forget who we are and do not wake up to this miraculous gift of life.

Thus we miss beauty.

Beauty is sensational. Our inner beauty is sensational. It has been covered in dust of judgment and unacceptability ever since we were small children. Beauty is expressed from inner to outer. While outer beauty is a delight it will diminish in time. Inner beauty is essence of love that lives within timeless. Learning to know and be this can be one of our greatest gifts in growing older.

We have to start now.

We are becoming more deeply separate from what is elemental. We are becoming more separate from our essentialness. It is time to return to wisdom of body. It is time to return to senses and sensational inner awareness of “what is.” Then you may glimpse what it is to go beyond senses to timeless wonder of now.

This winter do not fight tiredness in body.

Take more rest. Go to bed earlier. We often think we should go to sleep at set times. We forget we are embodiments of energy subject to rhythms of seasons. Most of life force on this Northern hemisphere is now deeply asleep. This energy will begin to awaken in its own time. All life will begin to open to coming of light.

This week I wish you a sensational, sensible and sensuous experience of being in your body now.

Remember to breathe in and breathe out. Remember too that blessing is already here. You are it. All you have to do is become sensitive to your own sense of wonder. For a time this week give up “logic” for “illogical” and sensational. After adequate rest in body wake up and expect miraculous.

Love and blessings to you all.

© 2005 Tony Cuckson Irish Blessings Matter

We are not criticizing you, friends, for way you often interact with each other, or fail to. In your hurried and harried lives, it often seems difficult to slow down and take time, as you say, to smell roses. Or to get to know a little bit about sisters and brothers, your fellow travellers, you meet on your daily journey through life.

So we do understand where you are in your lives.

But we also want to say it would behoove you to slow down a bit every now and then. Take some time to smell roses. Take some time to peek under masks of those folks you encounter every day.

You all wear masks. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

But your masks also keep you from truly connecting with each other, even with those loved ones you see every day, perhaps even those you live with.

It takes only a few moments to ask someone you encounter on your daily rounds, “How are you?” And really mean it -- not just as a hollow, empty greeting -- but as a genuine expression of concern for your fellow traveller.

Just be open to listen, really listen, for a few moments -- and to connect with one another. Or to re-connect.

It won’t take a lot of your time, and it will yield rich rewards.

After all, you are all connected anyway. You are all one, even though you live in illusion of separation.

So take time to lift veils of illusion, to look beneath masks. And to remember love that binds all of you together.

Then you’ll never find yourselves in Giovanni’s and Giuseppe’s predicament of having no idea who person before you is.

Copyright © 2005 by Great Western Publishing

Since 1992, John Cali has been communicating with a spirit called Joseph. In one of his many physical lifetimes, this spirit was incarnated as the legendary Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe in what is now Oregon.