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01/17/2026
Dear Light Group,
One of the greatest Hindu sages, Shankara, wrote in his Crest-Jewel of Discrimination,
O Lord, dweller within,
You are the Light
In the heart’s lotus.
Another great Hindu master, Nityananda, said that, although God is everywhere, “He specifically dwells in a human heart.”
Yet another Hindu master, Muktananda, said that when the heart is opened, bliss spreads through every pore of the body and it makes a yogi wild with delight: he or she dances and leaps with joy.
With this as guidance and inspiration, shall we explore this Saturday the Light that is in our own hearts?
To do so, you might want to try a prayer such as, “I am grateful, Lord, that You dwell within me. I am grateful, Lord, that You dwell within my heart. The more I focus on Thee, O Lord, the more I feel Thy presence. The more I focus on Thee, O Lord, the more I feel Thee in my heart. The more I focus on Thee, O Lord, the calmer I become. The more I focus on Thee, O Lord, the more I dissolve into Thee. The more I dissolve into Thee, O Lord, the more I am aware of Thee when I am touching, eating, walking, and sleeping. The more I focus on Thee, O Lord, the more I know that Thou art in everything. The more I focus on Thee, O Lord, the more I know that the whole universe is Your splendor. The more I focus on Thee, O Lord, the more I know that the entire universe is filled with Thy Joy, Beauty, Sweetness, and Love. The more I focus on Thee, O Lord, the more I feel Thee acting through me. Thank you, Lord, for filling my heart with Thy splendor. Let this, Thy splendor, radiate out from my heart, that others may be touched by Thee and Thy goodness. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
01/10/2026
Dear Light Group,
One of the most tender moments with Jesus may have been when he gave the Sermon on the Mount.
The story begins with Jesus “seeing the multitudes.” Given what he said in the Sermon on the Mount, one senses that Jesus not only saw “the multitudes” with his physical eyes but with eyes filled with deep compassion. The “multitudes” were the common people, and they felt weighed down and were hungry for hope. Sound familiar?
Part of what was weighing them down were the number and severity of the laws. Again, sound familiar? There were the Ten Commandments, but most people don’t realize there are an additional 613 laws in books of the Bible such as Leviticus and Deuteronomy. The penalties for breaking those laws were quite harsh. On top of the 613 laws were regulations and requirements mandated by the priests.
Beyond the Jewish laws were the laws of the Romans, who had conquered that part of the world. The Romans could be quite savage in how they treated those who broke their laws or threatened their control. Just think of crucifixion: Jesus wasn’t the only one to be crucified – the road to Jerusalem was lined with crosses on which people had been crucified, as a reminder to the Jews and others to be obedient.
In the midst of this repression and cruelty, the “multitudes” ached for hope, for freedom, for upliftment.
Given the times, what Jesus promised “the multitudes” must have seemed almost unreal. In the Beatitudes, he promised comfort, mercy, and the kingdom of heaven. He also told them they would see God. Beyond that, he told them they were the Light of the World.
Jesus, in a sense, wiped out the old, repressive laws when he said (at least five times in the Sermon on the Mount) something like, “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time….” The old-timers were Moses and others who followed him, loading up on laws.
The new “laws” of Jesus were ones of love, humility, forgiveness, generosity, non-judgment, non-materialism, purity of thought, and focus on the Divine.
These weren’t so much laws as they were a spiritual code or a formula for spiritual transformation, and they are every bit as relevant today as they were two thousand years ago. If we, who are living in something of a dark age, seek comfort, mercy, and the kingdom of heaven, just as the people of old did, then we, too, have the spiritual code to take us there.
But that code needs to be read, not with the mind, but with the heart. When the code is in our hearts, then we transform – ourselves as well as others. When the code is in our hearts, we aren’t thinking it, we are being it. When we be it, we vibrate the energy of love, forgiveness, and generosity. Then others pick up on that energy, and they start to vibrate that energy, too. We are uplifted, and that uplifts others, and a virtuous cycle begins.
If you would like to be the Sermon on the Mount – for yourself and for others – you might try a prayer such as, “Divine Love, Peace, and Mercy vibrates in my heart. This Divine Love, Peace, and Mercy vibrates throughout my entire being. This vibration of Divine Love, Peace, and Mercy radiates from my heart. This vibration of Divine Love, Peace, and Mercy radiates from my heart throughout my home and throughout the area in which I live. This vibration of Divine Love, Peace, and Mercy radiates from my heart and fills and surrounds Earth. I am one with the Divine Love, Peace, and Mercy of the Christ. I am one with Christ Consciousness. Christ Consciousness and I are one. I am one with that Divine Love, Peace, and Mercy that permeates everyone and everything. Let this Divine Love, Peace, and Mercy expand, that all may feel the comfort and mercy. Let this Divine Love, Peace, and Mercy expand, that all may find the kingdom of heaven. Thank you, God, for making it so. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully
01/03/2026
Dear Light Group,
We wish each other a happy new year (and I wish you a Happy New Year!), but what does that mean for us, and what is the surest source of our happiness?
Typically, a “happy new year” means “everything goes my way”: whether it’s health or money or travel or family relations or something else, we want things to improve or at least not be problematical. Fair enough. The less congested and the more pleasurable our lives, the easier it is to focus on what is important.
But what is the surest source of happiness? For Jim Goure, happiness – well, beyond that, joy – came from knowing one’s Divine mission and then fulfilling it. He said that Jesus was the happiest man who ever walked the planet: even on the cross, Jesus knew he was fulfilling his Divine mission, knew he was one with his Father and was fulfilling the mission his Father had laid out for him, and even at the moment of ultimate physical degradation, was joyful.
What about the rest of us? What is the surest source of our happiness? What if we feel we don’t have a big deal mission like Jesus’ or, if we do, feel our shortcomings – feel frustrated in our ability to live that mission?
If we observe people who have the most consistent happiness, they appear to have a few basic qualities. They are comfortable in their own skin – they are comfortable with who they are. They aren’t down on themselves for not having accomplished something, and they aren’t striving to imitate someone else’s success. They enjoy living a life of basic goodness. Basic goodness resides in everyone, but some people feel they can’t get what they want by living a life of basic goodness – and typically they end up having a gnawing sense of unfulfilled desire. People who are happy – and this one is key – enjoy serving others. They don’t allow themselves to be doormats – they don’t allow others to use them – but they live lives of compassion and service. The core of happiness is found by those who move beyond themselves – those who move beyond their selfish desires and their enormous efforts to erect a cocoon to protect themselves against that which they feel an aversion.
The more we are able to do that – move out of our shells and attenuate the grip our personalities have on us – the thinner the veil of illusion becomes. And the thinner that veil becomes, the more we are able to experience not just happiness but the bliss and luminosity of the Divine. In that bliss and luminosity, we realize that we are not who we thought we were. We are not our little selves. Behind every beat of our hearts, behind every breath we take, is the sustaining love of the Divine. We are a creation of the Divine, here to enjoy the dreamlike creation and here, in oneness with that Divine, to expand the Joy and Beauty of that creation. Moving beyond the walls of religion, the limits of the mind, and the fears of the flesh, we connect with the Divine source of all that is. There is nothing dividing the Creator from the created. There is only the illusion of separation. Every rolling wave, every star burning bright, every heartbeat of every living being – all are expressions of one Divine energy. God is the current of life moving through all things. God is here, now, in the breath that sustains us. The more we awaken to this awareness, the more we see all of creation as sacred, the more we see all life forms as holy.
If you would like a prayer to accelerate this consciousness, you might try this: “Thank you, God, for removing the veil of illusion and separation. Help me to see Thee in all that Is. Help me to know that it is Thee in the night sky, Thee in the brilliant sun, Thee in the songs of birds, Thee in my loved ones, Thee in my neighbors, Thee in all peoples of all lands. Make me an instrument of Thy Peace, Joy, Love, Truth, and Light, that all may be inspired to recognize their own basic goodness and that all may find ways to express that basic goodness in ways that enhance Thy creation. Thank you, God, for making it so. Amen.”
Love and Light,
Tully