What Shines: the inspirational newsletter of LiveYourLight.com

April 2025, Issue #283

"Matter is energy... energy is light... we are all light beings."

~ Einstein

The Tao of Now: Heart of the Matter

In a pivotal scene from The Matrix, Neo affirms, "There is no spoon" and ascends an elevator shaft, having transcended a limiting belief.

This epic scene recalls (and is informed by) Einstein's assertion, "What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter."

How intriguing, when everything in our visible world seems so solid. It's a quantum illusion.

Learning how the light works

Gillian Macbeth Louthan counsels, "Each of you has been tasked with being human, learning the Earth rules and then learning how to break the rules. You have come to Earth to see how the light works from the inside out.

"All matter is born of light, all matter is condensed structures of light; matter is light pretending to be solid, it is literally a light-based mockup. You are never separate from the light.

"Matter does not actually exist; it is made of mind and light in a holographic landscape. The hologram contains each piece, which continues to hold the whole picture within it. In other words, each piece contains the spirit of the Source; each spark of Consciousness is a cell within the same body of Light."

Aluna Joy concurs: "We are entering an erratic era of awakening, where our perceptions of reality shift quickly and go beyond anything we have imagined.

"We are discovering our most authentic selves to date and becoming more and more free from the limitations of old, unsustainable projections, harmful programming, and toxic patterns. This raw and honest self-discovery will lead us to a great liberation for our souls.

"The pivots that will be necessary can feel harsh and scary, but to create a new world, we have to do things differently. Breaking the old molds can feel unsafe, but this is when we know we are moving beyond the past world. We have everything we need to complete this journey already within us; we always have. We are ready for this quest. This is what you came here for."

Homeward bound

Turning inward is always the more arduous - and ultimately more rewarding - path. It requires our strongest inner 'yes': a commitment to do the work.

Matter, matrix and mother all stem from the same root, which means womb - an environment in which something develops. That something is each and all of us, here on Mama Gaia.

This is how we live our Light. Expect the wildly unexpected. There is no spoon. We are all Light Beings.

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Thank you! MWAH

Shine On

"It's not an easy assignment, being alive," avers Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian. Here, she reads Ellen Bass's perceptive poem, Any Common Desolation, in which Bass writes, "You may have to break your heart, but it isn't nothing to know even one moment alive."

Song of the New Earth: Ma-Ra-Va-Ti. 6 ethereal minutes to lift you up and (en)lighten your heart.

Earth Day 2025: The 55th annual Earth Day transpires (literally, "to breathe through") April 22nd. Conceived by former U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, it's the world's largest environmental movement. This year's theme: Our Power, Our Planet.

Global Love Day: The 21st annual celebration of the highest vibration we know takes place May 1, 2025 at a heart chakra near you. One humanity, interconnected, interdependent.

Wisdom 2.0 addresses the great challenge of our age: to not only live connected to one another through technology, but to do so in ways that are beneficial to our own well-being, effective in our work, and useful to the world. Unsurprisingly, the 2025 theme is Disruption. Flagship event takes place in San Francisco May 5-6, 2025.

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Digital download/CD: "What You Need to Know Now - A Road Map for Personal Transformation" guides you on the journey home to yourself.

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