Maybe you think it’s “just the way things are,” or this is what it takes to cope in your everyday life. But coping is not the bullseye of a spiritual life. White-knuckling stunts you. You are here to rise.

Respect your life. Choose to be a conduit of grace. Allow yourself to experience insights and invites that will expand your identity. It’s what you ache for. And the more you wish to do in this life, the more you need to regenerate and recalibrate.

Quantum leaps require deepening: Quieting the everyday task mind. Slipping out of one identity to open to the larger you. The refinement of your receptivity is an art and a necessity.

There are subtle messages informing you constantly. The Voice of Love within speaks to you all throughout the day. But how can you attend to these instructions when your everyday mind is barking on a loudspeaker, hustling you through an endless relay race of tasks?

You may not hear your soul when your nervous system is bathed in cortisol.

High alert is one frequency. Deep alert is another.

Space, time, and rest from the everyday mind is spiritual hygiene and jet fuel.

A brilliant life starts from undoing, not doing.

Most religions and spiritual traditions teach this principle of renewal. You must empty your rice bowl if you want to fill it with new rice, says Zen Buddhism.

In Judaism, there is a sabbath day every week, a day to stop everyday tasks and await the divine. Christianity tells us to pour new wine only into new wineskins, not the saggy, tired old whining mind that needs a glass of wine. That may be a bit of a paraphrase, but, still, you get the idea.

There is a doing that can only happen when we take time to be and stop doing everything that gets in the way of beckoning wonder, truth, and healing.