What was your first thought this morning when you woke up?

Your first conscious thought, try to remember, was it about the world?

Was you've got going on today, meetings, something that was left over from yesterday, a persistent

problem that needs to be solved? Or was your first thought about God or you remembering love?

I come out of sleep into this, into love into the practice. But I've had that intention

for years and mornings used to be very challenging for me, very heavy. I'd build momentum during

the day with my reading and my meditating and my listening to spiritual stuff. And by

night I barely could sleep because of the joy, the bliss, the love, and then I'd wake

up empty of it again seemingly. And I played this game where it felt like I didn't have

it in the morning and I had it by night. And it wasn't until I saw that you never don't

have it. A seeming coming and going, the losing it and the remembering it are all a part

of the illusion. And seeing that and re-identifying it as the love itself didn't stabilize it,

but allowed me to recognize the stability of it. And so I wake up at 4-something and I

immediately hear my mantra. I wake up into the mantra, I wake up feeling this love,

giving gratitude to this love for grace. And then I drag this body, this tired body because

it is tired every day to my little studio downstairs here and I sit and feel for love. And

I focus on this love until I know that I am this love. And then I hit record and then I

share from here from love to love. Not for me to you, from love to love. If I was sharing

from me to you, there'd be barriers, blockages, our differences and our conditioning and our

upbringing, you couldn't hear me. And I wouldn't be able to relate to you. But because I am

in this place and you are this too, you are in this place too. There's an open line of

communication, direct line. And then our goal, if we have one, is to carry this open line

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