Speaking Kind Words is an authentic, Heartfelt expression—a transmission of the Love that you are and of the Love that breathes you, blesses you, guides you, and inspires you. It is a way of exercising Authentic Empowerment, and one of the fastest ways to grow Spiritually.

As Hafiz wrote, “What we speak becomes the house we live in.”

We are in a time of great accelerated transformation, and we have a Golden Opportunity to take dominion within our own consciousness—to stop giving airtime to the false narrative of the ego. Spirit meets us at the point of our action. As Chief Seattle said, “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.”

We are Co-Creators, and we are Co-Creating all the time—through our thoughts, our words, our choices, and our actions. We are not responsible for the thoughts that come into our minds; we are responsible for what we do with them. And the doing can be as simple as slowing down enough to find the space between stimulus and response—the space in which you can choose your response, and the energy upon which your words ride.

Compassionate Self-Forgiveness and Speaking Kind Words are both practices of Spiritual Ecology—they are part of temple maintenance.

I invite and encourage you to make use of the Replay, which includes:

• Mary's teaching on Speaking Kind Words as a Soul-Honoring Choice—an exercise of Authentic Empowerment and a practice of Spiritual Ecology.

• A Light Invocation, the Ani-Hu chant, and a five-minute Peace Meditation held with a line from The Little Prince: “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

• The Speaking Kind Words: A Soul-Honoring Choice Handout—Practices for Your Reflection, available as a PDF and a fillable Google Doc so you can engage with it as deeply and as often as you wish.

• The practices for shifting from the voice of K-EGO to the voice of K-LOVE—clearing a judgment with the Ani-Hu chant, Compassionate Self-Forgiveness and the “Truth Is” statements, Free-form Writing, mantras and affirmations, and Neutral Observation.

• The point of greatest leverage for recalibrating your consciousness—a shift of identification, and the power of writing your Intention. As John-Roger said, “Intention is God.”

• A story Mary read from Ron at the close, of a young woman weeping over the suffering in the world—and the question he asked her in return.

• Authentic, powerful, Heartfelt sharing from participants bringing the tender places in their closest relationships into the Loving—and Mary’s invitation to receive it by Seeing the Loving Essence and practicing Heart-Centered Listening.

And last but not least, a Beautiful Question for your contemplation:

If you choose to stop listening to the judgmental roommate in your head and wholeheartedly participate in a daily practice of speaking in Loving, Encouraging, Prizing, and supportive ways with yourself, what Miracles of Grace are available to you? What avalanche of Blessings might appear in your relationships with others?