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Dec 31

Year End Wisdom 2026

by Sequoia Elisabeth

As 2026 is upon us, I feel it’s a good time to take inventory of life and share some insights to make our journey more enjoyable. First of all, there is no “my life or your life”, only life per a localized perspective. Until life flows from you, and not at you, things will be frustrating and painful. What I mean here is life has a tendency to feel like a competition with others always challenging your ideas and world view. I call this Ego and it is not nice. In fact it wants to kill you, mostly in small ways. By You, I mean the small you, the physical and conceptual you. It does this through behavior manipulation and emotions. Be not a slave to your thoughts! They are only yours when you claim them. Who you think you are will change over time and this makes it unreal. Anything which changes or is not permanent by definition is not real. The ego’s eyes are like looking through a kaleidoscope.

The real you is Spirit and has no body per se. We exists everywhere, always and this never changes. Love is all there is. By love, I mean unconditional love, not the ego’s conditional love. They are easy to differentiate once you understand this simple distinction. Now, think about your life and all the conditions or exceptions it has. Apply this to all your relationships, family, romantic, friends, and acquaintances. Remember this goes both ways, what conditions or exceptions are you extending to others? A forgiveness mindset is the only way to move beyond ego mind. Forgive everything and everyone who crosses your path knowing God needs no forgiveness because Spirit is loving innocence. Once this mindset becomes second nature and this can take a while, years in fact, we move into God mindset. Seeing everything and everyone as Great Spirit, God, or Angelic we become the Miracle we are. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle” Albert Einstein.

If you need help with seeing the miracle, know it is love. Every loving act, intention, and expression is a miracle. My practice is appreciating all I see. I used to go on walks through the forest and set my mind to look for things which touched me as beautiful, interesting, and unique. Be careful with Specialness though as this is an ego trap. Specialness leads to exclusivity and thus is not Spirit. Remember what Einstein said!

The ugliness of this world tends to be a stumbling block for most of us. The goal is to see beyond it. Nothing in this ego world makes sense or has any meaning unless you make it so. The human mind makes “sense” of everything it sees, even if it is only a few spots on the wall suddenly becoming a face. Or a War becoming necessary for the “greater good”. War is never good in my mind because it focuses our energy on differences. What you focus on grows! If you see pain and suffering, then the more you see, the more it grows. Our focus literally makes it real to us. Thankfully, not real in the grand schema. See miracles! This gives power for them to grow.

This blog is short and probably hard to swallow, so for more explanation and insights check out https://onenessministry.info/. Read the free Ebooks. Take time to spend alone every day. It doesn’t need to be a long time. Breathe deep,…feel the Peace. See the Love in your life and all around you. Life is good, because Life is God.

Sequoia Elisabeth

Spirituality Transitions

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Jan 29

Specialness

by Sequoia Elisabeth

The biggest failure of my personal lifetime is gender transition and yet it is also the greatest success. Let me explain. Upon deep reflection and shadow work along with many years of Spiritual Study I have come to realize the motivation behind “transgenderism”. I will just say right now that sex has almost nothing to do with it! We all have the basic need to be loved and to love others. Family is where this starts, for most of us at least. I was born into a middle class family and had both my parents, along with a sibling before me and after. My “cry for love” (need for attention) was no different than any others. My parents did their very best and I can honestly say I had a wonderful childhood. Yet I developed a need to be noticed, an inner cry for love. So who was denying me this love? I was of course. At first my cries for attention where health based since Dad was a physician and this is what I came to know first.

Mom was a model in her younger days and she got quite the attention. She was also tall and perhaps she got more attention than she really wanted. Children model after whom raises them and such, Mom was my role model. I saw the attention she got and I know she was loved, I could see it everywhere. I wished to be like her. To get love, probably, but also to model love. The ego finds multitudes of ways to get attention, being trans* is just one of them. Any deviance is a cry for love. It is the ego crying look at me, I am special! I see this clearly now and have for several years, though it is clearer than ever today.

The ego’s desire for specialness reinforces the separation idea it is based on. Death does this also in just the opposite way, for everyone dies! These ideas of separation are at the root of every issue anyone and everyone in this world has ever had. We fear we are separate from God, that we have been expelled from the Garden of Eden. The wool so to speak has brilliantly been pulled over our eyes. Some would call this the veil of forgetting. I remember now and have for some time. We are One and this means there is no one else, no thing else, … God is all there is. By shining this light the darkness vanishes. Fear cannot exist in the Light. The more Light I shine, the less fear (false evidence appearing real) exists.

We are each familiar with the rules of the game so to speak, both of the dream world and the physical world. Neither of these is reality. This being said, it is what we know, for now. So it is best to face this world we have created with Love, why? Because Love is what and who we are. Remember, Love is reality. This is how you will know where your thoughts are taking you, if it dies or changes then it is not real. The answer is always love, every time you respond differently a barrier is created. The road home is paved in Love. Any obstacle is your own resistance to this Truth.

We are not here to change anything, so we must embrace who we are and even who we appear to be. As our awareness grows and answers flow in, this does not mean we must act, in fact, I would suggest no action. If you feel like someone else sometimes, I would suggest this comes from greater awareness. I feel and act more female than male in my opinion and thus my transition, nothing wrong with this. Though nothing is right either. What is Is. It’s about learning to love it. “It’s not about getting what you want, but wanting what you get!”

My goal now is to see with new eyes. To see Truth, Love, Reality! Everywhere! This requires faith to see beyond the surface, to see beyond emotion and feelings, to see beyond even Thought. I am on the road and life keeps getting better and better. Not because life is getting better, but because I am becoming more. Some call this awakening. In reality, there is no better, all is perfection. This perfection is what I realize now.

Sequoia Elisabeth

Footnote:

For those who would like to better understand the ego I recommend a few books, the best being ACIM, A Course in Miracles, the other is Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth. Of course there are many other books on ACIM, I like Gary Renard’s books because he makes it interesting and understandable.

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Gender Related Spirituality Transitions

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Jun 16

Pride Meaning 2017

by Sequoia Elisabeth

Seq Face Paint profile 2It’s Pride weekend once again here in Denver CO. As per my annual tradition I ponder the meaning of the word Pride and what it means to me. How does this serve me? (my favorite and most useful question) As an existentialist the answer would be there is no “Me” only “Us”. We are One after all!

But alas, there are many perspectives and points of view, so here we go.

“Gay (substitute your chosen identity) PRIDE is not about being proud of the fact that we happen to be Gay. IT’S about NOT allowing others (There are no ‘others’), to make us feel shame because we are gay, IT’S about NOT allowing others (yourself), to define (y)our worth based on sexuality, IT’S about NOT allowing others, to define the love we share as less pure, less real, less deserving of recognition. GAY PRIDE is about owning who we are, whether we are butch dykes, fem queens, or the always coveted “Straight Acting” gay (again choose your identity). GAY Pride is about valuing the diversity that is humanity in all its varied presentations.”(Tom Guest, Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman, USS BATAAN (LHD-5)] With edits by author of this blog.

I share my perspective here as well as the quoted material as a way of sharing my vision, or at least what I have learned. So to follow is another perspective from Cambridge Dictionary. “Gay(Choose your Identity) Pride: the idea that gay people should not keep the fact of their sexuality secret and that they should be proud of it instead, or the social and political movement that is based on this idea: a gay pride parade.”

So which is it? In the end, meaning is based on understanding and self imposed values. It is up to each of us to decide. So Pride to me is about celebrating my uniqueness while at the same time acknowledging our Oneness. Our specialness lays on the outside and our uniform Oneness is at our core. Knowing this frees us to be ourselves while respecting others and allowing them to be who they choose. I give you the right to hate me (or love me), while reserving this right myself. This is free will and is the only real law of the land. For clarity sake, I choose Love! For Love is all there is. How this Love expresses is not up to me. My responsibility is to allow it without judgment or complaint. I am who I am.

Blessings on your Journey of Love!

Sequoia Elisabeth

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