~ lovingly presented by Bill Bauman ~

Remember the eyewear store called LensCrafters? It’s where we go to get just the right lens for our vision. Well, using this label as a metaphor for living, each of us has the privilege of crafting the exact right lens for ourselves—that is, creating and living the precise picture of life that reflects our soul’s wisdom.

Philosophically, psychologically and scientifically, we all know that we create our own reality—through our attitudes, mindsets, beliefs, etc. Soulfully, we know a lot more—that we all have a “calling” to find the exact picture or lens of life that reflects the world we came to interact with.

There are countless lenses through which we can see the world within and around us—for example, the lens of gratitude, the lens of beauty, the lens of love, the lens of duality, the lens of oneness, the lens of divinity, and many others. Each lens guarantees us a certain kind and quality of experience.

The best news, though, is that all of us have the privilege of choosing our own lens, not simply inheriting the lens of our parents or culture. Better yet, we’ve come to earth to do exactly that—find the lens that most reflects our soulful truth, then craft that lens (Get it? LensCrafter!) to its fine-tuned perfection. Are you ready to take that step into full responsibility for finding and crafting your unique, sacred lens?

Some years ago, as I was exploring the most perfect lens for myself, the one that jumped out at me from my soul’s reservoir of knowing was the lens of “perfection.” That is, the perception of the utter and absolute perfection of everything, every person, every moment and every circumstance in life. I decided to see life as God does: as perfect, wondrous and sublime, just as it is.

I’ve discovered the following ten qualities of this “perfection lens”:

1.     Nothing is wrong with anyone … or anything … or any circumstance.

2.     Nothing is as it seems on the surface. Everyone and everything has a deeper truth … and that truth is that perfection, beauty and magnificence are at their core.

3.    You and I are capable of the same divine perception as God’s—that is, we can see the beauty and awe of every moment.

4.     If we begin to find fault, we can easily shift our lens slightly, and invite ourselves to assume the innocence of the seeming offender.

5.    When someone wrongs us—or should I say, seems to wrong us?—we can behave externally toward the person in whatever way seems appropriate for the moment … and at the same time maintain our internal sense of total, deep respect for the person … even honoring that person and thanking him or her for playing that role in our lives.

6.    We can love ourselves thoroughly and unconditionally, just as God does. Specifically, we can give ourselves permission to find no fault, bear no ill will, and (above all) harbor no judgments in relation to the precious, adorable self that we are.

7.    As a next step, we can refuse to interpret any habit, behavior, trait, emotion or thought on our part as “wrong,” needing healing or needing to be changed.

8.    Rather, we can embrace that habit or trait as perfect … and simply assume that our cognitive grasp of its perfection simply hasn’t caught up yet with the bigger truth of its function in our being.

9.    Eventually, we begin to not only feel more divine—that is, like God—but our identity actually merges with that infinite source … and, as a result, we find ourselves caring for this precious human family just like God does.

10.    And ultimately, all we see anywhere is perfection, wonder, beauty and magnificence—as it’s manifest in all of life’s displays of creations: in every human being, in the wonder of nature, in the spinning of the planet, in the breathing of its air, in the cry of a child’s pain, or in the unknowable mystery of life.

I offer you this description for your consideration, just in case this lens—or one similar to it—might have your name on it. May you be blessed with the vision and lens that perfectly and beautifully reflects your wondrous self!

Thank you for being such a beautiful manifestation of life’s perfection. I love you!

Blessings to you! 

~ lovingly presented by Bill Bauman ~

The Greek playwright Sophocles once wrote: “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”  Yes, love has been the single, central phenomenon that has infused, given life to and sustained our human life from its creative inception. In short, we’re all ere on earth to love and be loved, from start to finish. We’re lovers—that’s the alpha and omega of life on earth.

If we look around us, we find love anywhere and everywhere we peer—it’s in the heavens, the earth, nature, human beings, the air, the unknown, everywhere. What’s more, it’s a love that’s active, alive, engaged. It’s loving and making love all the time—with us, with every creation we know, with everything imaginable. And, since we’ an intimate part of this amazing love, we’re also active, alive, engaged lovers, making love with life itself.

This teleconference is experiential, so please go on a journey with me to three special places where love is “happening” in and around you—so that, through this threefold journey, you can participate even more consciously in love’s act of ongoing love-making:

1.  Our creative source. The divine is love and has created us in love, as love, as perfection, as beauty, as wonder. So, love is our nature, our inspiration, our very raison d’etre. If we listen closely, we can hear God Within whispering love messages into our inner ear—telling us how beautiful, loveable and magnificent we are. We can sense the invitation to participate more fullyh in that love, even to the point of loving back—making love to the divine and allowing the divine to make love to us.

2.   The air—or prana or chi, that we breathe. This precious atmospheric vibrational construct of love—which we call air—is importing love into us and exporting love out from us all the time. It’s helping love itself to enrich our lungs, giving new life to our waiting cells, and bathing our bodies in life’s precious embrace. Air is a lover, and we are the ones being loved … and we can return the act of loving at any moment.

3.   Our very own bodies. Our physical bodies love and adore us; they give their lives to support, honor and bring unending life to our lives. In short, they’re making delicious love to us endlessly, telling us how much they love us in so many tangible ways.  They even invite us to love our bodies in return, magnifying their love even more and bringing our whole bodily experience into its fullest celebration of loving life.

The well-known Japanese researcher, Dr. Masaru Emoto, tells us that “To love yourself, to thank yourself and to respect yourself is to love and thank all of existence. When you do so, each of these vibrations will be sent out into the cosmos, and the great symphony of that harmonic vibration will enfold our planet with waves, such as those that cherish your heaven-granted life.” 

In conclusion, allow yourself to experience love’s embrace—not necessarily in the air or in your body, but in whatever way Love Itself wants to show itself to you, or make love to you, right now. While you attune to love and experience its workings within you, these follow words—like affirmations—may remind you of some of love’s pure truth:

•    Love is all there is … there is truly nothing but love in this world

•    Love wants nothing, needs nothing, expects nothing, demands nothing—except itself, love itself

•    You and I embody love, breathe love, live love, and are love. We are love itself, pure and simple.

•    Love’s only role in life is to love … and, specifically, to love you

•    Love dances daily on your skin … echoes your deepest truth … encourages your forgetful mind … gives life to your tired body … and lives in perpetual adoration of your beauty

In conclusion, please enjoy this remarkable poem entitled Love Song, written recently by me:

Imagine love as music

And yourself as its favorite instrument

Picture love as an intimate tune a sweetheart song

Singing its devoted melody of love into your depths

Envision love playing its heart song soul song spirit song

On that perfect instrument of love

Called you



Love sings hums chants plays

On an elegant instrument of sheer delight

That fine-tuned perfectly polished instrument called you

Can you hear love’s elegance

Playing its tune and singing its song

In your cells your heart your mind

Through your nerve endings your blood stream

Your feelings your thoughts your self



Love is a song that must be sung

Must be heard must be sensed must be felt

It’s the irresistible song that sings in our heart

The compelling song of love of light

The magical song of joy of glee

The endless, soaring circling song of life

On an instrument that is one of elegant delight



If I were love playing my music singing my song

If I were love strumming the strings of your willing heart

I would sing my devotion into your veins

Play my zeal into your thoughts

Hum my adoration into your body

Intone my reverence into your emotion

Chant my joy into your feelings



And as I found you listening to my delicate tune

I would croon to you in my soulful melodious tone

About how beautiful you are

How divine you look

How perfect, wondrous magnificent loveable delightful you are

Yes I would love you love you love you without end

In a song of everlasting affection and adoration



You are the cherished instrument of love

And the irresistible song of life

That intones itself daily from your core

Yes, you are love itself

Infinite endless enlivening gracious luscious love

You are the sacred music of life



Sing then your soul’s song

Sing it into our waiting hearts

Into our pores through our bodies into our depths

Be the song the song of life

The song of love

Thank you for being such a beautiful manifestation of life’s love. I love you!

Blessings to you!

~ lovingly presented by Bill Bauman ~

The French novelist Marcel Proust once wrote, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in discovering new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” Please let your own eyes be refreshed and renewed as you read through the following vision of life.

We as human beings are not only present to life and self in the traditionally defined, limited and narrow ways we’ve come to believe. We live as a dynamic part of an interconnected, interwoven multiple universe; we are multi-dimensional beings. In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”

Every minute of our lives we are an active, intimate part of the universe’s vastness and can find our full identity in the beauty and wonder of the infinite. With our every breath we inhale the life-filled richness of the whole universe

I’d like to invite us a three-step journey into our all-ness, our vastness, our infinity:

1.  See yourself as divine. Recall that everything that is God lives in and as us. Now, experience yourself as the divine—see the divinity and perfection of your body, your cells, your skin, your breath, your person, life itself. As the Buddha said, “When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”

2.   Step now into the radiance of Light. Picture your perfect, divine self as filled with divine light—perennially present, ever ebullient, all radiant. Recall that, as a light being, your light is continually reaching out to touch and bless every person and circumstance within your awareness.

3.   Look now all around you—into the world in which children see seemingly imaginary friends … into the pure angelic realms … into the heart of the planet and universe, where we’re all one … into infinity itself where we share life’s pure essence. In the words of the Holographic Paradigm, “Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize the universe, all of nature is ultimately a seamless web.”

At every moment we’re sparkling with the universe’s glorious light … we’re pulsing with the divine’s splendor … we’re celebrating life’s multitudinous creation … we’re experiencing life’s love pulsing in our heart … and we’re being absorbed into the delicious celebration of life that is happening all around us, deeply within us, and exuberantly through us.

Now for the best part: We can access and have the full experience of this expansive life and vast self simply by sitting in the midst of our personal or collective soul. The 19th century philosopher Novalis, wrote, “The seat of the soul is there, where the inner world and the outer world touch. Where they overlap, the soul is in every point of the overlap.”  

So, if you’re feeling alone, down, small or afraid, please invite yourself into the amazing soul that lives everywhere in you … and just sit there for awhile:

•    long enough to hear its sweet tones, and the song of life itself

•    long enough to feel the touch of the divine tickling your insides

•    long enough to recognize the vast, expansive life that is dancing, singing and partying all around your inner pain

•    long enough to sense the love that is massaging your inner torture

•    long enough to feel connected with the God, the Light, the Grace and the Magnificence of life itself

•    long enough to find yourself … and in finding yourself, to find the all-ness of life that you are.

•    indeed, long enough to find comforting refuge and empowering strength in that ultimate life … long enough to be and feel filled with that life’s thrilling wonder … and long enough to be transformed into Life itself.

In conclusion, please enjoy this remarkable poem by the 14th century Muslim mystic Hafiz:

The sky is a suspended blue ocean.

The stars are the fish that swim.

The planets are the whales I sometimes hitch a ride on.

The sun and all light have forever fused themselves

Into my heart and upon my skin.

There is only one rule on this Wild Playground,

Every sign Hafiz has ever seen reads the same.

They all say:

“Have fun, my dear;

My dear, have fun

In the Beloved’s divine game.

O, in the Beloved’s divine game.